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Subject: BAGPIPES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BAG-PIPES AT SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the shouting of the gale
Last Line: His highland home!
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments


BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy; Recessions


BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
Last Line: But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy


BAGPIPE PLAYER, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He plays his little tune in water
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments


EPISTLE; TO THE EARL OF..., by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To write in verse, o count of mine
Last Line: I'm sunk for ever to mankind.
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Christmas; Musical Instruments; Stanhope, Philip Dormer (1694-1773); Nativity, The; Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of


MORE BAGPIPE MUSIC, by ERIC O. PARROTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's all go to claridges, it's all go the champers
Last Line: But we'll not say how we made our pile, for that's another story
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Musical Instruments


SONNET (ON HEARING THE BAG-PIPE), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of late two dainties were before me plac'd
Last Line: Mum chance art thou with both oblig'd to part.
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments


THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street
Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E.
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish