James Weldon Johnson: Eye

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“Whose starward eye
Saw chariot “swing low”? And who was he
That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
“Nobody knows de trouble I see”?”

James Weldon Johnson

O Black and Unknown Bards, st. 2.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.”

James Weldon Johnson

The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1 (1917).

“How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed forward on a star?
Or gazing empty at despair?”

James Weldon Johnson

To America, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.
And over all her loveliness, the grace
Of Morning blushing in the early skies.”

James Weldon Johnson

The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

“So God stepped over to the edge of the world
And He spat out the seven seas;
He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed;
He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;
And the waters above the earth came down,
The cooling waters came down.”

James Weldon Johnson

The Creation, st. 6.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)