Poems of Magic and Spells

Introduction Allingham, William (1824-1889) The Fairies The Fairy King Barnes, William (1801-1886) A Witch Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849) Old Adam, the Carrion Crow Bennett, Rowena (1896- ) The Witch of Willowby Wood Blake, William (1757-1827) A Poison Tree Carryl, Guy Wetmore (1873-1904) How a Fisherman Corked Up His Foe in a Jar Clairmont, Robert (1902- ) The Wheelgoround Coatsworth, Elizabeth (1893- ) Daniel Webster's Horses Wise Sarah and the Elf Witches' Song Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) from The Devil's Thoughts Cornish, William (c. 1465-c. 1523) Rutterkin Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962) Who Knows If the Moon's de la Mare, Walter (1873-1956) Bewitched Sam Silver Tillie Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) I Know Some Lonely Houses Drake, Leah Bodine (1914-1964) Changeling Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820) Elfin Song Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton (1849-1937) The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs Evans, Sebastian (1830-1909) The Seven Fiddlers Farjeon, Eleanor (1881-1965) For a Mocking Voice Mrs. Malone Fort, Paul (1872-1960) Pan and the Cherries Gibson, W. W. (1878-1962) The Dancing Seal Gilbert, W. S. (1836-1911) My Name Is John Wellington Wells Sir Roderick's Song Graves, Robert (1895- ) The Pumpkin Guiterman, Arthur (1871-1943) Death and General Putnam Prologue for a Magician What the Gray Cat Sings The Woman's Tongue Tree Hale, Robert Beverly (1901- ) The Big Nasturtiums Harte, Bret (1839-1902) The Ghost That Jim Saw Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856) The Lorelei A Meeting Helton, Roy (1886- ) Lonesome Water Old Christmas Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744-1803) Sir Olaf Herford, Oliver (1863-1935) A Christmas Legend A Love Story Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) from The Broomstick Train Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) Fairies' Song Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637) from The Witches' Charms Joyce, Robert Dwyer (1836-1883) The Leprahaun Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875) The Sands of Dee Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881) The Hound Lear, Edward (1812-1888) The Dong with a Luminous Nose Ledwidge, Francis (1891-1917) The Wife of Llew Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903) The Flying Dutchman Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) Aladdin Manifold, John (1915- ) The Bunyip and the Whistling Kettle Monro, Harold (1879-1932) Overheard on a Saltmarsh Moody, William Vaughn (1869-1910) The Counting Man Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958) The Admiral's Ghost O'Brien, Fitz-James (1828?-1862) The Demon of the Gibbet Patmore, F. J. (Unknown) The White Owl Reeves, James (1909- ) Little Fan The Old Wife and the Ghost Queer Things Spells The Three Singing Birds Richards, Laura E. (1850-1943) Little John Bottlejohn Scheffauer, Ethel Talbot (1888- ) Copper Song Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) "The Witches' Spell," from Macbeth Skidmore, Ruth Mather (Unknown) Fantasy Smith, William Jay (1918- ) Mrs. Caribou Stephens, James (1882-1950) A Visit from Abroad Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892) The Mermaid The Merman Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892- ) Goblin Feet Turner, Walter J. (1889-1946) Romance Welcome, L. O. (Unknown) The Phantom Mail Coach Welles, Winifred (1893-1939) Behind the Waterfall Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) The Brown Dwarf of Rügen Wolfe, Humbert (1885-1940) Green Candles The Return of the Fairy Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939) The Cat and the Moon The Song of Wandering Aengus The Stolen Child Unknown The Conjuror The Demon Lover I Saw a Peacock Lord Lovel Meet-on-the-Road Mr. Nobody The Robin of the Red Breast Widdecombe Fair Title Index Index of First Lines