Bài thơ "Constancy to a Object Object" của Samuel Taylor Coleridge kết thúc bằng một hình ảnh của bóng ma Brocken:

And art thou nothing? Such thou art, as when
The woodman winding westward up the glen
At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep-track's maze
The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze,
Sees full before him, gliding without tread,
An image with a glory round its head;
The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues,
Nor knows he makes the shadow he pursues!

Bài thơ "Phantasmagoria" của Lewis Carroll bao gồm một dòng về bóng ma Brocken "... tried the Brocken business first/but caught a sort of chill/so came to England to be nursed/and here it took the form of thirst/which he complains of still."