Halloween Countdown, Day 8

[eldritchhobbit]

I have a couple of Halloween-related links to share with you today:[Poll #1468124]

Spooky Text of the Day: Today's text is the poem "The Phantom-Wooer" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849).

A ghost, that loved a lady fair,
Ever in the starry air
Of midnight at her pillow stood;
And, with a sweetness skies above
The luring words of human love,
Her soul the phantom wooed.
Sweet and sweet is their poisoned note,
The little snakes' of silver throat,
In mossy skulls that nest and lie,
Ever singing "die, oh! die."

Young soul put off your flesh, and come
With me into the quiet tomb,
Our bed is lovely, dark, and sweet;
The earth will swing us, as she goes,
Beneath our coverlid of snows,
And the warm leaden sheet.
Dear and dear is their poisoned note,
The little snakes' of silver throat,
In mossy skulls that nest and lie,
Ever singing "die, oh! die."

Comments

Not Lavatory Reading

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

I know it's in one of the Marvin Kaye-edited anthologies. I thought I had it but I can't find it on the shelf.