Category:Poetry on Cups and Saucers

From Mystic Tea Room

The English cultural heritage of reciting enchantments — sorcery in the form of a specific style of sing-song rhyme — persists in tea cup and tea leaf poetry: Sometimes the poems are part of the exterior decoration on the cup:, and sometimes they advertise tea leaf reading services.

Woulds’t learn thy future with thy tea?
This magic cup will show it thee
— The Nelros Cup of Fortune, cup exterior.

Many curious things I see
While telling fortunes in your tea
— Paragon Omens and Signs, cup exterior

Woulds’t thy fortune like to see?
Perchance this cup will show it thee
— Jon Anton Taltos Fortune Telling Cup, cup exterior

First, wish your heart's desire, then pour the golden tea
Find your fortune in the cup, your happiness to be
— S. E. M. Putnam, Learn How to Tell Tea Cup Fortunes, 1938.

A cup of tea for you and me
Is restful-like as it can be
— The Muriel Method of Tea-Leaf Reading, Detroit, MI.

The Gypsy from the leaves of Tea
Will tell what was and is to be
— Advertisement for the Gypsy Tea Shop, New York City, NY.

Your Fortune free
From leaves of tea
— Advertisement for the Gypsy Tea Shop, Pittsburgh, PA.

A dainty lunch, a cup of tea,
Your future told, that you might see
Your fortune in the grounds of tea
— Advertisement for the Egyptian Tea Room, Kansas City, MO,