{
 "id": "georgia-douglas-johnson/the-heart-of-a-woman",
 "title": "The Heart of a Woman",
 "poet": "Georgia Douglas Johnson",
 "poet_slug": "georgia-douglas-johnson",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems",
 "book_slug": "the-heart-of-a-woman",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 1,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1918,
  "venue": "The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918), title poem",
  "note": "An earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/georgia-douglas-johnson-the-heart-of-a-woman-1918"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/georgia-douglas-johnson_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "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"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 8,
  "n_stanzas": 2,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 55,
  "max_indent": 0
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The heart of a woman falls back with the night,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And enters some alien cage in its plight,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}