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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STAFF THAT SUSTAINS, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: To be contented is to choose the staff Last Line: That I may know your peace until life's end. | |||
To be contented is to choose the staff Of brave restraint to ever lean upon; It is to know the time to laugh, to sing, Or greet with smiling face noon, night, or dawn. It is to feel that somewhere beauty flowers Into a perfect bloom, even though men know Its mirrored loveliness alone is ours, Its shining, shattered petals pale as snow; For only those who daily lean for aid Upon restraint may find that by and by, Within the heart a firm foundation's laid To hold Love's house and find it satisfy. Oh, rugged staff, be mine as on I wend, That I may know your peace until life's end. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POSSESSION by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS [MAY 9, 1775] by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ENGLAND (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ON THE 'VITA NUOVA' OF DANTE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ADDRESS TO THE MUMMY AT BELZONI'S EXHIBITION by HORACE SMITH MORNING MIST by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD TO S-----D (1) by WILLIAM BLAKE THE ACID TEST by BERTON BRALEY |
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