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Subject: MINSTRELS
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First Line: I dreamed I was a virginal
Last Line: Tis time I was a-musicking!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Minstrels; Nightmares


DEOR'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To weland came woes and wearisome trial
Last Line: That has passed over: so this may depart!
Subject(s): Minstrels


DEOR'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weland knew fully affliction and woe
Subject(s): Minstrels


EXIT; EPIGRAM, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mid whirl of the dance of time ye start
Last Line: The minstrels pause not in their minstrelsy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Minstrels


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 24, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I managed to mount the narrow stairs
Last Line: "with a little rum mix'd in it."
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Minstrels; Germans


MINSTREL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black night; small moon
Last Line: I am death
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Death; Minstrels


MINSTREL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What voice, what harp, are those we hear
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTREL, by ROBERT L. MACKIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In dreams I see her yet
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTREL, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night muffling the sound of his steps
Last Line: Then a wave, and the wind through moor and dune
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTREL, by BYRON HERBERT REECE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When love was more than gold to find
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTREL AND HIS LISTENER, by JORGE GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The child says: don't read me that
Last Line: He conquers everybody, the child cries
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTREL AT THE GATE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While thus in peaceful guise they sate
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTREL OF ROMANCE, by JOHN+(1) REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strum! Strum! Strum! Strum
Subject(s): Minstrels


MINSTRELS IN BLOOMSBURY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To covent garden people stream
Last Line: Sing on for us who stay!
Subject(s): Covent Garden, London; Minstrels


OLE BULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The minstrel's mystic wand
Last Line: That now is thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Minstrels; Clemency


POOR MINSTREL, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the darkness cradle thee
Last Line: Than mine arms more tenderly?
Subject(s): Minstrels; Sleep


RONDEL OF A RONDEL, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: These antique metres of old france
Last Line: So dear to minstrel and trouvère.
Subject(s): France; Minstrels; Roundels


STREET SONGS: 3. THE MINSTREL, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The streets lead out into a mist
Last Line: From out among the heather bells
Subject(s): Cities; Minstrels


THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harp of the minstrel has never a tone
Last Line: Can not waken the echoes that breathe it aright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Light; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


THE HERON'S NEST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world-mother sits on her sky-blue eggs
Last Line: And a radiant voice that was like the king's!
Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eggs; Herons; Minstrels


THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE FIRST FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dank is the air and dusk the sky
Last Line: Amid the mazy paths of song.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE SECOND FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The minstrel ceased; the music's wings
Last Line: Caught his wild story from the blast.
Subject(s): Advice; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE THIRD FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tale was said. Fair agnes rose
Last Line: Upon the marvels of his tongue.
Subject(s): Aging; Bribery; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


THE LATER MINSTREL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember some departed day
Last Line: And triumphs over doubt.
Subject(s): Minstrels


THE MINNESINGERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the minstrels' strife engaging
Last Line: From fair lips the praise most blest.
Subject(s): Minstrels; Praise; Troubadours; Minnesingers


THE MINSTREL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the minstrel said the king
Last Line: Will not hear the sweetest song.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Minstrels


THE MINSTREL, by JOSEPH TATLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: A minstrel sang - his notes were glad
Last Line: "so, sing on, minstrel, whilst I dream!"
Subject(s): Birds; Minstrels; Singing & Singers


THE MINSTREL BARD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where awful summits rise around
Last Line: In the soft dreams of poesy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Minstrels; Poetry & Poets


THE MINSTREL BOY, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The minstrel boy to the war is gone
Last Line: "they shall never sound in slavery."
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Freedom; Minstrels; Liberty


THE MINSTREL OF PORTUGAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their path had been a troubled one, each step
Last Line: Her humble lover perish'd!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Minstrels


THE MINSTREL'S CURSE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in olden times was standing
Last Line: This is the minstrel's curse.
Subject(s): Curses; Minstrels; Murder


THE SPRING MINSTRELS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark! How the welkin rings
Last Line: Is evening's calm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Birds; Minstrels; Spring


THE WANDERER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering minstrel at my gate
Last Line: Give your smile to slaves like me!
Subject(s): Life; Minstrels; Wandering & Wanderers


THE WARNING WAIL, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A minstrel old, in feudal hall
Last Line: Shut ye the flood-gates, never! Never!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Minstrels; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


TO THE MINSTREL GIRL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Th' critic's heel is on ye, sure
Last Line: Sure, bless your heart! Ye didn't need, carolyn, my carolin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Girls; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942)


ZULEIKA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zuleika is fled away
Last Line: And the flower that blooms by night.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Love; Minstrels; Youth