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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SMITH, BESSIE (1894-1937) Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BESSIE, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: My gloriana Last Line: Of our most common need Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BESSIE SMITH'S FUNERAL, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: The brief procession Last Line: Her song is news, begins the dispensation %of the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Funerals; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) 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 DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds again Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full 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 HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Last Line: And shone that smile on us and sang Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full 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 AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disarticulated %arm torn out Last Line: I'm not the same as I used to be %this is my last affair Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) OF WALTER WHITE'S FATHER IN THE RAIN, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Denied %like bessie Last Line: Passing in the rain, separate, %and forever unequalled Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Racism; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full 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 TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full 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 TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Last Line: Of someone you might always love Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: TO BESSIE SMITH, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You bring from chattanooga tennessee Last Line: Each longed-for holiday, each terminal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) |
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