Career
After slavery ended a goal was set for her to become a teacher. Her joy in teaching is reflected in the preface of her 1890 volume of poetry entitled Morning Glories. She wrote “from a heart that desires to encourage and inspire the youth of the Race.” The work contained seventy-two original poems by her.
lieutenant was revised and expanded in 1891.
She died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around 1921. Heard"s poem "Black Sampson" as included in the anthology She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century edited by Janet Gray.
