Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S MASQUERADES: THE GHOST OF LOVE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS First Line: The wan witch at the creepy midnight hour Last Line: And now the hell-worm all her body hath! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Moon; Soul; Supernatural | ||||||||
The wan witch at the creepy midnight hour, When the wild moon was flying to its full, Went huddling round a damned convent's tower, From out the crumbling slabs or tombs to pull Some lecherous leaf or shrieking mandrake-flower. Beneath she heard the dead men's voices dull; Around she felt the cold souls creep and cower; In hand she held a grinning damned's skull! Then through the ruin'd cloisters, strangely white, T'wards the struck moon, all swathed in cold gravebands, She saw dead Love wringing his hollow hands, And gliding grimmer than a dank tomb-light. And with a shriek she rush'd across his path -- And now the hell-worm all her body hath! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582 by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON EN PASSANT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON A COURT-MINSTREL by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS |
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