Famous Witchery Poems by Famous Poets

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Al Aaraaf

...r what can awaken
An angel so soon,
Whose sleep hath been taken
Beneath the cold moon,
As the spell which no slumber
Of witchery may test,
The rhythmical number
Which lull'd him to rest?"

Spirits in wing, and angels to the view,
A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean thro',
Young dreams still hovering on their drowsy flight-
Seraphs in all but "Knowledge," the keen light
That fell, refracted, thro' thy bounds, afar,
O Death! from eye of God upon that star:
Sweet was that erro...Read more of this...
by Poe, Edgar Allan


Blue Evening

...This April twilight on the river
Stirs anguish in the heart of me.

For the fast world in that rare glimmer
Puts on the witchery of a dream,
The straight grey buildings, richly dimmer,
The fiery windows, and the stream

With willows leaning quietly over,
The still ecstatic fading skies . . .
And all these, like a waiting lover,
Murmur and gleam, lift lustrous eyes,

Drift close to me, and sideways bending
Whisper delicious words.
But I
Stretch terrible hands, uncomprehending,...Read more of this...
by Brooke, Rupert

Camma

...thee standing, antique-limbed, and stern?

And yet - methinks I'd rather see thee play
That serpent of old Nile, whose witchery
Made Emperors drunken, - come, great Egypt, shake
Our stage with all thy mimic pageants! Nay,
I am grown sick of unreal passions, make
The world thine Actium, me thine Anthony!...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

Canzone VII

...rness and gall!How have you changed my life, so tranquil, ereWith the false witchery blind,That alone lured me to his amorous snare!If right I judge, a mindI boasted once with higher feelings rife,—But he destroy'd my peace, he plunged me in this strife! "Less for myself to care, through him I've grow...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Humanitad

...cure flight Athena's owl itself hath strayed.

Nor much with Science do I care to climb,
Although by strange and subtle witchery
She drew the moon from heaven: the Muse Time
Unrolls her gorgeous-coloured tapestry
To no less eager eyes; often indeed
In the great epic of Polymnia's scroll I love to read

How Asia sent her myriad hosts to war
Against a little town, and panoplied
In gilded mail with jewelled scimitar,
White-shielded, purple-crested, rode the Mede
Between the wavi...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar


On Being Human

...curves, 
Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges.
—An angel has no nerves.

Far richer they! I know the senses' witchery 
Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see; 
Imminent death to man that barb'd sublimity 
And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be. 
Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior, 
This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares 
With living men some secrets in a privacy 
Forever ours, not theirs....Read more of this...
by Lewis, C S

Put Off the Wedding Five Times and Nobody Comes to It

...that hokku: The heart of a woman of thirty is like the red ball of the sun seen through a mist.
Or I will remember the witchery in the eyes of a girl at a barn dance one winter night in Illinois saying: Put off the wedding five times and nobody comes to it....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

Silently Shes Combing

...er long hair 
Before the looking-glass. 

I pray you, cease to comb out, 
Comb out your long hair, 
For I have heard of witchery 
Under a pretty air, 

That makes as one thing to the lover 
Staying and going hence, 
All fair, with many a pretty air 
And many a negligence....Read more of this...
by Joyce, James

Sonnet XLIV

...gh the forest glade,Nor tidings new of happiness delay'd,Nor poesie, Love's witchery enhancing,Nor lady's song beside clear fountain glancing,In beauty's pride, with chastity array'd;Nor aught of lovely, aught of gay in show,Shall touch my heart, now cold within her tombWho was erewhile my life and light below!Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Lovers Litany

...leading of the waltz that thrills,
Dies and echoes round Benmore.
 "Mabel," "Officers," "Good-bye,"
 Glamour, wine, and witchery --
 On my soul's sincerity,
 "Love like ours can never die!"

Maidens of your charity,
Pity my most luckless state.
Four times Cipid's debtor I --
Bankrupt in quadruplicate.
 Yet, despite this evil case,
 And a maiden showed me grace,
 Four-and-forty times would I
 Sing the Lovers' Litany:
 "Love like ours can never die!"...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Myth of Arthur

...melot and the crown. 
And why one banner all the background fills, 
Beyond the pageants of so many spears, 
And by what witchery in the western hills 
A throne stands empty for a thousand years. 
Who hold, unheeding this immense impact, 
Immortal story for a mortal sin; 
Lest human fable touch historic fact, 
Chase myths like moths, and fight them with a pin. 
Take comfort; rest--there needs not this ado. 
You shall not be a myth, I promise you....Read more of this...
by Chesterton, G K

The Plea of the Simla Dancers

...zing on official files,
 And desecrating desks disgust the stars.

Nay! by the memory of tuneful nights --
 Nay! by the witchery of flying feet --
Nay! by the glamour of foredone delights --
 By all things merry, musical, and meet --
By wine that sparkled, and by sparkling eyes --
 By wailing waltz -- by reckless gallop's strain --
By dim verandas and by soft replies,
 Give us our ravished ball-room back again!

Or -- hearken to the curse we lay on you!
 The ghosts of waltzes...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Storm

...ering mind
To follow as a willing captive thine;
I listened with a will not wholly mine.
But now when freed from th' witchery of thy voice
I see no wisdom in thy new made choice.
Thou art a woman pure, whose noble heart
Would fain do, in this world, its earnest part;
But Hilda, with a girl's weak, erring hand,
Thy hopes are builded on the treacherous sand.
Give up this dream that in thy mind now lies
And be again my Hilda, glad and wise."
"No, no" the dark eyes fla...Read more of this...
by Sherrick, Fannie Isabelle

While The Bannock Bakes

...ldren, and the heavens ever blue.

You told me of that girl of yours, that blossom of old Spain,
All glamour, grace and witchery, all passion, verve and glow.
How maddening she must have been! You made me see her plain,
There by our little camp-fire, in the silence and the snow.
You loved her and she loved you. She'd a husband, too, I think,
A doctor chap, you told me, whom she treated like a dog,
A white man living on the beach, a hopeless slave to drink --
(Just turn that b...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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