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First Line: Oh, my loved harp! Companion dear
Last Line: To pensive gloom a silent prey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


AEOLIAN HARP (1), by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O pale green sea
Last Line: And constant silence, with a message from the blest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


AEOLIAN HARP (TO TWO YOUNG MUSICIANS), by PHOEBE SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Taut strings that ever stir
Last Line: In a never-ending strain.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


AN AEOLIAN HARP, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou not hear? Amid dun, lonely
Last Line: With ineffectual plaint as from a tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


AN ODE ON AEOLUS'S HARP, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ethereal race, inhabitants of air
Last Line: For, till you cease, my muse forgets to sing.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul
Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres


ASPIRATIONS: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I, indeed, th' aeolian harp
Last Line: And flaming grandly on and on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Harps; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


BRECHVA'S HARP-SONG, by ERNEST RHYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little harp, at thy cry
Last Line: Him all king!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


CAROLAN'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sound of music, from amidst the hills
Last Line: A young sweet spirit gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Courtship; Harps; Musical Instruments; O'carolan, Turlough (1670-1738); Prophecy & Prophets; Women; Lyres


DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY! IN DARKNESS I FOUND THEE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till touch'd by some hand less unworthy than mine
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland; Harps


DISSONANCES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft in the midst of music rare
Last Line: They were a part of the melody.
Subject(s): Air; Harps; Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres


FAREWELL TO MY LYRE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lyre of my soul! The parting hour draws nigh
Last Line: Lyre of my soul, adieu! A long adieu.
Subject(s): Farewell; Harps; Musical Instruments; Parting; Lyres


HARP OF WIND AND DREAM-LIKE STRAIN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Harps; Lyres


HARPS HUNG UP IN BABYLON, by ARTHUR WILLIS COLTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harps hung up in babylon
Last Line: "my soul that's lost in babylon."
Subject(s): Babylon; Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


HARPS WE LOVE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The harp we love hath a royal burst!
Last Line: When all the baser passions sleep.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


HOW LIKE A HARP, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: How like a harp with quivering silver strings
Last Line: The distant music never sound again.
Subject(s): Harps; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres


IN PRAISE OF A HARP, by OSBORN BERGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O harp of cnoe I cosgair
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments


LOVE'S MUSIC, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love held a harp between his hands, and
Last Line: Such was love's music, -- lo, the shatter'd harp!
Subject(s): Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres


MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft and softlier hold me, friends
Last Line: And charm the anguish of the worst.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


MY LAST FAREWELL TO MY HARP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And must we part? Yes, part for ever
Last Line: And thou shalt calmly slumber here.
Subject(s): Absence; Harps; Musical Instruments; Separation; Isolation; Lyres


ON AN AEOLIAN HARP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What heavenly music strikes my ravished ear
Last Line: And charm the sorrows of thy soul away.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


ON AN AEOLIAN HARP, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lure of the night's daedalian sea-born breath
Last Line: To wake a sense, among thy weeping strings, %of other lives,like some unceasing dream
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments


ON AN OATEN STRAW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My harp is out of tune, and so I take
Last Line: Seated with pan upon the mossy weir.
Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs


ON HEARING AN AEOLIAN HARP, by PETER BAYLEY JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sure 'tis the voice of choired saints that flow
Last Line: As the blest relic of a happy day.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


ON SEEING A NEEDLECASE IN THE FORM OF A HARP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frowns are on every muse's face
Last Line: "love 'stoops' as fondly as he soars."
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


PSALMIST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing out of the harp is sky
Subject(s): Harps; Charity; Lyres; Philanthropy


QUATORZAINS: 9. TO MY LYRE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lyre! Thou art the bower of my senses
Last Line: Till silence comes and smothers her pert jars.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a vale which none hath seen
Last Line: Their thoughts conversing with the sky.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Transcendentalism; Lyres


SONG OF THE GOLDEN LYRE, by JESSE WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In those ages bright but olden
Last Line: Swelling, ringing evermore!
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


SONG TO A SCOTCH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the harp with silver sound
Last Line: Who wak'st the northern lay so well.
Subject(s): Bugles; Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 5, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the door of the house of life
Last Line: Aeolian for thee.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSEPH DIXON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who carved this shattered harp on my stone?
Last Line: And use me again if I am worthy to use.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Lyres


STANZAS WRITTEN UNDER AEOLUS'S HARP, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ye whose hearts the tyrant sorrows wound
Last Line: And make my plaintive lays enchant like thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O david, if I had / your power, I should be glad
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O david, if I had %your power, I should be glad
Last Line: Grief's lustiness %must cure the harp's distress
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Harps; Musical Instruments


THE AEOLIAN HARP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My pensive sara! Thy soft cheek reclined
Last Line: Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honoured maid!
Variant Title(s): Lines Composed At Clevedon;the Eolian Harp;effusion: 35, Composed At Clevedo, Somersetshire
Subject(s): Harps; Love - Marital; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


THE AEOLIAN HARP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Take that airy harp from out the gale
Last Line: The soul can thrill with no diviner feeling.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: List the harp in window wailing
Last Line: Thoughts that tongue can tell no word of!
Subject(s): Disasters; Harps; Musical Instruments; Shipwrecks; Lyres


THE BARD OF BREFFNEY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Withered with years and broken by time's play
Last Line: Upon the field where brave o'ruark did die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Bards; Death; Harps; Musical Instruments; Dead, The; Lyres


THE EXILE'S HARP, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will hang thee, my harp, by the side of the fountain
Last Line: For ever farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood before the throne
Last Line: The deep bursting emptiness of song.
Variant Title(s): Betrayals/hades, Eurydice, Orpheus
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Harps; Loss; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Lyres


THE HARP, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unquiet stand the pines in lofty rows
Last Line: O world!
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE HARP, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One musician is sure
Last Line: Wherein was dropped the mortal spoil.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE HARP, by JAKOB JOHANNESSON SMARI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes a still small voice of music steals
Last Line: The ice-blue star-flames roll.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harp of the minstrel has never a tone
Last Line: Can not waken the echoes that breathe it aright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Light; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


THE HARP OF WALES; INSCRIBED RUTHIN WELSH LITERARY SOCIETY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harp of the mountain-land! Sound forth again
Last Line: Thou noble harp! Thy tones are not to cease!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Wales; Lyres; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE HARP: AN ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bleak winds throught the northern pines
Last Line: And own thy latest thy sublimes song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE HARPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a drift of faded blossoms
Last Line: And god's companionship!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Rain; Lyres


THE HARPIST OF UR, by ELDOROUS DAYTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unravished by the centuries, he kneels
Last Line: A sweeter music tingling from his hand.
Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE HARPS OF DAVID, by HENRI CAZALIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spacious, splendid and pacific, the vast night unrolled before us
Last Line: Were spanned by the vast soul of god outspread above us both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean
Subject(s): Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Night; Lyres; Bedtime


THE LAST HARPER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: He stood in the blood-red wash of a towering sunset
Last Line: "I will go home to sleep now -- sleep is best."
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE LYRE, by CHARLES SWAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sound came floating by
Last Line: "the lyre -- the lyre -- the soul-exalting lyre!"
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE MASTER-PLAYER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old, worn harp that had been played
Last Line: And brought forth music sweet and strong.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Religion; Lyres; Theology


THE MESSAGE OF AN AEOLIAN HARP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodbye, my mother
Last Line: "the breath of heaven, the spirit of our god."
Subject(s): Christianity; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE MINSTREL TO HIS HARP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When youthful transport led the hours
Last Line: When all my way was bright with flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs


THE OLD HARP, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of cord and cassia-wood is the harp compounded
Last Line: Because of the ch'iang flute and the ch'in flageolet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE ORIGIN OF THE HARP, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis believed that this harp, which I wake now for thee
Last Line: To speak love when I'm near thee, and grief when away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE SCARED HARP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall the harp of poesy regain
Last Line: Give the long-buried tone back to immortal words
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My pretty ladies, mid this christmas cheer
Last Line: As you shall hear who listen to my tale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Harps; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Musical Instruments; Story-telling; Lyres; Male-female Relations


THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 2. CRUEL END OF THE LOVERS' TALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How quick breeds scandal. In some danksome place
Last Line: His weeping lady, kneeling there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Passion; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


THE WIND HARP, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I treasure in secret some long, fine hair
Last Line: Down the long steps that lead to silence and died.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


TO A LADY PLAYING THE HARP, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy tones are silver melted into sound
Last Line: Till perfect love, the love of loving crowns.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


TO AN AEOLIAN HARP, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds have grown articulate in thee
Last Line: Thy strings no rest from weariless wild hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


TO MR. EDWARDS, THE HARPER OF CONWAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Minstrel! Whose gifted hand can bring
Last Line: And cambria's harp lie hushed in sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


TO MY AEOLIAN HARP, AS IT WAS PLAYING ON A COLD, STORMY DAY, by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, was it, my harp, the invisible wing
Last Line: It remembers, in silence, the storm is from heaven.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


TO MY LYRE, by JOSEPH MASSEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wonderful is my love
Last Line: And the sweets of the world to be.
Subject(s): Harps; Jews; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Judaism


TO MY LYRE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou upon the idle branches hung
Last Line: Thou gentle lyre of mine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


WITH SILVER STRINGS, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With silver strings my harp is strung
Last Line: On silver wings!
Subject(s): Happiness; Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Lyres; Songs