Research Catalog

Title

The heart of a woman : and other poems / by Georgia Douglas Johnson ; with an introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Author

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966.

Publication

Boston : The Cornhill Company, 1918.

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Details

Additional Authors

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Description

xii, 62 p.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Copyright, 1918 by the Cornhill Company. All rights reserved."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding half-title page "To Mr. A.A. Schomburg-- With sincere appreciation. Georgia Douglas Johnson. Wash. D.C. June 20-- '18." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

The heart of a woman -- The dreams of the dreamer -- Gossamer -- Sympathy -- Contemplation -- Dead leaves -- Dawn -- Elevation -- Peace -- Whither -- Quest -- Mate -- Emblems -- Mirrored -- Repulse -- Query -- Pent -- Pages from life -- Recall -- Gethsemane -- Impelled -- Eventide -- Thrall -- Youth -- Joy -- Posthumous -- Omega -- Tears and kisses -- Isolation -- Where? -- Tired -- Smothered fires -- The measure -- Inevitably -- Modulations -- Memory -- Rhythm -- Gilead -- Foredoom -- Whene'er I lift my eyes to bliss -- Despair -- When I am dead -- Supreme -- In quest -- Recompense -- Poetry -- What need have I for memory? -- A fantasy -- Souvenir -- Illusions -- Transpositions -- The willow -- Devastation -- Springtime -- Gloamtide -- Pendulum -- Deluge -- Retrospect -- Glamour -- The return -- Love's tendril -- My little dreams.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, G. D. Heart of a woman)

LCCN

18019164

OCLC

• 3862238
• NYPGR3862238-B

Author

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966.

Title

The heart of a woman : and other poems / by Georgia Douglas Johnson ; with an introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Imprint

Boston : The Cornhill Company, 1918.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-J (accession no. B594118) inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding half-title page "To Mr. A.A. Schomburg-- With sincere appreciation. Georgia Douglas Johnson. Wash. D.C. June 20-- '18." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-J (Johnson, G. D. Heart of a woman)

NBI (Johnson, G. D. Heart of a woman)