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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SINGING & SINGERS Matches Found: 1103 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 youa 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 cymbalsthat 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 prayergod 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 isto 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: Stillsomehow, 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 mushgumamichigan!" 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 piperpan! 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 joyof 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 doand 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 |
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