Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ENDURANCE, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN


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First Line: How much the heart may bear, and yet not break!
Last Line: Lo, all things can be borne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Fortitude


How much the heart may bear and yet not break!
How much the flesh may suffer and not die!
I question much if any pain or ache
Of soul or body brings our end more nigh:
Death chooses his own time; till that is sworn,
All evil may be borne.

Behold, we live through all things -- famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain, all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body -- but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint and worn --
Lo, all things can be borne!





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