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 …

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