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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OPERA Matches Found: 55 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 skyyet 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 |
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