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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TALENTS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE First Line: We have not all the talents ten received Last Line: Or word of thine bring smile to some sad face? Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery | |||
WE have not all the talents ten received, Few march in the battalion of the best, Weaponed to win. And few with five are blest, The millions have but one. Be not aggrieved, For what thou hast, and with it what achieved, Are all that counts with Him. He did invest Thy soul with His own purposeful bequest; Courage! my comrade, He is not deceived. Dig from the earth thy talent. Haste to bring It bright and shining to the market-place, Or haste thou where the striving legions swing Into the fields unconquered by the race; Cannot thine arm support the wounded king, Or word of thine bring smile to some sad face? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNLESS IT WAS COURAGE by MARVIN BELL THE QUALITY OF COURAGE by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ON THE OREGON COAST; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD by ROBERT BLY WORDS WITH WALLACE STEVENS by ROBERT BLY BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON by NORMAN DUBIE A SONG OF COURAGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE AUDACIOUS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON OH, THE WATER by DORIANNE LAUX A MEMORY by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |
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