My Little Dreams

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

I’m folding up my little dreams
   Within my heart tonight,
And praying I may soon forget
   The torture of their sight.

For time’s deft fingers scroll my brow
   With fell relentless art—
I’m folding up my little dreams
   Tonight, within my heart.

Source: The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (The Cornhill Company, 1918)

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A member of the Harlem Renaissance, Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote plays, a syndicated newspaper column, and four collections of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962). Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents...

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Region:
- U.S., Mid-Atlantic
School/Period:
- Harlem Renaissance

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