NEAR THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Irish poet William Butler Yeats became actively involved in magical circles, joining The…
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Watcher In The Woods by Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1906
Excerpt from from the book “The Story and Song of Black Roderick” AND I BID THEE REMEMBER how the little…
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Queen of the Haunted Dell, by M.V. Ingram, Authenticated history of the Bell Witch, 1894.
Ingram wasn’t a poet by nature perhaps, but he made a great song lyricist. Colorful, but simple and short, unlike…
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Poem 19 (from Epithalamion) by Edmund Spenser, 1594
Edmund Spenser wrote Epithalamion for Elizabeth Boyle, his bride to be as wedding gift. It’s an account of their wedding day, from before dawn till late…
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The Sands of Dee (from Alton Locke) By Charles Kingsley, 1849
The Sands of Dee is a poem within a novel, Alton Locke, written by Charles Kingsley in 1849. Like most great…
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The Eggshell by Rudyard Kipling, 1904
Kipling included this little poem in his book Traffics & Discoveries in 1904. Some say it’s a children’t poem, an allegory. The Kipling…
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The Listeners by Walter de la Mare, 1912
Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard by Philip James De Loutherbourg, 1790 Something is happening in The Listeners, but we never…
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Midnight by James Russell Lowell, 1842
MOSTLY FORGOTTEN TODAY, James Russell Lowell lived and breathed New England. Much as Mark Twain became the voice and accent…
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The Witches’ Song, from Ben Johnson’s Masque of Queens, 1609
IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, renowned dramatist, poet and favorite of the royal court composed a series of masques for…
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Act IV Scene I (The Witches Song) from the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1606
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS to come to mind when you think of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the witches. “Hubble, bubble, toil…
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Excerpts from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” 1595-96
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream is likely the most influential fairy tale of all time, albeit geared towards adults. It also…
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