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Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
And that is life!
A crust and a corner that love makes precious,
With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us;
And joy seems sweeter when cares come after,
And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter;
And that is life!
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar's other poems:- An Ante-Bellum Sermon
- The Rising of the Storm
- The Mystery
- Two Songs
- Premonition
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") James Johnson Life ("Out of the infinite sea of eternity") 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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