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The City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best… Read moreThe City In The Sea by Edgar Allan Poe
First published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1947, this poem has never been reprinted. Dark Waters by M. Ludington Cain The spring moon swells the river, The Waters clutch like hands Where willow branches quiver Above the pebbly sands. But… Read moreDark Waters by M. Ludington Cain
First published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1947, this short poem has never been reprinted. DEATH by Clarence E. Flynn Why do you fear me? I am your friend. I but guide trav’lers Rounding the bend- Lead them to freedom… Read moreDeath by Clarence E. Flynn
I discovered Man And The Cosmos by August Derleth, a poem from the cosmicist school of poetry, languishing in the pages of Wonder Stories, April 1935. According to ISFDB it has never been reprinted. When Derleth wrote it he was… Read moreMan And The Cosmos by August Derleth
One of my favourite poems, and one of my favourite Edgar Allan Poe poems, Dream-Land, gets an all too brief half-hour discussion (a close reading) by the folks at the Poem Talk podcast (episode #48). When I talk about this… Read morePoem Talk: Discussion of Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe
Maureen O’Brien, of the Maria Lectrix podcast, reads the prose poem The Raft-Builders by Lord Dunsany: |MP3| First published in the December 18, 1909 issue of Saturday Review. Here’s the entire text: The Raft-Builders by Lord Dunsany ‘All we who… Read moreThe Raft-Builders by Lord Dunsany