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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOX AT THE OPERA (PARIS - 1770), by GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bobo, my smelling salts! The air is fetid
Last Line: It's the du barry. La, he's gone and kissed me!
Subject(s): Opera; Paris, France


A MOTTO FOR THE OPERA OF MUTIUS SCAEVOLA, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who here blames words, or verses, songs
Last Line: Like mutius scaevola will burn his fingers.
Subject(s): Opera


A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tenor's too fat, the beautiful young
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Opera


A REQUIEM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, listening to music, that's me
Subject(s): Fathers; Opera


ALBION AND ALBANIUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After our aesop's fable shown today
Last Line: This britain's basis on a word is laid, %as by a word the world itself was made
Subject(s): James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Opera


ALBION AND ALBANIUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full twenty years and more,our laboring stage
Last Line: Voices may help your charter to restoring, %and get by singing what you lost by roaring
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Opera


CALLAVERIA RUSTICANA, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the fireflies in the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Opera; Summer


CARMEN, by NEWMAN LEVY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spain, where the courtly castilian hidalgo twangs lightly
Subject(s): Opera


CIRCE: PROLOGUE (EARLIER VERSION), by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe
Last Line: You should protect from death by vulgar hands.
Subject(s): Circe; Davenant, Dr. Charles; Opera; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists


COME BACK, MISS MOFFO, WE LOVE YOU, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't blame you for only singing in europe
Last Line: Anna moffo / we love you
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Moffo, Anna (1934-2006); Opera


FAUST, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If only the phantom would stop reappearing!
Subject(s): Faust; Opera; Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The


FAUST, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If only the phantom would stop reappearing!
Last Line: On the bare, sunlit stage the hungers could begin
Subject(s): Faust; Opera; Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The


FINNISH OPERA, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grass grew long in the story.
Subject(s): Opera


FRAGMENT OF AN ENGLISH OPERA, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Retire, my daughter
Last Line: The coast is clear
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Opera


FROM BELOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dim summer night they were leaning alone
Last Line: Where he dropped his cigar in the street.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Night; Opera; Summer; Bedtime


HARLEQUIN-HORACE: CORRUPTION OF NATIVE MUSIC BY FOREIGNERS, by JAMES MILLER (1706-1769)    Poem Source                    
First Line: In days of old, when englishmen were - men
Last Line: Make love in tune, or thro' the gamut rant
Variant Title(s): Italian Oper
Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Music And Musicians; Opera


IL JANITORO, by GEORGE ADE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. Tyler paid $7 for two opera tickets
Last Line: Unless we all clear out. %oh, hasten, oh, hasten, oh, hasten away
Subject(s): Opera


IN DEER SEASON, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I sing like pavarotti
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Opera; Pavarotti, Luciano (b. 1935); Singing And Singers


KING ARTHUR, OR THE BRITISH WORTHY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've had today a dozen billet-doux
Last Line: Shall be my favourite gallant to-day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Marriage; Opera; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


KING ARTHUR: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure there's a dearth of wit in this dull town
Last Line: While thus, no spark of honour left within ye, %when you should draw the sword, you draw the guinea
Subject(s): Opera; Theater And Theaters


LARGE OPERA SINGER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who decorated last night's dream
Last Line: To the serpent of the nile
Subject(s): Opera; Singing And Singers


LETTER TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER, 1931, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear louis: / the telescope has come and I am charmed
Last Line: I need nobody else's art, I hope
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Untermeyer, Louis (1885-1977); Opera Glasses


LINES FROM ACIS AND GALATEAL 1. AIR, by GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flocks shall leave the mountains
Last Line: As these dear smiles to me.
Subject(s): Opera


LINES FROM ACIS AND GALATEAL 2. CHORUS, by GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wretched lovers, fate has passed
Last Line: Hark! How the thund'ring giant roars.
Subject(s): Opera


LOHENGRIN, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strain, strain thine eyes, this parting is for aye!
Last Line: Upon thee by thy stainless knight and lord.
Subject(s): Opera


MATINEES, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gray maidservant lets me in
Subject(s): Opera


MATINEES, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gray maidservant lets me in
Last Line: Ever gratefully, your little friend
Subject(s): Opera


MUSICAL CHAIRS, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You took my chair and I don't mind
Last Line: Possibilities for instance the impossible
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Opera


MY FATHER'S TELESCOPE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oldest joke
Last Line: In oak
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


NIGHT AT THE OPERA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am falling into the abyss
Last Line: I tremble as I say this
Subject(s): Opera


ONE REASON I LIKE OPERA, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In movies, you can tell the heroine
Subject(s): Opera; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


OPERA, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tristan and isolde
Last Line: At the undertakers' ball
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Opera; Tristram And Isolde


OPERA QUEENS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A composer I know, a neighbor
Last Line: "gasping
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Opera


PHANTOM LIFE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My days are phantom days, each one
Last Line: Among my shadows to and fro.
Subject(s): Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The; Shadows


REMONSTRATORY ODE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Matthews! Sir!
Last Line: "or be it ""matthews, elephant, and co.!"
Variant Title(s): Ode To Mr. Mathews
Subject(s): Elephants; Opera


REQUIEM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, listening to music, that's me
Last Line: Between them what was impossible %to settle in their early days?
Subject(s): Fathers; Opera


RETICENCE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once moths dusted these windows
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Opera


RIGOLETTO, by NEWMAN LEVY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although some are afraid that to speak of a spade as a spade is .. Mistake
Last Line: For he murdered my girl when I paid for a duke
Subject(s): Opera


RING' CYCLE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're doing a ring cycle at the met
Last Line: A son till now undreamed of -- makes to rise
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


SOTTO VOCE, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight blame kiri te kanawa
Last Line: Draining the pasta
Subject(s): Audiences; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Opera; Singing And Singers; Theater And Theaters


STAIRWELL, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The telescope's a microscope
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


TANNHAUSER, by NEWMAN LEVY    Poem Source                    
First Line: While strolling through the hills one day
Last Line: And died. I think it's some fool show
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


TANNHAUSER, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sin-satiate, and haggard with despair
Last Line: That for him too the saviour once did bleed.
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


TELESCOPE, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light projected lifetimes ago
Subject(s): Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


THE 'RING' CYCLE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're doing a ring cycle at the met
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


THE LAKERS, A COMIC OPERA: PROLOGUE, SELECTION, by JAMES PLUMPTRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where cumbria's mountains in the north arise
Last Line: The natives by the name of lakers call.
Subject(s): Guests; Opera; Travel; Vision; Visiting; Journeys; Trips


THE MOTHER AT THE TELESCOPE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the moons of jupiter!
Last Line: Seen with these kitchen-gazing eyes!
Subject(s): Jupiter (planet); Moon; Sky; Telescopes & Binoculars; Opera Glasses


THE OPERA OF CAMILLA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this is death, it is not hard to bear
Last Line: To serve god's aim: else die we with the sun.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Opera; Dead, The


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At paris, it was, at the opera there
Last Line: Non ti scordar di me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): At The Opera
Subject(s): Courtship; France; Opera; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THERE IS NO OPERA LIKE LOHENGRIN, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But one apocalyptic lion's whelp (in flesh %called william lyon phelps) purrs
Last Line: American books grow easier to hold; %dull paper and light weight is the ideal
Subject(s): Opera; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers


THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gulf in the sky beyond the outermost faintest / mark
Last Line: Our god himself has ventured never as yet so far?
Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Opera Glasses


TO GIULIA GRISI, AFTER HEARING HER IN ANNA BOLENA, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the rose is brightest
Last Line: The last drop into mine.
Subject(s): Grisi, Giulia (1811-1869); Opera


TO MISS KELLY OF THE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kelly, two quiet hours agone
Last Line: Not actress made, but born!
Subject(s): Opera


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS TO YOU O MOON, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to you o moon
Last Line: Lo! The quiet moon in the sky—yet to a child it has cold its secret.
Subject(s): Air Travel; Astronomy & Astronomers; Moon; Science; Telescopes & Binoculars; Universe; Scientists; Opera Glasses


WHEN ALBANI SANG, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was workin' away on de farm dere, wan morning not long ago
Last Line: I hope she'll come home, lak de bluebird an' again be de chambly girl!
Subject(s): Albani, Dame Emma (1847-1930); Opera; Singing & Singers; Songs