I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME

by: Georgia Johnson (1886-1966)

      WANT to die while you love me,
      While yet you hold me fair,
      While laughter lies upon my lips
      And lights are in my hair.
       
      I want to die while you love me,
      And bear to that still bed,
      Your kisses turbulent, unspent,
      To warm me when I'm dead.
       
      I want to die while you love me,
      Oh, who would care to live
      Till love has nothing more to ask
      And nothing more to give!
       
      I want to die while you love me
      And never, never see
      The glory of this perfect day
      Grow dim or cease to be.

"I Want to Die While You Love Me" is reprinted from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.

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