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Poem by James Weldon Johnson


Life


Out of the infinite sea of eternity
To climb, and for an instant stand
Upon an island speck of time.

From the impassible peace of the darkness
To wake, and blink at the garish light
Through one short hour of fretfulness.



James Weldon Johnson


James Weldon Johnson's other poems:
  1. The Color Sergeant
  2. Answer to Prayer
  3. Down by the Carib Sea. 6. Sunset in the Tropics
  4. Down by the Carib Sea. 1. Sunrise in the Tropics
  5. Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Coleridge Life ("As late I journey'd o'er the extensive plain")
  • Charlotte Bront¸ Life ("LIFE, believe, is not a dream")
  • Abraham Cowley Life ("Life's a name")
  • Anna Barbauld Life ("Life! I Know Not What Thou Art")
  • Bryan Procter Life ("WE are born; we laugh; we weep")
  • Francis Bacon Life ("THE world's a bubble, and the life of man")
  • William Bryant Life ("Oh Life! I breathe thee in the breeze")
  • Florence Coates Life ("Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay")
  • Paul Dunbar Life ("A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in")
  • Henry Van Dyke Life ("LET me but live my life from year to year")
  • Jones Very Life ("IT is not life upon Thy gifts to live")
  • Edith Wharton Life ("LIFE, like a marble block, is given to all")
  • Mary Robinson Life ("”What is this world?­thy school, O misery!")
  • Abram Ryan Life ("A baby played with the surplice sleeve")

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