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POSTHUMOUS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: OF WHAT AVAIL THE TARDY SHOWERS
Last Line: PULSES QUIVERING, TO DIE.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
Of what avail the tardy showers,
To the famished summer flowers?
All in vain the rain-drops cry,
Dead things never make reply.

Life's belated cup of bliss,
Woo the weary lips to kiss,
When the singing is a sigh,
Pulses quivering, to die.



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