Fear poems

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Dies Irae

© Macaulay Thomas Babington

On that great, that awful day,This vain world shall pass away

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Like to the Clear in Highest Sphere

© Thomas Lodge

Like to the clear in highest sphereWhere all imperial glory shines,Of selfsame colour is her hair,Whether unfolded or in twines: Heigh ho, fair Rosalind

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To a Spider

© Linton William James

Spider! Spider! hid from sightTill some hapless fly alight,What fore-thoughtful brain and eyeFashion'd thy web's nice symmetry?

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Mind your Knitting

© Linton William James

Lucy! mind your knitting: Blind as I may be,I am certain you're not sitting At your work by me

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June

© Francis Ledwidge

Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by,And plant this bee-sucked bough of woodbine there,And let the window down

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Man and Bat

© David Herbert Lawrence

When I went into my room, at mid-morning,Say ten o'clock ...My room, a crash-box over that great stone rattleThe Via de' Bardi ....

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Cruelty and Love / Love on the Farm

© David Herbert Lawrence

Version 1 (1913)1.2Lifted, grasping the golden light1.3Which weaves its way through the creeper leaves1.4 To my heart's delight?

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Almond Blossom

© David Herbert Lawrence

Even iron can put forth,Even iron.

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Salve Deus Rex Iudæorum

© Lanyer Æmilia

Now Pontius Pilate is to judge the CauseOf faultlesse Jesus, who before him stands;Who neither hath offended Prince, nor Lawes,Although he now be brought in woefull bands:O noble Governour, make thou yet a pause,Doe not in innocent blood imbrue thy hands; But heare the words of thy most worthy wife, Who sends to thee, to beg her Sauiours life

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To Correspondents

© Andrew Lang

MY postman, though I fear thy tread, And tremble as thy foot draws nearer,'Tis not the Christmas dun I dread, My mortal foe is much severer --The unknown correspondent, who, With indefatigable pen,And nothing in the world to do, Perplexes literary men

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Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy

© Walter Savage Landor

The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by,Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve,Some froward, some sedater, some adorn'dFor festival, some reckless of attire

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Night Vision

© L'Abbé Sonnet

His wife dreams of silent flight.

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Haenyo Song: Harvest

© L'Abbé Sonnet

We cull the island's most spectacular fields.

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The Incarnation

© Knox Isa Craig

Not in cloud and not in thunder,Filling all the world with wonder, Came to earth the Lord of earth;But with helpless cries and tears,Mid a mother's pains and fears, Entered by the gate of birth.

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Two Canadian Memorials

© Rudyard Kipling

We giving all gained all. Neither lament us nor praise.Only in all things recall, It is Fear, not Death that slays.

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Yozgad IV: How like an ocean is existence here

© Julius Stanley de Vere Alexander

Yozgad is situated in a remote and high valley of the Anatolian tableland

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The Vanity of Human Wishes

© Samuel Johnson

Let observation with extensive view,