Paranormal Poetry

Here is a list of about 20 "paranormal" poems--reading recorded for Youtube--from a wide range of authors--including Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Witch Wife") and Jorge Luis Borges ("Nightmare"):

Sara Teasdale's Poems

Here is a playlist of recorded readings of six poems by Sara Teasdale:

"Fog," by Langston Hughes

"You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed," by Walter Savage Landor

"When Sue Wears Red," by Langston Hughes

"Grown-Up," by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"There Will Come Soft Rains," by Sara Teasdale

"Haunted Houses," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Trafficiad," Hans Ostrom

Re-posting one from several years ago. Dedicated to all commuters.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost

We were asked to memorize this poem in third or fourth grade. Because we lived in rural snow-country, the subject-matter seemed perfectly ordinary, except by then, no one used horse-drawn buggies.

"When My Love Swears" (Sonnet 138), by William Shakespeare

"I, Too," by Langston Hughes

"The Visitor," by W.H. Davies