by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 - 1966)
The heart of a woman
Language: English
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn As a lone bird, soft winging so restlessly on. Afar o'er life's turrets and vales does it roam. In the wake of those echoes, the heart calls home. 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 on the sheltering bars.
First published in The Book of American Negro Poetry, 1922.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text Authorship:
- by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 - 1966), "The heart of a woman", first published 1922 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932), "The heart of a woman", from Nightsongs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The heart of a woman", 2007, from Four Songs of a Woman, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Florence Bea Price (1887 - 1953), "The Heart of a Woman" [ soprano, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-01-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 74