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Wait 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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