Childish Fathers

An example of how our poems use commonly used phrases, quotes, and popular characters whenever possible.

Childish Fathers

“My heart leaps up,”

“When I behold A rainbow in the sky:”

“So was it when my life began;“

“So is it now I am a man;“

“So be it when I shall grow old,”

“Or Let Me Die!”

“The Child is father of the Man;”

“And I still yet wish all of my days,”

“Be Bound each to each by natural piety.”

“For, when I was a child, I spake as a child,“

“I comprehended as a child I thought as a child:”

“But when I became a man I put away childish things.”

“Yet, forever, Wonder remains the beginning of all wisdom,”

“Hope still burns eternal, in the light at the end of each tunnel,”

“And blessed are the most vulnerable hearts amongst all creation,”

“For the gentlest hearts are the strongest, bending without breaking,”

“Laboring away in the darkness, somehow knowing without knowing,”

“They have to give in order to receive, and that can require a leap of faith.”

“Knowing without knowing, each must contribute what they can to receive.”

William Wordsworth, the Bible, Socrates, Albert Camus