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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539514" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Fear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou, to whom the world unknown<br>With all its shadowy shapes, is shown;<br>Who seest, appalled, the unreal scene,<br>While fancy lifts the veil between:<br>Ah fear! ah frantic fear!<br>I see, I see thee near.<br>I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye!<br>Like thee I start; like thee disordered fly.<br>For, lo, what monsters in thy train appear!<br>Danger, whose limbs of giant mould<br>What mortal eye can fixed behold?<br>Who stalks his round, an hideous form,<br>Howling amidst the midnight storm;<br>Or throws him on the ridgy steep<br>Of some loose hanging rock to sleep;<br>And with him thousand phantoms joined,<br>Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind:<br>And those, the fiends, who, near allied,<br>O'er nature's wounds, the wrecks, preside;<br>Whilst vengeance, in the lurid air,<br>Lifts her red arm, exposed and bare:<br>On whom that ravening brood of fate,<br>Who lap the blood of sorrow, wait:<br>Who, fear, this ghastly train can see,<br>And look not madly wild, like thee? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Epode<br>In earliest Greece, to thee, with partial choice,<br>The grief-full muse addrest her infant tongue;<br>The maids and matrons, on her awful voice,<br>Silent and pale, in wild amazement hung.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet he, the bard who first invoked thy name,<br>Disdained in Marathon its power to feel;<br>For not alone he nursed the poet's flame,<br>But reached from virtue's hand the patriot's steel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who is he whom later garlands grace,<br>Who left awhile o'er Hybla's dews to rove,<br>With trembling eyes thy dreary steps to trace,<br>Where thou and furies shared the baleful grove?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wrapt in thy cloudy veil, the incestuous queen<br>Sighed the sad call her son and husband heard,<br>When once alone it broke the silent scene,<br>And he, the wretch of Thebes, no more appeared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O fear, I know thee by my throbbing heart:<br>Thy withering power inspired each mournful line:<br>Though gentle pity claim her mingled part,<br>Yet all the thunders of the scene are thine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anistrophe<br>Thou who such weary lengths hast past,<br>Where wilt thou rest, mad nymph, at last?<br>Say, wilt thou shroud in haunted cell,<br>Where gloomy rape and murder dwell?<br>Or, in some hollowed seat,<br>'Gainst which the big waves beat,<br>Hear drowning seamen's cries, in tempests brought?<br>Dark power, with shuddering meek submitted thought,<br>Be mine to read the visions old<br>Which thy awakening bards have told:<br>And, lest thou meet my blasted view,<br>Hold each strange tale devoutly true;<br>Ne'er be I found, by thee o'erawed,<br>In that thrice hallowed eve, abroad,<br>When ghosts, as cottage maids believe,<br>Their pebbled beds permitted leave;<br>And goblins haunt, from fire, or fen,<br>Or mine, or flood, the walks of men!<br>O thou, whose spirit most possest<br>The sacred seat of Shakespeare's breast!<br>By all that from thy prophet broke,<br>In thy divine emotions spoke;<br>Hither again thy fury deal,<br>Teach me but once more like him to feel:<br>His cypress wreath my meed decree,<br>And I, O fear, will dwell with thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Taylor+Collins">William Taylor Collins</a><div class=q>
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With all its shadowy shapes, is shown;
Who seest, appalled, the unreal scene,
While fancy lifts the veil between:
Ah fear! ah frantic fear!
I see, I see thee near.
I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye!
Like thee..."></div>
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