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Subject: ORGANS (MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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)


BARREL ORGAN, by DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since my vivian left me
Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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 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 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 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 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 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