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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUPERSTITION Matches Found: 56 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STORY OF THE EVIL EYE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came unto an austrian town Last Line: Death drew his viewless veil for ever. Subject(s): Death; Murder; Superstition; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board Last Line: Afraid to meet my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Variant Title(s): On All Souls' Night Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death, Return From; Superstition; All Hallows Night CAT, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Look out for her, the black cat Last Line: As she travels through your time Subject(s): Superstition CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?" Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America CHORUS OF TARTARS, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast superstition! Glorious style of weakness! Last Line: Nor promis'd any man, by dying, joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Chorus Quintus - Tartarorum Subject(s): Superstition CHUCK'S HOODOOS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chuck's allus had de hoodoos bad! Last Line: "dey's ever go me inter!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Superstition CLOVER, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: If you find a four-leaf clover in the grass Last Line: If you give your clover to me Subject(s): Superstition DAYS IN THE LIFE, by MANJU KANCHULI Poem Source First Line: Either, from stained clothes Last Line: Drawn by thoughts of my fledglings Subject(s): Life; Superstition EARS, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Your right ear itches? Let it be Last Line: Pinch it, let him bite his tongue Subject(s): Superstition ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who spurs on the road when day is done Last Line: There in his arm the boy lay dead Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Superstition EVIL EYE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nona poured oil on the water and saw the eye Last Line: Though I had one already and the other came Subject(s): Italy; Superstition FORTUNE COOKIE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: How easy to be humbled by the peking noodle co Last Line: Holding an unbroken cookie with one free hand Subject(s): Fortune; Restaurants; Superstition GARLIC, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: All you bloodsuckers, %this is your last chance Last Line: One big vampire good-bye Subject(s): Superstition HAIR, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Eat the crust of fresh baked bread Last Line: To cure a baldness in the brain Subject(s): Superstition HAT, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Don't put your hat on the table Last Line: And keep the luck on your lid Subject(s): Superstition HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the shiver of morning, a little before the false dawn Last Line: That it fits all mortal mould.' Subject(s): Honeymoons; Superstition HORSESHOE, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Think of a horseshoe as a piggy bank of luck Last Line: When it's time, the luck will spill Subject(s): Superstition I WISH I WAS BY THAT DIM LAKE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Within their current turns to stone Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Ireland; Superstition JINX, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the fifth inning Last Line: By accident %almost Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Superstition KEY, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Suppose you are walking along Last Line: There %your surprise waits Subject(s): Superstition LADDER, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Lord knows you can't avoid it sometimes Last Line: I believe it. Sort of. %do you? Subject(s): Superstition LADYBUG, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Land on my hand for luck, ladybug Last Line: I will tell them their mother was good Subject(s): Superstition MIDNIGHT ON MARATHON (A GREEK SUPERSTITION), by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When midnight to the peasant yields Last Line: "and ""christ"" thy battle-cry?" Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Superstition MIRROR, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: The trick is to find sacred ground, the best you can Last Line: Why the curse? Subject(s): Superstition MRS. DUGAN'S MIRRORS, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: The shopgirls smiled when mrs. Dugan came Last Line: Where fifty townsmen try to shave themselves. Subject(s): Mirrors; Shaving; Superstition POTATOES, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Potatoes for your pocket, granny Last Line: To pull the hurting from your bones Subject(s): Superstition REMEMBRANCE, by ELIZABETH M. COOPER Poem Text First Line: Give rosemary for remembrance Last Line: The memory of a smile. Subject(s): Memory; Superstition; Tradition ROOSTER, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: The rooster crows %on the gate tonight Last Line: How the rain will roll %down the window Subject(s): Superstition SALT, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: It is said Last Line: For everything, you see, there is the reverse Subject(s): Superstition SEE A PIN AND PICK IT UP, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bad luck you'll have all that day Subject(s): Superstition SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 1. SYCHOMANCY-DIVINATION WITH LEAVES OF....., by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I am particularly fond of figs Last Line: Epithelium, is saying: yes Subject(s): Fig Trees; Magic; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Predestination; Prophets And Prophecy; Superstition SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 5. FELIDOMANCY-DIVINATION BY CATS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not true cats have nine lives Last Line: The answer was always no Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Superstition SONNET WRITTEN IN DISGUST OF VULGAR SUPERSTITION, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The church bells toll a melancholy round Last Line: And many glories of immortal stamp. Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTISHUS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onct I went a-fishin' with a man what had a reel Last Line: But I guess lots o' things is so 'at some folks never knew! Subject(s): Children; Superstition; Childhood SUPERSTITION, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But must the ray with babel's fierce intent Last Line: In token of divided tongues and races? Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTITION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken yoke's three days' rain. Wisteria on the floor Last Line: Nailed to the wall: %like jesus, sacrificed by the meek; like us, dead after all Subject(s): Faith; Superstition SUPERSTITION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have painted a picture of a ghost Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTITION, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim power! By very indistinctness made Last Line: Grasp at the purpose of the eternal will. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTITION, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: My cat washes Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTITION', by JACQUELINE LYONS Poem Source First Line: I believe what the old women tell me Last Line: And tread carefully in the dust of my luck Variant Title(s): A Few Lesotho Traditions: Superstitio Subject(s): Lesotho; Superstition SUPERSTITION'S DREAM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When nights last hours like haunting spirits creep Last Line: I heard the cock crow and blest the sound Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTITIONS, by MALCOLM GLASS Poem Source First Line: I write these words on the twenty-seventh Subject(s): Superstition SUPERSTITIONS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trout bones are taboo to dogs Last Line: If a frog comes into your house %move Subject(s): Superstition THE EVIL EYE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nona poured oil on the water and saw the eye Last Line: Though I had one already and the other came Subject(s): Italy; Superstition; Italians THE GREEN ISLES OF OCEAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they, those green fairy islands Last Line: For the guide to those realms of the blessed is death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Druids; Superstition; Wales; Druidism; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Float on - float on - my haunted bark Last Line: For it has gained the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Girls; India; Superstition THE KILLCROP, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You squalling imp, lie still! Isn't it enough Last Line: I'll rocket him. (exit.) Subject(s): Children; Devil; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Murder; Superstition; Childhood; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE MINSTREL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He played on the single string Last Line: And the red damascus rose! Subject(s): Middle East; Music & Musicians; Superstition; Near East; Levant THE MYSTIC, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who holds not life more yearful than the hours Last Line: From the beginning, and of all being last. Subject(s): Faith; Mysticism; Prophecy & Prophets; Superstition; Belief; Creed THE TRIUMPH OF SUPERSTITION, RAPHAEL AND IANTHE, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: In gothic times, when feudal laws obtained Last Line: For general good may man exert his powers! Subject(s): Superstition THIMBLEISM, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I was riding the staten island ferry one evening Last Line: You'll never get famous and you'll never get rich Subject(s): Stars; Superstition THIRTEEN, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Friday the 13th Last Line: And thirteen unlucky witches have lost %their power Subject(s): Superstition TOURNAMENT, by CRISTIN BISHARA Poem Source First Line: One gets to press dough over the door if it sticks so will Last Line: They lick the chicken clean and pull on bones Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Superstition UMBRELLAS, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Nasty ghosts fear a storm, have you heard? Last Line: And we would walk in this rain Subject(s): Superstition VOICES IN THE NIGHT, by MELVIN L. WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: I've heard strange tales of haunted trails Subject(s): Cowboys; Superstition WOOD, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Spirits live in the trees, %different kinds Last Line: Knock on wood Subject(s): Superstition |
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