Halloween Poems, Rhymes, and Verses

Spooky... scary... creepy... Enjoy this collection of ghouslish Halloween poems, rhymes and verses on All Hallows Eve. Have a Halloween poetry reading night with friends and family, or use the verses on greeting cards, Halloween invitations, and favor tags.

'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock,
And the owls have awakened the crowing cock ;
Tu--whit !-- -- Tu--whoo !
And hark, again ! the crowing cock,
How drowsily it crew.

...Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From the poem "Cristabel" (1798)

In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.

But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

...William Butler Yeats
Oil and Blood (1933)

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint an curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As if some one gently rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--"

...Edgar Allan Poe

Double, double, toll and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Eye of newt, toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing.

...William Shakespeare
From The Three Witches, Macbeth

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were withering and sere-
It was night in the lonesome October

...Edgar Allan Poe
Ulalume: A Ballad

She thinks of bones
And grinning skulls and corruptible death
Wrapped in his shroud; and now fancies she hears
Deep sighs and sees pale, sickly ghosts gliding

...William Blake
Fair Elenor

Hey ho for Halloween
When the fairies all are seen;
Some black and some green,
Hey ho for Halloween!

...Traditional Irish Rhyme

Additional Halloween Poems:

MacBeth: The Witches' Spell by Shakespeare
Sonnet 100
The Hag by Robert Herrick
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

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