Famous Short Surrender Poems

Famous Short Surrender Poems. Short Surrender Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Surrender short poems

Give Me Strength  

 This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, 
strike at the root of penury in my heart.
 

Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows.
 

Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.
 

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.

Its This Way  

 I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.


My eyes can't get enough of the trees--
they're so hopeful, so green.


A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I'm at the window of the prison infirmary.


I can't smell the medicines--
carnations must be blooming nearby.


It's this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

I meant to find Her when I came --  

 I meant to find Her when I came --
Death -- had the same design --
But the Success -- was His -- it seems --
And the Surrender -- Mine --

I meant to tell Her how I longed
For just this single time --
But Death had told Her so the first --
And she had past, with Him --

To wander -- now -- is my Repose --
To rest -- To rest would be
A privilege of Hurricane
To Memory -- and Me.

Wolfe demanded during dying  

 Wolfe demanded during dying
"Which obtain the Day"?
"General, the British" -- "Easy"
Answered Wolfe "to die"

Montcalm, his opposing Spirit
Rendered with a smile
"Sweet" said he "my own Surrender
Liberty's beguile"