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.
bitter build crumbling gratitude hope learned life thy walls within
I've learned of life this bitter truth/ Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,/ But rather,/ Build within thy own soul/ Fortresses!