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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MAGIC Matches Found: 141 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF EUTHANASIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In magic books she read at night Last Line: Of death is love and life.' Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Magic; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 A COLORADO JUNE DAWN, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: There is magic interlacing of the shadows and the sun Last Line: Since you are here to share my glee. Subject(s): June; Magic; Morning; Summer; Sun A LAY OF ST. DUNSTAN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St. Dunstan stood in his ivied tower Last Line: But it is not st. Dunstan, -- so doubtless it's peter. Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Dunstan, Saint (924-988); Brooms; Magic A MEETING OF MAGICIANS, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my own land, and hunting through the hills Last Line: By taprobane. Subject(s): Magic A SONG OF SYRINX, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Little lady, whom 'tis said Last Line: Little lady loved of pan! Subject(s): Courtship; Curses; Magic; Mythology - Classical A SORCERER BEFORE MY HOUSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: We who beheld this sight were two, I swear, pierre lelong and I Last Line: The better view, for nature has no fox so sly. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; Nature; Woods A TALISMAN FOR VENUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: 22 47 16 41 10 35 4 Last Line: 46 15 40 9 34 3 28 Subject(s): Jews;magic;mysticism - Judaism;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess); Judaism AGAINST THE FALSE MAGICIANS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poem must not charm us like a film [or, play] Last Line: The rituals of our humanity Subject(s): Humanity; Lies; Magic; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ALL-HALLOWS EVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreadful hour is sighing for a moon Last Line: And two will linger at the tryst alway. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; All Souls' Night; Love; Magic; Rites & Ceremonies; Allhallowmas; Allhallows; All Hallows Night AMULET, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But you are ideal Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Charms (magic) AN INVOCATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sleep, with mellow palms Last Line: And walled with harps, and roofed with crowns of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Sleep; Nightmares AVATAR, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The imperceptible Last Line: And there you are Subject(s): California; Magic; Names BALLAD OF YOUNG MAN THAT WOULD READ UNLAWFUL BOOKS & HOW HE WAS PUNISH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelius agrippa went out one day Last Line: How in a conjurer's books they read. Subject(s): Books; Devil; Magic; Punishment; Reading; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub BEST WITCHCRAFT IS GEOMETRY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To thinking of mankind Variant Title(s): Poem: 115 Subject(s): Geometry; Magic BLACK MAGIC, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three friends of mine who know my heart Last Line: Between the whorls of smoking myrrh. Subject(s): Death; Magic; Dead, The BLACK MAGIC, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: An old woman lived across the road Last Line: With a slew of cushaw pudding Subject(s): Magic BUTTERFLY WINGS, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: Some far off summer day, when you shall see Last Line: Oh, magic touch of dusky velvet wings! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Magic; Poppies; Bugs 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 CHARME FOR STABLES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hang up hooks, and sheers to scare Last Line: Of your horses, all knot-free. Subject(s): Magic; Stables 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 CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 10. OLD MAGIC, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: As light swings wide the mighty eastern door Last Line: And vanish up the flaming slopes of morn. Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Magic; Druidism; English History COLLEEN OF CONNEMARA, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: By a gift of magic uniquely hers Last Line: The secret must lie in the tilt of her head. Subject(s): Magic; Secrets DAWN MAGIC, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I stand in the dim, fragrant dawning Last Line: Looks down on the slumbering world. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Magic; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery ENCHANTED MACHINES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slave of the lamp that aladdin once treasured Last Line: And builds these enchanted machines! Subject(s): Magic FADO, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man reaches close Last Line: And the copper bowls balance Subject(s): Magic FIRMILIAN; A TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three hours of study - and what gain thereby? Last Line: Curtain descends. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Churches; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Magic; Plays & Playwrights ; Cathedrals; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dramatists 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 Full 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 FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: There is a window in this magic house Last Line: Running away -- knowing us one too few! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Magic; New England; Separation; Isolation HALLUCINATION, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rats play in the rain Last Line: With a magic moon Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Magic HISTORY LESSONS: MAGIC CARPET, by SIDNEY WADE Poem Source First Line: Ahmet and I were out of town one day, buying Last Line: We are flying, ahmet abi, we are flying!' Subject(s): Magic; Rugs HORSESHOES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full 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 HOUDINI HOLDS THE WORLD, by BECKY RODIA Poem Source First Line: When he'd screwed the last Last Line: On the backs of his hands %they floated willfully into the palms Subject(s): Cities; Hallucinations And Illusions; Magic HUDIBRAS: PART 2, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knight by damnable magician Last Line: For sport of boys, and rabble-wit. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Magic; Presbyterianism LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O [or, ah] what can ail thee, knight at arms [or, wretched wight] Last Line: And no birds sing. Subject(s): Fairies; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Loss Of; Magic; Supernatural; Elves LINEN, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are charms / that forestall harm Subject(s): Charms (magic); Linen LORELEI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where the rhine pursues its track Last Line: Plunging - in the rhine she sank Subject(s): Drowning;love - Loss Of;magic;suicide LOVE AND BLACK MAGIC, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone Last Line: "hey and hither, my lad." Subject(s): Magic LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 59, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My carriage is traversing slowly Last Line: They titter and haste swiftly by. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Nightmares 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 MAGIC, by LASZLOFFY ALADAR Poem Source First Line: The sun is shining. Exactly on my desk Last Line: Who has no sun, no shadow - %no hand... Subject(s): Magic MAGIC, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turn apple blooms to silver Subject(s): Magic MAGIC, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mirrors, it's all done Last Line: Run out, and mirrors, they never love you %enough Subject(s): Magic MAGIC, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They wrong with ignorance a royal choice Subject(s): Magic MAGIC, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: I have stood with friends at the woods' edge Last Line: I have looked in all the old sources Subject(s): Imagination; Magic; Spells MAGIC, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her speech was magic, the most magical bit Last Line: What she left out Subject(s): Magic; Silence; Speech MAGIC, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: A feeble glow springs from the tallow Last Line: "finds wings!" Subject(s): Life; Magic; Prayer MAGIC, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The cars rush along creating the ocean Last Line: Blowing sand and milk over everyone Subject(s): Magic MAGIC, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: There is magic on the meadow Last Line: Glad with many blossomings! Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Magic; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves MAGIC, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boundless, the great sea Last Line: Nor spoke of soaring in broad daylight up to the blue heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Magic MAGIC, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: It is the oven burns %on the arms of a doll Last Line: Just sitting there %twitching its nose or something Subject(s): Magic MAGIC MOUNTAIN, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think a cleaner light moves behind that farther Last Line: Beyond, a slave, where desire balloons memory Subject(s): Life; Magic MAGIC WATER JAR, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Did you know the hopi Last Line: & doubt that I'd %be trusted Subject(s): Magic; Water MAGIC WORDS TO CURE A SICK CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O my tiny child Last Line: You'll live a long long time Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Healing; Magic; Native Americans; Parents MAGIC WORDS TO STOP BLEEDING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This blood Last Line: Wipe it off Subject(s): Blood; Eskimos; Magic; Native Americans MAGIC: ONE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: Magic runs in the family Last Line: A fireman, a magician, a telegrapher, %others alcoholics or priests Subject(s): Family Life; Magic MAGIC: THREE, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: We are splinters of wood Last Line: Home at last with the one %who loves you Subject(s): Home; Love; Magic MAGIC: TWO, by STEPHEN MORRISSEY Poem Source First Line: I can turn my life Last Line: No slgiht of hand too difficult Subject(s): Life; Magic MAGIC; AFTER READING THE UPANISHADS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dusky chamber of the brain Last Line: Knowing in brahma all it dared and willed. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brahma; Magic MAGICIAN'S BEAUTIFUL ASSISTANT, by BART BAXTER Poem Source First Line: She pushes up her chest a little, tries Last Line: Be done with now you see it, now you don't Subject(s): Magic; Relationships MARCH MAGIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the fickle birds return Last Line: A magic wisp of moon. Subject(s): Birds; Magic; March (month); Sea; Ocean 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) MUSIC, by CLARA BOYNTON HADLEY Poem Text First Line: Is it not a means by which we connect Last Line: While we bow in grateful praise. Subject(s): Magic; Music & Musicians; Praise 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) NATURAL MAGIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All I can say is - I saw it Last Line: A fairy-tale! Only -- I feel it! Subject(s): Magic NATURAL MAGIC (2), by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are tired who follow after Last Line: Join with you the dance of day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fantasy; Happiness; Magic; Joy; Delight NIGHT, by CATHERINE BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: The witching magic of the scented night Last Line: Each corner hidden now by night's kind dark. Subject(s): Magic; Night; Spring; Bedtime NO DOUBT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the knowing village of castlerainbow Last Line: Or the dark magic of monica crowe. Subject(s): Legends; Magic; Villages 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) OPTICAL ILLUSION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twinkling of an eye, and the boxes on the floor Last Line: Ambiguous nothingness seems all things and all places. Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Magic POETIC EPIGRAMS: 29. A WORD'S MAGIC, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember etajima Last Line: And youth through all things reappears. Subject(s): Magic PREFATORY STANZAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not to me of necromantic wights Last Line: Bids them all hail, and wafts them every feeling kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Life; Magic; Memory; Necromancy; Past PREP WORK: HOUDINI, by MATT DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Tub water packed with ice, a make-shift Last Line: My body's whole sleeve numbed red Subject(s): Magic RETURNING TO EARTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She / pulls the sheet of this dance Last Line: Let the predator love his prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Despair; Introspection; Magic; United States; America 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: 2. ALPHITOMANCY-DIVINATION BY BARELY IN AN.., by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: To learn if a lover is unfaithful Last Line: That blows the answer in Subject(s): Fidelity; Magic; Prophets And Prophecy; Witchcraft And Witches SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' zoo's the day wer warm an' bright Last Line: He didden even zweal the crown. Subject(s): Autumn; Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Magic; Seasons; Vanity; Fall; Fairs; Pageants SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods SONG A FAIRY WIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thrive on moonbeams dipt in dew Last Line: We find in little things. Subject(s): Fairies; Magic; Elves SONG: THE WELL OF OBLIVION, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, they say, a secret well Last Line: But never to forget! Subject(s): Love; Magic; Secrets; Wells SORCERY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go on your way, and let me pass Last Line: Before the year is done. Subject(s): Magic SORCERY, by ANNE WARD JAMIESON Poem Source First Line: I stood, my eyes level with the knob Last Line: Clouding its flat yolk of yellow blood Subject(s): Eggs; Magic; Mothers SPELL, by ANDREW GLAZE Poem Source First Line: To the luscious kingdom of pears Last Line: We dance up the gangway in pairs Subject(s): 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 Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou twist of gold, woven so curiously Subject(s): Charms (magic) THE BEWITCHED HAND, SELS, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of his execution, eustace bouteron Last Line: Reached the window sill where maitre gonin was waiting for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Magic; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE BLACKBIRDS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, only once, I saw it clear Last Line: And the black magic of the croaking birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Magic THE CHRISTMAS TREE OF THE ANGELS, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen god's christmas tree in the sky Last Line: To this tree of god in paradise? Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Magic; Paradise 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 GHOST, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With eager search to dart the soul Last Line: Were delivered at pewterers' hall, in lime street. Subject(s): England; Ghosts; Gypsies; Magic; Quackery & Quacks; Supernatural; English; Gipsies THE GREAT MAGICIAN, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when a lad, it was my hap Last Line: In many a curious repetition! Subject(s): Magic 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 LAND OF THUS-AND-SO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How would willie like to go Last Line: "to the land of thus-and-so!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Magic THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Count raymond rules in languedoc Last Line: A sleek, meek, weak gent -- who subsists on cold water! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Nostradamus, Michel De (1503-1566); Boredom; Magic; Ennui THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE MAGICIAN, by LOUISE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: Here here here / immortal magic Last Line: "refracted light! Gems gems gems . . ." Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Magic; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAIRIES, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a man who dreamt he went to heaven Last Line: For a single dream spoiled his whole life. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Magic THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever love the lily pale Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SIGN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no magic numbers or magic lives Last Line: You do not need the stars for that. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Magic; Night; Vision; Bedtime THE SINGLE ERROR, by VIVIAN PIKE BOLES Poem Text First Line: I may be a miser Last Line: That I've let myself go on my hats. Subject(s): Magic THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy our father lir afar Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery THE SPELL; A CHARME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy water come and bring Last Line: Far from hence the evill sp'rite. Subject(s): Magic THE TALISMAN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah surely lovers foolish are- / why should I keep this little bead? Last Line: My inner life from many a harm! Subject(s): Magic 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 TWO MAGICIANS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O she looked out of the window Last Line: And fetched her to his lair Subject(s): Magic THE VIRTUES OF SID HAMET THE MAGICIAN'S ROD, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rod was but a harmless wand Last Line: His next may be a rod in piss. Subject(s): Magic THE WHITE SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full 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 THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter these enchanted woods Last Line: You who dare. Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods 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) TO MY BELOVED, by LOLA GREENFIELD LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: I sang a song of love one day Last Line: Its magic is your face. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; 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 VERNAL MAGIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through all my days I shall be glad of this Last Line: To lay a hand upon the lips of praise. Subject(s): Love; Magic; Praise; Spring WITCHCRAFT, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: I did not hear when you came in. Dark in the shadow Last Line: Fireflies-dreams glittered, as before the latest of my griefs Subject(s): Grief; Magic; Thought WIZARD OF OZ, by JAMES APPLEWHITE Poem Source First Line: Boiling up with smoke like the wizard of oz Last Line: Stiffly victorious, grave as iron Subject(s): Magic |
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