Dark Poetry

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have profound meditations on identity, reflections on love, loss, and memory, themes of eroticism, guilt, beauty, and damnation, as well as whimsical and charming nonsense.

“I Died for Beauty - But Was Scarce” by Emily Dickinson, "Afterwards" by Violet Fane, "Faustine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow" by Edward Lear

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have mysterious and damned men, terrifying, hypnotic bells, a world that does not pause for sorrow, reflections on the death in the 19th century, and solace found in laundry suds.

"The Nameless One" by James Clarence Mangan, “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe, "Dirge" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Darkling Thrush," by Thomas Hardy, and "A Song From the Suds," by Luisa May Alcot.

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have fleeting glimpses of liberation, persistent and intrusive ghosts, dark, apocalyptic scenes and profound inner peace that can be found by choosing joy over despair.

"The Soul Has Bandaged Moments" by Emily Dickinson, "The Ghost" by Thomas Hood, "A Dead Rose" by Elizabeth Barret Browning, "Darkness" by Lord Byron, and “A November Note” by Alfred Austin.

On today's episode, Genevieve will have an exploration of mental anguish, fragile sandcastles, a storm’s destruction, nameless graves, social awkwardness, mourning as a path to deeper spiritual insight,  feelings of confinement and a yearning for freedom, reverence for the departed and a noiseless patient spider.

“The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare, "I Am!" by John Clare, “A Parable” by Mathilde Blind, “Glee! The Great Storm is Over” by Emily Dickinson, "A Nameless Grave" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Party of Lovers” by John Keats, "Blessed Are They That Mourn" by William Cullen Bryant, “A Little Bird I Am" by Louisa May Alcott, "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman

On today’s episode, Genevieve will have a monstrous, devouring worm, love’s blindness, superficial charity, metaphors for the impermanence of life, solace found in death, controlling, jealous, murderous natures and a meditation on the healing power of poetry.

"The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Love's Blindness" by Alfred Austin, "Holy Thursday" by William Blake, "Summer's Farewell" by Eliza Cook, "Love Not" by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, "After Death" by Christina Rossetti, “Consolation” by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "Oh Poetry, oh Rarest Spirit of All" by Arthur Henry Hallam. 

In this episode, Genevieve reads "Dirge in Woods" by George Meredith, “My True Love Hath My Heart And I Have His,'” by Mary Elizabeth Colleridge, "A Forsaken Garden" by Algernon Charlse Swinburn, "Ye Flags of Piccadilly," by Arthur Huge Clough, "Alone," by Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream," by Mathilde Blind and "Life," by Charlotte Brontë.

This episode includes "The Tyger" by William Blake, "The Old Arm Chair" by Eliza Cook, “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning, "The Harlot's House" by Oscar Wilde, and "The Siren" by Violet Fane.

On today's episode, we’re celebrating Valentines Day with some darkly romantic pieces written by some of the most darkly romantic poets of the Victorian Era. We’ll have melancholic poems about undying love, themes of acceptance, the transience of life, and the inevitability of death, vampiric abandon, ghostly love stories, painful memories and times of roses.

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe, "When I Am Dead, My Dearest" by Christina Rossetti, "The Vampire" by Rudyard Kipling, "A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp" by Thomas Moore, "Remembrance" by Emily Brontë, "The Phantom-Wooer" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and "Time of Roses" by Thomas Hood

In this episode, Genevieve shares themes of memory and grief, ivy growing over graves, death as a great equalizer between the rich and poor, dark philosophy, a tragic snowstorm, and a superstitious ghost.

“The Ivy Green” by Charles Dickens, “The Shadow on the Stone” by Thomas Hardy, “The Pauper's Drive” by Thomas Noel, "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Lucy Gray" by William Wordsworth, and "The Superstitious Ghost" by Arthur Guiterman.

In this episode, Genevieve will share melancholic themes of darkness and desolation, a dream within a dream, spiritual death, contrasts between former grandeur and ultimate decay, and the cost of perusing forbidden desires.

"Sibilla's Dirge" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Dead Before Death" by Christina Rossetti, "The Death of Napoleon" by Isaac McClellan, and "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.