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Famous Warlock Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...drives on the wheeling hare;
Ane on th’ Auld Brig his airy shape uprears,
The other flutters o’er the rising piers:
Our warlock Rhymer instantly dexcried
The Sprites that owre the Brigs of Ayr preside.
(That Bards are second-sighted is nae joke,
And ken the lingo of the sp’ritual folk;
Fays, Spunkies, Kelpies, a’, they can explain them,
And even the very deils they brawly ken them).
“Auld Brig” appear’d of ancient Pictish race,
The very wrinkles Gothic in his face;
He...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...ay, green-spreading bowers;
And now comes in the happy hours,
 To wander wi’ my Davie.


Chorus.—Meet me on the warlock knowe,
 Dainty Davie, Dainty Davie;
There I’ll spend the day wi’ you,
 My ain dear Dainty Davie.


The crystal waters round us fa’,
The merry birds are lovers a’,
The scented breezes round us blaw,
 A wandering wi’ my Davie.
 Meet me on, &c.


As purple morning starts the hare,
To steal upon her early fare,
Then thro’ the dews I will repa...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...tted wi’ care,
 I gaed to the tryst o’ Dalgarnock;
But wha but my fine fickle wooer was there,
 I glowr’d as I’d seen a warlock, a warlock,
 I glowr’d as I’d seen a warlock.


But owre my left shouther I gae him a blink,
 Lest neibours might say I was saucy;
My wooer he caper’d as he’d been in drink,
 And vow’d I was his dear lassie, dear lassie,
 And vow’d I was his dear lassie.


I spier’d for my cousin fu’ couthy and sweet,
 Gin she had recover’d her hearin’,
And h...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...DEAR SMITH, the slee’st, pawkie thief,
That e’er attempted stealth or rief!
Ye surely hae some warlock-brief
 Owre human hearts;
For ne’er a bosom yet was prief
 Against your arts.


For me, I swear by sun an’ moon,
An’ ev’ry star that blinks aboon,
Ye’ve cost me twenty pair o’ shoon,
 Just gaun to see you;
An’ ev’ry ither pair that’s done,
 Mair taen I’m wi’ you.


That auld, capricious carlin, Nature,
To mak amends for scrimpit stature,
She’...Read more of this...

by Berryman, John
...Whence flew the litter whereon he was laid?
Of what heroic stuff was warlock Henry made?
and questions of that sort
perplexed the bulging cosmos, O in short
was sandalwood in good supply when he
flared out of history

& the obituary in The New York Times
into the world of generosity
creating the air where are
& can be, only, heroes? Statues & rhymes
signal his fiery Passage, a mountainous sea,
the occlusion of a star:

anythi...Read more of this...



by Hammond, Mac
..., beckoned by
Fingers of shadows on leaf-strewn lawns
To trick or treat. Standing at the open
Door, the sculptor, a warlock, drops
Penny candies into their bags, knowing
The message of winter: only the children,
Pretending to be ghosts, are real....Read more of this...

by Larkin, Philip
...a pig's ****, friend.
Day comes to an end.
The gas fire breathes, the trees are darkly swayed.
And so Dear Warlock-Williams: I'm afraid--

Funny how hard it is to be alone.
I could spend half my evenings, if I wanted,
Holding a glass of washing sherry, canted
Over to catch the drivel of some *****
Who's read nothing but Which;
Just think of all the spare time that has flown

Straight into nothingness by being filled
With forks and faces, rather than repaid
Un...Read more of this...

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