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•  The Puffin Book of Magic Verse • (1974) • interior artwork by Barbara Swiderska
• 15 • Introduction (The Puffin Book of Magic Verse) • (1974) • essay by Charles Causley
• 23 • Charm for St Valentine's Eve • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 23 • Charm for a Lover • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 24 • Love-Charm Songs • (1974) • poem by Tupi Indians, South America
• 24 • Charm on Seeing a Pisky • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 25 • Charme • (1974) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 25 • Charme [2] • (1974) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 26 • Charm Against a Magpie • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 26 • Charme [3] • (1974) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 27 • Charm Against an Egg-Boat • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 27 • Charm for a Wart • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 28 • 'The Soul is the Breath in Your Body' • (1970) • poem by Jeni Couzyn (variant of Charming)
• 29 • Charme for Stables • (1974) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 30 • Charm for a Thorn-Prick • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 30 • Charm for an Adder Bite • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 31 • Rattlesnake Ceremony Song • (1925) • poem by Yokuts Indians, North America
• 32 • Magic Song for Him Who Wishes to Live • (1921) • poem by Eskimo Song, Greenland
• 32 • Charm for the Toothache • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 33 • Charm to Stanch Bleeding • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 33 • Charm for a Burn or Scald • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 34 • Charm for Wildfire • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 34 • Charm • (1970) • poem by Anonymous
• 35 • Curing Song • (1946) • poem by Yuma Indians, North America
• 35 • West Wind to the Bairn • (1974) • poem by Joseph Jacobs [as by Anonymous, Scottish]
• 36 • Song to Bring Fair Weather • (1946) • poem by Nootka Indians, North America
• 36 • The Rogery Birds • (1971) • poem by Mary Gilmore
• 38 • Rain Song • (1946) • poem by Pima Indians, North America
• 39 • Plaint Against the Fog • (1946) • poem by Nootka Indians, North America
• 39 • Aztec Song • (1958) • poem by Nahuatl Indians, Mexico
• 40 • The Soldier Campion • (1974) • poem by W. S. Graham
• 41 • Two or Three Posies • (1848) • poem by John Keats
• 42 • Carve Her Name • (1972) • poem by Michael Baldwin
• 42 • Struthill Well • (1974) • poem by Joseph Jacobs [as by Anonymous, Scottish]
• 43 • This is a Rune I Have Heard a Tree Say • (1969) • poem by George Barker
• 44 • The Song at the Well • (1974) • poem by George Peele
• 45 • Amergin's Charm • (1965) • poem by Robert Graves
• 46 • Invocation of a Poet Seeking Inspiration • (1954) • poem by From the Gilbert Islands, Micronesia
• 46 • On a Midsummer Eve • (1916) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 47 • The Night-Piece, to Julia • (1974) • poem by Robert Herrick
• 48 • Spell of Creation • (1957) • poem by Kathleen Raine
• 49 • An Invocation • (1974) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 50 • The Faery Beam Upon You • (1974) • poem by Ben Jonson
• 51 • Upon That Night, When Fairies Light • (1974) • poem by Robert Burns
• 53 • Spells • (1950) • poem by James Reeves
• 54 • White Witchcraft • (1974) • poem by Robert Browning
• 55 • The Charm • (1953) • poem by Padraic Colum
• 59 • A Spell to Destroy Life • (1974) • poem by Cherokee Indians, North America
• 60 • St Newlina's Staff • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 61 • Charm for Striking Fear into a Tiger and Hardening One's Own Heart • (1900) • poem by From the Malay Peninsula
• 62 • Glaucopis • (1974) • poem by Richard Hughes
• 63 • Little John Brown & Little Mary Bell • (1974) • poem by William Blake
• 64 • Her Strong Enchantments Failing • (1922) • poem by A. E. Housman
• 64 • La Belle Dame Sans Merci • (1820) • poem by John Keats
• 67 • The Man in the Wilderness • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 67 • There she weaves both day and night (from The Lady of Shalott) • (1974) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 69 • Noble Sisters • non-genre • (1862) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 73 • The Egg-shell • (1940) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 74 • Hallowe'en • (1968) • poem by Leonard Clark
• 75 • All Hail, Great Master! • (1974) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 76 • The Warden • (1964) • poem by Stevie Smith
• 77 • The Witch • (1969) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 79 • When Shall We Three Meet Again • (1974) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 80 • Dame Hickory • (1969) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 81 • Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd • (1974) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 82 • The Hags' Song • (1974) • poem by Ben Jonson
• 85 • Oh! My Name Is John Wellington Wells • (1877) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 87 • The Great Nemo • (1952) • poem by Osbert Sitwell
• 91 • Hapless • (1969) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 92 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 94 • The Three Beggars • juvenile • (1901) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 96 • The Changeling • (1974) • poem by Shirley Toulson
• 101 • Song of Two Ghosts • (1932) • poem by Indian Song from Omaha, North America
• 101 • Old Mother Laindinwool • (1974) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 103 • The Strange Visitor • (1974) • poem by Joseph Jacobs [as by Anonymous, Scottish]
• 105 • Colonel Fazackerley • (1970) • poem by Charles Causley
• 107 • A Boy's Friend • (1972) • poem by Roy Fuller
• 108 • The Secret Brother • (1966) • poem by Elizabeth Jennings
• 109 • Dicky • (1960) • poem by Robert Graves
• 111 • The Knight's Ghost • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 114 • Lord Cozens Hardy • (1958) • poem by John Betjeman
• 115 • The Youth with the Red-Gold Hair • (1954) • poem by Edith Sitwell
• 116 • Shadwell Stair • (1974) • poem by Wilfred Owen
• 116 • City • (1974) • poem by John Betjeman
• 117 • Sally Simpkin's Lament; or John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe • (1974) • poem by Thomas Hood (variant of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe 1834)
• 118 • The Spunky • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 120 • The Glimpse • (1919) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 121 • The Ghost • (1974) • poem by Patricia Beer
• 122 • The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston • (1974) • poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell (variant of Keith of Ravelston 1947) [as by Sydney Dobell]
• 124 • At Home • (1862) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 125 • Sweet William's Ghost • (1974) • poem by uncredited [as by Anonymous]
• 128 • The Phantom-Lover • (1974) • poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• 129 • The Ghosts' High Noon • (unknown) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 130 • The Great Auk's Ghost • (1907) • poem by Ralph Hodgson
• 133 • The Totem Pole • (1971) • poem by Mary Gilmore
• 133 • Twelve Men's Moor • (1974) • poem by D. M. Thomas
• 134 • Right Cheek! Left Cheek! • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 134 • St Levan's Prophecy • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 135 • Crickstone • (1974) • poem by D. M. Thomas
• 136 • The Well of St Keyne • (1974) • poem by Richard Carew
• 137 • An Old and Crumbling Parapet • (1972) • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 138 • The Chough • (1974) • poem by John Heath-Stubbs
• 139 • Then Quickly Rose Sir Bedivere • (1974) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 140 • Robin Song • (1970) • poem by Ted Hughes
• 141 • The Scarecrow in the Schoolmaster's Oats • (1971) • poem by George Mackay Brown
• 142 • Song for the Spinning Wheel • (1974) • poem by William Wordsworth
• 143 • Harp of Wild and Dream-Like Strain • (1974) • poem by
  Emily Brontë^?Emily Bronte
• 144 • Frutta di Mare • (1931) • poem by Geoffrey Scott
• 145 • O Weary Lady, Geraldine • (1974) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 146 • Ardevora Veor • (1972) • poem by A. L. Rowse
• 148 • House Fear • (1916) • poem by Robert Frost
• 149 • Voices • (1971) • poem by Frances Bellerby
• 150 • Drowned, Sir, Drowned Men the Lot of Them! • (1974) • poem by Thomas Blackburn
• 152 • Rhyme for Children • (1966) • poem by Elizabeth Jennings
• 153 • I Would Sing Songs • (1970) • poem by Anonymous
• 157 • Wee Willie Gray • (1974) • poem by Robert Burns
• 158 • The Wee Wee Man • (1947) • poem by Anonymous
• 160 • On Some Ghostly Companions at a Spa • (1974) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 161 • In the Orchard • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 162 • Song of the Ogres • (1969) • poem by W. H. Auden
• 163 • Cold Lies the Dew • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 164 • The Deil's Awa wi' th' Exciseman • (1974) • poem by Robert Burns
• 165 • The Start of a Memorable Holiday • (1972) • poem by Roy Fuller
• 169 • The Three Singing Birds • (1959) • poem by James Reeves
• 170 • Cuckoo Song • (1974) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 172 • A Rare and Miraculous Case • (1961) • poem by Traditional Spanish
• 174 • The Seven Sisters or, The Solitude of Binnorie • (1974) • poem by William Wordsworth
• 176 • A Small Dragon • (1962) • poem by Brian Patten
• 177 • The Serpent • (1950) • poem by Theodore Roethke
• 178 • The Roc • (1972) • poem by Edward Lowbury
• 179 • Vision of Belshazzar • (1974) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]
• 180 • The Cap and Bells • (1894) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 182 • Up on the Downs • (1917) • poem by John Masefield
• 183 • Silent is the House – All Are Laid Asleep • (1974) • poem by
  Emily Brontë^?Emily Bronte
• 184 • Ends Meet • (1971) • poem by Frances Bellerby
• 185 • I Saw a Strange Creature • (1965) • poem by Anglo-Saxon Riddle
• 186 • Song • (1927) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 187 • Windy Nights • (1885) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 188 • Kingdom of Mist • (1969) • poem by Edward Storey
• 189 • Stones • (1970) • poem by Leslie Norris
• 190 • Tom Bone • (1970) • poem by Charles Causley
• 191 • Check • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 195 • The Sailor Boy • (1974) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 196 • The Reverend Arbuthnot-Armitage-Brown • (1970) • poem by George Barker
• 197 • The Eddystone Light • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 198 • The Isles of Jessamy • (1972) • poem by Christopher Logue
• 199 • Count Arnaldos • (1961) • poem by Traditional Spanish
• 200 • Glaucus • (1974) • poem by David Wright
• 201 • Sabrina Fair • (1974) • poem by John Milton
• 201 • Sabrina's Song • (1974) • poem by John Milton
• 202 • Cologne • (1974) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 205 • The Crackling Twig • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 206 • Nan's Song • (1960) • poem by Maurice Carpenter
• 207 • The Tree • (1974) • poem by Andrew Young
• 208 • The Soldan's Song • (1954) • poem by Edith Sitwell
• 209 • Overheard on a Saltmarsh • (1912) • poem by Harold Monro
• 210 • O Here It Is! And There It Is! • (1972) • poem by Mervyn Peake
• 211 • The Ancient Elf • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 212 • Fairy Story • (1971) • poem by Stevie Smith
• 213 • This is Mab, the Mistress-Fairy • (1974) • poem by Ben Jonson
• 214 • Fairy's Song • (1974) • poem by John Keats (variant of Faery Song (Shed no Tear! O Shed no Tear!) 1818)
• 215 • Wine of the Fairies • (1839) • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 215 • Ariel's Song • (1974) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 216 • From the Forests and Highlands • (1974) • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 216 • Song (O'er the smooth enameled green) • (1974) • poem by John Milton
• 217 • The Fairy Queen • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 219 • Whom the Untaught Shepherds Call • (1974) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 219 • Evening by Evening • (1862) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 221 • Now the Hungry Lion Roars • (1974) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 222 • When Fades the Moon to Shadowy-Pale • (1974) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 223 • Robin Good-Fellow • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 226 • Song of the Gremlins • (1974) • poem by Anonymous
• 227 • The Merry Guide • (1899) • poem by A. E. Housman
• 229 • Pan with Us • (1913) • poem by Robert Frost