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Subject: MUSIC TEACHERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MUSIC LESSON, by ALEXANDER HAY JAPP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fingers on the holes, johnny
Last Line: But needit a' his skill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Page, H. A.
Subject(s): Music Teachers


FRANKIE'S MUSIC LESSON, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hi, goldin,' oozed dorthea
Last Line: Not even the scent of her chanel
Subject(s): Music Teachers


GLINT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother mentioned only once how the piano teacher she had as
Last Line: They're drifting just outside the tune.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Kisses; Lips; Music Teachers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


HOLLY LESTER, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My music teacher, mr. Loomis
Last Line: Man, is he sharp
Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Music Teachers; Schools


MAESTRO, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: He smoked like a chimney we used to say unfiltered
Subject(s): Music Teachers


MISS GIFFORD, THE MUSIC TEACHER, WHO ALSO TAUGHT HOME ROOM, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sails in, flings off her black
Last Line: Of it, every stroke a prayer
Subject(s): Music Teachers


MY MUSIC TEACHER, by ERIC VIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peace lay upon her features white as wax
Subject(s): Music Teachers


PIANO LESSONS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full 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


PITTSBURGH, 1948: THE MUSIC TEACHER, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't know where my mother got him
Last Line: I'd felt sorry for anyone white
Subject(s): Music Teachers


REMEMBERING A FIRST-GRADE MUSIC TEACHER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her non-representational near face
Last Line: And in church I never sing
Subject(s): Music Teachers


SEASONAL TRADITION, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Felicia's music teacher gives a concert for sonia
Last Line: The evening's greatest success
Subject(s): Music Teachers