Halloween Poems: Sonnet 100 by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 4:16 pm on Oct 29, 2008

In night when colors all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight, Gives vain alarums to the inward sense, Where fear stirred up with witty tyranny, Confounds all powers, and thorough self-offense, Doth forge [...]


Halloween Poems: The Hag by Robert Herrick

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 7:03 am on Oct 28, 2008

The Hag is astride, This night for to ride; The Devill and shee together: Through thick, and through thin, Now out, and then in, Though ne’r so foule be the weather. A Thorn or a Burr She takes for a Spurre: With a lash of a Bramble she rides now, Through Brakes and through Bryars, [...]


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