Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUEM METUI MORITURA?', by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poet's Biography First Line: What need have I to fear - so soon to die? Last Line: So soon--what is there now for me to fear? Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Fear | ||||||||
What need have I to fear--so soon to die? Let me work on, not watch and wait in dread: What will it matter, when that I am dead That they bore hate or love that near me lie? 'Tis but a lifetime, and the end is nigh At best or worst. Let me lift up my head And firmly, as with inner courage, tread Mine own appointed way on mandates high. Pain could but bring from all its evil store, The close of pain: hate's venom could but kill; Repulse, defeat, desertion, could no more, Let me have lived my life, not cowered until The unhindered and unchastened hour was here. So soon--what is there now for me to fear? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THERE WAS A CHILD ONCE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#15) by MARVIN BELL THE DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP by JOHN CIARDI A MORNING THOUGHT by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL |
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