The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems/Posthumous

by Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson

POSTHUMOUS

Of what avail the tardy showers,
To the famished summer flowers?
All in vain the rain-drops cry,
Dead things never make reply.

Life's belated cup of bliss,
Woo the weary lips to kiss,
When the singing is a sigh,
Pulses quivering, to die.