{"id":1436,"date":"2012-10-30T00:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T00:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:24:06","slug":"halloween-by-joel-benton-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/halloween-by-joel-benton-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallowe’en by Joel Benton (1896)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hallowe’en<\/h1>\n

by Joel Benton (1896)<\/p>\n

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite
\nAll are on their rounds to-night,
\nIn the wan moon’s silver ray
\nThrives their helter-skelter play.<\/p>\n

Fond of cellar, barn, or stack
\nTrue unto the almanac,
\nThey present to credulous eyes
\nStrange hobgoblin mysteries.<\/p>\n

Cabbage-stumps straws wet with dew
\nApple-skins, and chestnuts too,
\nAnd a mirror for some lass
\nShow what wonders come to pass.<\/p>\n

Doors they move, and gates they hide
\nMischiefs that on moonbeams ride
\nAre their deeds, and, by their spells,
\nLove records its oracles.<\/p>\n

Don’t we all, of long ago
\nBy the ruddy fireplace glow,
\nIn the kitchen and the hall,
\nThose queer, coof-like pranks recall<\/p>\n

Eery shadows were they then
\nBut to-night they come again;
\nWere we once more but sixteen
\nPrecious would be Hallowe’en.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite
\n All are on their rounds to-night,
\n In the wan moon’s silver ray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,418,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-poems","category-halloween-poems","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t