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• 3 • Introduction (Why Am I Grown So Cold?: Poems of the Unknowable) • essay by Myra Cohn Livingston
• 6 • Deep in a Windless • poem by Buson
• 7 • I Am Afraid • poem by Eastern Eskimo
• 8 • The Secret • poem by James Stephens
• 9 • There Came a Gray Owl at Sunset • poem by Southwest Tribes
• 10 • The Bat • (1938) • poem by Theodore Roethke
• 11 • The Warning • (1922) • poem by Adelaide Crapsey
• 12 • Nothing • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 13 • In the Night • poem by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• 15 • There Is a Grey Thing that Lives in the Tree-tops • poem by Stephen Crane
• 16 • House Fear • (1916) • poem by Robert Frost
• 17 • "Who's in the Next Room?" • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 18 • Phantoms of the Steppe • poem by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of Phantoms of the Steppe unknown) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 21 • Nightmares • poem by Siv Cedering Fox
• 24 • Troll Chanting from Out of the "Kalevala" • poem by Anselm Hollo
• 25 • C Is for Charms • poem by Eleanor Farjeon
• 27 • Merlin & the Snake's Egg • poem by Leslie Norris
• 30 • From: The Witch, Act V, Scene I • poem by Thomas Middleton
• 31 • The Spell • poem by Robert Herrick
• 32 • Charmes • poem by Robert Herrick
• 33 • An Imprecation Against Foes and Sorcerers • poem by uncredited
• 34 • From: The Third Book of Ayres, XVIII • poem by Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
• 35 • The Alchemist: Chant for the Transmutation of Metals • poem by Ezra Pound
• 38 • From: Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I • poem by William Shakespeare
• 40 • The Omens • poem by Ann Stanford
• 41 • Incantation to Oedipus • poem by John Dryden
• 42 • From: A Cornish Litany • poem by uncredited
• 44 • Into a Forest • poem by Otsuji
• 44 • I Called to the Wind • poem by Kyorai
• 45 • The Voice • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 46 • Long Distance • poem by William Stafford
• 47 • Winter Song • poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez
• 48 • Singing on the Moon • (1976) • poem by Ted Hughes
• 49 • The Lockless Door • poem by Robert Frost
• 50 • Sometimes • (1966) • poem by Hermann Hesse
• 51 • From: The Princess • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 52 • The Empty House • poem by Russell Hoban
• 54 • Night-Piece • poem by Raymond R. Patterson
• 55 • The Loreley • poem by Heinrich Heine (trans. of Die Loreley 1823)
• 56 • A Sea-Spell (For a Picture) • poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• 58 • Haunted House • poem by Valerie Worth
• 59 • The Abandoned House • poem by Patricia Hubbell
• 60 • Ghost House • (1906) • poem by Robert Frost
• 62 • I Know Some Lonely Houses Off the Road • poem by Emily Dickinson
• 64 • Silent Hill • poem by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• 65 • Galente Garden: II • poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez
• 66 • The Wicked Hawthorn Tree • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 67 • The Haunted Palace • (1839) • poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• 69 • Elfin Town • poem by Rachel Field
• 70 • Fairyland • (1913) • poem by
  রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর^?Ravīndranātha Thākura
  [as by Rabindranath Tagore]
• 72 • Kubla Khan • (1816) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Kubla Khan or a Vision of Dream)
• 74 • From: His Dream of the Sky-Land: A Farewell Poem • poem by Li Po
• 76 • Southern Mansion • (1963) • poem by Arna Bontemps
• 78 • Magical Eraser • poem by Shel Silverstein
• 79 • Welsh Incident • (1944) • poem by Robert Graves (variant of Railway Carriage 1929)
• 81 • Barbarossa • (1964) • poem by
  Friedrich Rückert^?Friedrich Rueckert
  (trans. of Barbarossa 1817)
• 83 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 86 • The Sorceress! • poem by Vachel Lindsay
• 87 • The Witches' Sabbath • (1909) • poem by Ben Jonson
• 89 • Korf's Enchantment • poem by Christian Morgenstern
• 91 • La Belle Dame Sans Merci • (1820) • poem by John Keats
• 94 • The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver • (1922) • poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 100 • Beware: Do Not Read This Poem • poem by Ishmael Reed (variant of beware: do not read this poem 1973)
• 104 • The Toadstool Wood • (1952) • poem by James Reeves
• 105 • The Pointed People • poem by Rachel Field
• 106 • The Fairies • poem by Patricia Hubbell
• 107 • Fairies • poem by Hilda Conkling
• 108 • The Fairies • (1850) • poem by William Allingham
• 111 • The Beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen • (1920) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 113 • The Twelve-Elf • poem by Christian Morgenstern
• 115 • From: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene II • poem by William Shakespeare
• 116 • From: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene IV • poem by William Shakespeare
• 117 • From: Prometheus Unbound • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 118 • From: The Hobbit • poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 120 • The Starlight Night • poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• 121 • The Elfin Knight • poem by uncredited
• 124 • Wall Shadows • poem by Carl Sandburg
• 125 • The Island of Yorrick • poem by N. M. Bodecker
• 126 • Something Is There • poem by Lilian Moore
• 127 • The Only Ghost I Ever Saw • (1891) • poem by Emily Dickinson
• 128 • Ghost • poem by Christian Morgenstern
• 129 • Sentimental Conversation • poem by Paul Verlaine
• 130 • The Horse • poem by José María Eguren
• 131 • Songs of the Ghost Dance • poem by Paiute Indian
• 132 • In the Old House • poem by Joan Aiken
• 134 • The Phantom Horsewoman • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 136 • Wraith • (1921) • poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 138 • The Listeners • (1911) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 140 • Spirits • poem by Victor Hernandez Cruz
• 144 • That Duck, Bobbing Up • poem by Joso
• 145 • That Woman Down There Beneath the Sea • poem by Central Eskimo
• 146 • Sea Monster • poem by W. S. Merwin
• 147 • The Kraken • (1830) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 148 • Down Below • (1977) • poem by Joan Aiken
• 149 • The Sea Serpent Chantey • poem by Vachel Lindsay
• 151 • Song of the Mermaids and Mermen • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 153 • The Fisherman Writes a Letter to the Mermaid • poem by Joan Aiken
• 155 • Klabauterwife's Letter • poem by Christian Morgenstern
• 156 • The Ghost of the Cargo Boat • poem by Pablo Neruda
• 159 • Siren Chorus • poem by George Darley
• 160 • The Mermaid • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 163 • The Merman • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 165 • In a Museum Cabinet • poem by May Swenson
• 167 • The Sea-Ritual • poem by George Darley
• 170 • From: Suppose You Met a Witch • poem by Ian Serraillier
• 171 • Halloween Witches • (1976) • poem by Felice Holman
• 172 • The Ride-by-Nights • juvenile • (1913) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 173 • The Witch's Cat • poem by Ian Serraillier
• 174 • The Hag • (1648) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 175 • Tiggady Rue • poem by David McCord
• 176 • Once Upon a Time • poem by Issa
• 177 • Old Moll • (1950) • poem by James Reeves
• 178 • The Turn of the Road • poem by James Stephens
• 179 • From The Masque of Queens • poem by Ben Jonson
• 182 • St. Swithin's Chair • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 184 • Moon-Witches • (1976) • poem by Ted Hughes
• 185 • Witchcraft Was Hung, in History • poem by Emily Dickinson (variant of Witchcraft was Hung, in History 1945)
• 188 • The Devil's Nine Questions • poem by uncredited
• 190 • The Devil's Bag • poem by James Stephens
• 191 • From: King Lear, Act III, Scene IV • poem by William Shakespeare
• 192 • Z is for Zoroaster • poem by Eleanor Farjeon
• 194 • In the Orchard • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 195 • Hickenthrift and Hickenloop • poem by Joe Kennedy [as by X. J. Kennedy]
• 196 • The Bean-Stalk • (1920) • poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 198 • Fable • poem by Joan Aiken
• 200 • In Black Chasms • poem by Leslie Norris
• 201 • From: The Sorcerer • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 204 • The Erl-King • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 206 • From: Scenes from the Faust of Goethe • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 216 • The Six Badgers • (1958) • poem by Robert Graves
• 217 • The Pumpkin • (1958) • poem by Robert Graves
• 218 • The Haunted Oven • poem by Joe Kennedy [as by X. J. Kennedy]
• 219 • Afreet • poem by David McCord
• 220 • The Mewlips • (1962) • poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 222 • The Worst • poem by Shel Silverstein
• 223 • Queer Things • juvenile • (1950) • poem by James Reeves
• 224 • Strange Tree • poem by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• 225 • The Village of Erith • poem by Anonymous
• 226 • Overheard on a Saltmarsh • (1912) • poem by Harold Monro
• 227 • The Genie • poem by Ann Stanford
• 229 • From: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene I • poem by William Shakespeare
• 230 • The Slithergadee • poem by Shel Silverstein
• 232 • What Is the Opposite of a Prince? • poem by Richard Wilbur
• 233 • Uncle Mells and the Witches' Tree • poem by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• 234 • The Abominable Baseball Bat • poem by Joe Kennedy [as by X. J. Kennedy]
• 235 • My Aunt • poem by Ted Hughes
• 237 • Alison Gross • poem by unknown
• 240 • The Cap and Bells • (1894) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 242 • The Bear • poem by Ann Stanford
• 244 • Tamlane • poem by unknown
• 251 • The Song of Wandering Aengus • (1897) • poem by W. B. Yeats