THE SUPPLIANT
by: Georgia Douglas Johnson
(1886-1966)
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I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door,
Praying the patient, futile prayer my fathers prayed before,
Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard,
And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word.
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- Soft o'er the threshold of the years there comes this counsel
cool:
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool!
"The Suppliant" is reprinted
from Bronze: A Book of Verse. Boston: Brimmer, 1922. |
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