Quest
The phantom happiness I sought
O’er every crag and moor;
I paused at every postern gate,
And knocked at every door;
In vain I searched the land and sea,
E’en to the inmost core,
The curtains of eternal night
Descend—my search is o’er.
Source: The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (The Cornhill Company, 1918)
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Poet Georgia Douglas Johnson 1880–1966
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
Subjects Disappointment & Failure
Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson
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SUBJECT Disappointment & Failure
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
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