Um. Not Jen, but Sonnet 73's pretty damn gothy:

That time of year thou mayst in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day,
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self that seals up all in rest.
In me thou seest the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed, whereon it must expire,
Consumed by that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.

I know little more about Goth than from reading Gothic Charm School, but wouldn't Edgar Allan Poe land a spot or two on the list?

Here's a fragment of a poem by Keats:

This Living Hand

This living hand, now warm and capable

Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold

And in the icy silence of the tomb,

So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights

That thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of blood

So in my veins red life might stream again,

And thou be conscience-calmed—see here it is—

I hold it towards you.

OK, Keats had some issues.

Excellent call, Juliana.

but wouldn't Edgar Allan Poe land a spot or two on the list?

You'd think.

I don't know. "Lenore"? "Ulalume"? "The Raven"?

Well, he was 24 and dying of tuberculosis.

Well, he was 24 and dying of tuberculosis.

Goth as fuck!

There's got to be some Blake and Yeats here. Also a book of poetry titled Flowers of Evil should be a well spring.

C'mon now, I'm depending on you to round out the top ten.

This is where I somewhat shamefacedly admit that I am notoriously weak with poetry. I just don't read much of it.

Also, Jilli, since you're a trained singer, what would be the Gothiest Opera?

Opera is the other thing I'm weak in. Off the top of my head: Don Giovanni, or Orfeo ed Euridice.

Those sound like good choices, Jilli. I bet Dana could pitch in on the Goth operas.

megan or amych can assist with Baudelaire.

Jilli, I know you won't let me down when I get to Top Ten Goth Makeup Items Which Are No Longer Available.

Also a book of poetry titled Flowers of Evil should be a well spring.

For extra Goth pretentous points, no using the English translation. Stick with the original French. (It was a ... thing in live-action vampire games for certain people who thought they were Sensitive Artistic Types to lurk at the fringes of the game and whisper poems from that book, in French.)

For Poe, I vote Lenore or The Raven.