Famous Black Magic Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Black Magic poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous black magic poems. These examples illustrate what a famous black magic poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Black Birds

by Henry Van Dyke
 I 

Once, only once, I saw it clear, --
That Eden every human heart has dreamed
A hundred times, but always far away!
Ah, well do I remember how it seemed,
Through the still atmosphere
Of that enchanted day,
To lie wide open to my weary feet:
A little land of love and joy and rest,
With meadows of soft green,
Rosy with cyclamen, and sweet
With delicate breath...Read more of this...

Love and Black Magic

by Robert Graves
 To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone;
In his grotto the maiden sits alone. 
She gazes up with a weary smile 
At the rafter-hanging crocodile, 
The slowly swinging crocodile. 
Scorn has she of her master’s gear, 
Cauldron, alembic, crystal sphere, 
Phial, philtre—“Fiddlededee 
For all such trumpery trash!” quo’ she. 
“A soldier is the lad for me; 
Hey...Read more of this...

What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner Or Later

by Ogden Nash
 Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with.
And with whom they breakfast with and sup with.
They interfere with the discipline of nurseries,
And forget anniversaries,
And when they have been particularly remiss
They think they can cure everything with a great big kiss,
And when you tell them about something awful they have done they just
look unbearably patient...Read more of this...

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