Download or read book Poems Bewitched and Haunted written by John Hollander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneas’s wife from the afterlife, Baudelaire lays bare the wiles of the incubus, and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt, in poems that call out to be read aloud, whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From ballads and odes, to spells and chants, to dialogues and incantations, here is a veritable witches’ brew of poems from the spirit world.
Download or read book Messengers of the Macabre Halloween Poems written by LindaAnn LoSchiavo and published by Nat 1 LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, Day of the Dead… during this interval, the barriers between the two realms are thinnest. Normal turns paranormal; what's natural becomes the supernatural. That's when the messengers of the macabre are in their rightful element. Step inside this collaborative chapbook and embrace a haunted harvest of verses embracing bewitchment, boneyards, and all things that go... Boo!
Download or read book The Whispering Room written by Gillian Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems about the supernatural, by such authors as Tennyson, Robert Frost, and Jack Prelutsky.
Download or read book Killer Verse written by Harold Schechter and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
Download or read book The Little Haunted Book of Poems written by Ginger Lee and published by Gleewrites. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: dark and macabre poems
Download or read book The Hunted and the Haunted written by JoseLuis Sandoval and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems are for all lovers without exception, whether or not they're members of this other, exclusive club. Blessed are they who aren't members, just as surely as all true-blue members in good standing wish they weren't. There's only one way into this club, and no way out. If you lose a spouse to the Lord that you cannot live without, but manage to live on by brute force, you're in the ranks of the bereaved torch carriers of this very painful club. The poems of this book cannot heal you, since someone else wrote them, but they could conceivably soothe you a little by keeping you company, and bring you face to face with what you treasure most about the one you love, but lost. Expect nothing but the haunting beauty of poems that cannot pretend to be reservoirs of strength and wisdom to help you bear your burden, but you'll find in them a kindred spirit in the mirror of your soul...
Download or read book Haunted written by Vanessa Eve Caudillo and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted is a collection of poems that takes you through the tortured past and complicated present of Eve. She does this in a way that resonates with everyone. We are all haunted by past pains and current struggles, and by memories that seem to linger like smoke, or the scent left behind by rain. Some of the poems hit hard and fast and are strangely sexual, while others lead you by the arm to show you terrible things you can't unsee. Welcome to a nightmarish world that will haunt you for years to come.
Download or read book Comic Poems written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. Comic Poemsis studded with unforgettable classics, along with lesser-known comic gems from across the ages, from ancient Rome to modern America. Here is the immortal “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear” beside Noël Coward’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”; the incomparable “Jabberwocky” next to the famous “There was a young lady of Riga.” From Cole Porter and John Updike on love and marriage to Stevie Smith and Dorothy Parker on mortality to the ever-talented Anonymous on almost anything, the lighthearted poetry collected here ranges from the most delightful nonsense to the most sophisticated wit.
Download or read book Lullabies and Poems for Children written by Diana Secker Larson and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enchanting and comprehensive collection, the lullabies we all were rocked to sleep with, such as “Rock-a-Bye Baby” and “Hush Little Baby, Don’t You Cry,” mingle with traditional lullabies from around the world. Here are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to little ones, from Shakespeare’s lullaby for the fairy queen, Titania, to Brahms’s “Lullaby”; and from Gershwin’s “Summertime” to Langston Hughes’s lovely lullaby for a “night black baby.” Here, too, are poems for children that range from tender to nonsensical, from quiet to raucous–from Walter de la Mare to T. S. Eliot to Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Ogden Nash. Whether the intent is to soothe or to amuse, there’s something here for every mood, every child, and the child in every adult. A delightful, gift-perfect collection.
Download or read book Poems of Sleep and Dreams written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets–Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more–encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the tragic. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Auden’s “Lullaby” to Rossetti’s “Nuptial Sleep,” from Salvatore Quasimodo’s “Insomnia” to Thom Gunn’s “Annihilation of Nothing,”Poems of Sleep and Dreamsevokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep and dream.
Download or read book Poems Dead and Undead written by Tony Barnstone and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In time for Halloween: a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancient times to the present about ghosts, zombies, and vampires. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. This selection of poems from across the ages brings to life a staggering array of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and devils. Our culture's current obsession with zombies and vampires is only the latest form of a fascination with crossing the boundary between the living and the dead that has haunted humans since we first began writing. The poetic evidence gathered here ranges from ancient Egyptian inscriptions and the Mesopotamian epic Gilgamesh to the Greek bard Homer, and from Shakespeare and Milton and Keats to Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Here too are terrifying apparitions from a host of more recent poets, from T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Rita Dove and Billy Collins, from Allen Ginsberg and H. P. Lovecraft to Mick Jagger and Shel Silverstein. The result is a delightfully entertaining volume of spine-tingling poems for fans of horror and poetry both.
Download or read book Blues Poems written by Kevin Young and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.
Download or read book The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean La Fontaine and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.
Download or read book Haunted Halloween Poetry written by Poem Catcher and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAUNTED HALLOWEENA creepy collection of haunted poems gathered in Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) over the festival weekend of Halloween and the pagan Samhuinn parade. (Celtic New Year) With poems written by ghouls and ghosts - you'll find this anthology slightly devilish, a tad mythical and honoring of the infamous Jack 'O Lantern.
Download or read book Nightmare Lullabies written by The Haunted Ape and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nightmare Lullabies: 50 Haunted Poems" is a collection of spine-chilling verse that will send shivers down your spine. From the dark forests of "The Whispering Woods" to the haunted halls of "The House on Zombie Hill," each poem takes you on a journey to the darkest corners of the human psyche. Ghosts, witches, demons, and other supernatural beings come alive in these pages, weaving tales of terror and suspense. With each haunting verse, you'll find yourself drawn deeper into the shadowy realms of the author's imagination, unable to look away until you reach the final stanza. These 50 poems are a chilling masterpiece that will leave you with a sense of unease long after you've finished reading. The author's words paint eerie landscapes and sinister scenarios that will keep you up at night, unable to shake the feeling of dread that lingers long after the book is closed. Whether you're a fan of horror, dark fantasy, or simply enjoy a good scare, "Nightmare Lullabies: 50 Haunted Poems" is a must-read for anyone who loves poetry that pushes the boundaries of the genre. So turn down the lights, light a candle, and immerse yourself in this spine-chilling collection that will leave you feeling both thrilled and terrified.
Download or read book The Haunted Hour An Anthology written by Margaret Widdemer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Christmas Poems written by John Hollander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman," Anthony Hecht's "Christmas Is Coming," Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas in India," Langston Hughes's "Shepherd's Song at Christmas," Robert Graves's "The Christmas Robin," and happy surprises like Phyllis McGinley's "Office Party," Dorothy Parker's "The Maid-Servant at the Inn," and Philip Larkin's "New Year Poem."
