Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PENANCES, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: These are my happy penances. To make
Last Line: In beauty's courts the unappeasable mind.
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THESE are my happy penances. To make
Beauty without a covenant; to take
Measure of time only because I know
That in death's market-place I still shall owe
Service to beauty that shall not be done;
To know that beauty's doctrine is begun
And makes a close in sacrifice; to find
In beauty's courts the unappeasable mind.





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