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Mar 8, 2021 · Below are a few of my favorite examples of early vampire poems: Detail of “So halfway from her bed she rose/ And on her elbow did recline/ to look at the Lady Geraldine.” from Christabel, The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang. Illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1891. Originally written in ...
May 17, 2024 · To make your bed and your domain. Of my humiliated mind. – Infamous bitch to whom I’m bound. Like the convict to his chain, Like the stubborn gambler to the game, Like the drunkard to his wine, Like the maggots to the corpse, – Accurst, accurst be you! I begged the swift poniard.
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Oct 25, 2023 · The Vampire’s Love Song (1871) by William Gilbert: This parody poem humorously depicts a vampire courting a woman in creepy, ghoulish terms, professing his love even as he prepares to kill her. Lamia (1820) by John Keats: Keats’s story poem featuring a snake-like demigod who shape-shifts into a hauntingly beautiful woman who has a tragic ...
The epic poem "Thalaba the Destroyer," by Robert Southey, is considered to be first appearance of a vampire in English literature. Thalaba, the hero, is confronted by Oneiza, his recently-deceased ...
May 1, 2020 · Dracula (1897) is over 150 years younger than the first literary vampire. And no, it wasn’t Lord Ruthven from John Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’ (1819). He wasn’t even the first aristocratic vampire nor was it the first vampiric short story although it was, admittedly, the first British vampire short story.
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,
Oct 28, 2009 · The Vampire Bride by Henry Liddell (1833) La Morte Amoureuse by Theophile Gautier (1836) The Vampyre by James Clerk Maxwell (1845) Le Vampire by Charles Baudelaire (1857) Les Metamorphoses du Vampire by Charles Baudelaire (date unknown) The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling (1897) A list of classic vampire poems written by some of the greats., there ...
