HALLOWEEN POEMS

Halloween

Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans dance,
Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
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Robert Burns

Tam Lin

(Child, Part II., p. 340, Burns's Version.)


O I forbid you, maidens a',
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Andrew Lang

Tam Lin

O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
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Anonymous

Halloween.[1]

"Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain,
The simple pleasures of the lowly train;
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art."
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Robert Burns

Tam Glen

My heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie,
Some counsel unto me come len';
To anger them a' is a pity,
But what will I do wi' Tam Glen?
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Robert Burns

Halloween

Sweep up the flure, Janet;
Put on anither peat.
It's a lown and a starry nicht, Janet,
And nowther cauld nor weet.
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George Macdonald

Song-tam Glen

MY heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie,
Some counsel unto me come len',
To anger them a' is a pity,
But what will I do wi' Tam Glen?
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Robert Burns

Halloween

All hushed of glee,
The last chill bee
Clings wearily
To the dying aster.
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Madison Julius Cawein

Tam Lin

O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
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Anonymous Americas

Mugging (i)

I
Tonite I walked out of my red apartment door on East tenth streetâ??s duskâ??
Walked out of my home ten years, walked out in my honking neighborhood
Tonite at seven walked out past garbage cans chained to concrete anchors
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Allen Ginsberg

St. Andrew And Halloween

Our ancient customs to renew,
We meet to honour St. Andrew,
He was of the Jewish nation;
A fisherman by occupation.
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James Mcintyre

My Heart Is A-breaking, Dear Tittie.

Tune - "Tam Glen."


I.
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Robert Burns