Dark Poetry

On today's episode, we’re celebrating Valentines Day with some darkly romantic pieces written by some of the most darkly romantic poets of the Victorian Era. We’ll have melancholic poems about undying love, themes of acceptance, the transience of life, and the inevitability of death, vampiric abandon, ghostly love stories, painful memories and times of roses.

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" by Christina Rossetti, "The Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling, "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp" by Thomas Moore, "Remembrance" by Emily Brontë, "The Phantom-Wooer" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and "Time of Roses" by Thomas Hood

In this episode, Genevieve shares themes of memory and grief, ivy growing over graves, death as a great equalizer between the rich and poor, dark philosophy, a tragic snowstorm, and a superstitious ghost.

“The Ivy Green” by Charles Dickens, “The Shadow on the Stone” by Thomas Hardy, “The Pauper's Drive” by Thomas Noel, "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Lucy Gray" by William Wordsworth, and "The Superstitious Ghost" by Arthur Guiterman.

In this episode, Genevieve will share melancholic themes of darkness and desolation, a dream within a dream, spiritual death, contrasts between former grandeur and ultimate decay, and the cost of perusing forbidden desires.

"Sibilla's Dirge" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Dead Before Death" by Christina Rossetti, "The Death of Napoleon" by Isaac McClellan, and "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

In this episode, Geneveive will share the dangerous allure of fairies, a sailor's harrowing journey, a transition from splendor to ruin and a tragic, moonlit love story.

“The Fairies” by William Allingham, “The Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and “The Highway Man” by Alfred Noyes.

In this episode, Genevieve reads "The Poor Ghost" by Christina Georgina Rossetti, "Dead Man's Hate" by Robert Ervin Howard, "The Unreturned"
by Wilfred Owen, "Beyond the Last Lamp" by Thomas Hardy, "This Living Hand" by John Keats, and "The Witch" by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.

This first episode includes "From the Lady of the Manor" by George Crabbe, "From the Hand of Glory" by R.H. Barham, "The New House" by Edward Thomas, "The Stolen Child" by W.B. Yeats, "From the City of Dreadful Night" by James Thomson, and the delightfully dark "Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt.