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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GHOSTS Matches Found: 355 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF THE WAILING GHOST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As I between the dusk and dark Last Line: "and know her secret grief," Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness A CHILLY NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rose at the dead of night Last Line: And I was indeed alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Mothers; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime A CHRISTMAS GHOST, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eve of christmas had arrived Last Line: He merely saw a ghost. Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Ghosts; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The A GHOST, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I entertained a ghost Last Line: As make live men. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Apathy; Ghosts; Supernatural A GHOST AT NOON, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was dark, save when the beam Last Line: Hath planted in the grave? Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural A GHOST AT THE DANCING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind-swept tulip-bed - a colored cloud Last Line: Amiel, amiel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural A LAY OF ST. GENGULPHUS, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gengulphus comes from the holy land Last Line: On the moral enforced by her terrible tale! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Gengulphus, Saint (d. 760); Murder; Revenge; Ghosts A MAN'S REPENTANCE (INTENDED FOR RECITATION AT CLUB DINNERS), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight when I came from the club at eleven Last Line: I know how a murderer feels to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Unrequited; Repentance; Supernatural; Penitence A MASQUE OF DEAD QUEENS, by STANLEY E. BABB Poem Text First Line: Queens parade down avenues of memory Last Line: Remains to be said -- ! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Courts & Courtiers; Ghosts; Helen Of Troy; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Supernatural; Arthur, King; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A MEETING, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One autumn evening in the crowded street Last Line: Slain by the morning—swallowed up and lost Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural A MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came into my life for one brief day Last Line: And dropped a flower there. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Laughter; Memory; Supernatural A NIGHTMARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend in ghostland Last Line: See a secret I must keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Coast-nightmare Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sea; Soul; Supernatural; Dead, The; Ocean A PHANTOM, by MARY H. GELETTE Poem Text First Line: Soft through the hush of summer night Last Line: Dull beating of a weary heart. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural A WRANGDILLION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dexery-tethery! Down in the dike Last Line: And hums like a telegraph pole. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Ghosts; Leaves; Supernatural AN APPARITION, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a timid maid yestreen Last Line: Scarce knowing were I live or dead! Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural AN APRIL GHOST, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the ghosts I ever knew Last Line: You are left, you only. Subject(s): Ghosts; Spring; Supernatural ANNA AND HARLAND, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within these wilds was anna wont to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright beauteous bow reflected in the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural ANNA AND HENRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the glade was anna wont's to rove Last Line: Like heaven's bright bow reflected on the stream. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Supernatural APPARITION, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts; Death - Children; Family Life; Death - Babies; Relatives APPARITION, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: That's the moon come down to drink Last Line: Somewhere deep, quick and moonlike Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Supernatural; Water APPARITION, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What was it penance for, this burbling Last Line: First a candle's shape, then, unavoidably, mary's Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural APPARITIONS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon of night, and at the night's pale end Last Line: Than that the quick should die? Subject(s): Ghosts AT EASE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When she died he married her sister Last Line: And a ghost Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Ghosts; Marriage; Supernatural AT HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was dead, my spirit turned Last Line: That tarrieth but a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BARBARY GHOST; SHROPSHIRE, by SUSAN JONES Poem Source First Line: I have heard a curious story, but I don't believe it's true Last Line: Till they could squeeze him in the shoe, and there he lies this day Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural 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 BLUE OXEN, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts BODY AND SPIRIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who stands before me on the stairs Last Line: Her powdering, with her eyes on me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural BORGO OF THE HOLY GHOST, by STEPHEN MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: The earhly city affords its shrug-of-shoulders luster Last Line: Nothing stranger. I forgot to tell you about this, %you say, inscrutable, smiling Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural BOY'S FRIEND, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a secret friend Last Line: With him, play calmly goes %through dusk - and even dreams Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural BY THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a hand on my window tapped Last Line: And the moan of the rising sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Sea; Supernatural; Nightmares; Ocean CLAIR DE LUNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pallid ghosts and phantoms frail Last Line: Vanish slowly, glimmering whitely. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural CLARE'S GHOST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pitch-dark night shuts in, and the rising gale Last Line: Lit with a burning deathless discontent. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Ghosts CLAUD HALCRO'S INVOCATION, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Magnus control thee, that martyr of treason Last Line: Hence pass till hallow-mass!—my spell is spoken. Subject(s): Cross, The; Ghosts; Mass; Saints; Sin; Supernatural COLONEL FAZACKERLEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Colonel fazackerley butterworth-toast Last Line: Colonel fazackerley went in to dine Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural DADDY, by KIM R. STAFFORD Poem Source First Line: Rub my thumb in the empty hollow of the milkweed pod Last Line: Has gone, I found whistling the empty pod you left me Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural DARK WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the dark, dark wood, there was %a dark, dark house Last Line: And in that dark, dark box, there was a ghost! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural DAWENDINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a spirit on the river, there's a ghost upon the shore Last Line: And the shadows of the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Family Life; Ghosts; Hate; Legends; Love; Supernatural; Vendetta; Relatives; Feuds DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn Last Line: And look in vain. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime DEAD SELVES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many of my selves are dead? Last Line: Since all my other selves are dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The DEATH, by BERYL BRUNNER Poem Text First Line: A ghastly face Last Line: And life was there with me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural DEATH IS DEAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And did you know our old friend Last Line: The kind old sockets grew forever dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fantasy; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The DIALOGUE BETWEEN GHOST AND PRIEST, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rectory garden on his evening walk Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Justice DIANE'S PERSONAL GHOST RANCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine riding a ghost-stallion, my Subject(s): Ghosts; O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Ranch Life DIBDIN'S GHOST, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear wife, last midnight, whilst I read Last Line: Says I to dibdin's ghost. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural EIGHT VARIATIONS, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns Last Line: At a small window, green with rain Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Ghosts; Disappointment; Desire ELEGY: THE GHOST WHOSE LIPS WERE WARM; FOR GEOFFREY GORER, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ice, weeping, breaks Last Line: "she had to warm her eternal night." Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural ELEGY: THE LITTLE GHOST WHO DIED FOR LOVE; FOR ALLANAH HARPER, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not, o maidens, shivering Last Line: "but this old world, is sick and soon must die!" Subject(s): Churchill, Deborah (1678-1708); Ghosts; Injustice; Love; Supernatural EMPERORS OF THE ISLAND, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There is the story of a deserted island Last Line: Five ghosts moved away Subject(s): Ghosts; 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 EN PASSANT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The EN PASSANT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Last Line: With deference always due to souls accurst, %came out of his own grave - and none too soon Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural EPITAPH, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the traceries of the auroras Subject(s): Ghosts FABLES: 1ST SER. 31. THE UNIVERSAL APPARITION, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rake, by ev'ry passion rul'd Last Line: For care by right should go before. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural FIVE GHOST SONGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The dove stays in the garden Last Line: This is like a swing Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural FOG, by INA LADD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Only a dim light gleaming here and there Last Line: As though god, too, were lost from sight Subject(s): Fog; Ghosts; Mist; Supernatural; Haze FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FRANCESCA / INFERNO, V, by JOSE ANTONIO MAZZOTTI Poem Source First Line: You are seeing her again for the very first time, the tired eyes, the tiny hand Last Line: Her corpse still arouses %desire in passersby Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Supernatural GARDENS OVERSEAS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The gardens overseas are sweeter Last Line: August, 1918. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Supernatural GEISTESKRANKHEIT', by DAVID RAY Poem Source Last Line: Will remain ambiguous throughout the centuries Subject(s): Disease; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST, by RUTH AUGHILTREE Poem Text First Line: The whole night long the lean wind whined Last Line: Come rippling along her bedroom wall. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST, by HILARY CORKE Poem Source First Line: What makes permeable the ghost? Last Line: And grow more strange and solid at each touch - %whom I haveknown, but you were not one of them Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a man stands by a pin oak emptying Last Line: "it's like a tub overflowing onto a floor." Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Ghosts; Marriage; Suicide; Supernatural; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GHOST, by JOSEPH HUTCHINSON Poem Source First Line: A mist-haunted grove Last Line: Spent pine cones sway %like broken temple bells Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts do exist; death does not finish everything Last Line: The shadow slipped from my embrace and vanished Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST DOG, by BARBARA HURD Poem Source First Line: A week after your death Last Line: What unfinished gestures of gratitude Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST ELEPHANTS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the elephant field Subject(s): Elephants; Ghosts GHOST FLOWERS, by ALTA SMITH BOYD Poem Text First Line: Oh, do you see them, the ghost flowers Last Line: Dancing the dance of death? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The GHOST HAS NO HOME (1), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning in an alleyway I was startled by a face Last Line: The beast that has imagined and pent me here Subject(s): Ghosts; Home; Supernatural GHOST HAS NO HOME (2), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning in a dormer I was startled by a face Last Line: Together we dismantled its nest Subject(s): Ghosts; Home; Supernatural GHOST IN THE GARDEN, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For clanking and lank Last Line: The gate is shut, %the knight grows smaller Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST OF SOULMAKING: FOR RUTH OPPENHEIM, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ghost appears in the dark of winter Last Line: Wafts over the trees at sunrise and forgives the dusk Subject(s): Ghosts; Jews; Supernatural GHOST RUNNERS, by JAMES SCRUTON Poem Source First Line: They haunt the sandlots, load the bases Last Line: They play absence to its final out Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST TRAIN, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: Smoke rises industrial in puffs that look innocent Last Line: Of what we've killed, or are killing Subject(s): Death; Despair; Ghosts; Supernatural; Tragedy GHOST WALK, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors who never Last Line: And a last glass of wine Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Rosa Parkes (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement GHOST WALK, by RITA DOVE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors who never Last Line: For his laughter %and a last glass of wine Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wae's me! Wae's me! %the acorn's not yet Last Line: That's to grow a man, %that's to lay me Variant Title(s): The Wandering Spectr Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOST-BEREFT; A SCENE FROM BOGLAND IN WAR-TIME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought by now for sure the sun was down Last Line: A shadowy form begins to move up the path from the river. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The GHOSTING THE ROAD, by JOHN KISTNER Poem Source First Line: 1. Alma Last Line: Maybe - the delicate art of the discard Subject(s): Ghosts; Roads; Supernatural GHOSTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There are no ghosts. Could they return to earth Last Line: They would erase their epitaphs Subject(s): Ghosts;supernatural GHOSTS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mazing around my mind like moths at a shaded candle Last Line: When to the wall I nail'd your reticent effigys? Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by MARION FRANCIS BROWN Poem Text First Line: The wind is full of ghosts tonight Last Line: Before I sleep. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by JEANETTE E. BURGETT Poem Text First Line: I do believe in ghosts, so many I have seen Last Line: Who steals a sweet cold kiss across the past's old bars. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nettle chokes the beaten earth Last Line: The walls that were their own. Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Ghosts GHOSTS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / one need not be a Last Line: More near. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am almost afraid of the wind out there Last Line: That I would not be glad if my dear ones came! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead return to us continually Last Line: Nor those glad faces yearning over us. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: They call you cold new england Last Line: To guard the flames below! Subject(s): Ghosts; New England; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches GHOSTS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often when I cannot sleep, in my dark and Last Line: Ghosts—spectres which are never laid. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have familiar faces and warm hands Last Line: And never know how long ago I died. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: Never to see ghosts? Then to be Last Line: Last reach of the sense through layers of recognition - %ghost on my desk, speak, speak Subject(s): Fantasy; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I to a crumbled cabin came Last Line: I sighed, then soft she said: %'do not regret - remember, dear' Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It's mr. Brown looking much better Subject(s): Ghosts GHOSTS, by J. L. SINCLAIR Poem Text First Line: I would be alone, but ghosts pursue me Last Line: "remember me, for you once were I!" Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the eve of bosworth, it is said Last Line: And their pale hands the battle shall decide. Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; Supernatural GHOSTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are ghosts in the room Last Line: In each shadowy corner there lurketh a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Happiness; Hope; Life; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Optimism GHOSTS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the columned cliffs far out have planted Last Line: As the castle over the northern sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War GHOSTS FOR DINNER, by LEIGH PALMER Poem Source First Line: As kids, we seanced for them in worm-wired houses Last Line: With an entire kitchen of ravitational outlaws Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS GALORE, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source First Line: Ghosts gather at close of day Last Line: Riddle me riddle, who knocks there? %enter slowly - if you dare! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS IN DEPTFORD, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If ghosts should walk in deptford, as very well they may Last Line: The shadowy ships of deptford should melt like mist away. Subject(s): Ghosts; Nostalgia; Supernatural GHOSTS IN ENGLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural; English GHOSTS IN ENGLAND, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At east lulworth the dead were friendly and pitiful, I saw them peek Last Line: No pity for the great pillar of empire settling to a fall, the pride and the power slowly dissolving Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS IN LOVE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, where do ghosts in love Last Line: "find their bridal veils." Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS OF BROADWAY, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wan ghost of the moon Last Line: Who had not died! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTS OF CONQUEST, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: We shall break the dry crust of this stale earth, batter it down to ... Despair Last Line: Glory on ghosts of conquest for a year and a day! Subject(s): Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GHOSTS OF THE PAST, by SARAH RUTH COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Meadows and streams Last Line: "of ""never more!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Supernatural; Dead, The GNOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Comic, odd, unlikely, slow Last Line: Two, into a handsome man opening a chest, %pulling out heart, soul, every wish Subject(s): Ghosts; Laughter; Nome, Alaska; Supernatural GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs GREAT AUK'S GHOST ROSE ON ONE LEG, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And turned and poached a phantom egg, %and muttered, 'I'm extinct' Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GREEN CANDLES, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's someone at the door,' said gold candlestick Last Line: And not,' said the room, 'go out any more' Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural GREEN MAN IN THE GARDEN, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sleep well, my friend,' he said Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Ghosts; Supernatural; Trees HAIBUN BLACK EARTH, SELECTION, by ANDREW SCHELLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was struck by the gem-like changeable greenish reflection Last Line: Suddenly departs on on magpie wings Subject(s): Ghosts HAIRY TOE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once there was a woman went out to pick beans Last Line: You've got it! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Toes HALLOWE'EN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The time when bats fly through the / rooms Last Line: That's when wishes all come true. Subject(s): Ghosts; Halloween; October; Pumpkins; Supernatural HAUNT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: When I am gone Last Line: Set out on the countertop to cool Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural 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, by ETHEL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Out of the heart of the woodland Last Line: Bright spirits of nature ever are haunting me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural HAUNTED, by WILLIAM MAYNE Poem Source First Line: Black hill %black hall Last Line: Edges shrill %castle night Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural HAUNTED, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How restless are the dead whose silent feet will stray Last Line: Hide in the chilly tomb and answer not at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The HAUNTED, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a whisper in the night Last Line: I was companioned with my tears. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural HIS GHOST, AGAIN, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I'm tired of my father coming around Last Line: On the piano cover, an apple, %fingers finding the sweetest low notes Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Ghosts; Supernatural I AM HERE, by KATHRINE BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Dead? No, not dead, not away! Last Line: I am here! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Presence; Supernatural; Dead, The I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers I HAVE ROLLED NEAR SOME OTHER SPIRITS PATH, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had scarce changed its sidireal time Subject(s): Ghosts I ONCE DRESSED UP AS A GHOST, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source Last Line: It can be quite scary being a ghost Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural IN AUTUMN TONES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They have not seen beyond their garden wall Last Line: Strange winds begrudge the gleaner's ancient share. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Harvest; Supernatural; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight IN DARKNESS I SEE THEM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Strange how I am haunted by some Last Line: Sunlight dancing at my beck and call %although there's nobody at all. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Ghosts; Supernatural IN THE EVENINGS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go through my rooms Last Line: Like a ghost Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Ghosts; Poverty; Supernatural; Winter; Sunset; Twilight IN THE EVENINGS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go through my rooms Last Line: Shaking locks in the night %like a ghost Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Ghosts; Poverty; Supernatural; Winter IN THE SILVERED NIGHT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: In the silent silvered night Last Line: And they will roil the silvered night Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural INVITATION AFTER PULLING DOWN AND REBUILDING A HOUSE, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Old ghosts, ye all are dispossess'd Last Line: You soon shall have companion ghosts. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural IT SHALL NOT BE AGAIN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Who goes there, in the night Last Line: It shall not be again! Variant Title(s): Apparitions Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; War IT WAS THE HOUR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It was the hour of twelve Last Line: Of the god master's home Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural JACOB MARLEY TO THE READER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: It's not so much this clamorous train of chains Last Line: Invented by another ghost. And sitting...Where Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural JOHNNY DOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who lies here? Last Line: Aye, man, but I'm dead now Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Into the infinite white Last Line: Snow. Spice-plants. Salt Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Poetry And Poets; Snow; Supernatural KINGDOM OF MIST, by EDWARD STOREY Poem Source First Line: I ride through a kingdom of mist Last Line: Never to know they slept in sky Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural KOBES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-eight Last Line: The echo rang wildly long after. Subject(s): Germany; Ghosts; Life; Secrets; Supernatural; Germans LADY HAMILTON, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round sizergh's antique, massy walls Last Line: In solemn dirges o'er her tomb. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Hamilton, Lady Emma (1765-1815); Supernatural; Youth; Dead, The LATE VISIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The words were lost and then the voices failed Last Line: And grateful draw the sod about the shoulder. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Dead, The LEGEND OF HAMILTON TIGHE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The captain is walking his quarter-deck Last Line: They'll never get quit of young hamilton tighe! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Ghosts LETTERS TO YESENIN: 8, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cleaned the granary dust off your photo with my shirt-sleeve Last Line: Years of seconds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural; Writing & Writers; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LONGEST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Last one into bed Last Line: To my bed %is the longest jounrey in the world Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural LORD THOMAS AND FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair margaret sat in her bower Last Line: And were joined in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Murder; Supernatural LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance LOVE'S MASQUERADES: THE GHOST OF LOVE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text 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 LUX IN TENEBRIS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night what things will stalk abroad Last Line: Will spread a rainbow wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Supernatural; Dead, The MACABRE, by JAMES WALDO FAWCETT Poem Text First Line: I saw them in the moonlight pass Last Line: I saw them . . . Fade! Subject(s): Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural MAGIC WOOD, by HENRY TREECE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The wood is full of shining eyes Last Line: You must not go to the wood at night! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural MAIDEN LADY, by KATHERINE KELLY WOODLEY Poem Text First Line: She built herself a little house Last Line: Go toddling 'cross the floor. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural MAN WHO WASN'T THERE, by BRIAN LEE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday upon the stair Last Line: I wish, I wish, he'd go away Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural MARY'S GHOST, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the middle of the night, / to sleep young william tried Last Line: Of my anatomie. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The MASKS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: It's our pure abandon you covet: to don the false Last Line: We are your disembodied selves Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Masks; Secrets; Supernatural MEETING, by GEORGE D. PAINTER Poem Source First Line: When george began to climb all unawares Last Line: But which emerged and which one stays, %nobody will know till the end of his days Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural MIDNIGHT IN THE CLASSROOM, by FRANK CARR Poem Source First Line: Children, have you ever wondered Last Line: Ready for the nearing day Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural MODERN SPIRITUALISM, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trust that ancient folly yet shall come Last Line: And fills the future world with fools. Subject(s): Angels; Ghosts; Mediums; Supernatural; Spiritualists MOON AND APPLE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: When the apple tree blooms Last Line: Pale and with luminous %ocean leaves Subject(s): Ghosts; Peace; Supernatural MOTLEY: THE GHOST, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful Last Line: The sweet cheat gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Love; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness MR. NOBODY (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know a funny little man Last Line: "that every plate we break, was cracked / by mr. Nobody" Subject(s): Ghosts;supernatural MY AUNT'S SPECTRE, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: They tell me (but I really can't) Last Line: And plague us as a spectre? Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Aunts; Ghosts; Supernatural MY GHOSTS, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is filled with ghosts Last Line: In payment for my reverent love of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Ghosts; Supernatural; Reading MY GRANDMOTHER'S GHOST, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She skimmed the yellow water like a moth Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Grandparents; Ghosts; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MY HERO BARES HIS NERVES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hero bares his nerves along my wrist Subject(s): Ghosts MY OWN GHOSTS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am often visited Last Line: Prospering in the dark Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural NASTY NIGHT, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose are the hands you hear Last Line: Between the bedroom ceiling and the slates? Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural NELL COOK; A LEGEND OF THE 'DARK ENTRY': THE KING'S SCHOLAR'S STORY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Listen, mrs. Ingoldsby, - the clock is striking nine! Last Line: And bless us all, both great and small, -- and keep us from nell cook! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Murder; Incest; Ghosts NIGHT WASHES OVER THE MIND, by MARIO LUZI Poem Source Last Line: Rarely does a gull appear Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural NO MORE THAT ROAD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now do I know Last Line: "sounds the forsaken, ""never, never, never!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The NOCTURNAL CRIME AT THE CHATEAU, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Is the chateau to spooks a prey, the black chateau of la ferte? Last Line: There to see) -- the black chateau of la ferte! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place, / here shalt thou find Last Line: Still in this place. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Soul; Supernatural NOVEMBER, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: The house shrank into itself Last Line: Turned up to the rotten ceiling Subject(s): Ghosts; Houses, Deserted; Shadows; Supernatural NUIT BLANCHE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no horns to rouse me up to-night Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Ghosts; White (color); Bedtime OF THE REMEMBERED DEAD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no moment when our dead lose power Last Line: Draws into fellowship of loveliness? Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The OLD DAN, by UNKNOWN+247 Poem Source First Line: At night when everyone's asleep Last Line: For no one has a chance to see him %but me Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural OLD SAUGATUCK MILL, by GRACE JEWETT AUSTIN Poem Text First Line: Who gathers the grist of ghostly grain Last Line: Who labor there, somber and still. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mills & Millers; Supernatural OLD WIFE AND THE GHOST, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: There was an old wife and she lived Last Line: And a tidy big cat she fetches back %to keep the mice from her kitchen Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural ON BEING ASKED, HAVE YOU EVER WRITTEN ABOUT JACQUI'S PAINTINGS?, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: I've stolen three titles from her and so many shades Last Line: For god, whether you expect him for lunch or not Subject(s): Art And Artists; Ghosts; Paintings And Painters; Supernatural ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON NIGHT, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now murky shades surround the pole; / darkness lords without controul Last Line: That fall upon the drooping yews. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Stars; Supernatural; Bedtime ONE RIVER BLENDS WITH ANOTHER, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: Your ghost makes you stumble but you're graceful Last Line: A dry twig, long forking branch %on the right Subject(s): Ghosts; Rivers; Supernatural OO-OO-AH-AH!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A woman in a churchyard sat Last Line: Woman to the corpse said - %(silence) Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural PAHA SAPA TWILIGHT, by MARTIN E. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The paha sapa twilight falls Last Line: To sleep in paha sapa's arms. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The PARTY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: At a gesture from the host, the musicians stopped playing Last Line: And the party was never the same Subject(s): Abandonment; Ghosts; Guests; Parties; Supernatural PHANTOM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All look and likeness caught from earth Last Line: Shone through her body visibly. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Supernatural PHANTOM, by GUANETTA GRANT GORDON Poem Text First Line: Last night when the moon was free Last Line: Beneath the pale moonglow of night. Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime PHANTOMS, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My days are full of pleasant memories Last Line: "who sometime were his friends." Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural PHANTOMS, by HARRY MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: At the end I will bellow my challenge Last Line: God, forgive! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural PHANTOMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, ye phantoms of the past Last Line: Call upon me still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Ghosts; Grief; Hearts; Past; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness PHANTOMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves Last Line: Again in green? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural PHANTOMS ALL, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, all you sailors of the southern waters Last Line: The navy of old spain! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural POET HAUNTED, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts are attacking me Last Line: Ghosts of myself Subject(s): Ghosts; Native Americans; Supernatural POETIC EPIGRAMS: 2. GHOSTLINESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose touch, ancestral, far Last Line: Like light from a dead star? Subject(s): Ghosts; Stars; Supernatural POLTERGEISTS HURL KNIVES AND FRYPANS AT FAMILIES, by ELIZABETH GOLD Poem Source First Line: As if we needed assistance as if Last Line: Stumbling through the house %groping for any weapon at hand Subject(s): Ghosts; Guilt; Supernatural PRINCE KANO, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: In a dark wood prince kano lost his way Last Line: Pointing to where his face should be, 'like this?' Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural QUANTRAINS: HERE AND NOW, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a ghost?' inquired a little child Last Line: "and this bright world is spirit-land." Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural QUEEN NERFERTITI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Spin a coin, spin a coin, %all fall down Last Line: Queen nerfertiti %stalks through the town Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural QUEER THINGS, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: Very, very queer things have been happening Last Line: Why should he do me any harm? Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural RAFFERTY RIDES AGAIN, by T. V. TIERNEY Poem Text First Line: There's a road outback that becomes a track Last Line: Rafferty rides again. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Ghosts; Supernatural RAVEN THE DOG HAS A GHOST IN THE HALLWAY, by ALLISON M. EBY Poem Source First Line: Faceless and guant Last Line: And become the blue %of tomorrow's swim Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural RED WINGS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the shadows moving among old trees Last Line: In trust. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The RELATING TO ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in chelsea, early summer Last Line: The boats moved silently and the low whistles blew Subject(s): Ghosts; City & Town Life REMINISCENCE, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, these ghosts lay dead - Last Line: Memories are only heavy prisoners now. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RESTLESS GHOST, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wasp's paper nest hung all winter. Subject(s): Wasps; Ghosts; Yellow Jackets RETURN OF THE GHOST, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sudden leavetaking, by your grace Last Line: The past, our ruinous nostalgias? Subject(s): Ghosts REUNION AT CIMETIERE DU PERE-LACHAISE, by DEANNA KERN LUDWIN Poem Source First Line: Chopin, edith piaf, gertrude stein Last Line: As though she's barely saved herself %from falling headlong in Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Graves; Supernatural RIDDLE, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that goes round and round the house Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SACRED PLACES, by LAURA STILL Poem Source First Line: Another time %ghost crabbing on the beach Last Line: Keeping the secret %another time Subject(s): Angels; Ghosts; Saints; Supernatural SAINT NAZAIRE, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: The church at carcassone is filled with ghosts Last Line: With the dust of stars forever and forever. Subject(s): Churches; Ghosts; Prayer; Religion; Saints; Supernatural; Cathedrals; Theology SEA, SWALLOW ME, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning in an alleyway you were startled by a face Last Line: Let me touch you briefly, then destroy me, for I assure you Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SEANCE FOR EIGHT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: We were eight around the table Last Line: We all saw the twitching bones Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SECRET BROTHER, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Jack lived in the green-house Last Line: And my brother making %our own secret sign Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SEQUESTERED WRITING, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horses were turned loose in the child's sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Ghosts SHADE OF THE WOODS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I yearn with the weariness of my life, laid waste and lost in the woods Last Line: I say it. Joy doth brood for me in the tufted wood that by no path is crossed. Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Life; Supernatural; Woods SHADOW-BRIDE, by JOHN RONALD RENEL TOLKIEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There was a man who dwelt alone Last Line: They dance together then till dawn %and a single shadow make Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SHADOWLAND, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: One by one the flakes are falling Last Line: "vacant will be shadowland." Subject(s): Ghosts; Shadows; Spirituality; Supernatural SHADWELL STAIR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the ghost of shadwell stair Last Line: I wish another ghost am lain. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Rivers; Supernatural; Dead, The SILENT EYE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the moon lives an eye Last Line: You begin to wish it would stop it and just go Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SILENT SPINNEY, by SEAMUS REDMOND Poem Source First Line: What's that rustling behind me? Last Line: But I'm afraid of the darkness, %and I'm not coming this way twice Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SILK DRESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In my heavy new silk dress, dark blue Last Line: Flesh, that fluttering small light, its guttering wick Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Loss; Saint Kilda (scotland); Supernatural SIMCOX, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS Poem Source First Line: Simcox was one of several rather uninteresting %ghosts Last Line: Those visitings grew fainter with the years. %simcox was dim in life, and dim in death Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SKILLY OOGAN, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: Skilly oogan's no one you can see Last Line: And no one even knows his name but me Subject(s): Friendship; Ghosts; Supernatural SLENDER'S GHOST, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a churchyard yew Last Line: "o sweet! O sweet anne page!" Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SONG, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to think the pure ethereal being Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Ghosts; Afterlife; Mourning; Bereavement SONG OF TWO GHOSTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My friend %this is a wide world Last Line: Walking on the moonlight Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SONNET: GHOSTS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights Last Line: Some sad, invisible, accursed ghost! Subject(s): Ghosts SPEAKING TO GHOSTS, by NICOLE DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: That winter in new york Last Line: Replaced by the elegy %I had long ago written Subject(s): Ghosts; Imagination; Supernatural SPECTRES, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not great ambitions gone astray Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPEECH FOR MYSELF AS A GHOST, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever I was, whatever I may have done, speaks to me Last Line: Coolly transparent through migrant shadows Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Supernatural SPIRIT BIRDS, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit world the negative of this one Subject(s): Ghosts SPOOK, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: Get out of my soup Last Line: To go on spoiling %the whole damn city Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SPUNKY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The spunky he went like a sad little flame Last Line: There's no little spunky a-down the lane, %all, all alone Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SUFFOLK MIRACLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A wonder stranger ne'er was known Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SUITE TO FATHERS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in nevada I sat on a boulder at twilight Last Line: Night stares down with her great bruised eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Bedtime SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There came a ghost to margret's door Last Line: That you were gane awa' Subject(s): Ghosts;supernatural TALES OF THE HALL: BOOK 16. LADY BARBARA; OR, THE GHOST, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brothers spoke of ghosts, - a favourite theme Last Line: It then appears a ghost would come in vain.' Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TEENTY TINY GHOST, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: A teeny tiny ghost %no bigger than a mouse Last Line: Boo! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TERM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rumpled sheet %of brown paper Last Line: The ground. Unlike %a man it rose %again rolling %with the wind over %and over to be as %it was befo Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE APPARITION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When by thy scorn, o murderess I am dead Last Line: Then by my threatnings rest still innocent. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Revenge; Supernatural THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was about the deep of night Last Line: And judas one of three. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Christmas; Ghosts; Jesus Christ - Legends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Pilate, Pontius; Supernatural; Nativity, The THE BALLAD OF JEAN RENAUD, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Back from the war came jean renaud Last Line: "my baby also therein shall sleep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Ghosts; Soldiers; Supernatural THE BETRAYED, by RUTH SCOTT DANCER Poem Text First Line: The ghosts of innocent dead come out at night Last Line: The ghosts of innocent dead come out at night. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking THE CARRYING OF A GHOST, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE COTSWOLD FARMERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go Last Line: No ghostly harvester. Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers THE DEAD DRUMMER; A LEGEND OF SALISBURY PLAIN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, salisbury plain is bleak and bare Last Line: And mind, above all things, the man's not a drummer!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Salisbury, England; Drums; Ghosts THE DEAMON LOVER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the night Last Line: Imogene. Subject(s): Love; Ghosts THE DIREFUL TALE OF HORROR, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's sure a dreadful story,' the captain said to me Last Line: "the story of the skipper of the lady barnaby." Subject(s): Ghosts; Mystery; Supernatural THE FACE AT THE WINDOW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We had gone down at christmas, where our host Last Line: "only the fact could make my story true." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Christmas; Fathers; Ghosts; Story-telling; Supernatural; Nativity, The THE FAKENHAM GHOST, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lawns were dry in euston park Last Line: Perhaps was just as true. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE GARDEN SEAT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its former green is blue and thin Last Line: They are as light as upper air! Subject(s): Consolation; Ghosts; Supernatural THE GHAISTS: A KIRK-YARD ECLOGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whare the braid planes in dowie murmurs wave Last Line: May fleg the schemers o' the mortmain bill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Graves; Supernatural; Tombs; Tombstones THE GHOST, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a city, - neither large nor small Last Line: That mrs. Mason used a cushion in her chair! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Women - Abused; Ghosts; Wife Beating THE GHOST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With eager search to dart the soul Last Line: Were delivered at pewterers' hall, in lime street. Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Gypsies; Magic; Quackery & Quacks; Supernatural; English; Gipsies THE GHOST, by BLANCHE C. HARDY Poem Text First Line: The poor ghost stood by the window Last Line: "shut that door,"" said the master." Subject(s): Family Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Relatives THE GHOST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will go back and I will lie Last Line: To walk familiar ways again! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE GHOST, by ? O'BRIEN Poem Text First Line: I is the ghost of stevey fizzlegig Last Line: Chorus. Oh! Oh! Oh! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE GHOST, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night within the music hall Last Line: As though he had not been! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The THE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Since you I loved are lost Last Line: And the cocks both white and red. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Longing; Loss; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The THE GHOST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open door of dreamland Last Line: I gave forth from memory's hold (wondrous hold!). Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Memory; Past; Supernatural THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a backwoods town / lived deacon brown Last Line: But the ghost is digging yet. Subject(s): Ghosts; Legends; Story-telling; Supernatural THE GHOST OF HARRIET SLOAN, by WILLIAM JAMES PRICE Poem Text First Line: The slow hours dragged themselves along Last Line: Twas well, perhaps, to end it so! Subject(s): Ghosts; Murder; Supernatural THE GHOST OF SOULMAKING: FOR RUTH OPPENHEIM, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ghost appears in the dark of winter Subject(s): Ghosts; Jews; Supernatural; Judaism THE GHOST OF THE CRAGS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Midst the wild and open country scarce without the Last Line: And if once you go, o neighbor, I am sure you'll go again. Subject(s): Ghosts; Milton, Massachusetts; Supernatural THE GHOST OF YOUR WASTED PAST, by J. A. PETERSON Poem Text First Line: You may scoff at ghosts for all I care Last Line: The ghost of your wasted past. Subject(s): Ghosts; Life; Past; South Dakota; Supernatural THE GHOST TRIO, by LINDA BIERDS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little satin like wind at the door Subject(s): Ghosts; Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1803); Whitfield, James (1735-1772); Wedgwood, Josiah (1730-1795) THE GHOST-SEER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who, passing graves by night Last Line: Vindicate its ancient claim. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE GHOSTS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalised his pen Last Line: "glorious tidings! Egypt, dear! The book is accepted -- life and love." Subject(s): Egypt; Ghosts; Supernatural THE GHOSTS POEM, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy black birds flying away hard from trees Last Line: I would not be here learning what to say Subject(s): Ghosts; Death THE GHOSTS' MOONSHINE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is midnight, my wedded; / let us lie under Last Line: In its own moonshine. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Supernatural THE GLIMPSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sped through the door Last Line: But she still keeps away! Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Supernatural; Bereavement THE HAUNTED, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Masters of music, ye of tuneful vein Last Line: God's blessing is your bane. Subject(s): Ghosts; Loss; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Supernatural; Songs THE HAUNTED HOUSE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay beside you ... On your lips the while Last Line: I hear strange voices calling through the night. Subject(s): Beauty; Ghosts; Kisses; Love; Supernatural; Vision 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 INGOLDSBY PENANCE!; A LEGEND OF PALESTINE AND -- WEST KENT, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out and spake sir ingoldsby bray Last Line: Of the sweet face you look for -- a saracen's head! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Palestine; Friars; Ghosts THE LAST SALOON IN LUBBOCK, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bulky in coats Last Line: In stiff winds banging the roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Dawn Of The Bitter Blizzard Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Buzzards; Ghosts; Snow; Supernatural; Winter THE LAY OF THE OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY; A LEGEND OF DOVER, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there lived, as I've heard people say Last Line: May do you some good, and -- I wish you may get it!!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Ghosts; Confessions THE LISTENERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there anbody there?' said the traveller Last Line: When the plunging hoofs were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ghosts; Religion; Supernatural; Theology THE LITTLE GHOST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Broad, high yew hedges flank the flowers, and border Last Line: In junes of old! Subject(s): Ghosts; Legends; Supernatural THE LITTLE GHOST, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, through driven mist and beating rain, Last Line: Adrift into the night? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Supernatural THE LITTLE GHOST, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew her for a little ghost Last Line: A gate that once was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE LITTLE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars began to peep Last Line: And knows that it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Supernatural; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary THE LIVE CONSCIENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lay beneath the mold Last Line: And god folds up the sky! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural; Cadavers; Dead, The THE MARCH OF THE GHOSTS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chattering, clattering, here they come! Last Line: "let peace prevail through eternity!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The peninsula seen from the hills near bath Last Line: Where, once, there was a peaceful, tropical ocean. Subject(s): Ghosts; Moths; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Supernatural; Illness 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 OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE ONLY GHOST I EVER SAW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Since that appalling day! Subject(s): Ghosts THE PASSAGE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What waiting in the halls Subject(s): Ghosts; Love THE PHANTOM BALL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember the hall on the corner? Last Line: And I came away from the hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Ghosts; Past; Supernatural THE PHANTOM MOB, by W. H. FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Yes; I'm harry black - mad harry - and I often hear 'em say Last Line: Those pikers from the back paroo—I'm looking for 'em yet! Alternate Author Name(s): Page, The Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Ghosts; Supernatural THE PHANTOM SHIP, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when dawn breaks cold and grim Last Line: Round the pure seas pursuing us!' Subject(s): Ghosts; Ships - Abandoning Of; Supernatural THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 66, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever runs into a ghost or spirit Last Line: Finds nowhere to sink its beak Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ghosts; Supernatural; Buddha; Buddhists THE POLTERGEIST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A weak, diaphanous spirit wavered in Last Line: "after this life know like futility?" Subject(s): Ghosts; Religion; Supernatural; Theology THE QUEEN'S BALL, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: How soon forgotten are the dead Last Line: But stories more I will not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The THE RECALL, by FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: An ancient ghost came up the way Last Line: The spirit of the old unrest. Subject(s): Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural THE RECLUSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you live in shadows and sighs Last Line: "will hide me forever from your eyes!" Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; God; Hearts; Hermits; Life; Night; Roses; Supernatural; Bedtime THE RETIRED PORK-BUTCHER AND THE SPOOK, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: I may as well Last Line: A game of cards at night. Subject(s): Butchers; Ghosts; Retirement; Supernatural THE REVENANT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was at tunis, in the shop Last Line: The ghost of man. Subject(s): Ghosts; Hallucinations And Illusions; Supernatural THE REVENGE; FROM A FACT, ATTESTED BY THE SPANISH HISTORIANS, by HELEN LEIGH Poem Text First Line: Twas night -- and darkness all around Last Line: To end her wretched days. Subject(s): Ghosts; Graves; Murder; Supernatural; Tombs; Tombstones THE RIDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I struck him down in sudden wrath / over a trivial word Last Line: Come riding o'er the hill! Subject(s): Friendship; Ghosts; Horseback Riding; Murder; Supernatural; Violence THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely! Last Line: Though my poor heart should break. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE SILENT VOICES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dumb hour, clothed in black Last Line: On, and always on! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE GHOSTS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never stoops the soaring vulture Last Line: From the land of the hereafter. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE SPIRIT'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is a flight much greater far Last Line: Forever pass away. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mortality; Soul; Supernatural THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE SWAGMAN'S FAREWELL TO MATILDA, by JACY HILL Poem Text First Line: The swagman sat upon a log beside a waterhole Last Line: "matilda's ghost!"" he gasped, and fled, a madman through the night." Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness THE TEMPEST: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, by all good signs it does appear Last Line: And you'll be troubled with 'em all agen. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Ghosts; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Actresses THE TERM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A rumpled sheet / of brown paper Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A GHOST STORY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay awake past midnight Last Line: "pray do not be afraid!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Netherlands; Supernatural; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING DAY; OR, THE BUCCANEER'S CURSE; A FAMILY LEGEND, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It has a jocund sound Last Line: With 'drink there! -- we'll have henceforth no more cakes and ale!!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Curses; Marriage; Pirates; Ghosts; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Piracy; Buccaneers THE WRAITHS, by EDYTHE C. TONER Poem Text First Line: Hosts of the martyred dead! Last Line: "thus die ... Thus die?" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Youth; Dead, The THE YOUNG GHOSTS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To old verona, any dusk in spring Last Line: To keep away were more than they could bear! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THERE WERE THREE GHOSTESSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Weren't they beastesses %to make such feastesses! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THREE GHOSTESSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Three little ghostesses / sitting on the postesses Last Line: "oh, what beastesses / to make such feastessess!" Subject(s): Ghosts;supernatural TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by TOONI GORDI Poem Text First Line: There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts Last Line: We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom. Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural; Time TO A CYPRESS; ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and mysterious watcher of the dead Last Line: To wander in thine ancient spell. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Ghosts; Grief; Secrets; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A PERSISTENT PHANTOM, by FRANK HORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I buried you deeper last night Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TO A SHADE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you have revisited the town, thin shade Last Line: Away, away! You are safer in the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Ghosts; Ireland - Rebellions; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Supernatural TO ALISON, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All ghouls and ghosts shall science lay? Not ours! Last Line: Their ghosts turn flowers; like angels they array them. Subject(s): Flowers; Ghosts; Hearts; Supernatural; Time TO AN IMPORTUNATE GHOST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get gone, thou most uncomfortable Last Line: Inhale thee, o thou wraith despicable! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TO EACH HIS SORROW, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL Poem Text First Line: Three ghosts stood looking from a hill Last Line: "not if one lives,"" I said." Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE GHOST OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, ruthless ghost, I know you well! Last Line: Hearts still are playthings: fare you well. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Ghosts; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Supernatural; Mary Stuart TOMBMATES, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am a tidy sort of ghost Last Line: A single in eternity? Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TOO LATE THE GIFT, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: I went to buy a coat for love Last Line: "too late, too late! I know it now, my loved one's dead!" Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Ghosts; Gifts & Giving; Supernatural TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind TREES FOR THE FOUR FORESTS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: Ghost of ghosts Last Line: And the vanishing 'I' in a vanishing world Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Supernatural; Trees TWO PASSIONATE ONES PART, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stamp the sovereign fires out? Last Line: And safe to care, too wise to know. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TWO'S COMPANY, by RAYMOND WILSON Poem Source First Line: They said the house was haunted, but Last Line: I am the ghost. Pray, who are you? Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hold! Are you mad? You damned, confounded dog! Last Line: Yet dy'd a princess, acting in s.Cathar'n. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Gwyn, Eleanor (nell); Gwynne, Eleanor (nell); Dramatists UNCLE FRED, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source First Line: There's no such things as ghosts Last Line: Was all that it said Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural UNFORTUNATE MISS BAILEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A captain bold from halifax who dwelt in country quarters Last Line: Remember poor miss bailey Subject(s): Ghosts;guilt;supernatural UNSHRIVEN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have paid well for every sin Last Line: About my dying bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sin; Supernatural; Dead, The UNTITLED, by DAVID HOVAN CHECK Poem Source First Line: Ghosts of neglect Last Line: With double death Subject(s): Ghosts; Night; Supernatural UP FROM THE EARTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Up from the earth the voices came Last Line: Into eternity? Subject(s): Future Life; Ghosts; Graves; Supernatural VARIATIONS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon distills a soft blue light Last Line: Always in darkness walks with me? Subject(s): Ghosts VILLAGE MYSTERY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman in the pointed hood Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Ghosts VISIONS: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I oft have pale spectres before now Last Line: Sweet love. O lovest thou me? Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Love; Supernatural; Nightmares VISITOR, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A crumbling churchyard, the sea and the moon Last Line: Fainter - and fainter - then all was still Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural VOICE IN THE TUNNEL, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source First Line: The end of the tunnel was dark Last Line: In the dark %at the end of the tunnel Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural VOICES, by FRANCES BELLERBY Poem Source First Line: I heard those voices today again Last Line: Swoops into the hollow of light before mounting to shadow again Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural WAY THE LIGHT WAS, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How completely useless beauty Last Line: A bird picks up a seed and carries a life away Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Supernatural WE'RE ALL GHOSTS NOW, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghosts WHEN DAY WAS DONE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that watched in the west have fled Last Line: Go home, girl-ghost, to your kingdom of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural WHEN THE DOLLHOUSE WAS BUILT IN A MONTH'S WORK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You can hear its breathing a thousand miles Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dollhouses; Ghosts; Nature; Supernatural WHITE DUSK, by MARION M. BOYD Poem Text First Line: The fog is freezing on the trees and shrubs Last Line: Like white thoughts smiling through gray memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Havighurst, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Fog; Frost; Ghosts; Supernatural; Haze WHITE LADY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: She walks at night Last Line: Within st. Andrews town Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural WHITE NOCTURNE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night Last Line: Wait far off in the undisturbing night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WHO'S THAT?, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: Who's that %stopping at Last Line: Who's this? Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural WILLIAM AND MARGARET, by DAVID MALLET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the silent, solemn hour Last Line: And word spake never more. Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural WITH HER HEAD TUCKED UNDERNEATH HER ARM, by R. P. WESTON Poem Source First Line: In the tower of london, large as life Last Line: At the midnight hour! Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural |
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