[Gallowsraven]

All of those are awesome!

And yeah, i love The Highwayman and The Listeners for the rhythm (? i'm having a spell-fail day . . .) you can't beat it. Loreena McKennitt sings it and it sounds fantastic! Though she misses out one of the stanzas, but then, it's a ten-minute song without it. I guess i love the sense of sitting before a fireplace in winter and hearing the stories feeling that i get from them.

"But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call."

My fave part of The Listeners, by Walter De La Mare