I may be straying far afield here but Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is a poem of the front rank. And if I've named that then why not Robert Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin"? Auden's "Dame Kind" is creepy. Comb at will through Iona and Peter Opie's "Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes". But I'll stop. This thread's not titled "Unpleasant Poems". If it were I'd mention the whole works of the late underrated, perversely imaginative Scot George MacBeth.
Mike Slipp
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