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A BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Such a fine pullet ought to go
Last Line: And warrant prudence in a man
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


A CARNIVAL EPISODE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We two there together alone in the night
Last Line: "us two in the night there together."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


A FESTIVAL, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor bloody altar, nor barbaric rite
Last Line: A cloudless sky wherethro' the songs fly up!
Subject(s): Festivals; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Fairs; Pageants


A HUSTLE FOR THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                
First Line: Come, hurry up, sonny
Last Line: So the last little webfoot can go to the fair.
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


A MERRY HEART: I SING WHILE I WASH THE DISHES, by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                
First Line: Oh, I must dance a whirligig
Last Line: For I have seen the gooses green!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Geese; Fairs; Pageants


A WELCOME TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                
First Line: To north and south, and east and west
Last Line: Is camped upon the bay!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; Festivals; Panama; World's Fairs; Expositions; Fairs; Pageants


ALL SOULS DAY, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO    Poem Source                
First Line: The colonial cemetery wears
Last Line: Is pacified by tearful sex
Subject(s): Festivals; Parties; Peru


AT A COUNTRY FAIR, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At a bygone western country fair
Last Line: If once, a hundred times!
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


AT A FAIR, by GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD COLE    Poem Text                
First Line: There in the quivering, golden light of the sun
Last Line: To know true love for a little before they die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cole, G. D. H.
Subject(s): Festivals; Oxford University; Fairs; Pageants


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 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 CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 2. FORMER BEAUTIES, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn
Last Line: Them always fair.
Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Transience; Fairs; Pageants; Impermanence


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Black'on frowns east on maidon
Last Line: They, too, have done the same!
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 4. THE MARKET-GIRL, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey know
Last Line: And I found that though no others had bid, a prize had been won by me.
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 5. THE INQUIRY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: And are ye one of hermitage
Last Line: Preserves a maid's alive.
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 6. A WIFE WAITS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Will's at the dance in the club-room below
Last Line: Shivering I wait for him here.
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 7. AFTER THE FAIR, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The singers are gone from the cornmarket-place
Last Line: At their meeting-times here, just as these!
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


AT COLD FLOOD FESTIVAL, AFTER THE RAIN, by LIU SHIH    Poem Source                
First Line: Red silk, butterfly mist, all things seem so distant
Last Line: A heartbroken one rises, struck by the hanging willows
Subject(s): Festivals


AT THE FAIR, by KWAME DAWES    Poem Source                
First Line: From a distance at the fair, esther does not seem
Last Line: When she said, 'man, I am late,' in that tiny voice
Subject(s): Festivals; Man-woman Relationships; Romance


AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text                 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


AWAY TO THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Away to the fair my lad did repair
Last Line: Willie comes not from the fair?
Subject(s): Fear; Festivals; Love; Waiting; Fairs; Pageants


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


BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: PROLOGUE TO THE KING'S MAJESTY, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Your majesty is welcome to a fair
Last Line: To give you for a fairing true delight.
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


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


BLUE RIBBON AT AMESBURY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Such a fine pullet ought to go
Last Line: And warrant prudence in a man
Subject(s): Festivals


BOOK 1: JANUARY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The dates - and their origins - arranged through the latin year
Last Line: And this book ends with the month it treats
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays


BOOK 2: FEBRUARY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: January has ended. The year and its poem continue to grow
Last Line: Let my skiff soon sail through other waters
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays


BOOK 3: MARCH, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: War-like mars, put down your shield and spear a while
Last Line: Is ended by the moon, worshipped on the aventine ridge
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays


BOOK 4: APRIL, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Kindly mother of love, requited or slighted, indulge me.'
Last Line: Endure, a single house for three immortals
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays


BOOK 5: MAY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You want to know where I think the month of may got its name?
Last Line: And the next day hyas will be up
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays


BOOK 6: JUNE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This month too has a name of uncertain origins
Last Line: Hercules approved with a twang of his lyre
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Festivals; Holidays


CAPTAIN FRAZER'S NOSE, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872)    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O! If ye're at dumbarton fair
Last Line: In memory o' frazer!
Subject(s): Festivals; Noses; Fairs; Pageants


CHRISTMAS DAY, by CAROLINE ELEANOR WILKINSON    Poem Text                
First Line: A loving atmosphere surrounds this day of ...
Last Line: The joy of heaven reaches us, this glad day of the year.
Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Happiness; Holidays; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Joy; Delight


COASTING TOWARD MIDNIGHT AT THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Stomach in my throat
Last Line: And hurl them out among the stars.
Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Festivals; Self-control; Southern States; Fairs; Pageants; South (u.s.)


CORYBANTIAST, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP    Poem Text                
First Line: Who, thinking on death, decides
Last Line: Too long the idle night!
Subject(s): Death; Festivals; Future Life; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


COUNTY FAIRS, by KAY ANN MURPHY    Poem Source                
First Line: I thought I could kiss until told, at sixteen
Last Line: Oh, those first sloppy kisses of farmboys %who married the red ribbon girls of plum jellies!
Subject(s): Festivals


CRAIGBILLY FAIR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                
First Line: As I went up to craigbilly fair
Last Line: And away went the beggar-men all in a row
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;festivals; Fairs;pageants


DANCE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When the snow falls the flakes
Last Line: Dancing, dancing as may be credible
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing And Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters


DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND GIRL, AT A FESTIVAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her, where the summer flowers
Last Line: And glow with rapture's deathless ray.
Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Festivals; Visually Handicapped; Fairs; Pageants


DESCENSUS ASTRAEAE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: See, lovely lords, and you, my lord, behold
Last Line: Guided by grace and heaven's immortal hand.
Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Festivals; London; Webbe, Sir William (fl 1568-1591); Fairs; Pageants


DEVICE OF THE PAGEANT BORNE BEFORE WOLSTAN DIXIE, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: From where the sun doth settle in his wain
Last Line: From whom our peace and quietness proceeds.
Subject(s): Dixie, Sir Wolstan (16th Century); Festivals; London; Fairs; Pageants


EASTER DAY, by JUAN RUIZ    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The joyous festival hath dawned, the holy easter day
Last Line: While joyous music ringeth forth from many a tambourine
Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita
Subject(s): Easter; Festivals; Holidays


EVE OF THE DOUBLE SEVENTH, by WU XIAO    Poem Source                
First Line: Sparkling bright the light of stars, the milky way flows far and wide
Last Line: A wheel of wind and dew, unable to bear autumn
Subject(s): Festivals


FESTIVAL, by LOUISE LOUIS    Poem Text                
First Line: The scarlet cloth / symbolical of his blood
Last Line: "on his high calvary."
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


FESTIVAL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughter is not celebration
Last Line: Lay down and embraced a lean shadow
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Festivals; Games


FESTIVAL, by SIOBHAN REAGAN    Poem Source                
First Line: Total star. Without you I am bereft
Last Line: Oiled metal basket, this new catapult
Subject(s): Festivals


FESTIVAL OF GIOVEDI GRASSO, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Because it means looking into the sun, the people can barely see
Last Line: And the sun slips down the churchsteps one by one
Subject(s): Festivals; Sun


FOR THIS CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye old-time stave that pealeth out
Last Line: And gentlewomen, too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants


GLASGOW FAIR, by WILLIAM+(2) BURNS    Poem Source                
First Line: Oh, never gang to glasgow fair
Last Line: And when you come near glasgow jail %watch you the mkss mccuthchens
Subject(s): Festivals; Glasgow, Scotland


GOIN' TO THE FAIR; OLD STYLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When me an' my ma an' pa went to the fair
Last Line: "like you an' your pa an' ma went to the fair!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Festivals; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants


GREEN CORN MOON, by PHILIP STEPHENS    Poem Source                
First Line: You awaken to the sound
Subject(s): Festivals


HALLOW-FAIR, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At hallowmas, whan nights grow lang
Last Line: Wi shame that day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Festivals; Halloween; Fairs; Pageants


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


HOLSTENWALL, by SIDNEY KEYES    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We're going to the fair at holstenwall
Last Line: Have pity, master. This is a wicked land
Subject(s): Festivals


HOMAGE TO LESTER FLATT, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Five seasons without traveling to a festival, without walking
Last Line: Rattling the bank echoes the tenor of our lives.
Subject(s): Fame; Festivals; Flatt, Lester; Future Life; Music, Rock; Homage & Respect; Reputation; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Rock & Roll


HUAN XI SHA: 2, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                
First Line: Mild and peaceful spring glow, cold food day
Last Line: Spring the garden swing
Subject(s): Festivals


I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It was just before easter
Last Line: "next to me,"" history writes."
Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Festivals; Holidays; The Resurrection; Fairs; Pageants


IDYLL 15. THE SYRACUSAN WOMEN, by THEOCRITUS    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Is praxinoe at home?
Last Line: See, she is precluding with her airs and graces
Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos
Subject(s): Festivals; Women


INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                
First Line: That summer we were joey chitwood's thrill show
Last Line: With ease. That's how I earned %my first kiss. It still shines
Subject(s): Festivals; Luck; Money


IT WAS SUNDAY IN THE FAIR EARS OF MY BURRO, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: I mean my tremulous patriotic hairdo
Subject(s): Festivals; Peru; Statues


KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by
Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne.
Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 10. THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Mud hovels fringe the 'fair-green' of this town
Last Line: With many an ancient patch and breezy rent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Bargains; Festivals; Labor & Laborers; Southern Hemisphere; Towns; Fairs; Pageants; Work; Workers


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 9. GOING TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere yet the sun has dried on hedge and furze
Last Line: And biddy enters lisnamoy in pride;
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Festivals; Poverty; Fairs; Pageants


LOCKERBIE FAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O the lockerbie fair! - have you
Last Line: Simply waiting your orders, at lockerbie fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Festivals; Moon; Night; Fairs; Pageants; Bedtime


LOST AT THE FAIR, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night at the fair did I lose thee, my honey
Last Line: I kiss'd, sung, and linked with her home from the fair.
Subject(s): Festivals; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Worry; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations


MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide
Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C


MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow
Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year.
Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MOUNTAIN FROLIC, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS    Poem Text                
First Line: In working clothes with song and whoop and shout
Last Line: Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Guns; Murder; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants


NAMING RED, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON    Poem Source                
First Line: Festival of lights, kathmandu
Last Line: At last, a thread: true, vivid, namable
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Colors; Festivals


NANTANG HUAN XI SHA: THE NIGHT OF THE FIFTEENTH, by XU CAN    Poem Source                
First Line: The warmth is faint, the chill light, the night air mild
Last Line: No need for more
Subject(s): Festivals


NANTANG HUAN XI SHA: THE NIGHT OF THE FOURTEENTH, by XU CAN    Poem Source                
First Line: They've used decorated lanterns to light up damask seats
Last Line: Urging back the roving whips
Subject(s): Festivals


NANTANG HUAN XI SHA: THE NIGHT OF THE SIXTEENTH, by XU CAN    Poem Source                
First Line: Jade awry and fragrance swirling in the midnight light
Last Line: Lest the flowers close their lids
Subject(s): Festivals


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He, who instructs the youthful crew
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Festivals; Youth; Drinks & Drinking; Fairs; Pageants; Wine


ON DOUBLE SEVENTH FESTIVAL, MISSING MY TWO DAUGHTERS, by SHEN YIXIU    Poem Source                
First Line: Begging for skill' is an annual event
Last Line: Don't sport your artful threads
Subject(s): Festivals


ON THE COLD FOOD FESTIVAL, ENTERTAINING AT SOUTHERN ESTATE, by LI K'AI-HSIEN    Poem Source                
First Line: Singing, dancing - handsome actors entertain
Last Line: Village women come to ride the swing; %when they're done kicking, their hair is a mess
Subject(s): Festivals


PAGEANT, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                
First Line: The night is domed with diamonds. Moire
Last Line: That healed the hearts of job and heloise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Festivals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fairs; Pageants


QINGMING FESTIVAL, 1646, by HUANG YUANJIE    Poem Source                
First Line: Leaning against a pillar, I am overwhelmed with worries about the state
Last Line: My small heart is overwhelmed with grief
Subject(s): Festivals; Grief


QINGYU'AN: WRITTEN AT WEST LAKE ON THE NIGHT OF THE DOUBLE SEVENTH, by WU SHAN    Poem Source                
First Line: The rose-colored mists break before they reach the starry sky
Last Line: Like the rain of love on mount wu
Subject(s): Festivals


RAIN AT COLD-FOOD FESTIVAL: 1, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Since coming to huang-chou
Last Line: Up from his sickbed, his hair already white?
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Festivals; Spring


RAIN AT COLD-FOOD FESTIVAL: 2, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring flood is coming up to my door
Last Line: But dead ashes can't be ignited by fanning
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Festivals; Spring


RASHA MEASURE. A DANCE OF THE AUTUMN FESTIVAL OF INDIA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The champak showers its perfume from the trees
Last Line: Where the breeze pipes in rasha measure for thee.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN    Poem Text                
First Line: How good our every festival appears
Last Line: And to receive — in knowing how to give.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants


SHOW, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                
First Line: At a fair %the one-armed monster
Last Line: Their death itself %preserving hope
Subject(s): Festivals; Monsters


SHRINE FESTIVAL, by WANG CHIA    Poem Source                
First Line: By goose lake mountain, rice and millet grown fat
Last Line: Family after family holding up, helping their drunken ones home
Subject(s): Festivals


SHRODON FEAR: THE REST O'T, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: An' after that we met wi' zome
Last Line: Behind, a-kickèn o' the stwones.
Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Flirtation; Food & Eating; Seasons; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


SHRODON FEAR: THE VU'ST PEART, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: An' zoo's the day wer warm an' bright
Last Line: He didden even zweal the crown.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Magic; Seasons; Vanity; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


SONG FOR THE MORNING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                
First Line: Come forth, come forth, my maidens, 'tis the day of good st. John
Last Line: To dress with flowers the snow-white wether, ere the sun has dried the dew
Variant Title(s): Song For The Morning Of The Day Of Saint John The Baptis
Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Festivals; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Romance


SONG: GREEN JADE DESK, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                
First Line: At the lantern festival
Last Line: At the furthest fringe of lantern-light
Subject(s): Festivals; Happiness; Hearts; Laughter; Love; Presence


SONG: THE FAIR, by GEORGE MCINDOE    Poem Source                
First Line: O jenny thou's my joy and care
Last Line: And yet he play'd the vera deil %when coming frae the fair
Subject(s): Festivals; Glasgow, Scotland


SONG; FOR A FESTIVAL IN FANEUIL HALL, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill, brothers, fill! -- the brightest pour
Last Line: For us, &c.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Festivals; Wine; Fairs; Pageants


SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn
Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes.
Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants


THE APPLE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                
First Line: What is all this fuss about?
Last Line: "and shout, ""hurrah for the apple fair!"
Subject(s): Apples; Festivals; Fruit; Harvest; Fairs; Pageants


THE BURNS FESTIVAL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Stir the beal-fire, wave the banner
Last Line: In the wreath of burns's fame!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Festivals; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Success; Fairs; Pageants


THE DANCE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When the snow falls the flakes
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Fairs; Pageants


THE FAIR OF NIJNI-NOVGOROD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, by the tower of babel
Last Line: Was ever such a crowd?
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Festivals; Nijni-novgorod, Russia; Russia; Fairs; Pageants; Soviet Union; Russians


THE FEAST OF THALARCHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Is all prepared, xeanres?
Last Line: My lord, my lord!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Festivals; Guests; Fairs; Pageants; Visiting


THE FESTIVAL OF GIOVEDI GRASSO, by MATTHEA HARVEY                    Poet's Biography
First Line: Because it means looking into the sun, the people can barely see
Subject(s): Festivals; Sun; Fairs; Pageants


THE FINEST DAY OF ONE'S LIFE, by JACQUES BARON    Poem Text                
First Line: Today is as a festive day
Last Line: One can have a good time
Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Colors; Festivals; Holidays; Mobs; Crowds; Fairs; Pageants


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 GUITAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone on a hill above the festival, I listen past field noise
Last Line: Could suddenly go strange in my hand?
Subject(s): Festivals; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants


THE HUMOURS O' GLESKA FAIR, by JOHN BRECKENRIDGE    Poem Text                
First Line: The sun frae the eastward was peeping
Last Line: As day was beginning to dawn.
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


THE LORD MAYOR'S SHOW; SUNG BY MR. MATTHEWS FOR THE SPRING MEETING, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: How well I remember the ninth of november
Last Line: All, all to see the lord mayor's show.
Subject(s): Cities; Festivals; Mayors; Urban Life; Fairs; Pageants


THE MIDDLEBURY, VERMOUNT, FAIR, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When thirteen teams go past your door
Last Line: Wound up the merry fair.
Subject(s): Festivals; Middlebury College; Vermont; Fairs; Pageants


THE PERFECT FESTIVAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of mystery and gloom
Last Line: You are joy and only joy!
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


THE RUSH-BEARING AT AMBLESIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is come, with her leaves and her flowers
Last Line: Let us seek the green rush by the deep woodland springs.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Festivals; Flowers; Fairs; Pageants


THE WOOD ROAD, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                
First Line: All day they are hurrying off to the fair
Last Line: Then we'll turn from the highway and take the wood road.
Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Marriage; Fairs; Pageants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THIS IS THE COUNTRY FAIR, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who is leading?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Festivals; Nature


VASANT PANCHAMI (LILAVATI'S LAMENT AT THE FEAST OF SPRING), by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, dragon-fly, fold up your purple wing
Last Line: That hath foregone the kisses of the spring.
Subject(s): Birds; Festivals; Memory; Spring; Fairs; Pageants


VERSE FOR BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Here were, first of all, crowds against other crowds driving
Last Line: Then fam'd 'learned dod,' that can tell all his letters, %and some men, as scholars, are much his be
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A.
Subject(s): Festivals


VERSE FOR BARTHOLOMEW FAIR: AN ANCIENT SONG, DATED 1655, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                
First Line: In fifty-five, may I never thrive
Last Line: Where that you may buy shoes every day, %or go barefoot all the year I tro'
Subject(s): Festivals


VERSES ON THE ANCIENT TRADITIONAL FAIR AT CHESTER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                
First Line: Beggars and vagabonds, blind, lame, and sturdy
Last Line: Of all the curses, oaths, and cuts and stabs %occasioned by their dice and drink and drabs
Subject(s): Festivals


WALKING OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS ON DAY OF COLD FOOD FESTIVAL, by PIEN KUNG    Poem Source                
First Line: At lai family village, the spring is beautiful
Last Line: As a child, %I pass again, hair turned white, lost in thought
Subject(s): Festivals


WEST END FAIR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dame charity one day was tired
Last Line: And keeps her play-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants


WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it
Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants


WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves
Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud
Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails


XIAO CHONG SHAN: DUANWU FESTIVAL, by JI YINGHUAI    Poem Source                
First Line: Alone, sitting idly by the window
Last Line: Where shall I make grave-offerings for lingjun?
Subject(s): Festivals


YUJIE XING: THE LANTERN FESTIVAL IN BEIJING, by XU CAN    Poem Source                
First Line: Having watched the decorated lanterns, I move away on fragrant clogs
Last Line: Let alone next year's moon
Subject(s): Beijing, China; Festivals