The Spoken Rune: Inscription Home

London William Blake
R. E. H. R. H. Barlow
Each Small Gleam Was a Voice Stephen Crane
White Jane Heap
The Madness of King Goll W. B. Yeats
Darkness George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Balcony Charles Baudelaire
Sonnet 43 Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Mountain King’s Return J. R. R. Tolkien
I Will Sing You One-O Robert Frost
Hallowe’en Michael Longley
Mnemosyne Trumbull Stickney
Bilbo’s Walking Song J. R. R. Tolkien
Crossing the Bar Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fungi From Yuggoth, Parts 1-3 H. P. Lovecraft
Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost
The Swimmer Adam Lindsay Gordon
Breaking the Blue Medbh McGuckian
The Ecstasy of Saint Münchhausen (By Proxy) Corinne Lee
At Melville’s Tomb Hart Crane
Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day Delmore Schwartz
Ovid on West 4th Derek Mahon
Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare
Two Citadels Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Cyclopean G. K. Chesterton
A Vision of Zimiamvia E. R. Eddison
The Gargoyle Oliver Herford
Fog Amy Clampitt
Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go J. R. R. Tolkien
Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art John Keats
Personal Helicon Seamus Heaney
The Eel-Trap Michael Longley
The Whirlpool Edward Plunkett, 18th Lord Dunsany
Welcome To All The Pleasures Ernest Hilbert
Questions in the Vestibule Rachel Hadas
After Filing Chelsea Rathburn
Muse, Maybe Eamon Grennan
Totem Eamon Grennan
The Cats H. P. Lovecraft
The Insect God Edward Gorey
Ghost Mary O’Malley
I Am Looking For Words Michelle Leigh
The Studio Robert W. Chambers
The Somnambulists’ Hotel Jack Anderson
Forgetfulness Billy Collins
The Tempest (excerpt) William Shakespeare
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant
The Frost Giant’s Daughter Robert E. Howard
The Curse of the Golden Skull Robert E. Howard
Cimmeria Robert E. Howard
The Source John Montague
The Kraken Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Drowning Adrian Rice
Cauliflowers Paul Muldoon
The Waste Land (excerpt) T. S. Eliot
On Love, On Grief Walter Savage Landor
Sonnet 30 William Shakespeare
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound
There Was a Man of Double Deed Anonymous
Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold J. R. R. Tolkien
Bog Queen Seamus Heaney
The Seven Geases, Part VII Clark Ashton Smith
The Seven Geases, Part VI Clark Ashton Smith
The Seven Geases, Part V Clark Ashton Smith
The Seven Geases, Part IV Clark Ashton Smith
The Seven Geases, Part III Clark Ashton Smith
The Seven Geases, Part II Clark Ashton Smith
The Seven Geases, Part I Clark Ashton Smith
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe
Spellbound Emily Brontë

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London. William Blake. 1794.

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