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Mar 10, 2011 · The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling. A fool there was and he made his prayer. (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair. (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair. (Even as you and I!) Oh the years we waste and the tears we waste. And the work of our head and hand,
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Published in 1914, The Vampire is a poem about a remarkably...
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But the fool he called her his lady fair—. (Even as you or I!) Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste, And the work of our head and hand. Belong to the woman who did not know. (And now we know that she never could know) And did not understand! A fool there was and his goods he spent, (Even as you or I!)
Mar 8, 2021 · “The Vampyre” by minor British poet John Stagg is considered to be the first stand-alone poem about a vampire (as opposed to brief episodes in longer narrative poems like in Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer) written in English.
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Heinrich August Ossenfelder's 1748 poem "The Vampire" (available in the original German), was one of the first to speak about the nocturnal horror: And as softly thou art sleeping To thee...
Vampire fiction is rooted in the "vampire craze" of the 1720s and 1730s, which culminated in the somewhat bizarre official exhumations of suspected vampires Petar Blagojevich and Arnold Paole in Serbia under the Habsburg monarchy. One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire (1748) by Heinrich ...
The Vampire. A Fool there was and he made his prayer. (A Fool as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair. (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair. (Even as you and I!) A fool there was and his goods he spent. (Even as you and I!)
Poem Analyzed by Emma Baldwin. ‘The Vampire’ by Conrad Aiken is a fourteen stanza poem, each verse of which is made up of either six, seven, or eight lines. The lines are all of a similar length and are often set apart by their varying means of repetition and dark description. For example, in the first stanza of this piece, the poet has ...
