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Hist Whist: Poems of Magic and Mystery, Witches and Ghosts

Dennis Saunders

First published 1975
Publisher Evans Brothers
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Kathy Wyatt
Pages 95
ISBN 0237448351

First published 1975 by Evans Brothers Ltd per Pan Books edition

Data from 1977 (paperback) reprint on Archive.org. Last numbered page is 91; "Index of First Lines" and "Index of Authors" are numbered only on contents page.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 All Hallowe'en Pauline Clarke Poem
11 Now the Hungry Lion Roars William Shakespeare Poem
12 A Witch's Song Thomas Middleton Poem
13 Mother Maudlin the Witch Ben Jonson Poem
14 The Hag Robert Herrick Poem
15 Hallowe'en Leonard Clark Poem
15 Look Out, Boys! Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem
16 Witches Gather Ben Jonson Poem
17 hist whist e. e. cummings Poem
18 The Making of a Charm William Shakespeare Poem
20 I Saw Three Witches Walter de la Mare Poem
21 Hey-How for Hallowe'en! Anon Poem
21 The Witch Mary Coleridge Poem
22 A Country Witch William Barnes Poem
23 Punkie Night Anon Poem
24 Queen Nefertiti Anon Poem
25 Some Say Anon Poem
25 The Witches' Call Clive Sansom Poem
26 The Two Magicians Anon Poem
28 A Charm for Travellers Anon Poem
28 The Witches' Reel Anon Poem
31 The Strange Visitor Anon Poem
33 Unwelcome Mary Coleridge Poem
34 Oft in the Lone Churchyard Robert Blair Poem
34 Sweet William's Ghost Anon Poem
37 Charm for the Coming Day Robert Herrick Poem
37 Prayer for a Quiet Night Edmund Spenser Poem
38 Cold Lies the Dew Anon Poem
39 Charm against Witches Robert Herrick Poem
39 Prince Kano Edward Lowbury Poem
40 Daniel Webster's Horses Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
41 Shadow-Bride J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
42 The Spunky Anon Poem
45 Will-O'-Wisp John Clare Poem
46 A Charm Thomas Campion (1567–1620) Poem
47 Bewitched Walter de la Mare Poem
48 The Changeling Charlotte Mew Poem
50 Traveller's Curse After Misdirection (From the Welsh) Robert Graves Poem
51 The Little Boy Lost Stevie Smith Poem
52 A Spell for Sleeping Alastair Reid Poem
53 The Song of Wandering Aengus W. B. Yeats Poem
54 La Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats Poem
55 Johnny Dow Anon Poem
56 The Demon Lover Anon Poem
61 Haunted William Mayne Poem
62 The Empty House Russell Hoban Poem
63 Green Candles Humbert Wolfe Poem
64 The Alice Jean Robert Graves Poem
65 Emperors of the Island Dannie Abse Poem
66 A Man of Words Anon Poem
67 The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling Poem
68 The Ghosts' Walk John Kendall (II) Poem
70 Hemlock, Henbane, Adder's-tongue... Ben Jonson Poem
73 Queer Things James Reeves Poem
74 Mixed Brews Clive Sansom Poem
75 Old Moll James Reeves Poem
76 Oo-oo-ah-ah! Anon Poem
76 Two Charms to Cure Hiccups Anon Poem
77 Dinky Theodore Roethke Poem
78 A Cure for Cramp Anon Poem
78 The Two Witches Robert Graves Poem
79 Song of the Ogres W. H. Auden Poem
80 The Witch Walter de la Mare Poem
81 The Ghost's Song Anon Poem
82 A Meeting George D. Painter Poem
85 The Marrog R. C. Scriven Poem
86 The Horny Goloch Anon Poem
86 The Silent Eye Ted Hughes Poem
87 The Mewlips J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
88 The Hairy Toe Traditional American Poem
89 Charm for the Sleeping Child Robert Herrick Poem
89 Charm for the Stables Robert Herrick Poem
90 The Snitterjipe James Reeves Poem
91 A Short Litany Traditional Poem

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Hist Whist: Poems of Magic and Mystery, Witches and Ghosts Cover 1977 Piccolo / Pan Books Paperback Anthology Alan Lee 95