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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COMPOSERS Matches Found: 147 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGING ONE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my hair shone white, covered with crystals of Last Line: Who would believe that I have not one gray hair to show %for my entire journey? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter APOSTROPHE TO JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (PRESTISSIMO), by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Some who hear are rapt away Last Line: Of paradisal days! Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians 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 BACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm / listening to a work of his Last Line: Living / friends Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm %listening to a work of his Last Line: I have no %living %friends Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians BACH, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Text First Line: As some cathedral vast, whose lofty spire Last Line: Strong to achieve, and faithful to endure! Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH, by S. LEAS DEMUTH Poem Source First Line: The name dieter fischer diskau intoned Last Line: Reluctantly into each relentless day, %I am still an unflagging player of fugues Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians BACH, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Roll up all music underneath the sky Last Line: With sunday worship spiraled and crisscrossed %by bach's bright signatures of pentecost Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians BACH, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Six days a week my father sold shoes Last Line: Just in time he said, 'that's beautiful.' Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Fathers; Music And Musicians BACH TRANSCRIBING VIVALDI, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One remembered the sunrise, how clearly it gave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians BACH'S ORGAN WORKS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chance-child of some lone sorrow on the hills Last Line: Wails far along the passages of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Variant Title(s): To E. M. O. Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH, IN THE FUGUES AND PRELUDES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentedly with strictest [or rigorous] strands confined Last Line: Or roll against the stars their rock-bound song. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians; Science; Scientists BACKWARD GLANCE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fiery soles of my feet burn with every step, even Last Line: One more time, yes, even stagger back and stand quietly before %her house Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter BARTOK, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: Harsh discord?' - yes! They think it thus Last Line: Your nerve strings sing for us Subject(s): Bartok, Bela (1881-1945); Composers 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) BORODIN, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world was loveliness I was Subject(s): Borodin, Alexander (1833-1887); Composers; Heaven; Religion; Paradise; Theology BY THE STREAM, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear stream that once roared along, wild and sparkling Last Line: Are the waters beneath its surface as turbulent as yours? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter 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 COMPOSER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the others translate: the painter sketches Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Composers COMPOSER, by DOROTHY LA PELL-SUBOTA Poem Source First Line: I am a composer of songs Subject(s): Composers COMPOSERS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Vivaldi 3b Last Line: Bach p Subject(s): Composers; Music And Musicians COMPOSITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: On certain icy nights I know Last Line: And a heart's most inarticulate cry. Subject(s): Composers; Night; Singing And Singers CONSIDERATIONS ON CERTAIN MUSIC OF J.S. BACH, by J. C. BEAGLEHOLE Poem Source First Line: Meditating in silence after the last not Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians COURAGE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let the snow fly in my face. See how I shake it off! Let my Last Line: Wind and weather. If there be no god on earth, then we ourselves %must be gods! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter 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 CROW, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A crow has flown with me ever since I left the town Last Line: Crow, let me see at last what it means to be faithful %to the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter DELUSION, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A friendly light dances before my eyes, enticing me this Last Line: Even delusion can be a blessing for one such as I Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter 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 DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Last Line: Enough. J. Sebastian - born at eisenach: %its coat-of-arms in my dreams: bach plays bach! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music And Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty DREAMS OF SPRING, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was dreaming of beautiful flowers-flowers the color of Last Line: Sweetheart in my arms? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter FIT AUDIENCE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: (andante cantabile): / g sharp is not g natural Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Composers FIVE FRACTURED PRELUDES FOR BLUE BEAR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Dear friend, I envy your fields of blue snow Last Line: Next time you go out to milk the cows Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Singing And Singers FLOODWATERS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Streams of tears have fallen from my eyes into the snow Last Line: Where you feel my tears begin to burn will be my %sweetheart's house Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter FOR A LADY WHO LOVES SCHUBERT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: After a week in hell Last Line: For a lady who loves schubert Subject(s): Books; Composers; Novels And Novelists; Poetry And Poets; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) FOR THE MARGRAVE OF BRANDENBURG, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When I'm driving up bellefield in spring Last Line: Papa bach, papa bach, papa bach Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Courts And Courtiers; 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 FRANZ SCHUBERT, by RONALD FREDERICK HENRY DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What love is this Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) FRANZ SCHUBERT, OR: NOTES ON THE WEATHER, VIENNA, SELS, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: 1st weather: beside the sun, actually, and thin to set on fire Last Line: How can I thank you for not refusing my letters on a sad subject' Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) FREE THOUGHTS ON SEVERAL EMINENT COMPOSERS, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some cry up haydn, some mozart Last Line: Because they're living; so I leave 'em. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Composers FRENCH MUSIC, by HELEN CONKLING Poem Source First Line: Tonight there is no other place Last Line: Unseen but there, new leaves crowding in Subject(s): Composers; Music And Musicians FRENCH NOTEBOOK THREATENED BY WRITING, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: 1. He day is broader than the night though more foreshortened Last Line: 7. The moon sleps in its fully realized breadbasket Subject(s): Art And Artists; Composers; Music And Musicians; Writing And Writers FROZEN TEARS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Frozen tears fall from my cheeks. How could I not have Last Line: Glowing hot, as if you were intent on melting all the ice of winter! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter GOOD NIGHT, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cam as a stranger; as a stranger now I leave Last Line: Good night,' to let you know I thought of you Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter GREAT WOMEN COMPOSERS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sybil sibelius! Yes, belinda brahms! Last Line: Have all been invited to tea %by the indomitable beatrice k.Beethoven! Subject(s): Composers; Women 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 HURDY-GURDY PLAYER, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just beyond the village is a hurdy-gurdy player. His Last Line: Strange old man, shall I go with you? Will you grind your %organ to my songs? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter IN THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY NUTRITIOUS ALGAE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought lined up pale winter Last Line: Question, indeed Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians IN THE VILLAGE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs are barking, rattling their chains. People are sleeping Last Line: I am finished with dreaming. Why should I tarry with %those who are slumbering? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter 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 INN, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My path has led me to a graveyard Last Line: Then we must trudge on, my faithful walking staff and I Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory in her black, and all intent Last Line: To praise again, though east and west are wild, %the girl, the singing, and the christmas child Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Hess, Dame Myra (1890-1965); Jesus Christ; Music And Musicians LAST HOPE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here and there colored leaves can be seen on the trees Last Line: I myself sink to the ground and weep on the tomb of %my hope Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter LAST LYRICS: 10 (FOR FRANZ SCHUBERT), by RONALD FREDERICK HENRY DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: They asked him %why all his songs were sad? Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) LEIPZIG, 1894, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have only one portrait of bach - that genius Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians LEIPZIG, 1894, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have only one portrait of bach - that genius Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music And Musicians LIMERICK, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a pity that bela bartok Last Line: And conducting the piece with Subject(s): Bartok, Bela (1881-1945); Composers LINDEN TREE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A linden tree grows by the well at the gate Last Line: You would have found repose there' Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter 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 LONELINESS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a dark cloud drifting across a clear sky as a tired gust Last Line: Even the raging storms did not rain upon me the misery %that I feel now Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter MACDOWELL, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Last Line: The new world hath new music -- and a voice! Subject(s): Composers; Macdowell, Edward (1860-1908); Music & Musicians MAIL, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you leap up, my heart, at the sound of the Last Line: You want to take a look over there and see how she is, %don't you? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter 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 NUMBNESS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly I search for a trace of her step in the snow-covered Last Line: Heart even soften, her image will dissolve and disappear Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter O THUTHAN THMITH! THWEET THUTHAN THMITH!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear mitheth digby Last Line: Yourth thintherely, %edw lear Subject(s): Composers; Letters; Singing And Singers OF BACH AND HARMONY, by BLAGA DIMITROVA Poem Source First Line: Bach gave to all an equal right Last Line: Power in a unity depends %on little independences Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; 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 PADEREWSKI, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If songs were perfume, color, wild desire Last Line: Turn at the last to beauty and to song! Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941) PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: CHARLES AVISON, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange! But, first of all, the little fact Last Line: "westminster's pym!" Subject(s): Avison, Charles (1709-1770); Composers; Music & Musicians PHANTOM SUNS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three suns outlined against the sky and stared at Last Line: If only the third would leave as well! Darkness is all %that I crave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter QUARTET WITH PROGRAM NOTES BY COMPOSER: 1. MAESTOSO, by JEAN NORDHAUS Poem Source First Line: Light and shadow. Silence Last Line: How long %until silence? How far to new york? Variant Title(s): Maestro, With Great Intensit Subject(s): Composers 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 REST, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now at last I begin to realize how tired I am Last Line: Sharp sting of the serpent as it stirs Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter RING' CYCLE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're doing a ring cycle at the met Last Line: A son till now undreamed of -- makes to rise Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) SCHUBERT, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Text First Line: Who would know thee, a loving heart must bring Last Line: And joy do live, thou hast not lived in vain! Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) SCHUBERT'S (UNFINISHED) SYMPHONY, by FRANCES BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: The muffled sobbing of a storm-scourged sea Last Line: The longings that are prayers — it voices all! Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) SCHUBERT'S SERENADE, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: O, rare melody Last Line: That hauntingly stirs the soul. Subject(s): Composers; Love; Poetry & Poets; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Franz schubert, seventeen years old Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) SIGNPOST, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For what reason do I avoid the well-trod paths of other Last Line: Road from which there is no return Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter SONNET FOR IDA, by RUTH DE MENEZES Poem Text First Line: So the pale hands are quiet - they that knew Last Line: Somewhere she's playing grieg -- for grieg -- tonight. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians 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: 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 STOPPING SCHUBERT, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stopping schubert, ejecting him, changing the power Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) STOPPING SCHUBERT, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stopping schubert, ejecting him, changing the power Last Line: I have kept it a secret for forty years, %the tortured composer from pennsylvania, franz schubert Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) STORMY MORNING, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How violently the storm has torn apart the gray fabric of Last Line: Image: it is nothing more than winter-cold, raw winter! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter STRADIVARIUS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul was lifted by the wings to-day Last Line: "without antonio. Get thee to thy easel." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Religion; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Violins; Theology STREET CRIES: 6. TO RICHARD WAGNER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a sky of stars that rolled in grime Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) TANNHAUSER, by NEWMAN LEVY Poem Source First Line: While strolling through the hills one day Last Line: And died. I think it's some fool show Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) TANNHAUSER, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE Poem Text First Line: Sin-satiate, and haggard with despair Last Line: That for him too the saviour once did bleed. Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) 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 'RING' CYCLE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're doing a ring cycle at the met Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) 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 CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS Poem Text First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend Last Line: From the depths of the sea Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean 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 THE PICTURE; SET BY MR. LAWES, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, chloris, can I e'er believe Last Line: My wand'ring eyes to thee at home. Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Love THE STORY OF RICHARD MAXFIELD, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He jumped out of a window Subject(s): Maxfield, Richard (1927-1969); Composers; Suicide; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin TO A COMPOSER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red chair, blue chair, white chair, big chair, chair Last Line: Become a style of living. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians 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 TO FRANZ SCHUBERT, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: And you, inspired Last Line: Harmonies for the angels? Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) TO M. HENRY LAWES, THE EXCELLENT COMPOSER, OF HIS LYRICS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touch but thy lire (my harrie) and I heare Last Line: Yet their three praises, praise but one; that's lawes. Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662) TO MR. HENRY LAWES, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, which is the vast creation's soul Last Line: Be it thy care our age to new-create: %what build a world may sure repair a state Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662) 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 PADEREWSKI, PATRIOT, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a martyred race, that long Last Line: Shall plead for thy distracted land. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941); World War I; First World War TO RICHARD WAGNER, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O you who chafe at every fetter's link Last Line: For I escaped! Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) TOCCATA IN D MINOR (BACH), by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: Breakers insistent, massive, persistent Last Line: Rollers—far out in the night. Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians WAGNER, by MAURICE BARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O strange awakening to a world of gloom Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WAGNER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creeps in half wanton, half asleep Last Line: His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking. Subject(s): Composers; Soldiers' Writings; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WAGNER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the eternal mystery of art Last Line: Whispered, lo, this am I, -- and that art thou. Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WAGNER, by HENRY JOHNSON (1855-1918) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whom shall I purify? Whose soul is strong Last Line: Thou bid them rise to love and hate again. Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) WEATHER VANE, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the roof of my sweetheart's house the wind toys Last Line: What do they care about my pain? Their child is %a rich bride Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter WILL-O'-THE-WISP, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have been lured deep into the rocky gorges by a Last Line: Every stream eventually arrives at the sea, every suffering %at its grave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Composers; Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); Winter |
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