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The Essentials ~
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Anonymous - The Bleeding Nun
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William
Blake - Fair Elenor |
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Emily
Brontë
- The Horrors of Sleep |
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H. Bunbury - The Little Grey Man
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Madison Cawein
- Hallowmas, The Town Witch |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Christabel, The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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Stephen Crane
- There is a Grey Thing. . . |
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Aleister Crowley
- De Profundis,
Invocation of Hecate, The Neophyte |
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Walter
de la Mare - The Dark Château, The
Listeners |
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W. S. Gilbert - Mr. Wells |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Erl-King |
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Thomas
Hardy - A Wasted Illness |
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Thomas Hood - The Dream of Eugene Aram
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Legend of the Glaive |
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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...] |
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Fitz-James O’Brien
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The Demon of the Gibbet, The
Ghosts, The Wharf Rat, The Lost Steamship,
The Skaters |
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- The Gates Between, At the Party |
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Edgar Allan Poe
- The
Conqueror Worm, The Magician, The
Raven |
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Ann
Radcliffe - The Magic Mirrors,
The Snow-Fiend, Stonehenge |
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Christina Rossetti
- A Chilly Night |
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Sir Walter Scott -
The
Fire-King, Glenfinlas |
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Robert W. Service
- The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, The Cremation of Sam McGee |
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William Sharp - The Weird of Michael Scott |
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Clark Ashton Smith
- The Hashish-Eater |
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Edmund Spenser - The Cave of Mammon |
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George Sterling
- A Dream of Fear, A Wine of Wizardry |
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James Thomson - The City of Dreadful Night |
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Paul Verlaine
- Hands |
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E. H. Visiak
- The Skeleton at the Feast |
~
Must-Reads ~
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Mary Alcock
- A Receipt for Writing a Novel |
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Vasile Alecsandri
- The Vampyre |
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Anonymous
- The Cinder King, Clerk Colvin, Courteous King Jamie, Ghosts,
Lenora, Tam Lin, Willy’s Lady |
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Isabella Banks - Haunted! |
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Richard Harms Barham - The Hand of Glory
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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 |
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- The Phantom-Wooer |
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Ambrose Bierce -
The Passing Show, Something in the Papers,
A Vision of Doom
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Robert
Blair - The Mansions of the Dead |
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Robert Browning
- “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”,
Porphyria’s Lover |
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Robert Buchanan - The Ballad of Judas Iscariot
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Robert Burns -
Death and Doctor Hornbook, Tam O’Shanter
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Lord Byron - From Giaour
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Bernard Capes - Heaven’s Nursery
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Willa
Cather - Eurydice, Poppies on Ludlow Castle |
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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 |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
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G. Colman, Jun. - The Maid of the Moor |
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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
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Adelaide Crapsey - The
Warning |
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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 |
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Emily Dickinson - I Know Some Lonely Houses. . . Witchcraft Was Hung. . . |
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John Dryden - Incantation to Oedipus
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Richard Garnett - The Highwayman’s Ghost |
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W. S. Gilbert
- Mr. Wells, When The Night Wind Howls
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Thomas
Hardy - The Darkling Thrush |
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W. E. Henley
- Suicide |
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Robert Herrick -
Charmes, The
Hag, The Spell |
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James Hogg - Kilmeny
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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
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Ben Jonson -
from The Masque of Queens, The Witches’ Sabbath
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John
Keats - Isabella, or the Pot of Basil,
La Belle Dame Sans Merci |
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Charles Godfrey Leland - The Flying Dutchman
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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
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J. Leyden- The Elfin-King |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Phantom Ship,
The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi |
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H.
P. Lovecraft - from The Nameless City: Excerpt
1, Excerpt 2; from Polaris;
from The Tomb |
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David Mallet
- William and Margaret |
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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?” |
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Thomas Moore - The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
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Fitz-James
O'Brien - The Enchanted Titan,
The Man at the Door, The Three Gannets
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Thomas
Love Peacock - The Legend of St Laura |
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -
The Angel Joy, The First Christmas Apart,
To My Father,
Released, The Room’s Width,
Stronger Than Death, The Unseen Comrades |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Eskimo
Poem - Heaven and Hell |
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William Schwenck Gilbert
- Sir Roderic’s Song |
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Bret Harte
- The Ghost That Jim Saw |
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Ann
Radcliffe - To The Bat, December’s Eve, Abroad,
December’s Eve, At Home, To Melancholy |
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Isaac Rosenberg - Dead Man’s Dump
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Christina Rossetti
- Goblin Market, The World
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- A Sea-Spell (For a Picture)
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Sir Walter Scott -
The
Eve of Saint John, Frederick and Alice, St. Swithin’s Chair, The Wild Huntsmen
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Robert
W. Service - The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin,
The March of the Dead
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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 |
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Dora Sigerson Shorter
- All-Souls’
Night, The Fairy Thorn-Tree, The Fair Little Maiden,
The Fetch |
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William Gilmore Simms
- The Burden of the Desert
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Robert Southey - The Curse, The Old Woman of Berkeley
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Harriet Spofford - The King’s Dust
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Vincent Starrett - Changeling
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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 |
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Algernon
Charles Swinburne
- Ave Atque Vale in Memory of Charles Baudelaire,
A Ballad of Death, Dolores,
Faustine |
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Lord Tennyson - The Kraken
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William Makepeace Thackeray
- Little Billee, Sorrows of Werther |
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James Thomson - To Our Ladies of Death,
Weddah And Om-El-Bonain
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Vance Thompson - A Dead Woman
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Cyril Tourneur
- Thou Shell of Death |
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Paul Verlaine -
Effects of Night, Grotesques,
Interior,
Prologue, Serenade |
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George Sylvester Viereck
- Confession, Love Triumphant,
Prayer of Souls in Need, Premonition,
Provocatio Ad Mariam, Resurrection,
The Sphinx, When Idols Fall |
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Oscar
Wilde - The Living Death |
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William Butler Yeats
- The Stolen Child |
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~
Modern Poetry ~
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Jen
- Exhale,
Let
the Ravens Come, Stay |
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Aquilla
Rage - Crow's
Song, Danse
Macabre, Let
Go, Red
Velvet |
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Ravyen
- Cobweb,
Crucify,
The
Paper Doll, Still,
You |
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Wynter
- Child
of the Night, Incidental
Encounter, Naked
I Stand, Quiet
Desolation, Secrets
Kept, |
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More Classical Poems ~
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Conrad Aiken - The Dance of Life,
Red is the Color of Blood |
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William Allingham - The Fairies,
The Witch Bride |
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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 |
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Charles Baudelaire
- Lesbos |
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Francis Beaumont - An Elegy on the Lady Markham
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Beattie - There Would He Dream . . . |
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes - The Ghosts’ Moonshine |
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A. C. Benson - Envoi
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Robert H. Benson - Visions of the Night |
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Ambrose Bierce - Another Way,
A Mystery, Reminded,
T. A. H. |
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Robert Blair - From The Grave |
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Boccaccio
- Decameron: Excerpt 1, Excerpt
2 |
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Charlotte Brontë
- Retrospection, Rochester’s Song to Jane Eyre |
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Emily Brontë
- R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida, No Coward Soul Is Mine |
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Robert Browning
- Prospice |
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William Cullen Bryant
- Thanatopsis |
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Robert Burns
- Address to the Deil, The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast,
M’Pherson’s Farewell |
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Thomas Campion
- From The Third Book of Ayres |
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Willa
Cather - Aftermath, In Media Vita,
Provençal Legend, Sleep, Minstrel, Sleep.
from A Son of the Celestial |
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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 |
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Robert W. Chambers
- To Elsa, Envoi,
Forward (to Police!!!),
Oh Friends…, The Haunts of Men,
The King’s Cradle Song, From The Messenger |
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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 |
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George Crabbe
- Exercise |
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Stephen Crane - Many Red Devils Ran From My Heart . . ., There Came Whisperings in the Winds . . .,
A Spirit Sped Through Spaces of
Night . . . |
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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 |
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George Darley
- The Sea-Ritual, Siren Chorus |
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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 |
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Sydney Thompson Dobell - Keith of Ravelston |
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John Donne - Death,
Be Not Proud |
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Dr Nathan Drake - Ode to Superstition |
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William Dunbar - The Dance of the Seven Deidly Sinnis |
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T. Durfey - “The Night Her Blackest Sable Wore”
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Thomas Flatman
- A Dooms-Day Thought, A Thought of Death |
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Gray and Mason - Lucy,
The Tempest |
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Arthur Guiterman - The Superstitious Ghost |
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William Hamilton, of Bangour - The Braes of Yarrow |
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Thomas
Hardy - “Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?”,
Friends Beyond, Her
Immortality, A Meeting with Despair,
A Sign-Seeker |
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William Ernest Henley
- Ballade of Dead Actors, I am the Reaper |
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Robert Henryson
- The Bludy Serk |
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Robert Herrick
- The Beggar to Mab, the Fairie Queen,
Eternitie |
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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
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William Hope Hodgson - The Song of the Great Bull Whale,
Grey Seas are Dreaming of My Death |
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Thomas Hood - The Ghost,
The Haunted House, Pompey’s Ghost |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Starlight Night |
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Alfred
Housman - To An Athlete Dying Young |
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Lionel Johnson
- The Dark Angel, The Destroyer of a Soul |
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Joyce Kilmer - Dave Lilly |
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Charles Kingsley - The Sands of Dee, The Weird Lady |
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Rudyard
Kipling - The Grave of the Hundred Head,
The Last Suttee, The Undertaker’s Horse |
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D.
H. Lawrence - Last Words to Miriam
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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 |
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John Logan - The Braes of Yarrow |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Ghosts |
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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 |
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Thomas Middleton
- from The Witch |
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John Milton
- from Paradise Lost |
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James J. Montague
- The Dream, The Ouija Board,
The Pictures on the Panes, The Snow Flowers,
To a Spectre Aunt |
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William Morris - The Wind |
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Fitz-James
O'Brien - Loss, A Fallen Star |
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Barry Pain -
Barry Pain
- Ainigmata, The Bat and the Devil,
The Devil’s Auction, A Man and a God |
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - “Absent!”,
Afterward,
The Answer, An April Gust,
Elaine and Elaine, Eurydice,
Gloucester Harbor,
Untitled
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Pinkerton - Ode to Fear |
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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 |
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Ann
Radcliffe - The
Mariner, Scene on the Northern Shore of Sicily,
Shipwreck, Sonnet,
Storied Sonnet |
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James Whitcomb Riley
- A Glimpse of Pan, The Witch of Erkmurden |
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Mrs. Mary Robinson
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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
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Christina Rossetti
- Cobwebs, After Death, The Ghost’s Petition, Song |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Sister Helen |
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Evelyn Scott - The Tunnel |
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William Bell Scott
- Rosabelle, A Lowland Witch Ballad,
The Witch’s Ballad |
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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 |
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William Sharp - Cap’n Goldsack,
Spanish Roses |
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Percy Shelley
- Ballad, Ghasta |
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M. P. Shiel - The Serpent-Ship |
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Robert Southey - The Inchcape Rock |
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Robert Southwell
- I Dye Alive |
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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 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Requiem |
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Algernon
Charles
Swinburne
- A Forsaken Garden, A Watch in the Night |
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John Addington Symonds
- The Valley of Vain Desires |
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Lord Tennyson -
from The Princess, Rizpah, The
Sisters |
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Francis Thompson
- from ‘The Mistress of Vision’ |
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James Thomson - Insomnia,
Night |
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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
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Paul Verlaine - Indolents,
Pierrot, Sub Urbe,
Valpurgis Night |
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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 |
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Edith
Wharton - An Autumn Sunset, Experience |
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Walt Whitman
- The Carol of Death |
~ Modern Poets ~
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