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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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She comes by night, in fearsome flight,
Subject(s): Witchcraft & Witches


THE WITCH, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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