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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INQUISITOR, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poet's Biography First Line: The hound is at the witch's tree Last Line: The moon would stare and stare. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Inquisition | |||
The hound is at the witch's tree, The alder crouches white; The farmer sets his bitches free To creep along the night. I hear the wind whine in the bog; I hear the worms creep in a log, Turning the wood to meal; I've heard the rain-crow twice, I've seen two ghosts at dice Behind the dead mill-wheel. There is a candle on the stream That bows and bobs and does not die; It is a leaf the moon makes seem A candle rocking tenderly. Now if the moon would veil her face, And not go white and bare, I'd find me out a warm, dark place And lay my cold heart there; Too cold for any care. A place all earthy sweet and brown, Where tiny dwellers bore and plough, And birds at dawn hop softly down. But she goes white and bare, And she would come and stare; I could not die for thinking how The moon would stare and stare. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE AUTO-DA-FE; A LEGEND OF SPAIN by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY by ROBERT BROWNING THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2 by MARY ANN EVANS THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 3 by MARY ANN EVANS THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 4 by MARY ANN EVANS THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5 by MARY ANN EVANS THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART ONE by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART TWO by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE PATH-FLOWER by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN |
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