Death & Dying
Fragment of a Ghost Story
From Poems of 1816
Death & Dying
A shovel of his ashes took
From the hearth’s obscurest nook,
Muttering mysteries as she went.
Helen and Henry knew that Granny
Was as much afraid of Ghosts as any,
And so they followed hard—
But Helen clung to her brother’s arm,
And her own spasm made her shake.
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MLA
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment of a Ghost Story.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/6/.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment of a Ghost Story.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/6/.
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