Georgia Douglas Johnson

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A member of the Harlem Renaissance, Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote plays, a syndicated newspaper column, and four collections of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962). Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents of African American, Native American, and English descent. She graduated from Atlanta University Normal College and studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland College of Music. After graduation, she taught and worked as an assistant principal. In 1910 she moved with her husband to Washington, D.C. When her husband died in 1925, Johnson supported her two sons by working temporary jobs until she was hired by the Department of Labor. Source

My Little Dreams

I’m folding up my little dreams

   Within my heart tonight,

And praying I may soon forget

   The torture of their sight.

 

For time’s deft fingers scroll my brow

   With fell relentless art—

I’m folding up my little dreams

   Tonight, within my heart. 

Published:

1918

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Harlem Renaissance

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Faith & Hope

Strength & Resilience

Literary Devices:

End Rhyme

when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

Personification

the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing

Repetition

a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times