Wilfrid Wilson Gibson. The Fear. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Fear

By Wilfrid Wilson Gibson


From “Battle” I DO not fear to die
’Neath the open sky,
To meet death in the fight
Face to face, upright.

But when at last we creep	5
Into a hole to sleep,
I tremble, cold with dread,
Lest I wake up dead.