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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827) Matches Found: 51 AT BEETHOVEN'S FUNERAL, by IGNAZ FRANZ CASTELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ev'ry tear that is shed by the mourner is holy Last Line: The grisly destroyer is distanced by him. Alternate Author Name(s): Castelli, J. F. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Funerals; Music & Musicians; Burials AT BEETHOVEN'S GRAVE, by IGNAZ FRANZ CASTELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the high rock I marked a fountain breaking Last Line: That thou may'st live, o deathless one, thou diest. Alternate Author Name(s): Castelli, J. F. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Graves; Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones BEETHOVEN, by MAURICE BARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More mighty than the the hosts of mortal kings Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT Poem Source First Line: Lo, the strong eagle, through the storm and night Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians; Transcendentalism BEETHOVEN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Betwixt the actual and unseen, alone Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: In the cool and silent night Last Line: He goes! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts BEETHOVEN, by JOEL CHACE Poem Source First Line: One foot of the soul Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Text First Line: Sublimest master, thou, of harmony Last Line: With something of thy pure, celestial fire. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That midnight pause, when the deep forest / hushes Last Line: Shakes the wet boughs of the dark—again—again. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nature; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BEETHOVEN, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most intellectual master of the art Last Line: Notes of high triumph swell, and we are thine again! Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by JOSEPH LEFTWICH Poem Source First Line: Yesterday glicenstein finished his statue Last Line: Is no man, but a demon, a spirit, a storm, %could never havelived, for he could never die Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians 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 BEETHOVEN, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mage of music, deaf to outward sound Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: A prince of music with a builder's art Last Line: The notes and symphonies he gave. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: He wandered down, an orpheus wilder-souled Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music as of the winds when they awake Last Line: By violets. Thus beethoven speaks for me. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN (DEAF), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, he who samson-like of sound Last Line: A prisoner remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN (VIENNA - 1900), by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came to a great city. Palaces Last Line: And his the empire of the human soul. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Vienna BEETHOVEN AND ANGELO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One made the surging sea of tone Last Line: Raised children unto god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Music & Musicians; Worship BEETHOVEN ANDANTE, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wood wind warbled wisely Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN AT 14, by MICHAEL DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Early almost late Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness BEETHOVEN IN SPRING, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely among the sheepfolds and the green Last Line: Of music the torn heart is healed again Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN'S DEATH MASK, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine him still with heavy brow Last Line: Peace, peace ... Then splitting skull and dream, there come %blotting our lights, the trumpeter, the Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The mind's deep history here in tones is wrought Last Line: And turns to boundless hope the old despair. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Mind, The BEETHOVEN'S MUSIC TO FAUST, by HENRY JOHNSON (1855-1918) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of loving mercy, wilt thou deign Last Line: —fetch me my book and leave me here alone. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Faust; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN'S SEVENTH SYMPHONY, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead christ starts, the shadows lift, the light Last Line: Drawing the worshipping ages in ecstasy after. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN'S SIXTH SYMPHONY (ANDANTE), by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Sounding above the warring of the years Last Line: Like children standing there. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN'S THIRD SYMPHONY, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passion and pain, the outcry of despair Last Line: And love makes life triumphant and divine. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, OPUS 111, by AMY CLAMPITT Poet's Biography First Line: Or, conversely, hungers Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Music & Musicians; Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778) BEETHOVEN, OPUS 111, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Or, conversely, hungers Last Line: Aspire, in its last act, %to walk on air Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Music And Musicians; Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778) CAVATINA, by JEFFREY LEVINE Poem Text First Line: It may be there's a time of day when everything Subject(s): Beaujolais Wine; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians; Obsessions CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind! Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples DOUBLE DACTYL, by E. WILLIAM SEAMAN Poem Source First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %ludwig van beethoven Last Line: Duh, duh, duh, dum! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians FOUR FRIENDS, by LEO WARD Poem Text First Line: Full life, sweet rest, great love that cannot cease Last Line: And nature one with god, at nazareth! Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Franck, Cesar (1822-1890); Music & Musicians INDOORS IS ENDLESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring in 1827, beethoven %hoists his death-mask and sails off Last Line: The gentle downward slope gets steeper %and imperceptibly becomes an abyss Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Death; Music And Musicians; Soul LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN'S RETURN TO VIENNA, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Three miles from my adopted city Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827) NINTH SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN UNDERSTOOD .. SEXUAL MESSAGE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in terror of impotence Last Line: Beating of a bloody fist upon %a splintered table Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Happiness; Music And Musicians ON FIRST HEARING BEETHOVEN, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose absolute dumbness circumscribed by sound Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians ON SEEING A PICTURE OF BEETHOVEN, by RALPH W. WESTCOTT Poem Text First Line: Sounds the deep boom of ocean and the roar Last Line: And marks the meter of the storm king's tale. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Yale University RADIOGRAPHY, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: Nights like this my body would open Last Line: Each cold seed is opening Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Creation; Music And Musicians SONNET: 69. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians SONNET: 69. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Last Line: A city spell-bound under the aging sun, %music my rampart, and my only one Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians TEST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Slow waltzing will put beethoven Last Line: As only a waltzing virgin can. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Dancing And Dancers; Music And Musicians; Virginity THE ANGER OF BEETHOVEN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This night the enchanting musicians rendered a trio of beethoven Last Line: And in art supreme, immortal, the infamous arrows of fortune. Subject(s): Anger; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE INDOORS IS ENDLESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring in 1827, beethoven / hoists his death-mask and sails off Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Death; Music & Musicians; Soul; Dead, The THE LIFE TO COME, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city where god's happy children Last Line: Then I should ask of god no more. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Future Life; Music & Musicians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE NINTH SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN UNDERSTOOD .. SEXUAL MESSAGE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in terror of impotence Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight TO BEETHOVEN, by CLARA BOYNTON HADLEY Poem Text First Line: What music did'st thou hear Last Line: What thou did'st comprehend. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians TO BEETHOVEN, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In o'er-strict calyx lingering Last Line: 1876 - 7. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians |
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