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Subject - Mystery
Who knows what mysteries a poet might dream up?
Some of these images are sure to give you the willies.
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. - Carl Sandburg
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On a Frightful Dream
by John Codrington Bampfylde
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The Spectre Boat
by Thomas Campbell
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The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare
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The Highwayman's Ghost
by Richard Garnett
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The Green Eye of the Yellow God
by J. Milton Hayes
beware the vengance of the little yellow god
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The Skeleton in Armor
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
a hulk of viking armor tells a tale of woe
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The Raven
by Edgar Allen Poe
an eerie tale of an anguished man haunted by the memory of his lost love
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The Fire Soul
by George Charles Selden
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The Old Woman of Berkley
by Robert Southey
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The Song of Wandering Aengus
by William Butler Yeats
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