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Subject: MUSIC BOX
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOUND IN TRANSLATION [FOR CLAIRE MALROUX], by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a beechwood sideboard there sat in state
Last Line: Music, carved wood, a blue ceramic tile
Subject(s): Children; Music Box; Translating & Interpreting; Childhood


ON A MUSICAL BOX, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little sprite in that dark narrow cell
Last Line: Poor little sprite! And then sleep peacefully!
Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny
Subject(s): Music Box


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


THE MUSIC BOX, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At six - long ere the wintry dawn
Last Line: Who lay and waited for the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Music Box


THE MUSIC BOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Music Box; Forgetfulness


THE MUSICAL BOX, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lifelong to be
Last Line: I did not see.
Subject(s): Music Box


YORK MUSIC BOX, by SARAH D. CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just out of the window
Subject(s): Music Box