Halloween

Third Charm from Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad

Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go] by William Shakespeare Round about the cauldron go

Bats by Paisley Rekdal unveil themselves in dark

Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe The skies they were ashen and sober

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

Sonnet 100 by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville In night when colors all to black are cast

The Hag by Robert Herrick The Hag is astride

Halloween by Robert Burns Upon that night, when fairies light

Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All houses wherein men have lived and died

Raising the Devil: A Legend of Cornelius Agrippa by Richard Harris Barham 'And hast thou nerve enough?' he said

The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story by Richard Harris Barham On the lone bleak moor

Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allan Poe Thy soul shall find itself alone

The Lady of the Manor [Next died the Lady] by George Crabbe Next died the Lady who yon Hall possessed

Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes We do lie beneath the grass

The White Witch by James Weldon Johnson O brothers mine, take care! Take care

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg I spot the hills

Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern by David McCord Mr. Macklin takes his knife

All Souls' Night, 1917 by Hortense King Flexner You heap the logs and try to fill

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Morning and evening

Halloween by Arthur Peterson Out I went into the meadow

On Halloween by Janet Little Some folk in courts for pleasure sue

Hallow-E'en, 1914 by Winifred M. Letts Why do you wait at your door, woman

Song of the Deathless Voice by Abram Joseph Ryan 'Twas the dusky Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en Charm by Arthur Guiterman Fern seed, hemp seed, water of the well

Incantation by George Parsons Lathrop When the leaves, by thousands thinned

Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe By a route obscure and lonely

Low Barometer by Robert Bridges The south-wind strengthens to a gale

November Night by Adelaide Crapsey Listen

The Apparition by John Donne When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead

The Witch-Bride by William Allingham A fair witch crept to a young man's side

The Giaour [Unquenched, unquenchable] by George Gordon Byron Unquenched, unquenchable

Christabel [excerpt] by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beneath the lamp the lady bowed

The Vampyre by John Stagg Why looks my lord so deadly pale?

The Vampire by Madison Julius Cawein A lily in a twilight place

Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there] by Hughes Mearns

The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe In the greenest of our valleys

All Hallows Night by Lizette Woodworth Reese Two things I did on Hallows Night

Hallow-E'en, 1915 by Winifred M. Letts Will you come back to us, men of our hearts, to-night

Shadwell Stair by Wilfred Owen I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair