William Blake - Fair Elenor
Emily Brontë - The Horrors of Sleep
H. Bunbury - The Little Grey Man
Madison Cawein - Hallowmas, The Town Witch
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Stephen Crane - There is a Grey Thing. . .
Aleister Crowley - De Profundis, Invocation of Hecate, The Neophyte
Walter de la Mare - The Dark Château, The Listeners
W. S. Gilbert - Mr. Wells
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Erl-King
Thomas Hardy - A Wasted Illness
Thomas Hood - The Dream of Eugene Aram
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The Legend of the Glaive
Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Grim White Woman, Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine [Contains the noteworthy line "The worms they crept in, and the worms they crept out...]
Fitz-James O’Brien - The Demon of the Gibbet, The Ghosts, The Wharf Rat, The Lost Steamship, The Skaters
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - The Gates Between, At the Party
Edgar Allan Poe - The Conqueror Worm, The Magician, The Raven
Ann Radcliffe - The Magic Mirrors, The Snow-Fiend, Stonehenge
Christina Rossetti - A Chilly Night
Sir Walter Scott - The Fire-King, Glenfinlas
Robert W. Service - The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, The Cremation of Sam McGee
William Sharp - The Weird of Michael Scott
Clark Ashton Smith - The Hashish-Eater
Edmund Spenser - The Cave of Mammon
George Sterling - A Dream of Fear, A Wine of Wizardry
James Thomson - The City of Dreadful Night
Paul Verlaine - Hands
E. H. Visiak - The Skeleton at the Feast
~ Must-Reads ~
Mary Alcock - A Receipt for Writing a Novel
Vasile Alecsandri - The Vampyre
Anonymous - The Cinder King, Clerk Colvin, Courteous King Jamie, Ghosts, Lenora, Tam Lin, Willy’s Lady
Isabella Banks - Haunted!
Richard Harms Barham - The Hand of Glory
Charles Baudelaire - The Death of Lovers, Don Juan in Hell, A Hideous Jewess Lay With Me…, The Irremediable, Litany to Satan, A Phantom, The Remorse of the Dead, The Vampire, The Voice
Thomas Lovell Beddoes - The Phantom-Wooer
Ambrose Bierce - The Passing Show, Something in the Papers, A Vision of Doom
Robert Blair - The Mansions of the Dead
Robert Browning - “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Buchanan - The Ballad of Judas Iscariot
Robert Burns - Death and Doctor Hornbook, Tam O’Shanter
Lord Byron - From Giaour
Bernard Capes - Heaven’s Nursery
Willa Cather - Eurydice, Poppies on Ludlow Castle
Madison Cawein - Dream Road, Gammer Gaffer, Gray November, The Infanticide, The Man Hunt, The Lamp at the Window, ‘That Night When I Came to the Grange’, Riders in the Night, The Vale of Tempe, Willow Wood, Witchery, The Wood Water
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
G. Colman, Jun. - The Maid of the Moor
Stephen Crane - God Lay Dead in Heaven . . ., In the Desert I Saw a Creature . . ., I Stood Musing in a Black World . . ., On the Desert . . ., War Is Kind
Adelaide Crapsey - The Warning
Aleister Crowley - The Athanor, Dedication, A Descent of the Moench, The Dreaming Death, Dreams, A Dream, The Eve of Love, The Honourable Adulterers, The King-Ghost, The Legend of Ben Ledi, The Morning of Disillusionment, Perdurabo, The Quest, The Rape of Death, A Sonnet of Blasphemy, A Vision Upon Ushba The Voyage Southward
Emily Dickinson - I Know Some Lonely Houses. . . Witchcraft Was Hung. . .
John Dryden - Incantation to Oedipus
Richard Garnett - The Highwayman’s Ghost
W. S. Gilbert - Mr. Wells, When The Night Wind Howls
Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
W. E. Henley - Suicide
Robert Herrick - Charmes, The Hag, The Spell
James Hogg - Kilmeny
Ian B. Stoughton Holborn - Butades, Dying Hope, The Enchantress, Irremeabile Tempus, Loch Boisdale, Lusitaniae Naufragium, The Magic Isle, Narkissos, Parting, Philistos and Neaira, The Sea-Queen, Visions
Ben Jonson - from The Masque of Queens, The Witches’ Sabbath
John Keats - Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Charles Godfrey Leland - The Flying Dutchman
M. G. Lewis - Bothwell’s Bonny Jane, The Cloud-King, Elver’s Hoh, The Erl-King’s Daughter, The Fisherman, The Gay Gold Ring, King Hacho’s Death-Song, Osric the Lion, The Princess and the Slave, The Sailor’s Tale, Sir Hengist, The Sword of Angantyr, The Water-King
J. Leyden- The Elfin-King
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Phantom Ship, The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi
H. P. Lovecraft - from The Nameless City: Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2; from Polaris; from The Tomb
David Mallet - William and Margaret
Walter de la Mare - The Death-Dream, Fear, The Ghost, Gloria Mundi, Haunted, The Little Green Orchard, The Marionettes, A Sign, The Spectre, The Stranger, Voices, “Where is Thy Victory?”
Thomas Moore - The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
Fitz-James O'Brien - The Enchanted Titan, The Man at the Door, The Three Gannets
Thomas Love Peacock - The Legend of St Laura
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - The Angel Joy, The First Christmas Apart, To My Father, Released, The Room’s Width, Stronger Than Death, The Unseen Comrades
Edgar Allan Poe -
Eskimo Poem - Heaven and Hell
William Schwenck Gilbert - Sir Roderic’s Song
Bret Harte - The Ghost That Jim Saw
Ann Radcliffe - To The Bat, December’s Eve, Abroad, December’s Eve, At Home, To Melancholy
Isaac Rosenberg - Dead Man’s Dump
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market, The World
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - A Sea-Spell (For a Picture)
Sir Walter Scott - The Eve of Saint John, Frederick and Alice, St. Swithin’s Chair, The Wild Huntsmen
Robert W. Service - The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin, The March of the Dead
William Sharp - The Coves of Crail, The Death-Child, Mater Dolorosa, Oceanus, A Paris Nocturne, A Record, The Sea-Born Vine, Shadowed Souls, The Twin-Soul, An Untold Story
Dora Sigerson Shorter - All-Souls’ Night, The Fairy Thorn-Tree, The Fair Little Maiden, The Fetch
William Gilmore Simms - The Burden of the Desert
Robert Southey - The Curse, The Old Woman of Berkeley
Harriet Spofford - The King’s Dust
Vincent Starrett - Changeling
George Sterling - Darkness, In Extremis, The Haunting, The Islands of the Blest, Nightmare, “Sad Sea-Horizons”, “With the Strength of Dreams”, The Testimony of the Suns
Algernon Charles Swinburne - Ave Atque Vale in Memory of Charles Baudelaire, A Ballad of Death, Dolores, Faustine
Lord Tennyson - The Kraken
William Makepeace Thackeray - Little Billee, Sorrows of Werther
James Thomson - To Our Ladies of Death, Weddah And Om-El-Bonain
Vance Thompson - A Dead Woman
Cyril Tourneur - Thou Shell of Death
Paul Verlaine - Effects of Night, Grotesques, Interior, Prologue, Serenade
George Sylvester Viereck - Confession, Love Triumphant, Prayer of Souls in Need, Premonition, Provocatio Ad Mariam, Resurrection, The Sphinx, When Idols Fall
Oscar Wilde - The Living Death
William Butler Yeats - The Stolen Child
~ Modern Poetry ~
Jen - Exhale, Let the Ravens Come, Stay
Aquilla Rage - Crow's Song, Danse Macabre, Let Go, Red Velvet
Ravyen - Cobweb, Crucify, The Paper Doll, Still, You
Wynter - Child of the Night, Incidental Encounter, Naked I Stand, Quiet Desolation, Secrets Kept,
~ More Classical Poems ~
Conrad Aiken - The Dance of Life, Red is the Color of Blood
William Allingham - The Fairies, The Witch Bride
Anonymous - The Beggar Wench Turned Into a Devil A Creature for Feature Epitaph, A Lyke-Wake Dirge, The Twa Corbies, Untitled, The Wee Wee Man, The Wife of Usher’s Well, William and Marjorie
Charles Baudelaire - Lesbos
Francis Beaumont - An Elegy on the Lady Markham
Beattie - There Would He Dream . . .
Thomas Lovell Beddoes - The Ghosts’ Moonshine
A. C. Benson - Envoi
Robert H. Benson - Visions of the Night
Ambrose Bierce - Another Way, A Mystery, Reminded, T. A. H.
Robert Blair - From The Grave
Boccaccio - Decameron: Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2
Charlotte Brontë - Retrospection, Rochester’s Song to Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë - R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida, No Coward Soul Is Mine
Robert Browning - Prospice
William Cullen Bryant - Thanatopsis
Robert Burns - Address to the Deil, The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast, M’Pherson’s Farewell
Thomas Campion - From The Third Book of Ayres
Willa Cather - Aftermath, In Media Vita, Provençal Legend, Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep. from A Son of the Celestial
Madison Cawein - After Autumn Rain, The Burden of Desire, The Egret Hunter, The Forest of Shadows, A Ghost and a Dream, Haunters of the Silence, The Hushed House, Lilith’s Lover, At Moonrise, Night and Rain, The Night-Wind, Poe, Rose Leaves When the Rose is Dead, The Shadow, Woman’s Love
Robert W. Chambers - To Elsa, Envoi, Forward (to Police!!!), Oh Friends…, The Haunts of Men, The King’s Cradle Song, From The Messenger
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A Death Wish, Life in Death, The Mad Monk, The Night-mare Death in Life, Phantom, The Raven, The Suicide’s Argument, The Tree of Mystery
George Crabbe - Exercise
Stephen Crane - Many Red Devils Ran From My Heart . . ., There Came Whisperings in the Winds . . ., A Spirit Sped Through Spaces of Night . . .
Aleister Crowley - The Altar of Artemis, After Confession, Astrology, Beside the River, Elegy, August 27th, 1898, Epilogue, From ‘The Fatal Force, The Flight, For G. F. Kelly’s Drawing of an Hermaphrodite, On Garret Hostel Bridge, Love, Lot, Love on the Island, Man’s Hope, The Mass of the Phoenix, An Ode, Penelope, “Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear”, Prelude, The Rose and the Cross, The Reaper, A Saint’s Damnation, Sonnet to Clytie, Sonnet in Spring, The Spring, To the Author of the Phrase: “I am not a Gentleman and I have no Friends”, Two Sonnets, The Ultimate Voyage A Valentine, A Valentine, ’98, In the Woods with Shelley, A Woodland Idyll
George Darley - The Sea-Ritual, Siren Chorus
Emily Dickinson - Because I Could Not Stop For Death, How The Waters Closed Above Him, I Heard A Fly Buzz—When I Died, The Only Ghost I Ever Saw. . ., This Quiet Dust
Sydney Thompson Dobell - Keith of Ravelston
John Donne - Death, Be Not Proud
Dr Nathan Drake - Ode to Superstition
William Dunbar - The Dance of the Seven Deidly Sinnis
T. Durfey - “The Night Her Blackest Sable Wore”
Thomas Flatman - A Dooms-Day Thought, A Thought of Death
Gray and Mason - Lucy, The Tempest
Arthur Guiterman - The Superstitious Ghost
William Hamilton, of Bangour - The Braes of Yarrow
Thomas Hardy - “Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?”, Friends Beyond, Her Immortality, A Meeting with Despair, A Sign-Seeker
William Ernest Henley - Ballade of Dead Actors, I am the Reaper
Robert Henryson - The Bludy Serk
Robert Herrick - The Beggar to Mab, the Fairie Queen, Eternitie
James Hogg - Elen of Reigh, Jocke Taittis Expeditioune till Hell, The Origin of the Fairies, The Perilis of Wemyng, St. Mary of the Lows, The Witch of the Gray Thorn, The Wyffe of Ezdel-more
William Hope Hodgson - The Song of the Great Bull Whale, Grey Seas are Dreaming of My Death
Thomas Hood - The Ghost, The Haunted House, Pompey’s Ghost
Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Starlight Night
Alfred Housman - To An Athlete Dying Young
Lionel Johnson - The Dark Angel, The Destroyer of a Soul
Joyce Kilmer - Dave Lilly
Charles Kingsley - The Sands of Dee, The Weird Lady
Rudyard Kipling - The Grave of the Hundred Head, The Last Suttee, The Undertaker’s Horse
D. H. Lawrence - Last Words to Miriam
Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Fisherman, Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green (a parody of his Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine), The Sailor’s Tale
John Logan - The Braes of Yarrow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Ghosts
Walter de la Mare - Bewitched, The Changeling, Drugged, Ech, Even in the Grave, An Epitaph, The Fairy in Winter Fear, The Ghost, The Ghost(2), Good-Bye, Haunted, “The Hawthorn Hath A Deathly Smell” The Imp Within,,The Marionettes, Motley, Never More Sailor, Never-to-be, The Old Stone House, Peak And Puke The Phantom, The Raven’s Tomb, The Ride-By-Nights, The Ruin, Shadow, Sorcery, The Stranger, The Suicide, The Veil,, Who's That?, The Witch
Thomas Middleton - from The Witch
John Milton - from Paradise Lost
James J. Montague - The Dream, The Ouija Board, The Pictures on the Panes, The Snow Flowers, To a Spectre Aunt
William Morris - The Wind
Fitz-James O'Brien - Loss, A Fallen Star
Barry Pain - Barry Pain - Ainigmata, The Bat and the Devil, The Devil’s Auction, A Man and a God
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - “Absent!”, Afterward, The Answer, An April Gust, Elaine and Elaine, Eurydice, Gloucester Harbor, Untitled
Pinkerton - Ode to Fear
Edgar Allan Poe - Alone, Bridal Ballad, The City in the Sea, Fairy-Land, The Haunted Palace, The Lake, The Sleeper, Song From Al Aaraaf, Sonnet—Silence, The Valley of Unrest
Ann Radcliffe - The Mariner, Scene on the Northern Shore of Sicily, Shipwreck, Sonnet, Storied Sonnet
James Whitcomb Riley - A Glimpse of Pan, The Witch of Erkmurden
Mrs. Mary Robinson - The Alien Boy, All Alone, The Confessor, Deborah’s Parrot, The Deserted Cottage, Edmund’s Wedding, The Fortune-Teller, The Fugitive, Golfre, The Granny Grey, The Haunted Beach. The Hermit of Mont-Blanc, The Lascar, Mistress Gurton’s Cat, The Mistletoe, The Negro Girl, Old Barnard, Poor Marguerite, The Poor, Singing Dame, The Shepherd’s Dog, The Trumpeter, The Widow’s Home
Christina Rossetti - Cobwebs, After Death, The Ghost’s Petition, Song
Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Sister Helen
Evelyn Scott - The Tunnel
William Bell Scott - Rosabelle, A Lowland Witch Ballad, The Witch’s Ballad
William Shakespeare - from: King Lear, from Macbeth, from A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, another from A Midsummer-Night’s Dream from Richard II, from: Romeo and Juliet
William Sharp - Cap’n Goldsack, Spanish Roses
Percy Shelley - Ballad, Ghasta
M. P. Shiel - The Serpent-Ship
Robert Southey - The Inchcape Rock
Robert Southwell - I Dye Alive
George Sterling - The Fog Siren, Helen Peterson, To Imagination, To a Lily, The Lords of Pain, Memory of the Dead, Music, The Nile, The Parting, The Sea-Fog, Three Sonnets on Oblivion, The Soul’s Exile, Tasso to Leonora
Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem
Algernon Charles Swinburne - A Forsaken Garden, A Watch in the Night
John Addington Symonds - The Valley of Vain Desires
Lord Tennyson - from The Princess, Rizpah, The Sisters
Francis Thompson - from ‘The Mistress of Vision’
James Thomson - Insomnia, Night
Unknown - The Curse Of Ishtar…, The Demon Lover, Ezdubar Enters Hades, The Fight With The Winged Bull of Anu, Ishtar Weaves a Mystic Spell Over The King and Seer…, Ishtar’s Descent to Hades—Her Fearful Reception, The King Buries His Seer In The Cave…, Pan and His Eternities
Paul Verlaine - Indolents, Pierrot, Sub Urbe, Valpurgis Night
George Sylvester Viereck - A Ballad of Sin, The Ballad of Nun and Knight, The Empire City, The Dumb Idol, Kakodaimon, The Haunted House, For Antinous in His Old Age Nineveh, Prince Carnival, The Smile of the Sphinx, To Sleep, The Three Sphinxes
Edith Wharton - An Autumn Sunset, Experience
Walt Whitman - The Carol of Death
~ Modern Poets ~
Anonymous - The Knives
Lanaia Lee - Demon from the Sea, Hell from the Sky
Otep - links to House of Secrets Lyrics, Sevas Tra Lyrics
Monday, December 15, 2008
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