The Weary Blues/To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead

3868967The Weary Blues — To a Little Lover-Lass, DeadJames Mercer Langston Hughes

TO A LITTLE LOVER-LASS, DEAD

She
Who searched for lovers
In the night
Has gone the quiet way
Into the still,
Dark land of death
Beyond the rim of day.

Now like a little lonely waif
She walks
An endless street
And gives her kiss to nothingness.
Would God his lips were sweet!