Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAUNTED, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A noisome mildewed vine Last Line: The murdered face to face! Subject(s): Night; Curses; Bedtime | ||||||||
A NOISOME mildewed vine Crawls to the rotting eaves; The gate has dropped from the rusty hinge, And the walks are stamped with leaves. Close by the shattered fence The red-clay road runs by To a haunted wood, where the hemlocks groan And the willows sob and sigh. Among the dank lush flowers The spiteful fire-fly glows, And a woman steals by the stagnant pond Wrapt in her burial clothes. There's a dark blue scar on her throat, And ever she makes a moan, And the humid lizards gleam in the grass, And the lichens weep on the stone; And the Moon shrinks in a cloud, And the traveller shakes with fear, And an Owl on the skirts of the wood Hoots, and says, Do you hear? Go not there at night, For a spell hangs over all -- The palsied elms, and the dismal road, And the broken garden-wall. O, go not there at night, For a curse is on the place; Go not there, for fear you meet The Murdered face to face! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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