My Little Dreams by Georgia Douglas Johnson. James Weldon Johnson, ed. 1922. The Book of American Negro Poetry

James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922.

My Little Dreams

Georgia Douglas Johnson


I’M folding up my little dreams
Within my heart to-night,
And praying I may soon forget
The torture of their sight.

For Time’s deft fingers scroll my brow	5
With fell relentless art—
I’m folding up my little dreams
To-night, within my heart!