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Subject: CONCERTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW YEAR'S SYMPHONY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To rise at morn as blythe as little child
Last Line: Fill in my task another happy year!
Subject(s): Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Symphonies; Joy; Delight; Concerts


A SONG OF SUMMER, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the swish and the swash of the blue summer sea
Last Line: To the fish-ball's twin sister, the fragrant fried clam.
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Symphonies; Concerts


A SPRING SYMPHONY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The touch of the springtime has broken the ice of the pond
Last Line: Ere the dream is done
Subject(s): Spring; Symphonies; Concerts


AFTER A DOLMETSCH CONCERT, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the conquered past
Last Line: Surviving the voiceless tomb!
Subject(s): Dolmetsch, Arnold (1858-1940); Symphonies; Concerts


AT A BACH CONCERT, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming by evening through the wintry city
Subject(s): Love; Symphonies; Concerts


AT A CONCERT, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Music inspires me but to think of thee
Last Line: Deep memories of thy reposeful soul!
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


AT THE CONCERT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The leader waved his light baton
Last Line: And scarlet plumes and silver dresses.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts


AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY CONCERTS, by THEODORA ROSCOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They come as to a shrine
Last Line: And courage triumphs over all dismay!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Symphonies; Concerts


AT THE POPULAR CONCERTS, 1868-1898, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent with listening soul I hear
Last Line: Linked harmonies of gold.
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


AT THE SYMPHONY (CESAR FRANCK D. MINOR), by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The 'cellos, preluding apart
Last Line: Hung heaven upon a single note.
Variant Title(s): At The Symphony
Subject(s): Franck, Cesar (1822-1890); Symphonies; Concerts


BEETHOVEN, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the cool and silent night
Last Line: He goes!
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts


BIG FURRY BUDDHA IN BACK YARD, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a made-up name
Last Line: Bat is flutterer fluttermouse
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts


CONCERT BY STRINGS, by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They played the cesar franck quintet
Last Line: Left us enrapt, with every question answered.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts


EYRIE (TO E.A.R.), by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only in silence can one hear, as you
Last Line: About the heart, and tighten at the touch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Symphonies; Concerts


ILL TIDINGS (THE STUDIO CONCERT), by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long studio from whose towering walls
Last Line: One that I love lies on her bed of pain.
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


LITTLE PIERRE'S SONG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a humble room in london sat a pretty little boy
Last Line: And he came to be one of the most talented composers of the day.
Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts


MUSIC; TO ETHEL BARTLETT AND RAE ROBERTSON (AFTER THEIR CONCERT), by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was not music. Music is but notes
Last Line: And fears of mortal ill.
Subject(s): Barlett, Ethel (1896-1978); Duopianists; Music & Musicians; Robertson, Rae (1893-1956); Symphonies; Concerts


ON A GREY-HAIRED OLD LADY KNITTING, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast on 120 stitches
Last Line: And turn, lady, turn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Knitting; Symphonies; Concerts


PAPER ANNIVERSARY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The concert-hall was crowded the night of the crash
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Symphonies; Concerts


SIXTH SYMPHONY, by LIDA MARIE ERWIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Till now I've spent my days exploring books
Last Line: Into the night, breathed deeply of the air.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Symphonies; Concerts


SYMPHONIC STUDIES (AFTER ROBERT SCHUMANN), by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-july
Last Line: And all life's music but a hymn of praise.
Subject(s): Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856); Symphonies; Concerts


SYMPHONY, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have knelt in great cathedrals
Last Line: As the symphony ... On the farm.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts


SYMPHONY, by ROBERTSON TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not to the realm of breathed sounds alone
Last Line: "bryan w. Procter (""barry cornwall"")."
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


SYMPHONY MUSIC, by GEORGE GLAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Symphony music
Last Line: Like lovers in an ecstatic mood.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sound; Symphonies; Concerts


THAT GENERAL UTILITY RAG, BY OUR OWN IRVING BERLIN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to hear-yes, yes!-I like to hear
Last Line: Ra-a-a-g!
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Bands; Berlin, Irving (1888-1989); Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts


THE CALL OF LIFE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only one life to live! To do the best
Last Line: Thou art a ruby in god's paradise.
Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts


THE SYMPHONY, by HELEN PHILBROOK PATTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: What dreams and longings are within me stirred?
Last Line: And dance, clear-visioned, to a joyous song.
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


THE WORLD DICTATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The world dictates my life from day to day
Last Line: As they go wobbling sideways past my door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


THREE ORCHESTRAL THEMES, by JOSEPH KLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nightfall... / I hear the fainting echo of a muezzin's last call
Last Line: Poet's dream of paradise...
Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rest; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts


TO A FACE AT A CONCERT, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the low music makes a dusk of sound
Last Line: The voice of instruments a human cry?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts


WHILE LISTENING TO A SYMPHONY, by MARGARET LAURIE SEAMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, you who seem so near when soft
Last Line: And having learned content, in your joy we are resting.
Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts