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Nichts o the Lívin Deid - by Thomas Clark

{ Poem }

Kirkyaird, nicht – the hoastin yird
Astir aneath a smit-smuir shrood

Haunted Houses - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

{ Poem }

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors.

Headland - by Sasha Dugdale

{ Poem }

A loudspeaker on a car proceeds slowly up the far quay

The Raiders - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

Last night a wind from Lammermoor came roaring up the glen
/ With the tramp of trooping horses and the laugh of…

The Beech-Wood - by Andrew Young

{ Poem }

When the long, varnished buds of beech
/ Point out beyond their reach,
/ And tanned by summer suns
/ Leaves of black bryony turn…

The House Where I Was Born - by Diana Hendry

{ Poem }

The ghosts are easy. I can switch them on
/ like a tv soap. Here’s Pa going up the stairs,
/ flip flap,…

Lest… - by Vincent O'Sullivan

{ Poem }

‘They make so little difference, the brass, / the tears. Can’t you leave us be?’
/ …

To Any Reader - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

As from the house your mother sees
/ You playing round the garden trees,
/ So you may see, if you will look
/ Through the…

The Haunt - by Roddy Lumsden

{ Poem }

Betwixt of January,
the year’s scantest trawl.

Requiem - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Under the wide and starry sky,
/ Dig the grave and let me die.
/ Glad did I live and gladly die,
/ …

Why do the Houses Stand - by George MacDonald

{ Poem }

Why do the houses stand
/ When they that built them are gone;
/ When remaineth even of one
/ That lived there and loved and…

‘Samtal i natten på verandan…’ - by Claes-Johan Rudolf Andersson

{ Poem }

Samtal i natten på verandan, cigaretternas
/ lysmaskar, vinet svart i glasen. Vi säger
/ ingenting just, inneslutna i den tystnad
/ som uppstår ur många…

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