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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PIANOS Matches Found: 133 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little conjurer of keys Last Line: Little conjurer of keys. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs ACCIDENTALS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Driving thirteenth street, I have the sense Last Line: Has gone, and all my pots are full of tears Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ADAGIO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The swing in the hips of a man Last Line: Who begins her warble knowing %she has all day to sing Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ALLEGRISSIMO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: His words get away, so many ballons Last Line: She is so happy, there is absolutely nothing %she can say Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ARPEGGIATION, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A combed chord Last Line: If you look down, %you fall Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AS ACCENT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A horn behind you which says go Last Line: You were sure of what you'd seen. %any sharp pain Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AS DIMINUENDO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Can you feel the speaker's breath as he comes closer? Last Line: Do you really believe this ends in silence? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AT THE PIANO, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman was playing Last Line: And the phantom hid nigh. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos BLACK KEYS, by MARGARET R. RICHTER Poem Text First Line: My fingers falter even in the scale Last Line: How sad a thing in love is one false note. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos BY THE FIRE ('AM KAMIN'); AFTER ROBERT SCHUMAN, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: Tsk, tsk of the metronome Last Line: Leaping again from the dark, ash-silted cave Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos CANTUS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Not this smoke, this spent wick, but the pale Last Line: Death but the dying Subject(s): Melodies; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing And Singers CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: THE SOLOIST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, you who sing soprano Last Line: Or I'll throw a bomb! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: It is not too late to find our chairs Last Line: But not explain, like joy Subject(s): Bands; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos CUBAN DANCE, by RAMON DE PALMA Poem Source First Line: Upon the air amid the night the orchestra is playing Last Line: The outcry of our souls is heard amid thine echoes there! Subject(s): Bands; Cuba; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos DINING OUT, by JOHN KRUMBERGER Poem Source First Line: A man sings romantic ballads in the piano lounge swaying like a bear Last Line: Cliff Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Grief; Love - Complaints; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears DROPPING INTO THE KEYS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: How from height to the ivory water Last Line: How then through the rising air, %fish shines Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos EARLY IN THE MORNING I HEAR ON YOUR PIANO, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While the birds are singing in the morning of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Pianos; Morning ERA UN AIRE SUAVE..., by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Y es cruel Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Amor; Belleza; El Bailar Y Bailarines; Flores; Instrumentos Musicales; Instrumentos Musicales; MÚsica Y MÚsicos; MelodÍas; Pianos; PoesÍa Y Poetas EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE, by JARED LEISING Poem Source First Line: Hey, it's just a piano, baby Last Line: Have never quit taking %those lessons Subject(s): Learning; Musical Instruments; Pianos FALSE, NOCTURNE, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Learning how to play the piano, I favored Last Line: Why not try to feel in time? Subject(s): Learning; Musical Instruments; Pianos FANTASIA, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: The old grand piano Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Travel FERMATA, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Fermata the thin silk umbrella Last Line: Who came to him like a dark wind %from the south, the woman,fermata Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos FORTISSIMO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: To play fortissimo Last Line: The poet of least resistance %who writes past the end of his poem Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos FUGUE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Here is the yearn that sews her life Last Line: To her skin, white as night sea, %the yearn dolphining through Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Variant Title(s): Piano After War Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Last Line: And stone will shove the softness from my face Variant Title(s): Piano After Wa Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GIRL AT THE PIANO, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Such slender fingers Last Line: And lo, the practice hour has hurried by! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos GLINT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother mentioned only once how the piano teacher she had as Last Line: They're drifting just outside the tune. Subject(s): Grandparents; Kisses; Lips; Music Teachers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GLISSANDO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: To glide, %your thin edge Last Line: Exult. Glissando says: %I fly Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos GRACE NOTES, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes dance %astaire's clean brush before he taps Last Line: Like astaire, %whose last dance blossomed into air Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos GREEN PIANO, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles Last Line: Pink one, forever green one, white-and-gold one, comforter, living soul Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Neighbors; Pianos GYMNOPEDIE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A ring of naked boys Last Line: I am afraid to touch them Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos INTENSIVE CARE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The old man breathes Last Line: The last clean wings %have flown %from mr. Thalberg's hands Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos IT WAS A GENTLE AIR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gentle air of lilting spirals Last Line: And cruel and eternal is her laughter of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Melodies; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos LA DANZA CUBANA, by RAMON DE PALMA Poem Source First Line: Los aires rompe Last Line: Tus ecos el Subject(s): El Bailar Y Bailarines; Instrumentos Musicales; Instrumentos Musicales; MÚsica Y MÚsicos; Pianos LAMENT OF THE PIANOS ... OVERHEARD IN WELL-TO-DO QUARTERS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead the soul whom letters have well nourished Last Line: "o months, o linens, o meals!" Subject(s): Despair; Musical Instruments; Pianos LEARNING TO PLAY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tall piano stool Last Line: "then I shall call it ""play." Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos LOST ART OF CHINA, by SARAH MATE Poem Source First Line: Little nikko njan plays the piano Last Line: A work of art long gone %reborn Subject(s): Art And Artists; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Poetry And Poets MAKING THE CHOICE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A piano to wear on her fingers Last Line: Suddenly, everything whe thought %was fastened, comes undone Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MODULATION, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: At five, with tight french braids Last Line: And the monarchs, with %their thousand paper wings Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MORDENT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A mordent is a trick of light Last Line: Its wings, which shiver %like the lashes of a dreaming boy Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MUSIC, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend went to the piano; spun the stool Last Line: "how pretty!"" we said; and went on with our talk again." Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MUSICIANS DEBATE EMBELLISHMENT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Only liars dress the dead Last Line: Her eyes are green as an emperor's jade Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos OCTAVE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: It is what happens Last Line: Calling across some dark orange dawn %to the farthest rim of rock Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos OVERTONES, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Her white finger falls Last Line: And then become nothing at all Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PEDALPOINT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A mother's heartbeat to her foetus Last Line: Locks, passing in the panama night %from the one to the other sea Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PERFORMANCE ANXIETY, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Here is my case Last Line: A sudden scurry of fur %transfixed by your high beams Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST WHO KEEPS A LOADED GUN ON HER PIANO..., by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The children know not to knock Last Line: This fierce first step over %air, is worth dying for Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST'S DREAM, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: I shoulder in a sweat-stained bag Last Line: He leaps for the letters %that are in my hand, my hand Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST'S FEAR OF DEATH, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The moment a finger's down Last Line: Know what you call, %when you whistle in that yard Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST'S NEXT DAY, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Someone else %walked from the wings last night Last Line: On my face %are the burns of their applause Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by CHON PONGGON Poem Source First Line: From the fingertips of a lady Last Line: A sharpened edge %of the waves Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by FRANK DAVEY Poem Source First Line: I sit on the edge Last Line: %hide my fists %in my hands Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by ANN DERNIER Poem Source First Line: I am dressing to meet my sister Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: As clara leafed through her husband's %compositions in her lap Last Line: A spare blue shape that curved away Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children's banging on the piano Last Line: That summer bedtime arrived %when the whole world closed its enormous eyelid Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: Outside is the ocean Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by BILL HOLM Poem Source First Line: He got up, dragging his heavy parts Last Line: The mind drawn back into the hands where %it always should have been: its only home Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: I look at my daughter Last Line: How empty is a life %without its music in it Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PIANO, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: White as candles then all the minor chords Last Line: With nothing left to say %but every word has entered %as a lover enters and will not leave Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: Red riding hood and her grandmother Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Travel PIANO AT MIDNIGHT, by MICHAEL CHARLES ALSTON MOTT Poem Source First Line: You stop your walk along the beach Last Line: All debts are canceled. All are free Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Night; Pianos PIANO BURIAL, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: Empty the garden where I played your singing Last Line: Mountains-sides of aspen. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Rot; Decadence PIANO IN SAINT PAUL, by LAURA LINNEA JENSEN Poem Source First Line: From memory %our piano Last Line: For good sense-- %while I grieve %yet live Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO LESSONS, by RACHEL DACUS Poem Source First Line: The black and white keys had a watery shine. When depressed Last Line: Music is the trail you leave as you fly Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO LESSONS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the music is locked Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pianos; Music Teachers PIANO LESSONS, by SANDY MCINTOSH Poem Source First Line: (spoken) my sunt curled her fingers over mine Last Line: Birth- day par- %ty Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO LESSONS, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The johnsons have her so must we Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO PRACTICE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Your small fingers seek the keys Last Line: A pressure becomes a kind of music Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO PRACTICE, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such splendid icecaps and hard rills, such weights Last Line: Half fact and half enigma. Now your hands %are on the mysteries of the commonplace Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO SOLO, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: Since man's life is nothing but a bit of action at a distance Last Line: I want my soul to find its proper body sand Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO TEACHER, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Who can tell how many fingers Last Line: And how it cannot entirely %diminish love Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO TUNER, UNTUNE ME THAT TUNE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I regret that before people can be reformed they have to be sinners, Last Line: And each little one playing 'chopsticks' twenty-four hours a day in all the nurseries of all his har Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO TUNING, by MARIANNE BORUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, I left it, the tuning hammer Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO [ODA AL PIANO], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midway in the concert Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learning from a player piano Last Line: Thought made mechanical, not grand but upright Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stick fingers, click with a snicker Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stick fingers, click with a snicker Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYING HIROSHIMA, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Did you know the ones with colds wear surgical masks Last Line: Softly...Pianissimo? %they do Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S PIANO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touching you / slipping fingers between your thighs Last Line: Which only the other can hear. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Sex POWER OF THE RIGHT FOOT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source Last Line: And smiles, %and lifts her veil Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PRODIGY, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: He was born with the fingerpads of the blind Last Line: Brushing it as if by accident %with his leg, his sleeve Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos PULL DOWN/RELEASE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Here the climb really ends. Pull down Last Line: They are not as young as you. %they know Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos REQUESTS FOR A TOY PIANO, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Play the one about the family of the ducks Last Line: Not even flowers can remember Subject(s): Pianos; Poetry & Poets REST, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: An unpainted sky crossed by branches Last Line: Four small red horses that gallop away Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos RITARDANDO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: For months gahagan gathered in Last Line: And loops of bullets %and went downtown Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SASHA, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The half-played piece flies off Last Line: Curls under a bridge. The %beginner lifts his hands Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SENRYU (91), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now she's got a baby Last Line: Gives no satisfaction Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned. Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors SIGHT-READING, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Halfway through you realize Last Line: Your sudden hands first told you %you were lost Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SILENT PIANO, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how it sounded fifty years ago! Last Line: Shrunk into furniture. The making of music %dwindles into harmonics from the past Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SOLO DE PIANO, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: Ya que la vida Last Line: Y quiero que mi Subject(s): Instrumentos Musicales; Instrumentos Musicales; Pianos SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHORD FAMILY: DIMINISHED, THEIR DAUGHTER, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Amid the dulles rush she perches Last Line: No chance she will miss her plane Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHORD FAMILY: MINOR, HIS WIFE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: They met at fort meade the summer Last Line: In all their married life, he never %quite touched her Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHORD FAMILY: THE MAJOR, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Every morning he waxes his moustache Last Line: Felt the need to change. Looking %into the mirror, he begins it now Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSEPH DIXON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who carved this shattered harp on my stone? Last Line: And use me again if I am worthy to use. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Lyres STACCATO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The woodpecker drums Last Line: At his bald beak %his head of stopped fire Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos STANZAS ON FINDING THE KEY OF AN OLD PIANO, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unlock, unlock the shrines of memory Last Line: The portal spirit of the gates of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TASK OF THE ACCOMPANIST, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Dear friends start up the drive Last Line: And the tiled baths, with their %blue and inlaid eyes of boys Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TECHNIQUE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Rock your hand Last Line: But you will not, %having chosen to go by water Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TEN MINUTES, A WEATHER FOR PIANO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The suddenly heavy sun Last Line: Through his shirt his shoulderblades %yearn, where his father pinched for wings Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TENDENCY TO COMPLAIN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: An itinerant piano tuner Last Line: Somebody would find fault with it.' Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TENDER BUTTONS: A PIANO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the selection of a strong Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TENDER BUTTONS: A PIANO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the selection of a strong Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE GREEN PIANO, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Neighbors; Pianos THE KEY-BOARD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five and thirty black slaves Last Line: By her finger-tips. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE LOVER OF MUSIC TO HIS PIANOFORTE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, whom glad or grave we seek Last Line: Thine answer, kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE OPENING OF THE PIANO, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen Last Line: "open it! Open it, lady! And let me see the bird!" Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE PIANO, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low brooding cadences that dream and cry Last Line: With eyes unblanched, time and eternity. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE PIANO AT RED'S, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a hole called red's saloon Last Line: Back in red's saloon! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cowboys; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons THE PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Last Line: Plays itself out a half-inch from my fingers Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos THE PLAYER PIANO, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learning from a player piano Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE RED PIANO, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A red piano / he says Last Line: Let us think more musical thoughts. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TO A PIANISTE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once, I see thee now Last Line: His glorious unheard harmony. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TO PLAY PIANISSIMO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Does not mean silence Last Line: And to lay them across her lap like a shawl Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos TOURS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl on the stairs listens to her father Last Line: She presses stays down, makes no sound, %someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Children; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Parents; Pianos; Violence TRUE LEGATO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Lifting one foot, the other falls Last Line: Lost, she rocks the tattered score. %she does not know she sings Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TWO VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THELONIOUS MONK: 1. BLUE MONK, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Solid, as the man himself would say Last Line: With the true, blue beauty of his song: 'blue monk'! Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers USES OF THE METRONOME, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Before you get sea legs Last Line: The white sail slaps sky, %and you fly, you fly Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos VALUES, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Half notes are youngsters who do not know Last Line: Sink to the bottom, how across the measure lines %they sing like stones Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas Subject(s): Arkansas; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas Last Line: Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos %there is no music now in all arkansas Subject(s): Arkansas; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos VISITING SUNDAY: CONVENT NOVITIATE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The parlor doors shall be glazed, the custom book Last Line: To write the lyric. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Convents; Cousins; Musical Instruments; Pianos WAR BALLAD, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The piano has crawled into the quarry. Hauled Last Line: I'll be a song for russia, I'll be %an etude, warmth and bread for everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Religion; War WARBLER'S SONG IN THE DUSK, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I crossed an ocean Last Line: And the soul sings out again Subject(s): Japan; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing And Singers WELL, YOU NEEDN'T, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rather than hold his hands properly Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Mujsic Teachers; Pianos WHAT BRINGS YOU TEARS?, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Today on the road that brought me here Last Line: So what brings you here today? %what brings these tears? Subject(s): Grief; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears WHERE MUSIC COMES FROM, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: One performer shakes it from Last Line: Not rise. The houselights come %on, which burn the skin like sun Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos WHY PERFORMERS WEAR BLACK, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Because there is no black flower Last Line: A whisper muffled in a woman's %hair, on the far dark shore Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos YOUR MUSIC, by PAULINE OGDEN Poem Text First Line: Your slender fingers drift across the keys Last Line: Feeling that you are playing just for me. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Nightmares |
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