CAN YOU GUESS WHO WROTE THESE LINES?

 But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race...



I was*blush* quite fond of vampires in my younger days. They have captured imaginations through the ages, across cultures. For me the fascination faded years ago, but it looks like they've come back to life with a vengeance, so to speak, in all the new movies and TV shows.

(Oh! By the way, THE ANSWER IS HERE.)

[UPDATE]: For fun, click on these famous (and not so famous) names to read more poetry classics just right for the season. Muahahaha!

Rudyard Kipling, Henry Thomas Liddell, John Stagg, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Paisley Rekdal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Sandburg, John Stagg, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, & Hortense King Flexner