Courage
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
There is a courage, a majestic thing
That springs forth from the brow of pain, full-grown,
Minerva-like, and dares all dangers known,
And all the threatening future yet may bring;
Crowned with the helmet of great suffering;
Serene with that grand strength by martyrs shown,
When at the stake they die and make no moan,
And even as the flames leap up are heard to sing:
A courage so sublime and unafraid,
It wears its sorrows like a coat of mail;
And Fate, the archer, passes by dismayed,
Knowing his best barbed arrows needs must fail
To pierce a soul so armored and arrayed
That Death himself might look on it and quail.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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Scheme | A B B A A B B A C D C D C D |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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