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it is
the spectre is invisible
unto our grosser senses but she sees it | img2poems |
look
look
there is another clad in gray | img2poems |
she holds a spindle in her hand and threatens
to stab me with it
it is goodwife corey | img2poems |
the laws that govern
the spiritual world prevent our seeing
things palpable and visible to her | img2poems |
beholding this
it were indeed by far more credulous
to be incredulous than to believe | img2poems |
none but a sadducee who doubts of all
pertaining to the spiritual world
could doubt such manifest and damning proofs | img2poems |
the cattle are all running to the woods
john gloyd
where is the man | img2poems |
call all the men
be quick
go after them | img2poems |
sad things indeed the saddest you can hear
of bridget bishop
she's cried out upon | img2poems |
they'll little help her now her caps and ribbons
and her red paragon bodice and her plumes
with which she flaunted in the meeting-house | img2poems |
i wonder you should
i do not believe
in witches nor in witchcraft | img2poems |
did not the witch of endor bring the ghost
of samuel from his grave
the bible says so | img2poems |
i hope this richard gardner will bring him
a gale of good sound common-sense to blow
the fog of these delusions from his brain | img2poems |
ho
martha
martha | img2poems |
then let it lie there
i'll ride to the village
and say you are a witch | img2poems |
a melancholy end
who would have thought
that bridget bishop e'er would come to this | img2poems |
accused convicted and condemned to death
for witchcraft
and so good a woman too | img2poems |
how do i know but under my own roof
i too may harbor witches and some devil
be plotting and contriving against me | img2poems |
the night his house was burned i was in bed
and i can prove it
why we are old friends | img2poems |
he said you did it out of spite to him
for taking part against you in the quarrel
you had with your john gloyd about his wages | img2poems |
well
what of them
have you found them | img2poems |
they will not break his fences any more
though they may break his heart
and what care i | img2poems |
i say if any man
can have a devil in him then that man
is proctor is john proctor and no other | img2poems |
he says i burned his house
i was in bed
and fast asleep that night and i can prove it | img2poems |
i do not like that gloyd
i think him crafty
not to be trusted sullen and untruthful | img2poems |
why can't they let him rest
why must they drag him
out of his grave to give me a bad name | img2poems |
i did not kill him
in his bed he died
as most men die because his hour had come | img2poems |
no i do not think
i know the meaning of that word
why frightened | img2poems |
she started from the bushes by the path
and had a basket full of herbs and roots
for some witch-broth or other the old hag | img2poems |
how did she look
you saw her
you were there | img2poems |
i cannot say
as we forgive those that have sinned against us
when i do not forgive them | img2poems |
say angry say right angry
i was never
in a more devilish temper in my life | img2poems |
i'm sorry for it
i'll control myself
another time and keep my temper down | img2poems |
if they would only seize the afflicted children
and put them in the workhouse where they should be
there'd be an end of all this wickedness | img2poems |
and then again
if any shall be put to death for witchcraft
we do but kill the body not the soul | img2poems |
you heard the evidence
produced before us yesterday at the trial
of bridget bishop | img2poems |
and when she cast her eyes on the afflicted
they were struck down and this in such a manner
there could be no collusion in the business | img2poems |
and when the accused but laid her hand upon them
as they lay in their swoons they straight revived
although they stirred not when the others touched them | img2poems |
we came to ask you
you being with us in church covenant
what part you have if any in these matters | img2poems |
how can you say that it is a delusion
when all our learned and good men believe it
our ministers and worshipful magistrates | img2poems |
you answer boldly
the afflicted children
say you appeared to them | img2poems |
they said that you foresaw our visit here
and blinded them so that they could not see
the clothes you wore | img2poems |
and the elders and the nobles in the city
did even as jezebel the wife of ahab
had sent to them and written in the letters | img2poems |
now we'll rest awhile
and take our nooning
what's the matter with you | img2poems |
do you see that
don't tell me it's not witchcraft
two of us could not lift that cask as he does | img2poems |
what is that
i surely
heard some one calling me by name | img2poems |
the dream
the dream
o god be merciful | img2poems |
if hard work and low wages make good masters
then he is one
but i think otherwise | img2poems |
that's witchcraft
why if they had teeth like yours
't would be no wonder if the girls were bitten | img2poems |
and then those ghosts that come out of their graves
and cry you murdered us
you murdered us | img2poems |
and there's old corey he has got a horseshoe
nailed on his doorstep to keep off the witches
and all the same his wife has gone to prison | img2poems |
oh she's no witch
i'll swear that goodwife corey
never did harm to any living creature | img2poems |
and now be quiet will you
i am tired
and want to sleep here on the grass a little | img2poems |
the hypocrite
she's always on her knees
but she prays to the devil when she prays | img2poems |
the meeting-house is full
i never saw
so great a crowd before | img2poems |
we shall find room enough by elbowing
our way among them
put your shoulder to it | img2poems |
we have not sent for you nor are we here
to hear you pray but to examine you
in whatsoever is alleged against you | img2poems |
i never had to do with any witchcraft
since i was born
i am a gospel woman | img2poems |
then answer me: when certain persons came
to see you yesterday how did you know
beforehand why they came | img2poems |
i had had speech
the children said i hurt them and i thought
these people came to question me about it | img2poems |
i must speak the truth
i did not tell her
it was some one else | img2poems |
she threatened me stabbed at me with her spindle
and when my brother thrust her with his sword
he tore her gown and cut a piece away | img2poems |
and there are persons here who know the truth
of what has now been said
what answer make you | img2poems |
did you not
on one occasion hide your husband's saddle
to hinder him from coming to the sessions | img2poems |
what then was the book
you showed to this young woman and besought her
to write in it | img2poems |
the next sabbath
is the communion day but martha corey
will not be there | img2poems |
what
is it not enough
would you hear more | img2poems |
is it not true that fourteen head of cattle
to you belonging broke from their enclosure
and leaped into the river and were drowned | img2poems |
then i will tell you
it is some one near you
you see her now this woman your own wife | img2poems |
go quick
they're waiting for you
you are late | img2poems |
the dream
the dream
the dream | img2poems |
i know my death is foreordained by you
mine and my wife's
therefore i will not answer | img2poems |
i've seen him lead the field
on a hot day in mowing and against
us younger men and i have wrestled with him | img2poems |
it might have been an easier death
your doom
will be on your own head and not on ours | img2poems |
giles corey and martha corey are in prison
down there in salem village
both are witches | img2poems |
and now i find him shipwrecked utterly
drifting upon this sea of sorceries
and lost perhaps beyond all aid of man | img2poems |
and disappoint my foes
they are but thine avenging sword
whose wounds are swift to close | img2poems |
hark hark
it is her voice
she is not dead | img2poems |
corey hides his face in his hands
enter the jailer followed by
richard gardner | img2poems |
of all the friends i had in happier days
you are the first ay and the only one
that comes to seek me out in my disgrace | img2poems |
i thank you
there is something in your presence
i know not what it is that gives me strength | img2poems |
giles corey
come
the hour has struck | img2poems |
the life of man is a gleam
of light that comes and goes
like the course of the holy stream | img2poems |
but alas
alas for me
not yet this rest shall be | img2poems |
he toucheth the sightless eyes
before him the demons flee
to the dead he sayeth: arise | img2poems |
and that voice still soundeth on
from the centuries that are gone
to the centuries that shall be | img2poems |
the dowry of my sister cleopatra
when she was wed to ptolemy and now
won back and made more wonderful by me | img2poems |
they must have hippodromes and games and baths
stage-plays and festivals and most of all
the dionysia | img2poems |
have i not sacked the temple and on the altar
set up the statue of olympian zeus
to hellenize it | img2poems |
and who hath said it
who hath set in motion
that sorry jest | img2poems |
they shall be made to eat the flesh of swine
or they shall die
where are they | img2poems |
there let them stay and starve
till i am ready to make greeks of them
after my fashion | img2poems |
they shall stay and starve
my lord the ambassadors of samaria
await thy pleasure | img2poems |
only the royal sanction
to give a name unto a nameless temple
upon mount gerizim | img2poems |
your nameless temple shall receive the name
of jupiter hellenius
ye may go | img2poems |
't is of good augury
the rest will follow
till the whole land is hellenized | img2poems |
yesterday eleazer an old man
being fourscore years and ten chose rather death
by torture than to eat the flesh of swine | img2poems |
hundreds have fled already to the mountains
of ephraim where judas maccabaeus
hath raised the standard of revolt against thee | img2poems |
god looketh on us and hath comfort in us
as moses in his song of old declared
he in his servants shall be comforted | img2poems |
i knew thou wouldst not fail
he speaks no more
he is beyond all pain | img2poems |
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