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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FEAR Matches Found: 432 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BARRED OWL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The warping night air having brought the boom Subject(s): Owls; Fear A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 34. HOPE AND FEAR, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I hope, I pine; if I fear, I faint and die Last Line: Must sing glad notes, or speak in happier verse. Subject(s): Hope; Fear A CHRONIC CONDITION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Berkeley did not foresee such misty weather Subject(s): Fear; Landscape; Weather A CROSS IN FLANDERS, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the face of death, they say, he joked - he had no fear Last Line: The braver for his fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Courage; Fear; Flanders, Belgium; World War I - Casualties; Valor; Bravery A DIFFERENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I can't go to sleep Last Line: While mother's in the hall! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood A DIRGE (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm on the bosom of thy god Last Line: In heaven is now thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Fear; Soul; Dead, The A FEAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 A GIRL'S THOUGHTS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim apprehension of a trust Last Line: Life shrinks and instinct dreads surprise. Subject(s): Fear; Silence A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A LOVER'S IDLE FEAR, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: You asked me to return at eight Last Line: You promised me. Subject(s): Fear; Longing; Love; Waiting A MIGRANT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A migrant from the waking world to sleep's Last Line: Hastening lest death should find him unemployed. Subject(s): Fear; Migrant Labor; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers A PARAPHRASE FROM THE FRENCH, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In grey-haired celia's withered arms Last Line: Te deum sing in quiet!' Subject(s): Fear; Love; Singing & Singers; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo A PASSAGE IN THE MORALE ENCOMIUM OF ERASMUS IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In awful pomp, and melancholy state Last Line: Wild schemes of mirth, and plans of loose delight. Subject(s): Fables; Fear; Reason; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A WAR-LULLABY; AUGUST, 1916, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire dwindles and the wind moans Last Line: Baby soon will be asleep. ... Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fear; Marriage; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ABSENCE PROVES NOTHING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Fear; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations ACAROPHOBIA (FEAR OF SMALL THINGS/INSECTS), by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: She knows there are no simple remedies Last Line: Or even dream %it's hers Subject(s): Fear; Fleas ACRISIUS: NIGHT FEAR, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take courage, lady: many fearful things Last Line: That breathed dark dreams in night, by day are solaced. Subject(s): Fear; Night; Bedtime AD S. ANGELUM CUSTODEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Who e'r thou art, oh yt I knew thy name Last Line: To lift me up, & lead me in ye way. Subject(s): Angels; Fear; Prayer ADDRESS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Lacking the intimate tu, and with thou Last Line: How I want to say it, what I most fear losing Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Loss AFFRONTENBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time fleeteth, yet that castle old Last Line: With bonds accurst, and pining sadly. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Ships & Shipping; Tears; Time AFRAID, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little noises do not bite! Last Line: Drive you to your mother! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Mothers; Childhood AFTER THAT, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: The woman who runs Last Line: She smiled, a small woman, %soft spoken and polite Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fear AGAINST MODESTY IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many unsuccessful years Last Line: Had foolishly denied. Subject(s): Cupid; Fear; Kisses; Love; Modesty; Tears; Eros ALARM AT FIRST ENTERING THE YANG-TZE GORGES, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above, a mountain ten thousand feet high Last Line: Will be laid at last in an un-named grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fear; Yangzi River, China ALGEBRA, by SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: Whenever I hear a train whistle Last Line: Seeing how wide-eyed I'd become %would call on me Subject(s): Fear; Melancholy; Pessimism ALL OF ROSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the isar, in the twilight Last Line: "here in this simmering marsh." Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): River Roses Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; Roses AN APPARITION, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a timid maid yestreen Last Line: Scarce knowing were I live or dead! Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural ANABLEPHOBIA, by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Wandering the streets Last Line: And thinks he'll sleep here tonight %still wanting no reply Subject(s): Fear; Homeless ANSWER TO A TIMID LOVER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These shall be my songs to you Last Line: Lest you be stricken down with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Fear; Nature APART, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stood on either side the gate Last Line: Walk hand in hand the path of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fear; Trees; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The APPEARANCES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky of stars and no moon Last Line: As the light behind the stars. Subject(s): Aliens; Fear; Space & Space Travel; Universe; Extraterrestrials; Outer Space; Fourth Dimension APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy letter was a flash of lightning Last Line: This fearful tragedy's conclusion. Subject(s): Fear; Letters; Pain; Peace; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery APPLAUSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it one of the sad certain laws Last Line: The plaudits of the world turn into sneers. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Applause; Fame; Fear; Reputation APPREHENSION, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: With what reserve of helpless fear Last Line: Or dawn of his be heralding. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Fear; Time AUTUMN (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care flieth / hope and fear together Last Line: In blank autumn who could speak of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fear; Hope; Love; Seasons; Fall; Optimism AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares AWAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane Last Line: Sections for burning. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Insomnia; Sleeplessness AWAY TO THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away to the fair my lad did repair Last Line: Willie comes not from the fair? Subject(s): Fear; Festivals; Love; Waiting; Fairs; Pageants AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where there is no death Last Line: I am terrified! Subject(s): Aztecs; Fear BALLADE, by OSCAR VLADISLAS DE LUBICZ- MILOSZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The foolish fowls of the toad and the witch Last Line: My sister, does the horn not sound for you? Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Love BALLADE: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 26, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greeting to you both in hearty wise Last Line: And hath him recommended to the cat and mouse. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Fear; Hope; Love; Soul; Optimism BALLADE: 39, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She that should most, perceiveth least Last Line: Whether I came too hastily or too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Life BALLADE: 7, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may be good, like it who list Last Line: For dread to fall I stand not fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BAT OUT OF HELL, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: The children scream and rush inside the house Last Line: Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fear BE NOT AFRAID OF BEAUTY, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be not afraid of beauty when Last Line: And waste your heart away. Subject(s): Beauty; Fear BE SURE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: You who are roofed and fed Last Line: Only their bodies build you barricade. Subject(s): Disasters; Fear; War BEANS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I weren't a stranger to myself, he said Last Line: Hell, o, let me not spill the beans Subject(s): Fear; Home; Insanity; Solitude; Strangers BEAR, THE FIRE, AND THE SNOW, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live in fear of the snow,' said the bear Last Line: I live in fear of the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Fear BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the Last Line: Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they %acoomplished, why am I cold Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects BIRD-FEAR, by GERALD JONAS Poem Source First Line: Bird-fear, fear of the fall, of the season's fall, the feather's fall Last Line: Bird-fear, bird-fear, fear of the cage, fear of the air, the price of flight Subject(s): Birdcages; Fear BIRTHDAY ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love and praise, and a length of days whose Last Line: Fair as youth and sublime as truth we find the fame that we hail to-day. Subject(s): Birthdays; Fear; Love; Praise BLESSING THE BOATS (AT ST. MARY'S), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May the tide Last Line: Adventure & adventurers; boats; fear; Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Boats; Fear BOGY MAN, by FREDERICK MUNDLE Poem Source First Line: She knows I know Last Line: That's left of me in her is fear Subject(s): Fear; Imagination; Insanity BORDERLANDS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the evening Last Line: O hidden, o perfect, o desired! O first and final fair! Subject(s): Evening; Fear; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight BOWL OF DREAD, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: I color my hair Last Line: And we hammer away with volume and will, %resisting the circle, %resisting the cornerless snare Subject(s): Fear BREAKLIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light keeps on breaking Last Line: Everything they said Subject(s): Fear; Mothers BREAKLIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light keeps on breaking Last Line: And I understood %everything they said Subject(s): Fear; Mothers BURDEN, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: There is a kind of joy found only at the end of waiting Last Line: Until the next time, it is more than enough, more than enough Subject(s): Anxiety; Disease; Fear CASUALTIES: 14. JULY WAKE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the streets the jungle-geared jeeps roar Last Line: Of leopards amok from the forest Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fear; Military; Protest, Social; Terror CASUALTIES: 17. THE RAT IN A HOLE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A couchant leopard in its cage Last Line: Calling all to thunder Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Cages; Fear; Hunger; Prisons And Prisoners CHUNG TZU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I beg of you, chung tzu Last Line: But of all that people will say %indeed I am afraid Subject(s): Fear COBRA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are these nightmares Last Line: Then slept in the cool dirt under the granary. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares COLD BLOOD, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After murdering his father Last Line: On limber fingers. Subject(s): Burma; Fear; Murder; Punishment; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas CONFIDO ET CONQUIESCO, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fret not, poor soul: while doubt and fear Last Line: So trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; God; Love; Pride; Soul; Self-esteem; Self-respect CONFRONT, by MIHALY LADANYI Poem Source First Line: There was once a jacket, beneath it a dress shirt, a t-shirt Last Line: Entirely by chance? Subject(s): Fear COWS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's afraid of a cow? Last Line: But I wish, o I wish that my daddy was here! Subject(s): Children; Cows; Fear; Childhood CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War DANGERS FACED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is filled with bitter thought Last Line: We face them, and they're gone. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fear DARK ROOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness waits for me Last Line: In the dark room %distant, blurred, delirious Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners DAUGHTER - BAHIA, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I am caught in the roar of the ocean Last Line: As I walk on the land of the daughter Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Angola; Fear; Slavery DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has this bugbear death to frighten man Last Line: As he who dy'd a thousand years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): Translations From Lucretius De Rerum Natura: From The Latter Part Of Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The DEAR DYING TOWN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The food is cheap; the squirrels are black; the box factories have all Last Line: P.S.: remember susanville, where restore the night sky has become the town cry Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Towns; Worry DEMONOLOGUE (1), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: It was fascinating to induce fear Last Line: When I raised hs face and held it there Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Supernatural DESPAIR AND FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The difference between despair / and fear - is like the one Last Line: That knows it cannot see. Subject(s): Despair; Fear DIANA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These fair limbs, of size so massive Last Line: Of giovanni of that city. Subject(s): Fear; Murder DIRE: 17. APOLOGIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If wrath embitter the sweet mouth of song Last Line: The exuberant light and burning bloom of love. Subject(s): Fear; Nations DIRE: 3. PETER'S PENCE FROM PERUGIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iscariot, thou grey-grown beast of blood Last Line: With dusty shame, when thou art damned and dead. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Nations; Dead, The DISCOURAGED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the little babbling streamlet Last Line: Blue and infinite, the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Rivers; Sea; Ocean DISINHERITED, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: Back of the stately mirror and its gleam Last Line: Whose only sin was being born too late. Subject(s): Fear DR. EGG: 5 SECURITY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: In the waiting room Last Line: He pulls out %nothing Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fear; Guns; Psychology EARLY NIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dead, with requiems of the wind Last Line: That shines for lovers, wheresoe'er they are. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Moon; Night; Stars; Winter; World; Bedtime EASY PREY, by HELEN FOGWILL PORTER Poem Source First Line: I stand on the edge Last Line: And too late I hear %the reverberating roar Subject(s): Fear EGGSTRAX FROM THE MALOJA GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is our painful duty to denounce to a repugnant public, a most fearful Last Line: Qed as a mucilaginous but merited motto, worked in periwinkle %shells Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Disasters; Fear; News; Travel ELEGY, ON GORDON BARBER, LAMENTABLY DROWNED IN HIS 18TH YEAR, by GENE DERWOOD Poem Source First Line: When in the mirror of a permanent tear Last Line: That you, by grace, went gayly to the wave %and all our mourning should be to rejoice Variant Title(s): It's The Other Boys Who Live Afrai Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Mourning ELM, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root Last Line: It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults %that kill, that kill, that kill Subject(s): Fear ELM; FOR RUTH FAINLIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Elm Speaks Subject(s): Elm Trees; Fear ELM; FOR RUTH FAINLIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root Last Line: It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults %that kill, that kill Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Elm Speak Subject(s): Elm Trees; Fear ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood as one enchanted Last Line: Fled down the mossy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty ENVELOPE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, martin heidegger, as you have written Last Line: That chain letter good for the next twenty-five %thousand days of their lives Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Death - Children; Fear; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Human Rights EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1673, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No poor dutch peasant, winged with all his fear Last Line: We'll boldly back, and say their price is rais'd. Variant Title(s): Epilogue Spoken At The Acting Of The 'silent Woman' Subject(s): England; Fear; France; Oxford University; Plays & Playwrights ; War; English; Dramatists EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: TWO CANADIAN MEMORIALS: 1, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We giving all gained all Last Line: It is fear, not death, that slays Subject(s): Fear; World War I EROS TURANNOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She fears him, and will always ask Last Line: Where down the blind are driven. Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Destiny; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism EUONYMOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago red wrath and keen despair Last Line: Since england wept upon elizabeth. Subject(s): England; Fear; English EXPECTATION OF DEATH, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far happier are the dead, methinks, than they Last Line: Who look for death, and fear it every day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Variant Title(s): Anticipation;on Invalids Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The EXTREMITIES, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I feared Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FEAR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Fear %nested %like a murmur Last Line: Of all these perverse %distances Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina; Tyranny And Tyrants FEAR, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: Again, I see about me, men who fear Last Line: Have rhymed our fears with everything we do. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Fear; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FEAR, by ANDREI CODRESCU Poem Source First Line: Fear is my way Last Line: The fear of awareness Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim child of darkness and faint-echoing space Last Line: But as myself, my sinful self, I own thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single angel on the head of a pin Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know where lurk Last Line: The day!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: Afraid / of dark? That putting out the light Last Line: But glad for every day, when in god's keeping. Subject(s): Fear; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEAR, by BOB HEMAN Poem Source First Line: In the abbey where the monks died. In the river that had no Last Line: Unable to breathe. All over the surface they refused to touch Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Fear grips me Last Line: I am sad beyond words Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Fear; Love - Loss Of FEAR, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHINSON Poem Text First Line: Not only this golden moment's wine Last Line: And there is nothing for you but the taste of the grapes! Subject(s): Fear; Grapes; Pain; Suffering; Misery FEAR, by ARON KEESBURY Poem Source First Line: For example, when two dragonflies mate just above Last Line: I say it breaks up beauty like a prism Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were afraid of everything: earthquakes Subject(s): Fear; Women FEAR, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were afraid of everything: earthquakes Last Line: Waiting to be saved, the endless, wind-driven waves Subject(s): Fear; Women FEAR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a sound of crying in the lane Last Line: At the door and in the lane! Subject(s): Fear; Mystery FEAR, by THOMAS PEACOCK (20TH CENTURY) Poem Source First Line: Stuffed owls drum in my heart Last Line: We shall share our courage Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by THOMAS BRUCE REESE Poem Text First Line: I found fear to be a sinner Last Line: And threw away the key. Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear passes from man to man Subject(s): Fear FEAR, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am afraid, oh I am so afraid! Last Line: How can they shut me underneath a stone? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Fear FEAR AND COMFORT, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: In the land my dreams inhabit, three dogs Last Line: Written there in language only the body reads Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Fear FEAR HAS RISEN IN ME, by CHRISTINE LAVANT Poem Source First Line: Fear has risen in me Last Line: On the thread of a single hope %above us Subject(s): Fear; Human Rights FEAR II, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Fear was no longer that continuous presence that took pleasure Last Line: A time of %lies and idleness Subject(s): Death; Democracy; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fear; Human Rights - Argentina FEAR IS A SWALLOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seeking a window out Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Nature; Swallows FEAR VIA PLACE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: South by southeast, I suppose, where thickets grow Last Line: And knew the sun was burning everything outside Subject(s): Day; Fear FEAR-FLAME, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it any wonder Last Line: To visit with god. Subject(s): Fear; Flowers; God; Prayer; Roses FEAR-RIDDEN, by MARGARET R. RICHTER Poem Text 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 FEARE GETS FORCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despaire takes heart, when ther's no hope to speed Last Line: The coward then takes armes, and do's the deed. Subject(s): Fear FEARFUL THING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love's cockroach crawls Last Line: The mind has a record of a fearful thing Subject(s): Fear FEARS, by RODOLPHO LIMONINI Poem Source First Line: When I go to bed Last Line: And he was singing poulenc's most famous song Subject(s): Fear FEARS AND SCRUPLES, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my case. Of old I used to love Last Line: What if this friend happened to be -- god? Subject(s): Fear; Letters FEARS IN SOLITUDE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A green and silent spot, amid the hills Last Line: Love, and the thoughts that yearn for human kind. Variant Title(s): The Dell Subject(s): England; Fear; Poetry & Poets; War; English FEAST OF SAN SILVESTRO, by V. PENELOPE PELIZZON Poem Source First Line: All week, the explosions have increased Last Line: The celestial %shards sodden in the street Subject(s): Bombs; Fear FINAL SPRING, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of grass, insurgent bud aware Last Line: This, and the threat of fear, and fear. Subject(s): Fear; Nature; Spring FLOWERS UNDER THE LIGHTNING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The flowers take hold of hands %they fly as the birds are flying Last Line: But cry as the birds are crying Subject(s): Crying; Fear; Grief; Lightning FOR A CERTAIN YOUNGSTER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never fear, my lad, the dark winter's rages Last Line: Making from failure all we know of hell! Subject(s): Children; Fear; Strength FOR FEAR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear I want Last Line: Into old hurt? Subject(s): Fear; Love - Complaints FOR FEAR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear I want Last Line: Bent nail %into old hurt Subject(s): Fear; Love - Complaints FOR FEAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear of prowling beasts at night Last Line: Garden and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Fear; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism FOR YOUR FEAR, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me and I'll think about it Last Line: Love me for my desperation %that I may love you for your fear Subject(s): Fear; Love FORTY WORDS FOR FEAR, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The snow is as blue as the sky was Last Line: We have forty words for fear Subject(s): Fear FRAGMENT, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the woman with the black black skin Last Line: I am the laughing woman who's afraid to sleep. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fear FREED, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Text First Line: I have supped with fear and choked Last Line: I have paid, and freed the pawn. Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Soul; Liberty FROM THE WOMEN'S WRITING, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Mother I went down to the well this morning Last Line: I am glad you are free in your own dimension %and I no longer need to frighten you Subject(s): Fear; Growth; Mothers And Daughters; Sisters FUEL FOR J.S., by DEREK SHEFFIELD Poem Source First Line: A hawk's shadow drove the family Last Line: Pink babies with bulging eyes %until the grimy hands come down Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Hawks; Mice GALLERY OF PIGEONS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy has a gallery Last Line: "and rhyme sweet fantasy -- ""good morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Pigeons; Soul; Women GALLOWS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn showed %distant and sinister Last Line: The dawn showed %distant and sinister Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Fear; Skeletons GAME, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At first, few of us kids dared use the playground. I stood lookout: Last Line: We'll stretch out our hands endlessly waiting for a touch Subject(s): Children; Fear GARDEN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sound. Then the hiss and whir Last Line: Laid like weights on the table Subject(s): Birth; Death; Fear; Gardens And Gardening; Love GEO-BESTIARY: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few long miles up hog canyon Last Line: To my breast, a truly inventive suicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers GEOLE [JAIL], by RENE BELANCE Poem Source First Line: Ridiculous to act Last Line: All those lashing arms Subject(s): Fear GEPHYROPHOBIA (FEAR OF BRIDGES), by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Disbelief is the final emotion Last Line: Onto those vast plains of forgetting Subject(s): Bridges; Fear GHAZALS: 43, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghazal in fear there might not be another Last Line: Smell from here as dead men might after war. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man GUILTY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe this room, for it seems to blab Last Line: The spirit indwelling is mine, is mine! Subject(s): Fear; Guilt; Pain; Secrets; Soul; Suffering; Misery HALF-AFRAID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, the moon is mockery Last Line: Opens many a door Subject(s): Fear; Moon HALLOWE'EN IS HERE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Ghosts and spooks are floating round Last Line: Hallowe'en is here. Subject(s): Fear; Halloween; Holidays HAPTEPHOBIA, by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The bruise spreads Last Line: Finely to flesh %endlessly gone Subject(s): Bruises; Fear HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage Last Line: Thy wretched life, ne do thy death profet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ballade: 6 Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Moon; Dead, The HERMAPHRODITUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up thy lips, turn round, look back for love Last Line: Au musee du louvre, mars 1863. Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Love; Mythology HIDDEN, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I propose / turning the key Subject(s): Relationships; Fear HOLIDAY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lived with sorrow, protected by his will Last Line: A mounting tread Subject(s): Fear HON. JESSE HOLDOM OF CHICAGO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the great lake's pride Last Line: And the waning sun sink low. Subject(s): Babies; Fate; Fear; Future; Past; Infants; Destiny HOPE AND FEAR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shadow of dawn's aerial cope Last Line: "hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all." Subject(s): Fear; Hope; Youth; Optimism HOPE IS THE COUNTERPOISE OF FEAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And both befit us here Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Hope HORSEFLY, by ALICE HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: On the edge of the prairie so wide it was called the sea of Last Line: Neighbors on days like this, and no one has disagreed with him yet Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Grandparents; Horses HOURS, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Alms to the highwayman in pursuit Last Line: My heart! . . . Keep singing, go on -- don't count. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Fear HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright stars came out last night Last Line: And passed into the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness HOW CAN I WRITE POEMS FOR HELEN KELLER?, by JUSABRO IWAMI Poem Text First Line: I must live in a bad, bad world Last Line: They cause fear! Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Fear; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom; Visually Handicapped HOW NEAR TO FEAR, by TOM LINKLATER Poem Text First Line: Suddenly, we couldn't even hear our own hearts / roaring Subject(s): Fear; Snow I AM HELD BY MY FEAR OF DEATH, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The I LIVED ON DREAD; TO THOSE WHO KNOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were challenging despair Subject(s): Fear I LOVE AND FEAR HIM, by KASA Poem Source Last Line: Roars on the coast at ise Subject(s): Fear; Love I SAW THEE CHILD ONE SUMMER'S DAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Children; Time; Fear; Childhood I WILL NOT FEAR, by MARY ELLEN FRIEDEBACH Poem Text First Line: I will not fear my coming shroud Last Line: Content I am as part of time. Subject(s): Fear I'M SCARED OF IT ALL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm scared of it all, god's truth, so I am! Last Line: Oh, I know that it's safer up there! Subject(s): Fear; Heaven; Paradise ICE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one this far south chances ice Last Line: And the lottery began. Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds IDLE FEARS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my lost childhood old folks said to me Last Line: The image of her prime may not displace. Subject(s): Fear; Childhood Memories IF I KNEW I'D BEAR MYSELF PROUDLY, by METIJA BECKOVIC Poem Source Last Line: I'd spit on all and agree to anything Subject(s): Fear; Human Rights; Torture IMMIGRANT WOMAN, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore. Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IN MY CHILDHOOD , by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood I awoke to my mother's voice Last Line: I am fighting panic that everything / does exist in itself alone Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Silence; Fear IN THE NIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are spirit presences Last Line: And sense the mist rising. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There always is a noise when it is dark Last Line: My heart asunder! Subject(s): Fear; Night; Bedtime IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A WORLD OF FEAR, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Primordial man most sorely feared Last Line: Destroyed his children without ruth! Subject(s): Fear IN THE WOODS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other people - innocents or lunatics / find in the woods only pallid charms Last Line: Sound like waiting assassins plotting to strike. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime IN WINTER, IN MY ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This was a dream Subject(s): Worms; Fear INITIATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only those whom the glacier-spears Last Line: Can hear the worms whisper beneath the sod. Subject(s): Fear; God; Hell INSOMNIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it's really fear you want to talk about Subject(s): Insomnia; Conduct Of Life; Fear; Failure; Sleeplessness JACK AND JOAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Interred beneath this marble stone Last Line: And so they lived; and so they died. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Children; Death; Epitaphs; Fear; Life; Love; Childhood; Dead, The JUST LISTEN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit by the window and watch a great mythological bird go down in flames Last Line: Growl like the chorus in an undiscovered greek tragedy Subject(s): Fear KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat. Variant Title(s): To Britannia Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs LEAFY FALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stranger stays inside, hates to go out Last Line: His brother is his enemy, %his enemy his brother. Subject(s): Enemies; Fear LEGACY, by MARGARET STANLEY-WRENCH Poem Text First Line: Long after it will happen, when all is forgotten Last Line: The aimless sound of the relentless sea. Subject(s): Fear; Memory; Past LESSON, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I go out to the bars Last Line: Says you almost %got us killed. Then slaps me, hard Subject(s): Danger; Fear; Hitchhikers; Learning LIE DOWN WITH A MAN, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought I had to Last Line: Two things I was afraid of Subject(s): Men; Sex; Fear LIFE AND DEATH, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afraid of death?-a quiet sleep Last Line: And shall be blest. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Pity; Dead, The LIGHT AND DARKNESS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness, blind darkness every way Last Line: We sin and suffer to the end. Subject(s): Light; Darkness; Hope; Fear LIMITLESS JITTERS SCORE ENTAILMENT, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The post-ebb again, devices tacit %are we concise? Subject(s): Fear LOSTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel so far from anywheres! Last Line: I'm just as losted as I was. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with no connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets LOVE'S FEAR, by ELSA BARKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am afraid, because I love thee so Subject(s): Fear; Love LOVE, HOPE, DESIRE AND FEAR, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And many there were hurt by that strong boy Last Line: Ever will be near. Subject(s): Desire; Fear; Hope; Love; Pleasure; Optimism MAN WITH NO SHADOW, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Odd the things that snag our fears, this time Last Line: Thunder of release clutching, shouting until %done Subject(s): Fear; Shadows MARIA TO HENRIC, by A YOUNG LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "minutes grow tedious, time too slowly moves" Last Line: "all yours -- adieu, my royal love, adieu" Alternate Author Name(s): A Young Lady Subject(s): Faith;fear;love; Belief;creed MARSHAL SAXE AND HIS PHYSICIAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fever's a most audacious varlet Last Line: "pull up the glasses!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Fear; Fever; Physicians; War; Doctors MASTERY, by LESTER E. WATERBURY Poem Text First Line: Little bunch of fur leaps up Last Line: Sees me with fear-lit eyes, afraid? Subject(s): Fear MATINEE, by JANE O. WAYNE Poem Source First Line: In the forest of that movie theater Last Line: In the distance - some black bird %that can tear the flesh from bone Subject(s): Children; Fear; Motion Pictures MAYBE THIS IS ABOUT SMOKE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Maybe it's about a pipe I once bought you Last Line: Maybe it's about my fear of losing you Subject(s): Fear MIDNIGHT PRAYER, by DALE HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Give me a long sonny rollins solo Last Line: That fear is naked and feeds no one Subject(s): Fear MILLY'S EXPIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when all these terrors Last Line: Be restored to god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Love; Murder; Trials; Youth MINISTERING ANGELS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angels of light, spread your bright wings Last Line: O take me home! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Fear; Hearts; Life MISERICORDIA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am frightened master, quivering with fear Last Line: Writ in her features! Come to me master! Subject(s): Persephone; Fear MISS MANIAC, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around my brain there is a chain, and o'er my fevered soul Last Line: Ah-ha!-it was a deadly touch-but it never cooled again! Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fear; Grief MONODY, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: My soul is a small, black island washed by the sea Last Line: When will its restless fingers reach my heart ... Subject(s): Fear; Introspection; Self; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness MOOSE, by JEAN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: I missed that son of a bitch Last Line: Is the shape he gave %my fears Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Horses MORTALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I lain down at night Last Line: Remained afraid to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Mortality; Sleep; Dead, The MORTIMER, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And as a traveler goes, alert to spy Last Line: And as a traveler -- goes. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips MY COUSIN AGATHA, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: My godmother invited my cousin agatha Last Line: On the ebony of an age-old wardrobe Subject(s): Children; Fear; Solitude; Teenagers MY HAND TREMBLES, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Text First Line: The bells are singing to wake the dead Last Line: Like birds of the fields. Subject(s): Dadaism; Death; Fear; Dead, The MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War NAKEDNESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The end of the human adventure Last Line: Before anyone Subject(s): Death; Fear NERVOUS FAMILY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're all nervous, very very nervous Last Line: And we're all nervous at our house in town Subject(s): Family Life; Fear NEW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Fear no more the noise of the boom Last Line: The irish whiskey is eden bliss. %tigerpiss. Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Fear; Ireland NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHTMARE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blinds Last Line: Mercurous in the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Fear; Nightmares NO TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: From room to room he roared and strode Last Line: A barkin' dog has no time to bite Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fathers; Fear NO-MORE-FEAR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the mountains of sleep Last Line: Back with me to the porch of day. Subject(s): Eucharist; Fear; Soul; Communion NORTH-WEST PASSAGE: 2. SHADOW MARCH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the house is the jet-black night Last Line: With the black night overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 41. North-west Passage: 2 Subject(s): Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime NOTHING REMAINS, by MAJA HADERLAP Poem Source First Line: Nothing remains of the illusion of security, which settles like a sickness Last Line: And remembrance is shortened into the fleeting sensation that makes the microbes tremble Subject(s): Fear; Terror NOVEMBER, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Hark you such sound as quivers? Kings will hear Last Line: Tis but the forest letting dead leaves fall. Subject(s): Fear; November NUMB, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: It is as if schauder's chest Last Line: Last merely a few months Subject(s): Fear; Poland - Wars With Germany OBAKE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Once late at night I saw obasan Last Line: It's her I'm hiding from Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fear; Old Age; Teaching And Teachers OCTOBER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At my feet the stream flows backwards Last Line: Only larger, like two wings of ice. Subject(s): Fear; October; Self ODE TO FEAR, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, to whom the world unknown / with all its shadowy shapes is shown Last Line: And I, o fear, will dwell with thee! Subject(s): Fear ODE TO FEAR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the day glare, o memory, your tread Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Fear ODE: IN IMITATION OF HORACE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, deluded, albion, wilt thou lie Last Line: And europe is redeemed, and william reigns! Subject(s): Fate; Fear; Heaven; Horace (65-8 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Paradise ODES I, 23. TO CHLOE (4), by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happens it, my cruel miss Last Line: You'll find the poet's love is metre. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear OF ALL DESPONDENCIES, by ENRIQUE LIHN Poem Source First Line: Of all despondencies, death-despair must be the worst Last Line: Or to the hospital airport so as not to miss the flight Subject(s): Death; Fear ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World ONE DREAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No depth, dear love, for thee is too profound Last Line: The dread of some dark day unshared by thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Fear; Love ONE RING AT TWO, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: One ring at two a.M. %and you sit up in darkness Last Line: To tear black silence into song Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Night; Telephones ORA PRO ME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria! Bright and pure Last Line: Ora pro me. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Mary And Martha (bible); Soul; Women In The Bible; Dead, The OUR FEAR, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Our fear %does not wear a night shirt Last Line: Not too deep %not too shallow Subject(s): Fear OUT IN A FIELD, AN IMMENSE EMPTY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From no visible trees. I was scared Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Fields; Nature OWEN OF LANARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, welcome, mighty stranger Last Line: Welcome, owen of lanark! Subject(s): Doubt; Fear; Salvation; Skepticism PANTHERS OF WORRY, by JOHN ROY OCTAVIUS GERY Poem Source First Line: Panthers outside my window Last Line: Of regret I've never quite sighed %of things undone things unsaid Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life PARADE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Out of step,' they said, as we marched along Last Line: ... But how could they know that I marched with the dead? Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marching & Marches; Soldiers; War; Dead, The PAT'S DILEMMA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: My wife, pat, who Last Line: Them monday morning - %dispel the madness Subject(s): Fear PERFECTED, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear hath torment. Hie thee, fear Last Line: Love's security is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Fear; Love PERIL OF HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is right in there Last Line: For a night of frost Subject(s): Fear; Frost PHOBIA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because from the tour bus Last Line: With its frantic wings. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PITY THIS POOR ANIMAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And has no need for fire Subject(s): Racism; Fear; Pity; Blacks PLANE WRECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mine was this easy. Flying Last Line: My plane wreck was this easy. %his illness and fear were not Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Fear; Flight; Friendship; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska PLEASURES OF FEAR, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Our mothers were talking in the house Last Line: Could ever be washed off with plain soap and water Subject(s): Fear; Mothers POEM, by GORDON C. GREELEY Poem Text First Line: You say that you're afraid of love Last Line: A brief regret that love passed by. Subject(s): Fear; Love POEM, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am afraid a woman Subject(s): Fear POETRY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fear' Poetry & Poets POINT BALBIANELLO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From lake como's depths ascending Last Line: And the poet's dream. Subject(s): Beauty; Fear; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire PRELUDE FOR LOT'S WIFE, by JAMES T. GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: Let soft white silver of her tears Last Line: A pillar of salt. Subject(s): Fear; God; Salt; Tears PRESENCES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This night has been so strange that it seemed Last Line: And one, it may be, a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women; Fear; Dreams PRIMITIVE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman dreamed Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares PSALM: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the gentils tumults make Last Line: That do on him their trust repose. Subject(s): Fear; Gentility; God; Nations; Religion; Theology PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology PSALM: 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee & thy wondrous deeds, o god Last Line: They been but men of mortall kind. Subject(s): Fear; God; Grief; Hope; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PURSUIT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a panther stalks me down: Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fear QUADRUPLE VOICES: QUADROPHENIA, by MAJDA KNE Poem Source First Line: A trembling poplar grew, %I graze the greenery in my village Last Line: Has risen from the rotten green fog Subject(s): Fear; Voices QUATRAIN: FROM EASTERN SOURCES: 3, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poor dwarf's figure, looming through the dense Last Line: Took to his heels and ran away. Subject(s): Fear QUEM METUI MORITURA?', by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text 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 QUI TRANSTULIT SUSTINET, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When we would count the tale of years Last Line: "save ""qui transtulit sustinet." Subject(s): Fear REACHING, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Your eyes close Last Line: Susan, where are you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Fear; Love - Loss Of READING TIME: 1 MINUTE 26 SECONDS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fear of poetry is the %fear: mystery and fury of a midnight street Last Line: The yellow joy after the song of the sun, %aftermath proof, extended radiance Subject(s): Fear; Poetry And Poets RECOLLECTIONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a lad deserted by his mates Last Line: They found him -- dazed and dumb that this could be. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Tears; Dead, The REVERSION, by JESSIE E. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow I shall clasp the hand of courage Last Line: And afraid -- afraid! Subject(s): Fear REVISIONIST POEM: MACHADO, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor and desperate men Last Line: And the fear of drowning Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Fear; Drowning RHAPSODY FOR THE MULE, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source First Line: How certain the mule's step in the abyss Subject(s): Asses And Mules; Fear RIVER WIE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During lovemaking he fell asleep, one moment Last Line: Then turned to stare down the stagnant house %growing paler in the glimmer reflected off the river Variant Title(s): River Wif Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Rivers; Romance ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 20. ENFANT PERDU, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn posts leading, thirty long years fought I Last Line: My arms break not, my heart alone doth break. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Freedom; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs RUMORS, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In tornado weather, my mother said, the day Last Line: The candles in case the lights went out Subject(s): Family Life; Fear RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so certain yesterday Last Line: I'll hurry home to mother now. Subject(s): Children; Escapes; Fear; Solitude; Childhood; Fugitives; Loneliness RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thin brown stain Subject(s): Rain; Fear SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SANCTUARY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fear; Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness SAY NOT GOOD-BYE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if we shall meet again? Last Line: Say not good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Fear; Hearts; Love; Pain; Parting; Suffering; Misery SCENE OF WAR: FEAR, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear is a wave Subject(s): Fear SCHOOL OF DREAMS, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: It is an afternoon Last Line: Failure's in your veins %red as any ink Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Children; Failure; Fear SCREAM, by GRACIELA REYES Poem Source First Line: So many years with the urge to scream Last Line: I never, ever screamed Subject(s): Fear SEEN FROM THE PORCH, A BEAR BY THE HOUSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mail of mud Last Line: So instead I yell hey Subject(s): Bears; Fear SERMON OF THE FALLEN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From an east window Last Line: Even as a boy, I could feel the trembling in us all. Subject(s): Decay; Fear; Sermons; Rot; Decadence SHE SAYS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She says the syringe is not her own Last Line: She says she is not afraid of prison Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Fear; Knives; Lies; Prisons And Prisoners SHELL, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: The shell %my heart-muscle Last Line: I am afraid Subject(s): Fear SIMILE, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As when her friend, the crack austrian skier, in the story Subject(s): Skiing; Fear; Mothers; Death; Dead, The SIR EUSTACE GREY (SEE CRABBE), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, oh lay me low Last Line: Death is immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Death; Fear; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES BIOLOGY CLASS: NATURAL SELECTION, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After each day's light lumbers off Last Line: And falling, they say, must last forever Subject(s): Fear SLAVE AND EMPEROR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor mocked at nazareth Last Line: To save his world again. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Dead, The; Serfs SOMEWHAT DISTURBED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He knows damn well he's not afraid Last Line: To be out of his mind Subject(s): Fear; Insanity; Nudity; Silence SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere more the peacock flutters, ere the monkey people cry Last Line: But thy throat is shut and dried, and thy heart against thy side %hammers: fear, o little hunter--th Variant Title(s): Fea Subject(s): Fear SONG: 6, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most wretched heart, most miserable Last Line: Since unhap cannot kill me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Hearts; Hope; Quarrels; Truth; Optimism; Arguments; Disagreements SONG: 85, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spite of their spite which they in vain Last Line: My fancy is too hard to turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Fear; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONG: 88, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom should I sue to ease my pain? Last Line: And here an end, and here an end. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Love; Pain; Suffering; Misery SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 5. NOEL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To awake at dawn and remember new-dropt lambs Last Line: "o lamb which takest away the sin of the world." Subject(s): Christmas; Fear; Life; Religion; Sleep; Nativity, The; Theology SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 8, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, dorinda, I adore Last Line: I divorce myself for ever. Subject(s): Duplicity; Fear; Hope; Love; Virtue; Deceit; Optimism SONNET, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a rived tree, that stands beside the grave Last Line: Aghast she stands, the statue of her fears! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Fear; Floods; Love - Loss Of SONNET: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If waker care, if sudden pale color Last Line: Without whose help scant do I live a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 97 Subject(s): Fear; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Joy; Delight SONNET: 41, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By bolstered words I am borne in hand Last Line: Is my 'no fears' of your 'no faith'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Fear; Language; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary SONNET: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving to desire, adread also to dare Last Line: Though double in deeds, a inward perfect man. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Faith; Fear; Hope; Belief; Creed; Optimism SONNETS ON AGE: 5, by KATHRYN HOWARD WELLS Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell this eager youth Last Line: And know that soon one, too, must die. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Fear; Dead, The SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#15), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The growth underfoot, the amputated remains Last Line: An egg that was dropped from a rooftop to see what. Subject(s): Firel; Fear SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 53, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have told your mother Last Line: Your father will soon know Subject(s): Fear; Secrets SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 54, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, say it while walking Last Line: I am all trembling Subject(s): Fear SPECIAL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There's a special poison to be found Last Line: Until all flesh %is dust. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Fear SSSSSSSS, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep in shape %use to run in the woods Last Line: He is the subject that %stole urbi's jelly beans Subject(s): Animals; Evil; Fear; Snakes STANZAS; WRITTEN AFTER THE SECOND READING OF 'CORINNA', by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Childhood's glad smile was on my lip, life's sunshine on my brow Last Line: The reed when wooed by zephyr's breath, the oak when tempests lower. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Fear; Life; Love; Youth SUCCESS, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have mislaid the torment and the fear Last Line: You should be praised for taking them away Subject(s): Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881); Fear SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 4. CAPRICCIOSO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay! The longings tender Last Line: So caught, is held to my impatient heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Life; World SUN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man may him hyde Last Line: Multiplied flames, o sun! Variant Title(s): Fear Is Hope Subject(s): Fear; Hope; Optimism SYBIL BRAND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN, by CHRISTINE CHOI AHMED Poem Source First Line: Struggling against fear coming up like puke Subject(s): Fear; Prisons And Prisoners TELL A STORY ABOUT A THRESHOLD HERE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The country is calling, marry uncle sam. Rudimentary fear. War Last Line: Related. I gather I hunt I gather I hunt. I hunted. Never for a husband Subject(s): Fear; Marriage THE ALARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twas fairly done, mortalitie Last Line: Not by surprize, my life I'd loose. Subject(s): Fear; Mortality; War THE ASSIGNATION: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long betwixt love and fear phillis tormented Last Line: That I'm forsaken. Subject(s): Fear; Fire; Hearts; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs THE BALUSTRADE, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ultimate boundary: arms Subject(s): Amnesia; Conduct Of Life; Fear THE BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE CALL OF THE BLOOD, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water the shadows are creeping Last Line: Lights in the window and watch at the door. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Life; Voices THE CHILD AND THE OCEAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, ocean dear, all yesterday Last Line: "I'll never frighten you again." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Children; Fear; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE CONFEDERATE, by WHITELAW SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: Death called, but frightened, he had turned away Last Line: Or that the bloom was death's confederate. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Flowers; Dead, The THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CROWN, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently through the dusk my thoughts return to me Last Line: One coronet for both of astral buds and leaves. Subject(s): Children; Crowns; Fear; Flowers; Life; Pride; Childhood; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE DADDY STRAIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two friends over a chinese lunch Last Line: Can hatch any bird but flightless bromides. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Comfort; Death; Fear; Dead, The THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEATHS ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU STIR IN SLEEP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our best will be to dream of what we were Subject(s): Love; Death; Fear; Sleep THE DREADED TASK, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: I found the task that I had dreaded so Last Line: And dread once conquered means a victory won. Subject(s): Fear; Worry THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art dreary Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism THE FACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow spaces I see a face Last Line: If you should move! Subject(s): Faces; Fear; Lips; Love; Moon; Night; Bedtime THE FEAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oft have I thought the muse was dead Last Line: Each time you sleep and do not move. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fear; Mortality THE FEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lantern light from deeper in the barn Last Line: It touched, it struck it, clattered and went out. Subject(s): Fear THE FEAR OF MADNESS; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is something which I dread Last Line: (final poem) Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Insanity; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness; Illness THE FEAR OF MAN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a girl no one gallantly attends Last Line: Not be misunderstood in what I mean Subject(s): Fear THE FEARFUL CHILD, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real. Subject(s): Children; Pets; Family Life; Fear; Childhood; Relatives THE FERRY, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of marsh-mallows my boat is made Last Line: So long you tarry at the crossing. Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fear; Ferry Boats; Love - Complaints THE FOREIGNERS: 1, by CARLOS BULOSAN Poem Text First Line: Fear grips their lives Last Line: Look and examine us! Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE GHOST OF A FEAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young willie was bragging -- I happened to hear Last Line: But a glimmer of love and a chuckle of cheer. Subject(s): Fear THE GIRL WITH BEES IN HER HAIR, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Came in an envelope with no return address; Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Beekeeping THE HILL WIFE: HOUSE FEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always - I tell you this they learned Last Line: Until they had lit the lamp inside. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish THE HORSES RUN BACK TO THEIR STALLS, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It's another sorry tale about class in america, I'm sure Subject(s): Horse Racing; Fear; Panic; Fire THE HOUSE BY THE SEA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clock ticks on the old oak stair Last Line: Alone. . . . He understands. Subject(s): Fear; Kisses; Life; Love; Sea; Ocean THE HOUSE IN WHICH WE NOW LIVED WAS OLD, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Fear; Household Employees; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE HUMAN NOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the harmonies of heaven stole a note of throbbing pain Last Line: Yea, the wistful human groping, and the doubt that makes it dear. Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Heaven; Life; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd never dare to walk across Last Line: I fear that I should be! Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Bridges; Fear; Nonsense THE LARK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small bird cowering in the dark Last Line: In the dark! Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Larks; Skylarks THE LAST ABORIGINAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see him sit, wild-eyed alone Last Line: Then sinks back on his unknown bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Fear; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE LAST SOUL, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven was void of gods and, altarless Last Line: And, as departing incense, soared to god. Subject(s): Fear; Heaven; Soul; Youth; Paradise THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ENTGEGENWARTIGUNG TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard you are coming after me Last Line: You went past. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fear THE LISTENERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face of day is haggard Last Line: On the moor and the mere. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Fables; Faces; Fear; Thunder; Allegories THE LOST CARYATID, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When over salamis stands homer's moon Last Line: "shall build once more our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Fear; Moon; Belief; Creed THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the anguish of these secret meetings Last Line: Words with not connection Subject(s): Family Life; Fear; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Relatives; Male-female Relations THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Hark, hark! / did you not hear a sound from out the dark Last Line: Save me alone? The people there are dead! Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Fear; Mothers; Childhood THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that piercing shriek -- the throe Last Line: Outgushing tears, and gasping sobs. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Errors; Fear; Grief; Kisses; Mothers; Tears; Mistakes; Fallacies; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEW HIGHWAY, by ELIZABETH MORSE Poem Text First Line: My fear is the fear of the road - of the new highway Last Line: All the years in between the boy and the man -- all the fears! Subject(s): Fear; Roads; Paths; Trails THE PIT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great pascal had his pit always in sight Last Line: Ah! From time's menace never to win free! Subject(s): Fear; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Sleep THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 147, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset I went down the western slope Last Line: Didn't I tremble in fright Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Evening; Fear; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 160, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people fear a white head Last Line: But it's not meant for him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Fear THE POET'S JOURNAL: BEFORE THE BURIAL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the night is overpast Last Line: And the rainbow for the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bells; Fear; Life; Singing & Singers THE POOH-POOH BIRD, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've often heard / the pooh-pooh bird Last Line: And he will flee when thus discovered. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE RAINS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river rises / and the rains keep coming. Subject(s): Rain; Fear; Family Life; Relatives THE SECOND BAPTISM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tiny babes we touch on brow and breast Last Line: Wetting them with our tears. Subject(s): Baptism; Fear; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Christenings THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH WIVES: SONG BETWEEN MR. LEVERIDGE AND MRS. CROSS, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Fairest nymph that ever bless'd our shore Last Line: A wiser will supply, &c. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SPINSTER, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN Poem Text First Line: ...Afraid?... Why, no...But Last Line: And the first-star pierces the west. Subject(s): Fear; Spinsters; Old Maids THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years we've circled round this date Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk THE TEARS OF FEAR, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is my lais' smile, and sweet the tide / of tears that flood her eyes Last Line: "you will desert me: men are never true." Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Fear; Tears; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE TERROR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: No, I did not dare - but find no excuses, for my mind the poet in me impeaches Last Line: Child. Subject(s): Fear; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE THRILL OF THE FOREST, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In the green-lit solitudes of the road beneath the woods as clear, Last Line: Forest leaves, pierced by the scent of smoke from distant villages! Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Soul; Woods THE UNACKNOWLEDGED FEAR, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the bottom of my fear Last Line: My shoulders bow under an invisible weight. Subject(s): Fear; Hate; Hearts; Love THE UNEXPECTED PERIL, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike the youth that all men say Last Line: Sloth! Turn; crush, teach me fear again! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Fear THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE WANING FIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If death's dread angel came to me to-night Last Line: I see again the faces of old days. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE WAVERING LOVER WILLETH AND DREADETH, TO MOVE HIS DESIRE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such vain thought as wonted to mislead me Last Line: But such it is I not how to begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 26 Subject(s): Fear; Freedom; Hearts; Hope; Liberty; Optimism THE YEAR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be said in new year rhymes Last Line: And that's the burden of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Nightmares; Optimism THE YELLOW CLOUD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: A cloud, a yellow cloud, and deep and dense Last Line: No more I'll fear again. Fear is not real. Subject(s): Fear; Sun THERE WAS A CHILD ONCE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Fear; Childhood; Parting THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON IN BLACK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That helpless old person in black Subject(s): Fear; Old Age THREAT, by PAUL NELSON Poem Source First Line: My fear, looking up, light-headed Last Line: Another night of bliss Subject(s): Fear THREE NIGHT SONGS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mask riddles itself Last Line: A music comes to the point of horror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Masks; Night; Bedtime THREE WOOD SONGS: 2. PATH'S END, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death is here, death is there Last Line: Death remains, and fear, and fear. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The THROUGH LANE IT LAY, THROUGH BRAMBLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These children fluttered home Subject(s): Travel; Fear TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by TOONI GORDI Poem Text First Line: There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts Last Line: We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom. Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural; Time TO A CHILD RUNNING, by TERRANCE J. LAPPIN Poem Source First Line: I am a warn-%ing in myself Last Line: Arch of an aviary Subject(s): Children; Fear TO A YOUNG WOMAN DYING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She hears a hermit laughing Last Line: That she loves something she has not found. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fear; Hermits; Love; Women; Dead, The TO CHATTERTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal boy! Whose years scarce reached my own Last Line: Have I, and still my fields are green and wet. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Fortune; Life; Soul; Dead, The TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUTCHESS OF YORK, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you whose dignity strikes us with awe Last Line: And falls by that a truer sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Fame; Fear; Hyde, Anne. Duchess Of York (1637-1671); Muses; Reputation TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be you still, be you still, trembling heart Last Line: With the proud, majestical multitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): To My Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear Subject(s): Fear; Hearts TO MARIAN POWYS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lace-maker, what joys, what fears Last Line: And a dream beyond this dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 23. THE FEAR OF BEING GREAT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The fear of being great is what keeps men Last Line: Can understand what living truly is. Subject(s): Fear; Greatness; Men TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 28. LOVE AND THE FEAR OF POVERTY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Love! She is a woman, and she can love Last Line: Which once acknowledged was by man and wife. Subject(s): Fear; Love; Poverty TO NOWHERE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I carry my keys like a weapon Last Line: On a mission to nowhere Subject(s): Fear; Keys; City & Town Life TOO LATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Speak low; tread softly Last Line: Came a day too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism TORMENTUM, by CHARLES ADOLPHE CANTUCUZENE Poem Text First Line: My fear beyond the door has sped Last Line: Nay, for it may be thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Happiness; Lips; Love; May (month); Dead, The; Joy; Delight TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A CHILD AT A WINDOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the dark, at night, outside a little cottage door Last Line: Lit by a million suns. Subject(s): Children; Fear; Childhood TURKEY DISCIPLINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrid turkeys! What a pother! Last Line: Evil turkeys-down she fell! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Fear; Monsters; Turkeys TWO ELEGIES CONCERNING FEAR, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not thought, fact Subject(s): Fear TWO PATHS, by MRS. EDGAR A. PERKINS Poem Text First Line: The flaming sun sank down the western sky Last Line: But I was not afraid. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips TWO SONNETS ...: THE DYING PHOBIAC TAKES HIS FEARS WITH HIM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Visions of flame fanned out from the cigarette Last Line: Annul their old contract and set him free Subject(s): Fear TYRANNY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This one I feared is powerless become Last Line: The taunt of silence takes my life -- my life. Subject(s): Fear; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dictators UNBLINDING, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: When I think of my fear Last Line: One flick of a surgeon's knife %struck long-idle retinas %into perfect sight Subject(s): Blindness; Fear; Surgery UNPERFECTED, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear hath torment. Love, away! Last Line: I'm afraid of you to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Fear VAIN FEARS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I fear the hour of going? I'll Last Line: Natural; why have the willies? It's no excuse for fear or woe. Subject(s): Cowardice; Fear VANQUISHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: There is a way that I can save the hurt Last Line: Covered securely with a shield of bronze! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The VICTIM, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I feel the motion of the car before I open my eyes Last Line: The last thing I hear is a click Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Disappeared Persons; Fear; Kidnapping VICTORY MUST BE A SUMPREMELY GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE SAID A WOMAN TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 2:22 am too hot to sleep Last Line: A defeat he replied Subject(s): War; Hate; Fear; Defeat; Victory; Wellington, Duke Of VIEWS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly all the time, and still I'm afraid to fly Subject(s): Air Travel; Fear VIRGIDEMIAE: HIS DEFIANCE TO ENUIE, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay: let the prouder pines of ida fear Last Line: Monstra noui monstri haec, & satyri & satyrae. Subject(s): Envy; Fear; Muses VISTAS OF LABOR: 2. THE MINER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up creaks the car; he leaves his ghastly dream Last Line: And once again life is a nightmare dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; God; Life; Love; Mines & Miners; Nightmares VITAS HINNULEO ME SIMILIS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, chloe, like a timid hind Last Line: That thou shouldst own a lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Courtship; Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers & Daughters; Male-female Relations WARRIOR MOTHERS, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: You wait as I for the fatal word Last Line: Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours? Subject(s): Fear; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Down the steps and down the steps Last Line: To where the future in a sea %of screaming children flows Subject(s): Fear; Future; Hell WEARING MASKS OF FEAR, by JOHN S. MBITI Poem Source First Line: We are the solitart street travellers Last Line: And fear to war our masks of fear Subject(s): Fear WHAT BRINGS US OUT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something about pumpkins caused Last Line: How fast you had to turn to make it move. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Fear; Pumpkins WHAT IS A SYMBOL?, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird is flying north across the white sky Last Line: Sit down Subject(s): Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pregnancy; Women WHEN I GET INTO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm never frightened in the dark Last Line: As I get into bed. Subject(s): Beds; Children; Fear; Night; Childhood; Bedtime WHEN I HEAR IT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I know satanic music when I hear it Last Line: Warriors kicking each other in the gravelled yard %deliberately and very hard. Subject(s): Children; Devil; Fear WHILE I WAS A FEARING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A whole existence through Subject(s): Fear WHITE FEAR, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I am not afraid in april Last Line: And feel my heart cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Fear WHITE LOVER, by JOY HAUSMANN Poem Text First Line: She was afraid of things too gleaming white Last Line: At peace beneath a pall like april blossoms. Subject(s): Fear; Funerals; White (color); Burials WHO GOES WITH FERGUS?, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who will go drive with fergus now Last Line: And all dishevelled wandering stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Youth; Fear WHY REASON CAN'T OVERCOME AN IRRATIONAL FEAR, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: The phobia whispers to me taht I am special Last Line: That only the force of my fear is lifting us up Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Fear; Reason WINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it she taught Last Line: Could flap across a desk and fly away? Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Mythical Animals; Fictious Animals WINTER-FEAR, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has come Last Line: The sun, then, god! What agony these days of rain! Subject(s): Fear; Rain; Wind; Winter WORDS WRITTEN DURING YOUR OPERATION, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The early fog has retreated Last Line: You'd leave me is beyond belief Subject(s): Fear; Love; Surgery YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fingers lie in the lap Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness YOU FAIL AN APPOINTMENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nervously my fingernails Last Line: The uncut pages %of my book Subject(s): Fear YOUNGSTER AND OLDSTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she not fair? Last Line: Is one right, or the other -- or are both? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Nightmares ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery |
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