I'll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp. Then God smiled, And the light broke, And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining... I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Childrenpor Marian Wright Edelman - 2005 - 112 páginasSin vista previa disponible - Acerca de este libro
| 1920 - 598 páginas
...become doorways — wide and always open. HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER. THE CREATION. (A Negro Sermon.) And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely — I'll make me a -vorld." And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights... | |
| James Weldon Johnson - 1922 - 274 páginas
...gittin' dry, Seems lak to me a tear stays in ma eye, Sence you went away. . THE CREATION (A Negro Sermon) And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely — _ J /'// make me a world." And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - 1925 - 666 páginas
...preparation and editing of The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922). THE CREATION {A Negro Sermon) And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely — /'// make me a world." And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker... | |
| Virgil A. Anderson - 1977 - 494 páginas
...his collection of Negro sermons in verse, God's Trombones j. Following is from one of the sermons, 'The Creation.' And God stepped out on space, And...and said: I'm lonely— I'll make me a world. And as far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down... | |
| Ben Lazare Mijuskovic - 1984 - 224 páginas
...cf. Genesis, 2,18). In the contemporary spiritual poem, "The Creation," we find the following lines: "And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely — I'll make me a world." The verse, of course, ends with the creation of man; in JW Johnson, God's Trombones (Viking, 1969),... | |
| James W. Fowler - 1987 - 140 páginas
...preaching. I remember it vividly, though I have not returned to the text for something over thirty years: And God stepped out on space, And he looked around...Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnight* Down in a cypress swamp. Then God smiled, And the light broke, And the darkness rolled up... | |
| Gayl Jones - 1991 - 252 páginas
...character distortions. Just the first few stanzas of "The Creation" serve to illustrate this point: And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely I'll make me a world." And as far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down... | |
| Houston A. Baker (Jr.) - 1991 - 270 páginas
...expressive deployment of the spirit appears in a quatrain from James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation." 1 " And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely I'll make me a world. (17) God's smile rolls up darkness; light stands shining on the far side. The topos reveals not only... | |
| Mark Lucas - 1991 - 68 páginas
...old story in new words, the words of an inspired black preacher. The Creation James Weldon Johnson And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely— I' II make me a world. " And far as the eye of God could see Darkness covered everything, Blacker than... | |
| Kevin M. McCarthy - 1992 - 524 páginas
...of his poetic rendering. The following are the first and fourth stanzas of the first sermon, called "The Creation": And God stepped out on space, And...and said: I'm lonely — I'll make me a world. And the fourth stanza: Then God reached out and took the light in his hands, And God rolled the light around... | |
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