Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FEAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE


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First Line: I roamed the woods today and seemed to hear
Last Line: "you died long since, and all this thing is hell!"
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Death; Fear; Dead, The


I ROAMED the woods to-day and seemed to hear,
As Dante heard, the voice of suffering trees.
The twisted roots seemed bare contorted knees,
The bark was full of faces strange with fear.

I hurried home still wrapt in that dark spell,
And all the night upon the world's great lie
I pondered, and a voice seemed whisp'ring nigh,
"You died long since, and all this thing is hell!"





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