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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FEAR, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH First Line: Again, I see about me, men who fear Last Line: Have rhymed our fears with everything we do. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Fear; Sonnet (as Literary Form) | |||
Again, I see about me, men who fear To lose their petty jobs, men who are caught In commerce, where each battle that is fought Is endless, where success is always near, Yet never reached; -- at times these men appear -- Not as less certain than the bards who sing Uncertain themes that art would ever bring To prove its songs on time's selective ear; But rather, as determined men who try, -- Each little, and bewildered mother's son, -- To save one minute before their years are done, To gain one inch in all the miles they fly: For we who boast the alien arts, -- we too, Have rhymed our fears with everything we do. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ALIEN IN AMERICA by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH |
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