Alexander Throckmorton
In youth my wings were strong and tireless,
But I did not know the mountains.
In age I knew the mountains
But my weary wings could not follow my vision
Genius is wisdom and youth.





Related poetry:
- My Comrade Out from my window westward I turn full oft my face; But the mountains rebuke the vision That would encompass […]...
- Alexander It was the Great Alexander, Capped with a golden helm, Sate in the ages, in his floating ship, In a […]...
- Alexander And Zenobia Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy […]...
- An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion In His Sickness WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder’d Veins, Such lab’ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce […]...
- Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music ‘Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip’s warlike son – Aloft in awful state The godlike hero […]...
- Follow Me 'ome There was no one like ‘im, ‘Orse or Foot, Nor any o’ the Guns I knew; An’ because it was […]...
- Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua Next, then, the peacock, gilt With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes Flow in the eyes! And how deep, […]...
- Ernest Hyde My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mind was […]...
- Lydia Humphrey Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church, With my Bible under my arm Till I was […]...
- Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that […]...
- Teaching XVIII Then said a teacher, “Speak to us of Teaching.” And he said: No man can reveal to you aught but […]...
- Folly (For A. K. K.) What distant mountains thrill and glow Beneath our Lady Folly’s tread? Why has she left us, […]...
- Sestina I wandered o’er the vast green plains of youth, And searched for Pleasure. On a distant height Fame’s silhouette stood […]...
- Our Eyes Our eyes are limpid drops of water. In each drop exists a tiny sign of our genius Which has given […]...
- Innocence The height of wisdom seems to me That of a child; So let my ageing vision be Serene and mild. […]...
- The dead babe Last night, as my dear babe lay dead, In agony I knelt and said: “0 God! what have I done, […]...
- Davis Matlock Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey […]...
- Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow To the Lord Fairfax. See how the arched Earth does here Rise in a perfect Hemisphere! The stiffest Compass could […]...
- Genius Genius, like gold and precious stones, Is chiefly prized because of its rarity. Geniuses are people who dash of weird, […]...
- Jonathan Swift Somers After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The […]...
- First Sight Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but […]...
- Marie Bateson You observe the carven hand With the index finger pointing heavenward. That is the direction, no doubt. But how shall […]...
- On The Meeting Of García Lorca And Hart Crane Brooklyn, 1929. Of course Crane’s Been drinking and has no idea who This curious Andalusian is, unable Even to speak […]...
- THE ARROW AND THE SONG I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, […]...
- Wisdom (Proverbs, viii. 22-31) “Ere God had built the mountains, Or raised the fruitful hills; Before he fill’d the fountains That […]...
- 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh You can’t run Radio Shack programs In its disc drive. Nor can a Commodore 64 Drive […]...
- 548. The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad DIRE was the hate at old Harlaw, That Scot to Scot did carry; And dire the discord Langside saw For […]...
- Unlyric Love Song It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first: To offer you now at last my least […]...
- In Youth Milton, our noblest poet, in the grace Of youth, in those fair eyes and clustering hair, That brow untouched by […]...
- Tцrnfallet There is a meadow in Sweden Where I lie smitten, Eyes stained with clouds’ White ins and outs. And about […]...
- The Summons I can not bow to woo thee With honey words and flower kisses And the dew of sweet half-truths Fallen […]...
- Camping in a kitchen To say we’ve done it all before is not to bend The truth and though we’ve lost our youth The […]...
- Russell Kincaid In the last spring I ever knew, In those last days, I sat in the forsaken orchard Where beyond fields […]...
- Our Guardian Angels and Their Children Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels […]...
- America I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice’s Hair- […]...
- The Rover's Adieu weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And […]...
- Stanzas I’ll not weep that thou art going to leave me, There’s nothing lovely here; And doubly will the dark world […]...
- The Toy Band A Song of the Great Retreat Dreary lay the long road, dreary lay the town, Lights out and never a […]...
- The Ballad Of Gum-Boot Ben He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. He asked me for a grubstake, and the same […]...
- Petropolis From a fearful height, a wandering light, But does a star glitter like this, crying? Transparent star, wandering light Your […]...