The following poems are from “Songs for the Witch Woman”, a collection of poems Parsons wrote to his wife Marjorie Cameron from 1949-1952, and Cameron continued to illustrate after his death. The collection was published in 1975, and again in 2014.
Included in the Archive’s collection of Parsons’ poems are two others, I Height Don Quixote, I Live on Peyote, published in the Agape Lodge’s publication “The Oriflamme” Vol 1, Iss 1, Feb 21, 1943; and the unpublished poem The Horned Moon.
Songs for the Witch Woman:
Witch Woman
Night
The Fool
Pan
Stonehenge
The Garden
Danse
Sorcerer
Under the Hill
Narcissus
Aztec
Sabat
Punch
Merlin
Aradia
Autumn
Farewell, Unknown
Passion Flowers
King David
Neurosis
Eden
Harpocrates
Lesbians
Night Song
The Witch House
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Other Poems:
I Height Don Quixote, I Live on Peyote
Horned Moon