Famous Charmer Poems by Famous Poets

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

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210. Song—Stay my Charmer

...STAY my charmer, can you leave me?
Cruel, cruel to deceive me;
Well you know how much you grieve me;
 Cruel charmer, can you go!
 Cruel charmer, can you go!


By my love so ill-requited,
By the faith you fondly plighted,
By the pangs of lovers slighted,
 Do not, do not liave me so!
 Do not, do not leave me so!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


30. Song—Composed in August

...in, wide o’er the plain,
 Delights the weary farmer;
And the moon shines bright, when I rove at night,
 To muse upon my charmer.


The partridge loves the fruitful fells,
 The plover loves the mountains;
The woodcock haunts the lonely dells,
 The soaring hern the fountains:
Thro’ lofty groves the cushat roves,
 The path of man to shun it;
The hazel bush o’erhangs the thrush,
 The spreading thorn the linnet.


Thus ev’ry kind their pleasure find,
 The savage and the tender;
So...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

428. Song—Phillis the Queen o' the fair

...lem, said I, o’ my Phillis—
 For she is Simplicity’s child.
 Awa’ wi’ your belles, &c.


The rose-bud’s the blush o’ my charmer,
 Her sweet balmy lip when ’tis prest:
How fair and how pure is the lily!
 But fairer and purer her breast.
 Awa’ wi’ your belles, &c.


Yon knot of gay flowers in the arbour,
 They ne’er wi’ my Phillis can vie:
Her breath is the breath of the woodbine,
 Its dew-drop o’ diamond her eye.
 Awa’ wi’ your belles, &c.


Her voice is the song o’ the mornin...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women)

...d lifted eye, 
Or drest in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine, 
With simpering Angels, Palms, and Harps divine; 
Whether the Charmer sinner it, or saint it, 
If Folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 

Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! 
Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air; 
Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it 
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 

Rufa, whose eye quick-glancing o'er the Park, 
Attracts each light gay meteor of a Spark, 
A...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Farewell Ungrateful Traitor!

...as tried it 
Will never love again. 

The passion you pretended 
Was only to obtain, 
But once the charm is ended, 
The charmer you disdain. 
Your love by ours we measure 
Till we have lost our treasure, 
But dying is a pleasure 
When living is a pain....Read more of this...
by Dryden, John


Ireland

...Written for the Art Autograph during the Irish Famine, 1880.


Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland,
Charmer of the sun and sea,
Bright beguiler of old anguish,
How could Famine frown on thee?

As our Gulf-Stream, drawn to thee-ward,
Turns him from his northward flow,
And our wintry western headlands
Send thee summer from their snow,

Thus the main and cordial current
Of our love sets over sea, --
Tender, comely, valiant Ireland,
Songful, soulful, sorrowful...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

Pan to Artemis

...Uncharmable charmer
Of Bacchus and Mars
In the sounding rebounding
Abyss of the stars!
O virgin in armour,
Thine arrows unsling
In the brilliant resilient
First rays of the spring!

By the force of the fashion
Of love, when I broke
Through the shroud, through the cloud,
Through the storm, through the smoke,
To the mountain of passion
Volcanic that woke ---
By the rage o...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister

Phantasmagoria CANTO VII ( Sad Souvenaunce )

...AND TOAST, 
MY MEERSCHAUM AND CIGARS! 

THE HUES OF LIFE ARE DULL AND GRAY, 
THE SWEETS OF LIFE INSIPID, 
WHEN thou, MY CHARMER, ART AWAY - 
OLD BRICK, OR RATHER, LET ME SAY, 
OLD PARALLELEPIPED!' 

Instead of singing Verse the Third, 
I ceased - abruptly, rather: 
But, after such a splendid word 
I felt that it would be absurd 
To try it any farther. 

So with a yawn I went my way 
To seek the welcome downy, 
And slept, and dreamed till break of day 
Of Poltergeist and Fetch...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

Rain and the Robin

...
From the orchard
Came the gentle horning,
"There'll be rain."
But the hasty farmer 
Cut his hay down,
Did not heed the charmer
From the orchard,
And the mower's clatter
Ceased at noontide,
For with drip and spatter
Down came the rain.
Then the prophet robin
Hidden in the crab-tree
Railed upon the farmer,
"I told you so, I told you so."
As the rain grew stronger, 
And his heart grew prouder,
Notes so full and slow 
Coming blither, louder,
"I told you so, I told you so,"
"I to...Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell

Sweet Charmer.{1}

...
 ("L'aube naît et ta porte est close.") 
 
 {XXIII., February, 18—.} 


 Though heaven's gate of light uncloses, 
 Thou stirr'st not—thou'rt laid to rest, 
 Waking are thy sister roses, 
 One only dreamest on thy breast. 
 Hear me, sweet dreamer! 
 Tell me all thy fears, 
 Trembling in song, 
 But to break in tears. 
 
 Lo! to greet t...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Sash

...our flesh
itself in your body wildly streaming.
You would come home, a torn-off sash
dangling from either hand, a snake-charmer—
each time, she sewed them back on with
thicker thread, until the seams of
sash and dress bulged like little
knots of gristle at your waist as you walked, you could
feel them like thumbs pressing into your body.
The next sash was the one Thee, Hannah!
borrowed from her be-ribboned friend
and hid in a drawer and got salve on it,
salve on a sash, like ...Read more of this...
by Olds, Sharon

The Snake Charmer and the Hamadryad

...is one last lick
A lick that
Stills the
Unheeding
Child astray
Or ripple tailless
In the reedy gust
To the squat charmer's
Hypnotical pibroch...Read more of this...
by Wignesan, T

Upon earth, no one presses to his heart a charmer with

...Upon earth, no one presses to his heart a charmer with
cheeks of the tints of a rose without the time comes
that he feels the sting of the thorn. See the comb: before
it could caress the perfumed hair of the beauty, it
had to be cut into many teeth....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

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