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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Matches Found: 357 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "JACKY, COME GIVE ME THY FIDDLE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: For many a joyful day / my fiddle and I have had Subject(s): Musical Instruments 1956, THE YEAR MY SISTER, USING HER ILL HEALTH ONCE AGAIN ..., by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: My mother even hated Last Line: With an ear for a good accordion %and all the musics one can make Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Sickness; Sisters A BANJO SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dere's lots o' keer an' trouble Last Line: Like dat one upon de wall. Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments A BANJO SONG, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de banjos wuz a-ringin' Last Line: We'll dance tel de day done break. Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Songs A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE; SONG OF SILENCE (E.L.H - H.C.H.), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since every sound moves memories Last Line: Nay: hushed, hushed, hushed, you are for me! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Silence 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 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 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 ABT VOGLER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build Last Line: The c major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Religion; Theology ACCIDENTALS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Driving thirteenth street, I have the sense Last Line: Has gone, and all my pots are full of tears Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ACCORDION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some carol of the banjo, to its measure keeping time Last Line: To the cinder-swinging satellites of hell Subject(s): Musical Instruments ACCORDION REPAIRMAN, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Almost losing her to the night Last Line: Weightless and immortal as the heavens Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments ADAGIO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The swing in the hips of a man Last Line: Who begins her warble knowing %she has all day to sing Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ADDRESS TO MY HARP, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my loved harp! Companion dear Last Line: To pensive gloom a silent prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres AEOLIAN HARP (1), by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pale green sea Last Line: And constant silence, with a message from the blest? Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres AEOLIAN HARP (TO TWO YOUNG MUSICIANS), by PHOEBE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Taut strings that ever stir Last Line: In a never-ending strain. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres 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 ALLEGRISSIMO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: His words get away, so many ballons Last Line: She is so happy, there is absolutely nothing %she can say Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 6. THE BARREL-ORGAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enigmatical, tremulous Last Line: The voice of my heart is crying in you. Subject(s): Longing; Organs (musical Instruments) AN AEOLIAN HARP, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou not hear? Amid dun, lonely Last Line: With ineffectual plaint as from a tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres AN IMPROMPTU; ... FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE GREAT ORGAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked three little maidens who heard the organ play Last Line: "and what you heard last evening were seraph lips and lyres!" Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) AN ODE ON AEOLUS'S HARP, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ethereal race, inhabitants of air Last Line: For, till you cease, my muse forgets to sing. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres ARPEGGIATION, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A combed chord Last Line: If you look down, %you fall Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AS ACCENT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A horn behind you which says go Last Line: You were sure of what you'd seen. %any sharp pain Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AS DIMINUENDO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Can you feel the speaker's breath as he comes closer? Last Line: Do you really believe this ends in silence? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ASPIRATIONS: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, indeed, th' aeolian harp Last Line: And flaming grandly on and on. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Harps; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres AT THE PIANO, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman was playing Last Line: And the phantom hid nigh. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AULD REEKIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chitterin' cauld the day sall daw Last Line: Auld reekie, still and on! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments BAG-PIPES AT SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the shouting of the gale Last Line: His highland home! Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full 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 BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw Last Line: But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy BAGPIPE PLAYER, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He plays his little tune in water Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments 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 BARREL ORGAN, by DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Since my vivian left me Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) BASS: IN MEMORY OF JIMMY GARRISON, by RACHEL M. HARPER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wish Last Line: My woman was wood Subject(s): Musical Instruments BILLY AND HIS DRUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! It's come, kids, come! Last Line: Ef you don't hear little billy an' his big bass drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Drums; Judgment Day; Musical Instruments; Noises; Childhood; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BLACK DRUM, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the fish thrashed Last Line: Every silence, was a roar Subject(s): Black (color); Drums; Musical Instruments BLACK KEYS, by MARGARET R. RICHTER Poem Text First Line: My fingers falter even in the scale Last Line: How sad a thing in love is one false note. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos BRECHVA'S HARP-SONG, by ERNEST RHYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little harp, at thy cry Last Line: Him all king! Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres BROCADE ZITHER, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: This brocade zither, for no apparent reason, has fifty strings. Last Line: But is at this instant already dispossessed Subject(s): Time; Zithers (musical Instruments) BY THE FIRE ('AM KAMIN'); AFTER ROBERT SCHUMAN, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: Tsk, tsk of the metronome Last Line: Leaping again from the dark, ash-silted cave Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos CALLIOPE, by STUART FRIEBERT Poem Source First Line: Steamers going by downriver used to have them Last Line: Is smooth and blue, and the circus poster grampa brought %from budapest just beginning to come free Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments) CANTUS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Not this smoke, this spent wick, but the pale Last Line: Death but the dying Subject(s): Melodies; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing And Singers CAROLAN'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound of music, from amidst the hills Last Line: A young sweet spirit gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courtship; Harps; Musical Instruments; O'carolan, Turlough (1670-1738); Prophecy & Prophets; Women; Lyres CAROUSEL, by RICHARD ROERSTER Poem Source First Line: As the calliope pipes, the children skirl Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments) CASUALTIES: 26. PARTY SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here we mill drinking by midnight Last Line: Like lights over lagos Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Parties; Singing And Singers CIRCUS PARADE, by OLIVE BEAUPRE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow, tomorrow's the circus parade! Last Line: And the wheezing, old calliope is %the very tail end of the show! Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments); Circus; Parades CLARINET, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Less than a recurrent dream, but more haunting Last Line: Brightening and darkening the sesonant bell Subject(s): Musical Instruments CLAVICHORD, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: She keeps her clavichord Subject(s): Musical Instruments CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: THE SOLOIST, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, you who sing soprano Last Line: Or I'll throw a bomb! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: It is not too late to find our chairs Last Line: But not explain, like joy Subject(s): Bands; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos CONCERT BY SEGOVIA, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: From sor to de visee to albeniz Last Line: No longer afraid of its many answers Subject(s): Guitars; Musical Instruments; Symphonies CONVERSATION, by JEFFREY (JEFF) FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: My father sat %in an armchair Last Line: And he beamed me a smile. %this is how we talked Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments CUBAN DANCE, by RAMON DE PALMA Poem Source First Line: Upon the air amid the night the orchestra is playing Last Line: The outcry of our souls is heard amid thine echoes there! Subject(s): Bands; Cuba; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos DELACROIX AND THE ORGAN AT ST. SULPICE, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: Hear the tulmult beneath the painted glass Last Line: Hear each stroke burst permanently into fire Subject(s): Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863); Organs (musical Instruments) DINING OUT, by JOHN KRUMBERGER Poem Source First Line: A man sings romantic ballads in the piano lounge swaying like a bear Last Line: Cliff Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Grief; Love - Complaints; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears 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 DROPPING INTO THE KEYS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: How from height to the ivory water Last Line: How then through the rising air, %fish shines Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos DRUM, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The drum's a very quiet fellow Last Line: And beat him soundly for the band Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full 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 DRUM CRAZY, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year of the drummer Last Line: Of his bouts against the drums Subject(s): Drums; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments DRUMS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am the people's point of view, a cow Last Line: They beat carpets, the color gets up with the sunrise. %morepeople will see me, with sunrise I becom Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments DRUMS AND BRASS, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring trumpet throats that are big with a gust of moons Last Line: Till the untold morning be come and the dancers be fled. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Trumpets ECHOES, by MARGARET ROOT GARVIN Poem Text First Line: Snapped! - is the string of the harp Last Line: But who so eloquent as they! Subject(s): Echoes; Musical Instruments; Silence ELINDA'S GLOVE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou snowy farm with thy five tenements! Last Line: Are still allow'd to fiddle with the case. Variant Title(s): The Glove Subject(s): Fiddles; Gloves; Musical Instruments; Mittens; Muffs ELIZABETH AT THE PIANO, by HORACE GREGORY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It is memory speaking, preternaturally clear Subject(s): Musical Instruments EPISTLE; TO THE EARL OF..., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To write in verse, o count of mine Last Line: I'm sunk for ever to mankind. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Christmas; Musical Instruments; Stanhope, Philip Dormer (1694-1773); Nativity, The; Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE, by JARED LEISING Poem Source First Line: Hey, it's just a piano, baby Last Line: Have never quit taking %those lessons Subject(s): Learning; Musical Instruments; Pianos F IS FOR FIDDLES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What an enchanted world is this Last Line: We leap the winter into spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments FALSE, NOCTURNE, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Learning how to play the piano, I favored Last Line: Why not try to feel in time? Subject(s): Learning; Musical Instruments; Pianos FANTASIA, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: The old grand piano Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Travel FAREWELL TO MY LYRE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lyre of my soul! The parting hour draws nigh Last Line: Lyre of my soul, adieu! A long adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Harps; Musical Instruments; Parting; Lyres FERMATA, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Fermata the thin silk umbrella Last Line: Who came to him like a dark wind %from the south, the woman,fermata Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos FETES GALANTES: MANDOLINE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The singers of serenades Last Line: Ecstasy of the moon. Subject(s): Musical Instruments FIDDLE, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: The endless details which compose a life Last Line: Like the strings, nothing to us but a song Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments FIDDLEHEADS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Only the first scrolls inscripted Last Line: The skillet would whisper hosannas Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments FIDDLER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once was a fiddler. Play could he Last Line: But a bird sings on in the almond tree Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Musical Instruments FIGHT; THE TALE OF A GUNNER AT PLATTSBURGH, 1814, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jock bit his mittens off and blew his thumbs Last Line: The world made free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): Fight Subject(s): Drums; Freedom; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Plattsburg, Battle Of; Selflessness; War Of 1812; Liberty FORTISSIMO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: To play fortissimo Last Line: The poet of least resistance %who writes past the end of his poem Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos FUGUE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Here is the yearn that sews her life Last Line: To her skin, white as night sea, %the yearn dolphining through Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Variant Title(s): Piano After War Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Last Line: And stone will shove the softness from my face Variant Title(s): Piano After Wa Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos 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 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 GLISSANDO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: To glide, %your thin edge Last Line: Exult. Glissando says: %I fly Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos GOSPEL BANJO: HOMAGE TO LITTLE ROY LEWIS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days I lay with a fire under my skin, in the guest room Last Line: Which is the joy of waking on either side of the jordan. Subject(s): Banjos; Baptism; Dreams; Lewis, Little Roy; Musical Instruments; Prayer Meetings; Christenings; Nightmares GRACE NOTES, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes dance %astaire's clean brush before he taps Last Line: Like astaire, %whose last dance blossomed into air Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos GREEN PIANO, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles Last Line: Pink one, forever green one, white-and-gold one, comforter, living soul Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Neighbors; Pianos GYMNOPEDIE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A ring of naked boys Last Line: I am afraid to touch them Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos HARPS HUNG UP IN BABYLON, by ARTHUR WILLIS COLTON Poem Text First Line: The harps hung up in babylon Last Line: "my soul that's lost in babylon." Subject(s): Babylon; Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres HARPS WE LOVE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harp we love hath a royal burst! Last Line: When all the baser passions sleep. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres HAUNTING FINGERS; A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICIAL INSTRUMENTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you awake' Last Line: And day crawled in. Subject(s): Musical Instruments 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 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 PRAISE OF A HARP, by OSBORN BERGIN Poem Source First Line: O harp of cnoe I cosgair Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments INSTRUMENT FACTORY, BRAZIL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: It's simple enough to give away the coins in your heart, when dust settles Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Musical Instruments; Sao Paulo, Brazil INTENSIVE CARE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The old man breathes Last Line: The last clean wings %have flown %from mr. Thalberg's hands Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ISRAFIDDLESTRINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In heaven a spirit doth dwell Last Line: Hearing my griddle-cry Subject(s): Fiddles;hearts;heaven;musical Instruments; Paradise IT WAS A GENTLE AIR, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gentle air of lilting spirals Last Line: And cruel and eternal is her laughter of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing And Dancers; Flowers; Melodies; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest are shepherds, how happy their lasses Last Line: Chorus: let not youth, ... Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sight, the mother of desires Last Line: And if we may discover, &c. Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy the lover Last Line: The pleasures of love. Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight KING ARTHUR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd Last Line: Chorus: let not youth, ... Subject(s): Happiness; Musical Instruments; Joy; Delight LAMENT OF THE ORGANIST OF NOTRE-DAME DE NICE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, already the winter crows Last Line: I have made for the death of the earth. Subject(s): Despair; Organs (musical Instruments) LAMENT OF THE PIANOS ... OVERHEARD IN WELL-TO-DO QUARTERS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lead the soul whom letters have well nourished Last Line: "o months, o linens, o meals!" Subject(s): Despair; Musical Instruments; Pianos LEARNING TO PLAY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tall piano stool Last Line: "then I shall call it ""play." Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos LIFE IS LIKE A GOLDEN LYRE, by ROSE CAROLYN KATTERHENRY Poem Text First Line: Life is like a golden lyre Last Line: To bring forth perfect harmony. Subject(s): Life; Musical Instruments LILY PAD, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: She pulls a french horn from the bodice of her dress Last Line: With a frog %singing on her breast Subject(s): Horns (musical Instruments) LISTENING TO THE ZITHER, by ZHENG YUNDUAN Poem Source First Line: Deep in the night all sounds hush Last Line: The lofty wonders of heaven and earth are for naught Subject(s): Zithers (musical Instruments) LOST ART OF CHINA, by SARAH MATE Poem Source First Line: Little nikko njan plays the piano Last Line: A work of art long gone %reborn Subject(s): Art And Artists; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Poetry And Poets LOVE'S MUSIC, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love held a harp between his hands, and Last Line: Such was love's music, -- lo, the shatter'd harp! Subject(s): Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres MAIDEN SPEECH OF THE AEOLIAN HARP, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft and softlier hold me, friends Last Line: And charm the anguish of the worst. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres MAKING THE CHOICE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A piano to wear on her fingers Last Line: Suddenly, everything whe thought %was fastened, comes undone Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MISS LIZA'S BANJER, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Hi! Miss liza's got er banjer Last Line: Must fust be in de soul. Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments MODULATION, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: At five, with tight french braids Last Line: And the monarchs, with %their thousand paper wings Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos 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 MORDENT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A mordent is a trick of light Last Line: Its wings, which shiver %like the lashes of a dreaming boy Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MORE BAGPIPE MUSIC, by ERIC O. PARROTT Poem Source First Line: It's all go to claridges, it's all go the champers Last Line: But we'll not say how we made our pile, for that's another story Subject(s): Bagpipes; Macneice, Louis (1907-1963); Musical Instruments MUSIC, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend went to the piano; spun the stool Last Line: "how pretty!"" we said; and went on with our talk again." Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MUSICIAN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have these hands been Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Musical Instruments MUSICIAN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where have these hands been Last Line: And, under the palm, the string %sings as it wished to sing Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Musical Instruments MUSICIANS DEBATE EMBELLISHMENT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Only liars dress the dead Last Line: Her eyes are green as an emperor's jade Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos MY LAST FAREWELL TO MY HARP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And must we part? Yes, part for ever Last Line: And thou shalt calmly slumber here. Subject(s): Absence; Harps; Musical Instruments; Separation; Isolation; Lyres MY SWEET BROWN GAL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky Last Line: No, I means my fiddle -- dat 's my sweet brown gal! Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full 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 OCTAVE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: It is what happens Last Line: Calling across some dark orange dawn %to the farthest rim of rock Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ON A MEMORIAL ORGAN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His life made music sweeter far than sound Last Line: Now hearkens to the eternal harmonies. Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) ON A REED, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a reed of oaten straw Last Line: And throw your wicked halves away! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Reeds ON AN AEOLIAN HARP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: What heavenly music strikes my ravished ear Last Line: And charm the sorrows of thy soul away. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres ON AN AEOLIAN HARP, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lure of the night's daedalian sea-born breath Last Line: To wake a sense, among thy weeping strings, %of other lives,like some unceasing dream Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments ON AN OATEN STRAW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My harp is out of tune, and so I take Last Line: Seated with pan upon the mossy weir. Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs ON HEARING AN AEOLIAN HARP, by PETER BAYLEY JR. Poem Text First Line: Sure 'tis the voice of choired saints that flow Last Line: As the blest relic of a happy day. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres ON ITS STAND ON THE EMPTY STAGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Enjoys the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nature; Silence ON MARRIAGE, by JEFFREY GREENE Poem Source First Line: Mary took out her cello Last Line: Before she knew me %and put her cello down Subject(s): Cellos; Marriage; Memory; Musical Instruments ON SEEING A NEEDLECASE IN THE FORM OF A HARP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frowns are on every muse's face Last Line: "love 'stoops' as fondly as he soars." Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres ON THE LUTES OF FRANCE: MANDOLIN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: They sound their serenades Last Line: Amid the breeze's whirl. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): France; Musical Instruments ONE AND ONE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, as if it were yesterday Last Line: Proving that one and one make one Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Musical Instruments ONE AND ONE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember, as if it were yesterday Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Musical Instruments ORGANIST, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the keyboard still he lingered Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) ORGANIST, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I played so badly,' said the organist Last Line: Finding that work, which poor he deemed to be, %was still worth while Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) ORGANIST, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his dim chapel day by day Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) OVERTONES, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Her white finger falls Last Line: And then become nothing at all Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PARADE, by PHILIP LEGLER Poem Source First Line: Summer and I heard the sound of it Last Line: And the calliope piping, piping Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments); Parades 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 PEDALPOINT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: A mother's heartbeat to her foetus Last Line: Locks, passing in the panama night %from the one to the other sea Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PENNY TRUMPET, by RAPHAEL RUDNICK Poem Source First Line: I had a dog like a love Last Line: Lips, breasts - led me to rooms %where trumpets play all night Subject(s): Musical Instruments PERFORMANCE ANXIETY, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Here is my case Last Line: A sudden scurry of fur %transfixed by your high beams Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST WHO KEEPS A LOADED GUN ON HER PIANO..., by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The children know not to knock Last Line: This fierce first step over %air, is worth dying for Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST'S DREAM, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: I shoulder in a sweat-stained bag Last Line: He leaps for the letters %that are in my hand, my hand Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST'S FEAR OF DEATH, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The moment a finger's down Last Line: Know what you call, %when you whistle in that yard Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANIST'S NEXT DAY, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Someone else %walked from the wings last night Last Line: On my face %are the burns of their applause Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by CHON PONGGON Poem Source First Line: From the fingertips of a lady Last Line: A sharpened edge %of the waves Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by FRANK DAVEY Poem Source First Line: I sit on the edge Last Line: %hide my fists %in my hands Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by ANN DERNIER Poem Source First Line: I am dressing to meet my sister Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: As clara leafed through her husband's %compositions in her lap Last Line: A spare blue shape that curved away Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children's banging on the piano Last Line: That summer bedtime arrived %when the whole world closed its enormous eyelid Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: Outside is the ocean Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by BILL HOLM Poem Source First Line: He got up, dragging his heavy parts Last Line: The mind drawn back into the hands where %it always should have been: its only home Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: I look at my daughter Last Line: How empty is a life %without its music in it Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos 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, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: White as candles then all the minor chords Last Line: With nothing left to say %but every word has entered %as a lover enters and will not leave Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: Red riding hood and her grandmother Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Travel PIANO AT MIDNIGHT, by MICHAEL CHARLES ALSTON MOTT Poem Source First Line: You stop your walk along the beach Last Line: All debts are canceled. All are free Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Night; Pianos PIANO BURIAL, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: Empty the garden where I played your singing Last Line: Mountains-sides of aspen. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Rot; Decadence PIANO IN SAINT PAUL, by LAURA LINNEA JENSEN Poem Source First Line: From memory %our piano Last Line: For good sense-- %while I grieve %yet live Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO LESSONS, by RACHEL DACUS Poem Source First Line: The black and white keys had a watery shine. When depressed Last Line: Music is the trail you leave as you fly Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO LESSONS, by SANDY MCINTOSH Poem Source First Line: (spoken) my sunt curled her fingers over mine Last Line: Birth- day par- %ty Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO LESSONS, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The johnsons have her so must we Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO PRACTICE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Your small fingers seek the keys Last Line: A pressure becomes a kind of music Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO PRACTICE, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such splendid icecaps and hard rills, such weights Last Line: Half fact and half enigma. Now your hands %are on the mysteries of the commonplace Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO SOLO, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: Since man's life is nothing but a bit of action at a distance Last Line: I want my soul to find its proper body sand Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO TEACHER, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Who can tell how many fingers Last Line: And how it cannot entirely %diminish love Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO TUNER, UNTUNE ME THAT TUNE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I regret that before people can be reformed they have to be sinners, Last Line: And each little one playing 'chopsticks' twenty-four hours a day in all the nurseries of all his har Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO TUNING, by MARIANNE BORUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, I left it, the tuning hammer Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PIANO [ODA AL PIANO], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midway in the concert Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLATO, A MUSICIAN, by LEONTIUS Poem Text First Line: When orpheus died, some muse the lyre still fingered Last Line: Some remnant of the ancient melodies. Alternate Author Name(s): Leontios Subject(s): Musical Instruments PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learning from a player piano Last Line: Thought made mechanical, not grand but upright Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stick fingers, click with a snicker Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYER PIANO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My stick fingers, click with a snicker Last Line: Misstrums me, or tries a new tune Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYING HIROSHIMA, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Did you know the ones with colds wear surgical masks Last Line: Softly...Pianissimo? %they do Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S PIANO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touching you / slipping fingers between your thighs Last Line: Which only the other can hear. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Sex PLAYING THE ZITHER BY MOONLIGHT, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: A small inner chamber, bright moon in the night Last Line: In the lofty sky, distant geese are crossing Subject(s): Zithers (musical Instruments) POWER OF THE RIGHT FOOT, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source Last Line: And smiles, %and lifts her veil Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos POWWOW, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL Poem Text First Line: Tum, tum, tum, tum! Tum, tum, tum! Last Line: Four ragged chieftains beating on a drum! Subject(s): Bells; Musical Instruments; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs PRELUDE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By sunny market-place and street Last Line: I left my all to follow the drum. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; War PREPARATION, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a cunning instrument of play Last Line: And all the room with heavenly music float. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Heaven; Musical Instruments; Paradise PRODIGY, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: He was born with the fingerpads of the blind Last Line: Brushing it as if by accident %with his leg, his sleeve Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos PULL DOWN/RELEASE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Here the climb really ends. Pull down Last Line: They are not as young as you. %they know Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos QUATORZAINS: 9. TO MY LYRE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lyre! Thou art the bower of my senses Last Line: Till silence comes and smothers her pert jars. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres RAIN MUSIC, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the dusty earth-drum Last Line: Calling life anew. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Rain RECORDERS IN ITALY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was amusing on that antique grass Last Line: There were four recorders sweet upon the wind Subject(s): Musical Instruments RED DRUM, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: How to strike emptiness Last Line: Red, muscle of heart Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments REMARKABLE FARKLE MCBRIDE, by JOHN LITHGOW Poem Source First Line: Oh, pity the prodigy, farkle mcbride Last Line: And remarkable farkle's at last %satisfied! Subject(s): Conductors (music); Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments REST, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: An unpainted sky crossed by branches Last Line: Four small red horses that gallop away Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos RITARDANDO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: For months gahagan gathered in Last Line: And loops of bullets %and went downtown Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 10. SOLOMON, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The drums, trumps, cornets at length sink to slumber Last Line: "but if thou'lt not love me, I wither and perish." Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Solomon (10th Century B.c.) ROUND THE BEND, by WILL LAWSON Poem Text First Line: Round the bend where the pungas grow Last Line: And his was an easy mind. Subject(s): Banjos; Idleness; Musical Instruments; Trucks & Trucking; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a vale which none hath seen Last Line: Their thoughts conversing with the sky. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Transcendentalism; Lyres SASHA, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The half-played piece flies off Last Line: Curls under a bridge. The %beginner lifts his hands Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos 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 LIFE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between midnight and reno Last Line: If you miss us at home %we'll be on our way to the reckoning Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Bands; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments SENRYU (91), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now she's got a baby Last Line: Gives no satisfaction Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned. Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors SIGHT-READING, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Halfway through you realize Last Line: Your sudden hands first told you %you were lost Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SILENT PIANO, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how it sounded fifty years ago! Last Line: Shrunk into furniture. The making of music %dwindles into harmonics from the past Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SOLO FOR TAM TAM, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: 1. Not tom-tom misspelled, but tam tam Last Line: High-hat, timpani, new hope, tam tam Subject(s): Bands; Drums; Love; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Singing And Singers SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHORD FAMILY: DIMINISHED, THEIR DAUGHTER, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Amid the dulles rush she perches Last Line: No chance she will miss her plane Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHORD FAMILY: MINOR, HIS WIFE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: They met at fort meade the summer Last Line: In all their married life, he never %quite touched her Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SOME MEMBERS OF THE CHORD FAMILY: THE MAJOR, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Every morning he waxes his moustache Last Line: Felt the need to change. Looking %into the mirror, he begins it now Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos SONG (SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME), by NICK MOUDRY Poem Source First Line: Sometime after the last phrase was uttered Last Line: Till the girls undressed & they danced Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Musical Instruments; Singing And Singers; Trumpets SONG OF LITTLE HINES, by RUTH SUCKOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little hines, who mends watches Last Line: With the diapason sticking. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers SONG OF THE GOLDEN LYRE, by JESSE WALKER Poem Text First Line: In those ages bright but olden Last Line: Swelling, ringing evermore! Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres SONG TO A SCOTCH AIR, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the harp with silver sound Last Line: Who wak'st the northern lay so well. Subject(s): Bugles; Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 5, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the door of the house of life Last Line: Aeolian for thee. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres SONNET (ON HEARING THE BAG-PIPE), by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of late two dainties were before me plac'd Last Line: Mum chance art thou with both oblig'd to part. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Musical Instruments SOTTO VOCE, by HAROLD MARTIN BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: Sing we of the summer Last Line: Thou, my mandolin. Subject(s): Musical Instruments SOUND DOCTRINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, beat the drum, and be not afraid Last Line: And also because I drum not amiss. Subject(s): Drums; Kisses; Musical Instruments; Sleep; Youth 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 SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSEPH DIXON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who carved this shattered harp on my stone? Last Line: And use me again if I am worthy to use. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Lyres ST. CECILIA AT A REED ORGAN BY ORAZIO GENTILESCHI & GIOVANNI LANFRANCO, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Her tutelary angel has arrived Last Line: And rises to its memorized demands Subject(s): Churches; Organs (musical Instruments) STACCATO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The woodpecker drums Last Line: At his bald beak %his head of stopped fire Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos STANZAS ON FINDING THE KEY OF AN OLD PIANO, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unlock, unlock the shrines of memory Last Line: The portal spirit of the gates of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos 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 STRING QUARTET, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Who have no heaven come Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Musical Instruments SYMPHONY: FIRST MOVEMENT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Faintly at first, and low, Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments TAP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man beating the drum learned rhythm Last Line: Makes tribal dancing other than you might think Subject(s): Drums; Insanity; Musical Instruments; Race Awareness TASK OF THE ACCOMPANIST, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Dear friends start up the drive Last Line: And the tiled baths, with their %blue and inlaid eyes of boys Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TECHNIQUE, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Rock your hand Last Line: But you will not, %having chosen to go by water Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TEN MINUTES, A WEATHER FOR PIANO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: The suddenly heavy sun Last Line: Through his shirt his shoulderblades %yearn, where his father pinched for wings Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TENDENCY TO COMPLAIN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: An itinerant piano tuner Last Line: Somebody would find fault with it.' Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TENDER BUTTONS: A PIANO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the selection of a strong Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TENDER BUTTONS: A PIANO, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the speed is open, if the color is careless, if the selection of a strong Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O david, if I had / your power, I should be glad Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THAT HARP YOU PLAY SO WELL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O david, if I had %your power, I should be glad Last Line: Grief's lustiness %must cure the harp's distress Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Harps; Musical Instruments THE AEOLIAN HARP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pensive sara! Thy soft cheek reclined Last Line: Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honoured maid! Variant Title(s): Lines Composed At Clevedon;the Eolian Harp;effusion: 35, Composed At Clevedo, Somersetshire Subject(s): Harps; Love - Marital; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE AEOLIAN HARP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Take that airy harp from out the gale Last Line: The soul can thrill with no diviner feeling. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List the harp in window wailing Last Line: Thoughts that tongue can tell no word of! Subject(s): Disasters; Harps; Musical Instruments; Shipwrecks; Lyres THE BANJO FIEND, by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER Poem Text First Line: There is a fellow across the way Last Line: With his plunk, plunk, plunkety, plunk, plunk. Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments THE BANJO OF THE PAST, by HOWARD WEEDEN Poem Text First Line: You ax about dat music made Last Line: De banjo disappears! Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments THE BANJO PLAYER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is music in me, the music of a peasant people Last Line: What is a troubadour? Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments THE BARD OF BREFFNEY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Withered with years and broken by time's play Last Line: Upon the field where brave o'ruark did die. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Bards; Death; Harps; Musical Instruments; Dead, The; Lyres THE BARD OF LOVE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish to tune my quivering lyre Last Line: In songs of bliss and sighs of flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Musical Instruments THE BOMB AND THE ORGAN; AN INCIDENT OF SEIGE OF STRASBURG, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great church the holy organ stood Last Line: As though it were a fortress of the foe! Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Organs (musical Instruments) THE BROKEN BANJO, by WARREN FENNO GREGORY Poem Text First Line: Voiceless lies the broken banjo Last Line: Past recalling, e'en as thou! Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments THE BROKEN DRUM, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is sorrow in the household Last Line: Are as empty as his drum. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER'S STORY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little fogs were gathered in every hollow Last Line: And carried 'em there in an after year. Subject(s): Fiddles; Marriage; Musical Instruments; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE COYOTE AND THE LOCUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "locust, locust, playing a flute" Last Line: Playing a flute! Subject(s): Coyotes;flutes;locusts;musical Instruments;native Americans - Reservations 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 DRUM, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Text First Line: I hate that drum's discordant sound Last Line: To fill the catalogue of human woes. Variant Title(s): Ode On Hearing The Drum;report On The Foregoing Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Drums; Musical Instruments; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War; Anti-war Protests THE DRUM, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a rhythm down the road where the elms overarch Last Line: "of the drum!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Christianity; Drums; Musical Instruments; Vengeance; War THE DRUM-MAJOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old drum-major it is that we see Last Line: The old man is your father! Subject(s): Drums; Grief; Musical Instruments; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE DRUM: THE NARRATIVE OF THE DEMON OF TEDWORTH, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tall senatorial Last Line: Where the drum rolls up the stair, nor tarries. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Winter; Witchcraft & Witches 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 DRUMMER BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "captain gray, the men were sayin'" Last Line: Unbroken by the night's tattoo Subject(s): Boys;drums;musical Instruments;soldiers THE DRUMS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumpy-tum-tump; tumpy-tum-tump Last Line: Way for the drumsmake room! Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments THE EBONY CHICKERING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother cooked with lard she kept Last Line: As he bowed, and she slipped him the check. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mothers & Daughters; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Cookery THE EXILE'S HARP, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will hang thee, my harp, by the side of the fountain Last Line: For ever farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE FAIRY FIDDLER, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis I go fiddling, fiddling Last Line: And the horse that draws the plough Subject(s): Fairies; Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Elves THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FINDING OF THE LYRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lay upon the ocean's shore Last Line: In thee what songs should waken! Subject(s): Musical Instruments 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 GHOSTS LISTEN TO ORPHEUS SING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before the throne Last Line: The deep bursting emptiness of song. Variant Title(s): Betrayals/hades, Eurydice, Orpheus Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Harps; Loss; Musical Instruments; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Lyres THE GREEN PIANO, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Neighbors; Pianos THE HARP, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: Unquiet stand the pines in lofty rows Last Line: O world! Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE HARP, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One musician is sure Last Line: Wherein was dropped the mortal spoil. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE HARP, by JAKOB JOHANNESSON SMARI Poem Text First Line: Sometimes a still small voice of music steals Last Line: The ice-blue star-flames roll. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harp of the minstrel has never a tone Last Line: Can not waken the echoes that breathe it aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Light; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres THE HARP OF WALES; INSCRIBED RUTHIN WELSH LITERARY SOCIETY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the mountain-land! Sound forth again Last Line: Thou noble harp! Thy tones are not to cease! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Wales; Lyres; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HARP: AN ODE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When bleak winds throught the northern pines Last Line: And own thy latest thy sublimes song! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE HARPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a drift of faded blossoms Last Line: And god's companionship! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Rain; Lyres THE HARPER OF CHAO, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The singers have hushed their notes of clear song Last Line: Day by day is covered deeper with dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers THE HARPIST OF UR, by ELDOROUS DAYTON Poem Text First Line: Unravished by the centuries, he kneels Last Line: A sweeter music tingling from his hand. Subject(s): Harps; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE HARPS OF DAVID, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Spacious, splendid and pacific, the vast night unrolled before us Last Line: Were spanned by the vast soul of god outspread above us both. Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Night; Lyres; Bedtime THE KALLYOPE YELL, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud me / eternally Last Line: Fizz . . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments) THE KEY-BOARD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five and thirty black slaves Last Line: By her finger-tips. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE LAST HARPER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: He stood in the blood-red wash of a towering sunset Last Line: "I will go home to sleep now -- sleep is best." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE 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 LOVER OF MUSIC TO HIS PIANOFORTE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friend, whom glad or grave we seek Last Line: Thine answer, kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos 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 LYRE, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sound came floating by Last Line: "the lyre -- the lyre -- the soul-exalting lyre!" Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE MARCHING FEET, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, drums, drums to the fore! Last Line: The far-off calling of a drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Army Life; Drums; Marching & Marches; Musical Instruments; Drills & Minor Tactics THE MASTER-PLAYER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old, worn harp that had been played Last Line: And brought forth music sweet and strong. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Religion; Lyres; Theology THE MESSAGE OF AN AEOLIAN HARP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, my mother Last Line: "the breath of heaven, the spirit of our god." Subject(s): Christianity; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE MINSTREL TO HIS HARP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When youthful transport led the hours Last Line: When all my way was bright with flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Lyres; Songs THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For brothers laid in blood Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements THE NEW CHURCH ORGAN, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They've got a bran new organ, sue Last Line: A squealin' over me! Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments); Women 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 HARP, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of cord and cassia-wood is the harp compounded Last Line: Because of the ch'iang flute and the ch'in flageolet. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE OPENING OF THE PIANO, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen Last Line: "open it! Open it, lady! And let me see the bird!" Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE ORGAN (ALLEGRO), by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Gift of the faithful, the eloquent organ Last Line: All these mellifluous voices you bring with you! Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) THE ORGAN-BLOWER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Devoutest of my sunday friends Last Line: Will play the tune as he shall please. Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) THE ORGANIST, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly I circle the dim, dizzy stair Last Line: Bidding it rise. Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) THE ORGANIST, by GEORGE W. STEVENS Poem Text First Line: I wonder how the organist Last Line: In town on sabbath day. Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) THE ORGANIST IN HEAVEN (SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wesley died, the angelic orders Last Line: And moved the balanced stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Organs (musical Instruments); Wesley, Samuel Sebastian (1810-1876); Dead, The THE ORIGIN OF THE HARP, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis believed that this harp, which I wake now for thee Last Line: To speak love when I'm near thee, and grief when away! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE PIANO, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low brooding cadences that dream and cry Last Line: With eyes unblanched, time and eternity. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos 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 PIANO-ORGAN, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My student lamp is lighted Last Line: The tune twirls on and on. Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments) THE PIPES OF THE NORTH, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do ye hear 'em sternly soundin' through the noises of the street Last Line: Ye're sure the wings of gaelic souls as far as blood is true! Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E. Subject(s): Bagpipes; Ireland; Musical Instruments; Patriotism; Scotland; War; Irish THE PLAYER PIANO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ate pancakes one night in a pancake house Last Line: Plays itself out a half-inch from my fingers Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nostalgia; Pianos THE PLAYER PIANO, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learning from a player piano Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry to bless the hands that play Last Line: But bless our hands that ebb away. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Musical Instruments THE RED PIANO, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A red piano / he says Last Line: Let us think more musical thoughts. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos THE REED, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the reed Last Line: And all the world shall hearken to his singing! Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Nature; Reeds THE SCARED HARP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall the harp of poesy regain Last Line: Give the long-buried tone back to immortal words Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THE SONG OF THE BANJO, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You couldn't pack a broadwood half a mile Last Line: Yea, from delos up to limerick and back! Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments THE SOUND OF THE HORN, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the sound of the horn in the deep, dim woodland Last Line: The shades of the noble roland is still forlorn! Subject(s): Horns (musical Instruments); Nature; Sound THE SYLVAN MUSICIAN, by CYRIL A. LINGEMANN Poem Text First Line: High in his forest organ loft Last Line: Sweet snatches of quaint woodland lore. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Organs (musical Instruments); Spring THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pretty ladies, mid this christmas cheer Last Line: As you shall hear who listen to my tale. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Harps; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Musical Instruments; Story-telling; Lyres; Male-female Relations THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 2. CRUEL END OF THE LOVERS' TALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How quick breeds scandal. In some danksome place Last Line: His weeping lady, kneeling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Passion; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres THE UNSTRUNG LYRE, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what can I string this antique lyre Subject(s): Life; Musical Instruments 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 AND THE VIOLL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare is the voice it selfe; but when we sing Last Line: To'th lute or violl, then 'tis ravishing. Subject(s): Musical Instruments THE VOICE OF THE BANJO, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way Last Line: "-- in the end." Subject(s): Banjos; Musical Instruments THE WIND HARP, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I treasure in secret some long, fine hair Last Line: Down the long steps that lead to silence and died. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CHEAM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the beautiful meadows of cheam! Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Old Age THIS INCONSTANCY IS SUCH, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut street is dark and gloomy Last Line: There on the pavement. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Life; Musical Instruments TIN-WHISTLE PLAYER, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis long since, long since, since I heard Last Line: That long face, in a place of graves %with nettles overgrown Subject(s): Musical Instruments TO A LADY PLAYING THE HARP, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy tones are silver melted into sound Last Line: Till perfect love, the love of loving crowns. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres TO A PIANISTE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee once, I see thee now Last Line: His glorious unheard harmony. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TO AN AEOLIAN HARP, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds have grown articulate in thee Last Line: Thy strings no rest from weariless wild hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres TO MR. EDWARDS, THE HARPER OF CONWAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minstrel! Whose gifted hand can bring Last Line: And cambria's harp lie hushed in sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres TO MY AEOLIAN HARP, AS IT WAS PLAYING ON A COLD, STORMY DAY, by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, was it, my harp, the invisible wing Last Line: It remembers, in silence, the storm is from heaven. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres TO MY LYRE, by JOSEPH MASSEL Poem Text First Line: Wonderful is my love Last Line: And the sweets of the world to be. Subject(s): Harps; Jews; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Judaism TO MY LYRE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou upon the idle branches hung Last Line: Thou gentle lyre of mine? Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres TO PLAY PIANISSIMO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Does not mean silence Last Line: And to lay them across her lap like a shawl Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos TO THE MINSTREL GIRL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Th' critic's heel is on ye, sure Last Line: Sure, bless your heart! Ye didn't need, carolyn, my carolin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Girls; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Wells, Carolyn (1862-1942) TO THE OLD GUITAR, by JORGE GONZALEZ BASTIAS Poem Source First Line: If war-cries your songs hold, and blood of the martyrs Last Line: This, loving and mournful, belongs to us here! Subject(s): Guitars; Musical Instruments TOURS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A girl on the stairs listens to her father Last Line: She presses stays down, makes no sound, %someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Children; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Parents; Pianos; Violence TRAGEDIES: 9, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was only a woman, famish'd for loving Last Line: Grimacing and fing'ring his fiddle-strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Hearts; Musical Instruments; Women TRUE LEGATO, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Lifting one foot, the other falls Last Line: Lost, she rocks the tattered score. %she does not know she sings Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos TRUMPETS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drums, you are too tame Last Line: The hound's deep, hoarse, harsh cry. Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Trumpets TWO VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY THELONIOUS MONK: 1. BLUE MONK, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Solid, as the man himself would say Last Line: With the true, blue beauty of his song: 'blue monk'! Subject(s): Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982); Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers USES OF THE METRONOME, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Before you get sea legs Last Line: The white sail slaps sky, %and you fly, you fly Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos VALUES, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Half notes are youngsters who do not know Last Line: Sink to the bottom, how across the measure lines %they sing like stones Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full 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 FOR TWO PIANOS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no music now in all arkansas Last Line: Higgins is gone, taking both his pianos %there is no music now in all arkansas Subject(s): Arkansas; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY FRANCIS KILVERT, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The welsh harp has no silver string Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments VILLANELLE; TO MR. JOSEPH BOULMIER, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Villanelle, why art thou mute? Last Line: Hath the master lost his lute? Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Spring; Villanelle (as Poetic Form); Songs VISITING SUNDAY: CONVENT NOVITIATE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The parlor doors shall be glazed, the custom book Last Line: To write the lyric. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Convents; Cousins; Musical Instruments; Pianos VOODOO, by ANNICE CALLAND Poem Text First Line: Ho, the pan-pipes call to bassin bleu Last Line: And ever the woman sang. Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Rites & Ceremonies; Voodooism; Bizango; Obeah; Gaga VOORREDE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steendam the poet (whom all men know) Last Line: "rollicking lays of the good old times!" Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme WAR BALLAD, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The piano has crawled into the quarry. Hauled Last Line: I'll be a song for russia, I'll be %an etude, warmth and bread for everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Religion; War WARBLER'S SONG IN THE DUSK, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I crossed an ocean Last Line: And the soul sings out again Subject(s): Japan; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Singing And Singers WHAT BRINGS YOU TEARS?, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Today on the road that brought me here Last Line: So what brings you here today? %what brings these tears? Subject(s): Grief; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears 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 DE FOLKS IS GONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dat scratchin' at de kitchen do'? Last Line: God bress de lo'd! Hit's de folks got back! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fiddles; Musical Instruments WHERE MUSIC COMES FROM, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: One performer shakes it from Last Line: Not rise. The houselights come %on, which burn the skin like sun Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos WHY PERFORMERS WEAR BLACK, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Because there is no black flower Last Line: A whisper muffled in a woman's %hair, on the far dark shore Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos WITH SILVER STRINGS, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: With silver strings my harp is strung Last Line: On silver wings! Subject(s): Happiness; Harps; Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Lyres; Songs 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 ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! A VIOLIN, by LLOYD MOSS Poem Source First Line: With mournful moan and silken tone Last Line: Before we say a late good night Subject(s): Counting; Musical Instruments |
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