Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUBDUED, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER


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SUBDUED, by                    
First Line: I have hoped, I have planned, I have striven
Last Line: Tomorrow again, I begin.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


I have hoped, I have planned, I have striven,
To the will I have added the deed;
The best that was in me I've given,
I have prayed, but the gods would not heed.

I have dared and reached only disaster,
I have battled and broken my lance;
I am bruised by a pitiless master
That the weak and the timid call chance.

I am old, I am bent, I am cheated
Of all that Youth urged me to win;
But name me not with the defeated,
Tomorrow again, I begin.





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