One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host. Far safer through an Abbey gallop, The stones achase, Than, moonless, one's own self encounter In lonesome place. Ourself, behind ourself concealed, Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment, Be horror's least. The prudent carries a revolver, He bolts the door, O'erlooking a superior spectre More near. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOOD COMPANY by KARLE WILSON BAKER PSALM 121 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY by RUPERT BROOKE IN DISPRAISE OF THE MOON by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE MARRIAGE VOW by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON BRUCE: JAMES OF DOUGLAS by JOHN BARBOUR VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF P. BURGESS; A CHILD OF SUPERIOR ENDOWMENTS by BERNARD BARTON |