I found the task that I had dreaded so Was not so difficult when once begun; It was the dread itself that was the foe, And dread once conquered means a victory won. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WISH by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO MR. BARBAULD, NOVEMBER 14, 1778 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 17 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT TO AN ABSENT FRIEND by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE TO THE DEAD by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |