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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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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