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An 1850 acrostic by Nathaniel Dearborn, the first letter of each line spelling the name "JENNY LIND". An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1]
Mary Fage (fl. 1637) was a middle-class English poet known only through her one book, Fames Roule, published in 1637. Fames Roule is a collection of over four hundred acrostic verses, each one an anagram addressed to a noble person in the early Stuart court, in the order of legal precedence.
Poems about witches and witchcraft. Pages in category "Poems about witches and witchcraft" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The composer Freya Waley-Cohen has set eight poems from WITCH to music: the first complete performance of Spell Book took place at Milton Court in London on 1 February 2024. [11] Waley-Cohen's opera WITCH, with libretto by Ruth Mariner, was inspired by the Rebecca Tamás collection of the same name. [12]
The author's pen name is given as "Tifi" in the frontispice, and as "Tifetus" in an acrostic that precedes the text. The title of the poem is thought to come from maccerone, a kind of pasta or dumpling eaten by peasants at the time. [4] The poem was a success; it was reprinted several times, and inspired many other Macaronea in the following ...
Erichtho was popularized by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem Pharsalia.. In Lucan's Pharsalia, Erichtho is repugnant (for instance, she is described as having a "dry cloud" hang over her head and that her breath "poisons otherwise non-lethal air"), [7] and wicked to the point of sacrilege (e.g.
An unpublished 9-line poem written circa 1829 for Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca Herring (the acrostic is her first name, spelled out by the first letter of each line). It was never published in Poe's lifetime.
Eko Eko Azarak is the opening phrase from a Wiccan chant. It is also known as the "Witch's chant", the "Witch's rune", or the "Eko Eko chant". [1]The following form was used by Gerald Gardner, considered as the founder of Wicca as an organized, contemporary religion.