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Subject: BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN (1685-1750)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APOSTROPHE TO JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (PRESTISSIMO), by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some who hear are rapt away
Last Line: Of paradisal days!
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians


BACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm / listening to a work of his
Last Line: Living / friends
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians


BACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm %listening to a work of his
Last Line: I have no %living %friends
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians


BACH, by ZITELLA COCKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: As some cathedral vast, whose lofty spire
Last Line: Strong to achieve, and faithful to endure!
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians


BACH, by S. LEAS DEMUTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The name dieter fischer diskau intoned
Last Line: Reluctantly into each relentless day, %I am still an unflagging player of fugues
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians


BACH, by VASSAR MILLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roll up all music underneath the sky
Last Line: With sunday worship spiraled and crisscrossed %by bach's bright signatures of pentecost
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians


BACH, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six days a week my father sold shoes
Last Line: Just in time he said, 'that's beautiful.'
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Fathers; Music And Musicians


BACH'S ORGAN WORKS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chance-child of some lone sorrow on the hills
Last Line: Wails far along the passages of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Variant Title(s): To E. M. O.
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians


BACH, IN THE FUGUES AND PRELUDES, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Contentedly with strictest [or rigorous] strands confined
Last Line: Or roll against the stars their rock-bound song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians; Science; Scientists


CONSIDERATIONS ON CERTAIN MUSIC OF J.S. BACH, by J. C. BEAGLEHOLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meditating in silence after the last not
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians


DIVERTIMIENTO, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miserable little woman / in a brown coat-- / quit whining
Last Line: Three wives and twenty-two children.
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)


DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The committee - now a permanent body
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares


DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The committee - now a permanent body
Last Line: Enough. J. Sebastian - born at eisenach: %its coat-of-arms in my dreams: bach plays bach!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music And Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty


FOR THE MARGRAVE OF BRANDENBURG, by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I'm driving up bellefield in spring
Last Line: Papa bach, papa bach, papa bach
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Courts And Courtiers; Music And Musicians


FOUR FRIENDS, by LEO WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full life, sweet rest, great love that cannot cease
Last Line: And nature one with god, at nazareth!
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Franck, Cesar (1822-1890); Music & Musicians


JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ivory in her black, and all intent
Last Line: To praise again, though east and west are wild, %the girl, the singing, and the christmas child
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Hess, Dame Myra (1890-1965); Jesus Christ; Music And Musicians


LEIPZIG, 1894, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have only one portrait of bach - that genius
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians


LEIPZIG, 1894, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have only one portrait of bach - that genius
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians


OF BACH AND HARMONY, by BLAGA DIMITROVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bach gave to all an equal right
Last Line: Power in a unity depends %on little independences
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians


THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS', by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That seeking prelude found its unforetold
Last Line: By nature’s generous act, the lesser man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)


TOCCATA IN D MINOR (BACH), by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Breakers insistent, massive, persistent
Last Line: Rollers—far out in the night.
Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians