Monday, October 31, 2011

A Halloween Birthday poem


The British poet John Keats was born on October 31st.
Here is what I consider one of the creepiest poems in English literature:

"This Living Hand"

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here it is–
I hold it towards you.

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