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DRAMATISTS > poet > Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of...
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The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars,
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
Source: The Heart of a Woman.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson, (Sep 10 1866-1967), US poet; She was one of the most prominent women poets of the Harlem Renaissance; she published three volumes of poems, including The Heart of a Woman, 1918.