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Found a charm to banish pain - Effie Afton "Lines [I hied me to the oceanside]"

With delirious hope for tinsel charms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Charm him with winning wiles - Elizabeth Akers "Love's Flitting"

A secret charm for sending grief astray - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Charms of taintless air - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

That wove the charm full-fraught with ill - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"

Fed on graveyard charms - Charles Baudelaire "The Dance of Death" transl. not credited

Share mysterious charms with your treacherous eyes - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Already lulled by a charmed indifference - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Might dignify Minerva's awful charms - James Beattie "To the Right Honourable Lady Charlotte Gordon, Dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet with Feathers, &c."

Like twisted charms of hot lead - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

And bait his blood with charm of secrecy and peril - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: II. Penumbra"

the hallucinatory charm buried in your bowl - Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi "Wani Gari" [Strange Horizons 3 Nov. 2025]

Charmed conspiracy of nucleotides - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"

No charm in the miser's gold - John Philip Bourke "Dreaming the Dream of Life"

A charm of river stones and coiled hair - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"

For the charm they have broken - Robert Bridges "London Snow"

Whose charms were broken if revealed - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

The bluebell cannot charm me now - Emily Bronte "The Bluebell"

They walk amongst us charmed - Francis Burrows "Egyptian"

Surrender to their charm and mystery - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Filled with You"

Untouched by fiery Etna's deadly charms - Giosue Carducci "Homer" transl. by Frank Sewall

Could tell the meaning of that hidden charm - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Strange spears hung with ancient charms - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]

My startled soul to charm - John Clare "Song"

A charm to stay the morning star - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Lest a blacker charm compel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "A Voice Sings"

Lashings charmed and malice reconciled - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

Had roused some charmed castle from the sleep - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]

Your anger charms me - H.D. "From the Masque"

Charmed by that siren lay - Walter de la Mare "Alexander"

Him they stole with spells and charms - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"

Spectre cannot harm, serpent cannot charm - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XL"

Claimed it as her good luck charm - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Ordinary Things"

Charms potent and deep - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"

My queen cloaked in charm - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

What charm can I devise t' avert impending fate - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And judge whose charms outshone her rivals - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The banquet, wont to charm both gods above and men below - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Who in rapturous terms extolled my charms - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Gave a charm to solitude - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."

Subdued by charms divine - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

A charm of coming eloquence - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Only by work of muttered charms - Robert Graves "The Snake and the Bull"

In the bright circle of the charmed May - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

Flashed into crimson with the sunrise charm - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Triumph"

Who could charm everything but the shadows - Edward Hirsch "Lay Back the Darkness"

These words alone should work a charm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]

Charm by dazzling radiance - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

Wild Nature, spreading all her charms - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Poised by Incantation's charm - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

The apple of silver will work him a charm - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

This jolt that smashed the charm - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Charms to salve my griefs - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

Dawning charm of every infant grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The silver charms of his dull art - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

Charms the grateful skies - Joyce Kilmer "The Rosary"

No charm to stay Time's unrelenting arm - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

A spell that charms eternal safety from the storm - Richard Le Gallienne "A New Year Letter"

A mystic charm no time destroys - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

Irrevokably as a star gazer's charm - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

No other dreams so potent in their charm - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Could charm cool waters back - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"

Queen of smiles and charms - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

And all things display their charms - Annie Willis McCullough "The Journey" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

A charm evil passions to quell - William P. M'Kenzie "Gabrielle"

All civil charms and priestly spells - Herman Melville "The House-top"

The spell that charms your sleep - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

Just that I hypothesize our charms are of a kind - Elis Montgomery "Hex Supply Customer Support Log" [Strange Horizons 25 Aug. 2025]

More charms where twilight clings - Helen Louise Moriarty "Convent Echoes"

Until the charm be made complete - Christopher Morley "A Charm: For Our New Fireplace, to Stop Its Smoking"

Charms the heart may ever rue - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

The charms of fairy's art - Francis Neilson "The Fay"

She worked the bitter charm - E. Nesbit "Death"

The horse of weeping in the charming vestibule - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

This donkey with a charmed voice - Alice Notley "Poem [You hear that heroic big land music?]"

Only two charms in my pocket - Frank O'Hara "Personal Poem"

body charmed, spell bent, toward progressing - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"

Put on your charm of gold - "Old May Song"

And charm the heart from pain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

Some enrapturing bewitching charm - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

As prayer to some unknown god's charms - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Unmaking all the multitudes of binding charms - Kostes Palamas "Sunrise" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Charming the air - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"

In faultless charm arrayed - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Hold no reverence for my charms - Murdock Pemberton "The Screen" [The Broadway Anthology]

Lest I lose some charming facet of my face - Murdock Pemberton "The Screen" [The Broadway Anthology]

Countless little charming things - Walter S. Percy "A Vision"

Appear in battalions of charm - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

To cheat fatigue, and charm his lengthened way - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]

A pocket charm to protect - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Earthly pleasures cease to charm - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Charms his thought to song - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

To charm some lonely mermaid's dream - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"

Imparted their charms to embellish their graces - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Melt me down with your charms - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Heighten every dazzling charm - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Charms that win even the bird encaged - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

Charmed eddies of autumnal winds - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Fades from our charmed sight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Chiefest among ten thousand charms - Mary Dana Shindler "Chiefest Among Ten Thousand and Altogether Lovely"

Navigate among charmers unscathed - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Cull the charms that never cloy - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "May Morning"

Escaping through her flow'ry charm - "Spring Blossoms" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]

Breaks upon the surface of life's charmed pool - W. Horry Stilwell "Lines to --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

Autumn charms my melancholy mind - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

We find vicissitude is our charm - Arthur Sze "At the Equinox"

To charm the languid evening hours - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Trade of charms on the ivory stages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"

And gives to Evil all its direst charms - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Distils a charm of silence over all - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"

And air salutes each varied charm - Matthias Ward "To Mary, Asking for a Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.3, Sept. 1852]

Persuade to drink that charmed cup - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

The charm that bound my wild heart here - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

Charms her eyes to smiling - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"

The charm with Eden never lost - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Draws a charm that leads the heart - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

That had no need of a remoter charm - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]


My balm-charmed breath to stoke the blaze - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"


Evoke your presence out of the uncharmed rock - Leonard Bacon "Possession"


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