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✒️ Gothic Verse

Words from the shadows.

The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
— John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

I am half sick of shadows, said
The Lady of Shalott.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies.
— Lord Byron

After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs.
— Emily Dickinson

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
— John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land.
— Christina Rossetti

Is there anybody there? said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door.
— Walter de la Mare, The Listeners

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert.|— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.|— W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child

Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me.
— Emily Dickinson

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
— Andrew Marvell

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The Gothic in Poetry

The Romantic poets — Byron, Shelley, Keats — gave us the gothic sensibility: beauty in melancholy, the sublime terror of nature, the fascination with death and transformation. The Victorians — Tennyson, Rossetti, Dickinson — deepened it with loss, longing, and the uncanny.

Gothic poetry dwells in liminal spaces: twilight, ruins, the threshold between life and death. It finds beauty in what others turn away from.