Find tricks and treats this Halloween with the following selection of poems featuring haunted houses, goblins, vampires, ghosts, and ghouls, along with a Halloween-inspired lesson plan and essays on poets’ graves, poets’ last words, and more.
Popular Classic Poems for Halloween
“Hallowe’en” by Joel Benton
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite …
“Halloween” by Robert Burns
Upon that night, when fairies light …
“Ghost Music” by Robert Graves
Gloomy and bare and organ-loft …
“Haunted Houses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All houses wherein men have lived and died …
“Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern” by David McCord
Mr. Macklin takes his knife ...
“Halloween” by Arthur Peterson
Out I went into the meadow ...
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary …
“Theme in Yellow” by Carl Sandburg
I spot the hills …
“Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]” by William Shakespeare
Round about the cauldron go …
“Dusk in Autumn” by Sara Teasdale
The moon is like a scimitar …