Fear poems

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Lara

© Lord Byron

Proud Otho on the instant, reddening, threw
His glove on earth, and forth his sabre flew.
"The last alternative befits me best,
And thus I answer for mine absent guest."

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Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte

© Lord Byron

I
'Tis done -- but yesterday a King!
And arm'd with Kings to strive --
And now thou art a nameless thing:

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To A Lady

© Lord Byron

O! had my Fate been join'd with thine,
As once this pledge appear'd a token,
These follies had not, then, been mine,
For, then, my peace had not been broken.

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The Tear

© Lord Byron

When Friendship or Love
Our sympathies move;
When Truth, in a glance, should appear,
The lips may beguile,
With a dimple or smile,
But the test of affection's a Tear:

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In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit: 124.

© Alfred Tennyson

  A warmth within the breast would melt
  The freezing reason's colder part,
  And like a man in wrath the heart
  Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt."

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Hermann And Dorothea - VI. Klio

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus the magistrate spoke. The others departed and thanked him,
And the pastor produced a gold piece (the silver his purse held
He some hours before had with genuine kindness expended
When he saw the fugitives passing in sorrowful masses).

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On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

© Lord Byron

'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!

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A Rocking Hymn

© George Wither

Sweet baby, sleep! what ails my dear,
  What ails my darling thus to cry?
Be still, my child, and lend thine ear
  To hear me sing thy lullaby.
  My pretty lamb, forbear to weep;
  Be still, my dear; sweet baby, sleep.

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The Dream

© Lord Byron

My dream is past; it had no further change.
It was of a strange order, that the doom
Of these two creatures should be thus traced out
Almost like a reality—the one
To end in madness—both in misery.

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Darkness

© Lord Byron

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth

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Virtue is Its Own Reward

© Harry Graham

Virtue its own reward? Alas!
  And what a poor one as a rule!
Be Virtuous and Life will pass
  Like one long term of Sunday-School.
(No prospect, truly, could one find
More unalluring to the mind.)

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Gold Medal Gal of Israel

© Sharon Esther Lampert

Sharon Esther Lampert
Sexiest Creative Genius in Human History
8th Prophetess of Israel: 22 Commandments
http://www.poetryjewels.com

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Central Park Violence

© Sharon Esther Lampert

Sharon Esther Lampert
Sexiest Creative Genius in Human History
8th Prophetess of Israel: 22 Commandments
http://www.poetryjewels.com

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Stratton Water

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“O HAVE you seen the Stratton flood

That's great with rain to-day?

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On A Political Prisoner

© William Butler Yeats

SHE that but little patience knew,

From childhood on, had now so much

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Last Will And Testament

© Nazim Hikmet

Comrades, if I don't live to see the day
-- I mean,if I die before freedom comes --
take me away
and bury me in a village cemetery in Anatolia.

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My Love (Do Not Ask Me)

© Nizar Qabbani

Do not ask me, the name of my love
I fear for you, from the fragrance of perfume
contained in a bottle, if you smashed it,
drowning you, in spilled scent

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The Tint I cannot take—is best

© Emily Dickinson

The Tint I cannot take—is best—
The Color too remote
That I could show it in Bazaar—
A Guinea at a sight—

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Gioconda And Si-Ya-U

© Nazim Hikmet


Part One
Excerpts from Gioconda's Diary

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Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Trinity

© John Keble

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
  Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,
Nor e'en the tenderest heart, and next our own,
  Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?