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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...A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL by ROBERT BROWNING THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN by ROBERT FROST THE NAME OF JESUS by JOHN NEWTON THE FIFTEEN ACRES by JAMES STEPHENS A CHARACTER OF HIS FRIEND, W.B. ESQ by PHILIP AYRES TO MARY RUSSELL MITFORD, IN HER GARDEN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SONG: CELIA SINGING by THOMAS CAREW TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INTO THE REGIONS OF THE SUN by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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