Dark Poetry

My Victorian Nightmare
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Your Hostess, Genevieve Manion, shares hauntingly beautiful poetry from the Victorian era's most beloved authors to enchant your heart, calm your nerves, or scare you right to sleep. This is the sister podcast of My Victorian Nightmare, a podcast about morbid and mysterious Victorian history. Follow My Victorian Nightmare and Dark Poetry on Instagram @myvictoriannightmare.

  1. JUN 23

    Ep. 13 - What Ghosts Unclean

    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

    19 min

  2. JUN 16

    Ep. 12 - Here and in Hell

    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.

    19 min

  3. JUN 9

    Ep. 11 - When Dead Hearts Deemed Him Dead

    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.

    18 min

  4. JUN 2

    Ep. 10 - For All His Children Suffer Here

    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

    18 min

  5. MAY 26

    Ep. 9 - Much of Madness & More of Sin

    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.

    16 min

  6. MAY 19

    Ep. 8 - A Demon in My View

    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.

    17 min

  7. MAY 12

    Ep. 7 - In What Furnace Was Thy Brain

    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.

    18 min

  8. FEB 10

    Ep. 6 - When I Am Dead, My Dearest

    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

    18 min
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Your Hostess, Genevieve Manion, shares hauntingly beautiful poetry from the Victorian era's most beloved authors to enchant your heart, calm your nerves, or scare you right to sleep. This is the sister podcast of My Victorian Nightmare, a podcast about morbid and mysterious Victorian history. Follow My Victorian Nightmare and Dark Poetry on Instagram @myvictoriannightmare.

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  • Creator
    My Victorian Nightmare
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © My Victorian Nightmare
  • Show Website
    Dark Poetry

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