Potential Titles: Georgia Douglas Johnson
Oct. 1st, 2010 04:23 pmWait in the still eternity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Black Woman"
Fate's deadly contraband - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
Shall separate the dust - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Common Dust"
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And enters some alien cage in its plight - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
Dethroned by a hue - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
No night is omnipotent - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
In the depth of the seed - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
Your kisses turbulent, unspent to warm me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Has nothing more to ask and nothing more to give - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Said good-bye to despair - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
Bends the skies to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
Though the rungs of fortune perish - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"
Lest anguish tear my dreams - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"
These were reliquished long ago - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A little tranquil bark in which to float at ease - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Then quite silently to sink in quiet seas - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The very acme of my woe, the pivot of my pride - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
My consolation, and my hope deferred, but not denied - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The very world epitomized in turmoil and delight - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Folding up my little dreams within my heart - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Time's deft fingers scroll my brow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
They have dreamed as young men dream - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
They have hoped as youth will hope - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
As other saw their bubbles burst in air - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"
A break of a cloud's coiling shadow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"
Bathed in wounds and by the world denied - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I'd share your fatal exile as a privilege and pride - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sun, the moon, the starlight of my soul - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sounding motif of my heart, the impetus and goal - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Phantom happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
The curtains of eternal night - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Consider me a memory, a dream that passed - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And wakens to no conjuring of orisons or tears - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
For passion sleeps alas and keeps no vigil with the years - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
When we count our our gold at the end - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Filtered the dross that has cumbered the way - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What were the hold of our treasury then - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What need have I for memory - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not a single flower has bloomed within life's desert - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Memory whose burning eyes have met the corse of unborn happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The things that fetter me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"
Like incense comes to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"
In the narrowest nest in a corner - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Your World"
Where the skyline encircled the sea - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Your World"
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Fate's deadly contraband - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
Shall separate the dust - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Common Dust"
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And enters some alien cage in its plight - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
Dethroned by a hue - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
No night is omnipotent - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
In the depth of the seed - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"
Your kisses turbulent, unspent to warm me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Has nothing more to ask and nothing more to give - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Said good-bye to despair - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
Bends the skies to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"
Though the rungs of fortune perish - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"
Lest anguish tear my dreams - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Let Me Not Lose My Dream"
These were reliquished long ago - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A little tranquil bark in which to float at ease - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Then quite silently to sink in quiet seas - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Lethe" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The very acme of my woe, the pivot of my pride - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
My consolation, and my hope deferred, but not denied - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The very world epitomized in turmoil and delight - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Little Son" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Folding up my little dreams within my heart - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Time's deft fingers scroll my brow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
They have dreamed as young men dream - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
They have hoped as youth will hope - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
As other saw their bubbles burst in air - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"
A break of a cloud's coiling shadow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"
Bathed in wounds and by the world denied - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I'd share your fatal exile as a privilege and pride - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sun, the moon, the starlight of my soul - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sounding motif of my heart, the impetus and goal - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Phantom happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
The curtains of eternal night - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Consider me a memory, a dream that passed - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And wakens to no conjuring of orisons or tears - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
For passion sleeps alas and keeps no vigil with the years - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
When we count our our gold at the end - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Filtered the dross that has cumbered the way - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What were the hold of our treasury then - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
What need have I for memory - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not a single flower has bloomed within life's desert - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Memory whose burning eyes have met the corse of unborn happiness - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The things that fetter me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"
Like incense comes to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"
In the narrowest nest in a corner - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Your World"
Where the skyline encircled the sea - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Your World"
Poet's Wikipedia page.
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