“Hallows’ E’en” by Winifred M. Letts The girls are laughing with the boys, and gaming by the fire, They’re wishful, every one of them, to see her heart’s desire, Twas Thesie cut the barnbrack and found the ring inside, Before… Read More ›
Halloween poems
“The Return” by Minna Irving
I pushed the tangled grass away And lifted up the stone, And flitted down the churchyard path With grasses overgrown. I halted at my mother’s door And shook the rusty catch — “The wind is rising fast,” she… Read More ›
“The Vampire” by Madison Julius Cawein
The Vampire A lily in a twilight place? A moonflow’r in the lonely night?— Strange beauty of a woman’s face Of wildflow’r-white! The rain that hangs a star’s green ray Slim on a leaf-point’s restlessness, Is not so glimmering green… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 