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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DRUMS Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AULD REEKIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chitterin' cauld the day sall daw Last Line: Auld reekie, still and on! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BLACK DRUM, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the fish thrashed Last Line: Every silence, was a roar Subject(s): Black (color); Drums; Musical Instruments CASUALTIES: 26. PARTY SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here we mill drinking by midnight Last Line: Like lights over lagos Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Parties; Singing And Singers DRUM, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The drum's a very quiet fellow Last Line: And beat him soundly for the band Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year of the drummer Last Line: Of his bout against drums Subject(s): Drums; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year of the drummer Last Line: Of his bouts against the drums Subject(s): Drums; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments DRUMS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am the people's point of view, a cow Last Line: They beat carpets, the color gets up with the sunrise. %morepeople will see me, with sunrise I becom Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments DRUMS AND BRASS, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring trumpet throats that are big with a gust of moons Last Line: Till the untold morning be come and the dancers be fled. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Trumpets FIGHT; THE TALE OF A GUNNER AT PLATTSBURGH, 1814, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jock bit his mittens off and blew his thumbs Last Line: The world made free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): Fight Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Plattsburg, Battle Of; Selflessness; War Of 1812; Liberty MONOCHROME, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your beauty is as subtle as a strain Last Line: Brazen as cymbals, boisterous as drums! Subject(s): Drums; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments PRELUDE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By sunny market-place and street Last Line: I left my all to follow the drum. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; War RED DRUM, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: How to strike emptiness Last Line: Red, muscle of heart Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments SOLO FOR TAM TAM, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: 1. Not tom-tom misspelled, but tam tam Last Line: High-hat, timpani, new hope, tam tam Subject(s): Bands; Drums; Love; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Singing And Singers SOUND DOCTRINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, beat the drum, and be not afraid Last Line: And also because I drum not amiss. Subject(s): Drums; Kisses; Musical Instruments; Sleep; Youth TAP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man beating the drum learned rhythm Last Line: Makes tribal dancing other than you might think Subject(s): Drums; Insanity; Musical Instruments; Race Awareness THE BROKEN DRUM, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is sorrow in the household Last Line: Are as empty as his drum. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments THE DEAD DRUMMER; A LEGEND OF SALISBURY PLAIN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, salisbury plain is bleak and bare Last Line: And mind, above all things, the man's not a drummer!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Salisbury, England; Drums; Ghosts THE DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the drum! Last Line: Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the ear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; War; Liberty THE DRUM, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Text First Line: I hate that drum's discordant sound Last Line: To fill the catalogue of human woes. Variant Title(s): Ode On Hearing The Drum;report On The Foregoing Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Drums; Musical Instruments; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War; Anti-war Protests THE DRUM, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a rhythm down the road where the elms overarch Last Line: "of the drum!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Christianity; Drums; Musical Instruments; Vengeance; War THE DRUM-MAJOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old drum-major it is that we see Last Line: The old man is your father! Subject(s): Drums; Grief; Musical Instruments; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE DRUM: THE NARRATIVE OF THE DEMON OF TEDWORTH, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tall senatorial Last Line: Where the drum rolls up the stair, nor tarries. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Winter; Witchcraft & Witches THE DRUMMER BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "captain gray, the men were sayin'" Last Line: Unbroken by the night's tattoo Subject(s): Boys;drums;musical Instruments;soldiers THE DRUMS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumpy-tum-tump; tumpy-tum-tump Last Line: Way for the drums—make room! Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments THE MARCHING FEET, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, drums to the fore! Last Line: The far-off calling of a drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Army Life; Drums; Marching & Marches; Musical Instruments; Drills & Minor Tactics THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For brothers laid in blood Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CHEAM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the beautiful meadows of cheam! Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Old Age VOODOO, by ANNICE CALLAND Poem Text First Line: Ho, the pan-pipes call to bassin bleu Last Line: And ever the woman sang. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Rites & Ceremonies; Voodooism; Bizango; Obeah; Gaga |
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