Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home

She stood in tears amid the alien corn;

The same that ofttimes hath

Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam

Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

John Keats (1795-1821): Ode to a Nightingale.

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve (1670-1729): The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.

The magic of a face.

Thomas Carew (1589-1639): Epitaph on the Lady S——.

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,

The power of grace, the magic of a name?

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 5.

The power of thought,—the magic of the mind!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 8.

Mightier far

Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway

Of magic potent over sun and star,

Is Love, though oft to agony distrest,

And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Laodamia.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;

Within that circle none durst walk but he.

John Dryden (1631-1701): The Tempest. Prologue.