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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MUSIC & MUSICIANS Matches Found: 897 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 19, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my binu shrine, the sogo altars pull me home Last Line: And hear its cithara voice in the dye¯li's craft. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians A BOY'S WHISTLE, by JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: If I could whistle like I used to when I was just a boy Last Line: No use in tryin' when we're old, we've been away too long! Subject(s): Lips; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sound; Whistles & Whistling A CANARY AT THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks has be'n to town, and sahry Last Line: A high-priceter cage 'n that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Canaries; Farm Life; Music & Musicians; Agriculture; Farmers A CERTAIN MUJSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never to hear, I know I know in myself Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Cantinflas (1911-1993) A CITY PIPER, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: Whenever I see him pass this way Last Line: Can leave behind a trail of light! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Poetry & Poets A CONCERT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, was it all a fantasy Last Line: All paradise is in the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Music & Musicians A DOS'T O' BLUES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got no patience with blues at all! Last Line: He's the same old color yit! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Night; Seasons; Bedtime 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 FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is an air that haunts me till I slight Last Line: Whose image never from my soul can fade! Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians A FIDDLER'S VALENTINE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty player, from thy strings Last Line: Kiss, and say good-bye to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Fiddles; Holidays; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Valentine's Day A FORGOTTEN TUNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A frail hand hovering sets the keys astir Last Line: Beyond the window where the garden blows? Subject(s): Longing; Music & Musicians A HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the mellow days of autumn Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song. Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness A HEARTH SONG (TO THE OTHER ARMCHAIR), by HARRY TENNYSON DOMER Poem Text First Line: Here's a song for the dawn, for the noon Last Line: And a song, aye the sweetest -- a love-song -- for you! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs A LULL IN LIFE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a desert place with only the master's smile Last Line: Blending the song of life with the thrill of the master's voice. Subject(s): Music & Musicians A MAN IN BLUE, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Under the french horns of a november afternoon Subject(s): Music & Musicians A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: FLOURISH OF TRUMPET, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the sound that charms Last Line: Now melting mournful lose themselves in tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Trumpets A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: GREEK AIR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: List! 'tis a grecian maid that sings Last Line: And every heart was freedom's altar. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Greece; Greek National Anthem A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: INTRODUCTORY MUSIC - HAYDN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There breathes the language, known and felt Last Line: Of human passion rise and fall for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: SPANISH AIR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From spain, indignant spain Last Line: O erin! Thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Spain; Spanish National Anthem A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: SWISS AIR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But wake the trumpet's blast again Last Line: From slavery's slumber, breathes to liberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians; National Song - Switzerland; Swiss National Anthem A MEMORY OF RUBINSTEIN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He of the ocean is, its thunderous waves Last Line: And broods above the rage one sphinx-like face. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894) A MOOD, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words praising music, what are they but leaves Last Line: Ever the same, with message never the same. Subject(s): Music & Musicians A MUSICAL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the rain upon the street Last Line: It sang in ecstasy. Subject(s): Music & Musicians A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN COLTRANE: PLAYED BY HIMSELF, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember train whistles Last Line: I thought would bring me that sound. Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians A NEW WORLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A new world calls, in voices loud and strange Last Line: And music that was once an irish row. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Music & Musicians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse A PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little conjurer of keys Last Line: Little conjurer of keys. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs A RHYME OF MUSICIANS, by E. LEMKE Poem Text First Line: Handel, bendel, mendelssohn Last Line: Homberg, plomberg, reinecke. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rhyme A RING OF CHANGES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shells, husks, the wandering Subject(s): Casals, Pablo (1876-1973); Dreams; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Nightmares A SINGING LESSON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses Last Line: Far-fetched and dear-bought. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Roundels; Soul A SONG, by BRADFORD STEWART Poem Text First Line: The fairy music is silvery sweet Last Line: In the love-lighted eyes of you. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Trumpets A SONG FOR OCTOBER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Fruitful october! So fair and calm Last Line: Chords of my heart give back to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Frost; Music & Musicians; October; Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: From harmony, from heavenly harmony, / this universal frame began Last Line: And music shall untune the sky. Variant Title(s): St. Cecilia's Day;ode On Cecilia's Day;harmony;a Song For St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Music & Musicians; Saints A SONG OF SUMMER, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the swish and the swash of the blue summer sea Last Line: To the fish-ball's twin sister, the fragrant fried clam. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Symphonies; Concerts A SYMPHONY, by HENRY MORGAN STONE Poem Text First Line: Sweet melody with rippling hair Last Line: Her ribbon-streaming tamborine. Subject(s): Music & Musicians A THREEFOLD TRIBUTE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To tenderest affection Last Line: With ripe luxuriance soon. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Music & Musicians; Summer A TOCCATA OF GALUPPI'S, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, galuppi, baldassaro, this is very sad to find! Last Line: Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old. Subject(s): Galuppi, Baldassare (1706-1785); Music & Musicians A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began Subject(s): Environment; Music & Musicians; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye who in this vain life Last Line: Lighten and cheer? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A YEAR'S CAROLS: JULY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, proud july, whose fervent mouth Last Line: And midnight's rapturous plenilune. Subject(s): July; Music & Musicians; Seasons A' - SECOND MOVEMENT, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clear music Subject(s): Music & Musicians A/COLTRANE/POEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My favorite things Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians AD VILMUM AXIOLOGUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This be the meed, that thy song creates a thousand fold echo! Last Line: Love is the spirit of life, and music the life of the spirit. -- Subject(s): Music & Musicians ADA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know when thou dost touch the keys Last Line: Upon the master's scroll. Subject(s): Music & Musicians ADDRESS TO MUSIC, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou! Whose soft, bewitching lyre Last Line: Enhance my joys and soothe my cares! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Music & Musicians ADELE AUS DER OHE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is her playing like? Last Line: Too tender, even, for sorrow, and too bright for mirth! Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Liszt, Franz (1811-1886); Music & Musicians ADVICE TO THE ORCHESTRA, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start like pieces of string Subject(s): Music & Musicians AFRICA, MUSIC AND SHOW BUSINESS, by ABDULLAH IBRAHIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Geography / so many theories of east and west abound Last Line: And she scratched vaguely under her armpit. Subject(s): Africa; Jazz; Music & Musicians AFTER MUSIC, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw not they were strange, the ways I roam Last Line: Would tell me who I was before I died. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AFTER MUSIC, by JANET RAMSAY Poem Text First Line: Let life and its bewildering music stop Last Line: Or unremembering songs, airs that are weightless. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Silence; Dead, The AFTER THE PLAY, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The great gold room is heavy with the scent Last Line: Yet this day twenty thousand men have died. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians; New York City - Theaters; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists AFTER THE SYMPHONY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last finale had crashed Last Line: Then slow sleep muted all to oblivion. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: DIALOGUE SUNG THE FIRST NIGHT, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tune thy cheerful voice to mine Last Line: That hath our fortunes raised. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Music & Musicians ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF MUSIC, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the royal feast, for persia won Last Line: She drew an angel down. Variant Title(s): The Power Of Music;alexanders Plot;alexander's Feast; Or The Power Of Music: An Ode In Houour Of St Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Music & Musicians ALICE ZENO TALKING, AND HER SON GEORGE LEWIS THE JAZZ CLARINETIST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now if all of you were gone Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Lewis, George (1900-1968); Music & Musicians ALL THESE MAKE MUSIC, by ANNA SHAW BUCK Poem Text First Line: Whose ear is tuned to rhythm nature gives Last Line: That beats in tune with nature's rhythmic art. Subject(s): Music & Musicians ALMOST BLUE, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hart crane played the trumpet Last Line: And you let to and why not Subject(s): Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians AM/TRAK, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trane / trane, history love scream on Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians AN ANTIQUE MUSICK, by HUGH WESTERN Poem Text First Line: Eyelids that lift like amethyst Last Line: To bid me go. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN AUTUMNAL EXTRAVAGANZA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a sweeter voice than birds Last Line: On its highest minaret. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Seasons; Fall AN HOUR, by DOROTHY CURRAN Poem Text First Line: I ask / but an hour of music Last Line: Sung soft and low. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN HOUR IN A STUDIO, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each picture was a painted memory Last Line: They circled them with music in the night. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Paintings & Painters AN ITALIAN SONNET-SEQUENCE: 11, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who plays a lovingly-held lyre Last Line: Aye, fight and conquer yet in distant lands. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 1, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Descend, and with thy breath inspire my soul Last Line: Love seems to flutter round on his aurora-wing. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 10, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rage of pindar filled the sounding air Last Line: The demon shook his steel with wild exulting yell. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 11, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How light the strain when decked in vernal bloom Last Line: All blended with the smile, that shone like early dew. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 12, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their music ceased, - and rising from the throne Last Line: Hung o'er the flying tones that on the zephyrs stole. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 13, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This prelude o'er, a solemn strain arose Last Line: Quivering like lurid flames beneath the midnight sky. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 14, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fury of the storm is howling by Last Line: Glanced on his flying foe, and fixed his tooth of fire. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 15, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struck by thy bounding quill, a mellow lay Last Line: And hissed his pleasure, shrill as sounds the infant's wail. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 16, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last a murmur trembled on the lyre Last Line: And kissed the trembling chord that breathed the soothing strain. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 2, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Muse, who erst in tempe's flowery vale Last Line: Page 278 Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 3, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reclined amid the woods that waved around Last Line: A thousand heavenly harps seemed answering to the song. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 4, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Urania o'er her star-bespangled lyre Last Line: And rolled their mighty orbs to music's sweetest sound. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 5, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Majestic clio touched her silver wire Last Line: Now like the sighing breeze in silence melt away. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 6, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But when erato brushed her flowery lute Last Line: Or o'er her silken chords sweet notes of gladness rung. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 7, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But oh melpomene! Thy lyre of woe Last Line: To infant softness sunk, as breathed thy mournful lay. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 8, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But when, calliope, thy loud harp rang Last Line: And o'er him shrilly shrieked the demon of the grave. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN ODE TO MUSIC: 9, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Euterpe glanced her fingers o'er her lute Last Line: Fluttering like fays that flit in luna's softened glow. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AN OLD SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You laugh as you turn the yellow page Last Line: And fills my eyes with tears Subject(s): Memory;music & Musicians AN OLD TUNE, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an air for which I would disown Last Line: In some forgotten life, long time gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Music & Musicians ANNUS MIRABILIS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sexual intercourse began Subject(s): Bands; Beatles, The; Love - Erotic; Music & Musicians; Orchestras ANSWERS IN PROGRESS, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you die in airraid jiggle Last Line: That's the way the fifth day ended. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians APOSTROPHE TO JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (PRESTISSIMO), by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Some who hear are rapt away Last Line: Of paradisal days! Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians APPRECIATION, by FRANK DAYTON ERVIN STOWE Poem Text First Line: Play o'er again the theme of melody Last Line: And make our recognition known. Alternate Author Name(s): Ervin, Dayton Subject(s): Music & Musicians ART PEPPER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the broken phrases, the fury inside him Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Pepper, Art (1925-1982) ARTIST'S LIFE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the waltzes the great strauss wrote Last Line: I am always finding -- you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians AS IF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prayerful humanity of bach Last Line: To make a whole of it Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violence; Contradictions; Life AT A CONCERT OF MUSIC, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be still, while the music rises about us; the deep enchantment Subject(s): Music & Musicians AT A SOLEMN MUSIC, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest pair of sirens, pledges of heaven's joy Last Line: To live with him, and sing in endless morn of light. Variant Title(s): At A Solemn Musick Subject(s): Music & Musicians AT BEETHOVEN'S FUNERAL, by IGNAZ FRANZ CASTELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ev'ry tear that is shed by the mourner is holy Last Line: The grisly destroyer is distanced by him. Alternate Author Name(s): Castelli, J. F. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Funerals; Music & Musicians; Burials AT BEETHOVEN'S GRAVE, by IGNAZ FRANZ CASTELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the high rock I marked a fountain breaking Last Line: That thou may'st live, o deathless one, thou diest. Alternate Author Name(s): Castelli, J. F. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Graves; Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE CONCERT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The leader waved his light baton Last Line: And scarlet plumes and silver dresses. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION A), by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music & Musicians AT THE HALF NOTE CAFE (VERSION B), by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I heard him play Subject(s): Ammons, Gene (1925-1974); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners AT THE PIANO, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath her touch the keys take life Last Line: And capture me. Subject(s): Music & Musicians AT THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ...., by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maestro plays a raga at dusk Subject(s): India; Music & Musicians AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AUGUST THIRD, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: We are so near the music Last Line: And be free! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Music & Musicians; Soul; Nightmares AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laborer's fist becomes velvet Last Line: A modern sun-god for the peasant Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Wine AUTUMN'S ORCHESTRA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know by the thread of music woven through Last Line: Shall voice my answering. Good-night, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nature; Sound AUX ETOILES, by LEONA TRAIN RIENOW Poem Text First Line: One day I wrote a little song Last Line: How little is the world of men! Subject(s): Music & Musicians BACH, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm / listening to a work of his Last Line: Living / friends Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Text First Line: As some cathedral vast, whose lofty spire Last Line: Strong to achieve, and faithful to endure! Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH TRANSCRIBING VIVALDI, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One remembered the sunrise, how clearly it gave Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians BACH'S B MINOR MASS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The walgravian ancestors step inside trinity church Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Churches; Cathedrals BACH'S ORGAN WORKS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chance-child of some lone sorrow on the hills Last Line: Wails far along the passages of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Variant Title(s): To E. M. O. Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians BACH, IN THE FUGUES AND PRELUDES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contentedly with strictest [or rigorous] strands confined Last Line: Or roll against the stars their rock-bound song. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians; Science; Scientists BACKGROUND AND DESIGN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tv in a bangkok shop window Last Line: From fiend to lover and back. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Music & Musicians; Thailand BAGEL SHOP JAZZ, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; United States; America BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy; Recessions BALLAD OF THE BELLS, SELECTION, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah! What joy, the bagpipe and the flute touch our hearts Last Line: Then in quaint pattern guarded them from sight. Subject(s): Bells; Brides; Churches; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALSHAM BELLS, by KENRICK PRESCOT Poem Text First Line: Sweet waft their rounds those tuneful brothers five Last Line: Expiring notesthey and these lines are done. Subject(s): Feasts; Festivals; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sound; Fairs; Pageants BAND CONCERT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Band concert public square nebraska city Last Line: These know more of the story. Subject(s): Music & Musicians BANDSTAND, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's dissonant hat Last Line: Who could dance Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BANJO MINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now the gloom of a mist-laden evening Last Line: "then go back to your leathern case, banjo, / while my thought goes beyond your control" Subject(s): Banjos;music & Musicians;musical Instruments BARTHELEMON AT VAUXHALL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said: 'awake my soul, and with the sun' Last Line: It spread to galleried naves and mighty quires. Subject(s): Barthelemon, Francois Hippolite; Music & Musicians BATTERY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem 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 BATTLE REPORT, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One thousand saxophones infiltrate the city Last Line: The city falls. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians BE-BOP BOYS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imploring mecca Last Line: With decca. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks BEAGLE OR SOMETHING, by APRIL BERNARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The composer's name was beagle or something Subject(s): Music & Musicians BECAUSE I AM; IN MEM. SIDNEY BECHET, 1897-1959, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am a memorious old man Last Line: Out of the reaches of the impermeable night. Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: In the cool and silent night Last Line: He goes! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts BEETHOVEN, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Text First Line: Sublimest master, thou, of harmony Last Line: With something of thy pure, celestial fire. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That midnight pause, when the deep forest / hushes Last Line: Shakes the wet boughs of the darkagainagain. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nature; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BEETHOVEN, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most intellectual master of the art Last Line: Notes of high triumph swell, and we are thine again! Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Nature planning, years creating Last Line: Lonely, answering god's call back. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers BEETHOVEN, by LUCY H. KING SMITH Poem Text First Line: A prince of music with a builder's art Last Line: The notes and symphonies he gave. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music as of the winds when they awake Last Line: By violets. Thus beethoven speaks for me. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN (DEAF), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, he who samson-like of sound Last Line: A prisoner remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN (VIENNA - 1900), by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came to a great city. Palaces Last Line: And his the empire of the human soul. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Vienna BEETHOVEN AND ANGELO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One made the surging sea of tone Last Line: Raised children unto god. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Music & Musicians; Worship BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH SYMPHONY, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The mind's deep history here in tones is wrought Last Line: And turns to boundless hope the old despair. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Mind, The BEETHOVEN'S MUSIC TO FAUST, by HENRY JOHNSON (1855-1918) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of loving mercy, wilt thou deign Last Line: fetch me my book and leave me here alone. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Faust; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN'S SEVENTH SYMPHONY, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead christ starts, the shadows lift, the light Last Line: Drawing the worshipping ages in ecstasy after. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN'S SIXTH SYMPHONY (ANDANTE), by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Sounding above the warring of the years Last Line: Like children standing there. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN'S THIRD SYMPHONY, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passion and pain, the outcry of despair Last Line: And love makes life triumphant and divine. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians BEETHOVEN, OPUS 111, by AMY CLAMPITT Poet's Biography First Line: Or, conversely, hungers Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Music & Musicians; Piranesi, Giambattista (1720-1778) BELIEVE, BELIEVE, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe in this. Young apple seeds Last Line: Rising above the mushroom time Subject(s): Social Commentary; Music & Musicians; Materialism; War BELLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The worlds march on and circle in their place Last Line: Could name the guilty world that's out of tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BHIKSHU'S SONG, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bhikshu at the door Last Line: Cease not to smile Subject(s): Buddhism; Music & Musicians; Buddha; Buddhists BIG ANNIE ROONEY, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Counting the beats in a different way he used Subject(s): Music & Musicians BIG FURRY BUDDHA IN BACK YARD, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a made-up name Last Line: Bat is flutterer fluttermouse Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts BIRD, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon plays horn, leaning on the shoulder of the dark universe Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) BIRD LIVES': CHARLES PARKER IN ST. LOUIS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last on legs, last on sax Last Line: "bird lives! Bird lives! And you do: Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) BLACK BOYS PLAY THE CLASSICS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African American Children; Music & Musicians; Race Awareness BLUEHAWK, by ANNE WALDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk's gone Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians BLUES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those five or six young guys Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BLUES FOR BYZANTIUM, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clangs of yeats like blues Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) BLUES FOR JOHN COLTRANE, DEAD AT 41, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although my house floats on a lawn Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians BMP BMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lugubriously enough they're playing Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians BORN TODAY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is to be one to the one Last Line: Hold that frame Subject(s): Birth; Music & Musicians; Child Birth; Midwifery BOUND NO'TH BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goin' down the road, lawd Last Line: Fit fer a hoppin' toad. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (mood); Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks BRAHMS, NO. 2 D MAJOR, OP. 73, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now take this music: loose the sombre strands: Last Line: Say if you can I never loved you so. Subject(s): Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897); Music & Musicians; Sympathy; Empathy BRENDEL PLAYING SCHUBERT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bring our hands together Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Brendel, Alfred; Music & Musicians BRIEF MOMENT, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD Poem Text First Line: You ask me what I saw? / it would be hard to Last Line: I startled you just then. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Time BROKEN BACK BLUES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O yr facing reality now Last Line: It is a hopeless world Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians BROKEN RHYTHMS; IN A MEXICAN LABOR CAMP, by AMANDA MATHEWS CHASE Poem Text First Line: La golondrina Last Line: New music? Subject(s): Chicanos; Migrant Labor; Music & Musicians; Mexican Americans; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers BUD POWELL, 1925-1966, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The notice, dead at 41, kings county hospital, reached me at 20 when Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians BUD POWELL, PARIS, 1959, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd never seen pain for bland Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Paris, France; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) BUNK JOHNSON BLOWING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They found him in the fields and called him back to music Last Line: We three slid down that san francisco hill Subject(s): Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music & Musicians; Leadbelly BUNK JOHNSON'S GRAVE AT NEW IBERIA, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Weeks, please don't bury me among them Subject(s): Graves; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones BURLESQUE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The footlights glint, the house is set Last Line: They have played plays in heaven?' Subject(s): Bands; Burlesque; Criticism & Critics; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights; Singing & Singers; Orchestras; Striptease BUT, RUBY MY DEAR, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hikes those narrow chords one more time Last Line: Of discordant fusion / scaling Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians CABARET, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich, flashy, puffy-faced / hebrew and anglo-saxon Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians CADENZA DIMINUENDO, by LILLIAN LOGAN KEAN Poem Text First Line: There came the trembling of a tune Last Line: The two red apples fell. Subject(s): Music & Musicians CAN YOU HEAR IT?, by THERESA DRULEY BLACK Poem Text First Line: Oh the daintiness of music Last Line: When the heart is filled with love. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Songs CANNON ARRESTED, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somethin' else and / kind of blue Last Line: Wickered in vestibule, drifting away Subject(s): Adderly, Cannonball (1928-1975); Jazz; Music & Musicians CANTATA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade Last Line: Cupid does with phoebus reign. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros CANZONE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As would any sound make Subject(s): Music & Musicians CAOCH THE PIPER, by JOHN KEEGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One winter's day, long, long ago Last Line: God rest you! Caoch o'leary. Subject(s): Blindness; Music & Musicians; Visually Handicapped CAT SCAT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching cleo listening, our cat Last Line: Does , or can, the cat Subject(s): Cats; Music & Musicians CAVATINA, by JEFFREY LEVINE Poem Text First Line: It may be there's a time of day when everything Subject(s): Beaujolais Wine; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians; Obsessions CEOL SIDHE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When may is here, and every morn Last Line: And all is melody. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Music & Musicians; Elves CHAMBER MUSIC: 1, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strings in the earth and air Last Line: Upon an instrument. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rivers CHANGE OF MOOD, by HAROLD BERGMAN Poem Text First Line: Tonight, walking down main street Last Line: And fancy-free. Subject(s): Music & Musicians CHASING THE BIRD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets unevenly and the people Last Line: To me a mangle is. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) CHOOSING HYMNS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat and sang our hymns. The sweet- / mouthed organ Last Line: The young naked moon couched on the hawthorn's breast. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Music & Musicians CHOPIN, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Last Line: Hell! Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Music & Musicians CHOPIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Such notes he chose! Last Line: Down the years. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Love; Music & Musicians CHOPIN'S 'SONATA IN B MINOR' (JACQUES ABRAM), by JR. DARK ROBERT L. Poem Text First Line: Sound prismed in jet globules were encased Last Line: Pellucid immortality ears conceive. Subject(s): Abram, Jacques (1915-1998); Music & Musicians CHRISTMAS BELLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The years come not back that have circled away Last Line: "of solemn joy, o christmas bells!" Subject(s): Bells;christmas;happiness;music & Musicians; "nativity, The;joy;delight; CHURCH-MUSICK [CHURCH MUSIC], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure Last Line: You know the way to heavens doore. Subject(s): Music & Musicians CITY ELEGIES: 4. STREET MUSIC, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet babylon, headphones. Song bones. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Music & Musicians CODA, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight blossoms like a rose Last Line: A violin dies away on the venus-wharf. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras COLEMAN HAWKINS (D. 1969). RIP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if that sax Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Hawkins, Coleman (1904-1969); Jazz; Music & Musicians COLTRANE, SYEEDA'S SING FLUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To marilyn, to peter, / playing, making things: the walls, the stairs Last Line: Up to the shins, up the eyes, / closed over Subject(s): Children; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Childhood CONCENTRATION CAMP BLUES, by HENRY DUMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't jokin people, I aint playin around Subject(s): Ghettos; Jazz; Music & Musicians CONCERT BY STRINGS, by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE Poem Text First Line: They played the cesar franck quintet Last Line: Left us enrapt, with every question answered. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts CORAL-MUSIC, THE SUNSET WRITES ON THE SCROLL OF THE SEA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poet's Biography Last Line: Dancing the measure of evening worship Subject(s): Music & Musicians COSSIMBAZAR, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hookabadar Last Line: Join in the chorus, my hookabadar. Subject(s): India; Jungles; Music & Musicians; Nonsense COUNTRY MUSIC, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We sit in the rural gloaming Last Line: From the sounds we hear at home! Subject(s): Country Life; Music & Musicians COUPLE AT THE CLUB, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bass goes it alone. The bass goes Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Music & Musicians COUSIN MARY, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goes way back to the days/my father a young man Last Line: Her song to me across years Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians CRADLED IN MUSIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright young mother, day by day Last Line: And in this faith we live and die. Subject(s): Children; Music & Musicians; Childhood CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monk at the five spot Subject(s): Jazz; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD Poem Text First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind! Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race! Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples DANCE OF THE INFIDELS; IN MEMORY OF BUD POWELL, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The smooth smell of manhattan taxis Last Line: I love you Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From you, beethoven, bach, mozart Last Line: They're dead ... For god's sake stop that gramophone. Subject(s): Germany; Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Germans; First World War DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex fingers toes / in the marketplace Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians DEXTER GORDON: COPENHAGEN/AVERY FISHER HALL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last time I listened I turned thirty-six Last Line: Leaving nothing left to play. Subject(s): Gordon, Dexter (1923-1990); Memory; Music & Musicians; Saxophones DIALOGUE ON PADERBORN HEATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear'st thou not far music ringing Last Line: What my bosom holds within it? Subject(s): Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness DISSONANCE ROYAL TRAVELLER, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sound opens sound Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 DISTANT MUSIC, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far now from you, dear love, I know Last Line: The cause of all that you have told. Subject(s): Music & Musicians DON'T SAY GOODBYE TO THE PORKPIE HAT, by LARRY NEAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat that rolled Last Line: This time from the top Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians DOVE NOTES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft, strange note of the doves, to what Last Line: Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream. Subject(s): Doves; Memory; Music & Musicians DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares DREAM BOOGIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, daddy! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks DRIVING THE BIG CHRYSLER ACROSS THE COUNTRY OF MY BIRTH, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would wait for the tunnels Last Line: In this sunship from motown. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year of the drummer Last Line: Of his bout against drums Subject(s): Drums; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments DRUMMER YOUNG, by RICHARD FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baltimore, forty years ago- / west fayette, a corner bar Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Music & Musicians DURING MUSIC, by JOHN BOWYER BUCHANAN NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play on, play on: we have no need of light Last Line: Your smile more lovely than the first-born star. Alternate Author Name(s): Nichols, Bowyer Subject(s): Music & Musicians DURING MUSIC, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The music had the heat of blood Last Line: Or mine in hers had read. Subject(s): Music & Musicians EACH MORE MELODIOUS NOTE I HEAR, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who would the music be Subject(s): Music & Musicians EIGHT FOR ORNETTE'S MUSIC, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the pain is greater Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Trust; Coleman, Orenette (1930-2012 EL GALLO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They waited, sleeping, on the plaza benches Last Line: I laughed aloud, joining bright earth with earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Music & Musicians ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eleanore! - fair eleanore!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Not the star - / the golden-winged herald of the morn Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs ELEGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crying from exile, I Last Line: Alone, you are dead Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians ELEGY, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music your hands are no longer here to make Last Line: From the spring of song that never stops its kiss Subject(s): Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Jazz; Music & Musicians ELEGY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mother's garden even the ragweed Last Line: At everything we can still remember Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Old Age; Spring ELEVATOR MUSIC, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tune with no more substance than the air, Subject(s): Music & Musicians ELVIN'S BLUES, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sniffed, dilating my nostrils Last Line: With only itself to love Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Sex; Jones, Elvin (1927-2004); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS BETWEEN HANDEL AND BONONCINI, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say, compared to bononcini Last Line: Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee! Variant Title(s): Epigram On Handel And Bononcini Subject(s): Bononcini, Giovanni Battista (1670-1747); Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Music & Musicians ERIC DOLPHY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out to lunch' Subject(s): Dolphy, Eric (1928-1964); Jazz; Music & Musicians ESSIPOFF, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is her playing like? Last Line: By wandering mortal, who forgets his heavy woes. Subject(s): Essipoff, Annette (1855-1937); Music & Musicians; Esipova, Anna Nikolayevna ETERNITY BLUES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just had the old dodge in the shop Last Line: To reach me. I drove on. Then I bust out crying Subject(s): Blues (mood); Country Life; Music & Musicians EUTYCHIDES, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eutychidus, who wrote the songs, / is going down where he belongs Last Line: Where's a poor tortured soul to dwell? Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Variant Title(s): Variations Of Greek Themes: 4. Eutychides Subject(s): Music & Musicians EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Saxophones; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs EVENING CONCERT, SAINTE-CHAPELLE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The celebrated windows flamed with light Subject(s): Music & Musicians EVENING MUSICALE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Candles, red tulips, ninety cents the bunch. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Recipe For An Evening Musicale Subject(s): Music & Musicians EVENTIDE, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The posters shout, their gorgeous motley blares Last Line: Oh, cover thy pale feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Parties EYAM, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one short week I leave, with anxious heart Last Line: Dim apparition thou! -- and bitter in my tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Memory; Music & Musicians FAIRY MUSIC, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fiddlers play their tunes you may sometimes hear Last Line: In tender, limpid melodies that charm the hearts of men. Subject(s): Fairies; Music & Musicians; Elves FANTASIA ON CLAVIERS AT NIGHT, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch'd a white-hair'd figure like a breeze Last Line: "thou hast another day!" Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Travel FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is an air for which I'd give all else Last Line: In that remembered other life I had. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas FANTASY, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an air for which I'd gladly give Last Line: And whom I now remember with a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas FAR - FAR - AWAY (FOR MUSIC), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sight so lured him through the fields he knew Last Line: Far -- far -- away? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Music & Musicians FIDDLE TIME, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off the fiddle of a man who rented a garage from my father Last Line: Not quite lost, over the curve of a finely honed bridge. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Passion; Childhood FIDDLER'S FAREWELL, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fold now the song within the songster Last Line: Above your tuneless sobbing? Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violins FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To music bent is my retired mind Last Line: Such heat they cast as lifts the spirit high. Subject(s): Consolation; Music & Musicians FIT AUDIENCE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: (andante cantabile): / g sharp is not g natural Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Composers FLATTED FIFTHS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little cullud boys with beards Last Line: And dig all plays. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks FLORETTY'S MUSICAL CONTRIBUTION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All seemed delighted, though the elders more Last Line: Gathered himself. And thus his story ran. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers FLUTE-PRIEST SONG FOR RAIN; CEREMONIAL AT THE SUN SPRING, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whistle under the water Last Line: With tumult of rain. Subject(s): Music & Musicians FLUTEPLAYERS FROM FINMARKEN, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How keen the nights were Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Music & Musicians FOO TO THE INFINITE, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play vanilla,' lester young is said Last Line: "play vanilla, I say to him, and he to me: ""play dead." Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) FOR BUD; FOR BUD POWELL, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could it be, bud Last Line: Enough for you Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) FOR MILES, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your sound is faultless Last Line: Yet unimaginable score? Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians FOR MUSIC, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the shore, along the shore Last Line: Forever and forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Music & Musicians FOR SIDNEY BECHET, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Subject(s): Bechet, Sidney Joseph (1897-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians FOR STEVE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning after your midnight death Last Line: Which runs full tilt into absence Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Music & Musicians FOUR FRIENDS, by LEO WARD Poem Text First Line: Full life, sweet rest, great love that cannot cease Last Line: And nature one with god, at nazareth! Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Franck, Cesar (1822-1890); Music & Musicians FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 8, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To his sweet lute apollo sung the motions of the spheres Last Line: And phœbus' right-revenged grudge. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pan (mythology) FREEDOM AND DISCIPLINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint harmony, many / years I have stript Subject(s): Discipline; Freedom; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Liberty GET UP, BLUES, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poet's Biography First Line: Blues / never climb a hill Subject(s): Blues (mood); Jazz; Music & Musicians GHAZALS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm Last Line: And a new sun to guide us, a holy book, tracked in new blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Music & Musicians; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime GIDEON'S BAND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is this unearthly noise Last Line: For every dog must have his day. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Music & Musicians GIRL AT THE PIANO, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Such slender fingers Last Line: And lo, the practice hour has hurried by! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Music & Musicians; Students GIROFLE-GIROFLA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The violinist draws his bow, / the harper touches string Last Line: From memory till I die. Subject(s): Music & Musicians GIVE ME A SINGING HEART, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Give me a singing heart to free my life Last Line: Through inert shadows and through futile days. Subject(s): Contentment; Hearts; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets GLENN GOULD, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard him that one night in cincinnati Subject(s): Gould, Glenn; Music & Musicians GLORY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It spreads, the campaign - carried on Variant Title(s): Carnegie Hall: Rescued Subject(s): Carnegie Hall, New York City; Landmark Preservation; Music & Musicians; Stern, Isaac (1920-2001) GO GREYHOUND, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few hours after des moines Last Line: Of the human condition, that the baby Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations GYPSY KINGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another late afternoon and I am sitting in Last Line: One mentioned her own son Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Conduct Of Life GYPSY SONG, by HELEN PRICE Poem Text First Line: What is it within me that's yearning to go Last Line: To shatter the sky like a comet at night. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers HAIKU: 2, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The piano man Subject(s): Music & Musicians HANDEL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The piccolo of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Music & Musicians HANDEL'S LARGO, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the great organs, answering each to each Last Line: Living, and prayer, and praising and thanksgiving! Subject(s): Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Music & Musicians HANS CARVEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hans carvel, impotent and old Last Line: You've thrust your finger g-d knows where! Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Passion; Singing & Singers HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy-go-lucky, you darling, and is it Last Line: Which mary has nurtured for jesus, and one day will give him to wear. Subject(s): Contentment; Music & Musicians HARK, TEN THOUSAND HARPS AND VOICES!, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, strong and sweet these tones that seek the sky! Last Line: Till unto god who hears his whole world sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Worship HARLEM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to sing harlem on an ebony flute Last Line: "rest, and dream, my dark delight!" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Music & Musicians HARLEM GALLERY: BOOK 1, THE CURATOR: MU, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hideho heights / and I, like the brims of old hats Last Line: Of the indigo combo. Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Variant Title(s): The Harlem Gallery: Mu Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians HARMONICS, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This string upon my harp was best beloved Last Line: Gave to the dim harmonics voice and tongue? Subject(s): 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 HASSAN'S MUSIC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of delight! You did not hold us long Last Line: Sailed down to tarsus to mark antony. Subject(s): Music & Musicians HEALING ANIMAL, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day when you have needed to sleep forever Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs HEARING MUSIC, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lovely sounds about my ears Last Line: Or wake in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Music & Musicians HEART NOT SO HEAVY AS MINE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I pray you pass once more Subject(s): Music & Musicians HEART OF THE GAEL, by MARIE MANCINO Poem Text First Line: I have never seen the heather Last Line: Of the pipes played by the lads in bonnets blue. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras HELLO, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Music & Musicians HENRY PURCELL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have fair fallen, o fair, fair have fallen Last Line: Off him, but meaning motion fans fresh our wits with wonder. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Purcell, Henry (1659-1695) 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 HERE IS MUSIC: DEDICATION TO G.V.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: O, vedi napoli,' (so the italians say Last Line: "e poi muori!" Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy; Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips HERE WHERE COLTRANE IS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul and race Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians HIGH CHURCH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Notes lodged inside a second-hand Last Line: So hard the mute flew out of his horn Subject(s): Music & Musicians HIS LEGACY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But a voice blowing away the dust Last Line: Voice in which no recordings survived Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Social Commentaries HISTORIOGRAPHY, by LORENZO THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The junkies loved charles parker and the sports Last Line: 1974). Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin HOLLYWOOD JAZZ, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who says it's cool says wrong Last Line: Here. Take my arm, walk with me Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians HOMAGE TO LITERATURE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you imagine trumpet-faced musicians Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Negroes; American Blacks; Songs 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 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 HOW POETS PLAY, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do poets play? Last Line: Swoon in fainting silences away. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers HUSH!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To music we listen Last Line: Sung there. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nature; Truth; Youth; Nightmares I CHING, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain & lake Last Line: That they lean against Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Taylor, Cecil (b. 1929) I LIVE IN MUSIC, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Music & Musicians I SEE CHANO POZO, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very fine conga of sweat Last Line: I see chano pozo Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians I SHALL PLAY A LITTLE SONG ON MY PIPE IN THE SPRING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Who do not know what spring is for, as we know, pipe and I Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Spring I WAS MOVING ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was moving down the bank / toward the boat, lost Last Line: Chin propped on fists, listening. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus I WON'T BE MY FATHER'S JACK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "prithee, love, play me / t'other little tune" Subject(s): Music & Musicians I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Vision; Woods 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 IF POETRY WERE NOT A MORALITY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the kind of woman who Last Line: As joy, as more horses than we need Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Horses; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers IMAGES SUGGESTED BY MEDIEVAL MUSIC, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more Subject(s): Music & Musicians IMPROMPTU TO A YOUNG LADY PLAYING, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If now timotheus were alive Last Line: We think ourselves in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Music & Musicians IMPROVISATION, by PAUL S. NICKERSON Poem Text First Line: Out from the silence Last Line: Until the hour for sleep . . . Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Organs (musical Instruments) IN A MUSEUM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light Last Line: In the full-fugued song of the universe unending. Subject(s): Music & Musicians IN BLOSSOMS WRIT, by JOHN MILTON SCOTT Poem Text First Line: It seems amid the orange trees you play Last Line: To wing and woo the music heart of you. Subject(s): Music & Musicians IN HOSPITAL: 23. MUSIC, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the quiet eve Last Line: Airs of london. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Hospitals; Music & Musicians IN MEMORIAM A.M.W.; SEPTEMBER, 1910 (FOR A SOLEMN MUSIC), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a silence Last Line: Into a silence. Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 IN THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY NUTRITIOUS ALGAE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought lined up pale winter Last Line: Question, indeed Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians IN THE SHADOWS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent music of the flowers Last Line: Against my name which was a shade. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Music & Musicians; Reading IN THE SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a princess in the south Last Line: Would blossom as a lily might. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Music & Musicians; Night; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.) IN THE TRADITION, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blues walk weeps ragtime Last Line: Death to the klan! Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians INSPIRED MUSIC, by LYDIA KEEFER HALEY Poem Text First Line: Inspired music, language of the spheres ineffable Last Line: And lift us up toward god. Subject(s): Music & Musicians INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cellist, / easy on that bow Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Music & Musicians INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The charms of melody, in simple airs Last Line: Blesses our earth-bound state with visions of supernal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Music & Musicians INTERLUDE (ALLEGRO), by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Now swells a martial symphony Last Line: Whoever knew its talisman! Subject(s): Music & Musicians INWARD MUSIC, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are in this loud [or, rude] stunning tide Last Line: Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat. Variant Title(s): Happiness Subject(s): Music & Musicians IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How easily my heart falls back into habits Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Anxiety; Jazz; Music & Musicians ITALIAN MUSIC IN DAKOTA (THE SEVENTEENTH - THE FINEST REGIMENTAL BAND), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the soft evening air enwinding all Last Line: Listens well pleas'd. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras JAM SESSION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Letting midnight / out on bail Last Line: Pop-a-da Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JAN KUBELIK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your bow swept over a string, and a long low note Last Line: (all the girls in bohemia are laughing on a sunday afternoon in the hills with their lovers.) Subject(s): Kubelik, Jan (1880-1940); Music & Musicians JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs JAPAN - ABOUT 1877, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: Bewildered blue dragon-flies Last Line: "hail, columbia!" Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors; Music & Musicians; Printing And Printers; Telegraph; Telegrams JAZZ BAND, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Last Line: Play the thing, you jazz mad fools! Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Orchestras JAZZ DRUMMER, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Max roach / has fire and steel in his hands Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Roach, Max (b. 1924) JAZZ FANTASIA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos Subject(s): Jazz; Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary JAZZ STATION, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the freeway, over the music, Last Line: In squat pigeontoes, and this beach ball sings Subject(s): Music & Musicians JAZZONIA, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, silver tree! Last Line: Six long-headed jazzers play. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of disillusion Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs KOL NIDRE, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Lo! Above the mournful chanting Last Line: Breathing but the breath of ages. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Music & Musicians; Yom Kippur; Judaism KOL NIDRE, by MAX OSIAS Poem Text First Line: In lonely hours of thought I long Last Line: O hymn of israel. Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Music & Musicians; Thought; Judaism; Thinking LA MUSICA TRIONFANTE, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the storm, in the smoke, in the fight I come Last Line: Hear the voices of heaven through the men heaven hath crowned. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LANGUAGE OF MUSIC, by ESTHER EUGENIA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Two open windows where I went to sing Last Line: But music just begins where language ends. Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Sound; Words; Vocabulary LATESUMMER BLUES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, the grass is a pleasant thing Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LE JAZZ HOT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talked to my father again in a dream he seemed happy Last Line: And found it of some interest Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LEIPZIG, 1894, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have only one portrait of bach - that genius Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians LESTER LEAPS IN, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Nobody but lester let lester leap Last Line: In order to blow what it's like being born. Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) LET'S ALL HEAR IT FOR MILDRED BAILEY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The men's can at cafe society uptown Last Line: In a world gone wrong. Subject(s): Bailey, Mildred [rinker] (1907-1951); Jazz; Music & Musicians LIFE AND DEATH, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, then, is life, - what death? Last Line: Death but the pause between. Subject(s): Death; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The LIFE-MUSIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound Last Line: Sweet as the songs of spring. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Seasons LIKE CITIES, LIKE STORMS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A foot off the ground, / but holding Subject(s): Cities; Music & Musicians; Memory LIKE CLEAR MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long-buried women, ye arise for me Last Line: And do but freshen with the fall of years. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; Women LINER NOTES TO AN IMAGINARY PLAYLIST, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wind solo' by the felonious monks Subject(s): Music & Musicians LINES COMPOSED IN A CONCERT-ROOM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor cold, nor stern, my soul! Yet I detest Last Line: Murmur and music thin of sudden breeze. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LINES SUGGESTED BY HEARING MUSIC ON THE BOSTON COMMON, by THOMAS COLE (1801-1848) Poem Text First Line: Music it was I heard, and music too Last Line: The cave of silence their eternal tomb. Subject(s): Boston; Music & Musicians LISTEN TO THE SOUND OF MY HORN, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Music & Musicians LISTENING, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis you that are the music, not your song Last Line: One music with a thousand cadences. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LISTENING TO LESTER YOUNG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 1958. Lester young minces Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) LISTENING TO MUSIC (RUBINSTEIN'S 'OCEAN SYMPHONY'), by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on that joyful sea Last Line: Think back, dear love; o love, think back to me. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894) LISTENING TO SONNY ROLLINS AT THE FIVE-SPOT, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be many other nights like Last Line: A-noth Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rollins, Sonny (b. 1930) LITTLE FUGUE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yew's black fingers wag Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LITTLE PIERRE'S SONG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a humble room in london sat a pretty little boy Last Line: And he came to be one of the most talented composers of the day. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For forty years now, ever since Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Evans, Bill (1929-1980) LIVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bessie’s face lingers before me Last Line: And as if speaking for me Subject(s): Women; Music & Musicians; Fathers & Daughters; Perseverance LOS ANGELES, 1954, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the old days, Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Music & Musicians LOST FUGUE FOR CHET, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A single spot slides the trumpet's flare then stops Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Baker, Chet (1929-1988); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse LOVE AND MUSIC, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I listen'd to the music broad and deep Last Line: I heard love thrilling through the void profound. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians LOVE POEM, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as the cat comes home Last Line: Out of notes, dying. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LOVE'S INCONSISTENCIES, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why closed thou thine eyes Last Line: Song doth not die! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians LOVE'S MELODY, by BARBARA MARIE BOOTH Poem Text First Line: In my soul the bells are ringing Last Line: In the chiming of the bells. Subject(s): Music & Musicians LOVIN YOU IS ECSTASY TO ME, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 25 years w/ the art ensemble Last Line: Lovin you is ecstasy to me Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians LYRA MYSTICA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Song, since thou wilt not grasp Last Line: That fail'st us never, lead thy minstrels on. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Music & Musicians MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing & Singers; Women; Songs MAC DUNCAN, TROMBONIST, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wall of silence. Nobody willtalk, Last Line: Be dealt with by cheap evasions, and puns Subject(s): Music & Musicians MACDOWELL, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice! Rejoice! Last Line: The new world hath new music -- and a voice! Subject(s): Composers; Macdowell, Edward (1860-1908); Music & Musicians MADAGASCAR: AUBADE, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lark now leaves his watery nest Last Line: Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn! Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Variant Title(s): Song;song To His Mistress Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Sunrise MADRIGAL: HARK JOLLY SHEPHERDS, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark jolly shepherds Last Line: With echoes sweet rebounding. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight MAESTRO, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hears her Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mothers MAN LISTENNG TO DISC, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not bad Last Line: As he would be with us today Subject(s): Music & Musicians MARINE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pink faces (worlds or flowers or seas or stars) Last Line: Disturb the general somnolence. Subject(s): Fireworks; Music & Musicians MARSYAS, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little grey hill-glade, close-turfed, withdrawn Last Line: Divinely inaccessible, the scorn. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical MASTER HUGUES OF SAXE-GOTHA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Last Line: Do I carry the moon in my pocket? Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Life MASTER OF MUSIC (IN MEMORY OF THEODORE THOMAS), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Last Line: The glory of music endures in the depths of the human soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Thomas, Theodore (1835-1905) MELODY IN A RESTAURANT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My errand is not so simple as it seems Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Restaurants MIDNIGHT MUSIC, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What wakes me from my heavy sleep Last Line: Good night, o mother dear!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night; Sleep; Bedtime MINGUS AT THE SHOWPLACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music & Musicians; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons MONOCHROME, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your beauty is as subtle as a strain Last Line: Brazen as cymbals, boisterous as drums! Subject(s): Drums; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments MOOD INDIGO, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tried to trace the reverie Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians MORE MUSIC, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a burst of song Last Line: When one great alleluia song shall chase life's tuneless dream! Subject(s): Music & Musicians MORE THAN NEW, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the men begins to sing. The woman Last Line: A mouth singing, your heart the way it was Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Goddesses & Gods MORNING AFTER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was so sick last night I Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks MOTHER OF HEROES (SARAH BLAKE SHAW), by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of heroes, she, - of them who gave Last Line: And when I think on music -- lo, her face! Subject(s): Music & Musicians MOTLEY: MUSIC, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When music sounds, gone is the earth I know Last Line: The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Music & Musicians MOUNTAIN FROLIC, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: In working clothes with song and whoop and shout Last Line: Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Guns; Murder; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants MOZART, 1935, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet, be seated at the piano Last Line: Be seated, thou. Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians MOZARTIAN AIR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your name to know I cared not Last Line: Bids youth and childhood back again. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Voices; Male-female Relations MUCH IN LITTLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just seven little notes Last Line: All passion from hell to heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Hell; Music & Musicians; Passion; Paradise MUSIC, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My being is abosrbed in bliss so high Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, oh, thou! Last Line: Above the silence of a monster grave. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: God placed within the soul of rain Last Line: On angel lips in paradise. Subject(s): Heaven; Music & Musicians; Paradise MUSIC, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take of the maiden's, of the mother's sigh Last Line: And let the finger touch that moveth all. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I think music Last Line: Into change. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Music! Gentle music! Last Line: A foretaste of the bliss above! Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let fortune gift on gift bestow Last Line: And never thought death lived -- that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O restless fingers - not that music make! Last Line: Rises the goddess from the waves dark blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go where'er I will, / I hear a sky-born music still Last Line: There alway, alway something sings. Variant Title(s): Something Sings;there Alway, Alway Something Sings;the Sky-born Music Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Religion; Theology MUSIC, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a flash of summer light Last Line: And go I know not where. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by CLARA BOYNTON HADLEY Poem Text First Line: Is it not a means by which we connect Last Line: While we bow in grateful praise. Subject(s): Magic; Music & Musicians; Praise MUSIC, by BERNIE PARKER HARP Poem Text First Line: It floods my soul Last Line: Hands for keys. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Move on, light hands, so strongly, tenderly Last Line: Spectral and wonderful and strangely sad. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Interminable undulating weeds Last Line: And lifts it up from what lies dark below. Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 MUSIC, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange how the mystically mingled sound Last Line: The passionate clasping of their azure arms! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His light baton the leader waves Last Line: Am I, with heaven my dwelling-place. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see small difference Last Line: Have flown an evening's journey. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the dawn is yet the day Last Line: Or but a dream astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Immortality; Music & Musicians MUSIC, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What angel viol, effortless and sure Last Line: Dies into rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an organ in my elm Last Line: These airs of out-of-doors! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nature MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pant for the music which is divine Last Line: Invites to love with her kiss divine -- Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the tenants of the tomb Last Line: As brightly as its morn and noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Music & Musicians; Peace MUSIC, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The god of music dwelleth out of doors Last Line: The god of music dwelleth out of doors. Variant Title(s): The God Of Music Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from this atmosphere that music sounds Last Line: At some late day unto himself again. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of psyche, pledge of that wild night Last Line: Break on the shore of light in endless hymns of praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC, by W. C. A. WALLAR Poem Text First Line: The instruments remind us. Then the heart Last Line: Shall rise, and find the stars, and sin no more. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Religion; Theology MUSIC, by ORVILLE GOULD WHEELER Poem Text First Line: I like the music even of my dreams Last Line: And softly usher in the gentle night. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC AND FRIENDSHIP, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice is sweet music sweet when every word Last Line: To share that heavenly joy, one dear, dear friend! Subject(s): Friendship; Music & Musicians MUSIC AND MEMORY, by JOHN ALBEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enchantress, touch no more that strain Last Line: Still bringing all the pain they cost. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Transcendentalism MUSIC AND MEMORY (TO K.W.), by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the tides of music, in the night Last Line: Music in music, in the night. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC AND POETRY: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, poets, as ye list, of fields, of flowers Last Line: In human speech such mysteries divine. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets MUSIC AND POETRY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet words though weak are all that poets own Last Line: One aim, one work, one destiny they share. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets MUSIC AND WORDS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day I heard such music that I thought Last Line: Fulfilled with all of sorrow save its pain. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC AT A DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring music! Stir the brooding air Last Line: My dream shall be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC AT EVENING, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: All of my dreams float down those silvery notes Last Line: And see the brightness of the evening stars. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC AT TWILIGHT, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, give me music in the twilight hour! Last Line: And mystery divine. Subject(s): Evening; Music & Musicians; Sunset; Twilight MUSIC FROM SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound comes on the rising breeze Last Line: Give sweet sounds to the breeze! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC HALL, by NICOLAS BEAUDIN Poem Text First Line: Crowd with alcoholic eyes Last Line: High evening, bored by the apotheosis. Subject(s): Bands; Collective Behavior; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Violins; Orchestras; Mobs; Crowds; Stage Life MUSIC IN AN AVENUE, by CARA ELIZABETH HANSCOM WHITON STONE Poem Text First Line: I knew the minstrel not, and yet I knew Last Line: That all the coming centuries shall know. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC IN CAMP, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two armies covered hill and plain Last Line: Gave this one touch of nature. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Patriotism; War MUSIC IN DARKNESS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the dim end of day Last Line: "in that mysterious night." Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC IN MOONLIGHT, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever music lovelier than to-night! Last Line: Fashions, supreme, of life, and fate, and time. Subject(s): Moon; Music & Musicians; Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856) MUSIC IN SOLITUDE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this valley far and lonely Last Line: That comes -- ah, surely comes -- at music's solemn call. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Solitude; Loneliness MUSIC IN THE FLAT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When tom and I were married, we took a little flat Last Line: And so in spite of my resolve, I do not play at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Neighbors MUSIC IN THE NIGHT, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stars pursue their solemn flight Last Line: And vanishes among the stars. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC IN THE SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Over my soul the great thoughts roll Last Line: "wonderful, beautiful, soft, and slow" Subject(s): Music & Musicians;soul MUSIC IN VENICE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismiss the instruments that for your pleasure Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Venice, Italy MUSIC IS HUMAN, by LARRY EIGNER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC IS TIME, by JILL BIALOSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music is time, said the violin master. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC MYSTERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o music, why the bliss you bring Last Line: "born to be beautiful -- but born to die." Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pain; Suffering; Misery MUSIC OF HUNGARY, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My body answers you, my blood Last Line: God made my soul for hungary! Subject(s): Dvorak, Antonin (1841-1904); Hungary; Music & Musicians MUSIC OF THE RAIN, by IRENE MCDERMOTT Poem Text First Line: Slow music haunts the falling drops of rain Last Line: Are nature's lullaby to men at night. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC OF YESTERDAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chord, the harp's full chord is hushed Last Line: Ere this we know. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC ON CHRISTMAS MORNING, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music I love - but never strain Last Line: Will lead us home to god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Christmas; Music & Musicians; Nativity, The MUSIC ON THE TIN ROOF, by GERALDINE FAY GRAY Poem Text First Line: The snow is melting - eaves begin to drip Last Line: Just water dripping on the roof in spring. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Snow MUSIC ON WATER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where does remembrance weep when we forget? Last Line: Watches the time, and thinks it wondrous slow. Subject(s): Death; Mars (god); Music & Musicians; Water; Dead, The MUSIC ROOM DUET, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Turn from me then, if so you must! Last Line: That ends not this side of heaven. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians MUSIC SWIMS BACK TO ME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wait mister. Which way is home? Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC TO ME, by ADELE SHAW BOONE Poem Text First Line: Music to my soul Last Line: Which I seek whene'er I can. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sound MUSIC'S ECHO, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my ears it grew Last Line: Upon the breast of day. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nightmares MUSIC'S EMPIRE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First was the world as one great cymbal made Last Line: Would with you heavens hallelujahs raise. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC'S TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Had birds no season for their precious songs Last Line: Is there no quiet place to sleep or rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs MUSIC, FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If music be the food of love, play on Last Line: That it alone, is high fantastical. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians MUSIC, THOU QUEEN OF SOULS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music, thou queen of souls, get up and string Last Line: Strike a sad note, and fix them trees again. Variant Title(s): A Song Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Trees MUSIC: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it light that spake from the dark- / ness, or music that shone from the word Last Line: In tune. Subject(s): Life; Morning; Music & Musicians MUSIC; AND THE SAVAGE BREAST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd read the kaiser's note Last Line: .... I thank you, band of germans. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Bands; German Americans; Holidays; Memorial Day; Music & Musicians; Patriotism; Orchestras; Declaration Day MUSIC; READ AT ANNUAL DINNER OF HARVARD MUSICAL ASSN., 1874, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When 'music, heavenly maid' was very young Last Line: We feel that life is immortality. Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUSIC; TO ETHEL BARTLETT AND RAE ROBERTSON (AFTER THEIR CONCERT), by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was not music. Music is but notes Last Line: And fears of mortal ill. Subject(s): Barlett, Ethel (1896-1978); Duopianists; Music & Musicians; Robertson, Rae (1893-1956); Symphonies; Concerts MUSICIAN, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many know you now by virtue of that music Last Line: All the rest of life is lovelier for those years. Subject(s): Memory; Music & Musicians MUSICIANS WRESTLE EVERYWHERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Please god – shall ascertain! Subject(s): Music & Musicians MUZIO, by ALICE PHELPS RIDER Poem Text First Line: Rainbow colors flame and glow Last Line: When I list to muzio! Subject(s): Music & Musicians MY LOVE: MUSIC DOES, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music is a dog Last Line: On a catalpa flower. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians MY MADELINE; SERENADE IN M FLAT, by WALTER PARKE Poem Text First Line: My madeline! My madeline! Last Line: Madonna mia! My madeline! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers MYSTERY, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine ears have caught some melody of winds Last Line: And sense a hidden music in the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Nature; Wind; Sunrise NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NEBULA, by PETRONELLA HELEN URASKY-CHAPP Poem Text First Line: Just beyond the words / floats an elusive Last Line: Of an unfinished chord. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violins NEW WAVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He listens to a punk rock group Last Line: Due to the effects of listening to agent orange. Subject(s): Adolescence; Music & Musicians; Parents; Teen Agers; Parenthood NEWARK, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John coltrane died this morning Last Line: Say itself inside our heads. Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Newark International Airport NIGHT ABOVE THE TOWN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the glassed-in jazz club acres above Last Line: On the tables . . . Grandmother. Grandfather Subject(s): Grandparents; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NIGHT-MUSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NIL ADMIRARI, by MARY TUCKER Poem Text First Line: Lute, that too quick replies Last Line: Heart, take root nevermore. Subject(s): Lutes; Music & Musicians NO FRIEND LIKE MUSIC, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no whispering of any friend Last Line: To let the soul march with the quiet stars! Subject(s): Music & Musicians NORTHAMPTON STYLE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Desire; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians NOT GUILTY, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days are dog-eared, the edges torn, Subject(s): Johnson, Robert (1913-1938); Music & Musicians; Vallejo, Cesar (1892-1917); Poetry & Poets NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are a memory system Last Line: Makes us think so Subject(s): Jazz; Memory; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music & Musicians NUIT BLANCHE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no horns to rouse me up to-night Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Ghosts; White (color); Bedtime O.D., by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was surprised to find them Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Music & Musicians; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin 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 ODE FOR DONNY HATHAWAY, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then there are the one-hit zombies Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Music & Musicians ODE FOR MUSIC, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, avaunt! ('tis holy ground) Last Line: "and gilds the horrors of the deep" Subject(s): Fitzroy, Augustus. 3d Duke Of Grafton; Music & Musicians ODE FOR ST. CECILIA'S EVE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come, dear barney isaacs, come Last Line: The other scar'd away the devil! Subject(s): Music & Musicians ODE [FOR MUSIC] ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Descend ye nine! Descend and sing Last Line: Hers lift the soul to heav'n. Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Music & Musicians; Saints OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails OF MY LADY ISABELLA PLAYING ON THE LUTE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such moving sounds from such a careless touch Last Line: His flaming rome, and as it burn'd, he play'd. Subject(s): Lutes; Music & Musicians OKRA TO GREENS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SOUND, DOWNTOWN, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I might be in slug's Last Line: It's ten years later/ & the changes are transcribed Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians OL' BUNK'S BAND, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are men! The gaunt, unforesold, the vocal Last Line: These are men, men, men Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Orchestras OLD RECORDS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Les shows me his new braun Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON 52ND STREET, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down sat bud, raised his hands Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night Clubs; Jazz; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON A DEAD POET, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hand that swept the sounding lyre Last Line: Forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets 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 CYNTHIA, SINGING A RECITATIVE PIECE OF MUSIC, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou angelic spirit, face and voice Last Line: Has power to give us either life, or death. Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON HEARING A LITTLE MUSIC-BOX, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hallo! - what? - where, what can it be Last Line: Music for the flowers to blow to. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Music Box ON HEARING HELEN HAGAN PLAY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: It seemed to me a little rivulet Last Line: Its benediction sweet. Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON HEARING MADAME OLGA SAMAROFF PLAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hopes and fears, what tragical delight Last Line: Have poured out to the world his heart's red wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Hands; Music & Musicians; Soul ON HEARING MRS. WOODHOUSE PLAY THE HARPSICHORD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We poets pride ourselves on what Last Line: "has made this poet my dumb slave." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON MUSIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell how high my soul takes wing Last Line: Unto the zephyr's piping, in dizzy, dizzy ring! Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON MUSIC, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many love music but for music's sake Last Line: A spark of life hath glisten'd and hath gone. Subject(s): Music & Musicians ON MUSIC, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When through life unblest we rove Last Line: Can sweetly soothe, and not betray! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 ON SEEING A PICTURE OF BEETHOVEN, by RALPH W. WESTCOTT Poem Text First Line: Sounds the deep boom of ocean and the roar Last Line: And marks the meter of the storm king's tale. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians; Yale University ON THE CORNER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on the corner Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) ON THE DEATH OF JAZZ, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me jazz is dead Last Line: And like some politicians dead, has not been buried yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ON THE DEATH OF MR. PELHAM HUMFRIES; PASTORAL SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you not hear the hideous groan Last Line: Though more forgotten in the grave than he. Subject(s): Humfries, Pelham (d. 1674); Music & Musicians ON THE DEATH OF MR. PURCELL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the lark and linnet sing Last Line: Nor know to mend their choice. Variant Title(s): An Ode On The Death Of Mr Henry Purcell;an Ode, On The Death Of Mr. Henry Purcell, Late Servant To His Majesty Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Purcell, Henry (1659-1695); Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors ON THE STATUE OF A PIPING FAUN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hearest thou not the pipe of faunus, sweeping Last Line: By music and enchantment all surrounded. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Greece; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Statues; Greeks 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 ORNITHOLOGY, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone to seed, ailanthus, the poverty Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians ORPHEUS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When orpheus turned Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE: THE POWER OF MUSIC, by SAMUEL LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When orpheus went down to the regions below Last Line: Such power has music in hell. Subject(s): Music & Musicians OUR LADY OF MUSIC, by MARTIN LUTHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the joys that are on earth Last Line: Whose praise shall last eternally. Subject(s): Music & Musicians OUT OF BABYLON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stole out of babylon beyond the stolid warders Last Line: Dreaming of earth's loveliness, happy to be free! Subject(s): Babylon; Escapes; Faith; Freedom; Morality; Music & Musicians; Fugitives; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Ethics OVERTONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some listening were certain they could hear Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mourning; Music & Musicians; Bereavement OVERTURE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way Subject(s): Music & Musicians PADEREWSKI, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If songs were perfume, color, wild desire Last Line: Turn at the last to beauty and to song! Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941) PALE SONG, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What music make with bells gulfed by the hours? Last Line: What poems draw from a heart drowned in despair? Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs PAN AND THALASSIUS: A LYRICAL IDYL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pan! Last Line: Mine. Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Woods PAN IN WALL STREET, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just where the treasury's marble front Last Line: The quarter sounded from the steeple. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City PAN LEARNS MUSIC; FOR A SCULPTURE BY SARA GREENE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock Last Line: "out of a river-reed music for man!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sculpture & Sculptors PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: CHARLES AVISON, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange! But, first of all, the little fact Last Line: "westminster's pym!" Subject(s): Avison, Charles (1709-1770); Composers; Music & Musicians PATE M'QUATTY ON HIS FIDDLE, by JAMES SHAW Poem Text First Line: O, I wouldna swap my auld fiddle Last Line: I've daylight wherever I go. Subject(s): Fiddles; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments PEACE ON EARTH, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tunes come to me at morning Last Line: A love supreme: Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians PERSISTENT MUSIC, by MARTIN LUTHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! What am I, my heart, that I should dare Last Line: May know its silence sadder than its song. Subject(s): Music & Musicians PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Just as my fingers on these keys Last Line: And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Music & Musicians; Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible PIANO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me Last Line: Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Time; Childhood; Songs PIANO LESSONS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the music is locked Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pianos; Music Teachers PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION; FOR PAMELA STEWART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's best, when watching the surprising levitations Last Line: Set aside like land, will be blessed by rain. Subject(s): Children; Dwarfs; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Childhood PLAYING THE INVISIBLE SAXOPHONE EN EL COMBO DE LA ESTRELLAS, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of these days I'm gonna write a real performance poem Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets POETIC MUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With rhythm true the heart doth beat Last Line: And words, like music, then escape. Subject(s): Language; Muses; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary POETRY AND MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is to sit and read the tales Last Line: Fills the dim pause! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets POETRY MAKES RHYTHM IN PHILOSOPHY, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was the bichot Last Line: Entered the room Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Friendship; Music & Musicians; Women PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG CLARINETTIST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a dull musician as a boy Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Clarinets POSTPARTUM BLUES, by ELTON GLASER Poem Text First Line: Soon the glass angel must be Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians 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 PRAISE OF MUSIC, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When whispering strains with creeping wind Last Line: And change his soul for harmony. Variant Title(s): Music;song In Commemoration Of Music Subject(s): Music & Musicians PRELUDE TO A BOOK OF MUSIC, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intent, I find a book I've writ Last Line: Hoping these echoed tones some wounded heart may bless. Subject(s): Music & Musicians PRIMA DONNA OF THE NEGRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: I am the lemon-lily queen Last Line: And my earrings tremble and shine. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs PROJECTION, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day when the savoy Last Line: Wonderful! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Divine, Father (george Baker, 1877-1965); Harlem (new York City); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks PROPRIETY, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is some such word Subject(s): Music & Musicians PROTHALAMION [II], by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overlapping accelerandos set against Last Line: Sounding a cappella in a choral round Subject(s): Marriage; Music & Musicians PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which let us go forth in the bold day and write Subject(s): Storms; Music & Musicians PYTHIAN ODES: 1. THE POWER OF MUSIC, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lyre of gold, apollo's Last Line: Goads him. Subject(s): Music & Musicians QUARTET IN F MAJOR, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great beethoven, you trouble me this watchful night Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Music & Musicians; Freedom; Liberty QUATRAIN: MUSIC, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God-born before the sons of god, she hurled Last Line: Flamed as the universe rolled from her lyre. Subject(s): Music & Musicians QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mame was singing Last Line: Their hats to a queen? Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still! Last Line: Gently the music fades awayand so, god rest us all! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The RECIPROCITY, by D. H. INGHAM Poem Text First Line: With the may blossoms, cheery and bold Last Line: "nothing sweeter than silence,"" sang he." Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs RECITAL; ROGER BOBO GIVES RECITAL ON TUBA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eskimos in manitoba Last Line: Solo, quite like roger bubo! Subject(s): Music & Musicians REFERENCE BACK, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a pretty one, I heard you call Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Time REMEMBERED MUSIC, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lying under a weird blue sky Last Line: In dull trafalgar square. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Ukraine; Songs REMEMBERED MUSIC; A FRAGMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick-rushing, like an ocean vast Last Line: To listen when the next would be. Subject(s): Music & Musicians RESPONSE, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a music of immaculate love Last Line: Emotions -- that are flowers -- born of such. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians REVELATION AT CAP FERRAT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not solely the dance Subject(s): Relationships; Music & Musicians RHYTHM AND BLUES, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those days our bodies dove us, churning Last Line: Every part of them on fire Subject(s): Youth; Music & Musicians ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE GOLDEN CALF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle, flute, and horn uniting Last Line: Kettle drums and ringing laughter! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Idols; Laughter; Music & Musicians ROMANCIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'b'en a-kindo' musin', as the feller says Last Line: "I kin wake and say ""dog-gone-it!"" jest as soft as any prayer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Nature; Time ROMANIA, ROMANIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand like some country crow across the street Subject(s): Music & Musicians ROSE SOLITUDE; FOR DUKE ELLINGTON, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am essence of rose solitude Last Line: Never dies Subject(s): Ellington, Edward Kennedy ('duke'); Jazz; Music & Musicians ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jazz radio on a midnight kick Last Line: Round about midnight Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Night; Bedtime SAVED BY MUSIC, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At one time, in america, many years ago Last Line: And they released him from his dangerous position without delay. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Play; Sound SCARLATTI, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night / locked in Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) SCHUBERT IN FLORIDA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you slunk across my dream Subject(s): Divorce; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness SCRAMBLED EGGS AND WHISKEY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: In that old club tonight Subject(s): Music & Musicians SECOND FIDDLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just behind the first fiddle he bends Last Line: And the fiddle called second, be first. Subject(s): Fiddles; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Soul; Joy; Delight SECRET MUSIC, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep such music in my brain Last Line: And music dawned above despair. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tree bares, the music of it changes Last Line: "your lights and music. It will be good to talk." Variant Title(s): The House Subject(s): Houses; Music & Musicians; Old Age SHE HEARD MUSIC, by MAUDE SCRUGGS Poem Text First Line: She heard music. Her soul received Last Line: She heard music. Subject(s): Faith; Jesus Christ; Music & Musicians; Soul; Belief; Creed SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart Last Line: They call the music of the spheres! Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind SINGING BACK THE WORLD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember how it began Last Line: The trouble I've seen. Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Forgetfulness; Music & Musicians SLEEP, AFTER RAY CHARLES SHOW AND HURRICANE REPORT, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A storm named for a woman Subject(s): Charles, Ray (b. 1930); Jazz; Music & Musicians SLIPPER TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a homely time of ease and rest Last Line: This homely, human slipper time. Subject(s): Children; Life; Memory; Music & Musicians; Peace; Sleep; Soul; Childhood SNAKECHARMER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the gods began one world, and man another, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Snakes; Music & Musicians; Serpents; Vipers SOEUR MONIQUE'; A RONDEAU BY COUPERIN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet form of silent nun Last Line: In the fields of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Prostitution SOFT MUSIC, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mellow touch of musick most doth wound Last Line: The soule, when it doth rather sigh, then sound. Subject(s): Music & Musicians SOLEA, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are rapists / out there Last Line: Anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rape; Urban Life SOLEDAD, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he lies in the blinded room Last Line: Oh swings: beyond complete immortal now. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs SONATA AT PAYNE HOLLOW, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never stopped here before Last Line: Out of all the time we were apart Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Play SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a claim to fame? Last Line: "he was her lover!" Subject(s): Hope; Love Affairs; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs SONG AND MUSIC, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O leave your hand where it lies cool Last Line: Now while the song withdraws. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Music & Musicians SONG FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can purge my heart Last Line: Where? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks SONG FOR IDLERS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: A nap in the woods on a soft june day Last Line: Of a nap in a green june wood! Subject(s): Idleness; Music & Musicians; Peace; Singing & Singers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a garden shady this holy lady Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Anthem For St. Cecelia's Day Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Music & Musicians; Saints SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piping down the valleys wild Last Line: Every child may joy to hear. Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 1. AT THE THEATRE, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes are set upon the dancing-girls before thee Last Line: Thou dost intoxicate both head and heart. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life SONNET (ON HEARING SERGI RACHMANINOFF), by MARTHA SPARROW METTENET Poem Text First Line: O, magic moments when I hear you play Last Line: This hour of music is a gracious treat. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) SONNET FOR IDA, by RUTH DE MENEZES Poem Text First Line: So the pale hands are quiet - they that knew Last Line: Somewhere she's playing grieg -- for grieg -- tonight. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians SONNET TO HIS FRIEND R.L. IN PRAISE OF MUSIQUE AND POETRIE, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If musique and sweet poetrie agree Last Line: One knight loves both, and both in thee remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetry;song, Fr. The Passionate Pilgrim Subject(s): Dowland, John (1563-1626); Love; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets SONNET: 128, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How oft when thou art my music, music play'st Last Line: Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss. Variant Title(s): "my Music;""how Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st""; Subject(s): Music & Musicians SONNET: 13. TO MR. H. LAWES, ON HIS AIRS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry whose tuneful and well-measured song Last Line: Met in the milder shades of purgatory. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 13;to Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs SONNET: 3, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, happy time! When music bound in one Last Line: Art's standard high as dome or minaret. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soul SONNET: 69. ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians SONNET: 8, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Last Line: Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.' Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONNET: THE PAINTER TO THE MAGICIAN, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sing once more, nor think your subtle spells Last Line: Our noblest work, our deepest thoughts, belong. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Paintings And Painters SOUND IN SILENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking when all the ways seemed wondrous still Last Line: With many musics, for my solacement. Subject(s): Animals; Faces; Music & Musicians; Silence; Sound SOUSA, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER Poem Text First Line: John philip sousa! Proud the name Last Line: With wagner and gounod. Subject(s): Marching & Marches; Music & Musicians SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants SPLIT THE LARK AND YOU'LL FIND THE MUSIC, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Now, do you doubt that your bird was true? Subject(s): Music & Musicians SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FIDDLER JONES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth keeps some vibration going Last Line: And not a single regret. Variant Title(s): Fiddler Jones Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Old Age ST. LOUIS BLUES, by WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate to see de ev'nin' sun go down Last Line: If my blues don't get you my jazzing must. Alternate Author Name(s): Handy, W. C. Subject(s): Blues (mood); Music & Musicians STANZAS FOR MUSIC, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a love that only lives Last Line: And that one's far away. Subject(s): Music & Musicians STANZAS FOR MUSIC, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Believe me, 'tis no pang of jealous pride Last Line: For what I am -- but what I wish to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 STORM-MUSIC, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O music has thou only heard Last Line: And harmony the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Storms STRANGE FRUIT, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the early evening, taking a walk in the fields to think about this Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Lynching; Music & Musicians; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry STREET CRIERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When poll stays here, her jack goes there Last Line: Who'll buy young watercress?' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs STREET MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O how the dance-tune trips it through the street Last Line: From a bleared woman, sick and old and sad! Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Spring; Streets; Avenues STREET MUSICIANS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One died, and the soul was wrenched out Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Homeless STREET MUSICIANS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As once a noisy car bore me along Last Line: O give me peace that I the whole may hear! Subject(s): Music & Musicians STREET SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a mad miracle I go intact Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Music & Musicians STRENGTH OF THE ORCHESTRA, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Two hands are manipulating Last Line: Of monstrous oaks. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras STRING QUARTET, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How learn our way through these mazy strings Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Music & Musicians SUMMER'S PASSING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A single branch of flaming red Last Line: The singing and the sighing! Subject(s): Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Joy; Delight SUNDAY MORNING, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road someone is practising scales Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sabbath; Sunday SUNDAY UP THE RIVER: 18, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wine of love is music Last Line: That great, rich vine. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Variant Title(s): The Vine Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Music & Musicians SURFACES AND MASKS; 3, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She takes him into “the rape of europa” Last Line: The only play picasso ever wrote Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers; Togetherness; Italians SWAY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone at lake kearney had a nickname: Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Women SYMPHONY, by NELL FARRINGTON MYERS Poem Text First Line: I have knelt in great cathedrals Last Line: As the symphony ... On the farm. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Symphonies; Concerts SYMPHONY MUSIC, by GEORGE GLAYNE Poem Text First Line: Symphony music Last Line: Like lovers in an ecstatic mood. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sound; Symphonies; Concerts SYMPHONY OF WINTER, by ANNE MABRY MCFARLAND Poem Text First Line: The world is a stage for nature's own ... Last Line: And flowers spring up from their hearts. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PRELUDE. THE WAYSIDE INN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One autumn night, in sudbury town Last Line: Yielded; and thus the story ran. Subject(s): Books; Music & Musicians; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Sudbury, Massachusetts; Reading 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 TANGLEWOOD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were trying to talk about love Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations TAPPING; FOR BABY LAURENCE AND OTHER TAP DANCERS, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pat this floor Last Line: Go hmmmp hmmmmp hmmmmmp Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Jazz; Music & Musicians TAZA BA TAZA, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Akbar sate high in the ivory wall Last Line: Taza ba taza, now ba now. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TESTAMENT OF SEX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every saturday the saxophone sage Last Line: The sound before a great war Subject(s): Music & Musicians THALASSIUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the flowery forefront of the year Last Line: And in thy soul the sense of all the sea. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Wind; Ocean THAT GENERAL UTILITY RAG, BY OUR OWN IRVING BERLIN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to hear-yes, yes!-I like to hear Last Line: Ra-a-a-g! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Bands; Berlin, Irving (1888-1989); Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts THE ACCOMPANIST, by DICK ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE ACCOMPANIST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't play too much, don't play Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE ACCOMPANIST, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Perhaps it is a humble thing to weave Last Line: To make a perfect background for the rest. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE AIM WAS SONG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before man came to blow it right Last Line: The aim was song -- the wind could see. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE ANGEL OF GOD IN THE GARDEN OF DAME PHANTASY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy's garden hath a deep bocage Last Line: The simples of her art will make them live alway Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Love; Music & Musicians; Paradise THE ANGER OF BEETHOVEN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This night the enchanting musicians rendered a trio of beethoven Last Line: And in art supreme, immortal, the infamous arrows of fortune. Subject(s): Anger; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians THE AUDIENCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intently leans the avid sage Last Line: Progressive theme perpetually. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Music Criticism & Critics THE BALLAD OF IMITATION, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If they hint, o musician, the piece that you played Last Line: And the man who plants cabbages imitates, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Art & Artists; Imitation; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets THE BATTLE MUSIC, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Around the earth, like tides of ocean Last Line: Who wage the battle of the soul. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE BEAT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I'm too much of a musician Last Line: Of lilacs in the springtime. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE BELLS, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the sledges with the bells Last Line: To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians THE BELLS OF SHANDON, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With deep affection and recollection Last Line: Of the river lee. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Variant Title(s): Shandon Bells Subject(s): Bells; Lee (river), Ireland; Music & Musicians; Patriotism THE BIRD, THE BIRD, THE BIRD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the spring flowers I likewise am Last Line: Implacable, but content Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism THE BUDDY BOLDEN CYLINDER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't exist, I know, but I love Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bolden, Buddy (1877-1931); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE BUGLER; A CASE STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, by LIN DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I can't blow taps no more Last Line: "and that squares me!" Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Music & Musicians; Psychology; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Psychologists THE CALL OF LIFE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Only one life to live! To do the best Last Line: Thou art a ruby in god's paradise. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Concerts THE CELLO, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When late I heard the trembling cello play Last Line: No face of all can ever seem the same. Subject(s): Cellos; Music & Musicians THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been thinking it through, as I play here tonight, to play never again Last Line: Not a soul from the seaport my birthplace -- will come, or bestow me. . . A tear. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE CHILDREN'S MUSIC, by FRANCES MARY OWEN Poem Text First Line: We asked where the magic came from Last Line: "which the little children hear." Alternate Author Name(s): Owen, F. M. Subject(s): Children; Music & Musicians; Childhood THE CHOIR INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, may I join the choir invisible Last Line: Whose music is the gladness of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Ambition; Creative Ability; Life Change Events; Music & Musicians; Religion; Worship; Inspiration; Creativity; Theology 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 CITY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dear is the song of the pine Last Line: For the ships of all the earth! Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Music & Musicians THE COMBO, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In barlight alchemized: gold pate, the bellmouth Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE CONCERT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harpist believes there is music Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War THE CURFEW CHIMES, by VARNUM LANSING COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Clanging, dinging / slowly swinging Last Line: Float down from the frosted sky! Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians THE DANCE, by DAVID NASH Poem Text First Line: On with the dance!' and the orchestra played Last Line: "on with the dance! May it ever be this!" Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance on; we would not touch you Last Line: Dance like a star on the sea! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Life; Music & Musicians; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean THE DANCE OF LOVE (WRITTEN FOR MADAME LIZA LEHMANN), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music sighs and slumbers Last Line: Love's ecstasy and pain. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hearts; Love; Music & Musicians THE DAWN-STAR MAIDEN AND THE HONEY BLOSSOM BLUES, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Sing us a dance in jazz-land numbers Last Line: Dance the honey-blossom blues! Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds instead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs THE DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the drum! Last Line: Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the ear! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; War; Liberty THE DRUMMER, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Early before the unseen cricket-choir Last Line: That mocking pipe, my spirit, whistles still! Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments THE EAR IS AN ORGAN MADE FOR LOVE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the language that left us first Subject(s): Language; Love; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THE EVERYDAY ENCHANTMENT OF MUSIC, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which was polishe Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE FANTASTIC NAMES OF JAZZ, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoot sims, joshua redman Last Line: And of course jelly roll morton. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Names THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE: THE ORCHESTRA, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Now shall the organ be roused to its utmost passion of power Last Line: Drums and cymbals and harps all fill their eloquent parts. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FIDDLING WOOD, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron Last Line: Black, dragon branches whipped below a moon! Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Woods THE FIFTIES, by MARVIN BELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles davis is on a night off Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians THE FIREMEN'S BALL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give the engines room Last Line: Clang . . . Clang . . . Clang. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bands; Dancing & Dancers; Fire; Firefighters; Life; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE FIRST VIOLINIST, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: We passed him Last Line: And shut us in! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Violins THE FLOWER OF THE RUINS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thy lute and sing Last Line: With the flood! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments 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 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-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 FOUNDER OF THE FEAST, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter my palace,' if a prince should say Last Line: By halle, schumann, piatti, joachim. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE FUGUE (ANDANTE MAESTOSO), by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Hark! Like a golden thread of sound aerial Last Line: With a whole world of beauty in its bounds. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE GAMESTERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music and poesy, like gods at play Last Line: And let her heavenly sister snatch control. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets THE GERMAN BAND, by EARL DERR BIGGERS Poem Text First Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way Last Line: Just a german band a-playing in a narrow alley-way. Subject(s): Bands; Marching & Marches; Music & Musicians; Parades; Patriotism; Orchestras THE GLORIOUS GAME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go about dumfoundedly, and show a dullard's glance Last Line: Sky-larking down the days! Subject(s): Faith; Music & Musicians; Truth; Belief; Creed THE GLORY TRUMPETER, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eddie's face, wrinkled with river lights Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians THE GRAMOPHONE AT FOND-DU-LAC, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eddie malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store Last Line: Jack. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE GREAT MUSICIAN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the mottled shadows of the maple leaves Last Line: But thine will ever be heard. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE GUITAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem 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 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 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 HAUNTED, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Masters of music, ye of tuneful vein Last Line: God's blessing is your bane. Subject(s): Ghosts; Loss; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Supernatural; Songs THE HISTORY OF JAZZ, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of blue came drifting down Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians THE HORRORS OF MAJUBA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the great majuba fight Last Line: That their fame will be handed down to posterity for many a day! Subject(s): Bands; Courage; Fights; Heroism; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 79. THE MONOCHORD, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it this sky's vast vault or ocean's sound Last Line: Upon the devious coverts of dismay? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE FIRST FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dank is the air and dusk the sky Last Line: Amid the mazy paths of song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE SECOND FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel ceased; the music's wings Last Line: Caught his wild story from the blast. Subject(s): Advice; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Songs THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE THIRD FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tale was said. Fair agnes rose Last Line: Upon the marvels of his tongue. Subject(s): Aging; Bribery; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE INDOORS IS ENDLESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring in 1827, beethoven / hoists his death-mask and sails off Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Death; Music & Musicians; Soul; Dead, The THE ITINERANT POET'S ROAD SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comin' out of lolo pass Last Line: All you got is the changes in time... The changes in time. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE JAZZ GIRL, by MYRTLE HICKEY MCCORMACK HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Like a butterfly that flits from flower to flower Last Line: In her jazz -- she forgot all maidenly duty. Subject(s): Aging; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Women THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When our semi-conductor Subject(s): High Schools; Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE KEYBOARD, by ANNE CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: Life is a keyboard / on which we press Last Line: Hold music too! Alternate Author Name(s): Stark, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight THE LAST MUSIC, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly, breathe calmly all your music, maids! Last Line: Rest! Worthy found, to die. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE LIFE TO COME, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a city where god's happy children Last Line: Then I should ask of god no more. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Future Life; Music & Musicians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE LOST CHORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Seated one day at the organ Last Line: I shall hear that grand amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Music & Musicians; Organs (musical Instruments); Paradise THE LOVELY HUSBAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh a lovely husband he was known, he loved his wife and Last Line: In this love-ly man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LUTE AND THE LYRE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep desire, that pierces heart and spirit to the root Last Line: Deep desire. Subject(s): Desire; Music & Musicians; Roundels THE LUTE PLAYER (A WOMAN), by HAN YU Poem Text First Line: Tell-tale your song -- as tell-tale as your eyes Last Line: Like water flooding from a broken vase. Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Lutes; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Women THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on cushioned otter skin Last Line: Old. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Courts & Couriers; Music & Musicians THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR: 1-6, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The man bent over his guitar Last Line: A composing of senses of the guitar Subject(s): Human Rights; Music & Musicians THE MAN WITH THE SAXOPHONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poet's Biography First Line: New york. 5 a.M. Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Cities; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Urban Life THE MARKET-BELL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet from his pipe the piper drew Last Line: Earth's loud, imperious market bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians; Sound THE MASTER-CHORD, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a musician that with flying finger Last Line: And dare not stoop, fearing to tell -- I love her. Variant Title(s): A Lover's Fear Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O million-singing comes the may Last Line: Had given birth to man! Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer THE MEETING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The music under the linden-tree sounds Last Line: And shun now the sight of each other. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nymphs; Youth THE MERRY MUSIC, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Letting the merry music stray Last Line: Letting the merry music stray! Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MILITARY HARPIST, by RUTH PITTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strangely assorted, the shape of song and the bloody man Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soldiers THE MINSTREL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He played on the single string Last Line: And the red damascus rose! Subject(s): Middle East; Music & Musicians; Superstition; Near East; Levant THE MOCKINGBIRD, by JOHN WARWICK DANIEL III Poem Text First Line: Like a herald rainbow springing from a cloud Last Line: And I have learned the music of a passionate desire. Subject(s): Memory; Mockingbirds; Music & Musicians THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: ALICE'S STORY. PART II, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has the school been left behind Last Line: The opening notes were heard. Subject(s): Girls; Music & Musicians THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: CONCLUSION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye read her story Last Line: And service of high praise in the eternal land! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Praise THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 1 (ADAGIO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft and slow / ever a gentle underflow Last Line: With sudden sparkle of delight, a new and joyous strain. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 2 (ALLEGRETTO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! Awake / for life is sweet Last Line: While deeper still the silence, deeper yet the shade. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 3 (PRESTO AGITATO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in awful tempest swelling Last Line: And to the master, -- praise! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE MUSIC, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is not the only one getting ready only Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MUSIC O' THE DEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When music, in a heart that's true Last Line: The music o' the dead, john. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Bereavement THE MUSIC OF A FRIEND, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a garden where for sunless days Last Line: Full-throated, came the music of a friend. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Solitude; Loneliness THE MUSIC OF THE PINES, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, like fairy bugles, when the shades Last Line: Like the music that I ne'er shall hear again from out the pines. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE MUSIC OF THE SEA, by QUINTIN BONE Poem Text First Line: I love the bold choir of the wild sea waves Last Line: To fling the story on a thousand coasts. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sea; Ocean THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD AND OF THE SOUL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I say I see the things I see not? Last Line: May fix the entranced soul 'mid multitudes alone. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MUSIC OF TIME, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young woman sewing by the window Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MUSIC STRAIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music strain, where do you go Last Line: "hope and hark, and have no fear." Subject(s): Death; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE MUSICAL CONQUERERS, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Led by kind stars one ev'ning to the groves Last Line: My eyes no less were charm'd at her angelic sight. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE MUSICIAN, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a good musician Last Line: Ah! How his music stirs! Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians THE NEAPOLITANS TO MOZART, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Strange musical wizard! The spells of thine art Last Line: Men have entertained angels ere now unawares! Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy THE NINTH SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN UNDERSTOOD .. SEXUAL MESSAGE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man in terror of impotence Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Joy; Delight THE OLD BAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's mighty good to git back to the old town, shore Last Line: I want to hear the old band play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bands; Kansas; Music & Musicians; Nostalgia; Orchestras THE OLD FIFER, by NORMAN W. GILBERT Poem Text First Line: Did ever you hear the old fifer play Last Line: But the merry old fifer may come no more. Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 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 THE OLD HAND-ORGAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harsh-voiced it was, and shrill Last Line: By shamefaced pennies as he played. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Organs (musical Instruments) THE OLD MUSICIAN'S FATE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He played so many instruments Last Line: He's simply gone to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Dead, The THE ORCHESTRA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The precise counterpart Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE ORGANIST, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Soft thro' the chancel casement Last Line: Before the great white throne. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Paradise THE PALACE OF BRIC-A-BRAC, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where old nankin glitters Last Line: Aldine and elzevir! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Music & Musicians THE PASSIONS: AN ODE FOR MUSIC, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When music, heavenly maid, was young Last Line: Confirm the tales her sons relate! Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 PIANO AT RED'S, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a hole called red's saloon Last Line: Back in red's saloon! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cowboys; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons 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 piperpan! Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE PIPER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well Last Line: You can never pipe my fancy from my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE PIPES AT LUCKNOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pipes of the misty moorlands Last Line: The pipes at lucknow played! Subject(s): Havelock, Sir Henry (1795-1857); India - Sepoy Rebellion (1857); Lucknow, India; Music & Musicians THE PIPES O' PAN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great nature had a million words Last Line: Till music filled the pipes o' pan. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) THE PIPES OF PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pipes of pan! Not idler now Last Line: Whetting his hunger on an empty shell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) THE POET'S TITLES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy euterpe teaches me to hate Last Line: And athens' fame. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Look for it and it’s not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Photography & Photographers; Singing & Singers THE POWER OF MUSIC, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High high those tones are beating, and how strong Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE POWER OF MUSIC, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O those sweet notes, so soft and faint; that seemed Last Line: And I can neither laugh with thee nor weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE POWER OF MUSIC, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When orpheus struck his burning lyre Last Line: Link'd with the golden harps above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE POWER OF MUSIC, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An orpheus! An orpheus! Yes, faith may grow bold Last Line: Nor what ye are flying, nor what ye pursue! Variant Title(s): Oxford Street Subject(s): Music & Musicians 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 RARE BIRDS; FOR TED BERRIGAN, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brook no obscurity, merely plunging deeper Last Line: Impressions, and it was a message, from like a very rare bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Songs THE RECALL, OR SOUL MELODY, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor dulcimer nor harp shall breathe Last Line: Unto a deathless melody. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Soul THE RECITAL, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard-- Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the poet, muttering low Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world." Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE REHEARSAL, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Xylophone, triangle, marimba, soprano, violin Last Line: When what you want is no longer possible. Subject(s): Desire; Music & Musicians THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE REWARD OF SONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we make our music? Last Line: And love is its one reward. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Love; Music & Musicians; Rewards; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Reputation THE ROUNDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A roundel is wrought as a ring or a star-bright sphere Last Line: A roundel is wrought. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Roundels THE SAME OLD STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old story told again Last Line: "till ""time shall be no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHRIEK OF PROMETHEUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh was the breeze and the rowers plied Last Line: Those throbbing hearts along the pontic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Argo (ship); Jason; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Prometheus THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep? Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE SONG CHALICE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bear the chalice.' is it so, my friend? Last Line: And, bearing thus, to pour it at his feet. Subject(s): Harmonicas; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF THE CRICKET, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the world is big, but I'll do my best Last Line: Though I 'm neither a lark nor a linnet! Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians 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 THE SONG OF THE SPHERES (IS THE SONG OF GOD), by N. B. NORMAN Poem Text First Line: Music has colors Last Line: Song of the spheres. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Paradise THE SONG-SHOP, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tink, tink, tink, / hear the pretty pieces clink Last Line: Stars, and all-assorted things. Subject(s): Children; January; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Childhood THE SPELL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The keyboard, over which two slim hands float Last Line: A little open on the garden small? Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE STORY OF PRINCE AGIB, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Last Line: When a yesterday has faded from its page. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUNDAYS OF SATIN-LEGS SMITH, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inamoratas, with an approbation Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks THE TALE OF THE WHOLE-TONE SCALE: OR, THE LADY WHO DIDN'T PLAY VERDI, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, little lady, go all the way back to rossini? Last Line: In the ranks of the youthful whose pranks live so long! Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Women THE THIRD SERMON ON THE WARPLAND, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is a beautiful place Last Line: You could make music too / the blackblues Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Phoenix (mythical Bird) THE TRANSIT, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was as if the ring had gone from the horizon Last Line: But for the space of a thought it was as if it seemed. Subject(s): Earth; Music & Musicians; World THE TUNE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I played a crazy tune Last Line: And the same waters flow. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE UNHEARD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One in the musical throng Last Line: The song in her heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Singing & Singers; Violins THE VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez / the little white dog on the victor label Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography THE VIOLIN-PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who love music and comprehend Last Line: Which are the beginning and end of art. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Violins; Vision THE VOICE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich is the music of sweet instruments Last Line: Or pale br¸nhilde moans her bitter fate. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE VOICE OF MUSIC, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence is the might of thy master-spell? Last Line: Links it with regions more bright than earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE WEARY BLUES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Droning a drowsy syncopated tune Last Line: He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks THE WHISTLE OF SANDY MCGRAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine Last Line: You wee penny whistle o' sandy mcgraw. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE WIDOW'S JAZZ, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white flesh quakes to the negro soul Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Chicago; Jazz; Music & Musicians THE WORDS-AND-MUSIC MEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said they could make up songs Subject(s): Language; Music & Musicians; Words; Vocabulary THE WORLD'S MUSIC, by THOMAS NICOLL HEPBURN Poem Text First Line: The world's a very happy place Last Line: And never, never sulk at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Setoun, Gabriel Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE YOUNG CATS' CLUB FOR POETRY-MUSIC, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The philharmonic young cats' club Last Line: And simper'd and look'd the wiser. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Life; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Winter THESE AGELESS THEMES, by KIRKE MECHEM Poem Text First Line: Ah, yes! It has been said a thousand times Last Line: Shall tune their lyres to these eternal themes Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers THIS BANTAM STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Is this the blackbird's richest song Last Line: Can match this little bantam star!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs THOSE EVENING BELLS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those evening bells! Those evening bells! Last Line: And sing your praise, sweet evening bells. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THREE ORCHESTRAL THEMES, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Nightfall... / I hear the fainting echo of a muezzin's last call Last Line: Poet's dream of paradise... Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rest; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts THUNDER BY THE MUSICIAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure enough, moving, the thunder became men Subject(s): Music & Musicians TIE-DOWN OF A BONSAI, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ladder propped against a rainbow Subject(s): Bonsai; Language; Music & Musicians; Rainbows; Words; Vocabulary TIGHTENED STRINGS, by ELIZABETH B. ROBB Poem Text First Line: The charm of music's soul - elating voice Last Line: There is no music but on tightened strings. Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music, when soft voices die Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on. Variant Title(s): Music;memory Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement TO --, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half in the dim light from the hall Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO A CASTILIAN SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We held the book together timidly Last Line: And not a breath divides my love from me! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO A COMPOSER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red chair, blue chair, white chair, big chair, chair Last Line: Become a style of living. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Here in the shelter of tall, towering trees Last Line: To form your hymn of praise, o hermit thrush! Subject(s): Hermits; Music & Musicians; Quiet Life; Solitude; Loneliness TO A MOCKING-BIRD IN THE PINE-TOP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the south-sweet songster! Last Line: Shall live for immortality. Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight TO A POET AT THE PIANO (K.O), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not all unhappy,' said one wise of heart Last Line: And fill the measure of each two-fold song. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets TO A VIOLIN, by BERTHA FRANCES GORDON Poem Text First Line: Strange shape, who moulded first thy dainty shell? Last Line: To quench his thirst, and help his load to bear. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Sound; Violins TO ALPHONSO [ALFONSO] FERRABOSCO, ON HIS BOOK, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To urge, my loved alphonso, that bold fame Last Line: Shed in thy songs; 'tis true: but short of thee. Subject(s): Ferrabosco, Alphonso (1575-1628); Music & Musicians TO BEETHOVEN, by CLARA BOYNTON HADLEY Poem Text First Line: What music did'st thou hear Last Line: What thou did'st comprehend. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians TO BEETHOVEN, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In o'er-strict calyx lingering Last Line: 1876 - 7. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music & Musicians TO CAROLEE COOMBS-STACY, WHO SET MY VERSES TO MUSIC, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One afternoon a few years ago, in a mountain forest in upstate new Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets TO DOCTOR HAKE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beloved hour that ushers day Last Line: And with a tide of song his silence broke. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Sunrise TO E. M. O., by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oakeley, whenas the bass you beat Last Line: But, when you touch a rib, he roars. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO EUTERPE, by EMILY BLANCHE MANN GROBY Poem Text First Line: Sweet goddess, when your songs come drifting down Last Line: And words are luminous pearls from your tender mouth. Subject(s): Euterpe (goddess); Music & Musicians TO IONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day within me, sweet and clear Last Line: I hear you singing -- singing. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs TO JOSEPH JOACHIM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belov'd of all to whom that muse is dear Last Line: And every ear that heard thee stopt with dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Jews; Joachim, Joseph (1831-1907); Music & Musicians; Judaism TO LAURA, PLAYING, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the chords, thy fingers steal Last Line: Souls in elysium speak? Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MISS ROSE BROUGHTON, NOW LADY ST. JOHN, ABERYSTWITH, JULY 5, 1799, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Louisa, while thy pliant fingers trace Last Line: Or spoil the heart's accordance with the face! Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MR. MCG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were all sad and could not weep Last Line: To any threat'ning fears. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO MUSIC, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, music, thou art not the 'food of love' Last Line: Till it becomes all music murmurs of. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MUSIC [TO BECALM HIS FEVER], by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charm me asleep, and melt me so Last Line: For heaven. Variant Title(s): Music Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MUSIC; A FRAGMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver key of the fountain of tears Last Line: Is laid asleep in flowers. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sleep TO MUSICK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begin to charme, and as thou stroak'st mine eares Last Line: And make me smooth as balme, and oile againe. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO MUSICK, TO BECALME A SWEET-SICK-YOUTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere Last Line: Like to a slumbring bride, awake againe. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Sleep TO MUSICK; A SONG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Musick, thou queen of heaven, care-charming-spel Last Line: To charme our soules, as thou enchant'st our eares. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO ONE BEYOND DEATH'S PORTALS, by ROBERT CARY Poem Text First Line: If you who loved so well the sonnet-form Last Line: Grief's manuscript to music's lingering bar. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Dead, The TO PADEREWSKI, PATRIOT, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a martyred race, that long Last Line: Shall plead for thy distracted land. Subject(s): Composers; Music & Musicians; Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941); World War I; First World War TO PERCY BUCK, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folk alien to the muse have hemm'd us round Last Line: Beside me, listening in the chancel-aisle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Buck, Percy Carter (1871-1947); Harrow, England; Music & Musicians TO THE EXCELLENT MASTER OF MUSIC, SIGNIOR PIETRO REGGIO, ON HIS SONGS, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' to advance thy fame, full well I know Last Line: The raptures of thy voice, and miracles of thy hand? Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO THE ONE OF FICTIVE MUSIC, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sister and mother and diviner love Last Line: The imagination that we spurned and crave. Subject(s): Music & Musicians TO THE PIANIST BILL EVANS, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear you Last Line: On taking our hands Subject(s): Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Jazz; Music & Musicians TO THE SAME, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we do give, alphonso, to the light Last Line: For fame, with breath soon kindled, soon blown out. Subject(s): Ferrabosco, Alphonso (1575-1628); Music & 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 TOCCATA IN D MINOR (BACH), by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: Breakers insistent, massive, persistent Last Line: Rollersfar out in the night. Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Music & Musicians TODAY'S MUSIC, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His being started with music Subject(s): Time; Music & Musicians TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop playing, poet! May a brother speak? Subject(s): Thought; Philosophy & Philosophers; Music & Musicians; Thinking TRIUMPHANT MUSIC, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore and whither bear'st thou up Last Line: Of joy no more -- bewildering harmony! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Music & Musicians TRUMPET PLAYER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The negro / with the trumpet at his lips Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song & Music; Music & Musicians; Negroes; American Blacks TSCHAIKOWSKY, by VIRGINIA WALLACE RUNYON Poem Text First Line: These things were his: the shuddering night wind Last Line: He found at last a triumph in despair. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Tchaikovsky, Pytor Ilich (1840-1893); Tschaikovsky, Pytor Ilich TWO SONGS FROM THE PERSIAN: 1, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cease, sweet music, let us rest Last Line: Be still, and let us rest. Subject(s): Music & Musicians UN POCO LOCO, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bud powell's story is never complete Last Line: As the bastard spirit beyond her strength Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Powell, Bud (earl) (1924-1966) UNCERTAINTY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a phrase Last Line: Are softly blown. Subject(s): Doubt; Music & Musicians; Skepticism UNDER DARK SKIES, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the dark skies across the amber sands Last Line: Under dark skies. Subject(s): Music & Musicians UNDINE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of como, whose rhythmical call Last Line: Lured there to ecstasy, lulled there to sleep. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Music & Musicians; Sleep UNDINE: A SONG OF SPRING (FOR THE GUITAR), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What word wakes the woodland to music and life? Last Line: Ting-a-ling, ring-a-ding spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Spring UNHEARD MUSIC, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say that, far above our octaves, pierce Last Line: When closely-twined arms relax again. Subject(s): Music & Musicians UNRELENTING FLOOD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black key. White key. No Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Tatum, Art (1910-1956) UNSTRUNG, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My skies were blue, and my sun was bright Last Line: Could never be tender and sweet again. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Music & Musicians UNWRITTEN MUSIC, by LAURA M. LADLEY Poem Text First Line: So many lovely notes come to my ear Last Line: And spring is here! Subject(s): Music & Musicians VARIATIONS FOR A SUMMER EVENING, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you and goodbye' Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Roach, Max (b. 1924); Young, Lester ('prez') (1909-1959) VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas Subject(s): Arkansas; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS: 13, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue waves are driven by wind Last Line: The querulous praise will soon be mute. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The VENICE BEACH: BRIEF SONG, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe zizi is right Subject(s): Beiderbecke, Bix (1903-1931); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Rock & Roll VENICE: ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Radio 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 VERSES UNDER A PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BRITTON, A COAL MERCHANT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though doomed to small-coal, yet to arts applied Last Line: Had kneller painted, and had vertue graved. Variant Title(s): Lines Subject(s): Britton, Thomas (1644-1714); Coal Mines & Miners; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Music & Musicians; Vertue, George (1684-1756); Kniller, Gottfried VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN SONGS: TWO IN ONE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were thou and I the white pinions Last Line: Two thoughts in the heart of one lord. Subject(s): Doves; God; Love; Music & Musicians; Sky VIVA LA MUSICA, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our house, that long in darkness dwelt Last Line: And hear your latest scholar sing. Subject(s): Music & Musicians VOICES (FOR JAMES LANE ALLEN), by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: I am not dead, I think Last Line: Or flesh to dust made fast! Subject(s): Allen, James Lane (1849-1925); Music & Musicians; Voices WALKING PARKER HOME, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet beats of jazz impaled on slivers of wind Last Line: In raging fires of love. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955) WAR MEMOIR: JAZZ, DON'T LISTEN TO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, in the wet Last Line: And feel, & die. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians WAR-TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS, by ANN COBB Poem Text First Line: Dulcimer over the fireboard, hanging sence allusago Last Line: Beat and beget sons and daughters to sing the old songs at his feet. Subject(s): Dulcimers; Kentucky; Mountains; Music & Musicians; Wellesley College; World War I; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War WHAT ABOUT THIS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guy comes walking out of the garden Subject(s): Shooting; Drinks & Drinking; Music & Musicians; Strangers; Wine WHAT CAN STOP THIS, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can stop this Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If an inaudible whistle Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians WHAT THEN OF US, WE HUMBLE FIDDLING FOLK, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What then of us, we humble fiddling folk Last Line: Till the last mind forget its final dreaming. Subject(s): Beauty; Fiddles; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments WHEN KREISLER PLAYS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: He lifts his slender bow Last Line: Your cherished dreamsthat ever grow more real. Subject(s): Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962); Music & Musicians WHILE LISTENING TO A SYMPHONY, by MARGARET LAURIE SEAMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, you who seem so near when soft Last Line: And having learned content, in your joy we are resting. Subject(s): Bands; Music & Musicians; Symphonies; Orchestras; Concerts WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America WHY, MINSTREL, THESE UNTUNEFUL MURMURINGS', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To its sad lord, far from his native fields? Subject(s): Homesickness; Longing; Loss; Music & Musicians WITH CHAOS IN EACH KISS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside your door, an ocean Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITH DEATH THE UNCOUTH, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: None could remember when he first came there Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet. Subject(s): Bands; Death; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Dead, The WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou into thy closet; shut thy door Last Line: The poet awakes from his dream. Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Sequence Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Christianity; Clergy; Death; Escapes; Exiles; Family Life; Future Life; God; Humility; Marriage; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Redemption; Regret; Revenge; Salvation; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Childhood; Priests; Rab WOINOMOINEN'S MUSIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then the ancient woinomoinen Last Line: Through his jackets eight of wadmal Subject(s): Music & Musicians WORDS FOR MUSIC, by BYRON CHEW Poem Text First Line: Feet that are weary from far journeys, rest a spell Last Line: Hear stories of far lands where rivers go. Subject(s): Music & Musicians YARDBIRD'S SKULL, by OWEN DODSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is lost Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Skulls; Negroes; American Blacks YOU CAN'T RHUMBOOGIE IN A BALL AND CHAIN, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You called the blues' loose black belly lover Last Line: "“it’s your shade, this blood dress,” we say. “it’s you." Subject(s): Jazz; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Music & Musicians YOU THAT WONT TO MY PIPE'S SOUND, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Lirum, lirum, lirum, lirum Subject(s): Music & Musicians YOUR MUSIC, by PAULINE OGDEN Poem Text First Line: Your slender fingers drift across the keys Last Line: Feeling that you are playing just for me. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Nightmares YOUR TURN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem 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 YOUR VIOLIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your violin! Ah me! Last Line: Of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Music & Musicians; Trees; Violins ZEPHRYUS BRINGS THE TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Zephyrus brings the time that sweetly scenteth Last Line: "are like a desert, and cruel beasts devouring" Subject(s): Birds;music & Musicians;singing & Singers ZOOT, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speakeasy she Last Line: Me, fa, fast, quick- / silvered - Subject(s): Music & Musicians |
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