Edgar Allen Poe, âThe Ravenâ:
Enthroned on the bust by the door,
The raven exclaims âNevermore!â
Itâs rather annoying,
For I was enjoying
My mourning for dear lost Lenore.
Edgar Allen Poe, âThe Bellsâ:
Bells are quite noisy, itâs true,
And each has a quite distinct hue,
From silver and gold
Different stories are told,
Foretelling both glory and rue.
W. H. Auden, âFuneral Bluesâ:
Shut off the clocks and the phone,
And let no dog bark with his bone:
Let the planes overhead
Only say âhe is deadââŚ
Now Iâm sorry, thereâs nobody home.
T. S. Eliot, âThe Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrockâ:
A man can walk down on the beach
Roll his pants up and munch on a peach;
He isnât deluded
And wonât be included
By mermaids that sing each to each.
T.S. Eliot, âThe Wastelandâ:
You called me the hyacinth girl
When you gave sweet Shakespeare a whirl;
The cityâs unreal,
And the dead men donât feel,
So letâs let the storm warnings twirl.
Lewis Carroll, âThe Jabberwockâ:
âTwas mimsy out there by the wabe
And all of the momewraths out grabe.
The Jabberwockâs dead
(Some kid took off its head,
And his father said âYouâre my best babe!â).
Beowulf:
Terribly troubled, the Thane
Demanded defense from a Dane
For fierce in the fen
Mighty monsters maimed men
Great Grendal gave plenty of pain.
William Butler Yeats, âStolen Childâ:
Come on, human kid, and letâs go,
Thereâs so much to see and to show.
Run off with the fae,
Hurry fast, skip away,
And youâll never a mortal life know!
John Keats, âLa Belle Dame Sans Merci":
The sedge is all dry; spring has sped,
And the birds that once sang have all fled.
The merciless dame
Goes on making her claim
To young hunks who keep winding up dead.
Lord Tennyson, âThe Princessâ:
The echoes keep fading away
With the splendor that ebbs with the day,
But the castle is grand
In this bright fairyland,
And thereâs not that much else I can say.
Christina Rossetti, âGoblin Marketâ:
At goblin men we mustnât stare,
And we shouldnât go to their Fair.
Their fruit may seem tasty,
But we canât be hasty,
And donât let them play with your hair!
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