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Table of Contents | Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
I. The Medieval Era Anonymous Ballads Thomas the Rhymer Binnorie King Henry The Wife of Usher's Well The Twa Corbies The Gypsy Countess Tam Lin Anonymous Lyrics Corpus Christi Carol The Maid of the Mo...
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Ode | Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On ...
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The Romantic Era | Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
William Blake (1757-1827) The Sick Rose A Poison Tree The Tyger William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The Seven Sisters; or, The Solitude of Binnorie The Faëry Chasm "The world is too much with us; late and ...
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The White Owl | Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
by F.J. Patmore When night is o'er the wood And moon-scared watch-dogs howl, Comes froth in search of food The snowy mystic owl. His soft, white, ghostly wings Beat noiselessly the air Like some lost ...
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To Death | Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
by Caroline Southey Come not in terrors clad, to claim An unresisting prey: Come like an evening shadow, Death! So stealthily, so silently! And shut mine eyes, and steal my breath; Then willingly, O w...
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Alzuna | Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre
by Alfred Noyes The forest of Alzuna hides a pool. Beside that pool, a shadowy tree up-towers. High on that tree, a bough most beautiful Bends with the fragrant burden of its flowers. Among those flow...