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Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick
In August 1591 Robert Herrick was the seventh child and fourth son born to a London goldsmith, Nicholas, and his wife, Julian Stone Herrick. When Herrick was fourteen months old,...
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FURTHER READING
Poems for Halloween
Bats
by Paisley Rekdal
Darkness
by George Gordon Byron
Dirge
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
From The Lady of the Manor
by George Crabbe
Goblin Market
by Christina Rossetti
Halloween
by Robert Burns
Haunted Houses
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Raising the Devil: A Legend of Cornelius Agrippa
by Richard Harris Barham
Shadwell Stair
by Wilfred Owen
Sonnet 100
by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville
Spirits of the Dead
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story
by Richard Harris Barham
The Haunted Palace
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
The White Witch
by James Weldon Johnson
Third Charm from Masque of Queens
by Ben Jonson
Three Witches from Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Ulalume
by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Hag  
by Robert Herrick

    The Hag is astride,
    This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
    Through thick, and through thin,
    Now out, and then in,
Though ne'r so foule be the weather.

    A Thorn or a Burr
    She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
    Through Brakes and through Bryars,
    O're Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.

    No Beast, for his food,
    Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
    While mischiefs, by these,
    On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,

    The storme will arise,
    And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
    The ghost from the Tomb
    Affrighted shall come,
Cal'd out by the clap of the Thunder.
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