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Subject: SCHUMANN, ROBERT ALEXANDER (1810-1856)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HOW ROBERT SCHUMANN WAS DEFEATED BY DEMONS, SELS., by FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: A strange restlessness arose
Last Line: And the night took you into her arms %like a newborn bolt of lightning
Subject(s): Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)


MUSIC IN MOONLIGHT, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was ever music lovelier than to-night!
Last Line: Fashions, supreme, of life, and fate, and time.
Subject(s): Moon; Music & Musicians; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)


ON HEARING SCHUMANN'S 'TRAUMEREIEN', by GEORGE KESSLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: No longer does my clay-form hold my soul
Last Line: Ah! Would it were not just a fancied dream.
Subject(s): Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)


SCHUMANN ADDS TROMBONES TO SECOND SYMPHONY AFTER MENDELSSON CONDUCTS, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm getting better but mendelssohn was right
Last Line: I think it needs a small touch of brown
Subject(s): Conductors (music); Mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847); Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)


SCHUMANN'S SONATA IN A MINOR, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The quiet room, the flowers, the perfumed calm
Last Line: And airs of balm from paradise that blow.
Subject(s): Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)


SYMPHONIC STUDIES (AFTER ROBERT SCHUMANN), by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-july
Last Line: And all life's music but a hymn of praise.
Subject(s): Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856); Symphonies; Concerts


THE ELEGY FOR INTEGRAL DOMAINS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You watched the slender narcissus wilt
Last Line: A christmas tree out of the woods found a body.
Subject(s): Lament; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856); Suicide