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MY HAPPINESS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I HEAR YOU SINGING HAPPILY
Last Line: LIKE THE FALLING OF A LEAF.
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; JOY; DELIGHT;

What is happiness to me?
Fragile, tiny, furtive things,
Gossamers, with fairy wings
Held with my heart a breath,
Just a memory, until death.

What is happiness, who knows?
Whence it comes and where it goes,
Just a whispering, so brief,
Like the falling of a leaf.



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