1961
The Heart of a Woman
Composed by 
H. Leslie Adams
H. Leslie Adams Text by 
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson Nightsongs Song Collection
"The Heart of a Woman" is the third song of H. Leslie Adams' song cycle Nightsongs: Six Afro-American Songs.
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“The Heart of a Woman” (from “Nightsongs”)
Aria Minasian, mezzo-soprano; Sara Chiesa, piano2:32
Text
The Heart of a Woman
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,t
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,t
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roamt
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.t
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,t
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the starst
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.t
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