Ipswich
"Ipswich" by Eugene Field draws readers into a coastal New England town where cool nights carry the mournful refrain of things forever past. Witches weave spells, ghosts creep through sleeping streets, and a maiden keeps her lonely watch on Heart-Break Hill. At its heart, the poem turns deeply personal — the speaker recalls a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed "Saxon witch" named Anna, and the bittersweet memory of a love that time has worn away yet refuses to vanish entirely.
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