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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHANALIAN SONG, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing! - who sings
Last Line: And the best of all good company.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Wine


A BALLAD, SHEWING HOW AN OLD WOMAN RODE DOUBLE AND WHO RODE BEFORE HER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal
Last Line: Started and screamed with fear.
Variant Title(s): The Old Woman Of Berkeley
Subject(s): Devil; Exorcism; Old Age; Prayer; Sin; Singing & Singers; Women; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


A BANJO SONG, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: W'en de banjos wuz a-ringin'
Last Line: We'll dance tel de day done break.
Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Songs


A BIRTHDAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I come / with my handful of song
Last Line: You who have soothed me with passion and roused me with passionate peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Time; Joy; Delight


A BLACKBIRD SUDDENLY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is in my hand, and I
Last Line: Like you—a bird!
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Songs


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing a song of joy
Last Line: And bless on earth our peaceful days.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let us sound with melody
Last Line: Infinite honours.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6. CORRINA, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When to her lute corinna sings
Last Line: Even from my heart the strings do break.
Variant Title(s): Of Corina's Singing
Subject(s): Lutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Songs


A BOOK OF VERSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a little book of singing rhymes
Last Line: To spring at last in this new singer's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


A BUSHMAN'S SONG, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm travelling down the castlereagh, and I'm a station hand
Last Line: And we cross a lot of country at the old jig-jog.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Money; Singing & Singers


A CATCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along comes love / in the semblance of a boy
Last Line: And grief turned joy!
Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Boys; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Paradise; Songs


A CHILD'S SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The starlings they have come to town
Last Line: Creak, creak, pipe, pipe, squeak, squeak, sweet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Starlings


A CHOPIN PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A certain chopin prelude once I heard
Last Line: With beauty, shaken by magic of that song.
Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Songs


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon that now is shining
Last Line: Of glory and of peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Peace; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber
Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen.
Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark to the voices of the night
Last Line: On that first christmas night.
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs


A CHRISTMAS CHANT, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me to sing them a christmas song
Last Line: And as bright a cheer.
Subject(s): Christmas; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


A CRADLE SONG (FOND NONSENSE), by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is full of pictures; but the dearest and the best
Last Line: "hush-a-baby-by."
Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs


A DITTY OF NO TONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that my lips might pour
Last Line: A crown of mingled song and bloom for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


A FRAGMENT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And then it seem'd I was a bird
Last Line: Twas then I knew it was a dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Singing & Singers; Streets; Nightmares; Avenues


A FRENCH SONG IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why thus from the plain does thy shepherdess rove
Last Line: When I leave all the plain, you may guess 'tis for one.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A GIRL SINGS TO MORAVIA AT THE WORLD'S END, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moravia appeared on inishmore
Subject(s): Girls; Moravia & Moravians; Singing & Singers; Songs


A GYPSY SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Can tute rakker romany?
Last Line: To my old sweetheart in her springtime gown
Subject(s): Fields;gypsies;singing & Singers;spring;towns; Pastures;meadows;leas;gipsies


A HEART SONG, by ELIZABETH RIAL SARGENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: On my ear there fell a cry of hate!
Last Line: A mother's heart was singing to its child.
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers


A HEARTH SONG (TO THE OTHER ARMCHAIR), by HARRY TENNYSON DOMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a song for the dawn, for the noon
Last Line: And a song, aye the sweetest -- a love-song -- for you!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


A HUMBLE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A modest singer, with meek soul
Last Line: "sing on immortally."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Immortality; Singing & Singers; Voices


A HUNGER SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some are fed on kingly fare
Last Line: Feed me not, love, on crumbs.
Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The


A HYMN ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh lord! Thou hast known me, and searched me out
Last Line: And the darkness, to thee, is clear as the light.
Subject(s): Bible; Hymns (as Literary Form); Singing & Singers; Songs


A HYMN TO JESUS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, saviour jesus! From above
Last Line: The giver only to adore.
Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Songs


A LATER ALEXANDRIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An inspiration caught from dubious hues
Last Line: From what they dread, who do through tears rejoice.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


A LESSER ODE, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little reed has been enough
Last Line: Have made the very forest sing.
Subject(s): Forests; Love; Reeds; Singing & Singers; Woods


A LILT IN FALL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown of her eyes in the oaken leaf
Last Line: Oh, all the world shall sing of her!
Subject(s): Autumn; New York City - Dutch Period; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs


A LITTLE KERRY SONG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's grand big girls that walks the earth
Last Line: O! Little girl from kerry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Girls; Singing & Singers; Songs


A LITTLE SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little song ill worth your while
Last Line: A little song.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A LITTLE SONG, by REXFORD EIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wandering out amain
Last Line: Of what we sought.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


A LOVE-MESSAGE, by LILLIAN CORBETT BARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the day I meet thee face to face
Last Line: And pause in hushed and silent ecstasy.
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Singing & Singers; Songs


A LULLABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Croon me a lullaby, / soothe me to rest
Last Line: Soothe me to rest.
Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs


A LYKE-WAKE SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair of face, full of pride
Last Line: Nae man kens if ye have been.
Subject(s): Death; Pride; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect


A MAN BESMITTEN SO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There never was a man besmitten so
Last Line: The sum of such a noise would sing a song!
Subject(s): Self; Singing & Singers; Songs


A MAY SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O shepherdess come
Last Line: And fresh is the may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Love; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Singing & Singers


A MIDNIGHT SERENADE FOR HER PERFUMED MAJESTY (AN ENCORE), by ANGELO DE LUCA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, I died many deaths throughout that day
Last Line: I blew my candle, and I went to bed.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Songs


A MOTHER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, o mother! Forever I cry for you
Last Line: "sleep, for thy mother bends over thee yet!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sleep


A NEW OLD SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring comes slowly up this way
Last Line: The spring comes slowly up this way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Spring


A NEWSBOY REFORM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A kindly old musician named dewitt alonzo throte
Last Line: For the buying of a paper is the recognized encore!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


A NIGHT PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I lay awake by my good wife's side
Last Line: Above the hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs


A NONSENSE RHYME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ringlety-jing! / and what will we sing
Last Line: Like the wretched wraith of a whoopty-doo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rhyme; Singing & Singers


A OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's the curiousest thing in creation
Last Line: "the words ""do they miss me at home?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Home; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation


A PAGE SINGS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where leads my way?
Last Line: Tis all of you!
Subject(s): Morning; Singing & Singers; Youth


A PAGE'S ROAD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesu, / if thou wilt make
Last Line: Jesu.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Trees; Paradise


A PARAPHRASE FROM THE FRENCH, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In grey-haired celia's withered arms
Last Line: Te deum sing in quiet!'
Subject(s): Fear; Love; Singing & Singers; Waterloo; Battle Of Waterloo


A PASTORALL; THE ANTEMASQUE, by JANE CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come let us burne severall horrid peeces
Last Line: Hag let's singe, but let's not bee too longe.
Subject(s): Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Witchcraft & Witches; Songs


A POET ENLISTS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: And all the songs that I might sing
Last Line: And never sing again.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


A POETS' WOOING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What may I do to make you glad
Last Line: "but oh, so glad -- so glad -- so glad!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Courtship; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


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


A PSALM FOR EASTER, by MABEL C. MEASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would sweep clean this house I call myself
Last Line: Always that way.
Subject(s): Bodies; Easter; Holidays; Singing & Singers; The Resurrection


A QUARTET ('THE MIKADO' AT CAMBRIDGE), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four singers with a delphic seriousness
Last Line: Their union in each swell and dying fall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A RAJPUT LOVE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! Were you a basil-wreath to twine among
Last Line: And bear me to the fragrance of my beloved's breast!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers


A REDBIRD SINGING, by LEOTA BANISTER WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A redbird caroled late today
Last Line: His melody to you.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


A REMONSTRANCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing me no more, sweet warbler, for the dart
Last Line: Together with the silence breaks my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers


A RING, A RING O' ROSES / A POCKET FULL OF POSIES, by MOTHER GOOSE                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late
Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be."
Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs


A SEA SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dolphins under and sea-gulls over
Last Line: Back to the heart of the long denied!
Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Singing & Singers; Ocean


A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Ho!
Last Line: Though I never sailed back again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


A SESSION WITH UNCLE SIDNEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, tudens, you sit on this knee
Last Line: And then came down in his parachute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Singing & Singers


A SHORT'NIN' BREAD SONG - PIECED OUT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behine de hen-house, on my
Last Line: (chorus)
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers


A SINGER OF THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is waving of grass in the breeze
Last Line: And the combat I sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Fate; Singing & Singers; Spring; Destiny


A SINGING BIRD, by SARA V. PRUESER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The family tree from which you came
Last Line: The musical notes of a singing bird.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers


A SINGING VOICE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, camping on a high bluff
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Voices


A SONG, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had wanted a quiet testament
Subject(s): Singing & Singersand Singers


A SONG, by ALLAN DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The water-thrushes play
Last Line: Shining like a rose.)
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Singing & Singers; Swamps; Songs; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


A SONG, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pouring music, soft and strong
Last Line: The tender traces of a song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


A SONG, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain you tell your parting lover
Last Line: Of slighted vows, and cold disdain.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Drinks & Drinking; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul; Venus (goddess); Wine


A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is ever a song somewhere, my dear
Last Line: There is ever a song somewhere!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Sky


A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder?
Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World


A SONG (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All in an april wood
Last Line: Bides with me yet.
Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG ABOUT SINGING, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O nightingale, the poet's bird
Last Line: Thy wounded, bleeding breast!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG AGAINST SINGING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They bid me sing to thee
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG FOR ANNE, by JOAN CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will dance with the folks of the sidhe tonight
Last Line: Brownie and leprechaun.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chant me a rhyme of christmas
Last Line: Run through the melody.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


A SONG FOR NOVEMBER (1), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gray old hag, in cloak and hood
Last Line: Our own, our own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Nature; November; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG FOR OCTOBER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fruitful october! So fair and calm
Last Line: Chords of my heart give back to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Frost; Music & Musicians; October; Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG FOR THE MILLION; ON WILLIAMS'S METHOD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a music aloft in the air
Last Line: Hullahbaloo!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG FOR THE WEARY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seems it so sad and strange
Last Line: Thee to his breast!
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares


A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you
Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG IN SEPTEMBER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The distant hills are gleaming gold
Last Line: But hear your golden songs again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs


A SONG O' CHEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grampa he's a-allus sayin'
Last Line: "old -- bob -- white!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Nature; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


A SONG OF FATE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is short, the sea is wide, my sweet. Our eyes will rarely meet 'tis
Last Line: And our love and your long waiting true and the new love that will come to you.
Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Destiny; Songs


A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago
Last Line: Wedding us there eternally!
Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs


A SONG OF IMPOSSIBILITIES, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, I loved you all last year
Last Line: I may be yours again!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


A SONG OF LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song, boys, a song!
Last Line: So, boys, a song!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


A SONG OF LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rapture of life and of living
Last Line: And as full of delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apollo; Hearts; Life; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Soul


A SONG OF LOVE, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My own, the miles must not part us
Last Line: Of the muessin,———to pray!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG OF SINGING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing! Gangling lad, along the brink
Last Line: But sing! Sing! Sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers


A SONG OF SIXPENCE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing a song of sixpence
Last Line: And a pocket full of rye!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Youth


A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west
Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!)
Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


A SONG OF SUMMER, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the swish and the swash of the blue summer sea
Last Line: To the fish-ball's twin sister, the fragrant fried clam.
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Symphonies; Concerts


A SONG OF THE HILLS, by MAY LACKEY CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When blue mists of fair aurora
Last Line: "youth is mating -- time is stealing."
Subject(s): God; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs


A SONG OF THE SECTS (IN A JERUSALEM TAVERN), by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A latin and greek, praise god, are we, armenian and copt
Last Line: But we all believe, we all believe, in the holy sepulchre!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Faith; God; Sects; Singing & Singers; Wine; Belief; Creed


A SONG OF THE WESTERN EDEN, by HOPE S. BARBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Delmarva, the western eden
Last Line: To the land between the bays.
Subject(s): Eden; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Songs; Southwest; Pacific States


A SOUTHERN SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herein are blown from out the
Last Line: The night-breath of magnolia-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Southern States; South (u.s.)


A SPRING CAROL, by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the maples' red blooms the bluebirds are tilting
Last Line: Fragrant freshness fills the air.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


A SPRING SONG, by SARAH E. SIMONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind-swept trees
Last Line: For I know that spring is here!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring; Trees


A SPRING SONG AND A LATER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang a song of may for me
Last Line: As dim as autumn rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring


A SPRING THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the spring I have leaned me full close to the bark of a tree
Last Line: In the secrets the bird and the rose and the tree have confessed.
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


A TRIBUTE TO MUSIC, by JANE E. W. LOCKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When music fills the soul of man
Last Line: O music, life of man defend.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


A VALENTINE'S SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Motley I count the only wear
Last Line: The king's highway of choice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Singing & Singers; Valentine's Day


A VESPER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds of the sunset, fold on fold
Last Line: Perhaps to some one lost in the dark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Praise; Singing & Singers


A VINDICATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say what you will of 'rhymesters'
Last Line: As he presses to the goal.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


A WAR SONG OF TYROL, by JOHANN CHRYSOSTOMOS SENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild eagle of the tyrol
Last Line: "I've been among the dead!"
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Singing & Singers; Tyrol, Austria; Victory; War


A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane
Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame.
Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


A WOOD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love is a bush in bloom
Last Line: And dearer far than you.
Subject(s): Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods


ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost know grief well? Hast known her long?
Last Line: "who walked beside you yesterday?"
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often in the summer-tide
Last Line: Across the fields to anne!
Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Summer; Songs


AFRICA, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat where the level sands
Last Line: Rigid and black, as carved in stone.
Subject(s): Africa; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs


AFTER MANY YEARS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song that once I dreamed about
Last Line: The song I cannot sing.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


AFTER THE SONG, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If to your wondrous voice and art
Last Line: Might be as noble as you seem.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


AFTERGLOW, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray that time full many years may bring
Last Line: And I the long decembers count by half.
Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Spring; Time; Youth; Songs


AGAINST THY KNEES, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against thy knees my pallid brow
Last Line: The kingdom they have robbed me of.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Knees; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Dead, The


AIR: CAT BIRD SINGING, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cat bird singing
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


AL FAR DELLA NOTTE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! / as a bubbling fount
Last Line: On the flower of the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers


ALHAMBRA SONGS: 4. ZORAYA, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There came by night a northern cavalier
Last Line: But ah, who taught it thus to sigh, alas?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime


ALI BEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ali bey, the true faith's hero
Last Line: Yes, he softly smiles and gently.
Subject(s): Faith; Heroism; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Songs


ALL PASSES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet, sweet, the lusty thrush
Last Line: Alack, that songs have wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer; Thrushes


ALL SAINTS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have brought gold and spices to my king
Last Line: For lo! His banner over thee is love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Theology


ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherever I am, and whatever I do
Last Line: Than ever be freed from her pow'r.
Variant Title(s): Song: Phyllis;prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 4
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a myrtle shade
Last Line: Asleep or waking you must ease my pain.
Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 3
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs


ALWAYS WITH SONG, by MARY B. WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: How sweet to softly-cushioned baby ears
Last Line: Are made endurable always with song.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


AMAIRGEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amairgen the white-kneed sang
Last Line: Amairgen, the singer of yore.
Subject(s): Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs


AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight
Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight.
Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs


AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a new poem for helen
Last Line: A green flower from a green stem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Desire; Exorcism; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Songs


AMPHITRYON: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celia, that I once was blest
Last Line: Love that's true, is love for ever.
Subject(s): Blessings; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


AMPHITRYON: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair iris I love and hourly I die
Last Line: So easie to part, or so equally join'd.
Subject(s): Blessings; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


AMRAN'S WOOING, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask, o frank! How love is born
Last Line: The shekh himself can better tell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Dead, The


AN ANTHEM FOR MAN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the beast that is not beast: the unhorned
Subject(s): Mankind; God; Singing & Singers; Human Race; Songs


AN ARRANGEMENT FOR AN INQUIRING OBOE OF PHILOSPHIC BENT, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing / now
Last Line: Nor cringe at what you find)
Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F.
Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.); Singing & Singers; Songs


AN EARLY CARDINAL SINGS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, gay little bird in the sycamore tree
Last Line: You opened the gates of spring for me!
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You charm'd me not with that fair face
Last Line: Which made us brave before.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the pangs of a desperate lover
Last Line: Ah what a joy to hear, shall we again!
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
Last Line: He laugh'd out with a ha ha ha ha.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celimena, of my heart
Last Line: When we come together.
Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs


AN ORDER FOR A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me a song of all good
Last Line: And heaven lean to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


AN UNFINISHED PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis mary the milkmaid singing
Last Line: With richard the keeper whistling.
Subject(s): Courtship; Milk; Singing & Singers; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Songs


ANGELICA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that heaven my wish hath granted
Last Line: Gets so very quickly cold.
Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too red, too red the roses were
Last Line: And of all things but you . . . But you. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Roses; Singing & Singers


ANSWER TO VERSES ADDRESSED TO ME BY PETER CLAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Backward down the stream of time
Last Line: Of my early girlhood days.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time


APOLOGETIC POSTSCRIPT OF A YEAR LATER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you see this song, my dear
Last Line: I do not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Love; Quarrels; Singing & Singers; Arguments; Disagreements


ARCADY LOST, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cherry bloom and robin time of year
Last Line: Where once, o comrade mine, we heard them sing.
Subject(s): Hearts; Pain; Singing & Singers; Spring; Suffering; Misery


ARDOR, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Others make verses of grace
Last Line: And burn with the ardor of living.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning, fraulein
Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs


AS A VIOLINIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a violinist bends a loving face
Last Line: So the poet looks to god, and yearns and sings.
Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Soul; Violins; Songs


ASHTABULA, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the geographic ballads are the rage
Last Line: Chorus
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune
Last Line: Make me forget her tears.
Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs


AT DUCLAIR, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of songs my heart would make
Last Line: Its burden would be free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


AT PARTING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For a day and a night love sang to us, played with us
Last Line: For a day and a night.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


AT THE CONCERT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The leader waved his light baton
Last Line: And scarlet plumes and silver dresses.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts


AT THE MUSICALE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She touched my hand as the singer sang
Last Line: "in heaven I shall be thine."
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three-and-thirty aged women
Last Line: "must in actual life first die!"
Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a harvester, at dusk
Last Line: These delights for festival.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Harvest; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away
Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires.
Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs


BABY'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The very song the blackbird sung
Last Line: To the first song the blackbird made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Babies; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Infants


BABY-BIRD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baby-bird, baby-bird
Last Line: Known of one sweet bird.
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Singing & Singers


BAD GIRL SINGING, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took her roommate's cash
Last Line: But we yielded to her song
Subject(s): Cheating; Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLAD OF THE HARPER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What notes are those without the wall
Last Line: As now for this I thank you'
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLADE D'AUJOURD'HUI, by COATES CHAPMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bygone troubadours, grave and gay
Last Line: Here's to the singer who sings to-day!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLADE OF FORGOTTEN LOVES, by ARTHUR GRISSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some poets sing of sweethearts dead
Last Line: The little loves that I've forgot.
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLADE OF THE MAKING OF SONGS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees make their honey out of coloured flowers
Last Line: Poets must make their honey out of gall.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLADE OF THE MEDIOCRE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ambitious bards with song sublime
Last Line: I beat the cymbals—that is all.
Subject(s): Bards; Singing & Singers


BALLADE: 25, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spite hath no power to make me sad
Last Line: It doth suffice she doth me wrong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


BALLADS OF THE STORM: CRADLE SONG FOR THE DYING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space
Last Line: Begins.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Songs


BALLATA OF TRUE AND FALSE SPRING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little wild bird sometimes at my ear
Last Line: There is no room for pupils any more
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


BARGAIN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rose will cost you more
Last Line: This.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


BARTLEME FAIR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While gentlefolks strut in their silver and satins
Last Line: And thus ends the ballad of bartleme fair-o.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants


BEAUTY AND SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The peacock, that fine-feathered bird
Last Line: To keep it sweet and kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Robins; Singing & Singers; Songs


BEETHOVEN, by ALINE NEFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nature planning, years creating
Last Line: Lonely, answering god's call back.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


BIRD AND BROOK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My song, that's bird-like in its kind
Last Line: Of joy the whole year round.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


BIRDS OF PARADISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden-winged, silver-winged
Last Line: The paradise of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Paradise: In A Symbol
Subject(s): Birds; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Paradise


BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO: PREFACE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt
Last Line: Was as light kindling all a windy sea.
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Morning; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


BLACKBIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Day turns to night
Last Line: In a wet march lane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Happiness; Pain; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


BLUES FOR BESSIE, by MYRON O'HIGGINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let de peoples known (unnh) / what they did in dat southern town
Last Line: Wid de blood (lawd) a-streamin' down
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Racism; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Social Protest; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BOB, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singer of songs of the hills
Last Line: This is the story of bob.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the olden fairy wood!
Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder."
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs


BOTTLE-O!, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job
Last Line: There's nothing like an empty bottle-o!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Bottles; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Wine


BRANDY POND, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all you jolly river boys and join me while I sing
Last Line: And johnny williams of great pond was given of the blame!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Wine; Songs


BRIEF ELEGY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In every beautiful song is a promise of sleep
Last Line: Sing to me, strolling through silent streets
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sleep


BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So I would hear out those lungs
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Songs


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


BY THE GREY GULF WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far to the northward there lies a land
Last Line: And I wish I were back by the grey gulf-water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Graves; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones


CAELIA: SONNETS: 4, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So sat the muses on the banks of thames
Last Line: Become more gracious by her sweetest voice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


CAMPUS ETCHING, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chapel tower that lifts against the sky
Last Line: Rapt in high song and austere orisons.
Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Singing & Singers; Soul; Cathedrals; Theology


CANARY, by RITA DOVE    Poem 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


CANOPUS; A LEAP FROM THE PAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the palms, the peaks of pearly gray
Last Line: That makes them purely one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Singing & Singers


CANTATA, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade
Last Line: Cupid does with phoebus reign.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros


CARLISLE FOOTBALL SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our fathers, heap long time ago
Last Line: Us maul each pale-faced sinner!
Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Singing & Singers


CELADON ON DELIA SINGING, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O delia! For I know 'tis she
Last Line: When first he saw, when first he heard the lovely maid.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes
Last Line: And vse to loue the best.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


CHAFFINCH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet! Wet! Hear chaffinch! He cries and calls
Last Line: Will drench the orchard to-night and the cherry-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Finches; Rain; Singing & Singers


CHAMBER MUSIC: 28, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing
Last Line: Love is aweary now.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs


CHAMBER MUSIC: 4, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the shy star goes forth in heaven
Last Line: Tis I that am your visitant.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


CHAMBER MUSIC: 5, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lean out of the window
Last Line: Goldenhair.
Variant Title(s): Goldenhair
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


CHANT BIRDS IN EVERY BUSH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "o how thy do begin: hark, hark!"
Subject(s): Birds;singing & Singers


CHANT FOR THE BRYANT FESTIVAL, NOVEMBER 5, 1864, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One hour be silent, sounds of war!
Last Line: Fulfil her poet's prophecies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Truth; War; Reputation


CHILDREN'S SONG, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Juveniles: is it snow on the hedges?
Last Line: Father's come home again, etc.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Life; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nightmares; Songs


CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day!
Last Line: And christmas carols sing.
Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When christ in bethlehem was born
Last Line: "with peace on earth, good will to you!'"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols;holidays;singing & Singers


CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by ANNE H. WOODRUFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long, long ago! Oh, heart of youth unheeding
Last Line: Another christmas night.
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS SEASON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a christmas carol
Last Line: O english of shakespeare!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, no change endeavour
Last Line: Love has found out a way to live by dying.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Eros; Songs


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


CLUB LAW, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear tom, since by a lucky knack
Last Line: You're safe in your location.
Subject(s): Humility; Singing & Singers; Smiles


COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures
Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven!
Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs


COME NOT NEAR MY SONGS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Leaps my heart upon you!
Subject(s): Hearts;innocence;love;love - Complaints;singing & Singers


COMPLAINT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Song, I am unused to you
Last Line: I would not betray you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgetfulness; Singing & Singers; Songs


COMRADE SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hold not in our power
Last Line: In vine-clad bowers drinking!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Love; Muses; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Wine


CONSUELO SINGS, by JENNIFER STEWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Consuelo sings, in her gay little troubadour costume
Last Line: "you're -- some singer -- consuelo!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


CONTENT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though singing but the shy and sweet
Last Line: Be yours all other bliss!
Subject(s): Contentment; Singing & Singers; Songs


COR CORDIUM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire
Last Line: The nursing earth as the sepulchral sea.
Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs


CORPUS, CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing can I recall
Last Line: Walked and blasphemed on corpus sod.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; God; Mass; Singing & Singers; Tears


COVERT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, when sunny fields lay warm and still
Last Line: "thy hiding-place is safe. Glad heart, keep still!"
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


CREDO, by MARGARET GROSVENOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my creed
Last Line: The bride be dead.
Subject(s): Faith; Love; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Songs


CUPID'S PROMISE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft cupid, wanton, amorous boy
Last Line: And, by thy grant, his power show?
Subject(s): Cupid; Kisses; Oaths; Singing & Singers; Voices; Eros


CURLER'S SONG, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A' nicht it was freezin', a' nicht I was sneezin'
Last Line: Then hurrah, etc.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


DAGONET MAKES A SONG FOR THE KING, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ay, ay, o ay, if love be lean in the halls of the jewelled
Last Line: Ay, ay o ay, for a morsel of truth, and the lord-god pity me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Singing & Singers


DAYLIGHT IS DYING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daylight is dying
Last Line: You some echo of song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Death; Evening; Singing & Singers; Stars; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight


DAYS THAT ARE TAPESTRIES, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some days go by
Last Line: A rapturous, singing mirth!
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Tapestries


DECOR DE THEATRE: 6. AT THE AMBASSADEURS; TO YVETTE GUILBERT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was yvette. The blithe ambassadeurs
Last Line: The pity of unpitied human things.
Subject(s): Guilbert, Yvette (1867-1944); Singing & Singers


DEDICATION TO CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Songs light as these may sound, though deep and strong
Last Line: Songs light as these.
Subject(s): Roundels; Singing & Singers


DISTANT SONG, by HENRY SPIESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A delicate and downcast air
Last Line: Dwells?
Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Parting


DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres
Last Line: Of craniological gall.
Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors


DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me?
Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt:
Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


DOUGLAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's an old, old song with a sweet refrain
Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs; Singing & Singers


DOWN-HALL, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing not old jason, who travelled through greece
Last Line: Derry down, down, hey derry down.
Subject(s): Canterbury, England; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


DREAM-SONG SEA-SONG, by EUNICE W. GILKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take me / bear me gently - lightly
Last Line: Waves of sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Ocean; Songs


DRINKING SONG, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization
Last Line: Chest, clouds above, she was in ny forever and I, fishing and drinking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Loss; Singing & Singers; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


DROPPING CHIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call the illusion what you will
Last Line: Stooping to a penny.
Subject(s): Guitars; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs


DUET (I SING WITH MYSELF), by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of my sorrow
Last Line: Because of my wings!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart
Last Line: Dumb in june!
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs


EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The low sweet melody of ancient song
Last Line: Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief.
Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


EARLY MAY STANZAS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A may wood. The invisible removal load
Last Line: The load is burning with chilly flames
Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


ECCLESIASTES, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the smoke-blue cabaret
Last Line: "and whose hands are bands.'"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


ECHOES, by HELEN M. FRANCIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: High up among the cobwebs of the roof
Last Line: Save little answering voices all around.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Voices; Worship; Songs


ECHOES, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope
Last Line: To one in love with solitude and song.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs


ECHOES OF JOY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a song of joy
Last Line: Wind-blown over the heather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Joy; Delight


EGERTON MANUSCRIPT: 104. JOPAS'S SONG, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When dido feasted first the wandering trojan knight
Last Line: For they have their two poles directly t'one to t'other . . .'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


EL CAMINO REAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king's highway is thronged with folk
Last Line: But, oh, the by-roads and their song!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism; Songs


ELEANOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cherry-red her mouth was
Last Line: Joyfully borne along.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Women


ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet eleanore! - fair eleanore!'
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs


ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the star - / the golden-winged herald of the morn
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs


ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush
Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control.
Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women


EMPTY VESSEL, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met ayont the cairney
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


ENCORE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The singer stood in a blaze of light
Last Line: And one for the song she sang
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


ENGLISH IVY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Right here within my little room
Last Line: And english ivy growing over all!
Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; English


EPICEDIUM: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, who shall mourn him first
Last Line: And his first word was noble as his last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Italy; Kisses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Italians


EPIGRAM: 21, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lead a life unpleasant, nothing glad
Last Line: Plain or rejoice who feeleth weal or wrong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 88
Subject(s): Life; Pain; Singing & Singers; Truth; Suffering; Misery


EPIGRAM: 4, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat and sewed that hath done me the wrong
Last Line: To feel if pricking were so good indeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 54
Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers


EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come tell us, you that travel far
Last Line: And spend our booty in a song.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


ERIC AND AXEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though they never divided my meat or wine
Last Line: "when she calls: ""ho, eric!"" and ""axel, ho!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers


EUGENE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With gentlest tears, no less than
Last Line: The love of little children laurels him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Tears; Childhood


EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Saxophones; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was almost bedtime, and something was wrong
Last Line: By both my hands again, and we walked home
Subject(s): African Americans; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Streets; Negroes; American Blacks; Illness; Avenues


EVENING SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cloudlets are lazily sailing
Last Line: To have a better stare!
Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


EVENSONG, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This song is of no importance
Last Line: The perfect quiet that comes after rain.
Subject(s): Cities; Singing & Singers; Urban Life; Songs


EVOE!, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many are the wand-bearers
Last Line: Hears now this song of mine.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 24, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This morn in the lily a bee doth sing: upon your finger chants a ring
Last Line: Bosom sings my kiss.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


FAIRIES' SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: North and south and east and west
Last Line: Seeking still some work to do.
Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Elves


FAIRY SINGING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was my love and the pulse of my / heart
Last Line: Empty the arms that your beauty had blessed.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers


FAUST: SOLDIER'S SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Castles with lofty
Last Line: Marching away.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faust; Life; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; Songs


FIRST APPOINTMENT, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Intoxication of spring! The plot of grass is whirling round the statue
Last Line: * * * * * * *
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long ago he said
Last Line: From calvary.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean


FLAMENCO, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave her alone, dad said. She's learning something this time.
Last Line: Goes off like this, when I have to prepare myself for another rescue
Subject(s): Family Life; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Songs


FLAPPER SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Delta kappa epsilon / kappa gamma mu
Last Line: "tea time, toddle time, / taxicabs for two"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


FLORETTY'S MUSICAL CONTRIBUTION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All seemed delighted, though the elders more
Last Line: Gathered himself. And thus his story ran.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 1ST SERIES. DEDICATION, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To sing a song shall please my countrymen
Last Line: And so accept the singer and the song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


FOOL'S SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When swallows lay their eggs in snow
Last Line: Till when let your wisdom be dumb, etc.
Subject(s): Fools; Singing & Singers; Wisdom; Idiots; Songs


FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 7. SPRING ARRIVED, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We will carol all the day
Last Line: Goes the pageant in a trice.
Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


FOR MUSIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O singer, canst thou summon up
Last Line: So long ago? -- then sing!
Subject(s): Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Spring; Scientists


FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled
Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen


FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For the sake of the song would I sing to-day
Last Line: As the goldfinch warbles its notes awing!
Subject(s): Goldfinches; Nature; Singing & Singers


FOREVER, by BERTHA MILLER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away and away in the far blue distance, life
Last Line: Which is carried away forever, ever . . . Aye!
Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Singing & Singers; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Songs


FORTUNE, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marvel no more although
Last Line: To sing some pleasant song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 52;song: 32
Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Life; Singing & Singers


FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 1. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the garden
Last Line: Praise him whose hand is the strength of the sea.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Singing & Singers; Winter


FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued
Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


FRAGMENT, by STELLA LUCIA MANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, let me not to beauty of a tree be blind
Last Line: The song on wings against the sky!
Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Trees


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAD AND CHEERFUL SONGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing me no more such ditties: they are well
Last Line: Sing such a one.
Subject(s): Advice; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


FREDERICA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O leave berlin, with its thick-lying sand
Last Line: Sing in the golden sunny halls above.
Subject(s): India; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


FREE ART, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, whom song was given, sing
Last Line: Lives and moves the german god.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more
Last Line: And feel a kind of regret.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs


GEO-BESTIARY: 34, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not how many different birds I've seen
Last Line: They sing what and where they are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs


GERMANY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me sing germania' s glory!
Last Line: Ever flourish germany!
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Singing & Singers; Time; Germans; Songs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 1, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mournful month of november 'twas
Last Line: And the contact new vigour produces.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Germans; Songs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land
Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs


GHAZALS: 21, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sings from the bottom of a well but she can hear him up
Last Line: Drags the dead horse away to hollow swelling growls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Imaginary Conversations; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


GHAZALS: 30, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am walked on a leash by my dog and am water
Last Line: An apple, the fat off the lamb, raw and coreless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Songs


GHAZALS: 41, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Song for nat king cole and the dog who ate the baby
Last Line: Picker, the hay baler, the gun and throne and grenade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Inventions & Inventors; Singing & Singers; Songs


GOD THE BROKEN LOCK, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've died enough by now I trust
Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Sin; Singing & Singers; Songs


GOD-SINGING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice rises from the mosque farther down the mountain
Last Line: Neither young nor old, neither bird nor human
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


GONE BEFORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was most like a rose when it flushes rarest
Last Line: Heart-pierced thro' and thro'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Singing & Singers


GRAMPY SINGS A SONG, by HOLMAN F. DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis
Last Line: Was chester cahoon of the tuttsville brigade.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs


GUITAR SONG, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gastibelza, gun on shoulder
Last Line: That hath maddened me!
Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Songs


GYPSY LOVE SONG, by NORA MCLEOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, a gypsy's love can never grow cold
Last Line: For a gypsy's love must never grow cold.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Singing & Singers; Gipsies


GYPSY SONG, by HELEN PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is it within me that's yearning to go
Last Line: To shatter the sky like a comet at night.
Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


HANS CARVEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hans carvel, impotent and old
Last Line: You've thrust your finger g-d knows where!
Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Passion; Singing & Singers


HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE, by GERTRUDE ELOISE BEALER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Holly berries red and bright
Last Line: Theirs a gladsome song!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Songs


HARMONIES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: No hammer fell, no heavy axe was heard
Last Line: In soundless beauty to the sun-god's lute.
Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


HEALING ANIMAL, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this day when you have needed to sleep forever
Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


HEART-SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear heart, what tho' I press the heedless throng
Last Line: All the night long?
Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs


HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things
Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs


HEAVEN'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Visions of bethlehem come to me
Last Line: Brought down from heaven by angel's wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Carols; Heaven; Singing & Singers; Stars; Paradise; Songs


HEBREW CRADLE SONG, by EZEKIEL LEAVITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night has on the earth descended
Last Line: That thy mother used to tell!
Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Language; Jews; Singing & Singers; Judaism; Songs


HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly
Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed.
Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs


HERE IS MUSIC: DEDICATION TO G.V.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, vedi napoli,' (so the italians say
Last Line: "e poi muori!"
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy; Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


HERE IS MUSIC: EPILOGUE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, even as goethe, women's tears
Last Line: Twin things beget true artists ... Love and cruelty.
Subject(s): Children; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood


HERE IS MUSIC: NUNC DIMITTIS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A man, / low on the westering stage of large-liv'd life
Last Line: Last off'ring, glad and grateful for your goodly ways.
Subject(s): Harmonicas; Singing & Singers


HILL CIRCLE, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a quiet little place
Last Line: And sky-filled, sun-drenched air.
Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs


HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Negroes; American Blacks; Songs


HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the way to paris, but toward nemours the
Last Line: Hours of night chanted the nightingale.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Songs


HOW A LITTLE GIRL SANG, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, she was music in herself
Last Line: Tho' still accursed with ears of lead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


HOW CAN I SING?, by FREDERICK C. BODEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Loudly the chanticleer now crows
Last Line: And wake them up that I may sing.
Subject(s): Dawn; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Songs


HOW POETS PLAY, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How do poets play?
Last Line: Swoon in fainting silences away.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers


HUGGING THE JUKEBOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On an island the soft hue of memory,
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Childen; Grandparents; Jukeboxes; Songs; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, dumb-born book
Last Line: All things save beauty alone.
Subject(s): Beauty; Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Singing & Singers; Songs


HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass
Last Line: Here on my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


HYMN EXULTANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice of mankind, sing over
Last Line: Our king returns to us, forever ours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Soul; The Resurrection; Human Race


HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the harps which the winds play
Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean


HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder
Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain!
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect


HYMN TO THE AUTHOR OF THESE HYMNS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O'er realms of song an uncrowned king all things beneath the sun I
Last Line: Wood! It is your shade, your shade, your shade, o dreaming wood! . . .
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Singing & Singers; Songs


I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first dream with open eyes
Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs


I HEAR AMERICA SINGING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear america singing, the varied carols I hear
Last Line: Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Subject(s): Americans; Labor & Laborers; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; United States; Work; Workers; Songs; America


I HEAR HER SING, by CAROLINE COX    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear her sing across the years
Last Line: "heavenly angels guard thy bed!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


I SHALL FASHION SONGS, by LOIS R. CARPENTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall fashion songs for you
Last Line: And sing them to you.
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing / of the beauty of athens
Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs


I SING THE BATTLE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will
Last Line: And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; War; Songs


I SING TO USE THE WAITING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To keep the dark away.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


I'LL SING MY SANG WHATE'ER BETIDE, by JAMES SMITH (1824-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, what reck I tho' poortith's blast
Last Line: An' sing my sang whate'er betide.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


I'M SADDEST WHEN I SING, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You think I have a merry heart
Last Line: I'm saddest when I sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind
Last Line: Far away, far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


IMITATIONS OF WALT WHITMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who am I?
Subject(s): "imitation;poetry & Poets;singing & Singers;whitman, Walt (1819-1891);


IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen
Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well."
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


IN ANCIENT DECEMBER, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the ideal american
Last Line: Singing singing? What am I singing?
Subject(s): Americans; Forget-me-nots; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


IN ANDELYS: LONG LIVE THE SKIES OF NORMANDY: 22, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us sing, to end our lay, normandy's azure skies, fairest the king
Last Line: Form, skies, great skies, dappled o'er, rain cider on my head!
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Singing & Singers; Songs


IN EXCELSIS, 1889, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh how delectable it is to be
Last Line: More to be magnified, more dread, more sweet.
Subject(s): Bastille (paris); France; Love; Nature; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sound; Ocean


IN MEMORY OF A CHILD-POET, L.L., by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a song the great musician made
Last Line: Lo, there his barque, white on the glittering sea!
Subject(s): Children; Death; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Dead, The; Songs


IN NEW YORK: 2. THE SONG YOU LOVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have sung the sweet songs and the sad
Last Line: Restless with words it could not sing.
Subject(s): New York City; Singing & Singers; Soul; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN SPRING, by AVA F. COLLINGWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The time in school is twice as long
Last Line: On every single sunny day?
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


IN THE GREEN WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green wood, by a green slope
Last Line: My heart goes crying and soaring yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Green (color); Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods


IN TIME OF WAR I SING, by ALLEN CRAFTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sing of song! Of spontaneity
Last Line: I find my song within the world's soul -- crowned.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; World War I; Songs; First World War


INCIDENTAL, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I rid me
Last Line: And cold and alone?
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind
Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song.
Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians


INVENTION FOR NEED, by ELSIE ROSE GIVENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some folk have need of sturdy things
Last Line: These songs I cannot keep!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


INVOCATION, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of old, men of old
Last Line: Heart of iron, lips of gold.
Subject(s): History; Singing & Singers; Historians; Songs


ITALIAN STREAM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Distinct reflections mark the hoarded caves
Last Line: And that, I swear, is a dream!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Water; Songs


JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem 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


JAPANESE NIGHT-SONG, by JASON ELLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shadow of a heron's wing is on the water
Last Line: Like petals over her heart.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


JENNY LIND, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence com'st thou, jenny lind
Last Line: Is on record in the sky!
Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers


JEWISH LULLABY, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My harp is on the willow-tree
Last Line: Judea's fainting soul!
Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Singing & Singers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Songs


JOB WORK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Write me a rhyme of the present time
Last Line: "you may print it -- upside down!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


JOHN WALSH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange life - strangely passed!
Last Line: " 'tis but the dross he throws away."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In days of disillusion
Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could take the harlem night
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs


JUST A MANNISH CUSTOM, by CLEMENT GELEZUMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestic, sonorous, spontaneous
Last Line: It is love -- broadcast afar in tenor.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


KATE FROM THE WEST, by EVELYN MAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was just a girl from way out west
Last Line: The boys for her were sure to wait.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kathleen mavourneen! / the song is still ringing
Last Line: Oh, why are we silent, kathleen mavourneen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Night; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


KEEPSAKE, by ALBERT SAMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her dress of tulle was patterned with pale roses
Last Line: And it was like a song that wanes away.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies
Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat.
Variant Title(s): To Britannia
Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF PAN AND NEREIDE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Round they coasts, fair nymph of britain
Last Line: And takes for kings the tyrian dye.
Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Songs


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest isle, all isles excelling
Last Line: Those shall be renown'd for love.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Venus [in Honour Of Britannia]
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros; Songs


LADIES, WE GREET THEE, by MAUDE SLINKARD HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ladies, o ladies, we greet thee in song
Last Line: Singing the hours away.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


LARABELLE, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harp of the west! That long hath silent hung
Last Line: The muse may add a laurel to the brave.
Subject(s): Graves; Muses; Singing & Singers; War; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs


LARKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day in exquisite air
Last Line: The song went up the stair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Singing & Singers; Stairs; Skylarks


LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Disarticulated / arm torn out
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs


LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today some buildings were blown up
Last Line: It tasted like.
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs


LATE SINGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The spring was late in coming, so
Last Line: We'll sing our number through.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time; Songs


LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old
Last Line: The word of god, be ours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs


LAUGHING SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing us something full of laughter
Last Line: Laugh, and we'll not miss the words.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year
Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs


LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This song stays
Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs


LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when I imagined I had conquered nostalgia so odious
Subject(s): Letters; Singing & Singers; Nostalgia


LETTERS TO YESENIN: 18, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus the poet is a beached gypsy, the first porpoise to whom it
Last Line: Smell of bacon. Wise souls move through the dark only one step at a time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Songs


LIEBESTRAUM, by HILDA BUTLER FARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: A melody so haunting
Last Line: Our dream of love, my dear.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


LIFE'S ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you are very old, by the hearth's glare
Last Line: And pluck life's roses, oh! To-day, to-day.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Praise; Roses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The


LILIES, by EDNA DE LYNN    Poem Text                    
First Line: White lily, lovely flower!
Last Line: One a banner of life!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


LINES IN PRAISE OF THE LYRIC CLUB BANQUET WHICH WAS HELD IN THE QUEEN', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1894, and on the 5th of september
Last Line: Mcgonagall.
Subject(s): Praise; Singing & Singers


LINES TO A LADY, ON HEARING HER SING 'CUSHLAMACHREE', by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! Heaven protect thee, thou gem of the ocean
Last Line: "descending, shall hail thee her ""cushlamachree."
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While my young cheek retains its healthful hues
Last Line: Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


LISTEN!, by SARABETH (SATTERTHWAITE) LESLIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who craves a song that I should sing -
Last Line: My heart sings on -- till questing cease.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


LITTLE PIERRE'S SONG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a humble room in london sat a pretty little boy
Last Line: And he came to be one of the most talented composers of the day.
Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts


LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There stands a singer in the street
Last Line: That throngs the shameless song this night!
Subject(s): Cities; London; Singing & Singers; Urban Life


LONGFELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds have talked with him confidingly
Last Line: Of nature's voice he sings -- and will alway.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Nature; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Wind; Songs


LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What stirs in my heart so?
Last Line: I lie at thy feet!
Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs


LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You never longed and loved
Last Line: I lie at thy feet!
Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs


LOVE, by MARY HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Surely, I thought, it must have wings
Last Line: And baked a cake and sang.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While from the skies the ruddy sun descends
Last Line: He shall adorn my songs, and tune my voice to love.
Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Singing & Singers; Sun; Youth


LOVE AT EASTER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing to the lord a new song!
Last Line: This easter-tide shall be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; Love; Singing & Singers; The Resurrection


LOVE SANG FROM OVER YONDER, by FLORENCE E. D. MUZZY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love sang to me afar - I did not understand
Last Line: "that selfless roves where'er we rove."
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


LOVE SONG, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am misunderstanding a song
Last Line: Of too many / nights alone
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Love; Songs


LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG FOR A GIRL, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young I am, and yet unskill'd
Last Line: I shou'd long to be fifteen.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs


LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What state of life can be so blest
Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind!
Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind
Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators


LOVE'S INSPIRATION, by TRISTAN LECLERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit at the rosewood table
Last Line: And swiftly from my pen the pages darken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Paper; Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Songs


LOVE, YOUTH, SONG, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a song of lustihood
Last Line: When love and youth and song were one!
Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lennavan-mo
Last Line: Lennavan-mo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs


LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest
Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs


LURLINE (INSCRIBED TO MADAME LUCY ESCOTT), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As you glided and glided before us that time
Last Line: When we heard your wild warbling around us.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


LYNTON VERSES: 2, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At malmsmead, by the river side
Last Line: And we are left so lonely.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Solitude; Songs; Loneliness


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 39, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little songs do I utter
Last Line: What they in her bosom discover'd.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 45, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On hearing the strains enthralling
Last Line: I quench my anguish and grief.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 48, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From older legends springing
Last Line: Dissolves, when morning beams.
Subject(s): Flowers; Legends; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 56, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My songs with poison are tainted
Last Line: And thee too, my dearest love, thee.
Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 58, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand on the brow of the mountain
Last Line: And healest the bullfinch's smart.
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 64, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A glittering star is falling
Last Line: The song of the swan died away.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Stars; Swans; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll dip my spirit discreetly
Last Line: In a wondrous moment of bliss.
Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On song's exulting pinion
Last Line: Of blissful visions we'll dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ma rainey comes to town
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


MADAME METTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Says bender to peter over their wine
Last Line: And lost my true dog also
Subject(s): Churches;death;drinks & Drinking;singing & Singers; "cathedrals;dead, The;


MAKER OF THE SONGS, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take strands of speech, faded and broken
Last Line: Of glittered breath that you have known.
Variant Title(s): Maker Of Songs
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Songs


MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's not a singing animal
Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs


MAMMY SUE, by MARY C. HERGET    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dim days of the long ago
Last Line: "hummin', hummin', hummin'."
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Household Employees; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Songs


MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I have pleasures for a friend
Last Line: When neither can hinder the other.
Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs


MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst alexis lay prest
Last Line: The nymph dy'd more quick, and the shepherd more slow.
Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs


MASTERS OF CONTE JONDO, by PETER GIZZI            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


MATTHEW: 26, 30, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun hath gilded judah's hills
Last Line: That last sweet hymn did raise.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


MAURINE: PART 2, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To little birds that never tire of humming
Last Line: "a grander man I never yet have seen."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Singing & Singers; Women


MAY, by ERIS GOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: O the wonder of living while may is here
Last Line: Each naked new dream in the brook.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


MELODY, by NORMA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no song that I have missed
Last Line: Intruder to my thought.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wind


MEREDITH NICHOLSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats, and kirk white, david
Last Line: Young yet in art, and his heart yet a boy's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Muses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


MEXICAN SERENADE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the little armadillo
Last Line: So I guess that you had better go to sleep.
Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O come across the grey wild seas
Last Line: To-day and to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean


MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mon cher monsieur le secretaire
Last Line: Of song, monsieur le secretaire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


MOONSHINER'S SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night's blind-black, an' I 'low
Last Line: I'll be twic't as good-again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Moon; Night; Roses; Singing & Singers; Bedtime


MOTHER'S SONGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our mother sings quite different songs
Last Line: Seem far and far away!
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers


MOTHER-TO-BE, by SOPHIE E. REDFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is that look in your lovely eyes?
Last Line: Dear little mother-to-be!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


MRS. WINKLESTEINER, by DOROTHY E. REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mrs. Winklesteiner / made songs in her head
Last Line: Never sing at all.
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers


MUSIC, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old songs / die
Last Line: Are all that is left of sarasate.
Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


MUSIC'S TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Had birds no season for their precious songs
Last Line: Is there no quiet place to sleep or rest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


MY LEGENDS: ORPHEUS CHARMING THE ANIMALS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Neath dawn's caress a silvery mountain shone
Last Line: That drunk with song the world more swiftly whirled through space.
Subject(s): Animals; Legends; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Songs


MY MADELINE; SERENADE IN M FLAT, by WALTER PARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My madeline! My madeline!
Last Line: Madonna mia! My madeline!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


MY NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! Hush! List, heart of mine
Last Line: Baptize me, drown me in black swirls of bliss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime


MY OWN SPRING SONG, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now 'tis spring, a lovely scene
Last Line: Is not a legal tender.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring


MY SINGING LESSONS; ABSTRACT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here beginneth - chapter the first of a series
Last Line: Indited this twenty-sixth day of november.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


MY SONG, by AGATHA COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today is the day I will make a song
Last Line: For my love, o my love, loves me.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


MY SONGS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no unawakened string
Last Line: A mighty chorus fully told.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


MY SWEETHEART, by FRANCES BOYD HURLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sing of love to one I love
Last Line: This mortal life, my own sweetheart.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


MY VOCATION, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cast the world's vast crowd among
Last Line: Sing, poor little one.'
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


MY VOICE, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To cure myself of wanting cuban song
Subject(s): Singing & Singersand Singers; Cuba


NAME US NO NAMES NO MORE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, oh, rarest of roundelays!
Last Line: "taste salt tears in our ""tee-hee-hee""!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Laughter; Names; Singing & Singers; Youth


NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore
Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World


NEMOURS: HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the paris side, but towards nemours the white, in the boughs a
Last Line: Has chanted philomel!
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs


NEW SPRING: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou hast good eyes, and look'st
Last Line: Thou wilt tread the forest mazy.
Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


NICHOLAS OBERTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing! O voice of valor, sing!
Last Line: He was so sorry and satisfied!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bulls; Children; Heroism; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Heroes; Heroines


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 7. VOICE OF A FRENCH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so the songs must go unsung
Last Line: And I am well content.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Nightmares


NIGHT-SONG, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis night -- my bark is on the ocean
Last Line: Bless thee, my love! Good night, good night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Love; Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Ocean


NIGHTINGALE LANE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down through the thicket, out of the hedges
Last Line: The nightingale singeth under the moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers


NILOTIC DRINKING SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may water your bays, brother-poets
Last Line: And sing for the glory of ancient nilus!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Brooks; Drinks & Drinking; Silence; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Wine


NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song
Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind


NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: THE ITALIAN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing, I tell the italian: bring your barrel-organ. Sing.' - to his
Last Line: "of shining sand: my voice without me is empty noise. Scrutinize well my face."
Subject(s): Lament; Singing & Singers; Songs


NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now precedent songs, farewell -- by every name farewell
Last Line: What wretched shred e'en at the best of all!)
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


NOW THE COCK DOTH CRY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "now the cock doth cry, cock-a-doodle-doo"
Last Line: "to all who beauty love, and business hate"
Subject(s): Hate;singing & Singers


O HEARKEN THE SO GENTLE PLAINT, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: O! Hearken the celestial song
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul


O LITTLE FAIRIES..., by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little fairies, under your long, long hair
Last Line: What matter that I know it false and vain . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean
Subject(s): Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Elves


O LULL ME, LULL ME, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sigh stretches heaven
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Consolation; Songs


O'BRUIDAR, by DAVID O'BRUAIDAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will sing no more songs! The pride of my country I sang
Last Line: So I'll sing no more songs for the men that care nothing for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'bruaidar, Daibhi
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 28, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-cheeked laura, come
Last Line: Selves eternal.
Variant Title(s): Silent Music;laura
Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Seduction; Singing & Singers; Songs


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While our rosy fillets shed
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Drinks & Drinking; Songs; Wine


OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus, god belov'd by men
Last Line: Tho' he burst with the weight of the terrible god.
Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Songs


OF A BAD SINGER; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing
Last Line: Did certain persons die before they sing.
Variant Title(s): The Desired Swan-song;bad Poets;on A Volunteer Singer;on A Bad Singer
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


OF ALL THE BRAVE BIRDS THAT ERE I DID SEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Nutmegs and cloves; and who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Subject(s): Animals;birds;singing & Singers;wings


OLD CHANTS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ancient song, reciting, ending
Last Line: Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


OLD HEC'S IDOLATRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heigh-o! Our jolly tilts at new
Last Line: Nor heard of him again, nor cared to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Knights & Knighthood; Singing & Singers


OLD SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is many a simple song one hears
Last Line: The tender magic of bygone things.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Passion; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs


OLD SONGS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This song I wrote - ah me, how long ago!
Last Line: Let rust and acid dim the eternal stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


OLINDA SINGS (DEDICATED TO OLINDA RODRIGUEZ), by DOROTHY A. LINNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Olinda sings - and there is silver spray
Last Line: Life every heart -- because olinda sings.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


ON A FLY-LEAF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Singers there are of courtly
Last Line: With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Human Race


ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow moon is a dancing phantom
Last Line: O moon-white maid!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): April; Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.)


ON AN OATEN STRAW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My harp is out of tune, and so I take
Last Line: Seated with pan upon the mossy weir.
Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs


ON CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let 'em censure: what care I?
Last Line: And lose the nymph, to gain the bays.
Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Fame; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Songs


ON HIMSELFE (3), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aske me, why I do not sing
Last Line: And my tongue at one time mute.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


ON RHYME AND BLANK VERSE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a deal of impertinent stuff at this time
Last Line: All the bus'ness he knows is—to execute well.
Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs


ON THE ARROW TRACK, by J. H. G.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Coming from the arrow, I / with my empty dray
Last Line: "ta-ra-ra boom-dee-ay!"
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Family Life; Language; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary; Songs


ON THE CLIFFS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the moondawn and the sundown here
Last Line: Fire everlasting of eternal life.
Subject(s): Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; Soul; Ocean


ON THE PROGRAM, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The well - dressed throng of women murmured - stirred
Last Line: "spoke graciously, ""your songs enchanted me!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs


ON THE SUNNY SIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hi and whoop-hooray, boys!
Last Line: On the sunny side!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Pigeons; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


ONE LAST KISS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One last kiss and the morning star were one
Last Line: The song, the glory filled the fading sails.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


ONE WITH A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sings: and his song is heard
Last Line: And the blossoms everywhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Voices


ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Babe jesus lay in mary's lap
Last Line: Babe jesus said never a word.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Singing & Singers; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


OUR NATIVE SONG, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our native song! Our native song!
Last Line: To hear its own, its native song.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


OUR SINGING STRENGTH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm
Last Line: And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed
Subject(s): Spring; Singing & Singers; Songs


OUT OF SINGING DAYS, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Break out in fire, my hill, at autumn's calling
Last Line: To be held dumb, when the soul breaks for a cry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Poetry & Poets; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sound; Fall


OWLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What music, lord, these birds must feel
Last Line: For the beauty at my door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Singing & Singers; Songs


PALE SONG, by ANDRE GERMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What music make with bells gulfed by the hours?
Last Line: What poems draw from a heart drowned in despair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


PASTICHE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the days are all gone over
Last Line: Even to his own strong child -- despair.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers


PEACE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the pulse of the tide again
Last Line: And a broken soul to save.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul


PHYLLIS, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet birds that sit and sing amid the shady valleys
Last Line: "for as on you our muse begun, in you all music endeth!"
Variant Title(s): A Pastoral
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


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


PICTURES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pallid nun by serge made doubly pale
Last Line: Touches the cheek, and fairer skies float down.
Subject(s): Italy; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Italians; Songs


PIERROT'S SONG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, light in the east hangs low,
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


PINE MUSIC, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years I seek the stars
Last Line: By the least flowers that fade.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


PLOUGHMAN'S SONG, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold-dusty, saffron-robed maid
Last Line: Sung by thy playmates that, lo! Are winging the breeze.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


POET AND BIRD, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To sing a fleeting song and die!
Last Line: And sing the music as their own.
Subject(s): Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


POMEGRANATE SONG, by ANDRE GIDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still for a long time you should seek
Last Line: That we pop near the fire.
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Happiness; Pomegranates; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight; Songs


POWWOW, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tum, tum, tum, tum! Tum, tum, tum!
Last Line: Four ragged chieftains beating on a drum!
Subject(s): Bells; Musical Instruments; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs


PRELUDE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My song is born of rivalry. Cross time
Last Line: Save where I lift, and purify, and bless!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Singing & Singers; Time


PRIMA DONNA OF THE NEGRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the lemon-lily queen
Last Line: And my earrings tremble and shine.
Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


PRISON SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beat, beat, wings of my heart
Last Line: For between -- the iron bars.
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers


PROEM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, when the mocking-bird, returned
Last Line: That, denied to desire, obedience yet may invite thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): England; Life; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; English


PROEM DEDICATORY: EPISTLE FROM MOUNT TMOLOUS; TO RICHARD H. STODDARY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O friend, were you but couched on tmolous'
Last Line: Of the world's tardy praise, shall make them dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean


PROLOGUE TO 'RONDEAUS OF THE GREAT WAR AND OTHER POEMS', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glint of a raindrop
Last Line: And ever so long!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


PROMETHEUS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prometheus stole from heaven the sacred fire
Last Line: We strum our banjo-strings and call them lyres.
Subject(s): Prometheus; Singing & Singers; Songs


QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mame was singing
Last Line: Their hats to a queen?
Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


RAIN REVERY, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lone of night by the pattering tree
Last Line: Rain on the roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers


RECALL, by MARIE HINDELANG FLEMING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, gentle winds, and waft
Last Line: Tell him the hours are long.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


RECALLED, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing of love, and what sing I?
Last Line: So could still them, and be heard?
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


RECIPROCITY, by D. H. INGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the may blossoms, cheery and bold
Last Line: "nothing sweeter than silence,"" sang he."
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


RED RIBBON, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red ribbon is all the go
Last Line: He's ever on the right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


REGRET, FOR MARY STUART'S DEPARTURE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If spangled fields should lose their every flower
Last Line: To end my days.
Subject(s): France; Loss; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Singing & Singers; Mary Stuart


REMEMBERED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang, and I listened the whole song thro'
Last Line: And goes forever winging.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


REMEMBERED MUSIC, by JOSEPH FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying under a weird blue sky
Last Line: In dull trafalgar square.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Ukraine; Songs


REMEMBERED SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked an autumn lane, and ne'er a tune
Last Line: Soft songs on hearts that loved us, long before?
Subject(s): Autumn; June; Seasons; Silence; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs


REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover!
Last Line: There is memory in the forest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks


RESIGNATION, by NORA LANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I did not know
Last Line: That no one will again. They are no longer ture.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


RESURRECTION SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thread the nerves through the right holes
Last Line: And pull up the nostrils! His nose was snub.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Songs


RING ON, LOVE BELLS, by LILLIAN HIEBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring on, love bells, with notes so true
Last Line: Spotless, lily-white, the sacred vow to be sealed.
Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood
Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!"
Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: HASTINGS BATTLE-FIELD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The abbot of waltham deeply sigh'd
Last Line: The monks pray'd, full of compassion.
Subject(s): Death; Hastings, Battle Of (1066); Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep
Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her."
Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE VALKYRES, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While below contending forces
Last Line: "he with haughty calmness breathes.'"
Subject(s): Mythology - German; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AN OLD SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou now art dead, and thou knowest it not
Last Line: While in the distance the bells were tolling.
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 20. ENFANT PERDU, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forlorn posts leading, thirty long years fought I
Last Line: My arms break not, my heart alone doth break.
Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Freedom; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs


RONDEL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I see you my heart sings
Last Line: When I see you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism


RONDEL - THE WOOD-THRUSH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the twilight of the trees
Last Line: In the twilight!
Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


ROOM 5: THE CONCERT SINGER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm one of these haphazard chaps
Last Line: I often wonder what's her story.
Subject(s): Bohemians; Neighbors; Paris, France; Singing & Singers


ROSAMOND, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fragrant bright june morning, rosamond, the queen of girls
Last Line: Set them in her vase a week -- then throw them with her flowers away?
Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROSAMOND C. BAILEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou brave, good woman! Loved
Last Line: Of the old church, with mute prayers and amens.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals


ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish
Last Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; King, Henry (1592-1669); Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


ROSAMUND: ROSAMOND'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From walk to walk, from shade to shade
Last Line: Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the
Last Line: The next number is ciao, ciao, bambina
Subject(s): Radio; Singing & Singers; Venice, Italy


RURAL RAPTURES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove
Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;pigeons;singing & Singers


SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me
Last Line: Sang bridget bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


SAINT THOMAS IN INDIA, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ risen, commanded thomas, saying 'begone!
Last Line: "take this!"" he said, ""I yield my crown to christ."
Subject(s): Death; India; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Slavery; Dead, The; Theology; Songs; Serfs


SANCTUARY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High above hate I dwell
Last Line: Float less than april fog below our hermitage.
Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Singing & Singers; Songs


SANG TO FANNY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature! Thy fair and smiling face
Last Line: And all the world to me is fanny.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Faces; Nature; Singing & Singers


SCIROCCO, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly as feathers / that fall through the twilight
Last Line: Floats like a shadow adrift on the pastures.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): June; Love; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers


SEA AND SHORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you marked how the sea with foam
Last Line: When the tide sets out to sea.
Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs


SERAPH AND THE POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The seraph sings before the manifest
Last Line: Sing, seraph, -- poet, -- sing on equally!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SERENADE, by JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR AICARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My marguerite, I play
Last Line: In this wise sang miette.
Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SERENADE, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bright stars are gleaming above
Last Line: Oh, dream of me in thy soft slumbers!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SERENADE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slumber has stilled the note
Last Line: Sleep on, oh, sweet!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SERENADE - TO NORA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonlight is failin'
Last Line: And light up the night where the heart av me's gropin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Bedtime


SERENADE AT THE CABIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, my little sadie sue, I's a-serenadin'
Last Line: My little, light-complected sadie sue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Singing & Singers


SERENADE IN GREY, by SAMUEL GREENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The soft eyelid of the dew doth set
Last Line: When color mixes to choice -- behold a lover!
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World; Songs


SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME], by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song of a boat
Last Line: Ah me!
Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Homesickness; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SILENCE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the warden of the seals of sleep
Last Line: Safe in my keeping have I hidden god.
Subject(s): God; Silence; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs


SILVER DREAM, by LILA HURLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dusk the wood bird's song continuous rang
Last Line: That night when summer dreamed a silver dream.
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE, by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blooming time o'th year
Last Line: For wishing to be king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Wishes; Youth; Songs


SING ME A SONG, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing me a song, not of houses and streets
Last Line: Take me away from the strife and noise.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SING!, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long as pride and selfishness increase
Last Line: But only as a song some homer sings!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SINGING DAY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a poem singing in my heart
Last Line: This lovely day, jeweled and set apart!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


SINGING FAITH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness and doubt and despair
Last Line: Love? It bewitches the way.
Subject(s): Despair; Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Singing & Singers; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Songs


SINGING HEART, by N. M. FRIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Glorious gold of winter sunset
Last Line: Tediousness can never bore.
Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SINGING WITH SPRING, by JEAN WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today I matched my heart with spring
Last Line: "let us match our hearts together!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight


SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make ready fair lady to night
Last Line: And leave my old daddy asleep.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs


SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind love, to this hour
Last Line: And more blest her eyes that first taught me desire.
Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs


SIR WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir winter is coming across the wide sea
Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Singing & Singers; Winter; Ocean


SISTERS OF MUSIC, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who sings? Said the spirit of music
Last Line: Comes ever from love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SLAVE OF SONG, by ROBERT H. STOWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Any little lad will say
Last Line: "sour, salt, or sweet."
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Tongues


SMILING WOMAN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her personable countenance
Last Line: That cuts a curved and cruel stroke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Laughter; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Songs


SOLEDAD, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem 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


SOME LATE LARK SINGING, by BROTHER CLEMENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are my songs. As all men sing
Last Line: Me up, and far below, some late lark sings!
Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Pain; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Suffering; Misery; Songs


SOMEHOW, SINGING, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would be always in the thick of life
Last Line: Still—somehow, singing!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I a claim to fame?
Last Line: "he was her lover!"
Subject(s): Hope; Love Affairs; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs


SONG, by BERENICE BRIGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Song is a wheel of love
Last Line: Spin love eternally.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad little heart, overburdened with dream
Last Line: The heart-break!
Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs


SONG, by BERYL CASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you loved me
Last Line: And soft birds dying.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs


SONG, by BARBARA CLAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O lord, how beautiful it is!
Last Line: Is it not sweet to be alive!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by PHILIP DIAMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard your song, before the sun arose
Last Line: Into these lines blended.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by MABEL B. FREDERICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing ho for a garden
Last Line: Is a mirror for you.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At her junior high school graduation,
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today I have fled from the mountain
Last Line: O clytie, clytie, clytie, where art thou now?
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: O shadows past the candle - gleam, so brief to pause
Last Line: Remembering?
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by GUSTAVE KAHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lovely april, rich and bright
Last Line: O lovely april rich and bright.
Subject(s): April; Flowers; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O singing heart, think not of aught save song
Last Line: And here or there, sometime, somewhere, 'twill reach the grain.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Science; Singing & Singers; Scientists


SONG, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk by night along the lanes
Last Line: In streams of unknown music run.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG, by JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three score and ten by common calculation
Last Line: You've reached four-score, but haven't lived a day!
Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Time


SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In olden days men drew their sword
Last Line: Twas not so in the past, sir!
Subject(s): Heaven; Sea; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Soul; Paradise; Ocean


SONG, by BEATRICE ROSENTHAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah me! How slow the sad years pass
Last Line: "between the quick and the dead."
Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers


SONG, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mr. Mirror / clothier
Last Line: It is dark night in paris
Subject(s): Dadaism; Night; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Bedtime


SONG, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could sing the song of the dawn
Last Line: Mine be the lips that would sing -- would sing!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


SONG, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever, chloe, I begin / your heart, like mine, to move
Last Line: A holy day in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of
Subject(s): Errors; Repentance; Sin; Singing & Singers; Mistakes; Fallacies; Penitence


SONG (10), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair and false! No dawn will greet
Last Line: Forget -- how false! And think -- how fair!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG (4), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Your eyes are deep and tender
Last Line: Only constant in -- his song.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under boughs of breathing may
Last Line: Jubileed for joy.
Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Spring


SONG (6), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not for her even brow
Last Line: Whose love makes many hearts rejoice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares


SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played
Last Line: Keep an immortal youth.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SONG AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where then is my pain? I have no more pain. Where then is my
Last Line: Of the sun.
Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Suffering; Misery; Songs


SONG DISCORDANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to say it, and I will
Last Line: I want to, and I do!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers


SONG FOR A LITTLE SISTER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy you have and grace you have
Last Line: Only for a day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG FOR IDLERS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nap in the woods on a soft june day
Last Line: Of a nap in a green june wood!
Subject(s): Idleness; Music & Musicians; Peace; Singing & Singers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


SONG FOR THE CUCUYO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught them at sundown in the tall grass
Variant Title(s): Song To The Cucuyo
Subject(s): Insects; Singing & Singers; Bugs


SONG FOR THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the noon of night
Last Line: Holding the new-won crown above his saintly head.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Light; Night; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs


SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope, the great explorer
Last Line: At death's gate!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): Song From An Unfinished Play
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Optimism


SONG IN THE SONGLESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have no song, the sedges dry
Last Line: In me they sing.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather
Last Line: No more -- no more.'
Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF A SPENDTHRIFT, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a thousand dollars - a sudden rain of pelf
Last Line: Than book and bank and emptiness to carry down the years.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous
Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares


SONG OF FABIANI, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you sing at my breast
Last Line: Sleep, dear, and love.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF LITTLE HINES, by RUTH SUCKOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little hines, who mends watches
Last Line: With the diapason sticking.
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers


SONG OF MARGARET, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, I saw her, we have met
Last Line: Margaret, margaret.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Silence; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF PARTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say farewell, and let me go
Last Line: Say farewell, and let me go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Parting


SONG OF RADHA THE MILKMAID, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I carried my curds to the mathura fair
Last Line: How brightly the river was flowing!
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers; Worship


SONG OF RUARK TO BHANAVAR THE BEAUTIFUL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I counsel the moon in her ascending?
Last Line: For a danger and dolour is thy wending!
Subject(s): Moon; Singing & Singers


SONG OF SONGS, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing me at morn but only with your laugh
Last Line: Throbbing though you, and sobbing unsubdued.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers' Writings


SONG OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above
Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise.
Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms


SONG OF THE ARTESIAN WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the stock have started dying, for the lord has sent a / drought
Last Line: It is flowing, ever flowing, further down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Singing & Singers; Water; World; Optimism


SONG OF THE COLUMNS, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet columns, with / chaplets adorned with day
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Singing & Singers


SONG OF THE DAWN, by MARGARET ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn of the morning, a faint crimson hue
Last Line: As each contributes to nature's song!
Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG OF THE DESERTS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide, open, free, unbounded, vast
Last Line: That bondage never yet hath known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Singing & Singers; Wind


SONG OF THE DESPERATE ONE, by CHARLES VILDRAC    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the days and down the years
Last Line: Over every joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth we came
Last Line: Old time has laid them low.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs


SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night?
Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed?
Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs


SONG OF THE FEDERATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the nations sat together, grimly waiting
Last Line: Kneel thee down, new-made sister -- let us pray!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Nations; Roads; Singing & Singers; War; Paths; Trails


SONG OF THE FUTURE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis strange that in a land so strong
Last Line: Shall sing, indeed, a wondrous song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Freedom; Future; God; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean


SONG OF THE GOING AWAY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old man, upon the green hill-side
Last Line: "when he crieth, ""awake!""'"
Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Peace; Singing & Singers; Parting; Songs


SONG OF THE LAKE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The city lies directly back
Last Line: "I am mushguma—michigan!"
Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood


SONG OF THE LITTLE HYPERTROPHIC CHILD, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is from a heart sickness / she is dead, the doctor says
Last Line: Is it, mother, you I hear?
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Songs


SONG OF THE MINERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When starving cattle see
Last Line: Shall we lie down like these dumb brutes and die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF THE OPEN LAND, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We of the open country
Last Line: Hail, from the open land!
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Open Road
Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF THE PEN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft
Last Line: Work is its own reward!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers


SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song
Last Line: Such is the song of the sea.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs


SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I
Last Line: The conqueror of space.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs


SONG OF THE SPRINGTIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O season supposed of all free flowers
Last Line: Are fiddlededee!
Subject(s): Flowers;seasons;singing & Singers;spring


SONG OF THE SUMMER GIRL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You talk about some maiden fair
Last Line: The girl with summer tan!
Subject(s): Household Employees;singing & Singers; Servants;domestics;maids


SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And
Last Line: Would they have really come?
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs


SONG OF THE WHEAT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have sung the song of the droving days
Last Line: That say: 'thank god for wheat!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Fields; Singing & Singers; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SONG OF THE WHITE COMPANY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are troopers brave and bold
Last Line: For the honor of the king.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG OF THE WHITE LADY OF AVENEL, FR. THE MONASTERY, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merrily swim we, the moon shines bright
Last Line: For seldom they land that go swimming with me.
Subject(s): Clergy; Dancing & Dancers; Love; Monks; Singing & Singers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


SONG OF THREE KINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three kings went forth to greet a king
Last Line: (o long ago and far!)
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Gifts & Giving; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The


SONG OF VELOCIPEDING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Queer sights we every day do find
Last Line: And bruise your latter end
Subject(s): Animals;horses;singing & Singers


SONG ON THE EDGE OF WINTER, by ANNA SHAW BUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall remember, when my years are few
Last Line: A melody surpassing that of birds.
Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs


SONG POWER, by JACK GREENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, join us comrades, let us sing tonight
Last Line: So let us sing that night and storm may fail.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Songs


SONG TO FANNY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy bloom is soft, thine eyes are bright
Last Line: United in the skies for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers


SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight
Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean


SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water
Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!
Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


SONG: 10, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little songs that come and go
Last Line: The little songs that come and go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all of change / must be my song
Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 15, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For love of you my lute was strung
Last Line: Which were so sweet for love of you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


SONG: 19, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lover's lute has golden strings
Last Line: How silent all its song would be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG: 2, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall I have at mine own will
Last Line: For I am gone for evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs


SONG: 22, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you will sing the songs I play
Last Line: The great refrain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONG: 24, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing
Last Line: Within my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SONG: 38, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me list no more to sing
Last Line: I wott what I doo meane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONG: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To seek each where where man doth live
Last Line: Dare I well give, I say, my heart to year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): France; Hearts; Jewelry & Jewelers; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


SONG: 56, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart oppressed with desperate thought
Last Line: Since cruel will doth me so use.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Cruelty; Despair; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Singing & Singers


SONG: 58, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she
Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs


SONG: 62, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing
Last Line: And never to change you for no new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay
Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs.
Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs


SONG: 98, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sith I myself displease thee
Last Line: It were a wilful rage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Suffering; Misery


SONG: CELIA SINGING, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark how my celia, with the choice
Last Line: Are all turn'd into stones again.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Love


SONG: DREAM-SINGING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt that I was singing
Last Line: No more a dream shall be!
Subject(s): Dreams; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SONG: FOR THEE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What woes are there
Last Line: For thee.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Songs


SONG: NOT A WORD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, my heart is faint with waiting
Last Line: Come; but mind, love, not a word!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the dear old ballads best
Last Line: And builds art's funeral pyre.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn coming in over the fields
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How are songs begot and bred?
Last Line: Nature and the poet's mind.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS AND THE POET (FOR SARA TEASDALE), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing of the rose or of the mire; sing strife
Last Line: Grows sweet with peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933)


SONGS AT SEA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been lonely the whole day long
Last Line: On the breath of the morning fine and clear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONGS FOR A JEWESS, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take the cloak of all my love
Last Line: All that dies shall one day be a phœnix!
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 1. BEHIND THE WAINSCOT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence is louder than any noise is
Last Line: Things you have never dared venture on.
Subject(s): Silence; Singing & Singers; Voices


SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 3. MARSYA'S ART, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the god came with his lute and knife
Last Line: Knitted chain, gold. And the scorning flute
Variant Title(s): Marsyas's Art
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS OF MY CITY: 2. IN THE BAZAARS OF HYDERABAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you sell, o ye merchants?
Last Line: To perfume the sleep of the dead.
Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers


SONGS OF REJOICING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Songs of rejoicin'
Last Line: That strengthen the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: APPRENTICED, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot
Last Line: And parson stood within the rails, a-marrying me and thee, o.'
Subject(s): Grass; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases
Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may.
Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep
Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.'
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: AFTERSONG, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the joyous songs
Last Line: By the unwintered sea.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; CHILD AND BOATMAN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs
Last Line: Not I.'
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Singing & Singers; Voices; Childhood; Songs


SONGS TO CONSOLE ME FOR BEING HAPPY: RICHARD CAEUR-DE-LION, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the ruddy plume of the carnation wild that the ruin doth
Last Line: Since in your chateau all the world abandons me.
Subject(s): Happiness; Passion; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue?
Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.'
Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs


SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read upon that book
Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.'
Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs


SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O that word regret!
Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget.
Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs


SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said
Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever.
Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 14, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Touch the lyre, on every string
Last Line: Has no relation to this earth.
Subject(s): Birth; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Child Birth; Midwifery


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 26, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since, moggy, I mun bid adieu
Last Line: Ought to be wretched ever.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny


SONNET: 13. TO MR. H. LAWES, ON HIS AIRS, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harry whose tuneful and well-measured song
Last Line: Met in the milder shades of purgatory.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 13;to Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


SONNET: 37, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought
Last Line: For that they hate, are made most miserable.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Hate; Nature; Singing & Singers


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 3, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dare but sing of you in such a strain
Last Line: His soul to the winds that whirl his songs away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Singing & Singers; Soul


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 5, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cast these lyric offerings at your feet
Last Line: Before the wonder of your form and face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Faces; Singing & Singers


SORROW AND SONG, by JAMES HEDDERWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not over poet's wrong; / mourn not his mischances
Last Line: And of gentle fancies.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SOURCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know how poems spring up. Well water flows
Last Line: The singers lift their silver for man's seeing.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Water; Songs


SPIRIT OF BIRD SONGS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O birds that trail your evening songs across the sunset sky
Last Line: And heaven sends forth, to meet us, the spirits of our mates!
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers


SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENSE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a charm when spring is young
Last Line: What charm of life is wanting?
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Charm; Death; Hunting; Singing & Singers; Sports; Spring; Dead, The; Hunters


SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mouth down at sides
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women - Writers


SPRING FANTASIES: 5. ROAD SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is wide and the wind smells sweet
Last Line: Then, ho for the inn that welcomes all!
Subject(s): Life; Roads; Singing & Singers; Sun; Paths; Trails; Songs


SPRING LOVE-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the beauteous spring I see
Last Line: Making all our passion vain.
Subject(s): Birth; Earth; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery; World


SPRING SONG, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a child who tried to run
Last Line: Was always half a field away.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


STANZAS FOR A NEW SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whistle us something old, you know
Last Line: Or the old hornpipes that you used to whist.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Whistles And Whistling


STREET CRIERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When poll stays here, her jack goes there
Last Line: Who'll buy young watercress?'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


STYLES & FASHIONS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "good people all both old and young, I hope you will be easy"
Last Line: And tells me to mind my own affairs - the child is in the fashion
Subject(s): Fashion;hair;singing & Singers;women


SUBMISSION, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sparrow sits and sings, and sings
Last Line: And clasp god's hand, who wrought it all.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SUMMER'S PASSING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single branch of flaming red
Last Line: The singing and the sighing!
Subject(s): Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Joy; Delight


SUN-DOWN SONG, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a shabby little shanty leaning
Last Line: "in his shack a lord and lady live together!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


SUNDAY RADIO, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From my husband's window I hear a woman
Last Line: To how his voice breaks, then goes on with the song.
Subject(s): Marriage; Radio; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea
Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me?
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean


SUNRISE, by DONALD R. STEELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eastern sky is filled
Last Line: Dawn.
Subject(s): Dawn; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunrise; Joy; Delight


SUNRISE ABOVE BROAD WHEAT-FIELDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pale tints of the twilight fields
Last Line: Sings as though god his singing heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dawn; Singing & Singers; Sunrise


SUSAN SIMPSON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sudden swallows swiftly skimming
Subject(s): Alliterative Verse;singing & Singers;summer


SWAN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not just as individuals, but also as a couple, they
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


SWIFTS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bing crosby died in spain
Subject(s): Crosby, Bing (harry Lillis) (1904-1977); Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Singing & Singers; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)


SYCAMORES IN BLOOM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like flame-wing'd harps the seed blooms lie
Last Line: The red harps of the sycamores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Plane Trees; Singing & Singers; World; Sycamores


SYLVIA IN THE SPRINGTIME, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice of the youth of the year
Last Line: Oh, to see sylvia's face!
Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Youth


SYLVIA'S SONG, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The streams that wind among the hills
Last Line: But I will never wend from thee!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


SYMPHONY, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have knelt in great cathedrals
Last Line: As the symphony ... On the farm.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts


TAKING THE BRIDE HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll go not alone, my sweetheart dear!
Last Line: The night-wind pipes the melody.
Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs


TAVERN SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When winterly weather doth pierce to the skin
Last Line: And ho! For a tankard of ale at the inn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine


TENDER MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watching by the river where the lilies blow
Last Line: With the sublime and sacred light of truth.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs


THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year
Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea.
Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean


THE ALL-GOLDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through every happy line I sing
Last Line: Of time's all-golden yesterdays!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Spring; Woods


THE APOLLO TRIO, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From acting profile parts in the legit,
Last Line: Of the girl he loved, or the one time he was star
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE ARTIST'S MORNING SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dwelling is the muses' home
Last Line: From that dear marriage-bed!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Muses; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE ASSIGNATION: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long betwixt love and fear phillis tormented
Last Line: That I'm forsaken.
Subject(s): Fear; Fire; Hearts; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs


THE AVENUE OF THE ALLIES (1917), by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the song of the wind as it came
Last Line: Rides the proud night-wind and tyrannies die.
Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; God; Singing & Singers; Wind; Liberty


THE BALLAD OF YAADA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are fires on lulu island, and the sky is opalescent
Last Line: In the capilano cañon of the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE BARD'S SONG TO HIS DAUGHTER, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter dear, my darling child
Last Line: While thus I clasp thee to my breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Daughters; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Tears


THE BASKET-MAKERS' SONG, by ANDRE THEURIET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Water-willows! Water-willows!
Last Line: Through my fingers bend your billows!
Subject(s): Fingers; Singing & Singers


THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: SONG. AIR 16: OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were I laid on greenland's coast
Last Line: Polly over the hills and far away.
Variant Title(s): Macheath And Polly;macheath
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE BELL, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The temple bell was out of tune
Last Line: Is it well with the heart that had you and none other?
Subject(s): Bells; Evil; Peace; Singing & Singers; War


THE BELLS OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells of youth are ringing in the gate
Last Line: And is singing, singing, singing thro' the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Spring; Youth; Songs


THE BIG BLACK TRAWLER, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The very best ship that ever I knew
Last Line: Oh, sing, my bullies, let the bullgine run.
Subject(s): March (month); Sea; Ships & Shipping; Singing & Singers; Ocean


THE BIRD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only a bird in a cage
Last Line: "I thank thee, bird — dear bird."
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


THE BIRD, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sweet song-bird in the sunlight winging
Last Line: Sun thou art darkened -- bird thou art mute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul


THE BIRTH OF SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I am as certain of my song
Last Line: Come perfect to the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author    
First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta
Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism


THE BLACKBIRD, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ov all the birds upon the wing
Last Line: Where I do hear the blackbird's zong.
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


THE BLACKBIRD IN TOWN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the stone-prisoned tree
Last Line: Through the spring nights and days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Country Life; Singing & Singers; Towns


THE BLUEBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the very spring
Last Line: He is off, he is mutely whelmed in the southern haze!
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; March (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


THE BOY SINGING, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little boy / is sitting on a fallen log
Last Line: Close to his happy heart.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Praise; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Joy; Delight


THE BOYS OF THE OLD GLEE CLUB, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You-folks rickollect, I know
Last Line: "god! -- god! -- thank god, they're singing yet!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Boys Societies And Clubs; Memory; Singing & Singers


THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are gleaming
Last Line: Through paths of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


THE BROOK-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brook! Little brook!
Last Line: Sing back to him the rest he used to know!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood


THE CARDINAL, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear him singing, loud and gay
Last Line: Is just a red flash in the tree.
Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


THE CATBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A skulker in a thicket, loud and harsh
Last Line: Enthralled, the melody is so divine.
Subject(s): Birds; Catbirds; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs


THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Infamous general, baron von plattenberg, if this song of love for my
Last Line: Barbarian!
Subject(s): Churches; France; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Songs


THE CHILD'S SOUL WARD, by SAMUEL DUNIEVITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little child soul / once forlorn
Last Line: "from this: ""child's soul ward."
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPS OF CHELTENHAM, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When hawthorn buds are creaming white
Last Line: "I am looking for my children. Awake, and come away."
Subject(s): Children; Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Dancing & Dancers; England; Faces; Singing & Singers; Childhood; English


THE CHORISTER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas easter morn. The sanctuary long
Last Line: His own arch foe no more, but his own friend.
Subject(s): Choirs; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


THE CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, sing a hale heigh-ho
Last Line: Gusts of kisses and surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Past; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS RADIO, by MARY P. DENNY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the radio proclaim / the wonder of a
Last Line: The glory of a matchless name.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Radio; Singing & Singers; Sound; Songs


THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They do neither plight nor wed
Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done.
Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs


THE COMPANION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter is here, and the music gone
Last Line: With dark and dew.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs


THE CONFLICT: 1. TO WILLIAM WATSON IN ENGLAND, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singer of england's ire across the sea
Last Line: He cannot tear our plighted souls apart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): England; Singing & Singers; Watson, William (1858-1935); World War I; English; First World War


THE COROBBOREE (MIDNIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the forest-depths the tribe
Last Line: The silent stars above the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bedtime


THE COUNTRY SINGER, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There ain't nothin special about me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Middle Age; Songs


THE CRINOLINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good people give attention and listen to my rhyme
Last Line: With the hoops off her mother's washing tub she made a crinoline
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;singing & Singers;women


THE CRYSTAL PALACE BAND OF HOPE CHOIR, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory shone o'er bethlehem's plains
Last Line: "peace on earth, good will to men."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Optimism; Songs


THE CUMBERBUNCE, by PAUL WEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: I strolled beside the shining sea
Last Line: "the difference 'twixt 'might' and 'could'!"
Subject(s): Nonsense; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Earth and horizons round
Last Line: Alas!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem 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 DEAD GIRL, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This girl is dead, is dead in love's old way
Last Line: They went afield, afield as every day . . .
Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire
Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs


THE DEAD TENOR, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As down the stage again
Last Line: To memory of thee.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the death day of the brave
Last Line: With the sword, his bride!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs


THE DEBUT (ODE TO ANNA MOFFO), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What possesses me
Subject(s): Moffo, Anna (1934-2006); Singing & Singers; Songs


THE DIRGE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been where the white lilies blow
Last Line: Tis in wild eden.
Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Youth


THE DIVAGATOR, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: You think my songs are strange
Last Line: I want my songs unique.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE DREAM REALM; WRITTEN WHILE HEARING ONE SINGING IN A FOREIGN TONGUE, by MAE BAKER HENLINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear mona, asleep by the wonder well
Last Line: Singing no more, you have left me ... A rose.
Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs


THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing
Last Line: Black to the birds instead
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs


THE DUKE OF GUISE: SONG BETWIXT A SHEPHERD AND A SHEPHERDESS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherdess: tell me thirsis, tell your anguish
Last Line: Still the more 'tis melted down.
Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE DYNAMO'S SONG, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear me, and I'll sing to you
Last Line: Quietly I croon and hum.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've seen (lucky me!) what you all want to see
Last Line: With huzza for the great alexander!
Subject(s): Alexander I, Czar Of Russia (1777-1825); Singing & Singers


THE EMPTY SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What have we but an empty song
Last Line: But his soul is thirsty now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soul; Thirst; Wind


THE ENDLESS SONG, by RUTH MCENERY STUART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, I used to sing a song
Last Line: To accommodate a frien' nex' do'.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE EPIPHANY OF THE MAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the voice of the outcast things
Last Line: Approach and cleansed are.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Moon; Singing & Singers; Voices; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The


THE ETERNAL ADVENTURE: BOOK 3, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not claim a writer's bays. A poet I, who sings his lays - what!
Last Line: * * * * * * *
Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE, by EMMA BOWERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two robins on the lawn
Last Line: For she flew away with the other fellow.
Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE EYES OF THE EAST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sing the east at sunset, the low east
Last Line: With awe are holden and with strange surmise.
Subject(s): Evening; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunset; Twilight; Songs


THE FIRST HYMN OF CALLIMACHUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While we to jove select the holy victim
Last Line: Virtue and wealth; for both are of thy gift.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


THE FIRST SINGING, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I shall come one evening to god's house on the hill
Last Line: And the thrush and the blackbird their song in the cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight


THE FIRST SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A poet writ a song of may
Last Line: Deep hidden in his heart.
Subject(s): Hearts; Life; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE FLUTE, by PIERRE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For the festival of the hyacinths, he gave me a syrinx
Last Line: The girdle I have lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Festivals; Flutes; Music & Musicians; Play; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs


THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There comes a day when april's in and spring walks
Last Line: They die in the echoes down the hollow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Flutes; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


THE FOOT-SOLDIER'S SONG, by CHARLES VILDRAC    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to be the old man/ I saw along the way:
Last Line: On the first day of the war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle
Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Soldiers


THE FOUNTS OF SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the song I am singing?'
Last Line: "in these dumb solitudes."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology


THE FURY OF GUITARS AND SOPRANOS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This singing
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE GIFT OF SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was born
Last Line: But men turned from me, saying: he is dead.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE GIFT TO SING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes the mist overhangs my path
Last Line: And I can sing.
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE GOODLY SONG, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad and lost I walked where wide
Last Line: Us to each other in delight.
Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Optimism


THE HARPER OF CHAO, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The singers have hushed their notes of clear song
Last Line: Day by day is covered deeper with dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers


THE HARVEST, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chant the harvest song of the brawny reapers
Last Line: After the harvest!
Subject(s): Harvest; Singing & Singers


THE HAUNTED, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Masters of music, ye of tuneful vein
Last Line: God's blessing is your bane.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Loss; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Supernatural; Songs


THE HEATHERBLEND CLUB BANQUET, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 16th of october, in 1894
Last Line: This on my soul and conscience I do confess.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Reunions; Singing & Singers


THE HILL WATER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a little brook
Last Line: Dear, murmuring water!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brooks; Singing & Singers; Soul; Streams; Creeks


THE HOMECOMING SINGER, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The plane tilts in to nashville
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Homecoming; Colleges & Universities; Songs


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 59. LOVE'S LAST GIFT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love to his singer held a glistening leaf
Last Line: Take my last gift; thy heart hath sung my praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


THE HYMN OF GLORY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sweet hymns I chant, and weave melodious / songs"
Last Line: "to lift my heart to thee, for whom I long"
Subject(s): God;jews;praise;singing & Singers; Judaism


THE HYMN OF GLORY, by JUDAH BEN SAMUEL HE-ASID OF REGENSBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs
Last Line: For all my being is athirst for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Judah He-hasid
Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Worship; Judaism; Songs


THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea
Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds
Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs


THE IMPALPABLE BRUSH FIRE SINGER, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No/he is not an urn singer
Last Line: Stung at its source by piranhas
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue
Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold.
Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs


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 IMPULSE OF SINGING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That journey he made
Last Line: How bitterly beautiful, before the madwomen ripped him?
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE INDIAN BASKET WEAVER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The voice of my singing is dumb
Last Line: Do songs from my silent heart spring.
Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past!
Last Line: To gentle slumbers call.
Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs


THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past!
Last Line: To gentle slumbers call.
Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs


THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below
Last Line: They slide to us and air.
Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs


THE INNER CHAMBER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the outer court I was singing
Last Line: Or the meaning of what I sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Life; Singing & Singers; Voices


THE INNOCENT MISTRESS: A SONG BY MRS. P., by MARY PIX    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I languish'd, and wish'd you wou'd something bestow
Last Line: I shall still have enough for the next.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Shame; Singing & Singers; Dullness; Stupdity


THE JOY OF SERVICE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is ever singing
Last Line: That sorrows flee away.
Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: SONG FROM THE ITALIAN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By a dismal cypress lying
Last Line: But cruel she I lov'd in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THE LABOURING WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You married men and women too
Last Line: What a woman has to do
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;singing & Singers;women


THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose
Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale!
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain
Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear.
Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs


THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing sweetly, killore
Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough.
Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs


THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise
Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs


THE LAST RHYME, SAVE ONE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sung in a wayward fashion
Last Line: The poet of later on.
Subject(s): Friendship; Labor & Laborers; Life; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Story-telling; Work; Workers


THE LATE SINGER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here it is spring again
Last Line: I am late at my singing.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE LEAVES, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves, this morning
Last Line: That even now, and alone, they intoxicate?
Subject(s): Leaves; Singing & Singers; Voices


THE LEES AND THE LAWSONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you call on the lees, north of bloomsbury-square
Last Line: Is not the right road to his bosom.
Subject(s): Life; London; Singing & Singers


THE LILY OF OUR VALLEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Once on a time, in pontypool
Last Line: Sally, the lily of our valley!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE LITTLE SHEPHERD'S SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves, the little birds, and I
Last Line: A bird!
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers


THE LITTLE WOMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little woman, of you I sing
Last Line: So closely here in mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Women


THE LOVE-CHANT OF CORMAC CONLINGAS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the swan that is whiter, with breast
Last Line: Eilidh, eilidh, o-rì, eilidh, eilidh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations


THE LOVE-SONG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You often hear me speak of joe
Last Line: "me? O! Maria!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE LOVE-SONG, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am more tall today than ever before
Last Line: Rudderless,—lost,—in the song that is not forgotten.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE LOVE-TOKEN, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has griffins twain to guard her gate
Last Line: And the lady lean'd over the window-bar!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Singing & Singers


THE LOVER TO HIS LUTE, by ELIZABETH HIRST FLEISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would make a song for my beloved
Last Line: That she may know how grave a thing my love is, and be glad.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs


THE MAIDEN DEAD IN THE ECSTACY OF LOVE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This maiden she is dead, is dead, while love was fresh and new
Last Line: They went to till the fields, the fields, as every day they do. . . .
Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THE MAKING OF BIRDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God made him birds in a pleasant humour
Last Line: Bade them soar and sing for his joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Creation; God; Praise; Singing & Singers


THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An intolerable singing
Last Line: Round that dial of the moon!
Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE MARSEILLAISE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O song that with one blow, at its initial strain, explodes, sets free the
Last Line: To arms ye citizens of every land on earth!
Subject(s): France; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE MASTER SINGER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A laughter in the diamond air, a music in
Last Line: "and with the fiery-footed watchers shake in myriad dance and song."
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Singing & Singers


THE MASTER SINGS, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They move on tracks of never-ending light
Last Line: God in his heaven bidding light arise.
Variant Title(s): The Master-singers
Subject(s): Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology; Songs


THE MEISTERSINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The magic moment of the eve has come
Last Line: So long as men have ears and time a tongue.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Time; Woods; Songs


THE MENACE OF AUTUMN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Amber and yellow and russet, gold and red
Last Line: And wold and woodland lie, austere and bare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall


THE MINISTRY OF SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In god's great field of labour
Last Line: To praise him and rejoice.
Subject(s): Children; Clergy; Praise; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Songs


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 TO HIS HARP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When youthful transport led the hours
Last Line: When all my way was bright with flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs


THE MOCKING BIRD, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heat is overwhelming
Last Line: And from the cactus the call of the mocking-birds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Fields; Mockingbirds; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 1 (ADAGIO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft and slow / ever a gentle underflow
Last Line: With sudden sparkle of delight, a new and joyous strain.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 3 (PRESTO AGITATO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in awful tempest swelling
Last Line: And to the master, -- praise!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE MOUNTAIN RAPTURE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Contentment have I known in lowlands green
Last Line: Of fiery heavings, throbbed into repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Earth; Passion; Singing & Singers; World


THE MUSCOVITE'S SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll, thou mighty moscow bell
Last Line: Toll the dawn, o moscow bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Bells; Moscow; Singing & Singers


THE MUSIC STRAIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Music strain, where do you go
Last Line: "hope and hark, and have no fear."
Subject(s): Death; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THE MUTE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning sun seemed fair as
Last Line: Sang gloriously.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Speech Disorders; Bedtime; Stuttering; Muteness


THE NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have I read in many a foreign tale, oh nightingale!
Last Line: Of one sweet sigh.
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales; Singing & Singers


THE NOON ORGAN CONCERT, by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ave maria, he started to play
Last Line: In the babble of voices and patter of feet.
Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Mary (name); Mothers; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE NORSEMAN'S RIDE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The frosty fires of northern starlight
Last Line: "gleam surtur's hoofs of gold!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Mythology; Silence; Singing & Singers; World


THE OFFERING, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could change these words to flow'rs
Last Line: May never reach your heart.
Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs


THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I'll sing you a good old song, that was made by a good old pate"
Last Line: Which reared those fine old english gentlemen all of the olden time
Subject(s): Death;life;singing & Singers; "dead, The;


THE OLD SINGER, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a strange old man went singing
Last Line: "slow and sure the hour draws nigh!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE OLD SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the dead go wed the dead
Last Line: God have mercy on all lovers!
Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; God; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The


THE ONE SINGER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dead leaves from off the tree
Last Line: When she is left alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Songs


THE ORIGIN OF SONG-WRITING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When cupid, wanton boy, was young
Last Line: To lay the wreath at beauty's feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE OVEN BIRD, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a singer everyone has heard
Last Line: Is what to make of a diminished thing.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE OYSTER MAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You've heard of a dandy dogs' meat blade
Last Line: "he has made himself rich, has the oyster man"
Subject(s): Love;oysters;singing & Singers


THE PASTORAL, by PIERRE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flute that melts beneath his spreading fingers
Last Line: My pastoral flute to your silver olympian lyre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Flutes; Muses; Music & Musicians; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE PIPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard the pipes of pan
Last Line: To follow the piper—pan!
Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


THE PLEASANT MONTH OF MAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "so ye maidens and ye swains, etc"
Subject(s): Love;may (month);singing & Singers


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 28, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This maid is from hantan
Last Line: Her embroidered quilt fills a silver bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 282, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a lofty mountain peak
Last Line: A song in which there is no zen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Zen Buddhism; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags
Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 7, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A moth-browed girl in town
Last Line: The hibiscus can't bear cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Lutes; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE POET, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, sing - poet, sing!
Last Line: Though it pierce, shall give thee rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POET OF THE FUTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the poet of the future! He will come to us as comes
Last Line: His face to heaven, and the dew of duty on his brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


THE POET TO THE YOUTH, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou by lingering for my song
Last Line: For the new world's opening day.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


THE POET'S JOURNAL: BEFORE THE BURIAL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the night is overpast
Last Line: And the rainbow for the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bells; Fear; Life; Singing & Singers


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VISION, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She came, long absent from my side
Last Line: And still, in passing, smiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Vision; Nightmares


THE POET'S JOURNAL: UNDER THE MOON, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From you and home I sleep afar
Last Line: Says in its beating: love is rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Sleep


THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds that sang so sweet in the summer skies are fled
Last Line: Till in ripeness of old age we both drop to earth together!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POOR SINGING DAME, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath an old wall, that went round an old castle
Subject(s): Castles; Singing & Singers


THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem 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


THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF SCOTTISH SONG, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake every chord, strike every string
Last Line: In all their native charms, confessed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE POWER OF SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Columns uplifted high
Last Line: Throughout the earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fame; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Virtue; World; Reputation


THE PRICE, by WILLIAM CANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man lived fifty years - joy dashed with tears
Last Line: God paid — and thought it cheap.
Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; David (bible); Dead, The; Songs


THE PRISONER'S SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my grandmother once had bewitch'd a poor girl
Last Line: When I merrily soar hence to-morrow.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers; Convicts; Songs


THE PSALMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With ecstacy the heart responds
Last Line: Majestic and sublime.
Subject(s): Bible; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE PSYCHE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a strain of wondrous music rising up in cloister dim
Last Line: So, in perfect loving blended, bliss would never know alloy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Singing & Singers


THE QUIET SINGER (AVE! FRANCIS THOMPSON), by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He had been singing - but I had not heard his voice
Last Line: That you have heard the quiet singer's voice!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Thompson, Francis (1859-1907)


THE RACE OF BANQUO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly, son of banquo! Fleance, fly
Last Line: Pour we now the dirge of death!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Legacies; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Dead, The


THE RARE BIRDS; FOR TED BERRIGAN, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brook no obscurity, merely plunging deeper
Last Line: Impressions, and it was a message, from like a very rare bird.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Songs


THE RAVEN, by NICARCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gloom of death is on the raven's wing
Last Line: The raven dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicarchos
Variant Title(s): The Singer;variations Of Greek Themes: 3. The Raven
Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THE REACHES OF A SONG, by GERTIE STEWART PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My weathered house looks very small
Last Line: Or the wide reaches of a song!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE RECENT MURDERS; A NEW SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: God prosper long our noble king
Last Line: May never more be done
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;crimes & Criminals;murder;singing & Singers


THE RECLUSE: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Songs of the woods, verses of those dear days
Last Line: Songs of the woods, from out my heart ye sprang!
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Woods


THE RECRUIT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carter for mister manley
Last Line: "and nuts be brown"" answered the guns."
Subject(s): England; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; English


THE REVELLER; A VINEYARD SONG, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unwreathe thy brow! Thy cheek outvies
Last Line: Love's imageless eternity!
Subject(s): Grapes; Singing & Singers; Vines And Vineyards


THE REWARD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No greater earthly boon than this I crave
Last Line: "he sang a song that reached the hearts of men."
Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs


THE REWARD OF SONG, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we make our music?
Last Line: And love is its one reward.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Love; Music & Musicians; Rewards; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Reputation


THE RIGGS OF THE TIMES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ye men of high and low degree, come listen to my song"
Last Line: Tis ten to one when you come out you stagger to and fro
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;singing & Singers


THE RIVALS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a bird at dawn
Last Line: As he sang upon a tree!
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My way of life is a winding road
Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'"
Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs


THE RURAL PIPE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, chide me not because my pipe oft sings
Last Line: His airs sicilian and his message clear.
Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs


THE SABINE FARMER'S SERENADE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a windy night
Last Line: Charming judy callaghan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father
Variant Title(s): Charming Judy Callaghan
Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers


THE SAME WITH A DIFFERENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first they wed he was a sing-er
Last Line: And makes it hot for her as ginger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE SECOND ANTEMASQUE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have lost my melch cow
Last Line: Pr. And our purses they are empty.
Subject(s): Country Life; Cows; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go
Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SEED OF SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The seed of song was cast
Last Line: In the glorious holy land.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SELFSAME SONG, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bird sings the selfsame song
Last Line: That song with me.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The midnight is not more bewildering
Last Line: Like some vast bubble blown of summer noon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Summer; Nightmares


THE SILENT SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All sudden she hath ceased to sing
Last Line: She mutely pities us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Trees; Dead, The


THE SILENT SINGERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air
Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine!
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The


THE SILENT TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singing of birds is over; the curlew only
Last Line: He thinks it a whistling boy coming over the hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers


THE SINGER, by GARNET L. ESHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is a song that fell from a tree
Last Line: Tweedledy -- eedledy -- ay!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SINGER, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before that crowd she stood a flowerlike thing
Last Line: Shall be to me a glory till I die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SINGER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing my song the whole day long, and keep
Last Line: Their piles for cheerful smiles and lays by lilting liars.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


THE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While with ambition's hectic
Last Line: To ashes as he sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The


THE SINGER, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What tho', in bleak northumbria's mines
Last Line: In deeper tones the deeper thought.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE SINGER, by ANNA WICKHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had peace to sit and sing
Last Line: If it is sometimes swift and strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SINGER IN THE WOODS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where moongrey-thistled dunes divide the woods from the sea
Last Line: In the silence I hear my heart sobbing its old woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Lament; Singing & Singers; Strangers; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SINGER SAITH OF HIS SONG, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The touches of man's modern speech
Last Line: By the streams of babylon.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE SINGERS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God sent his singers upon earth
Last Line: "but the most perfect harmony."
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SINGERS OF DELLA ROBBIA, by ALFRED BARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three florentines in stone, three singing boys
Last Line: Like angel altos listening for their key!
Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth
Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep?
Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


THE SINGING SCHOOL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First they asked you to step through the many rooms
Last Line: Your own story
Subject(s): Family Life; Schools; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Students


THE SOLITARY REAPER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold her, single in the field
Last Line: Long after it was heard no more.
Variant Title(s): The Reaper
Subject(s): Girls; Harvest; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG AMERICAN, by MARJORY TITUS GREENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cosmopolitan the american is
Last Line: Tis a saga of all creation.
Subject(s): Americans; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG AND THE SINGER, by CLARENCE L. HAYNIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The song and the singer are one
Last Line: When the singer is one with death.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG CHALICE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You bear the chalice.' is it so, my friend?
Last Line: And, bearing thus, to pour it at his feet.
Subject(s): Harmonicas; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG I HAVE SUNG, by BESSIE LOGAN FURMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Song, I have shrined you deep in my heart
Last Line: Song of beauty, you will always be there.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG I NEVER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As when in dreams we sometimes
Last Line: Join in the song I never sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sound; Time; Voices


THE SONG MAKER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I made a hundred little songs
Last Line: Am silent now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE SONG OF 1876, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Waken, voice of the land's devotion!
Last Line: As pure as of old for a thousand years!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty


THE SONG OF FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a bird but a living flower?
Last Line: The song of a flow'r-soul hears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul


THE SONG OF GLAUCUS, by LAURENT TAILHEDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea! How blue, far off, the sonorous sea!
Last Line: Will watch a long time if I do not come.
Subject(s): Sea; Seaweed; Singing & Singers; Water; Waves; Ocean


THE SONG OF HER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art my singing and my voice
Last Line: And from her living learn to sing!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG OF ISRAFEL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet-seraph israfel, chief player on / the lyre
Last Line: The song that soars, the song that leaps, beyond the written word!
Subject(s): Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology; Songs


THE SONG OF MIGNON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knows't thou the land where citron-flowers
Last Line: Our pathway leads: o father, let us go!
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG OF MUEZZIN ABOU, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wake at dawn and fling sleep from my eyes
Last Line: Allahu akbar! 'llah il allah! Allah!
Subject(s): India; Religion; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Theology


THE SONG OF REPENTANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir ulrich rides in the forest so green
Last Line: "he'll repeat it sentence by sentence."
Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence; Songs


THE SONG OF SONGS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair woman's body is a song
Last Line: Be thinner than befitting.
Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


THE SONG OF THE DUCATS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my golden ducats dear
Last Line: Hold you safely in their claws.
Subject(s): Money; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG OF THE ILL-BELOVED; TO PAUL LEAUTARD, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: And this is the ballad that I sang / in 1903 not knowing then
Last Line: And such songs as the sirens sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina
Subject(s): Desire; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG OF THE INGENUES, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the ingenues
Last Line: Of libertines.
Subject(s): Hearts; Ingenuity; Singing & Singers


THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONG OF THE SPANISH MAIN, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the south, when the day is done
Last Line: Then, hush, forevermore.
Subject(s): National Songs; Singing & Singers; Southern Hemisphere; Spain; War; National Anthems; Songs


THE SONG OF THE THRUSH, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the beech-trees are green in the woodlands
Last Line: Air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Voices; Woods


THE SONG OF THE WIND IN THE CLOUD, by ELLEN ROLFE VEBLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock, rock, my hollow boat!
Last Line: Shiver by thy spell.
Subject(s): Boats; Clouds; Cruise Ships; Motion; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


THE SONG OF TO-DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The singers sing not the sweet songs to-day
Last Line: "lo, matter is crowned and sits with the kings!"
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE SONG OF WAR, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of war shall echo through our mountains
Last Line: Resounding through her sunny mountains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; War


THE SONG THAT MOTHER SANG TO CUSH (IN NOAH'S ARK), by SARAH MARGARET FULLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O hush-a-bye, my darling, - hush!
Last Line: Of hearts that know his love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller
Subject(s): Arks; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs


THE SONG-SHOP, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tink, tink, tink, / hear the pretty pieces clink
Last Line: Stars, and all-assorted things.
Subject(s): Children; January; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Childhood


THE SONG-VISION, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, warble not that fearful air!
Last Line: By its unhallowed gaiety.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Suffering; Misery


THE SONGS OF OUR FATHERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing them upon the sunny hills
Last Line: The songs your fathers loved!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SONGSTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a plaintive note, and long
Last Line: That his breast was born for song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Robins; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs


THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me
Last Line: I may behold thee face to face!
Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs


THE STRANGER'S ALMS, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lyons, on the mart of that french town
Last Line: For the two beggars in the market-place.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Singing & Singers; Philanthropy; Songs


THE STREET-SINGER; TO WALTER PATER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sings a pious ballad wearily
Last Line: A sweet voice mocks her with its carollings.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the summer-time to-day
Last Line: That they never heerd sich singin' anywhere!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer


THE SUMMONS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day the dreamy distances / of grape-stained, purple hills
Last Line: Oh, vagabond am I!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SUN OF MY SONGS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The birds are all a-singing
Last Line: "bursting into blossoming."
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sun; Dead, The


THE SUNSHINE OF THE GODS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall sunder the fetters
Last Line: The hour of perfect song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers


THE SUTTLER'S (FROM THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brave hussars I dearly love
Last Line: From a fresh-open'd barrel daily.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs


THE SWAN AND THE GOOSE, by AESOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A rich man bought a swan and goose
Last Line: Is sometimes very opportune.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SWEEP'S CAROL, 1826, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the streets of new york city
Last Line: Carol-o-a-y-e-o!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Singing & Singers


THE SWEETEST SONG, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would sing no louder than the shepherd's pipe, nor than the croon
Last Line: Fountains form a firmament.
Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SYMPHONY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder in happy eyes
Last Line: And find new life and deeper wonder there.
Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Youth; Joy; Delight


THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a bank, beside a willow
Last Line: Love and damon are no more.
Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs


THE THEMES OF SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall the minstrel find a theme?
Last Line: The exhaustless flood rolls on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE THING TO DO, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: For, after all, the thing to do
Last Line: But all will listen eagerly.
Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE THREE SAD SHEPPARDESSES, GOE TO A LITTLE TABLE, WHERE THEY SINGE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When once the presence of a friend is gone
Last Line: Your welcome, when wee owne him as our day.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE THREE SONGS, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: King siegfried sat in his lofty hall
Last Line: "siegfried lies in his red, red blood!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Life; Singing & Singers


THE TREE OF SONG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sang my songs for the rest
Last Line: Myself to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is always the cough. In the afternoon
Last Line: Showing her breasts to a boy in a cemetery.
Subject(s): Convalescence; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Trees; Walking; Songs


THE TROUBADOUR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows salt from off the sea
Last Line: Life is supremest ecstacy!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE TUNE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I played a crazy tune
Last Line: And the same waters flow.
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


THE TWO BLACKBIRDS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blackbird in a wicker cage
Last Line: A self-forgetful sympathy.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Singing & Singers


THE UNHEARD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One in the musical throng
Last Line: The song in her heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Singing & Singers; Violins


THE UNKNOWN SINGER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One singer in the oratorio
Last Line: Made music visible not less than heard.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE UNWRITTEN SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now where's a song for our small dear
Last Line: And hush herself to sleep?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE VALLEY'S SINGING DAY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound of the closing outside door was all
Last Line: That once you had opened the valley's singing day.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door
Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west.
Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs


THE VICEROY, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of nero, tyrant, petty king
Last Line: Thou ne'er wilt be de-witted.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Guilt; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants


THE VIVANDIERE ('70), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O yvonne, / how you dazzled in the dance!
Last Line: For yvonne the vivandière!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs


THE VOICE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich is the music of sweet instruments
Last Line: Or pale br¸nhilde moans her bitter fate.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away I heard it
Last Line: From the throne of god.
Subject(s): God; Praise; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


THE VOICES TELL OVER, by GUSTAVE KAHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The voices tell over: the song that breaks
Last Line: Brusque reawakening and end of love.
Subject(s): Flutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have grown weary of the open sea
Last Line: A little hour of peace, a little sun!
Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; Storms; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean


THE WAR-SONG OF THE VIKINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let loose the hounds of war
Last Line: Swords of valhalla!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Swords; Vikings; War


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


THE WATER SPIRIT'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silent hour of even
Last Line: And with her till morn dwell joyously.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Singing & Singers; Stars; Water; Ocean


THE WIND FAIRY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a fairy lives in the heart of the wind
Last Line: And the wind fairy pouring tea!
Subject(s): Children; Mermaids & Mermen; Singing & Singers; Childhood


THE WOOD THRUSH, by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At eve I hear him in the woods
Last Line: To reproduce his wildwood lay.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Songs


THE WORLD'S HARMONIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh listen, listen, for the earth
Last Line: Who turneth from his sin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World


THE YELLOWHAMMER'S SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out on the waste, a little lonely bird, I flit and I sing
Last Line: Ah, sweet! The song that I sing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Singing & Singers


THEORY, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into love and out again
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


THERE IS A SONG, by JOYCE WISDOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a song within my heart that hides
Last Line: And none, save I alone, may hear my song.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


THEY BOY-FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clarence, my boy-friend, hale
Last Line: Is this brave boy-friend of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Love; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Soul


THIS BANTAM STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Is this the blackbird's richest song
Last Line: Can match this little bantam star!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs


THREE NUNS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow, shadow on the wall
Last Line: "the spirit and the bride say, come."
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Life; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The


THREE SEVERAL BIRDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The romancer's a nightingale
Last Line: And only dreams for him!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Reading


THREE SINGING FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Schoolmaster and songmaster!
Last Line: Thou meadow-lark no less than nightingale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Singing & Singers


THREE SONGS, by MARY GRACE SNYDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the songs my mother sang
Last Line: When mother sang to me.
Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers


THREE VOICES, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the rack of love despised I lay
Last Line: God's seals still molten on the scrolls of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time


THY SONG, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ask me not which of all my songs is
Last Line: In which all songs of mine to utterance grow.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TIC-TOC, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though he looked a bit jerky
Last Line: I was reading then / ave alque vale
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Poetry & Poets; Oppenheimer, Joel (1930-1988); Orbison, Roy (1936-1988)


TIME'S SONG, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the level plains, where mountains greet me as I go
Last Line: Where will rest my weary wings?—science turns away!
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Time


TO -, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget not, brother singer! That though prose
Last Line: Upon truth's lips, the light in wisdom's eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter
Last Line: Flower of isar's vale!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans


TO A BIRD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird upon the leafy tree-top
Last Line: While I listen to the song.
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Singing & Singers; Wings


TO A BUNCH OF LILAC, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it the april springing
Last Line: And long but to love, and die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hope; Life; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Optimism


TO A CHINESE LARK, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out in the squalid village sits and sings
Last Line: With hymns of praise, uplifted to the sun.
Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs


TO A LADY SINGING, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I listen to thy voice
Last Line: Is that they sing, and that they love.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers


TO A LADY WHO DID SING EXCELLENTLY, by EDWARD HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our rude and unfashion'd words, that long
Last Line: Or only the delights which you did give?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


TO A LADY, WHO SINGING RESEMBLED THAT OF AN ABSENT SISTER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Touch the chord yet once again
Last Line: For thou canst calm the storm at will!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


TO A MOCKING-BIRD IN THE PINE-TOP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird of the south-sweet songster!
Last Line: Shall live for immortality.
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


TO A PHOEBE-BIRD, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the eaves, out of the wet
Last Line: What eloquence you teach!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Birds; Eloquence; Messages & Messengers; Phoebe (bird); Silence; Singing & Singers; Teaching & Teachers; Songs; Educators; Professors


TO A POET-CRITIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, - the bee sings - I confess it
Last Line: Ef he didn't have no stinger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Criticism & Critics; Heaven; Insects; Singing & Singers; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


TO A SINGER, ON HER SINGING AN OLD ROMANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still think I of the magic fair one
Last Line: Low bow'd the singer gracefully.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


TO A WANDERING FEMALE SINGER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast loved and thou hast suffer'd
Last Line: I know it by thy song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


TO A. E. HOUSMAN, by MARGARET ASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your fifty springs and seven more you saw
Last Line: Whose soul still lingers here in songs, too few?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Singing & Singers; Soul; Spring; Songs


TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION, by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah hapless sex! Who bear no charms
Last Line: After fruition ne're to be concern'd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): Happiness; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


TO AN ENGLISH LADY, WHO HAD SUNG A ROMAN BALLAD, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blame not my vacant looks; it is not true
Last Line: Thickened, and bade the vision disappear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO APOLLO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luminous master of song and sunbeams
Last Line: Harlots and publicans enter in.
Subject(s): Apollo; Flowers; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Soul


TO BENJ. S. PARKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You sang the song of rare delight
Last Line: " 'tis morning and the days are long."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Singing & Singers


TO CHARMIAN, UNBORN, by LOIS SEYSTER MONTROSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My body folded tawny wings
Last Line: Be born for silk and song and wings.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wishes


TO CHLORIS, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chloris, yourself you so excel
Last Line: But of his voice, the boy had mourned.
Variant Title(s): To A Lady In Retirement;to A Lady Singing
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


TO CLOE WEEPING, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, whilst thou weep'st, fair cloe, see
Last Line: But that dear breast on which they fall.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die
Last Line: Lingering, suspends my soul in its voluptuous flight.
Subject(s): Clairmont, Claire; Singing & Singers; Songs


TO DELIA: 16 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame
Last Line: And that makes happy lovers ever dumb.
Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs


TO EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sea-mew on a sea-king's wrist alighting
Last Line: Once, ere the flame received him from the sea.}/it
Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Ocean


TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little the world will heed
Last Line: Some image of my face.
Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


TO H. C. BUNNER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know the way to arcady
Last Line: May not disdain to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood


TO HEAR HER SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To hear her sing - to hear her sing
Last Line: Our hearts to her -- to hear her sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Spring


TO HELEN KELLER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If these my rimes ring true to you
Last Line: Beyond our shallow sight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Rhyme; Singing & Singers


TO HELEN KELLER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Milton, struck blind, saw
Last Line: And the echoes of your song.
Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


TO HIS LYRE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever, as I struck thy strings
Last Line: "will make the public yell, ""oh, boy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


TO IONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day within me, sweet and clear
Last Line: I hear you singing -- singing.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs


TO JANE: KEEN STARS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The keen stars were twinkling
Last Line: Are one.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Williams, Jane; Songs


TO LEONORA SINGING AT ROME (1), by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another leonora once inspired
Last Line: Charm, with soul-soothing song, his thoughts to rest.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO LEONORA SINGING AT ROME (2), by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples, too credulous, ah! Boast no more
Last Line: Of magic song both gods and men detains.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO LESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burns sang of bonny lesley
Last Line: Grows never old or weary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Home; Love; Singing & Singers


TO M. GRETRY, by VOLTAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your songs paris honoured of late
Last Line: Are so often such very great ears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Paris, France; Singing & Singers


TO MADAME ALDA, SINGING A SONG, IN A WHITE GOWN, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So much sorrow comes to me out of your singing
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO MAKE ONE SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To make one song whose simple strain
Last Line: To make one song?
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Weariness; Fatigue


TO MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear dead poet, in your lyric way
Last Line: And you'll write new songs on a bright new page.
Subject(s): Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers


TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 4. ON HER SINGING THE GLORIA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can that small voice assault the embanded skies
Last Line: Poised, while the dawn within her east was grey.
Subject(s): Marriage; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO MISS SUSAN B-CKF-D, ON HER SINGING, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I more than once have heard, at night
Last Line: Are realized, at once, in thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO MR IOSUAH SYLUESTER, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dare confesse; of muses, more then nine
Last Line: One bartas speaks in tongues, in nations, twayn.
Subject(s): Confessions; Freedom; Muses; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs


TO MR. HENRY LAWES, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Verse makes heroic virtue live
Last Line: Let words and sense be set by thee.
Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Noy, William; Singing & Singers


TO MY CHILDREN: 1, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I make a song for you
Last Line: Is but a part.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Singing & Singers; Childhood


TO MY MOTHER, by FLORANZ HILDRUP EMTAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: She walked a high road, I could see her there
Last Line: But this I know, that she still walks -- and sings.
Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Roads; Singing & Singers; Walking; Paths; Trails; Songs


TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether you sing or scream
Last Line: To no one in particular.
Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs


TO ONE SINGING, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My spirit like a charmed bark doth swim
Last Line: Its way adown some many-winding river.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO ONE WHO ASKED FOR A SONG, by LOIS A. ROBSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear you, no song of mine could ever say
Last Line: I bring myself and not my song to you.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO PERDITA, SINGING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy voice is like a fountain
Last Line: Into a waving silver flower.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


TO ROBIN REDBREAST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Merrily 'mid the faded leaves
Last Line: The song and the ensign of dear fireside.
Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Seasons; Singing & Singers


TO SOPHIA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art fair, and few are fairer
Last Line: Is my heart when thine is near it.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Stacey, Sophia


TO THE CRICKET, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chiming seas may clang; and
Last Line: Thou poor plebeian minstrel of the hearth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Crickets; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


TO THE HON. MRS. GEORGE LAMB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sacred song that on mine ear
Last Line: When realised again by thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO THE SERENADER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tinkle on, o sweet guitar
Last Line: Press this rose I'm kissing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Guitars; Lutes; Singing & Singers


TO THE SINGER PASTA, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never till now - never till now, o queen
Last Line: And I -- alas! -- I can but bring my verse!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


TO WAGNER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not the soft tones to lull a wine-drowsed ear
Last Line: Thence joys to make earth's life a happier thing.
Subject(s): Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers


TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A windy shell singing upon the shore
Last Line: Shall he find faith upon the earth? --
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Paradise


TO WILLIAM BEDELL, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Willy, thy rhythms so sweetly run and rise
Last Line: To follow him, while others follow thee.
Subject(s): Books; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs


TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem 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


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I AM A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a voice singing the song of deliverance
Last Line: The song of joy—of deliverance.
Subject(s): Happiness; Home; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully
Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning
Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat!
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE SONG OF THE BIRDS, WHO HEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of the birds, who hears? In the high trees calling
Last Line: And goal of its agelong pilgrimage.
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs


TREES TO LET, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've pleasant rooms to rent, you've / heard?
Last Line: To all the songs my tenants sing.
Subject(s): April; Birds; Singing & Singers; Trees


TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can life be a blessing
Last Line: When we hope, when we hope to be happy again.
Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs


TRUE TO POLL, by FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll sing you a song, not very long
Last Line: And his heart was true to poll.
Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs


TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at me. I'm standing on a deck
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs


TWO BARDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bard who wrote in staves
Last Line: The bitter north.
Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Singing & Singers; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean; Songs


TWO SAT DOWN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two sat down in the morning time
Last Line: Yet is blazoned in lines of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Life; Morning; Singing & Singers


TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings
Last Line: Or day or night be there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs


UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His pansies drink / the darkness down, replenishing their purples
Last Line: Scented chamber, its smooth grain and slim-waisted body – sing
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 2. A SONG OF THE ROAD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gauger walked with willing foot
Last Line: Forest of montargis, 1878.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Flutes; Singing & Singers


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 31, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing clearlier, muse, or evermore be still
Last Line: One natural verse recapture -- then be still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Muses; Singing & Singers


UNFINISHED SONG, by ESTHER REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It hangs unfinished in the air
Last Line: My unshed tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Self; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


UPON A GENTLEWOMAN WITH A SWEET VOICE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So long you did not sing, or touch your lute
Last Line: Twas no more you then, but a cherubin.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1879, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother mine / whom every year
Last Line: Gives you a kiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Spring


VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair
Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs


VERSES ON MRS. ROWE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such were the notes our chaster sappho sung
Last Line: Yet in my life let me transcribe the saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737); Singing & Singers; Songs


VESPER SONG, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the forest shadows dim
Last Line: Along the roadside fire-flies glow.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Woods


VILLANELLE; TO MR. JOSEPH BOULMIER, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Villanelle, why art thou mute?
Last Line: Hath the master lost his lute?
Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Spring; Villanelle (as Poetic Form); Songs


VILLONELLE, by MAX JACOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me the song that the sirens sang
Last Line: And my songs? May they come back to me!
Subject(s): Echoes; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs


VIOLET, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the song's beginning
Last Line: Healing, until the close of the soft cadence, the dominant wound
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


VIOLIN SONG, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thing that I am seeking
Last Line: My heart has told me so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Violins; Songs


VIOLIN SONGS: A DREAM SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of a song - I heard it sung
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; God; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


VIRGILII CARMINA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I love thee, little book!
Last Line: With my virgil hand in hand!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers; Singing & Singers; Reading


VISIONS: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came from the house of my mistress dear
Last Line: And the spirits rush'd back to their graves with a yell
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Silence; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


VOICE MAGIC, by PAULINE SHORTRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A song is but a page
Last Line: That he can give it life?
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


VOICE OF SONG, by STEINGRIMUR THORSTEINSSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, soft and soothing
Last Line: On thy waves of sound.
Variant Title(s): Steingrímu
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


WAITING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again, a song! / would he be silent? Silence and doubt are wrong
Last Line: And in the cold night lies my life, under a beechen tree!
Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Singing & Singers; Waiting; Joy; Delight; Songs


WAKE ME A SONG, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the silences wake me a song
Last Line: And earth-song soars into heavenly hymn.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


WE TO SIGH INSTEAD OF SING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain and rain! And rain and
Last Line: This for our to-morrow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rain; Sighs; Singing & Singers


WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing
Last Line: When they take away our tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


WHAT SONGS THE SOLDIERS SANG, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those with few images, lyrics
Last Line: And that there were no words for others.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs


WHEN ALBANI SANG, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was workin' away on de farm dere, wan morning not long ago
Last Line: I hope she'll come home, lak de bluebird an' again be de chambly girl!
Subject(s): Albani, Dame Emma (1847-1930); Opera; Singing & Singers; Songs


WHEN I COME SINGING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a song that is all my own singing
Last Line: A song all my own. But I do—and it's growing!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers


WHEN MALINDY SINGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: G'way an' quit dat noise, miss lucy
Last Line: Ez malindy sings.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song & Music; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs


WHEN THE BIRD SINGS, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the bird sings, and the morning
Last Line: When the bird sings as of old!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers


WHIP-POOR-WILL, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We travelled through the soundless night
Last Line: As that immortal night.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs


WHITE-THROAT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brief, brief is the song I sing
Last Line: Why I sing,—where I go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


WIND ON THE LYRE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was the chirp of ariel
Last Line: The blood of us a lighted dew.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Singing & Singers


WIND SONG, by LUCIA PEARL BOORNAZIAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cast my heart up on your barren shores
Last Line: Dash the tingling spray over me.
Subject(s): Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Wind; Ocean; Songs


WINSTANLEY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes
Last Line: Winstanley lieth low.
Subject(s): Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Storms; Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-1660); Bedtime; Ocean; Songs


WINTER SONG, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I sang in april
Last Line: And whispers it to me.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs


WITH SILVER STRINGS, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With silver strings my harp is strung
Last Line: On silver wings!
Subject(s): Happiness; Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Lyres; Songs


WRITTEN ON HEARING A LADY SING IN TOWER OF MONTEVIDEO, NEAR HARTFORD, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft dews of twilight are steeping th plain
Last Line: Whose harp breathes her accent of sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


YANITA; A SPANISH LOVE SONG, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet yanita, / amorita
Last Line: "whisper ""señor, I am thine."
Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs


YANKEE DOODLE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn this morning burned all red
Last Line: While seas roll on in laughter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Singing & Singers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Songs


YOUNG LOVE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a flower in a forest
Last Line: My last sob-note is sung!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth


YOUR SMILE, by LAURA L. ATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a song in my heart, my friend
Last Line: Because you gave one to me.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Songs


ZEPHRYUS BRINGS THE TIME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Zephyrus brings the time that sweetly scenteth
Last Line: "are like a desert, and cruel beasts devouring"
Subject(s): Birds;music & Musicians;singing & Singers