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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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