The Haunted Hour - An Anthology

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Haunted Hour, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Haunted Hour An Anthology Author: Various Editor: Margaret Widdemer Release Date: December 5, 2005 [EBook #17229] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HAUNTED HOUR *** Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Stacy Brown Thellend, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE HAUNTED HOUR An Anthology COMPILED BY MARGARET WIDDEMER NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC. THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. COPYRIGHT NOTICE For the use of the copyrighted material included in this volume permission has been secured either from the author or his authorized publishers. All rights in these poems are reserved by the holders of the copyright, or the authorized publishers, as named below: To George H. Doran Co. for the poems of Joyce Kilmer and May Byron. To Doubleday, Page & Co. and Rudyard Kipling for Mr. Kipling's "The Looking-Glass." To E. P. Dutton & Co. for Helen Gray Cone's "Blockhouse on the Hill," from her A Chant of Love for England . To Harper & Bros. for the poems of Arthur Guiterman, Don Marquis, and Don C. Seitz. To Henry Holt and Co. for the poems of Francis Carlin, Walter De La Mare, Louis Untermeyer, and Margaret Widdemer. To Houghton Mifflin Co. for Anna Hempstead Branch's "Such Are the Souls in Purgatory" from Heart of the Road, the poems of Henry W. Longfellow, Nathan Haskell Dole's "Russian Fantasy," Amy Lowell's "Haunted" from Pictures of the Floating World , May Kendall's "A Legend." To Mitchell Kennerley for the poems of Theodosia Garrison, Dora Sigerson Shorter, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. To John Lane Co. for the poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, Winifred Letts, A. E. Housman's "True Lover," Nora Hopper's "Far Away Country," Marjorie Pickthall's "Mary Shepherdess." To the Macmillan Co. for W. B. Yeats' "Folk o' the Air," and John Masefield's "Cape Horn Gospel." To Thomas Bird Mosher for Edith M. Thomas's "The Passer-By" from Flower from the Ashes . To Frederick A. Stokes Co. for "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes. To Charles Scribner's Sons for Josephine Daskam Bacon's "Little Dead Child." To Rose de Vaux Royer for Madison Cawein's "Ghosts." To the Saturday Evening Post for Grantland Rice's "Ghosts of the Argonne." I have to thank the following authors for express personal permission: Josephine Daskam Bacon, Anna Hempstead Branch, Francis Carlin, Helen Gray Cone, Nathan Haskell Dole, Theodosia Garrison, Arthur Guiterman, Minna Irving, Aline Kilmer, Katherine Tynan Hinkson, Winifred Letts, Amy Lowell, Don Marquis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Grantland Rice, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Haven Schauffler, Don C. Seitz, Clement Shorter (for Dora Sigerson Shorter), Edith M. Thomas, Louis Untermeyer, and William Butler Yeats. PREFACE This does not attempt to be an inclusive anthology. The ghostly poetry of the late war alone would have made a book as large as this; and an inclusive scheme would have ended as a six-volume Encyclopedia of Ghostly Verse. I hope that this may be called for some day. The present book has been held to the conventional limits of the type of small anthology which may be read without weariness (I hope) by the exclusion not only of many long and dreary ghost-poems, but many others which it was very hard to leave out. I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related to the return of spirits to earth. Thus "The Blessed Damozel," a poem of spirits in heaven, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," whose heroine may be a fairy or witch, and whose ghosts are presented in dream only, do not belong in this classification; nor do such poems as Mathilde Blind's lovely sonnet, "The Dead Are Ever with Us," class as ghost-poems; for in these the dead are living in ourselves in a half-metaphorical sense. If a poem would be a ghost-story, in short, I have considered it a ghost-poem, not otherwise. In this connection I wish to thank Mabel Cleland Ludlum for her unwearied and intelligent assistance with the selection and compilation of the book; and Aline Kilmer for help in its revision and arrangement. MARGARET WIDDEMER. CONTENTS The Far Away Country Nora Hopper Chesson "THE NICHT ATWEEN THE SANCTS AN' SOULS" xiv All-Souls All-Saints' Eve A Dream The Neighbors A Ballad of Hallowe'en The Forgotten Soul Katherine Tynan Lizette Woodworth Reese William Allingham Theodosia Garrison Theodosia Garrison Margaret Widdemer 3 3 4 6 7 8 All-Souls' Night Janet's Tryst Hallows' E'en On Kingston Bridge All-Souls' Night Dora Sigerson Shorter George Macdonald Winifred M. Letts Ellen M. H. Cortissoz Louisa Humphreys "ALL THE LITTLE SIGHING SOULS" 9 10 13 14 16 Mary Shepherdess The Little Ghost Two Brothers The Little Dead Child The Child Alone The Child Such Are the Souls in Purgatory The Open Door My Laddie's Hounds The Old House Marjorie L. C. Pickthall Katherine Tynan Theodosia Garrison Josephine Daskam Bacon Rosamund Marriott Watson Theodosia Garrison Anna Hempstead Branch Rosamund Marriott Watson Marguerite Elizabeth Easter Katherine Tynan SHADOWY HEROES 21 22 24 25 27 28 29 32 33 35 Ballad of the Buried Sword The Looking-Glass Drake's Drum The Grey Ghost Ballad of Douglas Bridge The Indian Burying Ground Ernest Rhys Rudyard Kipling Henry Newbolt Francis Carlin Francis Carlin Philip Freneau "RANK ON RANK OF GHOSTLY SOLDIERS" 39 40 41 42 43 44 The Song of Soldiers By the Blockhouse on the Hill Night at Gettysburg The Riders The White Comrade Ghosts of the Argonne November Eleventh Walter De La Mare Helen Gray Cone Don C. Seitz Katherine Tynan Robert Haven Schauffler Grantland Rice Ruth Comfort Mitchell SEA GHOSTS 49 49 51 52 53 56 57 The Flying Dutchman The Phantom Ship The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs The Sands of Dee The Lake of the Dismal Swamp The Flying Dutchman of the Tappan Zee The White Ships and the Red Featherstone's Doom Sea-Ghosts Fog Wraiths Charles Godfrey Leland Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton Charles Kingsley Thomas Moore Arthur Guiterman Joyce Kilmer Robert Stephen Hawker May Byron Mildred Howells 61 61 63 65 66 68 70 73 74 76 CHEERFUL SPIRITS Cape Horn Gospel Legend of Hamilton Tighe The Supper Superstition The Ingoldsby Penance John Masefield Richard Harris Barham Thomas Hood Richard Harris Barham 79 80 84 87 Pompey's Ghost The Ghost Mary's Ghost The Superstitious Ghost Dave Lilly Martin Thomas Hood Thomas Hood Thomas Hood Arthur Guiterman Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer HAUNTED PLACES 103 107 109 111 112 114 The Listeners Haunted Houses The Beleaguered City A Newport Romance A Legend A Midnight Visitor Haunted The Little Green Orchard Fireflies The Little Ghost Haunted Ghosts The Three Ghosts Walter De La Mare Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Bret Harte May Kendall Elizabeth Akers Allen Amy Lowell Walter De La Mare Louise Driscoll Edna St. Vincent Millay Louis Untermeyer Madison Cawein Theodosia Garrison 119 120 122 124 126 128 130 131 132 133 134 135 137 "YOU KNOW THE OLD, WHILE I KNOW THE NEW" After Death The Passer-By At Home The Return The Room's Width Haunted Christina Rossetti Edith M. Thomas Christina Rossetti Minna Irving Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Don Marquis "MY LOVE THAT WAS SO TRUE" 141 141 142 143 144 144 One Out-of-Doors Sailing Beyond Seas Betrayal The True Lover Haunted The White Moth The Ghost Luke Havergal The Highwayman The Blue Closet The Ghost's Petition He and She Sarah Piatt Jean Ingelow Aline Kilmer A. E. Housman G. B. Stuart Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Walter De La Mare Edwin Arlington Robinson Alfred Noyes William Morris Christina Georgina Rossetti Sir Edwin Arnold SHAPES OF DOOMSHAPES OF DOOM 149 149 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 163 166 169 The Dead Coach Deid Folks' Ferry Keith of Ravelston The Fetch The Banshee The Seven Whistlers The Victor Mawgan of Melhuach Katherine Tynan Rosamund Marriott Watson Sydney Dobell Dora Sigerson Shorter Dora Sigerson Shorter Alice E. Gillington Theodosia Garrison Robert Stephen Hawker 175 176 178 179 183 185 187 188 The Mother's Ghost The Dead Mother Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Robert Buchanan LEGENDS AND BALLADS OF THE DEAD 189 192 The Folk of the Air The Reconciliation The Priest's Brother The Ballad of Judas Iscariot The Eve of St. John Fair Margaret's Misfortunes Sweet William's Ghost Clerk Saunders The Wife of Usher's Well A Lyke-Wake Dirge William Butler Yeats A. Margaret Ramsay Dora Sigerson Shorter Robert Buchanan Walter Scott Anon. Anon. Anon. Anon. Anon. 199 201 203 205 212 220 222 224 229 231 THE HAUNTED HOUR THE FAR AWAY COUNTRY NORA HOPPER CHESSON Far away's the country where I desire to go, Far away's the country where the blue roses grow , Far away's the country and very far away, And who would travel thither must go 'twixt night and day. Far away's the country, and the seas are wild That you must voyage over, grown man or chrisom child, O'er leagues of land and water a weary way you'll go Before you'll find the country where the blue roses grow . But O, and O, the roses are very strange and fair, You'd travel far to see them, and one might die to wear, Yet, far away's the country, and perilous the sea, And some may think far fairer the red rose on her tree. Far away's the country, and strange the way to fare, Far away's the country—O would that I were there! It's on and on past Whinny Muir and over Brig o' Dread. And you shall pluck blue roses the day that you are dead. xiv 1 "THE NICHT ATWEEN THE SANCTS AN' SOULS" 3 ALL-SOULS: KATHERINE TYNAN The door of Heaven is on the la