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Subject: FIDDLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIDDLER'S VALENTINE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pretty player, from thy strings
Last Line: Kiss, and say good-bye to me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Holidays; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Valentine's Day


ELINDA'S GLOVE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou snowy farm with thy five tenements!
Last Line: Are still allow'd to fiddle with the case.
Variant Title(s): The Glove
Subject(s): Fiddles; Gloves; Musical Instruments; Mittens; Muffs


F IS FOR FIDDLES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What an enchanted world is this
Last Line: We leap the winter into spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments


FIDDLE, by DAVID MOOLTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The endless details which compose a life
Last Line: Like the strings, nothing to us but a song
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments


FIDDLEHEADS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the first scrolls inscripted
Last Line: The skillet would whisper hosannas
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments


ISRAFIDDLESTRINGS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In heaven a spirit doth dwell
Last Line: Hearing my griddle-cry
Subject(s): Fiddles;hearts;heaven;musical Instruments; Paradise


MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide
Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C


MY SWEET BROWN GAL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: W'en de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky
Last Line: No, I means my fiddle -- dat 's my sweet brown gal!
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments


PATE M'QUATTY ON HIS FIDDLE, by JAMES SHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, I wouldna swap my auld fiddle
Last Line: I've daylight wherever I go.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments


SECOND FIDDLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just behind the first fiddle he bends
Last Line: And the fiddle called second, be first.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Soul; Joy; Delight


THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER'S STORY), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little fogs were gathered in every hollow
Last Line: And carried 'em there in an after year.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Marriage; Musical Instruments; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE FAIRY FIDDLER, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis I go fiddling, fiddling
Last Line: And the horse that draws the plough
Subject(s): Fairies; Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Elves


THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city
Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts.
Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement


VOORREDE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Steendam the poet (whom all men know)
Last Line: "rollicking lays of the good old times!"
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


WHAT THEN OF US, WE HUMBLE FIDDLING FOLK, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What then of us, we humble fiddling folk
Last Line: Till the last mind forget its final dreaming.
Subject(s): Beauty; Fiddles; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments


WHEN DE FOLKS IS GONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What dat scratchin' at de kitchen do'?
Last Line: God bress de lo'd! Hit's de folks got back!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments