Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet's Biography First Line: Up on their brooms the witches stream Last Line: Under the silver, and home again. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Supernatural | ||||||||
Up on their brooms the Witches stream, Crooked and black in the crescent's gleam; One foot high, and one foot low, Bearded, cloaked, and cowled, they go. 'Neath Charlie's Wain they twitter and tweet, And away they swarm 'neath the Dragon's feet, With a whoop and a flutter they swing and sway, And surge pell-mell down the Milky Way. Between the legs of the glittering Chair They hover and squeak in the empty air. Then round they swoop past the glimmering Lion To where Sirius barks behind huge Orion; Up, then, and over to wheel amain Under the silver, and home again. | Other Poems of Interest...WHITE NOCTURNE by CONRAD AIKEN IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1582 by NORMAN DUBIE GHOSTS IN ENGLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GHOST OF DEACON BROWN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON EN PASSANT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |
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