WE saw him from our guarded wall Tilt boldy at the sun, And watched with awe his splendid fall To blind oblivion. Then sudden flashed the thought on us, We who his lot had shared, -- Better to fail like Icarus Than never to have dared! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON HEARING OF INTENTION .. TO PURCHASE THE POET'S FREEDOM by GEORGE MOSES HORTON TO CERTAIN POETS by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER RAIN IN SUMMER by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DISAPPOINTED by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS BOTHWELL: PART 6 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN GIVE NOT WITH YOUR HANDS by MACKNIGHT BLACK |