Fear poems

 / page 162 of 454 /
star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Ovid. Trist. Lib. V. Elegy XII.

© William Cowper

You bid me write to amuse the tedious hours,

And save from withering my poetic powers;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Little Left Hand - Act I

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt


Place
A Country Town in England.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Archduchess Anne

© George Meredith

In middle age an evil thing
Befell Archduchess Anne:
She looked outside her wedding-ring
Upon a princely man.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Prison Bell

© Owen Suffolk

Hark to the bell of sorrow! - 'tis awak'ning up again

Each broken spirit from its brief forgetfulness of pain.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Gautama Christ

© Pablo Neruda

The names of God and especially those of His representative 

Who is called Jesus or Christ according to holy books and 

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Laos

© Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev

Dear girl, your cheeks are soft and tender,

And your breasts, like little hills, are slender,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

"This Enlightened Age"

© Ada Cambridge

I say it to myself-in meekest awe
 Of Progress, electricity and steam,
Of this almighty age-this liberal age,
 That has no time to breathe, or think, or dream,-

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Two Angels. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Two angels, one of Life and one of Death,
  Passed o'er our village as the morning broke;
The dawn was on their faces, and beneath,
  The sombre houses hearsed with plumes of smoke.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2)

© William Cowper

Season of my purest pleasure,

Sealer of observing eyes!

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire)

© Alfred Tennyson

Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:
 Thou madest man, he knows not why,
 He thinks he was not made to die;
And thou hast made him: thou art just.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Mother’s Secret

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

But Mary, faithful to its lightest word,
Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard,
Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil,
And shuddering earth confirmed the wondrous tale.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Builders Of Ruins

© Alice Meynell

We build with strength and deep tower wall
That shall be shattered thus and thus.
And fair and great are court and hall,
But how fair-this is not for us,
Who know the lack that lurks in all.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Stanza on Freedom

© James Russell Lowell

THEY are slaves who fear to speak

For the fallen and the weak;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

In Memoriam XV

© Alfred Tennyson

TO-NIGHT the winds begin to rise

  And roar from yonder dropping day;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XXII. -- The Nun Of Nida

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the convent of Drontheim,
Alone in her chamber
Knelt Astrid the Abbess,
At midnight, adoring,
Beseeching, entreating
The Virgin and Mother.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Color Sergeant

© James Weldon Johnson

Under a burning tropic sun,
With comrades around him lying,
A trooper of the sable Tenth
Lay wounded, bleeding, dying.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Divisions On A Ground

© Arthur Symons

I

Beloved, there is a sorrow in the world

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

In The Mist

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

MORE fearful grows the hillside way,
The gloom no softening breeze hath kissed!
I glance far upward to the day,
But scarce can catch one faltering ray
From out the mist!

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

An Hymne In Honour Of Love

© Edmund Spenser

Why then do I this honor unto thee,
Thus to ennoble thy victorious name,
Sith thou doest shew no favour unto mee,
Ne once move ruth in that rebellious dame,