Pendulum
I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain, 'Mid the echo of sighs, and a deluge of rain, But ah! I rebound to the limits of bliss. On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain, 'Mid the echo of sighs, and a deluge of rain, But ah! I rebound to the limits of bliss. On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss.
Georgia Douglas Johnson’s speaker describes love or passion as a pendulum. She has been flung to the farthest edge of suffering, surrounded by sighing and heavy rain—images that make the pain feel solitary and heavy.
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