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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ACCEPTANCE, by JEAN BAILEY First Line: I can be gay my dear, my whole life through Last Line: I am held fast, of all your life a part. | |||
I can be gay, my dear, my whole life through And face down all my grief with steady eyes, If it will give the highest joy to you Making you feel that beauty never dies. Knowing with utter surety how dear You are to me, I can bear lonely days; The sense that I may hold you always near Will keep my courage steadfastly ablaze; And, since I feel your need of tenderness More urgent than the unvoiced need in me, I can be joyous -- though you give me less -- Content that in my love you may go free. It is enough to know that in your heart I am held fast, of all your life a part. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY SAY - . by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER THE THANKSGIVING IN BOSTON HARBOR [JUNE 12, 1630] by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH DEJECTION: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER PEGGY, FR. THE GENTLE SHEPHERD by ALLAN RAMSAY THE CAT OF CATS by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS A SONG ABOUT SINGING by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH BEVERLY SHORE IN WINTER by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON VERSES, RESPECTFULLY & AFFECTIONALLY INSCRIBED TO PROFESSIONAL FRIEND by BERNARD BARTON |
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