Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Pumpkin Eater)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

The skies, they were ashen and sober,
The lady was shivering with fear;
Her shoulders were shud'ring with fear,
On a dark night in dismal October,
Of his most Matrimonial Year.
It was hard by the cornfield of Auber,
In the musty Mud Meadows of Weir,
Down by the dank frog-pond of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted cornfield of Weir.

Now, his wife had a temper Satanic,
And when Peter roamed here with his Soul,
Through the corn with his conjugal Soul,
He spied a huge pumpkin Titanic,
And he popped her right in through a hole.
Then solemnly sealed up the hole.

And thus Peter Peter has kept her
Immured in Mausoleum gloom,
A moist, humid, damp sort of gloom.
And, though there's no doubt he bewept her,
She is still in her yellow-hued tomb,
Her unhallowed, Hallowe'en tomb
And ever since Peter side-stepped her,
He calls her his lost Lulalume,
His Pumpkin-entombed Lulalume.

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Pumpkin Eater).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Pumpkin Eater).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/290/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Pumpkin Eater).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/290/.

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