Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824) was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism and a poet whose life was almost as dramatic as his works.
They Say This House is Haunted by Stephanie DuPont
This haunting masterful poem from Stephanie DuPont invites readers into the tortured consciousness of a historic New England house, where the echoes of Salem’s dark past intertwine with supernatural visitors and centuries of accumulated secrets.
The Changeling by Charlotte Mew
The poem is narrated by a child who believes they are a changeling – a fairy child left in place of a human child
The Listeners by Walter De La Mare
Walter de la Mare, born in 1873 in Kent, England, began his career as a bookkeeper before transitioning to writing full-time
THE VAMPIRE by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Vampire” tells the story of a foolish man’s infatuation with a woman who doesn’t reciprocate his feelings
THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a haunting narrative poem that tells a tragic tale of love and sacrifice in 18th-century England.
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a narrative poem that tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by goblin merchants selling exotic
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many…
The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) was an English novelist and poet born into a prominent literary family in London. As the great-grandniece of the famous Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Hag by Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick, born in London in 1591, was an English lyric poet and cleric who became one of the most notable Cavalier poets of the 17th century