From our 21st cousin, Emily Dickinson, quoted in Mansfield's 1969 yearbook.

"Some must take the good and some the evil / Dropped from either wing of this strange angel."  From "Al Hassan's Secret," in The Bird and the Bell by Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1890

A sense of the supernatural and the weird, bound up with a mysterious feeling of limitlessness and indefinitude that haunted him in his thoughts about this world and our earthly life.  The forms of another mysterious world, very near to this earth of ours, were seemingly present to his imagination.  From The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, Vol. 2, 1887.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click for a more theatrical look. From Judge's Library, 1894.

Out of himself, so to speak, and soaring in that strange supersensible region whence forms and 'things of unearthly make' visited him with a thrilling and subduing power."  From The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, Vol. 2, 1887.

"And when they coffined him, / They laid the lizard on his heart."  From Pearson's, 1902.

"And yet I lift my sightless face / Toward the eerie light, / And tread the lonely way we trace / Across the haunted night."  From The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell, 1905.

The reader is here invited with asterisks to fill in a portrait of a water-nymph according to fancy.  From Some Welsh Legends and Other Poems by John Humphreys Davies, 1893.

"If here at the end of ages this is all—a white face floating in the whirling ball."  From "A Leaf from the Devil's Jest-Book" by Edwin Markham, in The Man with the Hoe, 1899.

Here we learn that the moon has but a single eye, and it's ghostly.  From "The Wind and the Moon" by George Macdonald, in One Thousand Poems for Children, 1920.

We suspect the joke is in the very first panel, that the poet not only had a poem accepted but that he was paid for it, and paid in advance.  Hilarious!  From Judge's Library, 1895.

Insomnia turns us into ghosts.  From Poems by B. D., 1880.

"Are you fond of poetry?"  From Andy's Adventures on Noah's Ark by Douglas Zabriskie Doty, 1902.

From Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

Pine/rhyme.  If a near-rhyme falls in a pine forest and there's no one to hear it, does it make an assonance of itself?  Needles of Pine: Lines Without Rhyme by Charles Wellington Stone, 1886.

Typographical violets displace rivulets, and there's shining for shimmering.  A correction from Improvement Era, 1906.