African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Georgia Douglas Johnson, "To Your Eyes" (1924)

In your deep autumnal eyes
Mystery's dark shadow lies,
None may pass unchallenged there,
Something vestal,
Something rare
Stays the plunging pagan tread--
One hesitates,
One bows the head.


Published in The Crisis, November 1924

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