So in my veins red life might stream again,Īnd thou be conscience-calm’d-see here it is. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold I lean to love, which leaves me lean, till lean turn into lack. It was concupiscence that brought me to the state:įlesh is no heavy burden for one possessed of little Truly I have lost weight, I have lost weight, La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Janet Kenny, Tom Merrill, Robert Mezey, Richard Moore, Joe Ruggier and ElinorĪ Lyke-Wake Dirge and Tom O'Bedlam's Song by Anonymousīy Anne Sexton and Daddy by Sylvia Plath (a tie There are also poems by contemporary poets like Jack Foley, George Held, Wadsworth Longfellow, Walter Savage Landor, Wilfred Owen,Įdward Arlington Robinson, Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Conrad Aiken. The macabre and supernatural like William Shakespeare, John Milton, EdgarĪllan Poe, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel TaylorĬoleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Include some of the very best dark poems in the English language, by masters of The first two poems to complement our ghoulish skeleton. Terrorizing Christian children, Robert Frost's magnificent "Directive." I chose Highwayman," Ernest Dowson's haunting "A Last Word," Walter de la Mare'sĮnigmatic "The Listeners," and a terrifying poem about the specter of hell Madness, "Tom O'Bedlam's Song," Alfred Noyes's bleakly romantic ghost story "The Here you will find the great medieval ballad about Which poets wrote the best Halloween poems of all time? It is a bit spooky toĬonsider that one day we will all be skeletons! I wrote the poemĪbove to go with the ghoulish picture. TheĬhildren in our neighborhood call our house the "Halloween House" and it hasīeen on the front page of the local newspaper in the past. The picture above was taken in the front-yard "graveyard" of our house. Long as the author is credited in any recordings, publication materials, etc.īut this mini-play is primarily intended for trick-or-treaters, to turn the Props (although a skeleton costume helps), and is free for noncommercial use as Play, "The Lonely, Bonely Skeleton" that will delight children, requires no The old-fashioned way too supernaturally draining. Some of the best poems of all time are dark, eerie, haunting, scary poems―the perfect poems for Halloween! We have poetry readings by Jeff Buckley, Orson Welles, James Earl Jones (freakin'ĭarth Vader!) and other GREAT poetry readers, for anyone who finds reading texts ![]() Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Reanimated Corpses and "Things that go Bump in the Night". ![]() Halloween Poetry: Dark, Eerie, Haunting and Scary poems about Halloween Poetry: Dark, Haunting, Scary Poems The HyperTexts
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