A WITCH -- William Barnes

There's thik wold hag, Moll Brown, look zee, jus' past!

THE WITCH OF WILLOWBY WOOD -- Rowena Bennett

There once was a witch of Willowby Wood,

WITCHES' SONG -- Elizabeth Coatsworth

Early, early, comes the dark,

from THE BROOMSTICK TRAIN -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Look out! Look out, boys! Clear the track!

BEWARE! -- Lee Blair

Beware the witch's magic glance!

GRIMELDA -- Jean Conder Soule

Of all the witches in the Wicked Wood

NIGHT IN THE NEW FOREST -- Doreen Valiente

A crescent argent blazing bright

WITCHES RUNE -- Doreen Valiente

Darksome night and shining moon,

THE HEARSE SONG

Don't you ever laugh as the hearse goes by,

CRONE -- Graham Wyley

Approach without fear,

Requiem -- Ann C Bryn-Evans

That which belongs to Air

from The Faerie Queene (1590) -- Edmund Spenser

There, in a gloomy hollow glen, she found

Hallowe'en Night -- Unknown

Hallowe'en night

THE STORY OF WANDERING AENGUS -- William Butler Yeats

I went out to the hazel wood,

from The Witches Spell, Macbeth Act IV, Scene 1 -- Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs,

HALLOWEEN BLESSING -- Sabrina Dearborn

At this time of dark and night,

THE CHARGE OF THE GODDESS -- Doreen Valiente

Listen to the words of the Great Mother,

I'M A CROTCHETY WITCH -- Jack Prelutsky

I'm a crotchety witch

from THE WITCHES' CHARMS -- Ben Johnson

Dame, dame! the watch is set:

THE WITCH'S GARDEN -- Lillian Moore

In the Witch's... garden

THE WITCH IN THE WINTRY WOOD -- Aileen Fisher

This is the story of timid Tim

from The Witches of Weir -- David L Harrison

Stone of Vision

from La Belle Dame sans Merci -- John Keats

Oh what can ail thee knight at arms,

Hallowe'en -- Madison J Cawein

It was down in the woodland on last Hallowe'en,

Hallowe'en -- W.M. Letts

Why do you wait at your door, woman,

Mother Goblin's Lullaby -- Jack Prelutsky

Go to sleep, my baby goblin,

By the light of candle

THE HAUNTED PALACE -- Edgar Allan Poe

In the greenest of our valleys

THE OLD WITCH -- The Brothers Grimm

There was once a little girl who was very willful

From ghoulies and ghosties

Elegy for a Dead Witch -- Doreen Valiente

To think that you are gone, over the crest of the hills,

Never laugh when a ghost goes by

Have you ever seen a witch?

DRUIDS -- David O Norris

Druids would not know this night

Soul Cake -- Olde Celtic Chant

Soul! Soul! Or a soul cake;

Hallowe'en is coming on and the geese are getting fat.

Upon Each Samhain -- David O. Norris

I miss you most upon each Samhain

Season Of The Witch -- Song Lyrics by Donovan

When I looked out my window

The Devil -- Robert Southey

From his brimstone bed at the break of day

Wanted -- A Witch's Cat -- Shelagh McGee

Wanted -- a witch's cat

Velinda -- David O. Norris

Velinda held the flickering light

Words of the Witches -- Doreen Valiente

Hear now the words of the witches,

1845 SAMHAIN CHANT -- Doreen Valiente

Fire red, summer's dead

Longfellow on Haunted Houses - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All houses wherein men have lived and died

Heal the Earth -- Starhawk

May the old ones and the young be loved,

The evening is dark, and the sky is misty, and the wind blows low:

Hallowe'en in a Suburb -- H.P. Lovecraft

The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,

Old Witch, Old Witch -- Traditional American Folk song/poem

Chicken my chicken my creamy crow,

Night Noises -- Raymond Long and Joy Moore

Night-time noises, shapes and shadows,

A Soliloquy of the Full Moon -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Her Kind -- Anne Sexton

I have gone out, a possessed witch,

By St. Thomas Water -- Charles Causley

By St. Thomas Water

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THE WITCH -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

I have walked a great while over the snow,

The Witch's Life -- Anne Sexton

When I was a child

The Witch -- William Butler Yeats

Toil and grow rich,

Witch-Wife -- Edna St Vincent Millay

She is neither pink nor pale,

Witchcraft By a Picture -- John Donne

I fix mine eye on thine, and there

Baby Witch -- Erica Jong

Baby-witch,

The Witch's Steed -- Ambrose Bierce

A BROOMSTICK which had long served a witch

October -- Madison J Cawein

I OFT have met her slowly wandering

Figure of the Witch -- Erica Jong

Witch-woman,

The White Witch -- James Weldon Johnson

O brothers mine, take care! Take care!

The Charms -- Emma A Opper

Last night 'twas witching Hallowe'en,

The Witch's Ballad -- Doreen Valiente

Oh, I have been beyond the town,

Metamorphoses of the Vampire -- Charles Baudelaire

Meanwhile, from her red mouth the woman, in husky tones,

HALLOWE'EN -- John Kendrick Bangs

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts--

IT'S HALLOWEEN -- Jack Prelutsky

It's Halloween! It's Halloween!

HALLOWE'EN FAILURE -- CARLYLE SMITH

Who's dat peekin' in de do'?

TRICK OR TREK -- Ogden Nash

If my face is white as a newmade sail,

The Witch's Complaint! -- Janet and Stewart Farrar

Sally the Witch is feeling vexed;

Ding, Dong! The Witch is Dead -- Lyrics by: Edgar Yipsel Harburg

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead

HALLOWE'EN -- A.F. MURRAY

A gypsy flame in on the hearth,

GHOST -- Jack Prelutsky

I saw a ghost

OCTOBER -- Maurice Sendak

In October

Halloween has come at last.

The strangest sight I’ve ever seen.

Here come 3 witches ariding, ariding, ariding

The Demon of the Gibbet -- Fitz-James O'Brien

There was no west, there was no east,

Solomon And The Witch - William Butler Yeats

And thus declared that Arab lady:

Queen of the Haunted Dell -- M.V. Ingram

'Mid woodland bowers, grassy dell,

Good Night -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Then the bright lamp is carried in,

THE CHANGELING -- John Greenleaf Whittier

For the fairest maid in Hampton

The Witch Alone -- Scott Cunningham

Beyond the town, beneath the moon

If in the dark you're frightened,

If you are getting tired

TO BE A WITCH -- Ziller

To be a witch is to love and be loved.

I am a Witch -- Gerina Dunwich

I am a witch

Halloween -- Myra Cohn Livingston

Green cat eyes

Be Silent -- Edgar Allan Poe

Be silent in that solitude,

What Witches Do

The witches don their pointed hats,

The Scarecrow -- Madison Cawein

More than cakes or anything

Shadow March -- Robert Louis Stephenson

All around the house is the jet-black night;

Adventures Of Isabel -- Ogden Nash

Isabel met an enormous bear,

Kate's Still About -- H.C. Brehm

In the howling wind and the lighting's flash

Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds -- John Keats

DEAR Reynolds! as last night I lay in bed,

Death -- Thomas Hood

It is not death, that sometime in a sigh

Autumn -- Thomas Hood

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn

The Haunted House -- Thomas Hood

Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe,

Little Orphant Annie -- James Whitcomb Riley

Little Orpant Annie's come to our house to stay,

The Witch -- Percy H. Hott

I saw her plucking cowslips,

HALLOWEEN -- Marie A. Lawson

Granny, I saw a witch go by,

THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS -- Walter de la Mare

Up on their brooms the Witches stream,

THE WITCHES' RIDE -- Karla Kuskin

Over the hills

Hallowmas -- Madison Cawein

ALL hushed of glee,

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THE WITCH OF THE WEST-MER-LANDS -- Archie Fisher

Pale was the wounded knight

THE OLD WITCH IN THE COPSE -- Frances Crofts Darwin

I am a Witch, and a kind old Witch,

THE TROLL -- Jack Prelutsky

Be wary of the loathsome troll

ALL SOULS -- Edith Wharton

A THIN moon faints in the sky o'erhead,

THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS -- James Whitcomb Riley

They all climbed up on a high board-fence -

SAINT SWITHIN'S CHAIR -- Sir Walter Scott

Hallow-Mass Eve, ere you boune ye to rest,

MARIE LAVEAUX -- Shel Silverstein

Down in Lou´siana where the black trees grow

LAZY WITCH -- Myra Cohn Livingston

Lazy witch,

WITCHCRAFT -- lyrics by The Spiders

Don’t do that, please stop it, please stop it now

HALLOWE'EN -- Harry Behn

Tonight is the night

WITCH DOCTOR -- lyrics by David Seville

I told the witch doctor, I was in love with you.

WITCH CAT -- Rowena Bennett

I want a little witch cat

The Listeners -- Walter de la Mare

Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller,

The Will 'O the Wisp -- Jack Prelutsky

You are lost in the desolate forest

Hallowe'en in a Suburb -- H.P. Lovecraft

The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,

Hallowe'en -- Joel Benton

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite

Happy Halloween -- Jack Prelutsky

It's late and we are sleepy,

The wicked witch hopped on her broom

She comes by night, In fearsome flight,

Spirits of the Dead -- Edgar Allan Poe

Thy soul shall find itself alone

The Haunted House -- Madison J Caewin

THE shadows sit and stand about its door

Swamp Witch -- lyrics by Jim Stafford

Black water Hattie lived back in the swamp

What's That? -- Florence Parry Heide

What's that?

De Ole Moon Knows -- Lettie C VanDerveer

Mighty queer doin's eround' to-night;

The Hag -- Robert Herrick

The Hag is astride,

Premonition -- Robert Service

'Twas a year ago and the moon was bright

Once Upon a Time -- James W Foley

Once upon a time rare flowers grew

Witch Burning -- Sylvia Plath

In the marketplace they are piling the dry sticks.

The Witch -- Adelaide Crapsey

When I was girl by Nilus stream

Hallowe'en -- John Kendrick Bangs

The ghosts of all things past parade,

Ghosts -- Fannie Stearns Davis

I am almost afraid of the wind out there.

Recipe -- Shelagh McGee

If I tell you this tale you might wince,

Halloween -- unknown

Driving home one Halloween night,

Witch Heritage -- unknown

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket

The Hare -- Walter de la Mare

In the black furrow of a field

Jack O' Lantern -- Theodore Roethke

I'm a jack o' lantern with a great big grin

Advice on How to Sleep Well on Halloween Night -- unknown

The thing to remember when you go to bed

Halloween -- John Kitching

Witch's fiddle, turnip middle,

The Vampire -- Rudyard Kipling

A fool there was and he made his prayer

Night-Piece -- Siegfried Sassoon

YE hooded witches, baleful shapes that moan,

from a Hallowe'en Memory -- Christopher Morley

Do you remember, Heart's Desire,

Superstition -- Madison Cawein

In the waste places, in the dreadful night,

The Sorcerer's Song -- W.S. Gilbert

Oh! My name is John Wellington Wells

Witchery -- Frank Dempster Sherman

Out of the purple drifts,

Ghost House -- Robert Lee Frost

I dwell in a lonely house I know

Phantasmagoria -- D.H. Lawrence

RIGID sleeps the house in darkness, I alone

The Witch's Whelp -- Richard Henry Stoddard

ALONG the shore the slimy brine-pits yawn,

The Witch in the Glass -- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

"MY mother says I must not pass

Every One to His Own Way -- John Vance Cheney

OAK leaves are big as the mouse's ear,

Queen's Song -- Stopford Augustus Brooke

YOUNG Sir Guyon proudly said,

ALISON GROSS

O ALISON GROSS, that lives in yon tow'r,

The White Witch -- Dora Sigerson Shorter

HEAVEN help your home to-night,

Halloween -- Harper's Weekly, 1895

Now, when the owl makes wild ado

Hallowmas Soul Cake Song

Soul day, Soul day,

Jack o' Lantern's Story -- unknown

Ho, ho, little folks,

Halloween -- unknown

To-night the witches will ride, will ride,

All-Saints' Eve -- Lynette Woodward Reese

Oh, when the ghosts go by,

The Halloween Elf -- J.B. Tabb

There's a funny little elf man,

The Eve of All-Saints -- Madison Cawein

This is the tale they tell,

October -- Frank Lebby Stanton

I would I had a rhyme wherewith to robe her-

Haunted -- Walter de la Mare

From out the wood I watched them shine,--

John's Pumpkin -- Mrs Archibald

Last spring I found a pumpkin seed,

Hallowe'en -- Arthur Cleveland Coxe

The autumn wind-oh, hear it howl!

Jack O' Lantern -- Margaret E. Sangster

Grinning mouth and eyes of red

All Souls -- Katherine Tynan

The door of Heaven is on the latch