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Subject: PIPERS
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First Line: Whenever I see him pass this way
Last Line: Can leave behind a trail of light!
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Poetry & Poets


A NOTE FROM THE PIPES, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan, blow your pipes and I will be
Last Line: And all your godlike summer-time!
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Pipers


A PIPER, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A piper in the streets to-day
Last Line: For half an hour in the street to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas
Subject(s): Pipers


FORTUNY'S PIPING SHEPHERD, by MELVILLE UPTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What youth is that who pipes so lustily
Last Line: And mirth and laughter of a youth divine.
Subject(s): Pipers; Youth


PAN WITH US, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan came out of the woods one day,
Last Line: Play? Play? -- what should he play?
Subject(s): Pan (mythology); Pipers


PIPER, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Piper, wherefore wilt thou roam?
Last Line: And a brook to follow
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Pipers


PIPER, PLAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the furnaces are out
Last Line: For a little we are free!
Subject(s): Pipers


PIPING, by CATHARINE EMMA JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, piper, pipe; and I shall dance
Last Line: For I must pay the piper.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alger, Mrs. Philip L.
Subject(s): Pipers


PIPINGS, by J. PAGET-FREDERICKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pipe thee high and pipe thee low!
Last Line: As blossoms blow on window panes
Subject(s): Pipers


SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Piping down the valleys wild
Last Line: Every child may joy to hear.
Variant Title(s): Child And The Piper;the Happy Piper;pipe A Song;reeds Of Innocence;a Song Of Singing;the Piper
Subject(s): Bible; Imagination; Innocence; Music & Musicians; Mythology; Pipers; Vision; Fancy


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 25, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You pipers in the swales
Last Line: One sleepless night in spring.
Subject(s): Pipers


THE IRISH PIPES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the piper playing
Last Line: The things you let me know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Pipers; Wisdom; Irish


THE LAST CRICKET, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey, piper, in the lean gray grass
Last Line: The year without a rose!
Subject(s): Pipers; Summer


THE LAST PIPER, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark winds of the mountain
Last Line: Wings silently home.
Subject(s): Pipers


THE LONELY PIPER, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, lonely piper by the stream
Last Line: And comes leaping forth to greet the dawn.
Subject(s): Pipers


THE PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance
Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon.
Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


THE PIPE-PLAYER, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cool, and palm-shaded from the torrid heat
Last Line: In perfumed darkness with the grains of wheat.
Subject(s): Pipers


THE PIPER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a crone 'twixt wood and wood
Last Line: The piper plays..
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Pipers


THE PIPER, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lad went piping through the earth
Last Line: And no one played for you and me.
Subject(s): Pipers


THE PIPER, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherd! While the lambs do feed
Last Line: -- you may weep then, if you will.
Subject(s): Pipers


THE PIPER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well
Last Line: You can never pipe my fancy from my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Pipers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE PIPER OF ARLL, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was in arll a little cove
Last Line: A plenitude of silver leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Pipers; Sea; Ocean


THE PIPER ON THE HILLS; A CHILD'S SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There sits a piper on the hill
Last Line: May blow her home again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Variant Title(s): The Piper On The Hill
Subject(s): Pipers; Wind


THE PIPER'S SON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In olden days there dwelt a piper's
Last Line: And round and soundly justice-of-ye-peaced.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Pigs; Pipers; Boars; Hogs


THE POET HATH LOST HIS PIPE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot pipe as I was wont to do
Last Line: And give it to the silvan deitie.
Subject(s): Pipers