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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MELODIES Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM-SONG, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A love-song died on my heart in a dream Last Line: Will return and restore my dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melodies; Music & Musicians A VESPER SONG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds of the sunset, fold on fold Last Line: Perhaps to some one lost in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Praise; Singing & Singers BATTERY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trio of instruments you love the notes Last Line: Into eyes of love with eyes of love Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Male-female Relations BAY, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Tuning that vague shrillness Last Line: Leaving far behind %the algae, the herring gulls Subject(s): Melodies; Music And Musicians; Seashore BELLS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anklet-bells! Frail anklet-bells! Last Line: And peace for suffering hearts that die! Subject(s): Bells; Death; Melodies; Praise; Prayer; Dead, The CANTUS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Not this smoke, this spent wick, but the pale Last Line: Death but the dying Subject(s): Melodies; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing And Singers ENIGMA: 19, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, know ye not the pilgrim band Last Line: Such boon to every land. Subject(s): Melodies ENTROPY DRAG, by BOB JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: On the last bus from hackensack Last Line: With snoring %sour melody %and me Subject(s): Buses; Melodies; Travel GOD'S HARP, by GUSTAV FALKE Poem Text First Line: The wind, stirring in the dark foliage, brings Last Line: Hark, what a tone of love passed through the night. Subject(s): Love; Melodies; Music & Musicians HARMONIES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: No hammer fell, no heavy axe was heard Last Line: In soundless beauty to the sun-god's lute. Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs HARMONY, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Ah, the hours when life goes singing Last Line: Than in days when the golden melody Subject(s): Love; Melodies; Music & Musicians HOW CAN THE HEART UNHAPPY BE?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Now dawn the lovely days again Last Line: How can the heart unhappy be? Subject(s): Happiness; Melodies; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight 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 RECOMPENSE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I crave a sentient soul-in recompense Last Line: The voice of god throughout his universe. Subject(s): Melodies; Music & Musicians IT WAS A GENTLE AIR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gentle air of lilting spirals Last Line: And cruel and eternal is her laughter of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Melodies; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: Stars, and sky's crickets, %sang in night's meadow; as it approached Last Line: And its heart %a diving swallow Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Melodies; Singing And Singers; Voices MY NOTEBOOK, SELS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not marble hard and enduring Last Line: Of yesterday that is still Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Melodies; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 32, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is no lover of the sea who loses Last Line: Where the hills tire and the rough pathway bruises. Subject(s): Melodies; Music & Musicians; Voices OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 31. SEPARATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early at eve on onchan head, because Last Line: Had I but heard your low, sweet laugh's applause! Subject(s): Happiness; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight ORDER FOR A SONG, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Out of the fullness of your warm heart Last Line: And softly melt into heaven's hymn. Subject(s): Hope; Hymns (as Literary Form); Melodies; Music & Musicians; Optimism POET AND BIRD, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sing a fleeting song and die! Last Line: And sing the music as their own. Subject(s): Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers PRAIRIE MUSIC, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: The music of the prairie is a tantalizing thing Last Line: Over-ridden by the high cry of the night birds' wanderings. Subject(s): Melodies; Music & Musicians 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 RAIN REVERY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lone of night by the pattering tree Last Line: Rain on the roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Melodies; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers RED EARTH, BLUE SKY, PETRIFIED, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: A soft melody, over and over Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Melodies SONG, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to my heart, to my restless heart Last Line: "but makes the pains of the past more dear!" Subject(s): Beauty; Healing; Melodies; Cures THE CHORISTER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Twas easter morn. The sanctuary long Last Line: His own arch foe no more, but his own friend. Subject(s): Choirs; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE FLUTE-PLAYER OF BRINDABAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why didst thou play thy matchless flute Last Line: The nectar of thy flute! Subject(s): Death; Melodies; Memory; Music & Musicians; Dead, The THE HARP NOTES, by MARY MORSELL Poem Text First Line: Slowly each viol and flute took up the Last Line: I felt the harp notes falling, one by one. Subject(s): Love; Melodies; Music & Musicians THE INDIAN BASKET WEAVER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: The voice of my singing is dumb Last Line: Do songs from my silent heart spring. Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs THE PIPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard the pipes of pan Last Line: To follow the piper—pan! Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE PSALMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With ecstacy the heart responds Last Line: Majestic and sublime. Subject(s): Bible; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF THE LUTE PLAYER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still as a star came to my breast Last Line: To one long sigh, breathed from a shattered string. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Lutes; Melodies; Music & Musicians THEME, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The theme is free. %the theme is free Last Line: And listen to what he has to say Subject(s): Death; Melodies; Memory; Music And Musicians TO WAGNER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Not the soft tones to lull a wine-drowsed ear Last Line: Thence joys to make earth's life a happier thing. Subject(s): Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs VERSES ON TEXTS: CANT. 2, 14, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou not heard within some sacred pile Last Line: In calmest melody his sweet words roll. Subject(s): God; Melodies; Music & Musicians VILLONELLE, by MAX JACOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me the song that the sirens sang Last Line: And my songs? May they come back to me! Subject(s): Echoes; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs WINDOWS OF THE PANORAMA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Your eyes are in my head Last Line: On the horizon %flamenco Subject(s): Love; Melodies; Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets YOUR TURN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dewdrop ode sweet licks Last Line: Make neurons dance in world muse impulse book Subject(s): Cities; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Urban Life |
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