Integral Options Cafe: Poems for Halloween

The Academy of American Poets put together a nice list of Halloween poems to get us in the mood. Enjoy!

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary...

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Morning and evening...

Third Charm from Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson
The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad...

Three Witches from Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Round about the cauldron go...

Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe
The skies they were ashen and sober...

Bats by Paisley Rekdal
unveil themselves in dark...

Sonnet 100 by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville
In night when colors all to black are cast...

The Hag by Robert Herrick
The Hag is astride...

Darkness by George Gordon Byron
I had a dream, which was not all a dream...

Halloween by Robert Burns
Upon that night, when fairies light...

Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All houses wherein men have lived and died...

Shadwell Stair by Wilfred Owen
I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair...

Raising the Devil: A Legend of Cornelius Agrippa by Richard Harris Barham
'And hast thou nerve enough?' he said...

The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story by Richard Harris Barham
On the lone bleak moor...

The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
In the greenest of our valleys...

Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allan Poe
Thy soul shall find itself alone...

From The Lady of the Manor by George Crabbe
Next died the Lady who yon Hall possessed...

Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
We do lie beneath the grass...

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