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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FEAR-RIDDEN, by MARGARET R. RICHTER
First Line: Elizabeth feels safer dressed in gray
Last Line: Who fears to live, when others fear to die.
Subject(s): Fear; Women - Middle Aged
First Line: Elizabeth feels safer dressed in gray
Last Line: Who fears to live, when others fear to die.
Subject(s): Fear; Women - Middle Aged
Elizabeth feels safer dressed in gray;
At fifty she is shy and still discreet;
Fearing what men may look and women say,
She goes beset with danger down the street.
The vacant countenance, the shifting eyes
Whose shrinking pupils never open wide,
The stiffened walk, are but a poor disguise
For all the inward trembling they should hide.
Pity the woman, left alone at night,
Who bolts her door and shivers in her bed;
Pity her in her miserable plight,
Forlorn with years, fear-ridden and unwed --
A woman whom no man could dignify,
Who fears to live, when others fear to die.
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