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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FLUTES Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FLUTE OVERHEARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey summer / low tide the sea in the air Subject(s): Flutes; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) A LOOK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not stop you on your way Last Line: Will redeem every sacrifice. Subject(s): Eyes; Flutes; Foreheads; Pity A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was he doing, the great god pan Last Line: As a reed with the reeds of the river. Subject(s): Flutes; Mysticism; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) ASOLANDO: FLUTE-MUSIC, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the bird-like fluting Last Line: Let who lied be left lie! Subject(s): Flutes ASS AND THE FLUTE, by TOMASO DE YRIARTE Poem Source First Line: This little fable heard Last Line: Thus accidentally Alternate Author Name(s): Iriarte, Tomaso De; Iriarte, Tomas De Subject(s): Art And Artists; Flutes AUTUMN WEATHER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a flute made out of the heart Last Line: Of a seven-year cherry tree! Subject(s): Autumn; Flutes; Seasons; Fall BALLADE OF BROKEN FLUTES, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams I crossed a barren land Last Line: The broken flutes of arcady. Subject(s): Flutes DA FLUTE EEN SPREENG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Dere was a time w'en I could shoot Last Line: I justa coulda keesed heem! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Flutes; Spring FLUTE, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the time when the leaves are twittering, in april Last Line: And the mirth and the mirth and the mirth of the breezes Subject(s): Flutes FLUTE, by RIVKA MIRIAM Poem Source First Line: I am a woman made of fragments Last Line: Who come at night and at dawn disappear Subject(s): Flutes; Women FLUTE, by OKTAY RIFAT Poem Source First Line: When he likened the cemetery to a herd of sheep Last Line: Now the flute played for him alone, but it can suddenly stop Subject(s): Flutes FLUTE, by SHIN SOKCH'O Poem Source First Line: How sad, cold moon! Last Line: Reign the cold moon and haze. %o heart-breaking flute of silence! Subject(s): Flutes FLUTE OVERHEARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey summer %low tide the sea in the air Last Line: Reading socrates on death Subject(s): Flutes; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) FLUTE: A PASTORAL, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evening! A flight of pigeons in clear sky Last Line: Rise, wing'd with music, from the o'er-labored heart Subject(s): Flutes; Love FLUTES IN THE SACRED CITY / SIMONIDES, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When hard times hit, a man's bad; when good times come, he's Last Line: Child of the dark earth, grasshopper, these flutes playing in the sacred city play for you Subject(s): Flutes; Greece; Simonides Of Ceos (556-468 B.c.) HONORS: 2. THE ANSWER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Last Line: My work, my work -- farewell! Subject(s): Death; Flutes; God; Honor; Labor & Laborers; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Work; Workers IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade. Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement INSCRIBED ON A PAINTING, by SHEN CHOU Poem Source First Line: White clouds, like a sash, Last Line: By playing my bamboo flute Subject(s): Flutes; Nature LANIER'S FLUTE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When palsied at the pool of thought Last Line: To touch them into sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Flutes; Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881) LOGIC AND 'THE MAGIC FLUTE' (IMPRESSIONS OF A PREMIERE), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up winding stair, / here, where, in what theatre lost? Subject(s): Flutes; Reason; Theater & Theaters; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Stage Life METALOGUE TO THE MAGIC FLUTE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Relax, maestro, put your baton down Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Flutes MUSIC, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbor sits in his window and plays the flute Subject(s): Flutes; Music & Musicians MY MASTER HATH A GARDEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my master hath a garden, full-filled with divers flowers" Last Line: And the gentle sounding flute Subject(s): Flutes;gardens & Gardening NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Leaping under the willows Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America ON HEARING A BAMBOO FLUTE, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From whose house do the invisible notes of a jade flute come? Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Flutes; Gardens And Gardening ON HEARING A FLUTE AT NIGHT FROM THE WALL OF SHOU-HSIANG, by LI YI Poem Source First Line: The sand below the border mountain lies like snow Subject(s): Flutes ON REREADING CATULLUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flutes, the silver flutes began with dawn Last Line: Or birds that brought awakening to the flutes? Subject(s): Birds; Flutes; Music & Musicians OULD ORANGE FLUTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the county tyrone, in the town of dungannon Last Line: While the flames roared around it they heard a strange noise%'twas the ould flute still whistling 't Subject(s): Flutes PAPAGENO, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the woods my stealthy flute Last Line: Come take this rare bird into hand; %in that trim cage, he might sing true Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Variant Title(s): The Magic Flut Subject(s): Flutes QUENA, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Not the gay reed the god was wont to play Last Line: Breath of a breeze that has become a soul Subject(s): Flutes; Lament; Melodies; Peru SAINT-MERRI, by JESPER SVENBRO Poem Source First Line: Apollinaire's poem about the flute-player Last Line: Of the flute's faintest tone Subject(s): Flutes SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 3. APPASSIONATO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a distant flute Last Line: Filled with thy mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Flutes; Longing; Nightmares THE AMATEUR FLUTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hear the fluter with his flute Last Line: "and the tootle, tootle, tooting of its toot" Subject(s): "flutes;poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); THE COYOTE AND THE LOCUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "locust, locust, playing a flute" Last Line: Playing a flute! Subject(s): Coyotes;flutes;locusts;musical Instruments;native Americans - Reservations THE FLUTE, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: When I remember I am nigh to weep Last Line: To close the gaps upon the sounding reed. Subject(s): Flutes; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments THE FLUTE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good night!' he sang out cheerily Last Line: "good-night!"" and yet again, ""good-night!" Subject(s): Flutes THE FLUTE, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark what, now loud, now low, the pining flute complains Last Line: If I am I; thou, thou; or thou art I? Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Flutes 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 FLUTE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! What are you doing?' Last Line: "yes, a little. And it has lovely silver mountings." Subject(s): Flutes THE FLUTE, by JOSEPH RUSSELL TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Puffed up with luring to her knees Last Line: They trod the stained flute where it lay. Subject(s): Flutes THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a day when april's in and spring walks Last Line: They die in the echoes down the hollow. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Flutes; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw her. 'twas long ago Last Line: With a different sound must fall! Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Flutes; Love; Rain; Roses; Seasons; Fall THE OLD FLUTE, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time will come when I no more can play Last Line: To death's dim hall of silence and of rest. Subject(s): Flutes; Music & Musicians THE OULD ORANGE FLUTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the county tyrone, in the town of dungannon" Last Line: Twas the old flute still whistling 'the protestant boys' Subject(s): Flutes THE PASTORAL, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The flute that melts beneath his spreading fingers Last Line: My pastoral flute to your silver olympian lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Flutes; Muses; Music & Musicians; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE REED, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the reed Last Line: And all the world shall hearken to his singing! Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Nature; Reeds THE VEERY'S FLUTE, by LUCY BRANCH ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Clear from the tangled thicket, where a lone Last Line: With the falling cadence of the veery's flute. Subject(s): Flutes; Wellesley College THE VOICES TELL OVER, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices tell over: the song that breaks Last Line: Brusque reawakening and end of love. Subject(s): Flutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs TO A FLUTE PLAYER, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the shadow-years has come a word Last Line: The calm, the perfect calm of raptured rest. Subject(s): Flutes TO A YOUNG FRIEND LEARNING TO PLAY THE FLUTE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wild harp, which unconfined by rule Last Line: And let it die at sundown if you please. Subject(s): Flutes TRUMPETS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, you are too tame Last Line: The hound's deep, hoarse, harsh cry. Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Trumpets UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 2. A SONG OF THE ROAD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gauger walked with willing foot Last Line: Forest of montargis, 1878. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flutes; Singing & Singers WHO'S PLAYING THE FLUTE?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the way to the well who's playing the flute Last Line: Or sell the calf too, for I'm not coming back! Subject(s): Farewell; Flutes |
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