Unknown writer

Jack-o’-Lantern

Summary


Jack-o'-Lantern is a short Halloween poem about a glowing pumpkin face that arrives to frighten on a dark night. Lit by a single candle inside its hollow shell, the lantern looms, but the speaker refuses to flinch. In just two playful verses, the poem turns a spooky visitor into a pumpkin and lets a brave voice have the last laugh. Read it aloud and enjoy the rhythm, the dare, and the fun of scaring away the dark.

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Here comes a Jack-o’-lantern
To frighten you to-night;
Made from a hollow pumpkin
With a candle for its light.

A brave child faces a glowing carved pumpkin in the poem Jack-o'-Lantern on a dark autumn night.

Go off! You Jack-o’-lantern!
You can not frighten me,
You’re nothing but a pumpkin
As any one can see!

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Unknown writer is the name given to the anonymous author of this traditional Halloween rhyme, passed along in children's collections of seasonal verse. Its two quatrains, with their simple rhymes of "to-night" and "light" and "me" and "see," make it easy to memorize and recite at autumn gatherings.