Poems about Dark

• Evening Harmony

  Now, see! the time is come when solemnly and slow
  The flowers on their stem like shaken censers fume;

  by Clark Ashton Smith 16 lines
• The Romaunt of Margret (excerpts)

  IX
  “My lips do need thy breath,

  by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 37 lines, 1 comment
• The Soul's Over-Ardent Love

  Love, that art Charity,
  Why has Thou hurt me so?

  by Jacopone da Todi 31 lines, 1 comment
• Whispered Into Afternoon

  Sun of autumn, thin and shy
  And fruit drops off the trees,

  by Georg Trakl 16 lines, 2 comments
• A Son Was Born To A Poor Peasant

  A son was born to a poor peasant.
  A foul old woman stepped inside

  by Fyodor Sologub 16 lines, 6 comments
• Wild Geese Across the Moon

  REEDS, snake-like, coiled in the mist
  Where the low fog drives:

  by Muriel Stuart 14 lines
• To the Old Gods

  O YE, who rode the gales of Sicily,
  Sandalled with flame,

  by Muriel Stuart 66 lines
• Ode On The Insurrection In Candia

  STR. 1
  I laid my laurel-leaf

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 258 lines
• The Execution Of Montrose

  COME hither, Evan Cameron!
  Come, stand beside my knee:

  by William Edmondstoune Aytoun 233 lines
• The Chalice of Circe

  DRINK of our Cup--of the red wine that burns in it,
  All the wild shames that have crusted its mouth,

  by Muriel Stuart 51 lines
• Samomorilec Pred Zrcalom

  Samomorilec pred zrcalom.
  Splasena dusa.

  by Srecko Kosovel 29 lines
• Infinitely

  The hounds of despair, the hounds of the autumnal wind,
  Gnaw with their howling the black echoes of evenings.

  by Emile Verhaeren 12 lines, 6 comments
• Sanctuary

  This is the bricklayer; hear the thud
  Of his heavy load dumped down on stone.

  by Elinor Wylie 12 lines, 1 comment
• Prepare, Prepare

  Prepare, prepare, new Guests draw near
  And on the brink of Hell appear.

  by Thomas Shadwell 24 lines
• PrÆsto

  Expecting Him, my door was open wide:
  Then I looked round

  by Thomas Edward Brown 6 lines, 1 comment
• Tenebrae

  A moon, with vacant, chilling eye, stares
  At the winter, enthroned vast and white upon the hard ground;

  by Emile Verhaeren 12 lines, 1 comment
• Messidor

  Put in the sickles and reap;
  For the morning of harvest is red,

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 82 lines
• Henry and Eliza

  O'er the wide heath now moon-tide horrors hung,
  And night's dark pencil dim'd the tints of spring;

  by Thomas Gent 40 lines
• Leaves

  All your sylvan prophecies
  But a phantom sigh!

  by John Bannister Tabb 10 lines
• The Death of Lovers

  On couches filled with odors faint and failing,
  Divans profound as tombs, we shall recline;

  by Clark Ashton Smith 14 lines
• Death Of Labour

  Methought a great wind swept across the earth,
  And all the toilers perished. Then I saw

  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 8 lines
• The Bellman

  BRING out your dead before you reap
  From lips beloved infection dread;

  by Muriel Stuart 11 lines
• Eros of Ebony

  Sculptor of demons and of goddesses,
  I chisel also an eidolon of love

  by Clark Ashton Smith 15 lines
• The Eldritch Dark

  Now as the twilight's doubtful interval
  Closes with night's accomplished certainty,

  by Clark Ashton Smith 14 lines
• De Te

  A burning glass of burnished brass,
  The calm sea caught the noontide rays,

  by Adam Lindsay Gordon 90 lines
• A Year's Burden -- 1870

  Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear,
  Wind of swift change, and clouds and hours that veer

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 85 lines
• Christmas Antiphones

  Thou whose birth on earth
  Angels sang to men,

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 303 lines
• From CLIO

  We every Day grew dearer to each other. I was then
  indeed as blind as he. I gave him every Perfection, and

  by Martha Sansom 28 lines
• The Sibyl, A Sketch.

  So stood the Sibyl: stream'd her hoary hair
  Wild as the blast, and with a comet's glare

  by Thomas Gent 19 lines
• A Song Of Changgan

  My hair had hardly covered my forehead.
  I was picking flowers, paying by my door,

  by Li Po 32 lines

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