that we both decided was better than "glory":He has had enough of striving who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter's night.
You can say for "striving" that it makes more sense than "glory," and that it is in the right key for the poem, in keeping with the formality of an invitation declined. But there's a flatness to "striving": It doesn't add much more in the way of thought or feeling than the place-holder "something."
from Robert Pinsky: Slate: In Praise of Memorizing Poetry—Badly
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