Old Poetry Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Georgia Douglas Johnson

I lived from 1880-1966. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1880. With her publication of 'The Heart of a Woman' in 1918, she became one of the most widely known African-American female poets since Frances E. W. Harper. She remained active into her eighties, until she died suddenly of a stroke in 1966. Because her papers were not saved, much of her work was lost.

Popular poetry

Search my poetry:
1 - 10 of 17  Show all by written, popularity, title, first line
  • I Want To Die While You Love Me
    I want to die while you love me,
    While yet you hold me fair,
    16 lines, 4 comments
  • Common Dust
    And who shall separate the dust
    What later we shall be:
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • Love Come And Gone

    Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away;
    11 lines, 2 comments
  • My Little Dreams
    I’M folding up my little dreams
    Within my heart to-night,
    8 lines
  • Black Woman
    Don't knock at my door, little child,
    I cannot let you in,
    16 lines
  • Your World
    Your world is as big as you make it
    I know, for I used to abide
    12 lines
  • Youth
    The dew is on the grasses, dear,
    The blush is on the rose,
    8 lines
  • Autumn
    Believe me—when I say
    That love like yours, at this belated hour,
    9 lines
  • The Suppliant
    Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door,
    Praying the patient, futile prayer my fathers prayed before,
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Conquest
    "Courage cuts across routes seldom trod."
    21 lines
1 - 10 of 17  Show all by written, popularity, title, first line

Start a forum topic about this poet

, Content