Best Fear Poems

Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
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One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and directed my weary step to the spacious alley. I pursued the beckoning course of the rivulet and the musical sounds of the birds until I reached a lonely spot where the flowing branches of the trees prevented the sun from the touching the earth.

I stood there, and it was entertaining to my soul - my thirsty soul who had seen naught but the mirage of life instead of its sweetness.
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Things that go 'bump' in the night
Should not really give one a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
That lets in the fear,
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Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.

I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of
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All all and all the dry worlds lever,
Stage of the ice, the solid ocean,
All from the oil, the pound of lava.
City of spring, the governed flower,
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A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
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A darting fear—a pomp—a tear—
A waking on a morn
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So, I shall see her in three days
And just one night, but nights are short,
Then two long hours, and that is morn.
See how I come, unchanged, unworn!
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Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man,
Never fear though it break your heart -
Out of the wound new joy will start;
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Being but men, we walked into the trees
Afraid, letting our syllables be soft
For fear of waking the rooks,
For fear of coming
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A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses."

And he answered and said:
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As an unperfect actor on the stage
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart,
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In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced the dwellings with his eyes. He say the spirits floating on wings of dreams, and the people who were surrendered to the Slumber.

When the moon fell below the horizon and the city became black, Death walked silently among the houses - careful to touch nothing - until he reached a palace. He entered through the bolted gates undisturbed, and stood by the rich man's bed; and as Death touched his forehead, the sleeper's eyes opened, showing great fright.
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The first speaker said
Fear fire. Fear furnaces
Incinerators, the city dump
The faint scratch of a match.
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SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse
unreturn'd love;
But now I think there is no unreturn'd love--the pay is certain, one
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When your face came rising
above my crumpled life,
the only thing I understood at first
was how meager were all my possessions.
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WHEN daisies pied and violets blue,
   And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
   Do paint the meadows with delight,
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{INSPIRED TO WRITE IN THIS FORM AFTER READING
KARIN ANDERSON'S 'BUTTERFLY MAGIC'}
[ a poem of ten lines syllable count equating
to line number]
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Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast—
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O, were I loved as I desire to be!
What is there in the great sphere of the earth,
Or range of evil between death and birth,
That I should fear, - if I were loved by thee!
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Fear ye not the stormy future, for the Battle Hymn is strong,
And the armies of Australia shall not march without a song;
The glorious words and music of Australia's song shall come
When her true hearts rush together at the beating of a drum.
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I am beginning this last journey
with a heart that is heavy
and a heart that is full of fear
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Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and prairies the appearance of a great sheet of parchment upon which the furious Nature was recording her many deeds. Men came home from the streets while silence engulfed the night.

In a lone house near those villages lived a woman who sat by her fireside spinning wool, and at her side was her only child, staring now at the fire and then at his mother.
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Don't fear death in earthly travels.
Don't fear enemies or friends.
Just listen to the words of prayers,
To pass the facets of the dreads.
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I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled.
But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
And I hunger.
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I fear to love thee, Sweet, because
Love's the ambassador of loss;
White flake of childhood, clinging so
To my soiled raiment, thy shy snow
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Let another cross his way-
She's the one will do the weeping!
Little need I fear he'll stray
Since I have his heart in keeping-
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Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower,
And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee.
Bowing my head in deep humility
Before the silent thunder of thy power.
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The innocent were slaughtered
So many years ago
In the town of Bethlehem
Slew by an evil foe
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Some who are uncertain compel me. They fear
The Ace of Spades. They fear
Loves offered suddenly, turning from the mantelpiece,
Sweet with decision. And they distrust
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They shaved his head
to clothe him in ugliness
out of jealousy and fear
of his beauty.
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Fear, is life's companion.
And death's from which it springs.
So do not drink its water.
Refresh in other things.
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cruelty conquers light of earthly living
by tools of narrow endings of mortality
devours the sweet breath of air
humanism is still a mockery by greed
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Love, Fear and Hate and Childish Toys
Are here discreetly blent;
Admire, you ladies, read, you boys,
My Country Sentiment.
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Said Myrtias (a Syrian student
in Alexandria; in the reign of
Augustus Constans and Augustus Constantius;
in part a pagan, and in part a christian);
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Been stumbling around in the dark, trying to follow
the light in Gods heart. Fear and confusion can get
in the way, and so many mistakes I have made. But,
Gods love has always been... As sure as the light of
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Fear of You
Fear of Me
Fear of Others
Fear you cannot See
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Blustering God,
Stamping across the sky
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Do not despair of man, and do not scold him,
Who are you that you should so lightly hold him?
Are you not also a man, and in your heart
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To Despair

I ever love where never hope appears,
Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care,
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I commend myself and my love to you,
Aurelius. I ask for modest indulgence,
so, if you’ve ever had a desire in your mind
you’ve pursued chastely and purely,
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The summer sun ray
shifts through a suspicious tree.
though I walk through the valley of the shadow
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Not ready to accept till now
Always had an inner row
Someone somewhere i'll find
Love between us will help us bind.
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While walking through the fields
Along with you on no moon night
I never knew
I would be traveling all alone
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Born on planet earth, but the dream of another
Walk, eat and sleep, but people don't see his fear.

He enjoys two lives simultaneously,
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Infectious smile has infected tears
The laughter strikes with spears
I am not dear and they are not sincere
Feeling fear
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I have a rendezvous with Life,
In days I hope will come,
Ere youth has sped, and strength of mind,
Ere voices sweet grow dumb.
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Not though you die to-night, O Sweet, and wail,
A spectre at my door,
Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail --
I shall but love you more,
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WELCOME, welcome, little stranger,
Fear no harm, and fear no danger;
We are glad to see you here,
For you sing 'Sweet Spring is near.'
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Calm was the even, and clear was the sky,
And the new budding flowers did spring,
When all alone went Amyntas and I
To hear the sweet nightingale sing;
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Watch thou and fear; to-morrow thou shalt die.
Or art thou sure thou shalt have time for death?
Is not the day which God's word promiseth
To come man knows not when? In yonder sky
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If you go deep
Into the heart
What do you find there?
Fear, fear,
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Worry and fear
Are like brothers
They poison and cripple anyone
Taking away lives.
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'I live in fear of the snow,' said the bear.
'Whenever it's here, be sure I'll be there.
Oh, the pain and the cold,
when one's bearish and old.
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And many there were hurt by that strong boy,
His name, they said, was Pleasure,
And near him stood, glorious beyond measure
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
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The Truth about Jesus perpetually

Let's read again about Jesus this time
Jesus says, "See, we are going to Jerusalem, "
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The nights have grown cool again, like the nights
Of early spring, and quiet again. Will
Speech disturb you? We're
Alone now; we have no reason for silence.
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I fear the vast dimensions of eternity.
I fear the gap between the platform and the train.
I fear the onset of a murderous campaign.
1 fear the palpitations caused by too much tea.
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In the dead of night while the peaceful sleep
In through my window demons creep
While all are lost in sleeps embrace
With nightmares I come face to face
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Fear is regression
regression is pain
pain turns sweet sunshine into bitter rain
take my hand my dear
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Amazing display
Of Mother Earth's great power
Creates waves of fear.
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On a bank of flowers in a summer day
For summer lightly drest,
The youthful, blooming Nelly lay,
With love and sleep opprest;
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Standing still, feet planted
Body frozen, mind racing
Fear takes over
Like another entity
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everyone fears the monster under their bed
I fear the monster in my bed
I fear me
for I am the one that continues on in pain
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It has neither a beginning nor an end
You can never predict where it will bend.

Life is a teacher, it will show you the way
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Us godly fear delightful unto thee,
That fear that God himself delights to see

Bear sway in them that love him? then he will
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The poet fears failure
& so she says
"Hold on pen--
what if the critics
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Fear follows us,
Fear stalks us,
Fear controls us,
Fear is all we Think.
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Fear perched in her mind
It has taken everything
Even her whole life.
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I hired a carpenter
to build my coffin
and last night I lay in it,
braced by a pillow,
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Cry tonight
Like there has been no rain
Cry tonight
To release the pain
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The fear of poetry is the
fear : mystery and fury of a midnight street
of windows whose low voluptuous voice
issues, and after that there is not peace.
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Where are the dames I used to know
In Dawson in the days of yore?
Alas, it's fifty years ago,
And most, I guess, have "gone before."
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Fear is a battalion of mercenary chemicals
Capable of incapacitating even the most hardened of individuals
In the absence of faith, hope, Love and sometimes courage
Fear is stealthily deployed to incinerate the mind, body and spirit
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Cry "Murder" in the market-place, and each
Will turn upon his neighbour anxious eyes
Asking: "Art thou the man?" We hunted Cain
Some centuries ago across the world.
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Everyday is a struggle
Each day harder then the last
A voice deep down inside taunting me
Telling me to relieve the pain, the stress
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Clicks with fingers - are not an exit - from a trouble...
Your sentry dog will not help to you avoid from fear...
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What remains to the unwinged butterfly before fire...
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If wolves could sing.
They would do their thing.
They would sing about chasing deer.
And never having any fear.
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I have a fear - I may be wrong:

that all too many, put off all thoughts of 'God'
by those who claim to speak for Him,
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Two, by themselves, each other, love and fear,
Slain, cruel friends, by parting have join'd here.
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A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness--
Some vague, remote ancestral touch of sorrow, or of madness;
A fear that is not fear, a pain that has not pain's insistence;
A sense of longing, or of loss, in some foregone exsistence;
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As you are Young, if you'l be also Wise,
Danger with Honour court, Quarrels despise;
Believe you then are truly Brave and Bold,
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Fear! Fear! Fear!
It rapidly knocks at my door.
A solid rock of toughness
opens the door,
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Fear is when you run away,
Fear is when you’re scared to love someone,
Fear is when the sky turns grey,
Fear is when you lose your loved ones,
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I hate you because you're taking over me,
but I love you 'cause you're making me the girl I want to be.
Why do I love you when all you do is put me down?
Making me starve 'till I fit into the smallest gown.
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Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;
Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;
Playing their blind-man's-bluff in our gutted mansions,
Their follow-my-leader on a stair that ended in air.
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Here they lie who once learned here
All that is taught of hurt or fear;
Dead, but by free will they died:
They were true men, they had pride.
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36 Failed Imageries

As rainbow wants to steal the colours
From the lotuses in the lake where
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YOU fear, Ligurra - above all, you long -
That I should smite you with a stinging song.
This dreadful honour you both fear and hope -
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Fear, anger, mistrust and nearly
Half a century of
Living in a world unfamiliar
To all but myself-
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All who dwell in fear,
Allow the shadow of death,
To follow them forever.
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Crafty crows are great in skill,
How with pebbles water jug fill?

You know they sit in curved rows,
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"Oh where ha'e ye been, Lord Randall, my son!
And where ha'e ye been, my handsome young man!"
"I ha'e been to the wild wood: mother, make my bed soon,
For I'm wearied wi' hunting, and fain wald lie down."
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