Poems for Halloween

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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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