English Poetry. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Life. Пол Лоренс Данбар.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (Пол Лоренс Данбар)

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’s other poems:

1. Premonition
2. Not They Who Soar
3. The Path
4. Ere Sleep Comes down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
5. The Master-Player

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Life (“As late I journey’d o’er the extensive plain”)

Charlotte Brontё (Шарлотта Бронте) Life (“LIFE, believe, is not a dream”)

Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Life (“Life’s a name”)

Anna Barbauld (Анна-Летиция Барбо) Life (“Life! I Know Not What Thou Art”)

Bryan Procter (Брайан Проктер) Life (“WE are born; we laugh; we weep”)

Francis Bacon (Фрэнсис Бэкон) Life (“THE world’s a bubble, and the life of man”)

Florence Coates (Флоренс Коутс) Life (“Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay”)

James Johnson (Джеймс Джонсон) Life (“Out of the infinite sea of eternity”)

Henry Van Dyke (Генри Ван Дайк) Life (“LET me but live my life from year to year”)

Jones Very (Джонс Вери) Life (“IT is not life upon Thy gifts to live”)

Edith Wharton (Эдит Уортон) Life (“LIFE, like a marble block, is given to all”)

Mary Robinson (Мэри Робинсон) Life (“”What is this world?­thy school, O misery!”)

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