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Ivy

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

I am a woman
Which means
I am insufficient
I need⁠—
Something to hold me
Or perhaps uphold.
I am a woman.

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]

Structure read from the source's markup; the words have not been compared against a page scan. Last checked 2026-08-12.

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). “Ivy.” First published in An Autumn Love Cycle (1928). Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/georgia-douglas-johnson/ivy/. Append #L14 to cite line 14, or #L4-L9 for lines 4–9.

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