The Heart of a Woman
Composed by 
Florence Price
Florence Price Text by 
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" is an undated song by Florence Price setting a poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson. The song is published through Classical Vocal Reprints in a new edition (from 2009), edited by Rae Linda Brown. Please call Classical Vocal Reprints (see link below) to obtain a copy of the sheet music.
Text
The Heart of a Woman
by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
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