Another of this author's poems describes how Sister Caroline is taken away from her "big bed of pain" by the gentle title character.
One of this author's poems imagines that "the earth shall melt away and be dissolved and the sky will roll up like a scroll" after hearing a voice crying, "Time shall be no more!" Another of this author's poems describes how Sister Caroline is taken away from her "big bed of pain" by the gentle title character. This author warned "your arm's too short to box with God" at the beginning of a poem about a young man seduced by the pleasures of Babylon. He wrote "yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed?" in a poem that implores "let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies." Aaron Douglas illustrated one of his poetry collections, which includes a poem in which God says "I'm lonely -- I'll make me a world." He included his poems "Go Down Death," "The Prodigal Son," and "The Creation" in a book of "Seven Negro Sermons in Verse." For 10 points, name this African-American poet of God's Trombones and "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
One of this author's poems imagines that "the earth shall melt away and be dissolved and the sky will roll up like a scroll" after hearing a voice crying, "Time shall be no more!"
James Weldon Johnson