The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door--
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door--
The Raven read by James Earl Jones
More about Edgar Allan Poe
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The Raven - literary devices used
Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christabel
'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock,
And the owls have awakened the crowing cock;
Tu—whit! Tu—whoo!
And hark, again! the crowing cock,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Other Gothic Poetry
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan, The Mad Monk
T.S. Elliot - The Waste Land, The Hollow Men
John Keats – Lamia, La Belle Dame sans Merci
Anne Radcliffe - Superstition. An Ode , To the Visions of Fancy, Night
The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes
St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - read by Richard Burton
Gothic Poetry
John Stagg - The Vampyre
Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Matthew Lewis - Alonzo The Brave And Fair Imogine
Gottfried Augustus Burger - The Hunt
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ballad
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee