Poems Based On Fear
Poems from the internet based on Fear to get the reader ready for the thrilling horror. These poems inspired me to write this book.
John Keats, ’When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be’.
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain …
William Shakespeare, ‘Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun’.
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 …
Rudyard Kipling, ‘How Fear Came’.
The stream is shrunk – the pool is dry,
And we be comrades, thou and I;
With fevered jowl and dusty flank
Each jostling each along the bank;
And, by one drouthy fear made still,
Forgoing the thought of quest or kill …
