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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HARPS Matches Found: 68 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS TO MY HARP, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 |
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