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.

(C) James Weldon Johnson
01/01/2000


Best Poems of James Weldon Johnson

• Brothers
• O Black And Unknown Bards
• A Banjo Song
• Father, Father Abraham
• Possum Song
• Sleep
• To America
• The Awakening
• Nobodys Lookin But De Owl And De Moon
• Before A Painting
• Beauty That Is Never Old
• To Horace Bumstead
• Life
• An Explanation
• If Homely Virtues Draw From Me A Tune
• A Mid-day Dreamer
• O Southland!
• Down By The Carib Sea
• Deep In The Quiet Wood
• De Little Pickaninnys Gone To Sleep
• Answer To Prayer