Alchemical texts - Poetry

Alchemical Poetry
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AEnigma Philosophicum
John Dastin's Dream
An Alchemical poem by Thomas Rawlin
A 17th century allegorical alchemical poem by Edmund Dickinson
Verse on the Threefold Sophic Fire
The Light coming out of darkness - Crasselame
Certain Verses of an Unknown Writer, from Benedict Figulus
Place in Space
Two prayers for alchemists by Eckartshausen
Discription of the Stone
The Hunting of the Greene Lyon
Hermes Bird
The Hermet's Tale
The Magistry
The Mistery of Alchymists by George Ripley
Peace the Black Monke on the Elixir
Thomas Robinson on the Philosopher's Stone
Testament of John Dee John Gwynn
A short work of George Ripley
The Worke of Richard Carpenter
John Gower concerning the Philosophers' Stone
Thomas Charnock - The Breviary of Alchemy
Dialogue Between a Father and his Son
Anonymous Alchemical Poems
Alchemical Aenigmas by Thomas Charnock
Experience and Philosophy
Liber Patris Sapientiae
Simon Forman - Of the Division of Chaos
Bloomfield's Blossoms

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