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Poem by James Weldon Johnson


Omar


Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be
That, after all, you found the magic key
To life and all its mystery, and I
Must own you have almost persuaded me.



James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson's other poems:
  1. A Plantation Bacchanal
  2. The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
  3. Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
  4. Tunk
  5. The Word of an Engineer


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