30 Halloween Poems for Students of All Ages

The list

1. 01

   Boo

   By Emma Walsh; elementary group. Opens "Here you are dressed up for the night…"

2. 02

   Spooky Halloween

   By Julia Martin; elementary group. Line: "Jack o'lanterns yellow glow."

3. 03

   Nothing to be Afraid of

   By Clara Denton; elementary group. Line: "I hear them tell that witches run…"

4. 04

   Halloween Fun

   By Ada Clark; elementary group. Line: "Dressed up like ghosts and witches bad…"

5. 05

   Ghost Bus

   By Joe Wayman; elementary group. Line: "Underneath the lamp post, in the middle of the night…"

6. 06

   My Next Door Neighbor Is A Witch

   By Samiya Vallee; elementary group. Line: "And she lives way down in a ditch."

7. 07

   Mystic Magination Night!

   By Patricia L. Cisco; elementary group. Line: "On one mystic, magic night…"

8. 08

   Spooky Halloween Night

   By Jacey Vantimmeren; elementary group. Line: "It's very spooky on Halloween night."

9. 09

   Halloween Chills

   By Denise M. Cocchiaro; elementary group. Line: "On this night of spooks and gnomes…"

10. 10

    Homecoming

    By Anne Pollock; elementary group. Line: "Shiver me timbers, rattle me bones."

11. 11

    I Wouldn't Live In A Haunted House

    By Rick W. Cotton; middle school group. Line: "It's something I just wouldn't do."

12. 12

    Black Hood

    By Amy Pan; middle school group. Line: "You know you've seen it around before…"

13. 13

    Hallowe'en

    By Joel Benton; middle school group. Line: "Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite…"

14. 14

    November 2: Día de los muertos

    By Alberto Ríos; middle school group. Line about the Day of the Dead.

15. 15

    The Raven

    By Edgar Allan Poe; middle school group. Opens "Once upon a midnight dreary…"

16. 16

    Haunted Houses

    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; middle school group. Line: "All houses wherein men have lived and died…"

17. 17

    Ghosts and Fashion

    By Elaine Equi; middle school group. Line: "…the ghost must still consider fashion—"

18. 18

    Hallowe'en Charm

    By Arthur Guiterman; middle school group. Line: "Fern seed, hemp seed, water of the well…"

19. 19

    All Hallows' Eve

    By Dorothea Tanning; middle school group. Line: "Be perfect, make it otherwise."

20. 20

    Will-O'-The-Wisp

    By Madison Cawein; middle school group. Line: "There in the calamus he stands…"

21. 21

    Ghost Music

    By Robert Graves; high school group. Line: "Gloomy and bare the organ-loft…"

22. 22

    The Demiurge's Laugh

    By Robert Frost; high school group. Line: "I was running with joy on the Demon's trail…"

23. 23

    Dusk in Autumn

    By Sara Teasdale; high school group. Line: "The moon is like a scimitar…"

24. 24

    Halloween in the Anthropocene

    By Craig Santos Perez; high school group. Line: "Darkness spills across the sky like an oil plume."

25. 25

    Samhain

    By Annie Finch; high school group. Line: "In the season leaves should love…"

26. 26

    This living hand, now warm and capable

    By John Keats; high school group. Opens with its title line.

27. 27

    To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse

    By Burlee Vang; high school group. Line: "The moon will shine for God knows how long."

28. 28

    Ghost Prisoner

    By Heid E. Erdich; high school group. Line: "The ghost prisoner, a murderer…"

29. 29

    Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]

    By William Shakespeare; high school group. Excerpt features three witches casting a spell.

30. 30

    Lamia [Left to herself]

    By John Keats; high school group. Line: "Left to herself, the serpent now began…"