Georgia Johnson
Georgia Johnson
Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson, was an American poet, one of the earliest African-American female playwrights, and a member of the Harlem Renaissance...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 September 1880
battered wings
I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!
alien breaks cage dreamed enters falls forget heart sheltering tries woman
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.
hour rise
Rise with the hour for which you were made.