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Subject: HAUNTED HOUSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more
Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold.
Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness


BALLADE, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Couldst thou look into mine heart
Last Line: Banish spectre forms away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Imagination; Fancy


BIG, SPOOKY HOUSE, by DONNA WASHINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once there was a man
Last Line: He was a gone man!
Subject(s): Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural


EMPTY HOUSE, by RUSSELL HOBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the lone wind on the hilltop
Last Line: In the dark of the moon %when the clock sings no-time night
Subject(s): Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural


GHOST HOUSE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell in a lonely house I know
Last Line: As sweet companions as might be had.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural


GHOST HOUSE [OR, SUDANESE GHOST HOUSE], by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ghost house holds up
Last Line: That rises [or, we see rising] over us
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


GHOST-HOUSE, by EMILY RANDLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadows of coolness haunt this hilltop home
Last Line: How shall this silentness be comforted?
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My little child, how can you stand
Last Line: And held these fingers all night long.
Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural; Childhood


HAUNTED CHAMBERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the old and ruined mansion
Last Line: Are forever more at rest
Subject(s): Haunted Houses;memory


HAUNTED HOUSE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deserted, it stands in a cup
Last Line: By some lost loveliness?
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDYTHE HOPE GENEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I don't know why I came; it haunts me so!
Last Line: The things about this place that haunt me so!
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Mystery


HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was a place where none would ever come
Last Line: Between us and the chimney, long before %our time. So townsmen said who found her there
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by VALERIE TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a ghost at my door
Last Line: Before the ghosts tear me apart %with their hungry teeth
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rail fence is falling down
Last Line: Honey runs down the side of the house
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


HAUNTED HOUSE, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its echoes
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural


HAUNTED VILLAGE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little wistful shades, when dusk was nearing
Last Line: Sunk in dreams, and smiling in their sleep.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


IN THE CARLYLE HOUSE, CHELSEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the steep stair they clatter to each room
Last Line: Place for her golden bulbs within the ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Chelsea, Massachusetts; Haunted Houses; Houses


IN THE OLD HOUSE, by JOAN (DELANO) AIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: House silent grandchildren put to bed
Subject(s): Haunted Houses; Supernatural


SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death
Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death
Last Line: They have broken roses down %and poplars stand there still as death
Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a little rise it stands alone
Last Line: A fragrance as of roses fills the air.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows sit and stand about its door
Last Line: O'er the haunted house.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See'st thou yon gray, gleaming hall
Last Line: Haunted still her place must be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by RUBIN KANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas many years ago, but still
Last Line: The mighty lord -- his name is dear.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put a coin on the doorstep. Gears begin
Last Line: Fades back into the house.
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED HOUSE; A ROMANCE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams
Last Line: The place is haunted!
Subject(s): Haunted Houses


THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted
Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THE HAUNTED RUIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The place, untouched by vice or crime
Last Line: And joins the phantoms there.
Subject(s): Desolation; Haunted Houses


THE OLD CASTLE ON THE HILL, by BORGHILD BREKKE ZANINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Surrounded by poplars, it stands there still
Last Line: The night is gone, not a ghost remains.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Haunted Houses; Supernatural


THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a stillness on the night
Last Line: Except to lead us nearer heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Desolation; Haunted Houses; Scotland; Walls


THE WITCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her hair was gold and warm it lay
Last Line: Between the twilight and the sea.
Subject(s): Evil; Haunted Houses; Spells; Witchcraft & Witches


WINTER MORNING, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood!
Last Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood!
Subject(s): Death; Haunted Houses; Skeletons; Dead, The