{"id":7587,"date":"2021-10-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2021-10-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:00:00","slug":"fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83016689\/1913-10-21\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\"><em>The Detroit Times, October 21, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot bear to let you go,<br>It\u2019s but a little while, I know,<br>And yet my anxious heart picks out<br>A thousand dangers round about,<br>A thousand chances I can see<br>That might take you away from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are such ills that lurk in wait,<br>So many evil turns of fate,<br>So many slinking deaths that leer,<br>So much to fill the soul with fear,<br>That my forebodings will not flee<br>Till you come safely back to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For when you gave to me your love<br>So splendid seemed the wonder of<br>That perfect gift, I could not deem<br>That it was other than a dream,<br>A magic vision of delight<br>Which presently could take its flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet now I know my dream is true,<br>I still have fear of losing you,<br>Thinking somehow you are too high<br>Too fair and sweet for such as I,<br>And that some Prince of Love, maybe<br>Will take your love away from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many hearts that seek,<br>So many facile tongues that speak,<br>So much of grace and power displayed<br>That I, who love you, am afraid,<br>Afraid of all the world\u2014and so,<br>I cannot bear to let you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Detroit Times, October 21, 1913. By Berton Braley. I cannot bear to let you go,It\u2019s but a little while, I know,And yet my anxious heart picks outA thousand dangers round about,A thousand chances I can seeThat might take you away from me. There are such ills that lurk in wait,So many evil turns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}