Potential Titles: Fear
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somethingdarkerFrom fears that are the shadow of delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Shall hide me from the hunger of fear - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The interior of a melting fear - manuel arturo abreu "Sound Has Ears"
The sunbeams have paled with fear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Into his bright blue fear - Lauren K. Alleyne "Variations in Blue"
From invisible portals breathing comfort and ghastly fear - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
A surging current of feared language - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"
Lifted her beyond a single touch of fear - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
All the years and come and pass like human fears - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
And heart devoid of fear - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
Fearing its best days are past - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]
Where exiled Marius lurk'd in fear - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]
And fear no jarring taunt from me - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Fear pressed against stone - Mary Jo Bang "The Clairvoyant"
One for comfort and twice for fear - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"
Bombs of reasonable fear of bombs - Ari Banias "No More Birds"
And whispered fears, creating what they dread - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
And blow away the smoke of fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "Insomnia in the City"
out of kisses bringing fears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
fears no nearer to relief than tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
the winter fears destroyed the summer weather - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Unsubdued by doubts and fears - Cora C. Bass "Freedom's Son"
Unchecked by peril, unawed by fear - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Living in a grotto of fear - Ellen Bass "Pushing"
Never trembled at a fear like mine - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited
Fear was a grape I crushed to wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Each carrying our lonely fear - Sheila Black "The Earth"
The fears inspire'd by frogs or mice - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
My fear inside like a piece of yeast - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"
The clashing bones of happiness and fear - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"
Made by men to soothe their fears - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"
The crystallized escape of fear - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"
Fear of quiet waters and of faint twilights - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
That doesn't move for fear of standing still - Russell Brakefield "Distances Between the Head and Chest"
Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
Sane and destructive to fear - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Poor Man's Club"
With broken hopes and bitter fears - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "The Trail of Tears"
Will not sleep, for fear of dreams - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Filled with haunting fears - Charlotte Bronte "Regret"
Fear, the most thwarted of the suitors - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
I would sing in the face of fears - Evelyn Gage Browne "Flight"
That feared itself - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
A still renewable fear - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese
Fear to call it loving - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"
Like a prophet filled with fears - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Autumn"
With troops of gathering fears - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LVIII. Love and Death" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Fearing anger's headlong blindness - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
And beyond all fear - Julie Byrne "Follow My Voice"
The sentinel marmot's shrill whistle of fear - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Dyed with the red wounds of fear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
I could hear my fear in their croaks - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Fear too much, and hope too little - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
I fear you have incurr'd Disgrace - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Envy"
Haunting fears of mystery pursue - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
Straight through the gusts of fear and fury - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
With the iron of tyrant fears - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
A habit of fear - Jennifer Chang "A Horse Named Never"
O'ershadowed by new wings of greater fear - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"
Nor force with fears of hell - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
He fears the dark who dares to doubt the sun - Ralph Chaplin "Taps"
In the forest of all fears - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
The fear in what she wanted - John Ciardi "Abundance"
my fear trapped me inside - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"
Not fear, not power, but focus - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
I come from fear I feed you dread - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Of fear for larger woe - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Of fear-undimmed endeavor- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
A creeping fear will seize the mind - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Which caused a shout of fear to rise - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
With zeal to combat fears - George Crabbe "The Village"
With many a hope and not one fear - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Running After the Rainbow"
A heart to fear - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Fear is a predictable emotion - DéLana R. A. Dameron "My Love Is Black"
A silent company of fears - Danske Dandridge "The Phantom"
But some fear kept the door - Daniell "Pleasure" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
And passion's dark'ning storms he never fears - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"
Loving with such a tender fear - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"
Conscious fraud is ever prone to fear - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Ghostly ciphers of fear - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
In fear or favour of my spirit's need - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets III"
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Bravery when fear is battled into song - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Trench Incident"
For all our fears of touch - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"
Telescopes looking through fear - Toi Derricotte "Holy Cross Hospital"
Climbed the mountain of fear - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Mountain Man"
Without the fear to justify - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXIV: Too Much"
For fear to be a king - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XIV: Aspiration"
Came with less of fear - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XV: The Inevitable"
His merit all my fear - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love II: Love's Humility"
Why children might fear a carousel - Rita Dove "Horse and Tree"
Fearing Jupiter should see her - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"
Her grief to me is a fourfold fear - John Drinkwater "A Man's Daughter"
Smiles to rise and doff its fears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"
Since her fear is my blood - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"
By Fear and sense of what was not - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Till the refusal propagates a fear - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Fear in a handful of dust - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Teaching the land how to fear - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
That poured the wine of fear - Donald Evans "Loving Kindness"
No human sorrow fearing - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"
The desert's nameless fear - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"
Fearing no impediment - Carrie Law Morgan Figgs "We are Marching"
Repeating still, amidst their fears - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Fearing to wake me by a careless breath - John Freeman "The Chair"
Trembling with change and fear of counter-change - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
No fear of hunters armed with salt - W.A. Frisbie "The Peanut Bird"
Have no hallowing fears - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
Until the beast outweighed my fear - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
My vassals fear me on my throne - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For custom conquers fear and shame - John Gay "Fable XIII: The Tamed Fawn" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fear of waking up as Gregor Samsa - Xander Gershberg "Codename Beast: A Sestina"
Seem'd to fear for place and power - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Fleeing in fear from their own shadows - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IX"
Shall never have any fear of love - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Fear approached and departed - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
Now the latest fear - Noah Eli Gordon "Vesuvius"
Lowering clouds of doubts and fears - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"
Woodland fauns that know no fear - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"
Where malignant fancy peoples the wings with fear - Robert Graves "The Pier-Glass"
Through the forest of my fears - Robert Graves "Reproach"
Whispered love and muttered fears - Robert Graves "The Spoilsport"
The day that ends its reign of blood and fear - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
For fear a poison in the chalice lurks - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
I would call back every hope and fear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
No chains of fear should bind me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
Without fear feast on the music - Arthur Henry Hallam "Sonnet"
Where fear hides in a glow - Nathalie Handal "Holy Cosmos"
Fear that turns to strings - Nathalie Handal "The Violins"
The cry of one who fears not death - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"
An ocean of fear of the dark - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Dangle between paradise and fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Torn apart by stones of fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Out of fear of the silence - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Bright amid the vapourous fears - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"
Will stop dreaming about fear - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
Leap over what you fear - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"
Bring our fear there before the singing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
The trace of fear marks out our arteries - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."
So many fears to haunt the night - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
A smokestack full of rage and fear - Tony Hoagland "A Short History of Modern Art"
And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Fear and hands, underbelly and blade - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
That hope which wreck nor ruin fears - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The more replete with fear - "Hours of Childhood"
Her towers of fear in wreck - A.E. Housman "Last Poems III"
Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"
For fear they mirror true the sight - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"
Though fears of rebellion hang over our heads - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
For fear of being reduced to ash - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
For fear of what she might say - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Shatter the mirror of fear - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
For fear of triggering a heart attack - Major Jackson "Addiction"
The island of my fears - Major Jackson "Let Me Begin Again"
For fear of wolves or shepherds in the night - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"
Spectres feared and then forgot - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"
Aware of all our precious fears - Elinor Jenkins "H.S.T. Requiescat"
And ushered by the phantom Fear - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
Light the valley of lone fears - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Shy rabbits with quick fears - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Of a trust beyond all fears - Lionel Johnson "The Troopship"
Fear death no longer - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"
Fear this feathered dusk - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"
The devils that abide there shake with fear - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]
When fear were preservation, be not bold - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]
How Doubts and Fears fled from a light within - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
A listening fear in her regard - John Keats "Hyperion"
Fears of the forgotten - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
Eleven kinds of fear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
The slow river of fear - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
An age of fear made known - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Home of a thousand varying fears - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Soft-sailing waters where fears no longer shake - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"
Whose eyes ensnare your wildest fear - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Stones that fear no flood - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"
Fruit of the fear just passed - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"
She should have feared my edge - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
The fear of ten thousand tomorrows - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
The confidant of intimate hopes and fears - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Our shadow lengthen in your fear - Mina Loy "The Dead"
No room for men's fears - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"
Shedding the skin that everyone fears - Tariq Luthun "Ode to Brown Child on an Airplane for the First Time"
The poorest serf who fears a tyrant's nod - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
From out the night of ignorance and fears - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Fear sprinkling poison around you - Maya Marshall "Anatomy of a Fish Hook"
Weep away the fears of shadows - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"
Feeble hearts whose pulse is fear - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
They too look down the pinnacle of fear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Twining subtle fears with hope - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
A religion of fear - Donna Masini "A Gate"
In the language you fear - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"
And the insect's minutes be spared the fears - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
But I fear the moon may spy - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
In time of bitter fear - John McCrae "The Anxious Dead"
There devils might fear to dwell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Some new low dream of fear - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
That mock the chance of fear - Louis J. McQuilland "The Digger"
By its craven thirsts and fears distraught - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Scaring Fear till Fear escapes - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
What does fear cherish that it locks so well? - Alice Meynell "The Treasure"
I take up fear with my chisel - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Why halt 'twixt hope and fear? - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Fear blurs the vision of our dream - Francis Neilson "Far Horizons"
The same forgotten roots of fear - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
With fear in a solitary house - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Without fear of truth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Past" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Cold and deadly drops of fear - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
A multitude of restless Fears - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Nor failed for fear of strife - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
From within come tones of fear - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: V. The Hell Hole"
Prophecy is deceit designed to instill fear - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
they cast their fears in iron - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Shaking our hearts with unaccustomed fears - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
From the offices of fear - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
The fear deep and futureless as history - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Fear drifts about the globe as deadly pollen - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Seeming freedom stained by fears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"
And strive with Fear upon the heights - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"
Fears no law of diminishing returns - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"
Whose faith no fear controls - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Nostalgia and fear of the bomb live in our souls - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
And gladdens into hopes my fears - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Something drags me with fear teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"
Each face wears fear differently - Carl Phillips "As the Rain Comes Down Harder"
Emptier of such distractions as fear - Carl Phillips "The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before"
Fear given consciousness - Carl Phillips "Heaven and Earth"
Wonder what fear is for - Carl Phillips "Surrounded as We Are, Unlit, Unshadowed"
On a wave of doubt mixed with fear - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
Slashed by tiny blades of fear - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Fear is his family business - Tim Pratt "Making Monsters"
Then my fears I'd slip for a while - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Fronting again those long laid fears - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
And ere the spasm of fear was broke - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
That flight may be courage, and fear but a name - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Turn each cool grey shadows into a world of fears - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Another reason to operate from uneducated fear - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Something half a-kin to fear - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
To go to meet the Stranger without fear or weapon - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
If a cloud knew loneliness and fear - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
As one who fears old ambush - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Through the falling torrent of our fears - Rainer Maria Rilke "Symbols" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Fears with the billows of Neptune to strive - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Where groping hands clutch fear - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"
Fear the keen confronting sun - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
Nor feared hell's gloomy sentry - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Proem"
Who bend to us from fear - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"
To prompt, direct, and steel the heart to fear - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Fear, foes, friends, and angry Fate - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
No doubts disturb us, no fears annoy - J.B.S. [James Brown per the poet's bio at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.] "The Two Seas" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.155, v.III, 18 Dec. 1886]
Not wholly fed by fear - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"
The calculus of fear laid forth in gore - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah VI: Of What Remained"
Reshaping fear as placid science - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Scattered our fears for the ocean to swallow - Teresa J. Scollon "New Year's Day, Winslow Beach, Maine"
Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
For fear to wet a widow's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IX"
Fearing of Time's tyranny - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXV"
Close to the coast of Fear - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
And grow forgetful of its ancient fears - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Fear in my back pocket - Joyce Sidman "Journal of 73 Seconds"
Of plunging deep, I have no fear - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"
fear will never make you stronger - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
the choices we make out of fear - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
The slaves of sceptred fraud and fear - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
More with envy than with fear - Charlotte Smith "Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)"
And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"
All our faithless fear - Effie Smith "Under Roofs"
I carried my fear of the world - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"
And apprenticed myself to the fear - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"
Honey is sweetness and fear - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
Earth that never doubts nor fears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Still may fear the secret test - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
For I fear you will die of the cold - James Stephens "The Appointment"
On wings that feared no wind - George Sterling "The Aeroplane"
When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
Absolve the future of its fears - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
For fear inhabits the palace - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: I. The Slaying of Tamatea"
Titanic glooms of chasmed fears - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
Too strange for fear, too vast for hope - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Bastioned in wonder and silent with fear - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"
Who was nursed on fear and folly - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
My fears, in bitterness and sorrow, void of tears - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"
To disperse his subjects' many fears - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Capped with a fortress full of fear - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
Fainter with fear of the fires - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"
Scatter far the darkness, doubts, and fears - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
painted with blood & constant fear - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
The shiver and the fear just before a thaw - Keith Taylor "Apologia"
Against the fear mounting at night - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"
More than I know of fear's hard presence - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"
Rend this raiment of pangs and fears - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta V: The Wedding-Garment"
On golden threads of hope and fear - Rose Terry "Then"
And fear with restless wing - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"
Sparkles of hope, and drops of fear - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
I feared nor wind nor weather - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"
The hope and fear in jugglery - Iris Tree "[When I am weary at the antic chance]"
Don't blink, don't move, don't fear - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
Stumbling with pain and fears - William Troy "Roads"
The patient fear of the morning - Nadia Tueni [Untitled] transl. by Carol Cosman
The ones that are snapshots of fear - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
No longer fear to go astray - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
In this story, fear is a house gone dry - Leah Umansky "Khaleesi Says" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
The room, far as fear - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"
Mastered by fear of dark compulsions - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"
Streets where the weary may walk without fear - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
The fear that thrilled the midnight - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Didn't fear ashes or weeping - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"
Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Flinging a prayer at the face of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
With mortal fear you reward me - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
Fear and fear's twin, rage - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Neural pathways tunneled out by fear - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
No semblance of fear or distrust - C. Dale Young "Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography"
The wildness that fears nothing - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
All children unlearn this fear - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
Your native trails cradled my fearful footsteps - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
The fearful deer of death stood not - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"
fearful in the garden - Lucille Clifton "the birth of language"
Some souls so fearful to offend - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
The fearful dreams be dead - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
With forced and fearful love approach - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Who silently languish in grief's fearful night - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
That fearful beacon as it burns - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
That my eyes may see the fearful beauty - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Ready to spring with fearful roar - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Priests of a fearful sacrement - Lionel Johnson "Mystic and Cavalier"
With fearful footsteps, and affrighted gaze - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Fought fearful odds - Kim Unsong "Mandela"
And fearful yet of believing in your pitiless legions - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Fearful of the clouds - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"
Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Fearful of glory's last service - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]
Feet that run for fearful price - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
All the dreams that make him fearful - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
Fearful herald of the wrath - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
A fearful diapason rends the arches of the skies - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Their three-cornered, fearful symmetry - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
Fearless.
Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles
I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"
Outvoiced only by a sudden burst of fearsome thunderclaps - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A fearsome assortment of wildflowers - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
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Shall hide me from the hunger of fear - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The interior of a melting fear - manuel arturo abreu "Sound Has Ears"
The sunbeams have paled with fear - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Into his bright blue fear - Lauren K. Alleyne "Variations in Blue"
From invisible portals breathing comfort and ghastly fear - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
A surging current of feared language - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"
Lifted her beyond a single touch of fear - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
All the years and come and pass like human fears - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
And heart devoid of fear - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
Fearing its best days are past - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]
Where exiled Marius lurk'd in fear - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]
And fear no jarring taunt from me - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Fear pressed against stone - Mary Jo Bang "The Clairvoyant"
One for comfort and twice for fear - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"
Bombs of reasonable fear of bombs - Ari Banias "No More Birds"
And whispered fears, creating what they dread - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
And blow away the smoke of fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "Insomnia in the City"
out of kisses bringing fears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
fears no nearer to relief than tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
the winter fears destroyed the summer weather - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Unsubdued by doubts and fears - Cora C. Bass "Freedom's Son"
Unchecked by peril, unawed by fear - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Living in a grotto of fear - Ellen Bass "Pushing"
Never trembled at a fear like mine - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited
Fear was a grape I crushed to wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Each carrying our lonely fear - Sheila Black "The Earth"
The fears inspire'd by frogs or mice - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
My fear inside like a piece of yeast - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"
The clashing bones of happiness and fear - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"
Made by men to soothe their fears - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"
The crystallized escape of fear - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"
Fear of quiet waters and of faint twilights - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
That doesn't move for fear of standing still - Russell Brakefield "Distances Between the Head and Chest"
Fear and chains behind us cast - John Breslin "Rolling Home"
Sane and destructive to fear - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Poor Man's Club"
With broken hopes and bitter fears - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "The Trail of Tears"
Will not sleep, for fear of dreams - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Filled with haunting fears - Charlotte Bronte "Regret"
Fear, the most thwarted of the suitors - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
I would sing in the face of fears - Evelyn Gage Browne "Flight"
That feared itself - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
A still renewable fear - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese
Fear to call it loving - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Woman's Shortcomings"
Like a prophet filled with fears - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Autumn"
With troops of gathering fears - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LVIII. Love and Death" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Fearing anger's headlong blindness - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
And beyond all fear - Julie Byrne "Follow My Voice"
The sentinel marmot's shrill whistle of fear - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Dyed with the red wounds of fear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
I could hear my fear in their croaks - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Fear too much, and hope too little - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
I fear you have incurr'd Disgrace - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Envy"
Haunting fears of mystery pursue - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"
Straight through the gusts of fear and fury - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
With the iron of tyrant fears - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
A habit of fear - Jennifer Chang "A Horse Named Never"
O'ershadowed by new wings of greater fear - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"
Nor force with fears of hell - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
He fears the dark who dares to doubt the sun - Ralph Chaplin "Taps"
In the forest of all fears - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
The fear in what she wanted - John Ciardi "Abundance"
my fear trapped me inside - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"
Not fear, not power, but focus - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
I come from fear I feed you dread - Andrea Cote "Somber Bull" transl. by Craig Epplin
Of fear for larger woe - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Of fear-undimmed endeavor- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
A creeping fear will seize the mind - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Which caused a shout of fear to rise - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
With zeal to combat fears - George Crabbe "The Village"
With many a hope and not one fear - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Running After the Rainbow"
A heart to fear - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Fear is a predictable emotion - DéLana R. A. Dameron "My Love Is Black"
A silent company of fears - Danske Dandridge "The Phantom"
But some fear kept the door - Daniell "Pleasure" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
And passion's dark'ning storms he never fears - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"
Loving with such a tender fear - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"
Conscious fraud is ever prone to fear - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Ghostly ciphers of fear - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
In fear or favour of my spirit's need - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets III"
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Bravery when fear is battled into song - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Trench Incident"
For all our fears of touch - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"
Telescopes looking through fear - Toi Derricotte "Holy Cross Hospital"
Climbed the mountain of fear - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Mountain Man"
Without the fear to justify - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXIV: Too Much"
For fear to be a king - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XIV: Aspiration"
Came with less of fear - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XV: The Inevitable"
His merit all my fear - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love II: Love's Humility"
Why children might fear a carousel - Rita Dove "Horse and Tree"
Fearing Jupiter should see her - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"
Her grief to me is a fourfold fear - John Drinkwater "A Man's Daughter"
Smiles to rise and doff its fears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"
Since her fear is my blood - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"
By Fear and sense of what was not - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Till the refusal propagates a fear - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Fear in a handful of dust - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Teaching the land how to fear - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
That poured the wine of fear - Donald Evans "Loving Kindness"
No human sorrow fearing - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"
The desert's nameless fear - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"
Fearing no impediment - Carrie Law Morgan Figgs "We are Marching"
Repeating still, amidst their fears - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Fearing to wake me by a careless breath - John Freeman "The Chair"
Trembling with change and fear of counter-change - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
No fear of hunters armed with salt - W.A. Frisbie "The Peanut Bird"
Have no hallowing fears - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
Until the beast outweighed my fear - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
My vassals fear me on my throne - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
For custom conquers fear and shame - John Gay "Fable XIII: The Tamed Fawn" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Fear of waking up as Gregor Samsa - Xander Gershberg "Codename Beast: A Sestina"
Seem'd to fear for place and power - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Fleeing in fear from their own shadows - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IX"
Shall never have any fear of love - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Fear approached and departed - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
Now the latest fear - Noah Eli Gordon "Vesuvius"
Lowering clouds of doubts and fears - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"
Woodland fauns that know no fear - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"
Where malignant fancy peoples the wings with fear - Robert Graves "The Pier-Glass"
Through the forest of my fears - Robert Graves "Reproach"
Whispered love and muttered fears - Robert Graves "The Spoilsport"
The day that ends its reign of blood and fear - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
For fear a poison in the chalice lurks - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
I would call back every hope and fear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
No chains of fear should bind me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
Without fear feast on the music - Arthur Henry Hallam "Sonnet"
Where fear hides in a glow - Nathalie Handal "Holy Cosmos"
Fear that turns to strings - Nathalie Handal "The Violins"
The cry of one who fears not death - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"
An ocean of fear of the dark - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Dangle between paradise and fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Torn apart by stones of fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Out of fear of the silence - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Bright amid the vapourous fears - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"
Will stop dreaming about fear - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
Leap over what you fear - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"
Bring our fear there before the singing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
The trace of fear marks out our arteries - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."
So many fears to haunt the night - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
A smokestack full of rage and fear - Tony Hoagland "A Short History of Modern Art"
And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Fear and hands, underbelly and blade - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
That hope which wreck nor ruin fears - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The more replete with fear - "Hours of Childhood"
Her towers of fear in wreck - A.E. Housman "Last Poems III"
Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"
For fear they mirror true the sight - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"
Though fears of rebellion hang over our heads - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
For fear of being reduced to ash - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
For fear of what she might say - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"
Shatter the mirror of fear - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
For fear of triggering a heart attack - Major Jackson "Addiction"
The island of my fears - Major Jackson "Let Me Begin Again"
For fear of wolves or shepherds in the night - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"
Spectres feared and then forgot - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"
Aware of all our precious fears - Elinor Jenkins "H.S.T. Requiescat"
And ushered by the phantom Fear - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
Light the valley of lone fears - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Shy rabbits with quick fears - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Of a trust beyond all fears - Lionel Johnson "The Troopship"
Fear death no longer - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"
Fear this feathered dusk - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"
The devils that abide there shake with fear - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]
When fear were preservation, be not bold - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]
How Doubts and Fears fled from a light within - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
A listening fear in her regard - John Keats "Hyperion"
Fears of the forgotten - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
Eleven kinds of fear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
The slow river of fear - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
An age of fear made known - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Home of a thousand varying fears - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Soft-sailing waters where fears no longer shake - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"
Whose eyes ensnare your wildest fear - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Stones that fear no flood - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"
Fruit of the fear just passed - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"
She should have feared my edge - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
The fear of ten thousand tomorrows - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
The confidant of intimate hopes and fears - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Our shadow lengthen in your fear - Mina Loy "The Dead"
No room for men's fears - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"
Shedding the skin that everyone fears - Tariq Luthun "Ode to Brown Child on an Airplane for the First Time"
The poorest serf who fears a tyrant's nod - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
From out the night of ignorance and fears - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Fear sprinkling poison around you - Maya Marshall "Anatomy of a Fish Hook"
Weep away the fears of shadows - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"
Feeble hearts whose pulse is fear - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
They too look down the pinnacle of fear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Twining subtle fears with hope - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
A religion of fear - Donna Masini "A Gate"
In the language you fear - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"
And the insect's minutes be spared the fears - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
But I fear the moon may spy - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
In time of bitter fear - John McCrae "The Anxious Dead"
There devils might fear to dwell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Some new low dream of fear - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
That mock the chance of fear - Louis J. McQuilland "The Digger"
By its craven thirsts and fears distraught - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Scaring Fear till Fear escapes - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
What does fear cherish that it locks so well? - Alice Meynell "The Treasure"
I take up fear with my chisel - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Why halt 'twixt hope and fear? - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Fear blurs the vision of our dream - Francis Neilson "Far Horizons"
The same forgotten roots of fear - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
With fear in a solitary house - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Without fear of truth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Past" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Cold and deadly drops of fear - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
A multitude of restless Fears - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Nor failed for fear of strife - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
From within come tones of fear - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: V. The Hell Hole"
Prophecy is deceit designed to instill fear - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
they cast their fears in iron - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Shaking our hearts with unaccustomed fears - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
From the offices of fear - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
The fear deep and futureless as history - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Fear drifts about the globe as deadly pollen - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Seeming freedom stained by fears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"
And strive with Fear upon the heights - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"
Fears no law of diminishing returns - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"
Whose faith no fear controls - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Nostalgia and fear of the bomb live in our souls - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
And gladdens into hopes my fears - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Something drags me with fear teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"
Each face wears fear differently - Carl Phillips "As the Rain Comes Down Harder"
Emptier of such distractions as fear - Carl Phillips "The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before"
Fear given consciousness - Carl Phillips "Heaven and Earth"
Wonder what fear is for - Carl Phillips "Surrounded as We Are, Unlit, Unshadowed"
On a wave of doubt mixed with fear - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
Slashed by tiny blades of fear - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Fear is his family business - Tim Pratt "Making Monsters"
Then my fears I'd slip for a while - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Fronting again those long laid fears - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
And ere the spasm of fear was broke - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
That flight may be courage, and fear but a name - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Turn each cool grey shadows into a world of fears - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Another reason to operate from uneducated fear - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Something half a-kin to fear - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Anger and fear rotating on an axle of love - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
To go to meet the Stranger without fear or weapon - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
If a cloud knew loneliness and fear - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
As one who fears old ambush - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Through the falling torrent of our fears - Rainer Maria Rilke "Symbols" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Fears with the billows of Neptune to strive - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Where groping hands clutch fear - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"
Fear the keen confronting sun - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"
Nor feared hell's gloomy sentry - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Proem"
Who bend to us from fear - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"
To prompt, direct, and steel the heart to fear - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
That clears to-day of unpaid debts and future fears - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Fear, foes, friends, and angry Fate - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
No doubts disturb us, no fears annoy - J.B.S. [James Brown per the poet's bio at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.] "The Two Seas" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.155, v.III, 18 Dec. 1886]
Not wholly fed by fear - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"
The calculus of fear laid forth in gore - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah VI: Of What Remained"
Reshaping fear as placid science - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Scattered our fears for the ocean to swallow - Teresa J. Scollon "New Year's Day, Winslow Beach, Maine"
Drinks whispers strange of fate and fear - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"
For fear to wet a widow's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IX"
Fearing of Time's tyranny - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXV"
Close to the coast of Fear - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
And grow forgetful of its ancient fears - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Fear in my back pocket - Joyce Sidman "Journal of 73 Seconds"
Of plunging deep, I have no fear - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"
fear will never make you stronger - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
the choices we make out of fear - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
The slaves of sceptred fraud and fear - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
More with envy than with fear - Charlotte Smith "Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)"
And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"
All our faithless fear - Effie Smith "Under Roofs"
I carried my fear of the world - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"
And apprenticed myself to the fear - Maggie Smith "What I Carried"
Honey is sweetness and fear - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"
Earth that never doubts nor fears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Still may fear the secret test - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
For I fear you will die of the cold - James Stephens "The Appointment"
On wings that feared no wind - George Sterling "The Aeroplane"
When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"
Absolve the future of its fears - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"
For fear inhabits the palace - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: I. The Slaying of Tamatea"
Titanic glooms of chasmed fears - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
Too strange for fear, too vast for hope - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Bastioned in wonder and silent with fear - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"
Who was nursed on fear and folly - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
My fears, in bitterness and sorrow, void of tears - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"
To disperse his subjects' many fears - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Capped with a fortress full of fear - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
Fainter with fear of the fires - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"
Scatter far the darkness, doubts, and fears - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
painted with blood & constant fear - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
The shiver and the fear just before a thaw - Keith Taylor "Apologia"
Against the fear mounting at night - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"
More than I know of fear's hard presence - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"
Rend this raiment of pangs and fears - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta V: The Wedding-Garment"
On golden threads of hope and fear - Rose Terry "Then"
And fear with restless wing - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"
Sparkles of hope, and drops of fear - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
I feared nor wind nor weather - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"
The hope and fear in jugglery - Iris Tree "[When I am weary at the antic chance]"
Don't blink, don't move, don't fear - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
Stumbling with pain and fears - William Troy "Roads"
The patient fear of the morning - Nadia Tueni [Untitled] transl. by Carol Cosman
The ones that are snapshots of fear - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
No longer fear to go astray - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
In this story, fear is a house gone dry - Leah Umansky "Khaleesi Says" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
The room, far as fear - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"
Mastered by fear of dark compulsions - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"
Streets where the weary may walk without fear - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
The fear that thrilled the midnight - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Didn't fear ashes or weeping - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"
Joy that seems the counterpart of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Flinging a prayer at the face of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
With mortal fear you reward me - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
Fear and fear's twin, rage - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Neural pathways tunneled out by fear - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
No semblance of fear or distrust - C. Dale Young "Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography"
The wildness that fears nothing - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
All children unlearn this fear - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
Your native trails cradled my fearful footsteps - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
The fearful deer of death stood not - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"
fearful in the garden - Lucille Clifton "the birth of language"
Some souls so fearful to offend - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
The fearful dreams be dead - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
With forced and fearful love approach - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Who silently languish in grief's fearful night - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
That fearful beacon as it burns - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
That my eyes may see the fearful beauty - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Ready to spring with fearful roar - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Priests of a fearful sacrement - Lionel Johnson "Mystic and Cavalier"
With fearful footsteps, and affrighted gaze - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Fought fearful odds - Kim Unsong "Mandela"
And fearful yet of believing in your pitiless legions - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Fearful of the clouds - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"
Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Fearful of glory's last service - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]
Feet that run for fearful price - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
All the dreams that make him fearful - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
Fearful herald of the wrath - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
A fearful diapason rends the arches of the skies - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Their three-cornered, fearful symmetry - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
Fearless.
Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles
I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"
Outvoiced only by a sudden burst of fearsome thunderclaps - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A fearsome assortment of wildflowers - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
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