Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A CANDIDATE ACCCUSED OF YOUTH, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: Too young' do they call him? Who say it? Not they Last Line: Ask the foe by which weapon he fears most to fall! Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Voting; Voters; Suffrage | ||||||||
"Too young" do they call him? Who say it? Not they Who have felt his hard stroke in the civic affray, When elders, whom veteran fighters had taught Till they knew all the rules by which battles are fought, Fumbled weakly with weapons his foresight had sought. Who thinks of his youthfulness? Surely not they Who stood at his side through the wavering day, And knew the quick vision, the planning exact Of parry and thrust, till the stout helmet cracked 'Neath the bold and true blow that is better than tact. Yea, the strength of the arm is the strength of its use, Not its years; and when fighting is on, better choose Not the rust-eaten sword from the library wall, But the new blade that leaps in its sheath at the call. Ask the foe by which weapon he fears most to fall! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953 by ROBERT LOWELL THE DEMONSTRATION by GREGORY ORR YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS by GEORGE SANTAYANA ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM by HILAIRE BELLOC THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN'S TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE; ELECTION BALLAD by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY COLORED HEROES, HARK THE BUGLE; POLITICAL by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN SUFFRAGE MARCHING-SONG by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK AN ELECTION BALLAD by ROBERT BURNS AN ENGLISH MOTHER by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON |
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