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In the mood for a story? Most of these are in the Winter Solstice ghost-story tradition; others come from the various opportunities and intermissions along our various literary journeys. Enjoy!
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts
Joshua Sylvestre (c. 1595)
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts
Do haunt the houses and the graves about,
Of such whose life’s lamp went untimely out,
Delighting still in their forsaken hosts:
So, in the place where cruel Love doth shoot
The fatal shaft that slew my love’s delight,
I stalk, and walk, and wander day and night,
Even like a ghost with unperceived foot.
But those light ghosts are happier far than I,
For, at their pleasure, they can come and go
Unto the place that hides their treasure so,
And see the name with their fantastic eye:
Where I, alas, dare not approach the cruel
Proud moment that doth enclose my jewel.
“Her eyes were a poem; their every glance was a song.”
–Theophile Gautier, “Clarimonde”
Credits
Original music for The Waywords Podcast is by Randon Myles
Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Cite this podcast with MLA format:
Chisnell, Steve. “Waypoints: Readings of Classic Literature,” Waywords Studio, 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/waypoints.
