Courage Today and TomorrowWomans Press, 1919 - 140 pages |
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alize attitude bad habits beautiful become bed thinking better brave Captain cause CHAPTER cheerful child daily commonplace defeat disciplined drudgery EDWIN MARKHAM evil face ourselves family bear-garden faults fear feeble feel fight Flabby FOLDED POWER force forget friendship give happiness hard hour human ideal ideas instinct INVICTUS JOHN MASEfield JOY OF COURAGE keep kindness LAUGHTER AND RALLYING leverage power lifting lives LOUIS UNTERMEYER mistakes moral nerve ness never night nobleness obedience one's pain Peace peace-robbers person Pity pleasure possession quired realize relationship ROBERT NICHOLS says the fiend self-control selfishness sentimental SHELTERING WALLS shepherdess of sheep ship shrapnel Sleep Sorrow sort soul strength strong thing thoughts tion tired to-day to-morrow tories trouble ugly victory voice walks-the lady weak wholesome will-power WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY wish woman women words worth
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Page 10 - OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.
Page 2 - Of wounds and sore defeat I made my battle stay ; Winged sandals for my feet I wove of my delay ; Of weariness and fear, I made my shouting spear ; Of loss, and doubt, and dread, And swift oncoming doom I made a helmet for my head, And a floating plume. From the shutting mist of death, From the failure of the breath, I made a battle-horn to blow Across the vales of overthrow. O hearken, love, the battle-horn ! The triumph clear, the silver scorn ! O hearken where the echoes bring, Down the grey disastrous...
Page 132 - Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.
Page 10 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
Page 104 - Is God, our Father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is man, his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, 10 And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Page 104 - To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is God our Father dear; And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, Is man, His child and care. For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace, the human dress. Then every man, of every clime, That prays in his distress, Prays to the human form divine: Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace. And all must love the human form,...
Page 48 - SHE walks — the lady of my delight — A shepherdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white ; She guards them from the steep ; She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.
Page 124 - Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fibre of the human heart.
Page 20 - DEFEAT may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.