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| Searching... Subject: WITCHCRAFT & WITCHES Matches Found: 76 "ON GILES COREY, EXECUTED AS A WIZARD, 17TH CENTURY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Giles cory was a wizard strong Last Line: And he did no confession make; / but wickedlie he dyed Variant Title(s): Giles Corey Subject(s): "capital Punishment;corey, Giles;salem, Massachusetts;witchcraft & Witches;" Hanging;executions;death Penalty A LEAF FROM GRANNIE'S SCRAP BOOK, by J. E. WATT Poem Text First Line: Sud I chance I' the gloamin' to meet an auld wife Last Line: Sud it dae me sma' guid, it can do me nae harm. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches A PASTORALL; THE ANTEMASQUE, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let us burne severall horrid peeces Last Line: Hag let's singe, but let's not bee too longe. Subject(s): Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Witchcraft & Witches; Songs A SALEM WITCH, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blows east, the wind blows west Last Line: He died for thee! -- he died for me! Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches 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 A WITCH'S DAUGHTER AND A COBBLER'S SON, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A witch's daughter Last Line: See how they run! Subject(s): Children; Cobblers; Mothers; Parents; Witchcraft & Witches; Childhood; Parenthood A WITCH'S WILL, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the purple ridge the moon rist up Last Line: But where she bode came never shine nor song. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the witch's entertainment Last Line: Ah, he rush'd to meet his doom! Subject(s): Caves; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Caverns CHANSON INNOCENTE: 2, FR. TULIPS, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hist whist Last Line: Wheeeee Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches DE CUNJAH MAN, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O chillen run, de cunjah man Last Line: O chillen run, de cunjah man! Subject(s): African Americans; Gullahs; Witchcraft & Witches; Negroes; American Blacks EVANGELLE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ol / d / er / to make a spectable Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Witchcraft & Witches; Women; Spiritualists FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold Last Line: Ground.) Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun his ancient music makes Last Line: Curtain. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology FAUST, SELECTION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who yet may hope to rise Last Line: The crane unresting fares in homeward flight. Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches GHOSTS, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: They call you cold new england Last Line: To guard the flames below! Subject(s): Ghosts; New England; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches GILES COREY OF THE SALEM FARMS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's monk's-hood, that breeds fever in the blood Last Line: Hereafter will be counted as a martyr! Variant Title(s): Christus: 3. The New England Tragedies: Giles Corey Subject(s): Corey, Giles; Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches GILES COREY OF THE SALEM FARMS: PROLOGUE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delusions of the days that once have been Last Line: Of sabbath bells, a witch was burned or drowned. Variant Title(s): Christus: 3. The New England Tragedies: Giles Corey: Prologue Subject(s): Corey, Giles; Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches HALLOWEEN, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: In the west the moon hangs low Last Line: In the west the moon hangs low. Subject(s): Halloween; Pumpkins; Witchcraft & Witches LATE AUTUMN, EARLY WINTER, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: Late autumn, early winter... Down the mothless Last Line: Live without breath. Subject(s): Contrariness; Witchcraft & Witches 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 MISTRESS HALE OF BEVERLY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roadside forests here and there were touched with tawny gold Last Line: Whose unobtrusive excellence awed back delusion's tide! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches MY LADY'S WITCHING DANCE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On with the dance. My lady swings Last Line: No longer twain, but one. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Witchcraft & Witches OLD WITCH RIDING BY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Hurry now through air and sky! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches ORDEAL BY FIRE, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so she was condemned to pass the night Last Line: And the grey monks intoned, she was no witch, she was no witch! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches OUTPOST DUTY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That bloody witch,' the freezing out- / posts called her Last Line: Of thine old sweetness give. Subject(s): Despair; Witchcraft & Witches POSSESSED, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: I am possessed by you as witches were Last Line: To see me burn upon the market-place! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches POT MACABRE, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches SALEM, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In meetinge-time I watched you well Last Line: The stones of gallowes hill shall tread. Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches THE ALLANSFORD PURSUIT, by ISOBEL GOWDIE Poem Text First Line: Cunning and art he did not lack Last Line: But aye her whistle would fetch him back. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE BAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dread, uncanny thing Last Line: Grate not thy teeth at me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime THE BLACK WITCH, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have driven me out from your court and your kirk Last Line: Who wrought such a curse on me! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN; OR THE RETURN OF THE WITCHES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look out! Look out, boys! Clear the track! Last Line: On the rattling rail by the broomstick train! Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE DEATH OF GOODY NURSE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chill new england sunshine Last Line: "father forgive,"" he said." Subject(s): Nourse, Rebecca; Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches THE DECEIT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the way to istral where the sea sweeps / in Last Line: For a witch, god wot, had snared me in the semblance of a maid! Subject(s): Duplicity; Lust; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Deceit; Bedtime THE DRUM: THE NARRATIVE OF THE DEMON OF TEDWORTH, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his tall senatorial Last Line: Where the drum rolls up the stair, nor tarries. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Winter; Witchcraft & Witches THE HAG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hag is astride / this night for to ride Last Line: Cal'd out by the clap of the thunder. Subject(s): Halloween; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches THE HAZELWOOD WITCH, by RICHARD GALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For many lang year I ha'e heard frae my grannie Last Line: The hazelwood witch wi' the bonnie black een. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE HOUSE-WARMING; A LEGEND OF BLEEDING-HEART YARD, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir christopher hatton he danced with grace Last Line: That the iron one is not the only 'pump' there! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Witchcraft & Witches; Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE OLD WITCH IN THE COPSE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a witch, and a kind old witch Last Line: Her fool's desire. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, wee tailor, / nobody was paler Last Line: Wee, wee tailor. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Devil; Pain; Sin; Tailors; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery; Dress Makers THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the village streets Last Line: The precious seed by the fathers sown! Subject(s): Newbury, Massachusetts; Puritans; Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Witchcraft & Witches THE RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I got up in the night Last Line: Luandinah seconded it Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft & Witches; Brazilians; Porpoises THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day! Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WHITE WITCH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven help your home tonight Last Line: "and married for your woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Marriage; Witchcraft & Witches; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WITCH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair was gold and warm it lay Last Line: Between the twilight and the sea. Subject(s): Evil; Haunted Houses; Spells; Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH, by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My three years spent in war has now undone Last Line: A day of triumph, joy, and honest love! [exeunt. Subject(s): Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She comes by night, in fearsome flight, Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Here, father! I have found a horse-shoe Last Line: She may recover; so drive t'other nail in! Subject(s): Christianity; Curses; Fathers & Sons; Horseshoes; Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH BALL, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, oh never came Last Line: From fogs of the night. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH IN THE GLASS, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother says I must not pass Last Line: The very thing you should not know! Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Children; Witchcraft & Witches; Childhood THE WITCH OF ERKMURDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who cantereth forth in the night Last Line: "away with my babe and bride." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime THE WITCH OF WENHAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along crane river's sunny slopes Last Line: Like souls escaped from hell. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH'S BROOMSTICK SPELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Horse and hattock Last Line: "horse and pelatis, ho, ho!" Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCH-MOTHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep Last Line: And twae mair sauls in hell. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE WITCHES' FROLIC, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, come hither, my little boy ned! Last Line: Old nick, some fine morning, will 'hey after you!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THE WITCHES' JOYS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When night winds rave Last Line: Shame our wild revelries! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches THREE HAGS COME VISITING, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those hags are in the hallway Last Line: They find it on the floor. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches TUBBY HOOK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mevrouw von weber was brisk though fat Last Line: That super-cleanliness may go wrong! Subject(s): Cleanliness; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Witchcraft & Witches TWO WITCHES: 1. THE WITCH OF COOS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Last Line: The rural letter box said toffile lajway. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches TWO WITCHES: 2. THE PAUPER WITCH OF GRAFTON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that they've got it settled whose I be Last Line: I might have, but it doesn't seem as if. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches VANITY FAIR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through frost-thick weather Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches VANQUISHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: There is a way that I can save the hurt Last Line: Covered securely with a shield of bronze! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The WILD WITCHES' BALL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Late last night at wildwitchhall Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WINDY NIGHT, by CHRIS REAL Poem Text First Line: The lightning witch is mad again! Last Line: And screams with wild disdain. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCH BURNING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness WITCH WIFE AND I, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: When the moon has poured her light Last Line: Day has brought you back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITCH!, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ashes of me Last Line: I hid them there. Variant Title(s): Witch's Confession Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCH'S SONG, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: Under the toadstool Last Line: On my enemies!) Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCHCRAFT, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our great-great-grandpapas had schooled Last Line: A captive and repentant witch. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCHCRAFT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for cattle or gold Last Line: And weeping eyes of pain. Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCHCRAFT HAS NOT A PEDIGREE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The moment of our death Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches; Death WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the purple drifts Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean WITCHES, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finns, they're witches,' said murphy, ''tis Last Line: "but . . . There ain't no 'arm as I see in standin' well with a finn." Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCHES' CHARM (3), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad Last Line: Let all be dumb. Variant Title(s): Witches' Chasm;charm Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches WITCHES' NIGHT AND YE SMALL COLORED LAD, by JOSIE H. GRINDLE Poem Text First Line: Old moon peepin' outen de skies Last Line: F I evah gets home I'll 'have mahse'f! Subject(s): Moon; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime |
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