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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SOUND Matches Found: 162 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 78'S, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breakable; heavy; clumsy; the end of a side Subject(s): Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography A BOY'S WHISTLE, by JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: If I could whistle like I used to when I was just a boy Last Line: No use in tryin' when we're old, we've been away too long! Subject(s): Lips; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sound; Whistles & Whistling A PHONOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! What his fellow-warblers heard Last Line: Repeats to them at night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography A POEM FOR RECORD PLAYERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene changes Last Line: All over town Subject(s): Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography A SOUND IS LIKE ANY OTHER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once thought a low chord Last Line: Terror, remorse, pleasure and triumph Subject(s): Sound; Life ACOUSTICS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: In the ancient amphitheatre at epidaurus Last Line: Shriek, clytemnestra, clytemnestra Subject(s): Epidaurus, Greece; Sound; Theater And Theaters ADVICE FROM AUNT PRUDENCE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: While sipping soda, never guzzle Last Line: Where I understand you can Subject(s): Noises; Sound AFTER THE CONCERT, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: You become more careful Last Line: Heavy with hunger Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Sound Recordings; Symphonies AGE OF THE GREAT SYMPHONIES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: On this earth which is thirsty and takes them back into %itself again Subject(s): Bands; Music And Musicians; Sound; Symphonies AKOUSTICPHOBIA (FEAR OF SOUNDS), by GARY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: At dawn she sits Last Line: Where the secret of dead painters %bloom with startled screams Subject(s): Sound AT DAWN, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay awake and listened, ere the light Last Line: Said that bright song; and then I thought of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Bells; Sound; Sleep AT THE BARBERSHOP, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Draped in a cape Last Line: It's time to escape!! Subject(s): Noises; Sound AUNTIE'S SKIRTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever auntie moves around Last Line: And trundle after through the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 15 Subject(s): Aunts; Noises; Sound AUTUMN'S ORCHESTRA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know by the thread of music woven through Last Line: Shall voice my answering. Good-night, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nature; Sound AWAKEN, SOUND!, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Awaken sound! And let your moorings sway Last Line: In holy unison that will astound. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sound; Scientists BALSHAM BELLS, by KENRICK PRESCOT Poem Text First Line: Sweet waft their rounds those tuneful brothers five Last Line: Expiring notes—they and these lines are done. Subject(s): Feasts; Festivals; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sound; Fairs; Pageants BIT, by CAROL SNOW Poem Source First Line: A slight' Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Sound BLOOD MUSIC, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: These things make no sound to me: the trace of your feet on stairs Last Line: Against a pillow a shell a stomach-does it matter? %coming back to me as music Subject(s): Sound BUBBLE GUM, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Chunk-a-hunk-a bubble gum Last Line: Chunk-a-hunk-a... %pop! Subject(s): Noises; Sound BUMPTIOUS BURPS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: We have a knack for sneak attacks Last Line: We sound %especially %loud! Subject(s): Noises; Sound CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be not afeard: the isle is full of noise Last Line: I cried to dream again. Subject(s): Dreams; Sound; Nightmares CAUGHT IN THE ACT, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Hands off those potato chips Last Line: Betrayed by crinkling cellophane! Subject(s): Noises; Sound CERTAIN PHENOMENA OF SOUND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cricket in the telephone is still Subject(s): Language; Sound; Words; Vocabulary CHAMBER MUSIC: 35, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All day I hear the noise of waters Last Line: To and fro. Variant Title(s): The Noise Of Waters Subject(s): Sound CHIPPEWA MUSIC: SOUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sound is fading away Last Line: It is of five sounds Subject(s): Freedom;sound; Liberty CITY MUSIC, by TONY MITTON Poem Source First Line: Snap your fingers Last Line: Is what we like Subject(s): Noises; Sound CLIFFS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loudest sound that burdens here the breeze Last Line: As little as may be to share the extacy. Subject(s): Sound COMMISSARIAT CAMELS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We haven't a camelty tune of our own Last Line: Pass it along the line! Subject(s): Animals; Noises; Sound CRUDITES, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Chinkety-chonkety %carrots and celery Last Line: Open your mouth %and in they'll skip Subject(s): Noises; Sound DOOZY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: It's doozy in the dictionary, and doozy in my heart Last Line: Easy jazzy %doozy end Subject(s): Language; Sound EARLY IN THE MORNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come down to the station early in the morning Last Line: Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble %off they go! Subject(s): Noises; Sound EARLY WALKMAN, by TONY MITTON Poem Source First Line: Fasten seashell %onto each ear Last Line: That seashell song Subject(s): Noises; Sound EARS HEAR, by JR. JAMES L. HYMES Poem Source First Line: Flies buzz %motors roar Last Line: People scream :stop! Stop! Subject(s): Noises; Sound 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 FAUCET DRIPPING INTO A PAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The same sweet music Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sound; Water FISHES' EVENING SONG, by DAHLOV IPCAR Poem Source First Line: Flip flop %flip flop Last Line: Just to soothe %sleepy fish Subject(s): Noises; Sound FLASH III, SELS., by HERBERTO HELDER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I know the body is an austere Last Line: The wind: %the sound where all begins - the sound Subject(s): Bodies; Sound FOOTSTEPS, by TERRY MULERT Poem Source First Line: Soon I will kill Last Line: At the sound of my approaching %boots Subject(s): Sound; Walking FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 1., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: The red neon sign Last Line: I can stand more trouble %than any little woman my size Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 2., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: They tell me to settle down Last Line: And boy %if I ain't riffin' tonight I hope sumthin' Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 3., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: Out in the smoke of every gig I play Last Line: Get the hell off my note Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings FOUR VOICES ENDING ON SOME LINES FROM OLD JAZZ RECORDS: 4., by RODERICK HARTIGH JELLEMA Poem Source First Line: This morning Last Line: And I wouldn't be a methodist %to save me Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings HAY FEVER SEASON, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Spring is the season Last Line: I get to do my thing, too!%kerrrchoo! Subject(s): Noises; Sound HECTOR MCVECTOR, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Hector mcvector the hiccup collector Last Line: In order to tape the disorder Subject(s): Noises; Sound HERMIT WAKES TO BIRD SOUNDS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He starles awake. His eyes are full of white light Last Line: Slowly the teasing inept malfunctioning %one-of-a-kind machines fall silent Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sound HIS WIFE SAID, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: The next time, noah, I insist Last Line: And in the din I hear you %snore! Subject(s): Noises; Sound HURLYGUSH, by MAURICE LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: The hurlygush and hallyoch o the watter Last Line: Wi ilka ither force was gether't in Subject(s): Sound 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 KITCHEN SINK-SONG, by TONY MITTON Poem Source First Line: Tap goes drip-drip Last Line: Toast goes pop! Subject(s): Noises; Sound LANGUAGE OF MUSIC, by ESTHER EUGENIA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Two open windows where I went to sing Last Line: But music just begins where language ends. Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Sound; Words; Vocabulary LATE SHOW, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After rain, paint bubbled on a ceiling Last Line: My thoughts are never unanswered Subject(s): Night; Self; Sound LAUGHING TIME, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was laughing time, and the tall giraffe Subject(s): Noises; Sound LAUGHING TIME, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was laughing time, and the tall giraffe Last Line: Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Subject(s): Noises; Sound LEGACY, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: The record needle lays down its thread Last Line: How the needle glides into the deaf %wood, the closing of the groove Subject(s): Sound Recordings LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see %that the ocean is still going on Last Line: They call back to us %from the gauzy edge of paradise, %good news, good news Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion LISTEN, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Libraries have signs like these Last Line: Could it happen? It might. %listen! Subject(s): Noises; Sound LISTEN HARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough and you can hear Last Line: Listen to the sound of the book when it closes Subject(s): Books; Sound; Reading LISTENING, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: Each morning I lie listening for the suck of the syringe Last Line: That used to do the work of your breathing Subject(s): Memory; Sickness; Sound LISTENING TO HMONG RADIO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: A woman sings intersection Last Line: Grandfather, look at all %these other people %visiting the Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Radio; Singing And Singers; Sound Recordings; Tourists LOCH CORUISK (SKYE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak and barren mountains keep Last Line: The eagle's scream or wild swan's cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sound; Storms; Wind LONG ISLAND SOUND, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see it as it looked one afternoon Last Line: All these fair sounds and sights I made my own. Subject(s): Americans; Long Island Sound; United States; America LYDIA LUCE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Lydia luce prefers pits to pure juice Last Line: While she tangoes in time to their tune Subject(s): Noises; Sound MEETING, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long island sound, crane's neck Last Line: I touched my blood to the oarlock %in regret, & the shark descended Subject(s): Long Island Sound MEXICO CITY BLUES (242ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound in your mind Last Line: All's well ! %I am the guard Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Sound MORNING SOUNDS, by RUTH LEONARD BUCHE Poem Text First Line: A sparrow's happy chirping and a dog's persistent bark Last Line: How beautiful to wake each morn to homey sounds like these. Subject(s): Morning; Sound MUMBO-JUMBO BREAKFAST, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source Last Line: Is the only thing that's quiet Subject(s): Noises; Sound MUSIC TO ME, by ADELE SHAW BOONE Poem Text First Line: Music to my soul Last Line: Which I seek whene'er I can. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sound MYSTERIOUS SOUND, by JACK ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: In one scene of chekhov's the cherry orchard the characters Last Line: They are going away from you. Going away Subject(s): Sound NATURAL MUSIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers Subject(s): Sound NATURAL MUSIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers Last Line: By the ocean-shore, dreaming of lovers Subject(s): Sound NEW SHOES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My shoes are new and squeaky shoes Last Line: I've got to wear today Subject(s): Noises; Sound NIGHT CALLS: THE MIDNIGHT WHISTLE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the drive across town he hears it Last Line: Though now he can hear every mile %of the way a single blare louder than the others Subject(s): Sound NOCTURNAL SOUNDS, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: Trembling novemeber winds %steam whistling in tenement pipes Last Line: Sleep comes to close the ears of %the mind to night sounds of this world Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sound OLD GRAMOPHONE RECORDS, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: On these ancient discs. Smooth-backed, severe Last Line: And the turntable turns on a ghost of the ghosts of the past Subject(s): Sound Recordings ON THE CELLAR FLOOR, A SHADOW, by GINNY MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: I am always catching sounds that code Last Line: When we make noises greater than ourselves Subject(s): Noises; Sound ON THE NING NANG NONG, by SPIKE MILLIGAN Poem Source Last Line: Is the ning nang ning nang nong! Subject(s): Noises; Sound OPAL SEA', by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An inland sea - blue as a sapphire - set Last Line: Like opals linked around a beating throat Subject(s): Puget Sound OUR WASHING MACHINE, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Our washing machine went whisity whirr Subject(s): Machinery And Machinists; Noises; Sound 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 PARADE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: On the fourth of july, oh isn't it grand Last Line: Oh, isn't it grand? Subject(s): Noises; Sound PERFORMERS ON THE TERRACE OF THE BLACK SPARROW, by HE XUN Poem Source First Line: Leaves fall from trees in the autumn wind Last Line: Song done, they look at each other and rise; %the sun sets with the sounds of cypress and pine Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Sound PERHAPS, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: He spoke of sound-thin waves of sound Last Line: The men of galilee! Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Radio; Sound PIGGY BANK, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Money, money-yum-yum-yummy! Last Line: My tummy sings at feeding time Subject(s): Noises; Sound PLEASANT SOUNDS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under hedges Last Line: Sweet such pictures on dewy mornings, when the dew %flashes from its brown feathers! Subject(s): Nature; Sound POEM FOR RECORD PLAYERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene changes Subject(s): Sound Recordings POP, POP, POP!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Pop goes the pop fly Last Line: Pop, pop, pop! Subject(s): Baseball; Drinks & Drinking; Sound; Sports; Wine QUACK!' SAID THE BILLY GOAT, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That's the reason why Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Goats; Noises; Sound QUACK, QUACK!, by THEODORE GEISEL Poem Source First Line: We have two ducks. One blue. One black Last Line: But black is a quicker quacker-backer Subject(s): Ducks; Noises; Sound QUATORZAINS: 4. TO SOUND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, who steals from silence's embrace Last Line: Or sleep for ever in my charmed ear. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Sound; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness RAIN DANCE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: When I wear my yellow slicker Last Line: With my private tap-dance band! Subject(s): Noises; Sound RECORD 4, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON Poem Source First Line: Eric dolphy Last Line: Various complications, %mathematical and clear Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings RECORDING OF GIUSEPPE DE LUCA (1903), by DICK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The record's hiss - so dense Last Line: No beauty can bewitch... %the youth so long now dead Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings RED LILIES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has remembered to dry the dishes; Subject(s): Sound RELIEF, by WALTER JOHN COATES Poem Text First Line: How great a song is silence! When the ear Last Line: Grant us, ye gods, one hour, this sure relief! Subject(s): Sound RIFLEMAN FORM!, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of thunder afar Last Line: Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The War Subject(s): Fights; Prudence; Rifles; Soldiers; Sound; Storms; Caution SADDEST NOISE, THE SWEETEST NOISE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We wish the ear had not a heart %so dangerously near Variant Title(s): Poem: 1764; Poem: 178 Subject(s): Birds; Noises; Sound SAVED BY MUSIC, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At one time, in america, many years ago Last Line: And they released him from his dangerous position without delay. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Play; Sound SCHOOL BUS RAP, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: I'm a bin, bin, bin Last Line: A school bus-chuff! %a school bus Subject(s): Noises; Sound SEA SPEAK, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: If every ocean %and every sea Last Line: With a zigzag %flashing Subject(s): Noises; Sound SEA-LOVE (PUGET SOUND INDIAN), by ANNICE CALLAND Poem Text First Line: Harken! The drum-beat of the sea Last Line: O drum-beat of the sea! Subject(s): Native Americans; Puget Sound; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEA-PICTURES; NIGHT NOISES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No voice of crickets wearing through the night Last Line: And gossip on lost ships of long ago. Subject(s): Graves; Night; Sound; Summer; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime SIGHT AND SOUND, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh wonder shown! A sound to see Last Line: Shall I forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Sight; Sound; Vision SILVER LAUGHTER, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Oft times I wonder Last Line: Arise. Subject(s): Laughter; Smiles; Sound SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON THE NATURE OF SOUND, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the sense that counts us human Last Line: Fathers, mothers speaking their minds Subject(s): Sound SMALL GHOSTIE, by BARBARA IRESON Poem Source First Line: When it's late and it's dark Last Line: We stay in our beds Subject(s): Noises; Sound SMASHING CHINA, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: I like the sound of it: the crash! Last Line: And if they say that's balderdash? %I like the sound of it Subject(s): Sound SNOW SCENE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: In the hush of the cold Last Line: A particular quiet. %listen! Subject(s): Noises; Sound SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 4. COUNTRY NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course there's a tree to listen to Last Line: And that is a thousand pities. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sound; Bedtime SOUND, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Marc says the suffering that we don't see Last Line: Of a stone into a lake, before it drops. %it's shy, it's barely there. It never stops Subject(s): Noises; Pain; Sound SOUND, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: Today my heart is steeped in sound- Last Line: Turning around. Subject(s): Sound SOUND COLLECTOR, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source First Line: A stranger called this morning Last Line: Life will never be the same Subject(s): Noises; Sound SOUND IN SILENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking when all the ways seemed wondrous still Last Line: With many musics, for my solacement. Subject(s): Animals; Faces; Music & Musicians; Silence; Sound SOUND OF HEALING, by ALLEN C. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Five hundred people waited in stillness Last Line: The chatter of their lives, %the next day's agenda Subject(s): Healing; Music And Musicians; Sound SOUND OF NIGHT, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the darkness comes on, all full of chitter noise Last Line: By the lak,locked black away and tight, %we lie, day creatures, overhearing night Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Night; Sound SOUND OF THE WORLD, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Words, shameful Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Earth; Sound SOUNDS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearken, hearken! / the rapid river carrieth Last Line: And not the voice of god? Subject(s): Sound SOUNDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The multitudinous murmurings of day! Last Line: As myrmidons of night and parts of her. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Sound; Woods; Bedtime SPRING CONVERSATIONS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Whisk!' %whirls the jump rope Last Line: Down %the court %across the street Subject(s): Noises; Sound STEEL BAND JUMP UP, by FAUSTIN CHARLES Poem Source First Line: I put my ear to the ground Last Line: Ping pong! Ping pong! Subject(s): Noises; Sound STREET WHERE NO ONE SLEEPS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Lucia's forced to wear ear stoppers Last Line: Guarantee that no one sleeps Subject(s): Noises; Sound SUMMER JAZZ, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Katydids fiddling with the crickets! Last Line: Tomorrow night let's jam again!' Subject(s): Noises; Sound SUMMER VOICES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shining trembling leaves that drape the bowers of june Last Line: This mounts the wings of summer morn, and singing, flies to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Sound; Summer SYMPHONY MUSIC, by GEORGE GLAYNE Poem Text First Line: Symphony music Last Line: Like lovers in an ecstatic mood. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sound; Symphonies; Concerts SYRINX, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like the foghorn that's all lung Last Line: But dispossed of breath Subject(s): Birds; Sound THAT ONE GUY, by JOSHUA THORNTON Poem Source First Line: E's the wispiest strand Last Line: Oregano's %his second favoriterb Subject(s): Language; Sound 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 CREATIONS OF SOUND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the poetry of x was music, Subject(s): Sound THE HYDRAULIC RAM; OR THE INFLUENCE OF SOUND ON MOOD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hall-grounds, by evening gloom concealed Last Line: "piles its dull pulses in the darkness there?" Subject(s): Hydraulic Pumps; Sound THE LAUGHING WOMAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard a woman laughing Last Line: And life still crawls with maggots—that were men! Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Love; Smiles; Sound; Joy; Delight THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE DRAGON VEIN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you wake up too early listen for it Last Line: To. / time Subject(s): Sound THE LISTENER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see you a thousand miles from hear Subject(s): Sound THE MARKET-BELL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet from his pipe the piper drew Last Line: Earth's loud, imperious market bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians; Sound THE PEAL OF THE BELLS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world grows old by the chimney side Last Line: When it meeteth another in space. Subject(s): Bells; Sound THE POWER OF SOUND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy functions are ethereal Last Line: Is in the word, that shall not pass away. Subject(s): Sound THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood Last Line: And few there are who understand. Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 SOUND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SOUND OF RAIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Older than anything else in the world Last Line: That besogs the day and the night, and the end of night, and the morrow. Subject(s): Life; Rain; Sound THE SOUND OF THE HORN, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the sound of the horn in the deep, dim woodland Last Line: The shades of the noble roland is still forlorn! Subject(s): Horns (musical Instruments); Nature; Sound THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of water-breaks, with grateful heart could tel Subject(s): Water; Sound THE VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez / the little white dog on the victor label Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography THERE SWEPT ADOWN THAT DREARY GLEN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Fights; Death; Sound; Dead, The TO A VIOLIN, by BERTHA FRANCES GORDON Poem Text First Line: Strange shape, who moulded first thy dainty shell? Last Line: To quench his thirst, and help his load to bear. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Sound; Violins TREE-FROGS, by LIANA SAKELLIOU-SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: They drive me crazy Last Line: To restrain the needles, %their explosive muscles Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Sound UNUSUAL SHEPHERD, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Not every shepherd shepherds sheep Last Line: No wool have they-just ticks and tocks Subject(s): Noises; Sound VACUUMING, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Saturdays I live for an hour inside this bellowing Last Line: It is the very bugle call of gabriel, and this is the last day Subject(s): Birds; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Sound VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez %the little white dog on the victor label Last Line: No honey for the vanquished? Art is art. %the life it asks of us is a dog's life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks VOICES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Sometimes when the solemn organ rolls Last Line: A silence sweeter than the sweetest sound. Subject(s): Sound WASHING MACHINE, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: I'm the washing machine Last Line: And then %I stop Subject(s): Noises; Sound WE'RE CROWS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Tweet! Tweet! %chirp! Chirp! Last Line: No caw! Caw! Caw! %no crows! Subject(s): Noises; Sound WEST SEATTLE EXIT, 5:00 P.M., by SONIA GOMEZ Poem Source First Line: There was a freeway Last Line: The godly burn of carbon and steel Subject(s): Puget Sound; Seattle, Washington WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE SAID, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Br-r-r-am-m-m, rackety-am-m, om, am Subject(s): Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Sound WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE SAID, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Br-r-r-am-m-m, rackety-am-m, om, am Last Line: All - gr-r-rin, oooohgah, gl-l-utton-- %am, the world's my smilebutton Subject(s): Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Sound WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The herds are gathered in from plain and hill Last Line: Twas loved ones' voices from far off across the seas Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;ranch Life;sound;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WILLIS WALKER, NONSTOP TALKER, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Jibber-jab-jibber Last Line: Who can talk back? Subject(s): Noises; Sound WIND, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: I am the wind of spring Last Line: And I'll blow you, too! %whip!Wallop! Whoosh! Subject(s): Noises; Sound WINTER ON PUGET SOUND, by OPAL M. DETTY Poem Text First Line: Billowing and rolling in from the sea Last Line: It's winter on puget sound again! Subject(s): Puget Sound WITCH'S INVITATION, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: Ga-bumba-bumba-bumba Last Line: That they'd like some lizard stew Subject(s): Noises; Sound WORD PLUM IS DELICIOUS, by HELEN CHASIN Poem Source Last Line: And reply, lip and tongue %of pleasure Subject(s): Language; Plums; Sound YOUR WAYS, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: When is loud too loud, %chainsaw cutting woods Last Line: Before they knew your ways Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Ears; Noises; Poetry And Poets; Sound |
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