Poems about Dark

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Recrimination

The prime of summer is coming, and with it there comes, to-day,
A thought of another summer, whose garlands have faded away:

by George Arnold 78 lines
If

Yes, death is at the bottom of the cup,
And every one that lives must drink it up;

by William Dean Howells 12 lines, 3 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
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
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
Resurgam

Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence

by Alan Seeger 6 lines, 3 comments
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 Execution Of Montrose

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

by William Edmondstoune Aytoun 233 lines
Ode On The Insurrection In Candia

STR. 1
I laid my laurel-leaf

by Algernon Charles Swinburne 258 lines
Wild Geese Across the Moon

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

by Muriel Stuart 14 lines
Hallowe'en

All Hallows Eve — when ghosts do walk the earth:
All Hallows Eve — O light and fireside mirth!

by Cicely Fox Smith 23 lines
Messidor

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

by Algernon Charles Swinburne 82 lines
To the Old Gods

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

by Muriel Stuart 66 lines
PrÆsto

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

by Thomas Edward Brown 6 lines, 1 comment
Sanctuary

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

by Elinor Wylie 12 lines, 1 comment
Barguest

All in the wild and windy night
I heard the treetops moan,

by Cicely Fox Smith 25 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
Whispered Into Afternoon

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

by Georg Trakl 16 lines, 2 comments
Leaves

All your sylvan prophecies
But a phantom sigh!

by John Bannister Tabb 10 lines
Prepare, Prepare

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

by Thomas Shadwell 24 lines
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
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
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
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
The Bellman

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

by Muriel Stuart 11 lines
De Te

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

by Adam Lindsay Gordon 90 lines
Eros of Ebony

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

by Clark Ashton Smith 15 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 Eldritch Dark

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

by Clark Ashton Smith 14 lines
Christmas Antiphones

Thou whose birth on earth
Angels sang to men,

by Algernon Charles Swinburne 303 lines

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