The Haunted Hour; an anthology
by Margaret WIDDEMER (1884 - 1978)
I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related to the return of spirits to earth. They "The Blessed Damozel," a poem of spirits in heaven, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," whose heroine may be a fairy or witch, and whose ghosts are presented in dream only, do not belong in this classification; nor do such poems as Mathilde Blind's lovely sonnet, "The Dead Are Ever with Us," class as ghost-poems; for in these the dead are living in ourselves in a half-metaphorical sense. If a poem would be a ghost-story, in short, I have considered it a ghost-poem, not otherwise. (Excerpt by Margaret Widdemer)
Listen next episodes of
The Haunted Hour; an anthology:
"All the Little Sighing Souls" Part 2 ,
Cheerful Spirits Part 1 ,
Cheerful Spirits Part 2 ,
Cheerful Spirits Part 3 ,
Cheerful Spirits Part 4 ,
Haunted Places Part 1 ,
Haunted Places Part 2 ,
Legends and Ballads of the Dead Part 1 ,
Legends and Ballads of the Dead Part 2 ,
Legends and Ballads of the Dead Part 3 ,
Legends and Ballads of the Dead Part 4 ,
"My Love that was so True" Part 1 ,
"My Love that was so True" Part 2 ,
"My Love that was so True" Part 3 ,
"Rank on Rank of Ghostly Soliders" ,
Sea Ghosts Part 1 ,
Sea Ghosts Part 2 ,
Shadowy Heroes ,
Shapes of Doom Part 1 ,
Shapes of Doom Part 2 ,
"You Know the Old, While I Know the New"