Read full poem →Hollow groans,
And cries of tortured ghosts!
But, hark! he strikes the golden lyre;
Dictionary Entry
The spirit; the soul of man.
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Poetry examples for “ghosts”
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Read full poem →Earth shakes her nodding towers, the ground gives way,
And the pale ghosts start at the flash of day!
Read full poem →J seem’d to move among a world of ghosts,
Read full poem →The clinging music from their boughs, and then
Low, sweet, faint sounds, like the farewell of ghosts,
Were heard: ‘Oh follow, follow, follow me eae
Read full poem →Take life at thine hands and death.
For these are as ghosts that wane,
That are gone in an age or twain;
Read full poem →Girt about with shadow, blind and lame,
Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts that sicken
Hunt and hound thee down to death and shame.
Read full poem →admirably drawn, shew as strong powers of invention as the creation of
witches and raising of ghosts. Their deficiency therefore in magic is
accountable from a cause far different from a poverty/ of imagination; it
Read full poem →Who are the Mississippi Valley ghosts, of copper fore-
heads, riding wiry ponies in the night?—no bridles,
Read full poem →Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
Read full poem →For the new birth rends the old earth and the very dead are waking,
Ghosts are turned flesh, throwing off the grave’s disguise,
And the foolish, even children, are made wise;