Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Haunted Hour

Margaret Widdemer - The Haunted Hour: An Anthology (1920)

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A collection of ghostly poetry drawing from the likes of Yeats, Kipling, Freneau, Longfellow, De La Mare and others I don't recognize.  The editor won the Pulitzer for poetry in 1919.

Oh, when the ghosts go by,
   Under the empty trees,
Here in my house I sit and cry,
   My head upon my knees!