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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COURAGE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: Courage is but a word, and yet, of words Last Line: "dying, it answers: ""here! I am not dead!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Courage; Valor; Bravery | |||
COURAGE is but a word, and yet, of words The only sentinel of permanence; The ruddy watch-fire of cold winter days, We steal its comfort, lift our weary swords, And on. For faith -- without it -- has no sense; And love to wind of doubt and tremor sways; And life for ever quaking marsh must tread. Laws give it not; before it prayer will blush; Hope has it not; nor pride of being true; 'Tis the mysterious soul which never yields, But hales us on and on to breast the rush Of all the fortunes we shall happen thro'; And when Death calls across his shadowy fields -- Dying, it answers: "Here! I am not dead!" | 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 |
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