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Title: The Haunted Hour
An Anthology
Author: Various
Editor: Margaret Widdemer
Release Date: December 5, 2005 [EBook #17229]
Language: English
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THE HAUNTED HOUR
An Anthology
COMPILED BY
MARGARET WIDDEMER
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE,

INC.
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N.J.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
For the use of the copyrighted material included in this volume
permission has been secured either from the author or his authorized
publishers. All rights in these poems are reserved by the holders of the
copyright, or the authorized publishers, as named below:
To George H. Doran Co. for the poems of Joyce Kilmer and May
Byron.
To Doubleday, Page & Co. and Rudyard Kipling for Mr. Kipling's
"The Looking-Glass."
To E.P. Dutton & Co. for Helen Gray Cone's "Blockhouse on the Hill,"
from her A Chant of Love for England.
To Harper & Bros. for the poems of Arthur Guiterman, Don Marquis,
and Don C. Seitz.
To Henry Holt and Co. for the poems of Francis Carlin, Walter De La
Mare, Louis Untermeyer, and Margaret Widdemer.
To Houghton Mifflin Co. for Anna Hempstead Branch's "Such Are the
Souls in Purgatory" from Heart of the Road, the poems of Henry W.
Longfellow, Nathan Haskell Dole's "Russian Fantasy," Amy Lowell's
"Haunted" from Pictures of the Floating World, May Kendall's "A
Legend."
To Mitchell Kennerley for the poems of Theodosia Garrison, Dora
Sigerson Shorter, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
To John Lane Co. for the poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson,
Winifred Letts, A.E. Housman's "True Lover," Nora Hopper's "Far
Away Country," Marjorie Pickthall's "Mary Shepherdess."

To the Macmillan Co. for W.B. Yeats' "Folk o' the Air," and John
Masefield's "Cape Horn Gospel."
To Thomas Bird Mosher for Edith M. Thomas's "The Passer-By" from
_Flower from the Ashes_.
To Frederick A. Stokes Co. for "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes.
To Charles Scribner's Sons for Josephine Daskam Bacon's "Little Dead
Child."
To Rose de Vaux Royer for Madison Cawein's "Ghosts."
To the Saturday Evening Post for Grantland Rice's "Ghosts of the
Argonne."
I have to thank the following authors for express personal permission:
Josephine Daskam Bacon, Anna Hempstead Branch, Francis Carlin,
Helen Gray Cone, Nathan Haskell Dole, Theodosia Garrison, Arthur
Guiterman, Minna Irving, Aline Kilmer, Katherine Tynan Hinkson,
Winifred Letts, Amy Lowell, Don Marquis, Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Ruth Comfort Mitchell, Marjorie L.C. Pickthall, Lizette Woodworth
Reese, Grantland Rice, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Haven
Schauffler, Don C. Seitz, Clement Shorter (for Dora Sigerson Shorter),
Edith M. Thomas, Louis Untermeyer, and William Butler Yeats.
PREFACE
This does not attempt to be an inclusive anthology. The ghostly poetry
of the late war alone would have made a book as large as this; and an
inclusive scheme would have ended as a six-volume Encyclopedia of
Ghostly Verse. I hope that this may be called for some day. The present
book has been held to the conventional limits of the type of small
anthology which may be read without weariness (I hope) by the
exclusion not only of many long and dreary ghost-poems, but many
others which it was very hard to leave out.
I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which

related to the return of spirits to earth. Thus "The Blessed Damozel," a
poem of spirits in heaven, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," whose heroine
may be a fairy or witch, and whose ghosts are presented in dream only,
do not belong in this classification; nor do such poems as Mathilde
Blind's lovely sonnet, "The Dead Are Ever with Us," class as
ghost-poems; for in these the dead are living in ourselves in a
half-metaphorical sense. If a poem would be a ghost-story, in short, I
have considered it a ghost-poem, not otherwise.
In this connection I wish to thank Mabel Cleland Ludlum for her
unwearied and intelligent assistance with the selection and compilation
of the book; and Aline Kilmer for help in its revision and arrangement.
Margaret Widdemer.
CONTENTS
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The Far Away Country Nora Hopper Chesson xiv
"THE NICHT ATWEEN THE SANCTS AN' SOULS"
All-Souls Katherine Tynan