Poem-a-Day - "Promise" by Georgia Douglas Johnson

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August 28, 2021

Promise


Georgia Douglas Johnson 

Through the moil and the gloom they have issued
    To the steps of the upwinding hill, 
Where the sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow
    In their preluding rhapsodies trill.

With a thud comes a stir in the bosom,
    As there steals on the sight from afar,
Through a break of a cloud’s coiling shadow
    The gleam of a bright morning star!

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 28, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Promise” appeared in Bronze: A Book of Verses (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922). 

Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the late nineteenth century. An important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, her poetry collections include Bronze: A Book of Verses (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922) and The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (The Cornhill Company, 1918). She died in 1966.
Bronze: A Book of Verses
(B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922)

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