Read full poem →A constant vapour o'er the palace flies,
Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise;
Dreadful, as hermits' dreams in haunted shades,
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. phantomsphantoms mere
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Poetry examples for “phantoms”
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Read full poem →With no one near to mark,
Thrusting Hell's phantoms feebly in the dark,
And still at point more utterly to die.
Read full poem →The falling embers break and fade,
As one by one the phantoms go.
Read full poem →He clung to phantoms and to friends,
And never came to anything.
Read full poem →I plunged and stumbled; round me, far and near,
Quaint hordes of eyeless phantoms did appear,
Twisting and turning in a bootless chase, --
Read full poem →He may be now an amiable shade,
With merry fellow-phantoms unafraid
Around him--but we do not ask. We know
Read full poem →Ere the evening lamps are lighted,
And, like phantoms grim and tall,
Shadows from the fitful firelight
Read full poem →That strange and mystic scroll,
That an army of phantoms vast and wan
Beleaguer the human soul.
Read full poem →They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall;
Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide;
Read full poem →Deep be the darkness, and still be the slumber;
Dead be the past and its phantoms to me!