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Dead Days

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880?–1966) · An Autumn Love Cycle · 1928

Dead days of rapture and despair
I would your hours exhume,
Renew their wildness once again
Their rigors and perfume.

Where this text comes from

First published in An Autumn Love Cycle (1928). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]

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Taken from Standard Ebooks, standardebooks/georgia-douglas-johnson_poetry, poetry.xhtml. Rights: public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931).

Earlier sources (13)

https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-the-heart-of-a-woman-full-text-1918
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/103153234
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-bronze-full-text-1922
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000781515
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/poems-by-georgia-douglas-johnson-in-the-new-negro-1925
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000340210
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-an-autumn-love-cycle-full-text-1928
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102777177
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-poems-published-in-the-crisis-1910-1926
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000502434
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/poems-published-in-the-messenger-magazine
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000056822
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000064962

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Cite this poem

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880?–1966). “Dead Days.” First published in An Autumn Love Cycle (1928). Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/georgia-douglas-johnson/dead-days/. Append #L14 to cite line 14, or #L4-L9 for lines 4–9.

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