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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOLIDAY, BILLIE (1915-1959) Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BILLIE HOLIDAY, by ANNEMARIE EWING Poem Source First Line: She was known as lady Last Line: Out of ginger...Hot tar...Pistachio...Gall Alternate Author Name(s): Towner, John H., Mrs.; Towner, Annemarie Ewing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Wouldn't you know it? -- the lady has her name Last Line: This is the lady's home %she never had Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the deaf Subject(s): Holiday, Billie (1915-1959) BILLIE HOLIDAY, by STERLING D. PLUMPP Poem Source First Line: Feel and hear. Last Line: Major in kneeling %with my ears Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by HANS R. VLEK Poem Source First Line: A woman a lady Last Line: She knows %sings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE IN SILK, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to say to you, billie holiday Last Line: My mouth is on fire. Let it burn Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. BILLIE'S BLUES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their red lamps make a childlike stab Last Line: Him. Sounds universal to me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; New York City; Singing And Singers CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Songs CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Last Line: If you can't be free, be a mystery Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady day, lady day Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers FROM THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKSTORE IN D.C., by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N the photograph of billie holiday taken by mickey pallas at the 1957 Subject(s): Holiday, Billie (1915-1959) JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Last Line: Tomorrow is something she remembers Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers LADY'S DAYS, by LARRY NEAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More song. Birds follow the sun Last Line: Reason for towns, faces, moans ... Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers MERCY SEAT, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: The cafe society was a cottonless plantation Last Line: Of a woman they would pick her gardenia to pieces, %petal by petal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers PIAF AND HOLIDAY GO OUT, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: Bracelet eat into the flesh / the gangrene of Last Line: It will be easier. Sing it loud Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Piaf, Edith (1915-1963); Singing And Singers POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Glamour-we look for it and it's not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Photography And Photographers; Singing And Singers SOLEDAD, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he lies in the blinded room Last Line: Oh swings: beyond complete immortal now. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Look for it and it’s not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Photography & Photographers; Singing & Singers TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Last Line: Of someone you might always love Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO, by JOSEPH HEITHAUS Poem Source First Line: You can see her, hair down, sipping a coke Last Line: Their legs loose and lifeless in air Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I went to the last Last Line: Dead last Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing And Dancers; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Labor And Laborers; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers |
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