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Subject: GUITARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HOME-MADE FAIRY TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bud, come here to your uncle a spell
Last Line: A kiss like the drip of a drop of dew!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Gardens & Gardening; Guitars


ANTONINA, by H. A. BOYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: See antonina playing her guitar
Last Line: And seek for more to make her music whole.
Subject(s): Flirtation; Guitars


COCKSUCKER, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought it was a horror like the motherfucker
Last Line: Del, my friend, you cocksucker, I loved you too
Subject(s): Friendship; Guitars; Music And Musicians


CONCERT BY SEGOVIA, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: From sor to de visee to albeniz
Last Line: No longer afraid of its many answers
Subject(s): Guitars; Musical Instruments; Symphonies


DORYPHA, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On holidays / when the cowboys and indians get drunk
Last Line: With a flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Guitars; Holidays; Women


DROPPING CHIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call the illusion what you will
Last Line: Stooping to a penny.
Subject(s): Guitars; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs


GUITAR, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Last Line: Heart mortally wounded %by five swords
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Creative Ability; Guitars; Performing Arts - Spain


GUITAR, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: The crying of the guitar
Last Line: Heart wounded, gravely %by five swords
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Guitars; Mourning


GUITAR AND AMPLIFER, by JENNIFER SNYDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was sixteen
Last Line: That is born nowhere in this world %except in music
Subject(s): Guitars; Music And Musicians


HER GUITAR, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the fire that loves to tint her
Last Line: This guitar.
Subject(s): Admiration; Guitars


HER LIGHT CUITAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She twankled a tune on her light
Last Line: Rippled in glee up my spell-bound spine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Roses; Stars


MORNING ON THE GUITAR, by DIANA BREBNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ragged, in jeans and your father's plaid shirt
Last Line: Or the room that glows with faint light?
Subject(s): Guitars


MUSIC, by EVERETT HOAGLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your archival voice
Last Line: Guitar-book-long-song %crazy
Subject(s): Blues (music); Guitars; Jazz; Music And Musicians


MY OLD GUITAR, by F. G. HINSDALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: By some eastern river thy rosewood grew
Last Line: In music sweeter than e'er before.
Subject(s): Guitars


NOME MAGISTRATE, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bloodshot eyes bulging like some odd
Last Line: The dawn for those few proud inupiat %music lovers distant and pure as space
Subject(s): Guitars; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska


SANTOS VEGA: THE SINGER'S SWEETHEART, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun is setting: the horizon glows like fire, and a
Last Line: Swaying to and fro above an ancient ruin
Subject(s): Argentina; Guitars; Love; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets


SERENADE, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The street is deserted, the night is cold
Last Line: And a moan is breathed from the fragile strings %of the sweet guitar
Subject(s): Guitars; Singing And Singers; Voices


SIX STRINGS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The guitar %makes dreams cry
Last Line: That float on its black %wooden tank
Subject(s): Guitars


SONG FOR THE GUITAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grieve to see these tears
Last Line: Were but a single tear for me!
Subject(s): Guitars


TAMPA, by FRANKLIN N. WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low, rambling docks along tidewater ways
Last Line: The tinkling of a troubadour's guitar.
Subject(s): Florida; Guitars; Music & Musicians; Tampa Bay


THE GUITAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full 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 LADY TO HER GUITAR, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For him who struck thy foreign string
Last Line: Although its very source is dry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Variant Title(s): "a.g.a. (""for Him"");""for Him Who Struck Thy Foreign String"";
Subject(s): Guitars


THE LEGEND OF FAMOUS .. GUITAR MASTERS, CAVELIERO COMER AND DON HILL, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, that love to read the tracts
Last Line: Lampon, etc.
Subject(s): Guitars


THE OLD GUITAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neglected now is the old guitar
Last Line: Like that of the old guitar!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Aging; Guitars; Memory; Music & Musicians


TO MAUDE'S GUITAR, by L. C. STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet guitar, so old thou art
Last Line: And hear that echoing old love-lay.
Subject(s): Guitars


TO THE OLD GUITAR, by JORGE GONZALEZ BASTIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If war-cries your songs hold, and blood of the martyrs
Last Line: This, loving and mournful, belongs to us here!
Subject(s): Guitars; Musical Instruments


TO THE SERENADER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tinkle on, o sweet guitar
Last Line: Press this rose I'm kissing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Guitars; Lutes; Singing & Singers


UNALLOYED, by THOMAS PAIGE DALPORTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night in a deserted field
Last Line: And after %you went away
Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Guitars; Love; Music And Musicians


WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ariel to miranda - take
Last Line: For our beloved jane alone.
Variant Title(s): To A Lady, With A Guitar
Subject(s): Guitars; Williams, Jane