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''Poems for Midnight'' is an illustrated collection of poems by
Donald Wandrei Donald Albert Wandrei (20 April 1908 – 15 October 1987)Minnesota Death Certificates Index
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Arkham House Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
in an edition of 742 copies. The collection also contains four pen and ink drawings by the author's brother,
Howard Wandrei Howard Elmer Wandrei (24 September 1909 – 5 September 1956)Minnesota Death Certificates Index< ...


Contents

''Poems for Midnight'' contains the following poems: # "Song of Autumn" # "Song of Oblivion" # "Lost Atlantis" # "Phantom" # "The Corpse Speaks" # "The Woman at the Window" # "Shadowy Night" # "The Worm-King" # "Water Spirits" # "Incubus" # "The Prehistoric Huntsman" # "Witches' Sabbath" # "Forest Shapes" # "The Dream that Dies" # "The Sleeper" # "The Moon-Glen Altar" # "Under the Grass" # "The Whispering Knoll" # "On Some Drawings" # "The Plague Ship" # "The Voyagers Return to Tyre" # "The Morning of a Nymph in Mandrikor" # "The Woodland Pool" # "Death and the Traveler" # "In Memoriam: George Sterling" # "Red" # "Kind of the Shadowland" # "Borealis" # "In Memoriam: No Name" # "Ishmael" # "Dark Odyssey" # "Look Homeward, Angel" # "The Challenger" # Sonnets for the Midnight Hours #*"After Sleep" #*"Purple" #*"The Old Companions" #*"The Head" #*"In the Attic" #*"The Cocoon" #*"The Metal God" #*"The Little Creature" #*"The Pool" #*"The Prey" #*"The Torturers" #*"The Statues" #*"The Hungry Flowers" #*"The Eye" #*"The Rack" #*"Escape" #*"Capture" #*"In the Pit" #*"The Unknown Color" #*"Monstrous Form" #*"Nightmare in Green" #*"What Followed Me?" #*"Fantastic Sculpture" #*"The Tree" #*"The Bell" #*"The Ultimate Vision" # "Somewhere Past Ispahan"


References

* * * *{{cite book , last=Nielsen , first=Leon , title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide , location=Jefferson, NC and London , publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., pages=90–91 , year=2004 , isbn=0-7864-1785-4 1964 poetry books American poetry collections Arkham House books