The Ghosts' Moonshine
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many Librivox volunteers as possible!
This week's poem can be found here.
Thanks to metoikos for the frightfully good suggestion.
(And anyone who's thirsty for more should check out Fortnightly Poetry as well.)
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The Ghosts' Moonshine by Thomas Lovell Beddoes, read for LibriVox.org by [your name].
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It is midnight, my wedded;
Let us lie under
The tempest bright undreaded,*
In the warm thunder:
(Tremble and weep not! What can you fear?)
My heart’s best wish is thine,—
That thou wert white, and bedded
On the softest bier,
In the ghost’s moonshine.
Is that the wind? No, no;
Only two devils, that blow
Through the murderer’s ribs to and fro,
In the ghosts’ moonshine.
Who is there, she said afraid, yet
Stirring and awaking
The poor old dead? His spade, it
Is only making,—
(Tremble and weep not! What do you crave?)
Where yonder grasses twine,
A pleasant bed, my maid, that
Children call a grave,
In the cold moonshine.
Is that the wind? No, no;
Only two devils, that blow
Through the murderer’s ribs to and fro,
In the ghosts’ moonshine.
What doest thou strain above her
Lovely throat’s whiteness?
A silken chain, to cover
Her bosom’s brightness?
(Tremble and weep not: what do you fear?)
—My blood is spilt like wine,
Thou hast strangled and slain me, lover,
Thou hast stabbed me, dear,
In the ghosts’ moonshine.
Is that the wind? No, no;
Only her goblin doth blow
Through the murderer’s ribs to and fro,
In its own moonshine.
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edit
so I've edited the top post. 
James... maybe get some earplugs?