Dark poetry: dark poems of love and shadows

The darkness, the night, the slow but inexorable growth of shadows, are essential motifs of poetry, whether as a shelter for passion or as a subtle setting for crimes and macabre thoughts.

Below we share the best dark poems from our library.

Dark poems: dark poetry:

Awaiting the darkness (Awaiting the darkness, Alejandra Pizarnik) To the moon (A la luna, Gertrudis de Avellaneda) To the night (A la noche, José de Espronceda) To the darkness (To the Darkness, Clark Ashton Smith) Wings in the Night (Wings in the Night, Katharine Tynan) At one in the morning (À une heure du matin, Charles Baudelaire) When lightning shines we are born (When lightning shines we are born, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer) At stars (To the stars, Gertrudis de Avellaneda) Ally of the stars (Ally of Stars, Irene Wilde) Alienation (Alienation, HP Lovecraft)To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window, Adelaide Crapsey) Antarktos (Antarktos, HP Lovecraft) Night Trees (Frank Belknap Long) Arkham (Arkham, Robert E. Howard) White in the Moon (AE Housman) Night Mist (Alexander Blok) Song a Song of the Night, Daniel Henry Deniehy Vampire’s Lullaby, Lisa Ben Song of Melancholy, Charlotte Dacre Wanderers Nachtlied, Goethe When Chaugnar Wakes When Chaugnar Wakes, Frank Belknap Long) When the Eye of the Day is Shut, AE Housman) When in the night (When in the night, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer) When the dark shadow enters (When it enters the dark shadow, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer) When the moon falls on my bed (When On My Bed the Moonlight Falls, Lord Tennyson) Beneath the tomb (Under the Tomb, Robert Nelson) Let the night come (Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Alfred Tennyson Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning The Howler, HP Lovecraft The Chant of the Grave-Digger Robert S. Carr) The Heart of the Night (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) The Twilight of the Night (Le Crépuscule du soir, Charles Baudelaire)The Snow-Fiend (Ann Radcliffe) Elegy Twilight Elegy, María Eugenia Vaz FerreiraThe Emperor of Ice-Cream, Wallace StevensThe Devil’s Funeral, Mary ColeridgeThe Vain Spell, Edith Nesbit Yule Horror (HP Lovecraft) The Nightmare Lake (HP Lovecraft) They Run Again (Leah Bodine Drake)The Haunted Palace (Edgar Allan Poe)The Poet Talk to the Ghouls (Le poète parle avec les goules, Clark Ashton Smith) The Melancholy Pool (Clark Ashton Smith) The Testimony of the Suns (George Sterling) The Vampire , Madison Julius Cawen) The Night Wind (Emily Brontë) Meeting at Night (Robert Browning) At the Home of Poe (Frank Belknap Long) In the Night (In the Night, Amy Levy) In the Shadows (Leah Bodine Drake)Will you come into my grave, sir? (Will You Step Into My Grave, Sir?, Conrad Aiken) On Your Midnight Pallet Lying, AE Housman Epistle To Be Left In the Earth, Archibald MacLeish Night Scenes of other times (Night Scenes Of Other Times, Joanna Baillie) This is the Horror that, Night After Night, Gerald Gould) Acquainted with the Night (Robert Frost)Flores nocturnal (Night-Blowing Flowers, Felicia Dorothea Hemans)Photocopying the Necronomicon (Xeroxing the Necronomicon, L. Sprague de Camp)Black Cat (Schwarze Katze, Rainer Maria Rilke) There Will Be Stars, Sara Teasdale Halloween in a Suburb, HP Lovecraft There is a Whispering Outside the Walls, Fritz Leiber Frost at Midnight at Midnight, Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Walter de la Mare) Nocturnal Inspiration (Nocturnal Inspiration, Ramón de Campoamor) The Dead Village (The Dead Village, Edwin Arlington Robinson) The Song of Shadows (Walter de la Mare) The Bat Song (The Song of the Bats, Robert E. Howard) The Dark House (Edwin Arlington Robinson) The Empty House (Walter de la Mare) The City of the Dreadful Night (James Thomson) The Sleeper (The Sleeper, Edgar Allan Poe) The Night Flower (Die Nachtblume, Joseph von Eichendorff) The Ghoula (The Ghoula, Edward Lucas White) The Moon is an Absence (The Moon is an Absence, Carolina Coronado) The Light breaks where no sun shines (Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Dylan Thomas)Lamia (Lamia, Clark Ashton Smith) The Night of Love (The Night of Love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti)The Night is Darkening around me Round Me, Emily Brontë) The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Francis William Bourdillon) The Vampire Bride (Thomas Henry Liddell) The Darkness Swallows Up the Feeble Light, John Barlas) The Door in the Dark (Robert Frost) The Queen of Air and Darkness (AE Housman) The Bells (HP Lovecraft) The Ancient Path (The Ancient Track, HP Lovecraft) The Nights Remember (Sara Teasdale) The Shadow of Lilith (Christopher Brennan) The Unknown Land (Leah Bodine Drake) Edgar Poe’s Tomb (Le Tombeau) d’Edgar Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé) The Raven’s Tomb (Walter de la Mare)Lilith (Lilith, Aleister Crowley) Lilith in the Red Land (Harvey Wagner Flink) What the bullet sang (What the Bullet Sang, Bret Harte) What the Moon Brings (HP Lovecraft) The Acolytes (The Acolytes, Lilith Lorraine) The benefits of the moon (Les Bienfaits de la lune, Charles Baudelaire)The children of the night (The Children of the Night, Edwin Arlington Robinson)The Were-Wolves (William Wilfred Campbell)The Undead (The Undead, Richard Wilbur)The Listeners (The Listeners, Walter de la Mare)The Defilers (The Desecraters, GK Chesterton) Light in the Darkness (George Heath) My Soul is Dark, Lord Byron) Fear (Fear, Walter de la Mare)Mold (Mildew, Charlotte Dacre)Night -Gaunts (Night-Gaunts, HP Lovecraft)Noche (Night, Ann Radcliffe) Night (Night, William Blake) Gray Nights (Grey Nights, Ernest Dowson) Nocturno (Nocturno, Delmira Agustini) Nocturno (Nocturno, Rubén Darío) Do not enter meekly on that good night (Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas) Ode To Fear (William Collins) Darkness (Darkness, Lord Byron) To a Dreamer (HP Lovecraft) Midnight Thoughts ( Thoughts at Midnight, Elizabeth Carter) Nachtgedanken, Goethe Prayer before Birth, Louis MacNeice By Night We Lingered on the Lawn, Lord Tennyson Why do I love the silence of the moon? (Why Do I Love the Silence of the Moon?, John Barlas) Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight, August Derleth) Retro Me, Sathana! (Retro Me, Sathana!, Dante Gabriel Rossetti) Without mercy we entered the night (We Uncommiserate Pass Into the Night, Robert Louis Stevenson) I survived the night (Somehow Myself Survived the Night, Emily Dickinson) Shadows (Shadows, AC Benson)Shadow Shadow Over Innsmouth, Virginia Anderson Strigoii Strigoii George Bacovia Tenebrae Tenebrae Emile Verhaeren A Dead House Clarence Edwin Flynn A Night-Piece on Death Thomas Parnell) A Prayer in the Dark, GK Chesterton A Feather from Lucifer’s Wing, Foreman Faulconer A Clock Striking Midnight, Thomas Lovell Beddoes A Wine of Wizardry, George Sterling Vampires, Ella Wheeler WilcoxGo to the Grave, Nathaniel HawthorneVoices, Frances Bellerby I’m going to sleep, Alfonsina Storni ) And Thus I Knew, Dorothy Agard Ansley

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