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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428. Song—Phillis the Queen o' the fair

by Robert Burns
 ADOWN winding Nith I did wander,
 To mark the sweet flowers as they spring;
Adown winding Nith I did wander,
 Of Phillis to muse and to sing.


Chorus.—Awa’ wi’ your belles and your beauties,
 They never wi’ her can compare,
Whaever has met wi’ my Phillis,
 Has met wi’ the queen o’ the fair.


The daisy amus’d my fond fancy,
 So artless, so...Read more of this...

Pan to Artemis

by Aleister Crowley
 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 of the mage
I invoke, I invoke!

By the midnight...Read more of this...

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

by Omar Khayyam
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...

Sweet Charmer.{1}

by Victor Hugo
 ("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...Read more of this...

Phantasmagoria CANTO VII ( Sad Souvenaunce )

by Lewis Carroll
 "WHAT'S this?" I pondered. "Have I slept? 
Or can I have been drinking?" 
But soon a gentler feeling crept 
Upon me, and I sat and wept 
An hour or so, like winking. 

"No need for Bones to hurry so!" 
I sobbed. "In fact, I doubt 
If it was worth his while to go - 
And who is Tibbs, I'd...Read more of this...

Rain and the Robin

by Duncan Campbell Scott
 A ROBIN in the morning,
In the morning early,
Sang a song of warning,
"There'll be rain, there'll be rain."
Very,very clearly 
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...Read more of this...

Farewell Ungrateful Traitor!

by John Dryden
 Farewell, ungrateful traitor! 
Farewell, my perjur'd swain! 
Let never injur'd woman 
Believe a man again. 
The pleasure of possessing 
Surpasses all expressing, 
But 'tis too short a blessing, 
And love too long a pain. 

'Tis easy to deceive us 
In pity of your pain, 
But when we love, you leave us 
To rail at you in vain. 
Before we...Read more of this...

The Sash

by Sharon Olds
 The first ones were attached to my dress
at the waist, one on either side,
right at the point where hands could clasp you and
pick you up, as if you were a hot
squeeze bottle of tree syrup, and the
sashes that emerged like axil buds from the
angles of the waist were used to play horses, that
racing across the cement while someone
held your...Read more of this...

210. Song—Stay my Charmer

by Robert Burns
 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...

30. Song—Composed in August

by Robert Burns
 NOW westlin winds and slaught’ring guns
 Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
The moorcock springs on whirring wings
 Amang the blooming heather:
Now waving grain, 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...Read more of this...

Ireland

by Sidney Lanier
 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...Read more of this...

The Snake Charmer and the Hamadryad

by T Wignesan
For J. C. Alldridge

Piccolo and been-throated pibroch
Dilating dimpled hood
Spreading photometric darkroom eyes
Waxing waxing matching
Venomous lip to music's piping lip
O Queen of stung dragon mouthed Po
Dancing girl of nuanceless ancient reliefs
The apotheosis Brahman curling on the neck
Must you now sink sink
Dread watched
Spineless
Into the winding womb wickerwork
Watching watching pipe-eyed watching
Until you slip
Over the sill of the pipe and the lip

Anathema! Amorphous piteous...Read more of this...

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