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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ORCHESTRAS Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNUS MIRABILIS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sexual intercourse began Subject(s): Bands; Beatles, The; Love - Erotic; Music & Musicians; Orchestras BURLESQUE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The footlights glint, the house is set Last Line: They have played plays in heaven?' Subject(s): Bands; Burlesque; Criticism & Critics; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights; Singing & Singers; Orchestras; Striptease CODA, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight blossoms like a rose Last Line: A violin dies away on the venus-wharf. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras HEART OF THE GAEL, by MARIE MANCINO Poem Text First Line: I have never seen the heather Last Line: Of the pipes played by the lads in bonnets blue. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA (THE SEVENTEENTH - THE FINEST REGIMENTAL BAND), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the soft evening air enwinding all Last Line: Listens well pleas'd. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras JAZZ BAND, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Last Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Orchestras MUSIC HALL, by NICOLAS BEAUDIN Poem Text First Line: Crowd with alcoholic eyes Last Line: High evening, bored by the apotheosis. Subject(s): Bands; Collective Behavior; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Violins; Orchestras; Mobs; Crowds; Stage Life MUSIC; AND THE SAVAGE BREAST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd read the kaiser's note Last Line: .... I thank you, band of germans. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Bands; German Americans; Holidays; Memorial Day; Music & Musicians; Patriotism; Orchestras; Declaration Day OL' BUNK'S BAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are men! The gaunt, unforesold, the vocal Last Line: These are men, men, men Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Orchestras STRENGTH OF THE ORCHESTRA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Two hands are manipulating Last Line: Of monstrous oaks. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras 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 ACCOMPANIST, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Perhaps it is a humble thing to weave Last Line: To make a perfect background for the rest. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE BATTLE MUSIC, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Around the earth, like tides of ocean Last Line: Who wage the battle of the soul. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE DANCE, by DAVID NASH Poem Text First Line: On with the dance!' and the orchestra played Last Line: "on with the dance! May it ever be this!" Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE: THE ORCHESTRA, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Now shall the organ be roused to its utmost passion of power Last Line: Drums and cymbals and harps — all fill their eloquent parts. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FIREMEN'S BALL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give the engines room Last Line: Clang . . . Clang . . . Clang. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Fire; Firefighters; Life; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE GERMAN BAND, by EARL DERR BIGGERS Poem Text First Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way Last Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way. Subject(s): Bands; Marching & Marches; Music & Musicians; Parades; Patriotism; Orchestras THE HORRORS OF MAJUBA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the great majuba fight Last Line: That their fame will be handed down to posterity for many a day! Subject(s): Bands; Courage; Fights; Heroism; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When our semi-conductor Subject(s): High Schools; Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE MUSIC OF THE PINES, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, like fairy bugles, when the shades Last Line: Like the music that I ne'er shall hear again from out the pines. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE OLD BAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore Last Line: I want to hear the old band play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bands; Kansas; Music & Musicians; Nostalgia; Orchestras 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 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 WITH DEATH THE UNCOUTH, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: None could remember when he first came there Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet. Subject(s): Bands; Death; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Dead, The |
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