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Poems about Dark

• Quia Multum Amavit

  Am I not he that hath made thee and begotten thee,
  I, God, the spirit of man?

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 152 lines
• Enigma

  Across thy face a glimmer passes—
  Wrought by what far and hidden flame?

  by Clark Ashton Smith 10 lines
• The 'Mary Ross'

  ‘WHAT was the hardest hour’, you ask,
  ‘Ever I had at sea?’

  by 74 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
• The Pool By The Mill

  No one bathes in the pool,
  The deep pool by the mill . . .

  by Cicely Fox Smith 25 lines
• Through The Sharp Hawthorne Blows The Cold Wind

  O Wind, like raging Lear forlorn,
  Against the sharp opposing thorne

  by John Bannister Tabb 4 lines
• Bewitched

  O none may share the sorrow,
      And none may break the spell,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 25 lines
• The Lost Galleon

  Her decks are drowned in sea-wrack, her guns are sunk in sand,
  Where she lies in the still water, hard by the Irish strand.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 18 lines
• Twelve Tree Barrow

  When the moths are flitting, and the fields are still,
  'Ware the darkling shadows on the haunted hill,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 19 lines
• The Witch Of Mull

  "Witch of Mull, the strangers here
  Come to wreak their vengeance drear:

  by Cicely Fox Smith 29 lines

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