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Subject: CHARMS (MAGIC)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARM, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take of english earth as much
Last Line: Every man a king indeed!
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


A CHARM AGAINST LILITH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Black striga / black on black
Last Line: Like a wolf she crushes
Subject(s): Charms (magic);jews;lilith;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


A CHARM SAID UNDER AN OAK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak, with thy straightness
Last Line: Deus robur meus.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Oak Trees; Trees


A CHARM TO BRING CHILDREN (EGYPT, A.D. 100), by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take twelve leaves of the male palm
Last Line: Great is the lady isis!
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Children; Egypt; Childhood


A CHARM; FOR OUR NEW FIREPLACE TO STOP ITS SMOKING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wood, burn bright; o flame, be quick
Last Line: My brown-eyed girl comes down for tea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Fireplaces


A CHARME, OR AN ALLAY FOR LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If so be a toad be laid
Last Line: Him and his affections ever.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Love; Mnemonics


AMULET, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But you are ideal
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou moon, that aidest us with thy magic might
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O wen, wen, o little wennikins
Last Line: And so diminish that you come to nothing
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM AGAINST ILLNESSES IN GENERAL; CAMBRIDGESHIRE FENLAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make a black cat spin on mutton fat
Last Line: And you will have a healing balm %to keep the body free from harm
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Sickness


CHARM AGAINST STOMACH ACHE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven
Last Line: And let one %be taken %from one
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Pain


CHARM AGAINST THE FALL OF MY HOUSE, by HARRY HUMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly above the black and white cows
Last Line: House lost. %escaped with wife, daughter, %brittany spaniel,ten days' rations. %walking north across
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM AGAINST THE VIRTUOUS, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a phoney cow you think's your friend, but her milk will give
Last Line: And take no shit from that holy cow, but show her the old barn-door
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Virtue


CHARM FOR A MORTIFIED EYE, by HILARY DAVIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Familiar eye that, when I open mine
Last Line: In this brief grace
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM FOR A NEW HOUSE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In march the sun turned north, across
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM FOR A SICK CHILD, by LINDA SILLITOE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We will dream now of a cave
Last Line: More ancient than memory. %here is the turn in the tide
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Children; Sickness


CHARM FOR AN IMAGINED GIRL, by MARCUS (MARC) ALLEN HUDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter evenings, %I watched the lights come on
Last Line: May the earth rise up sometimes %to protect them
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM FOR THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, gods! %it is the daughter's father
Last Line: The seam is sewn - the blood is staunched
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


CHARM TO CALL SLEEP, by HENRY JOHNSTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep, sleep, come to me, sleep
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Sleep


CHARM TO EXORCIZE SPIRITS; YORKSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, a name high all over
Last Line: And devils fear and flee
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Exorcism


CHARM TO MAKE THE SUN GO DOWN (HAIDA), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hills %are spotted
Last Line: And sunlight
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Native Americans


CHARMES (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning when ye rise
Last Line: So farre keepes the evill spright.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Magic


CHARMES (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ye feare to be affrighted
Last Line: Charmes the danger, and the dread.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Magic


CHARMES (3), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring the holy crust of bread
Last Line: Hags away, while children sleep.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Magic


CHARMES (4), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the superstitious wife
Last Line: Keeps the sleeping child from harms.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Magic


CHARMES (5), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This ile tell ye by the way
Last Line: Will be better for your batch.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Magic


CHARMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prune your corn in the gray of the
Last Line: Ilka freckle's gang awa!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Corn; Feet; Rain


FIVE INCONSEQUENTIAL CHARMS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spoon, o spoon
Last Line: Beg your kindness, foster-mother.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


FOR EACH AGE, ITS AMULET, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each illness has its demon, burning you with
Last Line: Taped and stolen from every living person
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Spies; Jewish Families


HORSESHOES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Half my childhood my father carried in his dusty pocket
Last Line: Clanging on the back porch, among the wind chimes.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Gifts & Giving; Horseshoes; Luck


LINEN, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are charms / that forestall harm
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Linen


MADELEINE IN CHURCH, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in the darkness, where this plaster saint
Last Line: Of, if, for once, he would only speak
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Love


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 10. CHARM FOR HEALING BUMPS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "well again, well again"
Last Line: Eat an apple
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


NATIVITY CHANT, FR. GUY MANNERING, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Canny moment, lucky fit
Last Line: Keep the house frae reif and wear
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


NORA'S CHARM, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the fisher's wife at her neighbor's door
Last Line: "and lets the evil in!"
Subject(s): Fairies; Evil; Good; Charms (magic)


SPINDLE SONG, FR. GUY MANNERING, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twist ye, twine ye! Even so
Last Line: Mingle human bliss and woe
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


THE AMULET, by DONALD DAVIDSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou twist of gold, woven so curiously
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


THE DIAL OF FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a lonely thought to mark the hours
Last Line: A charm for the shaded eve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Flowers


THE INNOCENT MAGICIAN; OR, A CHARM AGAINST LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A great, but harmless conjurer am I
Last Line: So ends my charm. Run to your freedom: run.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Love


THE TOUCHSTONE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man there came, whence none could tell
Last Line: Its ancient mind forgets.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


THE WHITE SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a day
Last Line: A cold sweat broke out on his upper lip for now he was wise
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Snakes; Wisdom


THIS FOUNTAINHEAD, by BEN BELITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Content you with this mummied bread
Last Line: To pledge the bride in brine
Variant Title(s): Charm For An Old Woun
Subject(s): Charms (magic)


TRADITIONAL CHARMS, SHEPHERD'S WEEK, by JOHN GAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New moon, new moon, I hail thee
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Mnemonics