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Subject: SONGS Matches Found: 1110 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BLACK SPIRITUAL: ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: My brudder sittin' on de tree of life Last Line: "o my soul arise in heaven, lord, / for yearde when jordan roll" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals "BLACK SPIRITUAL: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (1)", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "swing low, sweet chariot" Last Line: Coming for to carry me home Variant Title(s): "swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;american Civil War;black Songs;homecoming;u.s. - History; Negro Spirituals "BLACK SPIRITUAL: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (2)", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "oh, de good ole chariot swing so low" Last Line: "swing low, sweet chariot, / I don't want to leave me behind" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals "BLOW YOU TRUMPET, GABRIEL", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: De talles' trees in paradise Last Line: And I hope dat trump might blow me home / to de new jerusalem Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals "DO DOWN, MOSES", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: When israel was in egypt's land Last Line: O let my people go Variant Title(s): Jubilee Song;let My People Go Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals "JIM CRACK CORN, OR THE BLUE TAIL FLY", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: When I was young I us'd to wait / on massa and hand him de plate Last Line: "I nebber forget till de day I die, / ole massa an' dat blue tail fly" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;flies;slavery; Negro Spirituals;serfs 29, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At heaven's gate' the larks: have Subject(s): Songs; January 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 BLACKBIRD SUDDENLY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is in my hand, and I Last Line: Like you—a bird! Subject(s): Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of joy Last Line: And bless on earth our peaceful days. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us sound with melody Last Line: Infinite honours. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 6. CORRINA, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to her lute corinna sings Last Line: Even from my heart the strings do break. Variant Title(s): Of Corina's Singing Subject(s): Lutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Songs A BOOK OF VERSES, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a little book of singing rhymes Last Line: To spring at last in this new singer's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs A CATCH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along comes love / in the semblance of a boy Last Line: And grief turned joy! Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Boys; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Paradise; Songs A CHOPIN PRELUDE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain chopin prelude once I heard Last Line: With beauty, shaken by magic of that song. Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Songs A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen. Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hark to the voices of the night Last Line: On that first christmas night. Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs A CRADLE SONG (FOND NONSENSE), by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of pictures; but the dearest and the best Last Line: "hush-a-baby-by." Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A GIRL SINGS TO MORAVIA AT THE WORLD'S END, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN Poem Source First Line: Moravia appeared on inishmore Subject(s): Girls; Moravia & Moravians; Singing & Singers; Songs A HEARTH SONG (TO THE OTHER ARMCHAIR), by HARRY TENNYSON DOMER Poem Text First Line: Here's a song for the dawn, for the noon Last Line: And a song, aye the sweetest -- a love-song -- for you! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs A HYMN ON THE DIVINE OMNIPRESENCE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lord! Thou hast known me, and searched me out Last Line: And the darkness, to thee, is clear as the light. Subject(s): Bible; Hymns (as Literary Form); Singing & Singers; Songs A HYMN TO JESUS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, saviour jesus! From above Last Line: The giver only to adore. Subject(s): Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Songs A LILT IN FALL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brown of her eyes in the oaken leaf Last Line: Oh, all the world shall sing of her! Subject(s): Autumn; New York City - Dutch Period; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs A LITTLE KERRY SONG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: There's grand big girls that walks the earth Last Line: O! Little girl from kerry! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Girls; Singing & Singers; Songs A LITTLE SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little song ill worth your while Last Line: A little song. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A LITTLE SONG, by REXFORD EIDSON Poem Text First Line: Wandering out amain Last Line: Of what we sought. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs A LOVE-MESSAGE, by LILLIAN CORBETT BARNES Poem Text First Line: Upon the day I meet thee face to face Last Line: And pause in hushed and silent ecstasy. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Singing & Singers; Songs A LULLABY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croon me a lullaby, / soothe me to rest Last Line: Soothe me to rest. Subject(s): Comfort; Rest; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs A MAN BESMITTEN SO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was a man besmitten so Last Line: The sum of such a noise would sing a song! Subject(s): Self; Singing & Singers; Songs A MIDNIGHT SERENADE FOR HER PERFUMED MAJESTY (AN ENCORE), by ANGELO DE LUCA Poem Text First Line: Oh, I died many deaths throughout that day Last Line: I blew my candle, and I went to bed. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Songs A NEGRO SONG OF HOME, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tain't berry many people wat'll listen to a niggah Last Line: Frough de singin' ob de kettle on de hob. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song & Music; Black Songs; Home; Negroes; American Blacks; Negro Spirituals A NIGHT PIECE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay awake by my good wife's side Last Line: Above the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs A PASTORALL; THE ANTEMASQUE, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come let us burne severall horrid peeces Last Line: Hag let's singe, but let's not bee too longe. Subject(s): Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Witchcraft & Witches; Songs A POET ENLISTS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: And all the songs that I might sing Last Line: And never sing again. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs 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 QUARTET ('THE MIKADO' AT CAMBRIDGE), by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four singers with a delphic seriousness Last Line: Their union in each swell and dying fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A SEA SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old albion sat on a crag of late Last Line: "that's as hereafter may be." Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs A SONG, by ALLAN DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The water-thrushes play Last Line: Shining like a rose.) Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Singing & Singers; Swamps; Songs; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A SONG ABOUT SINGING, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale, the poet's bird Last Line: Thy wounded, bleeding breast! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG AGAINST SINGING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bid me sing to thee Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG FOR ANNE, by JOAN CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: I will dance with the folks of the sidhe tonight Last Line: Brownie and leprechaun. Subject(s): Fantasy; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG FOR NOVEMBER (1), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: A gray old hag, in cloak and hood Last Line: Our own, our own! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Nature; November; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG FOR OCTOBER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Fruitful october! So fair and calm Last Line: Chords of my heart give back to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Frost; Music & Musicians; October; Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG FOR THE MILLION; ON WILLIAMS'S METHOD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a music aloft in the air Last Line: Hullahbaloo! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG IN JUNE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a rosebush that grows in the garden you Last Line: And it would not be june if it were not for you. Subject(s): Flowers; June; New York City - Dutch Period; Orioles; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG IN SEPTEMBER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The distant hills are gleaming gold Last Line: But hear your golden songs again. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs A SONG OF FATE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Life is short, the sea is wide, my sweet. Our eyes will rarely meet 'tis Last Line: And our love and your long waiting true and the new love that will come to you. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Destiny; Songs A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A SONG OF LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song, boys, a song! Last Line: So, boys, a song! Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs A SONG OF LOVE, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: My own, the miles must not part us Last Line: Of the muessin,———to pray! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!) Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs A SONG OF THE HILLS, by MAY LACKEY CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: When blue mists of fair aurora Last Line: "youth is mating -- time is stealing." Subject(s): God; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG OF THE WESTERN EDEN, by HOPE S. BARBER Poem Text First Line: Delmarva, the western eden Last Line: To the land between the bays. Subject(s): Eden; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Songs; Southwest; Pacific States A SONG OF ZION, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are coming, we are coming. Fling our banner Last Line: Behold the hosts of israel are coming, coming home! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; National Songs; Zionism; Judaism; National Anthems A SPRING CAROL, by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER Poem Text First Line: On the maples' red blooms the bluebirds are tilting Last Line: Fragrant freshness fills the air. Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs A SPRING THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring I have leaned me full close to the bark of a tree Last Line: In the secrets the bird and the rose and the tree have confessed. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs A TRIBUTE TO MUSIC, by JANE E. W. LOCKWOOD Poem Text First Line: When music fills the soul of man Last Line: O music, life of man defend. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs A VINDICATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Say what you will of 'rhymesters' Last Line: As he presses to the goal. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs A WEDDING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up the broad river, the thames, my dane Last Line: As may suit with my mother's fame. Subject(s): Danube (river); London; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Thames (river); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs A' WOULD BE' IMMIGRANT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Conjo celestine! Oh %he was going to panama Last Line: Twenty cents for a cup of tea Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs A, B, C (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: You'd better come out an' wuk lak me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost know grief well? Hast known her long? Last Line: "who walked beside you yesterday?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the summer-tide Last Line: Across the fields to anne! Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Summer; Songs AFRICA, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat where the level sands Last Line: Rigid and black, as carved in stone. Subject(s): Africa; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs AFTER MANY YEARS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song that once I dreamed about Last Line: The song I cannot sing. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs AFTER THE SONG, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If to your wondrous voice and art Last Line: Might be as noble as you seem. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs AFTERGLOW, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray that time full many years may bring Last Line: And I the long decembers count by half. Subject(s): Aging; Singing & Singers; Spring; Time; Youth; Songs AIN'T GOT NO PLACE TO LAY MY HEAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs AIR: CAT BIRD SINGING, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cat bird singing Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ALABAMA WAY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Way down yon'er 'in de alerbamer way' Last Line: Niggers' legs hang down fer de chicken t' roost on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ALBERTA, LET YO' HAIR HANG LOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ALI BEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ali bey, the true faith's hero Last Line: Yes, he softly smiles and gently. Subject(s): Faith; Heroism; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Songs ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever I am, and whatever I do Last Line: Than ever be freed from her pow'r. Variant Title(s): Song: Phyllis;prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 4 Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a myrtle shade Last Line: Asleep or waking you must ease my pain. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 3 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs AMAIRGEN, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amairgen the white-kneed sang Last Line: Amairgen, the singer of yore. Subject(s): Praise; Singing & Singers; Songs AMBOYNA: SONG OF THE SEA FIGHT, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who ever saw a noble sight Last Line: As this so brave, so bloody sea fight. Subject(s): Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a new poem for helen Last Line: A green flower from a green stem. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Exorcism; Helen Of Troy; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Songs AMPHITRYON: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celia, that I once was blest Last Line: Love that's true, is love for ever. Subject(s): Blessings; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs AMPHITRYON: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair iris I love and hourly I die Last Line: So easie to part, or so equally join'd. Subject(s): Blessings; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs AN ANTHEM FOR MAN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the beast that is not beast: the unhorned Subject(s): Mankind; God; Singing & Singers; Human Race; Songs AN ARRANGEMENT FOR AN INQUIRING OBOE OF PHILOSPHIC BENT, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Text First Line: Sing / now Last Line: Nor cringe at what you find) Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Subject(s): Salome (1st Century A.d.); Singing & Singers; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You charm'd me not with that fair face Last Line: Which made us brave before. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the pangs of a desperate lover Last Line: Ah what a joy to hear, shall we again! Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the even, and clear was the sky Last Line: He laugh'd out with a ha ha ha ha. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN EVENING'S LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celimena, of my heart Last Line: When we come together. Subject(s): Courage; Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Singing & Singers; War; Valor; Bravery; Songs AN UNFINISHED PICTURE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mary the milkmaid singing Last Line: With richard the keeper whistling. Subject(s): Courtship; Milk; Singing & Singers; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Songs ANCHOR LINE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se gwine out on de anchor line, dinah Last Line: Come go wid me; I'll set you free, - dinah Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ANGELICA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that heaven my wish hath granted Last Line: Gets so very quickly cold. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs ANIMAL ATTIRE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat coon, he w'ar a undershirt Last Line: But dese don't stop no gun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ANIMAL FAIR (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Has you ever hearn tell 'bout de animal fair? Last Line: Dat pleased all dem monkeys Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ANIMAL PERSECUTORS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went up on de mountain Last Line: To see me runnin' 'bout Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ANTEBELLUM COURTSHIP INQUIRY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Is you a flyin' lark or a settin' dove? Last Line: To jine my fence to yo' plantation Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ANTEBELLUM MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De ocean, it's wide; de sea, it's deep Last Line: An' answer up 'greeable fer a s'prise Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ARDOR, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Others make verses of grace Last Line: And burn with the ardor of living. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ARE YOU CAREFUL? (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Is you keerful; w'en you goes down de street Last Line: An' think 'bout dem words dat you say? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ARGUING A BARGAIN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ise a arg'in de bargain, my honey love Last Line: I'll die and go to glory, it will be so Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ARK (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole nora hda a lots o' hands Last Line: Ole ham, he sot an' knocked de chunes, %de happiest of de niggers Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs AS A VIOLINIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a violinist bends a loving face Last Line: So the poet looks to god, and yearns and sings. Subject(s): Beauty; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Soul; Violins; Songs AS I WENT TO SHILOH, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: As I went down Last Line: An' blowed dis nigger clear to thundergust Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ASHTABULA, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the geographic ballads are the rage Last Line: Chorus Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ASPIRATION (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If I wus de president Last Line: An' swing on all de gates Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune Last Line: Make me forget her tears. Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs AT THE MUSICALE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She touched my hand as the singer sang Last Line: "in heaven I shall be thine." Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three-and-thirty aged women Last Line: "must in actual life first die!" Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs AUNT DINAH DRUNK: 1, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole aunt dinah, she got drunk Last Line: Way down on de ole plank road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs AUNT DINAH DRUNK: 2, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Old aunt dinah she got drunk Last Line: Look here, mr. Negro, don't do that again Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs AUNT JEMIMA (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole aunt jemima grow so tall Last Line: To de backwoods whar she stays Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs AUTUMN SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A keen west wind from the hills away Last Line: Hopes and dreamings and dead desires. Subject(s): Autumn; Desire; Hope; Memory; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Wind; Fall; Optimism; Songs AWFUL HARBINGERS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en de big owl whoops Last Line: Caze de 'hants' is comin' 'round Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs B'Y SARA BURNED DOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Way down the rivuh an' I couldn't stay long, b'y sara burned down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BAA! BAA! BLACK SHEEP (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Poor liddle black sheep's %got no mammy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BABY WANTS CHERRIES (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De cherries, dey're red; de cherries, dey're ripe Last Line: An' de pickaninny sholy won't cry Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BAD FEATURES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Blue gums an' black eyes Last Line: Make a hole in de groun' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BAD GIRL SINGING, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took her roommate's cash Last Line: But we yielded to her song Subject(s): Cheating; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLAD OF THE HARPER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What notes are those without the wall Last Line: As now for this I thank you' Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE D'AUJOURD'HUI, by COATES CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Bygone troubadours, grave and gay Last Line: Here's to the singer who sings to-day! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE OF FORGOTTEN LOVES, by ARTHUR GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: Some poets sing of sweethearts dead Last Line: The little loves that I've forgot. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE OF THE MAKING OF SONGS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bees make their honey out of coloured flowers Last Line: Poets must make their honey out of gall. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADE: 25, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spite hath no power to make me sad Last Line: It doth suffice she doth me wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs BALLADS OF THE STORM: CRADLE SONG FOR THE DYING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space Last Line: Begins. Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Songs BANGLE-SELLERS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bangle-sellers are we who bear Last Line: And worships the gods at her husband's side. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love - Marital; Worship; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BANJO PICKING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hush boys! Hush boys! Don't make a noise Last Line: Sweep dat kittle wid a bran' new broom Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BAT! BAT! (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: If you don't want to git fersaken Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BEAUTY AND SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The peacock, that fine-feathered bird Last Line: To keep it sweet and kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Robins; Singing & Singers; Songs BEDBUG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De june-bug's got de golden wing Last Line: Good-bye, miss lize jane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BEEFSTEAK WHEN I'M HONGRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BEEN ALL AROUN' THE WHOLE ROUN' WORL', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BIG BALL DOWN TOWN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BIRD AND BROOK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My song, that's bird-like in its kind Last Line: Of joy the whole year round. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs BITTER LOVERS' QUARREL - ONE SIDE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: You nasty dog. You dirty dog Last Line: I thinks myse'f above you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BLACK-EYED PEAS FOR LUCK (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: One time I went a-huntin' Last Line: An' 'possum come your way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BLESSING WITH COMPANY PRESENT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh lawd now bless an' bin' us Last Line: Don't let none hongry fin' us Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BLESSING WITHOUT COMPANY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh lawd have mussy now upon us Last Line: Dey eats mos' all our victuals from us Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BLINDFOLD PLAY CHANT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh blin' man! Oh blin' man! Last Line: Did you thought dat you'd cotch us, %mistah blin' man? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BOB, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of songs of the hills Last Line: This is the story of bob. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs BOB-WHITE'S SONG (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: At can -! Dle -! Light! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BOLERO, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So one day when the azalea bush was firing Subject(s): Songs; Nostalgia BOLLY-O (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Way down in de hills an' a 'bolly-o' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the olden fairy wood! Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder." Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs BOTHER BEN AND SISTER SAL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole br'er ben's a mighty ole man Last Line: Don't you see dat ole gray goose %a-smilin' at de gander? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BOUGHT ME A WIFE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Bought me a wife an' de wife please me Last Line: My cat go: 'fiddle-toe! Fiddle-toe!' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BOUND TO PUT ON AIRS (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I love dat gal dat deey call suze ann Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BOY'S MAGIC [OR, WONDER] HORN, SELS., by CLEMENS BRENTANO Subject(s): National Songs - Germany BRAG AND BOAST, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Brag is a big dog Last Line: He hain't never no worker Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BRANDY POND, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you jolly river boys and join me while I sing Last Line: And johnny williams of great pond was given of the blame! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Wine; Songs BRIDLE UP A RAT (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Down go de baby wid 'is big straw hat Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BRING ON YOUR HOT CORN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Bring along yo hot co'n Last Line: I loves dat jimmy-john Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BUCK AND BERRY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Buck an' berry run a race Last Line: So he died wid choleree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BUCK-EYED RABBIT! WHOOPEE! (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat squir'l, he's a cunnin' thing Last Line: Squir'l's got a long way to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BUCKDANCER'S CHOICE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I would hear out those lungs Subject(s): Mothers; Singing & Singers; Songs BUDGET, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If I lives to see nex' spring Last Line: I'se gwineter spen' my money on myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BULLFROG PUT ON THE SOLDIER CLOTHES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' de bullfrog shoot at 'em all nex' day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BUSCHER GARDEN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: All a night, me da watch a brother wayrum Last Line: Me a beg a me buscher a pardon Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BUTTERFLY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Pretty liddle butterfly, yaller as de gold Last Line: But you know I'se bound to git you, yet, my liddle butterfly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BUY FLOWERS FOR ME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: When but a small lad, I had a bad dad Last Line: Til death came and carried him away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BY THE ENTRANCE TO CORDOVA HALL, I SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my overheated car, where no one Subject(s): Songs; Memory; Grief; Driving; Sorrow; Sadness BYANSWAH-BYANSWAHN OR A BOAT SONG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh boat, come back to me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs BYE-O (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Bye oh, bye oh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CAELIA: SONNETS: 4, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So sat the muses on the banks of thames Last Line: Become more gracious by her sweetest voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs CALIFORNIAN, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began like this: a radio Subject(s): Summer; Drought; Death; Songs; Dead, The CANADA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native land! Thy wand'ring child Last Line: The banner of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; National Songs; Canadians; Liberty; National Anthems CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Songs CAPTAIN COON: 1 (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Captain coon's a mighty man Last Line: Till he's feared ole rober'll bite Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CAPTAIN COON: 2 (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Raccoon is a mighty man Last Line: Until he hears old beaver bark Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CAPTAIN JIM REES AN' THE KATIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CARE IN BREAD-MAKING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en you sees dat gal o' mine Last Line: To roll up 'er dirty sleeves Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CARELESS LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Love, oh love, oh careless love, love, oh love Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CARRYIN' SACKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm goin' up the rivuh to carry them sacks Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CAUGHT BY THE WITCH PLAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Molly, molly, molly-bright Last Line: Or de witches'll git yer Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CELADON ON DELIA SINGING, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O delia! For I know 'tis she Last Line: When first he saw, when first he heard the lovely maid. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ioye that alone with better bayes Last Line: And vse to loue the best. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dancing & Dancers; Home; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 28, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing Last Line: Love is aweary now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 4, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the shy star goes forth in heaven Last Line: Tis I that am your visitant. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 5, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean out of the window Last Line: Goldenhair. Variant Title(s): Goldenhair Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs CHICKEN IN THE BREAD TRAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Auntie, will yo' dog bite? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CHICKEN PIE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you wants to make an ole nigger feel good Last Line: Dat I gits be bigges' slice Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CHILDREN'S SEATING RHYME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: You set outside, an' ketch de cow-hide Last Line: You set 'round about, an' git scrouged out Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CHILDREN'S SONG, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Juveniles: is it snow on the hedges? Last Line: Father's come home again, etc. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Life; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nightmares; Songs CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day! Last Line: And christmas carols sing. Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs CHRISTMAS TURKEY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I prayed to de lawd for tucky-o Last Line: An' I brung my tucky home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CHUCK WILL'S WIDOW SONG (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh nimber, nimber will-o! Last Line: Don't hurt de liddle babies; dey is too sweet to kill-o Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CLANDESTINE LETTER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Kind miss: if I sent you a letter Last Line: Fer dat's mo' secretter Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, no change endeavour Last Line: Love has found out a way to live by dying. Subject(s): Cupid; Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Eros; Songs 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 COFFEE GROWS ON WHITE FOLKS' TREES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: So dat yeller gal loves dat high-hat dandy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COLLEGE OX, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole ox! Ole ox! How'd you come up here? Last Line: Now! Now, you comes up here for some sort o' college use Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COLOSSIANS: 3, 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we cling to earth? Its sweetest pleasures Last Line: No longer cling to earth, but soar to yon bright heaven! Subject(s): Earth; Jesus Christ; Praise; Singing & Singers; World; Songs COME ON, MY PINK, AN' TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COME, LOVE, COME, THE BOAT LIES LOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COME, MY LITTLE CHILDREN, HERE ARE SONGS FOR YOU, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Songs; Children COMPLAINT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song, I am unused to you Last Line: I would not betray you. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Betrayal; Forgetfulness; Singing & Singers; Songs CONTENT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though singing but the shy and sweet Last Line: Be yours all other bliss! Subject(s): Contentment; Singing & Singers; Songs COOKING DINNER (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Bile dem cabbage down Last Line: Gwineter eat 'em skins an' all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COR CORDIUM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of hearts, the chalice of love's fire Last Line: The nursing earth as the sepulchral sea. Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs COTTON EYED JOE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hol' my fiddle an' hol' my bow Last Line: Dey say he's been sol' down to guinea gall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COURTING BOY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en I wus a liddle boy Last Line: I'se gwine now to see ole sal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COURTSHIP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Kind miss: I'se on de stage o' action Last Line: We never would part Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs COVERT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, when sunny fields lay warm and still Last Line: "thy hiding-place is safe. Glad heart, keep still!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs COW NEEDS A TAIL IN FLY-TIME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat ole black sow, she can root in de mud Last Line: Den de cow'd need a tail in fly-time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CREDO, by MARGARET GROSVENOR Poem Text First Line: This is my creed Last Line: The bride be dead. Subject(s): Faith; Love; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Songs CROOKED NOSE JANE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I courted a gal down de lane Last Line: An' she look jes as lean as a weasel half-fed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs CROSSING A FOOT-LOG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Me an' my wife an' my bobtail dog Last Line: But I helt to my liddle brown jug, you bet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DAY AND NIGHT SONGS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These little songs Last Line: And to no one belongs. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Songs DAY'S HAPPINESS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went out to milk an' I didn't know how Last Line: Dat ole goose laid, an' de gander sot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DEEDLE, DUMPLING (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DERE'S NO HIDIN' PLACE DOWN DERE, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text Last Line: "he wanted to go to hebben, but he had to go to hell / dere's no hidin' place down dere" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals DESTINIES OF GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: One, two, three, fo', five, six, seben Last Line: To segashuate wid ole man joe Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DESTITUTE FORMER SLAVE OWNERS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Missus an' mosser a-walkin' de street Last Line: Hain't no nigger slaves in de year jubilee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DEVIL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rousters, except when singing of a packet, usually express their Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DEVILISH PIGS (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I wish I had a load o' poles Last Line: Dey'll root 'round in my pot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DID YOU FEED MY COW? (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Did yer feed my cow?' 'yes, mam!' Last Line: Oh, how did they come?' 'flop! Flop! Flop!' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DIE IN THE PIG-PEN FIGHTING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat ole sow said to de barrer Last Line: Yes, die wid a bitin' jaw Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DINAH'S DINNER HORN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: It's a col', frosty mornin' Last Line: Say? Don't you want to go? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DIXIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Dis world was made in jis' six days Last Line: "look away, look away, look away, dixie land" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;southern States; Negro Spirituals;south (u.s.) DO I LOVE YOU?, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Does I love you wid all my heart? Last Line: I'd spit you in de river Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DOES MONEY TALK?, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dem whitefolks say dat money talk Last Line: It up an' say: 'farewell!' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me? Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt: Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs DON'T ASK ME QUESTIONS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Don't axe me no questions Last Line: Hain't no place lak my house %found un'er de sun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DON'T SING BEFORE BREAKFAST (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: You'll cry 'fore you sleep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DON'T TELL ALL YOU KNOW, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Keep dis in min', an' all 'll go right Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DOODLE-BUG (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DOWN IN LONESOME GARDEN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hain't no use to weep, hain't no use to moan Last Line: Nor down in my lonesome gyardin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DOWN THE RIVUH, DOWN, BOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DREAM-SONG SEA-SONG, by EUNICE W. GILKEY Poem Text First Line: Take me / bear me gently - lightly Last Line: Waves of sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Ocean; Songs DRINKING RAZOR SOUP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: He's been drinkin' razzer soup Last Line: Cain't more 'an drive dat ole mule chyart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DRINKING SONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization Last Line: Chest, clouds above, she was in ny forever and I, fishing and drinking. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Loss; Singing & Singers; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs DROPPING CHIN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call the illusion what you will Last Line: Stooping to a penny. Subject(s): Guitars; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs DUKE SEE THE TIE PILE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The low sweet melody of ancient song Last Line: Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs EARLY IN THE MORNIN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Early in the mornin' jes' about the break uv day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ECCLESIASTES, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the smoke-blue cabaret Last Line: "and whose hands are bands.'" Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ECHOES, by HELEN M. FRANCIS Poem Text First Line: High up among the cobwebs of the roof Last Line: Save little answering voices all around. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Voices; Worship; Songs ECHOES, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope Last Line: To one in love with solitude and song. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs EL CAMINO REAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king's highway is thronged with folk Last Line: But, oh, the by-roads and their song! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Optimism; Songs ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eleanore! - fair eleanore!' Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs ELEANORE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poet's Biography First Line: Not the star - / the golden-winged herald of the morn Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Sound; Voices; Songs ELEPHANT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My mammy gimme fifteen cents Last Line: An' he won't git back 'fore de fo'th o' july Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs EMPTY VESSEL, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met ayont the cairney Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs END OF TEN LITTLE NEGROES (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ten liddle niggers, a-eatin', fat an' fine Last Line: Gun go off 'bang!' an' dat lef' none Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come tell us, you that travel far Last Line: And spend our booty in a song. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Saxophones; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs EVENING OF A TERRITORIAL FOURTH, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The location gang of engineers Last Line: Of the pioneers, of the south dakota to be. Subject(s): Flags - United States; National Songs; Pioneers; South Dakota; American Flag; National Anthems EVENING SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudlets are lazily sailing Last Line: To have a better stare! Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs EVENSONG, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song is of no importance Last Line: The perfect quiet that comes after rain. Subject(s): Cities; Singing & Singers; Urban Life; Songs EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 24, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This morn in the lily a bee doth sing: upon your finger chants a ring Last Line: Bosom sings my kiss. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs EZEKIEL SAW THE WHEEL, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: Ezeekiel saw de wheel Last Line: "dis ole worl' gwine reel an' rock, / 'way in de middle ob de air" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals FAIREST MAID ON DEVON BANKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Songs FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: You needn't sen' my gal hoss apples Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FAUST: SOLDIER'S SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles with lofty Last Line: Marching away. Subject(s): Beauty; Faust; Life; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; Songs FED FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I nebber starts to break my cold Last Line: An' done some apple eatin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FERD HEROLD BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Big boat's up the rivuh an' she won't come down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FEW NEGROES BY STATE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Alabammer nigger say he love mush Last Line: An' break his head on a pone o' co'n bread Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FINE PLASTER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en it's sheep skin an' beeswax Last Line: De mo' it sticks de faster Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FIRST APPOINTMENT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Intoxication of spring! The plot of grass is whirling round the statue Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs FISHING SIMON (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Simon tuck his hook an' pole Last Line: He give sunday fishin' up Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FLAMENCO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave her alone, dad said. She's learning something this time. Last Line: Goes off like this, when I have to prepare myself for another rescue Subject(s): Family Life; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Songs FLAP-JACKS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I loves my wife, an' I loves my baby Last Line: Fer I hain't gwineter give you no flap-jack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 1ST SERIES. DEDICATION, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sing a song shall please my countrymen Last Line: And so accept the singer and the song. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs FOLK SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "steal away, steal away, steal away to jesus" Last Line: I ain't got long to stay here Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;jesus Christ; Negro Spirituals FOLK SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "go down, moses, / way down in egypt land" Last Line: Let my people go Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;egypt; Negro Spirituals FOLLOW THAT GENT'MEN WITH A HAT ON HIS HEAD (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Green grows the willow tree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FOOL'S SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When swallows lay their eggs in snow Last Line: Till when let your wisdom be dumb, etc. Subject(s): Fools; Singing & Singers; Wisdom; Idiots; Songs FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 7. SPRING ARRIVED, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will carol all the day Last Line: Goes the pageant in a trice. Subject(s): Hearts; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOREVER, by BERTHA MILLER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Away and away in the far blue distance, life Last Line: Which is carried away forever, ever . . . Aye! Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Singing & Singers; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Songs FORTY-FOUR, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If de people'll jes gimme Last Line: What chapter did he read frim? 'twsu forty-fo'! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FOUR RUNAWAY NEGROES - WHENCE THEY CAME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Once fo' runaway niggers Last Line: Fer dat gal wus sweeter dan sugar cane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FOX AND GEESE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Br'er fox wak'd out one moonshiny night Last Line: Yes, I heard 'im w'en he holler 'quinny-quanio' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FOX AND GEESE PLAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Fox in de mawning Last Line: More 'an you're able to ketch Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FOX AND RABBIT DRINKING PROPOSITION, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Fox on de low ground Last Line: I wants it fer myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAD AND CHEERFUL SONGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me no more such ditties: they are well Last Line: Sing such a one. Subject(s): Advice; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs FREDERICA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O leave berlin, with its thick-lying sand Last Line: Sing in the golden sunny halls above. Subject(s): India; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs FREE AT LAST, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "free at last, free at last; / I thank god I'm free at last" Last Line: O free at last Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;freedom;slavery; Negro Spirituals;liberty;serfs FRIENDSHIP; ON SUN-PORTRAIT OF HER HUSBAND, SENT BY A WIFE TO A FRIEND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful eyes -- and shall I see no more Last Line: And feel a kind of regret. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Eyes; Friendship; Love - Marital; Portraits; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs FRIGHTENED AWAY FROM A CHICKEN-ROOST, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went down to de hen house on my knees Last Line: Den perhaps I mought eat dat ole gray hen Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FROG IN A MILL (NURSERY RHYME) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Once dere wus er frog dat lived in er mill Last Line: Wid er raker don la bottom o' la kimebo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FROG WENT A-COURTING (NURSERY RHYME) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De frog went a-co'tin', he did ride Last Line: Den you mought take my head 'long, too Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FROGS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Frogs, frogs, where are you going? Last Line: They will turn us all into lizards Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FROM SLAVERY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Chile: I come from out'n slavery Last Line: Natchully widdered up an' died Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs FULL POCKETBOOK, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De goose at de barn, he feel mighty funny Last Line: Till dey all fall over a sorter dead line Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GABRIEL'S TRUMPET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Baptist, baptist, is my name, I hope to live an' die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GAME CONTESTANT'S SONG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: We're going to dig Last Line: Sa your de vrai Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GEO-BESTIARY: 34, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not how many different birds I've seen Last Line: They sing what and where they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs GERMANY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sing germania' s glory! Last Line: Ever flourish germany! Subject(s): Germany; Love; Singing & Singers; Time; Germans; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mournful month of november 'twas Last Line: And the contact new vigour produces. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Germans; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs GETTING TEN NEGRO BOYS TOGETHER (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: One liddle nigger boy whistle an' stew Last Line: Call anudder nigger 'piece an' dat make ten Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GHAZALS: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sings from the bottom of a well but she can hear him up Last Line: Drags the dead horse away to hollow swelling growls. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Imaginary Conversations; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs GHAZALS: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am walked on a leash by my dog and am water Last Line: An apple, the fat off the lamb, raw and coreless. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Songs GHAZALS: 41, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song for nat king cole and the dog who ate the baby Last Line: Picker, the hay baler, the gun and throne and grenade. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Inventions & Inventors; Singing & Singers; Songs GO TO BED (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De wood's in de kitchen Last Line: Had better go to bed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GO TO SLEEP, I DO LOVE MY LAMB (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Yes, I do love my lamb, yes I do love my lamb Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GO TO SLEEP, LITTLE BABY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hush-a-bye and don't you cry Last Line: A coach and six ponies Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOD DAWG MY LOUSY SOUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOD THE BROKEN LOCK, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've died enough by now I trust Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Sin; Singing & Singers; Songs GOING TO BE GOOD SLAVES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole mosser an' missus has gone down to town Last Line: An' I'se gwinter wear stockin's jes lak de white folks Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOLD DUST FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOLDEN CITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The golden city an' the golden crown, pig iron johnson Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOOD-BY, RING (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a liddle dog, his name wus ring Last Line: Good-by, ring! I'se done wid you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOOD-BY, WIFE! (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a liddle wife Last Line: She walk out on de groun' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOOSEBERRY WINE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Now 'umble uncle steben Last Line: Call uncle steben back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOOSIE-GANDER PLAY RHYME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Goosie, goosie, goosie-gander Last Line: I'll pull yo' years way yander Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GOT A HOME IN THAT ROCK, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I've got a home in a-that rock Last Line: Better get a home in that rock, %don't you see? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GRAMPY SINGS A SONG, by HOLMAN F. DAY Poem Text First Line: Row-diddy, dow de, my little sis Last Line: Was chester cahoon of the tuttsville brigade. Subject(s): Grandparents; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs GRASSHOPPER SENSE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere wus a liddle grasshopper Last Line: Be keerful, my sweet sugar lump Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GRASSHOPPER SITTING ON A SWEET POTATO VINE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Start to eat dat blackbird an' he git choke Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GRAY AND BLACK HORSES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went down to de woods an' I couldn' go 'cross Last Line: Yes she trabble so hard dat she jolt off my ha'r Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GREAT OWL'S SONG (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ah-hoo-hoo? Ah-hoo-hoo? Ah-hoo-hoo? %an' who'll cook for kelline Last Line: Rough shot de shoe-boot, an' de lawd he knows who all? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GREEN OAK TREE! ROCKY'O, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GUINEA GALL (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Way down yon'er in guinea gall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs GUITAR SONG, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gastibelza, gun on shoulder Last Line: That hath maddened me! Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Songs GUM TREE CANOE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: On the tombigbee river so bright, I was born Last Line: Like a feather I float in my gum tree canoe Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HALF WAY DOINGS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My dear brudders an' sisters Last Line: At de liddle end of de horn Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HALF WAY DOINGS, SELS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Belubbed fellah-trabelers: in holdin' forth to-day Last Line: De grass keeps on a-growin' fur to smudder up his crap Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HAM BEATS ALL MEAT (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dem white folks set up in a dinin' room Last Line: An' still it's good sweet ham Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HAMMER THAT KILLED JOHN HENRY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: This is the hammer Last Line: Tell him I've gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE, by GERTRUDE ELOISE BEALER Poem Text First Line: Holly berries red and bright Last Line: Theirs a gladsome song! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Songs HARD TIMES IN SHELBYVILLE ROCK JAIL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: And he call you by everything cept its your name, oh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HARMONIES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: No hammer fell, no heavy axe was heard Last Line: In soundless beauty to the sun-god's lute. Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs HARVEST SONG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Las' year wus a good crap year %an' we raised beans an' de taters Last Line: I'se gwineter buy my gal red calico Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HATED BLACKBIRD AND CROW (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat blackbird say unto de crow Last Line: Caze de kittle mustn' talk about de pot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HAWK AND BUZZARD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Once: de hawk an' de buzzard went to roost Last Line: Den he went home wid a smashed in face Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HAWK AND CHICKEN (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hen, an' chickens in a fodder stack Last Line: An. De jaybird died a-laughin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HAWK AND CHICKENS PLAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Chickamee, chickamee, cranie-crow Last Line: You shan't have a chick Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HE IS MY HORSE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: One day as I wus a-ridin' by Last Line: An' if he lives, I'll ride 'im on Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HE LOVES SUGAR AND TEA, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Mistah buster, he loves sugar an' tea Last Line: What goes wid sister mandy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HE NEVER SAID A MUMBLIN' WORD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: O they took my blessed lord Last Line: Not a word, not a word, not a word Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HE PAID ME SEVEN (PARODY), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Our fadder, which are in heaben' Last Line: An' if I hadn't tuck day, I wouldn't git none Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HE WILL GET MR. COON, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole mistah coon, at de break o' day Last Line: An' he'll git you sho' this day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HEALING ANIMAL, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this day when you have needed to sleep forever Subject(s): Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs HEAR-SAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hello! Br'er jack. How do you do? Last Line: Dey's been tryin' to say you's been a-stealin' chickens Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HEART SONGS AND HOME SONGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And you and I must sing them Subject(s): Songs; Togetherness HEART-SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, what tho' I press the heedless throng Last Line: All the night long? Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs HEAVEN'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Visions of bethlehem come to me Last Line: Brought down from heaven by angel's wing. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Carols; Heaven; Singing & Singers; Stars; Paradise; Songs HEBREW CRADLE SONG, by EZEKIEL LEAVITT Poem Text First Line: Night has on the earth descended Last Line: That thy mother used to tell! Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Language; Jews; Singing & Singers; Judaism; Songs HER SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sings the blues in a voice that is partly Last Line: For in her song no one can be redeemed. Subject(s): Ireland; Pain; Redemption; Singing & Singers; Irish; Suffering; Misery; Songs HERE COMES A YOUNG MAN COURTING (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: My lulu, come an' wa'k wid me. 'miss tidlum tidelum day' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HERE I STAND (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Here I stan', raggity an' dirty Last Line: I hain't had no kiss since I'se been born Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HILL CIRCLE, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: I know a quiet little place Last Line: And sky-filled, sun-drenched air. Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs HOECAKE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you wants to bake a hoecake Last Line: You wrops it 'round a nigger's heel, %an' hol's it to de fire Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Negroes; American Blacks; Songs HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: On the way to paris, but toward nemours the Last Line: Hours of night chanted the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Songs HOW A LITTLE GIRL SANG, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, she was music in herself Last Line: Tho' still accursed with ears of lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs HOW CAN I SING?, by FREDERICK C. BODEN Poem Text First Line: Loudly the chanticleer now crows Last Line: And wake them up that I may sing. Subject(s): Dawn; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Songs HOW OLD ARE YOU? (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: How old are you my pretty little miss Last Line: I'll be sixteen next sunday Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HOW TO GET TO GLORY LAND, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you wants to fit to glory land Last Line: An' slip 'way - over into glory lan' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HOW TO KEEP OR KILL THE DEVIL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you wants to see de devil smile Last Line: An' if you don't watch, he'll slip it on you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HOW TO MAKE IT RAIN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Go kill dat snake an' hang him high Last Line: De storm an' rain'll come bye an' bye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HOW TO PLANT AND CULTIVATE SEEDS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Plant: one fer de blackbird Last Line: Pull it out'n de hill Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HOW TO PLEASE A PREACHER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you wants to see dat preachah laugh Last Line: Kill dat chicken an' give him a thigh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HUGGING THE JUKEBOX, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an island the soft hue of memory, Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Childen; Grandparents; Jukeboxes; Songs; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 13. ENVOI, 1919, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Go, dumb-born book Last Line: All things save beauty alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Singing & Singers; Songs HUNTING CAMP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Sam got up one mornin' Last Line: But a big black b'ar Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass Last Line: Here on my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs HYMN TO INDRA, LORD OF RAIN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who rousest the voice of the thunder Last Line: Hearken, o lord of rain! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Pride; Singing & Singers; Worship; Self-esteem; Self-respect HYMN TO THE AUTHOR OF THESE HYMNS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O'er realms of song an uncrowned king all things beneath the sun I Last Line: Wood! It is your shade, your shade, your shade, o dreaming wood! . . . Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Singing & Singers; Songs I AM NOT GOING TO HOBO ANY MORE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My mammy done tol' me a long time ago Last Line: I hain't never gwineter hobo no mo' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I AM WAITIN' ON THE LEVEE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I COME UP OUT OF EGYPT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dream with open eyes Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs I HEAR AMERICA SINGING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear america singing, the varied carols I hear Last Line: Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. Subject(s): Americans; Labor & Laborers; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; United States; Work; Workers; Songs; America I HEAR HER SING, by CAROLINE COX Poem Text First Line: I hear her sing across the years Last Line: "heavenly angels guard thy bed!" Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs I KNOW A MOON-RISE, I KNOW STAR RISE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: And my soul and your soul will meet in de day %when I lay dis body down Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I LOVE SOMEBODY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I loves somebody, yes, I do Last Line: She's de pretty liddle girl dat beats 'em all Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I SHALL FASHION SONGS, by LOIS R. CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: I shall fashion songs for you Last Line: And sing them to you. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs I SING OF CHANGE, by NIYI OSUNDARE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing / of the beauty of athens Subject(s): Change; Hope; Human Rights; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs I SING THE BATTLE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will Last Line: And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; War; Songs I WALKED DE ROADS, TILL DE ROADS GIT MUDDY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: So shore you'se de gal, you'se de ga I'se after Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I WENT DOWN DE ROAD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Oh far'-you-well, an' a hook-a-doo-dle-doo Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I WILL SING A JOYOUS SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The wind is blowing, blowing all between. Subject(s): Songs; Absence I WISH I WAS AN APPLE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: W'en 'is time come to bake Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I WOULD NOT MARRY A BLACK GIRL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I wouldn't marry a black gal Last Line: When you has her face around, %it never gits good day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I WOULD RATHER BE A NEGRO THAN A POOR WHITE MAN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My name's ran, I wuks in de san Last Line: I'd druther be a nigger, an' plow ole beck %dan a white hillbilly wid his long red neck Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I WOULDN'T MARRY A YELLOW OR A WHITE NEGRO GIRL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I sho' loves dat gal dey calls sally 'black' Last Line: An' her skin, it hain't never dry Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I WUZ BORNED ON THE RIVUH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'LL EAT WHEN I'M HUNGRY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: I cain't never starve Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'LL GET YOU, RABBIT!, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Rabbit! Rabbit! You'se got a mighty habit Last Line: You'll be in my fryin' pan Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'LL WEAR ME A COTTON DRESS (MILLY BIGGERS) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh, will you wear red? Oh, will you wear red? Last Line: Dyed wid copperse an' oak-bark Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M A 'ROUND-TOWN' GENTLEMAN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I hain't no wagon, hain't no dray Last Line: To wk in de mud, an' do widout shoes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M ALABAMA BOUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M GOIN' DOWN THE RIVUH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M GOIN' DOWN THE RIVUH, BABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M GOIN' TO SHIP ON THE MIKE DAVIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M GOIN' UP THE RIVUH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M SADDEST WHEN I SING, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think I have a merry heart Last Line: I'm saddest when I sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs I'M THE MAN THAT KIN RAISE SO LONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs I'M WUKIN' MY WAY BACK HOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IDA RED, IDA RED, I'M GITTIN TIRED UF, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IF YOU FROWNS, AN' I FROWNS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Right in de sunshine wedder Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IN '76 (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Way down yonder in sebenty-six Last Line: I'll be ready fer dat great day soon Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IN A MULBERRY TREE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jes looky, looky yonder; w'at I see Last Line: Dem liddle niggers gwineter roll an' kick Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IN A RUSH (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Here I comes jes a-rearin' an' a-pitchin' Last Line: But a kiss from yo' lips would be sweeter, my dear Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IN ANCIENT DECEMBER, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ideal american Last Line: Singing singing? What am I singing? Subject(s): Americans; Forget-me-nots; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs IN ANDELYS: LONG LIVE THE SKIES OF NORMANDY: 22, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Let us sing, to end our lay, normandy's azure skies, fairest the king Last Line: Form, skies, great skies, dappled o'er, rain cider on my head! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Singing & Singers; Songs IN MEMORY OF A CHILD-POET, L.L., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a song the great musician made Last Line: Lo, there his barque, white on the glittering sea! Subject(s): Children; Death; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Dead, The; Songs IN SPRING, by AVA F. COLLINGWOOD Poem Text First Line: The time in school is twice as long Last Line: On every single sunny day? Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs IN TIME OF WAR I SING, by ALLEN CRAFTON Poem Text First Line: I sing of song! Of spontaneity Last Line: I find my song within the world's soul -- crowned. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; World War I; Songs; First World War INCIDENTAL, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I rid me Last Line: And cold and alone? Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs INDEPENDENT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se jes as innerpenunt as a pig on ice Last Line: I don't want no niggers to be he'pin' me 'roun' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs INDIAN FLEA, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Injun flea, bit my knee Last Line: To wash 'im off, I'd stay a week Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs INVENTION FOR NEED, by ELSIE ROSE GIVENS Poem Text First Line: Some folk have need of sturdy things Last Line: These songs I cannot keep! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs INVITED TO TAKE THE ESCORT'S ARM, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Miss, does you lak strawberries? Last Line: Den have a wing dis time Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs INVOCATION, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of old, men of old Last Line: Heart of iron, lips of gold. Subject(s): History; Singing & Singers; Historians; Songs IS YO' LAMPS GONE OUT?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs IT IS HARD TO LOVE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: But you hain't gwineter lug up in mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ITALIAN STREAM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Distinct reflections mark the hoarded caves Last Line: And that, I swear, is a dream! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Water; Songs JACK AND DINAH WANT FREEDOM (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole aunt dinah, she's jes lak me Last Line: De nex' day de hipe drap off'n yo' back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JACKSON, PUT THAT KETTLE ON!, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' he sho' gits his po'tion: son Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs JAPANESE NIGHT-SONG, by JASON ELLEN Poem Text First Line: The shadow of a heron's wing is on the water Last Line: Like petals over her heart. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs JAWBONE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Samson, shout! Samson, moan! Last Line: Jawbone, kill dat wicked thing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JAYBIRD (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De jaybird jump from lim' to lim' Last Line: Ole friday devil,' fare - you -well Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JAYBIRD DIED WITH THE WHOOPING COUGH (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De jaybird died wid de whoopin' cough Last Line: Dat fiddle an' bow jes make 'em fly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JESUS NEVUH COME IN THE MORNIN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JEWISH LULLABY, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My harp is on the willow-tree Last Line: Judea's fainting soul! Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Singing & Singers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Songs JOE AND MALINDA JANE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole joe jes swore upon 'is life Last Line: Nex' day she die wid de whoopin' cough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOE FOWLER BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lawd, lawd, semms lak I heerd the joe fowler Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHN GILBERT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John gilbert is the boat, di de oh, di de oh, john Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHN HENRY (2), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: When john henry was a baby Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHN HENRY (4), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: John henry, he wus a steel-drivin' man Last Line: To de place whar her steel-drivin' man fell dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHN HENRY (7), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: John henry was a little baby Last Line: An' I don't need no man, %lawd, lawd, an' I don't need no man Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHNNY BIGFOOT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Run brudder, tell de news Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHNNY COME DOWN DE HOLLOW, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Boys, good-bye forever! %oh hollow! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JOHNNY KEEP PICKIN' ON THE BANJO (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Rain forty days and rain forty nights Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JONAH'S BAND PARTY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Setch a kickin' up san'! Joanah's ban Last Line: Dat nigger don't know how to coonjaint Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JUBA, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Juba dis, an' juba dat Last Line: Juba do dat long dog stratch. Juba! Juba! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JUBILEE HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of disillusion Last Line: Ring out loud the jubilee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Music & Musicians; Performing Arts - Spain; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs JUDGE BUZZARD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere sets jedge buzzard on de bench Last Line: Knock him off wid dat monkey wrench Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JUKE BOX LOVE SONG, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could take the harlem night Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Harlem (new York City); Love; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs JUMP JIM CROW, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Git fus upon yo heel Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs JUST A MANNISH CUSTOM, by CLEMENT GELEZUMAS Poem Text First Line: Majestic, sonorous, spontaneous Last Line: It is love -- broadcast afar in tenor. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs KATE ADAMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, I thought I heard the kate adams when she blowed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs KATIE AN' THE JIM LEE HAD A LITTLE RACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs KATIE AN' THE JIM LEE HAD A RACE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs KEPT BUSY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jes as soon as de sun go down Last Line: An' my head go 'whirly-gig' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs KING ARTHUR: SONG OF AEOLUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye blust'ring brethren of the skies Last Line: There swell your lungs, and vainly, vainly threat. Variant Title(s): To Britannia Subject(s): Earth; Fear; Singing & Singers; Spring; World; Songs KING ARTHUR: SONG OF PAN AND NEREIDE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round they coasts, fair nymph of britain Last Line: And takes for kings the tyrian dye. Subject(s): Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology); Singing & Singers; Songs KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest isle, all isles excelling Last Line: Those shall be renown'd for love. Variant Title(s): Song Of Venus [in Honour Of Britannia] Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros; Songs KISSING SONG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: A sleish o' breadan' butter fried Last Line: Caze I'se gwine away to leave you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs KITTY WITH A LONELY EYE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: He went down to this cabin do' Last Line: Johnny make kitty ki o Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs KNEEL ON THIS CARPET, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jes choose yo' eas'; jes choose yo wes' Last Line: An' den rise up upon yo' feet Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LADIES, WE GREET THEE, by MAUDE SLINKARD HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: Ladies, o ladies, we greet thee in song Last Line: Singing the hours away. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Women; Songs LARABELLE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the west! That long hath silent hung Last Line: The muse may add a laurel to the brave. Subject(s): Graves; Muses; Singing & Singers; War; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disarticulated / arm torn out Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs LAST OF JACK (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a liddle dog, his name wus jack Last Line: An' dat wus de las' o' poor liddle jack Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today some buildings were blown up Last Line: It tasted like. Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs LATE ONE NIGHT I WUZ MAKIN' MY ROUN', OVERTOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LATE SINGERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The spring was late in coming, so Last Line: We'll sing our number through. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Time; Songs LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs LEARNING TO COUNT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Naught's a naught Last Line: You hain't got no money Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This song stays Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs LET'S MARRY' COURTSHIP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh miss lizie, how I loves you Last Line: Let's git married if dey say 'not' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LETTERS TO YESENIN: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus the poet is a beached gypsy, the first porpoise to whom it Last Line: Smell of bacon. Wise souls move through the dark only one step at a time. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Suicide; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Songs LIEBESTRAUM, by HILDA BUTLER FARR Poem Text First Line: A melody so haunting Last Line: Our dream of love, my dear. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LIKES AND DISLIKES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I sho' loves miss donie! Oh, yes, I do Last Line: An' she laks to pout Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Likes And Dislikes LILIES, by EDNA DE LYNN Poem Text First Line: White lily, lovely flower! Last Line: One a banner of life! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs LINES TO A LADY, ON HEARING HER SING 'CUSHLAMACHREE', by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Heaven protect thee, thou gem of the ocean Last Line: "descending, shall hail thee her ""cushlamachree." Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LINES TO WILLIAM LINLEY WHILE HE SANG A SONG TO PURCELL'S MUSIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my young cheek retains its healthful hues Last Line: Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LISTEN!, by SARABETH (SATTERTHWAITE) LESLIE Poem Text First Line: Who craves a song that I should sing - Last Line: My heart sings on -- till questing cease. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LITTLE BOY WHO COULDN'T COUNT SEVEN (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Once der wus a liddle boy dat couldn' count one Last Line: Dey pitched him in a fedder bed; 'e thought he's gwine to heaben Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE DOGS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a liddle dog; his name wus ball' Last Line: An' w'en he died, I buried 'im in de san' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE MORE WATER (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Fetch a liddle mo' water, buddie Last Line: Way down in de old wheat field Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE NEGRO FLY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere's a liddle nigger fly Last Line: But he don't know 'is a, b, c's Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE PICKANINNY (NURSERY RHYME) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Me an' its mammy is both gwine to town Last Line: Mammy! How de baby grow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE RED HEN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My liddle red hen, wid a liddle white foot Last Line: Come, bring it on, honey, an' let's git through Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE ROOSTER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: U had a liddle rooster Last Line: Wants dat rooster fer deir beau Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE SISTER, WON'T YOU MARRY ME?, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Liddle sistah in de barn, jine de weddin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE SLEEPING NEGROES (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: One liddle nigger a-lyin' in de bed Last Line: Dey'd better hop out, if dey wants to git fed Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LITTLE SWEETHEART DOWNTOWN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a little sweetheart, she lived downtown Last Line: I hope she never seed dat morning gown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LIZA JANE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Whooper liza a pretty liddle gal Last Line: But I'se comin' back 'gain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LONGFELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds have talked with him confidingly Last Line: Of nature's voice he sings -- and will alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Nature; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Wind; Songs LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What stirs in my heart so? Last Line: I lie at thy feet! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs LONGING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never longed and loved Last Line: I lie at thy feet! Subject(s): Hearts; Longing; Singing & Singers; Songs LOOKING FOR A FIGHT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went down town de yudder night Last Line: Fer to shoot dem niggers down one by one Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LOVE, by MARY HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Surely, I thought, it must have wings Last Line: And baked a cake and sang. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LOVE IS JUST A THING OF FANCY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: But ugly'll hol' 'er own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LOVE SONG, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am misunderstanding a song Last Line: Of too many / nights alone Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Love; Songs LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG FOR A GIRL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young I am, and yet unskill'd Last Line: I shou'd long to be fifteen. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What state of life can be so blest Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind! Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators LOVE'S INSPIRATION, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit at the rosewood table Last Line: And swiftly from my pen the pages darken. Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Creative Ability; Paper; Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Songs LOVE, YOUTH, SONG, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: It was a song of lustihood Last Line: When love and youth and song were one! Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LOVERS' GOODNIGHT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Cotton fields white in de bright moonlight Last Line: Hain't no need a-stayin' ontel nex' day Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs LURLINE (INSCRIBED TO MADAME LUCY ESCOTT), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you glided and glided before us that time Last Line: When we heard your wild warbling around us. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs LYNTON VERSES: 2, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At malmsmead, by the river side Last Line: And we are left so lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Solitude; Songs; Loneliness LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 39, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little songs do I utter Last Line: What they in her bosom discover'd. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 45, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hearing the strains enthralling Last Line: I quench my anguish and grief. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 48, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From older legends springing Last Line: Dissolves, when morning beams. Subject(s): Flowers; Legends; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 56, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My songs with poison are tainted Last Line: And thee too, my dearest love, thee. Subject(s): Hate; Hearts; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 58, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on the brow of the mountain Last Line: And healest the bullfinch's smart. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 64, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glittering star is falling Last Line: The song of the swan died away. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Stars; Swans; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll dip my spirit discreetly Last Line: In a wondrous moment of bliss. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On song's exulting pinion Last Line: Of blissful visions we'll dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing & Singers; Women; Songs MACOMBREY QUEEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hear the boat a-whistlin', comin' roun' the bend Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MAKER OF THE SONGS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take strands of speech, faded and broken Last Line: Of glittered breath that you have known. Variant Title(s): Maker Of Songs Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Songs MALEDICTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's not a singing animal Last Line: Rivet his stone with worms. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Curses; Pain; Self-pity; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MAMMA'S DARLING (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Wid flowers on my shoulders Last Line: I'se so tired stayin' to myself Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MAMMY SUE, by MARY C. HERGET Poem Text First Line: In the dim days of the long ago Last Line: "hummin', hummin', hummin'." Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Household Employees; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Songs MAMMY, IS MASSA GWINE TO SEE ME TOMORROW? (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Oh, water and pray Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MAN O' WORDS AN' NOT O' DEEDS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Is lak a gyarden full o' weeds Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MANY THOUSAND GONE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: No more auction block for me Last Line: No more mistress' call for me, %many thousand gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Freedom; Slavery MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I have pleasures for a friend Last Line: When neither can hinder the other. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst alexis lay prest Last Line: The nymph dy'd more quick, and the shepherd more slow. Subject(s): Jealousy; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs MASTER HAD A BRAN' NEW COAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MASTER IS SIX FEET ONE WAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Mosser is six foot one way, an' free foot tudder Last Line: But a liddle mo' holier dan righteous Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MASTER KILLED A BIG BULL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' give poor nigger de chitlins. %sho! Sho! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MASTER'S 'STOLEN' COAT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole mosser bought a brand new coat Last Line: But he's greener dan a gourd Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MASTERS OF CONTE JONDO, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs MATTHEW: 26, 30, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun hath gilded judah's hills Last Line: That last sweet hymn did raise. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs MAY, by ERIS GOFF Poem Text First Line: O the wonder of living while may is here Last Line: Each naked new dream in the brook. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ME AN' MY LOVER, WE FALL OUT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' dats de way dat big fuss start Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MEXICAN SERENADE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the little armadillo Last Line: So I guess that you had better go to sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "michael row de boat ashore, / hallelujah!" Last Line: "singer row to save your soul, / hallelujah!" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals MISS BLODGER (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De rats an' de mice, dey rund up stairs Last Line: She 'spects to hit me, but I'se gwineter dodge her Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MISS SLIPPY SLOPPY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole miss slippy sloppy jump up out'n bed Last Line: Dat he won't want no dinner, but a hole in de ground Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MISS TERRAPIN AND MISS TOAD (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: As I went marchin' down de road Last Line: For I didn't know zackly which to choose Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MOLLY COTTAINTAIL, OR, GRAVEYARD RABBIT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole molly cottontail, %at night, w'en de moon's pale Last Line: My luck, it won't be fer sale Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MOTHER SAYS I AM SIX YEARS OLD (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My mammy says dat I'se too young Last Line: Jes since I'se gwine to heaben Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MOURNING SLAVE FIANCEES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Lokk down dat lonesome road! Look down! Last Line: Lef' many a mile behin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MUD-LOG POND (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: As I stepped down by de mud-log pond Last Line: An' I give him a dollar fer to let me pass Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MULE'S KICK, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Is dis me, or not me Last Line: On de t'other side de creek Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MULE'S NATURE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you sees a mule tied up to a tree Last Line: It makes no diffunce what 'comes of a fool Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MUSIC, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Text First Line: The old songs / die Last Line: Are all that is left of sarasate. Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs MUSIC'S TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Had birds no season for their precious songs Last Line: Is there no quiet place to sleep or rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs MY BABY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se de daddy of dis liddle black baby Last Line: An' he kick lak a pony eatin' clover Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY DOG, CUFF (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a liddle dog, his name wus cuff Last Line: An' I guess dat speech is long enough Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY FIDDLE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If my old fiddle wsu jes in chune Last Line: Hurrah fer my old fiddle an' bow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY FIRST AND MY SECOND WIFE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My fust liddle wife wus short an' fat Last Line: Den we'd be troubled in min'! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY FOLKS AND YOUR FOLKS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you an' yo' folks Last Line: Lak me an' my folks Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY HEART'S GONE A-WEEPING (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Come un'er! Come un'er! My honey, my love, my heart's above Last Line: Case my heart's gone a weepin, 'way down below de trees Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY LEGENDS: ORPHEUS CHARMING THE ANIMALS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Neath dawn's caress a silvery mountain shone Last Line: That drunk with song the world more swiftly whirled through space. Subject(s): Animals; Legends; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Songs MY LITTLE PIG (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: You see: I had a liddle pig Last Line: Dat he learn in de cool Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY LORD, WHAT A MORNING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Look in my god's right hand, %when de stars begin to fall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY MAN'S UP THE RIVUH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY MULE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Las' saddy mornin' mosser said Last Line: An' I rid him till I thought he'd bust Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY SINGING LESSONS; ABSTRACT, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here beginneth - chapter the first of a series Last Line: Indited this twenty-sixth day of november. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs MY SONG, by AGATHA COLE Poem Text First Line: Today is the day I will make a song Last Line: For my love, o my love, loves me. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MY SPECKLED HEN (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Somebody stole my speckled hen Last Line: Member dat hen wid 'er shinin' wing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MY SWEETHEART, by FRANCES BOYD HURLOCK Poem Text First Line: I sing of love to one I love Last Line: This mortal life, my own sweetheart. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MY VOCATION, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Cast the world's vast crowd among Last Line: Sing, poor little one.' Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs MY WONDERFUL TRAVEL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I come from ole virginny Last Line: A-pickin' up de pies Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs MYSTERIOUS FACE WASHING (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I wash my face in de watah Last Line: An' I dries it in de sun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NASHVILLE LADIES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dem nashville ladies dress up fine Last Line: Big pig! Liddle pig! Root hog, or die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEAR WALDO TEE-DO GAVE ME A SUIT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Near waldo tee-do is my sweetheart Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEEDLE AND THREAD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I had a needle and a thread Last Line: And fly to the eastern shore Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEGRO AND THE POLICEMAN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Old mistah policeman, tu'n me loose Last Line: Well, hello, sarah jane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEGRO BAKER MAN (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Patty cake! Patty cake! Nigger baker man Last Line: An' scrub 'im off good fer de ole san' man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEGRO SOLDIER'S CIVIL WAR CHANT: OLD ABE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole abe (god bless 'is ole soul!) Last Line: An' de slave'll be free %in dese hard times Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEGRO SPIRITUAL: I THANK GOD I'M FREE AT LAS', by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: Free at las' - free at las' Last Line: I thank god I'm free at las' Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals NEGROES NEVER DIE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Nigger! Nigger never die! Last Line: Whirl, an' give his feet a fling. Nigger! Nigger! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEMOURS: HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Upon the paris side, but towards nemours the white, in the boughs a Last Line: Has chanted philomel! Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs NESTING (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De jaybird build on a swingin' lim' Last Line: An' de gander on de t'other side o' jordan Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEVER SEEN THE LAKE SINCE GETTIN' UPSTAIRS, SELS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went right down to the muddy, muddy pond Last Line: The fire kept a-runnin' out of joe gump's boots Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NEW SPRING: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hast good eyes, and look'st Last Line: Thou wilt tread the forest mazy. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs NEWLY WEDS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: First mont': 'set down in my cabin, honey!' Last Line: You well to wuk as I Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NO ROOM TO POKE FUN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Nev' min' if my nose are flat Last Line: An' de bullfrog hain't no beauty Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NOBODY KNOWS DE TROUBLE I'VE HAD, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text Last Line: "what make ole satan hate me so? O yes, lord! / because he got me once and he let me go, o yes, lord Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals NOBODY LOOKING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Well: I look dis a way, an' I look dat a way Last Line: An' I drink'd up all o' de beer Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: THE ITALIAN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Sing, I tell the italian: bring your barrel-organ. Sing.' - to his Last Line: "of shining sand: my voice without me is empty noise. Scrutinize well my face." Subject(s): Lament; Singing & Singers; Songs NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now precedent songs, farewell -- by every name farewell Last Line: What wretched shred e'en at the best of all!) Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs NOW THE SPIRIT'S SONG HAS WITHERED, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hid in hill or hollow? Subject(s): Songs O LULL ME, LULL ME, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sigh stretches heaven Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Consolation; Songs OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 28, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-cheeked laura, come Last Line: Selves eternal. Variant Title(s): Silent Music;laura Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Seduction; Singing & Singers; Songs ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often wish this languid lyre Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Songs; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: While our rosy fillets shed Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Drinks & Drinking; Songs; Wine OEDIPUS: SONG TO APOLLO, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, god belov'd by men Last Line: Tho' he burst with the weight of the terrible god. Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Morning; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Songs OF A BAD SINGER; EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Last Line: Did certain persons die before they sing. Variant Title(s): The Desired Swan-song;bad Poets;on A Volunteer Singer;on A Bad Singer Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs OFF FROM RICHMOND (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se off from richmon' sooner in de mornin' Last Line: Fer I mus' see my donie wharever she may stay Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OH GO TO SLEEP, MY BABY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OH, ANNIE, OH!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OH, WHEN I GIT MY NEW HOUSE DONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OHIO RIVUH, SHE'S SO DEEP AN' WIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD AUNT KATE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jes look at ole aunt kate at de gyardin gate Last Line: She's a fine playmate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD BLACK GNATS (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dem ole black gnats, dey is so bad Last Line: Fer I cain't git out'n here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD GRAY GOOSE IS DEAD (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Go and tell aunt betsie Last Line: And he have bit off her head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD GRAY HORSE CAME TEARIN' THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Say, don't you want to go? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD GRAY MINK, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I once did a think dat I would sink Last Line: An' he's killing an' eatin' chicken still Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD HEN CACKLED (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De ole hen she cackled Last Line: She cackled in de pot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD JOE, WHAT IS THE MATTER? (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: My horses go lookin' up hill Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD LOUISIANA GAL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Come, honey come, come go wid me Last Line: Hawk and buzzard went to lunch, ole louisiana gal Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD MAN'S SONG (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Old man, old man, and what's your sons names? Last Line: And catchin' dem possum dey's cahrlie at de wheel Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD MOLLY HARE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: I hain't got no time fer to talk to you Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD SECTION BOSS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I once knowed an ole sexion boss but he done been laid low Last Line: You see; dat's de way de hoosiers feeds way our in arkansaw Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLD SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is many a simple song one hears Last Line: The tender magic of bygone things. Subject(s): Life; Love; Pain; Passion; Singing & Singers; Suffering; Misery; Songs OLD WOMAN IN THE HILLS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Once: dere was an ole 'owan Last Line: It mus' 'ave been bones Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLE MAN KNOW-ALL, HE COME 'ROUND, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: But he knowed too much to go dat way Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OLINDA SINGS (DEDICATED TO OLINDA RODRIGUEZ), by DOROTHY A. LINNEY Poem Text First Line: Olinda sings - and there is silver spray Last Line: Life every heart -- because olinda sings. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs 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 CRITICS; IN IMITATION OF ANACREON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let 'em censure: what care I? Last Line: And lose the nymph, to gain the bays. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Fame; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Reputation; Songs ON HEARING 'THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER', by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That strain again? It seems to tell Last Line: Breathes, lives, and weeps in those wild numbers. Subject(s): Songs ON HIMSELFE (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aske me, why I do not sing Last Line: And my tongue at one time mute. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs ON RHYME AND BLANK VERSE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a deal of impertinent stuff at this time Last Line: All the bus'ness he knows is—to execute well. Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE ARROW TRACK, by J. H. G. Poem Text First Line: Coming from the arrow, I / with my empty dray Last Line: "ta-ra-ra boom-dee-ay!" Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Family Life; Language; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ON THE BANKS UV THE OLE TENNESSEE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ON THE PROGRAM, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL Poem Text First Line: The well - dressed throng of women murmured - stirred Last Line: "spoke graciously, ""your songs enchanted me!" Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs ON TOP OF THE POT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Wild goose gallop an' gander trot Last Line: Walk about, ladies, on top o' de pot Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ONE MORE RIVER, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: "o, jordan bank was a great old bank!" Last Line: Dere ain't but one more river to cross Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals ONLY LOVE I KNOW (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Johnny had a little girl and she walk'd around Last Line: Come in the ring and bow to him low Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OPOSSUM HUNT (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Possum meat is good an' sweet Last Line: Twus de bigges' eatin' in de lan' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ORIGIN OF THE SNAKE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Up de hill an' down de level Last Line: Devil come an' gits his own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Animals; Black Songs; Snakes OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh, de devil an' black jack, dey wus a playin' seben-up Last Line: Den he brung awau de balunce jes' a strutin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OUR NATIVE SONG, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our native song! Our native song! Last Line: To hear its own, its native song. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs OUR OLD MULE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: We had an ole mule an' he wouldn' go 'gee' Last Line: So he made me jump up an' outrun de jews Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OUR SINGING STRENGTH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm Last Line: And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed Subject(s): Spring; Singing & Singers; Songs OUR SOLDIERS' SANTIAGO SONG, by DAVID GRAHAM ADEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing 'the star spangled banner' Last Line: Sang a song of praise to god. Subject(s): Heroism; National Songs; Rifles; Soldiers; War; Heroes; Heroines; National Anthems OUTRUNNING THE DEVIL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I went upon de mountain Last Line: I'se tried dem other ways Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OWL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: The dancing owl waves his spread tail feathers. I'm the owl Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs OWLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What music, lord, these birds must feel Last Line: For the beauty at my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Singing & Singers; Songs PAGE'S GEESE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole man page'll be in a turble rage Last Line: An' sent de pay home be de gander Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PALE SONG, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What music make with bells gulfed by the hours? Last Line: What poems draw from a heart drowned in despair? Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs PAPA LOVES HIS LITTLE BABY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Hush, hush a by Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PARODY ON 'NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP', by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Un-huh: 'now I lays me down to sleep' Last Line: I hopes 'deir' ole jawbones'll break Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PARODY ON 'REIGN, MASTER JESUS, REIGN', by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh, rain! Oh rain! Oh rain, 'good' mosser Last Line: Wet ground grows grass best Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De second day of christmas, my true lover gave for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PAYING DEBTS WITH KICKS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I owes yo' daddy a peck o' peas Last Line: I never fails to pay my debts Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PEEP SQUIRREL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Peep squir'l, ying-ding-did-lum Last Line: I cotch you squir'l! Now stay, I say Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PERIWINKLE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Pennywinkle, pennywinkle, poke out yo' ho'n Last Line: Jes stick out yo' ho'n all pinted to a tree Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PHILIPPINE ISLAND RHYME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: See that monket up the cocanut tree Last Line: All same to americano, %no hay dique Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PHYLLIS, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet birds that sit and sing amid the shady valleys Last Line: "for as on you our muse begun, in you all music endeth!" Variant Title(s): A Pastoral Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs 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 PICTURES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pallid nun by serge made doubly pale Last Line: Touches the cheek, and fairer skies float down. Subject(s): Italy; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Italians; Songs PIERROT'S SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, light in the east hangs low, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs PIG TAIL (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Run boys, run Last Line: Hain't no nigger's bes' fare Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PINE MUSIC, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years I seek the stars Last Line: By the least flowers that fade. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs PLANT FLOWERS ON MY GRAVE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Darling, soon I shall be sleeping Last Line: Of my lover I wish to keep Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PLANTATION HYMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear dat rum'lin' in de sky! Last Line: As he goes walkin' by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Negro Spirituals; Serfs PLASTER (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dey sticked a plaster on his back Last Line: An' drawed 'em up to glory Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PO' OLE SLAVE IS GONE TO REST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PO' SHINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We can't do me lak you done po' shine, - paid off evuh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs POMEGRANATE SONG, by ANDRE GIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still for a long time you should seek Last Line: That we pop near the fire. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Happiness; Pomegranates; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight; Songs POOR LITTLE LAMB SAID 'MAMMY', by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Old molly glascow, where is your lamb? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs POSSUM UP THE GUM STUMP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: You'll git de yudder kin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs 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 PRECIOUS THINGS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hol' my rooster, hol' my hen Last Line: But pray don't tetch my sweet liddle lips Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PRESENTING A HAT TO PHOEBE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Sister phoebe: happy wus we Last Line: If you don't love me, it's sho' yo' own fault Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PRETTY LITTLE GIRL (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Who's been here since I'se been gone? Last Line: A pretty liddle gal, all dressed in red Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PRETTY LITTLE PINK, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My pretty liddle pink Last Line: Long de river dat flows wid brandy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PRETTY PAIR OF CHICKENS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat box-legged rooster, an' dat bow-legged hen Last Line: Dey thinks dey's looking fine, w'en dey needs lots of stitches Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PRETTY POLLY ANN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se gwineter marry, if I can Last Line: I 'spec's I'll marry miss lize jane Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PRIMA DONNA OF THE NEGRO JAZZ ORCHESTRA, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: I am the lemon-lily queen Last Line: And my earrings tremble and shine. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs PROLOGUE TO 'RONDEAUS OF THE GREAT WAR AND OTHER POEMS', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glint of a raindrop Last Line: And ever so long! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs PROMETHEUS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prometheus stole from heaven the sacred fire Last Line: We strum our banjo-strings and call them lyres. Subject(s): Prometheus; Singing & Singers; Songs PROMISES OF FREEDOM: 1, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My ole mistriss promise me Last Line: May de devil preach 'is funer'l song Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs PROMISES OF FREEDOM: 2, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My old mistress promised me Last Line: Oh old mistress a long farewell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs QUEEN OF THE BLUES, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mame was singing Last Line: Their hats to a queen? Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs RABBIT HASH (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere wus a big ole rabbit Last Line: You's never tasted 'tall Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RABBIT SOUP (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Rabbit soup! Rabbit sop! %rabbit e't my tunnup top Last Line: Makin' a pot o' rabbit soup Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RACCOON, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: The raccoon has a bushy tail Last Line: Till old ringo bark Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RACCOON AND OPOSSUM FIGHT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De raccoon an' de 'possum Last Line: Playin' lak he been dead Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RACE-STARTER'S RHYME, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: One fer de money Last Line: An' four fer to go Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RAG MAN'S SONG: 1 (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Any rags or any bones or any bottles today? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RAG MAN'S SONG: 2 (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Rag man, rag man, bottles today Last Line: Cryin' rags, old bones, and bottles today Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RAISE A 'RUCUS' TO-NIGHT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Two liddle niggers all dressed in white Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RANDSOME TANTSOME (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RASCAL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se de bigges' rascal fer my age Last Line: He would a e't no, but you know he died Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RATION DAY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat ration day comes once a week Last Line: An' ev'ry day'll be sund'y Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RATTLER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Go call ole rattle from de bo'n Last Line: Here rattler! Here! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RAW HEAD ON BLOODY BONES (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Don't talk! Go to sleep! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RECALL, by MARIE HINDELANG FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Come, gentle winds, and waft Last Line: Tell him the hours are long. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs RECALLED, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing of love, and what sing I? Last Line: So could still them, and be heard? Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs RECIPROCITY, by D. H. INGHAM Poem Text First Line: With the may blossoms, cheery and bold Last Line: "nothing sweeter than silence,"" sang he." Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs RED SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When moses wuz leadin' the israelites, red sea Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Red Sea REDHEAD WOODPECKER (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs REGARDING (MOST) SONGS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human voice can sing a vowel to break your heart. Subject(s): Songs REJECTED BY ELIZA JANE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en I went 'cross de cotton patch Last Line: An' git choked on 'sugar cain' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs REJECTED NATIONAL ANTHEMS, SELS., by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Subject(s): National Songs REMEMBERED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sang, and I listened the whole song thro' Last Line: And goes forever winging. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs REMEMBERED MUSIC, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lying under a weird blue sky Last Line: In dull trafalgar square. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Ukraine; Songs REMEMBERED SONGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked an autumn lane, and ne'er a tune Last Line: Soft songs on hearts that loved us, long before? Subject(s): Autumn; June; Seasons; Silence; Singing & Singers; Fall; Songs RENDEZVOUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My song! It is time Last Line: Impatiently to receive us! Subject(s): Songs REQUEST TO SELL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Gwineter ax my daddy to sell ole rose Last Line: To take dat t'other nigger's beau Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RESIGNATION, by NORA LANE Poem Text First Line: I did not know Last Line: That no one will again. They are no longer ture. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs RESURRECTION SONG, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thread the nerves through the right holes Last Line: And pull up the nostrils! His nose was snub. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Songs RHAPSODY, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am glad daylong for the gift of song Last Line: Like sheep from the rains and thunders. Subject(s): Songs RING ON, LOVE BELLS, by LILLIAN HIEBERT Poem Text First Line: Ring on, love bells, with notes so true Last Line: Spotless, lily-white, the sacred vow to be sealed. Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Songs ROCK THE CRADLE LUCY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Joe he cut off his two big toes Last Line: For the body does not know Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!" Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: HASTINGS BATTLE-FIELD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The abbot of waltham deeply sigh'd Last Line: The monks pray'd, full of compassion. Subject(s): Death; Hastings, Battle Of (1066); Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her." Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE VALKYRES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While below contending forces Last Line: "he with haughty calmness breathes.'" Subject(s): Mythology - German; Singing & Singers; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AN OLD SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now art dead, and thou knowest it not Last Line: While in the distance the bells were tolling. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 20. ENFANT PERDU, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn posts leading, thirty long years fought I Last Line: My arms break not, my heart alone doth break. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Freedom; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs ROSAMOND, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fragrant bright june morning, rosamond, the queen of girls Last Line: Set them in her vase a week -- then throw them with her flowers away? Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs ROSAMOND: KING HENRY'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish Last Line: Oh, the pleasing, pleasing anguish! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; King, Henry (1592-1669); Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSAMUND: ROSAMOND'S SONG, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From walk to walk, from shade to shade Last Line: Fly to my arms, my monarch, fly! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs ROSES RED, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Rose's red, vi'lets blue Last Line: But my love are true, an' it never fail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs ROWDY SOUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm a rowdy soul, I'm a rowdy soul, don't care whether I Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RULE, RULE, RULE OVER (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Mary is the ruler, sometimes, oh Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs RUN, NIGGER, RUN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Run, nigger, run! De patter-rollers'll ketch you Last Line: Dat nigger tore up de whole co'n field Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SAI BODDEOH SUMPUN KOMO, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I am not going to marry sumpun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SAIL AWAY, LADIES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: De devil'll git you. Sail away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SAINT BRIDE'S LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, baby christ, so dear to me Last Line: Sang bridget bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Fear; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Marriage; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SAINT THOMAS IN INDIA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ risen, commanded thomas, saying 'begone! Last Line: "take this!"" he said, ""I yield my crown to christ." Subject(s): Death; India; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Slavery; Dead, The; Theology; Songs; Serfs SALLIE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Sallie! Sallie! Don't you want to marry? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SALT RISING BREAD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I loves saltin', saltin' bread Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SAM IS A CLEVER FELLOW (NURSERY RHYME) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Say! Is yo' peaches ripe, my boy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SANCTUARY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High above hate I dwell Last Line: Float less than april fog below our hermitage. Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Singing & Singers; Songs SATAN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De lawd made man, an' de man made money Last Line: He blinds you wid his san'. He's trying to git you, man Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SEA AND SHORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you marked how the sea with foam Last Line: When the tide sets out to sea. Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SELF-CONTROL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Befo' you says dat ugly word Last Line: Dat donkey cain't count ten Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Self-control SERAPH AND THE POET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seraph sings before the manifest Last Line: Sing, seraph, -- poet, -- sing on equally! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SERENADE, by JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR AICARD Poem Text First Line: My marguerite, I play Last Line: In this wise sang miette. Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SERENADE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bright stars are gleaming above Last Line: Oh, dream of me in thy soft slumbers! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SERENADE IN GREY, by SAMUEL GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: The soft eyelid of the dew doth set Last Line: When color mixes to choice -- behold a lover! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World; Songs SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song of a boat Last Line: Ah me! Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Homesickness; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SEX LAUGH, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: You'se heard a many a gal laugh Last Line: An' say: 'she! She-she! She-she-she!' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHAKE THE PERSIMMONS DOWN: 1, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De raccoon up in de 'simmon tree Last Line: Jes clam up whar dey grow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHAKE THE PERSIMMONS DOWN: 2, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Opossum in persimmon tree Last Line: And cook a good possum pie Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHE HUGGED ME AND KISSED ME (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I see'd her in de springtime Last Line: An' she jes say 'go long' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHE LEAVES MEMPHIS AN' SHE NEVUH MAKE NO STOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHE SAID I COULDN'T COME ANYMORE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: In about six months more Last Line: Oh, I can't come no mo' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHEEP AND GOAT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Sheep an' goat gwine to de paster Last Line: An' de sheep split 'is lip wide a big broad grin Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHEEP SHELL CORN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh: de ram blow de ho'n an' de sheep shell co'n Last Line: When de sheep shell co'n wid de rattle of his ho'n Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHOO FLY! (I WOULD NOT MARRY A BLACK GIRL) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Shoo fly! Don't bother me Last Line: De naps'll 'gin to fly Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHOO! SHOO! (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Pass dat cider an' 'simmon beer Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SHORT LETTER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: She writ me a letter Last Line: My honey - good-by Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SICK WIFE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Las' sadday night my wife tuck sick Last Line: If you saves po' me de gizzard Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SILENCE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Text First Line: I am the warden of the seals of sleep Last Line: Safe in my keeping have I hidden god. Subject(s): God; Silence; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Songs SILVER DREAM, by LILA HURLEY Poem Text First Line: At dusk the wood bird's song continuous rang Last Line: That night when summer dreamed a silver dream. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SILVIO'S COMPLAINT: A SONG, TO A FINE SCOTCH TUNE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blooming time o'th year Last Line: For wishing to be king. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Wishes; Youth; Songs SIMON SLICK'S MULE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere wus a liddle kickin' man Last Line: An' sen' you half a mile! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SINCE 1619, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years since 1619 have I been singing spirituals? Last Line: Lean and hungry and tired of my dry bones and years? Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs; Slavery SINGING FAITH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness and doubt and despair Last Line: Love? It bewitches the way. Subject(s): Despair; Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Singing & Singers; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Songs SINGING HEART, by N. M. FRIES Poem Text First Line: Glorious gold of winter sunset Last Line: Tediousness can never bore. Subject(s): Happiness; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make ready fair lady to night Last Line: And leave my old daddy asleep. Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs SIR MARTIN MARR-ALL: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind love, to this hour Last Line: And more blest her eyes that first taught me desire. Subject(s): Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Stars; Bedtime; Songs SISTER MARY WEARS A PRETTY GREEN SHAWL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Early in the morning Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SKINNER, SKINNER, YOU KNOW THE RULE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SLAVE MARRIAGE CEREMONY SUPPLEMENT, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: Dark an' stormy may come de wedder Last Line: She's now yo' own. Salute yo' bride Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;marriage;slavery; Negro Spirituals;weddings;husbands;wives;serfs SLUMBER SONG FOR SUNALINI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden, glowing Last Line: Sleep, my sunalini, sleep! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Folk Songs - Indian; Heaven; Rest; Saints; Death - Babies; Paradise SMILING WOMAN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her personable countenance Last Line: That cuts a curved and cruel stroke. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Laughter; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Songs SNAIL'S REPLY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Snail! Snail! Come out'n o' yo' shell Last Line: I'll jes take my chances in here whar I dwell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SOILD AS A HOLE IN THE WALL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'm as solid as a hole in the wall Last Line: Dat I must no take it any more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SOLEDAD, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he lies in the blinded room Last Line: Oh swings: beyond complete immortal now. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs SOME LATE LARK SINGING, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: These are my songs. As all men sing Last Line: Me up, and far below, some late lark sings! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Pain; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Suffering; Misery; Songs SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text Last Line: Way up in de hebbenly lan' Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: We raise de wheat Last Line: And say dat's good enough for nigger Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a claim to fame? Last Line: "he was her lover!" Subject(s): Hope; Love Affairs; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Optimism; Songs SONG, by BERENICE BRIGHAM Poem Text First Line: Song is a wheel of love Last Line: Spin love eternally. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad little heart, overburdened with dream Last Line: The heart-break! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SONG, by BERYL CASS Poem Text First Line: When you loved me Last Line: And soft birds dying. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs SONG, by BARBARA CLAWSON Poem Text First Line: O lord, how beautiful it is! Last Line: Is it not sweet to be alive! Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by PHILIP DIAMOND Poem Text First Line: I heard your song, before the sun arose Last Line: Into these lines blended. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by MABEL B. FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Sing ho for a garden Last Line: Is a mirror for you. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At her junior high school graduation, Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: Today I have fled from the mountain Last Line: O clytie, clytie, clytie, where art thou now? Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: O shadows past the candle - gleam, so brief to pause Last Line: Remembering? Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely april, rich and bright Last Line: O lovely april rich and bright. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some claim the origin of song Subject(s): Songs SONG (4), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Your eyes are deep and tender Last Line: Only constant in -- his song. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played Last Line: Keep an immortal youth. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG AT DAWN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Where then is my pain? I have no more pain. Where then is my Last Line: Of the sun. Subject(s): Dawn; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG FOR A LITTLE SISTER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy you have and grace you have Last Line: Only for a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG FOR THE NIGHT OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the noon of night Last Line: Holding the new-won crown above his saintly head. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Light; Night; Resurrection, The; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather Last Line: No more -- no more.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF FABIANI, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you sing at my breast Last Line: Sleep, dear, and love. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF MARGARET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, I saw her, we have met Last Line: Margaret, margaret. Subject(s): Eyes; Hearts; Silence; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF RADHA THE MILKMAID, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carried my curds to the mathura fair Last Line: How brightly the river was flowing! Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers; Worship SONG OF THE DAWN, by MARGARET ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Dawn of the morning, a faint crimson hue Last Line: As each contributes to nature's song! Subject(s): Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth we came Last Line: Old time has laid them low. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night? Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed? Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs SONG OF THE GOING AWAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, upon the green hill-side Last Line: "when he crieth, ""awake!""'" Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Peace; Singing & Singers; Parting; Songs SONG OF THE LITTLE HYPERTROPHIC CHILD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is from a heart sickness / she is dead, the doctor says Last Line: Is it, mother, you I hear? Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Songs SONG OF THE MINERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When starving cattle see Last Line: Shall we lie down like these dumb brutes and die? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF THE OPEN LAND, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We of the open country Last Line: Hail, from the open land! Variant Title(s): Song Of The Open Road Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SEA-PLANE, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of venus and of mars am I Last Line: The conqueror of space. Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE SUNBURNED SAILORS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the sea their hearts they vow. They will not come again. And Last Line: Would they have really come? Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Singing & Singers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE WHITE COMPANY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We are troopers brave and bold Last Line: For the honor of the king. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG ON THE EDGE OF WINTER, by ANNA SHAW BUCK Poem Text First Line: I shall remember, when my years are few Last Line: A melody surpassing that of birds. Subject(s): Memory; Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs SONG POWER, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: Come, join us comrades, let us sing tonight Last Line: So let us sing that night and storm may fail. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Songs SONG TO THE RUNAWAY SLAVE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Go 'way from dat window, 'my honey, my love' Last Line: Dat you cain't git yo' lodgin' here Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair! Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs SONG: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I have at mine own will Last Line: For I am gone for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs SONG: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing Last Line: Within my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG: 38, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me list no more to sing Last Line: I wott what I doo meane. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONG: 58, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG: 62, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing Last Line: And never to change you for no new. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rose and cypress and tinsel gay Last Line: And whisper with sadness and loving sighs. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs SONG: DREAM-SINGING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that I was singing Last Line: No more a dream shall be! Subject(s): Dreams; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SONG: FOR THEE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woes are there Last Line: For thee. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Songs SONG: NOT A WORD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, my heart is faint with waiting Last Line: Come; but mind, love, not a word! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the dear old ballads best Last Line: And builds art's funeral pyre. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn coming in over the fields Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How are songs begot and bred? Last Line: Nature and the poet's mind. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 3. MARSYA'S ART, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the god came with his lute and knife Last Line: Knitted chain, gold. And the scorning flute Variant Title(s): Marsyas's Art Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS OF MY CITY: 1. IN A LATTICED BALCONY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I feed thee, beloved? Last Line: With the delicate silence of love. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Love SONGS OF MY CITY: 2. IN THE BAZAARS OF HYDERABAD, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do you sell, o ye merchants? Last Line: To perfume the sleep of the dead. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Singing & Singers SONGS OF REJOICING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Songs of rejoicin' Last Line: That strengthen the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: APPRENTICED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot Last Line: And parson stood within the rails, a-marrying me and thee, o.' Subject(s): Grass; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: CONCLUDING SONG. A MORN OF MAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the clouds about the sun lay up in golden creases Last Line: O! Sweetly she did carol all on that morn of may. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Happiness; May (month); Night; Singing & Singers; Sunrise; Joy; Delight; Bedtime; Songs SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.' Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 17, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very sails are singing Last Line: For ecstasy of thee. Subject(s): Songs SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: AFTERSONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the joyous songs Last Line: By the unwintered sea. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: PRELUDE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the little songs Last Line: Turning her face to the sun. Subject(s): Songs; Children; Sea; Innocence; Spring; Happiness; Love SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; CHILD AND BOATMAN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs Last Line: Not I.' Subject(s): Animals; Children; Singing & Singers; Voices; Childhood; Songs SONGS TO CONSOLE ME FOR BEING HAPPY: RICHARD CAEUR-DE-LION, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Beneath the ruddy plume of the carnation wild that the ruin doth Last Line: Since in your chateau all the world abandons me. Subject(s): Happiness; Passion; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: DOMINION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When found the rose delight in her fair hue? Last Line: He lent me the world for a book.' Subject(s): Books; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Singing & Singers; Reading; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: LAMENTATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read upon that book Last Line: And for the rest, o god, thy will be done.' Subject(s): Books; Lament; Life; Loss; Pain; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Reading; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that word regret! Last Line: My happier days are not the days when I forget. Subject(s): Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Regret; Singing & Singers; Male-female Relations; Bedtime; Songs SONGS WITH PRELUDES: WEDLOCK, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was streaming in. I woke, and said Last Line: And fill the hollow place for ever. Subject(s): Flowers; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Singing & Singers; Sun; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SONNET: 13. TO MR. H. LAWES, ON HIS AIRS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harry whose tuneful and well-measured song Last Line: Met in the milder shades of purgatory. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 13;to Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs Subject(s): Composers; Lawes, Henry (1596-1662); Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs SORROW AND SONG, by JAMES HEDDERWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not over poet's wrong; / mourn not his mischances Last Line: And of gentle fancies. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SOUNDINGS AT MEMPHIS (SONGS OF THE LEADSMAN), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And it's a quarter less twain %mark twain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SOUNDINGS FROM TEE COLLINS (SONG OF THE LEADSMAN), by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SOUNDINGS FROM UNCLE MAC (SONG OF THE LEADSMAN), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quarter less twain %mark twain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SOURCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I know how poems spring up. Well water flows Last Line: The singers lift their silver for man's seeing. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Water; Songs SPARKING OR COURTING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se heaps older than three Last Line: I don't co't lak no snail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SPEAK SOFTLY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Wus dat you spoke Last Line: An' de fish jes swim away Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SPINNING SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sisters plucked green leaves at morn Last Line: For the beauty of your eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Flowers; Folk Songs - Indian; Music & Musicians; Spring; Fairs; Pageants SPIRITUAL: THE LONELY MOTHER, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my mother's moaning by the river Last Line: Swaying for her son who walks in sorrow. Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Black Songs; Despair; Mothers; Negro Spirituals SPIRITUALS, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes these are ours ... The spirituals Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SPRING FANTASIES: 5. ROAD SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is wide and the wind smells sweet Last Line: Then, ho for the inn that welcomes all! Subject(s): Life; Roads; Singing & Singers; Sun; Paths; Trails; Songs SPRING SONG, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: There was a child who tried to run Last Line: Was always half a field away. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs STACKER LEE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stacker lee is lookin' fo' the bully Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STACKER LEE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stacker lee's wife, she's heard the bad news Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STACKER LEE (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, stack in the rivuh, turnin' all roun' an' roun' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STAND BACK, BLACK MAN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Stan' back, black man, %you cain't shine Last Line: Hain't nothin' side o' me? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STANZA. FROM A TRANSLATION OF THE MARSEILLAISE HYMN, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble kings despised of man! Last Line: Which leads to death or victory ... Subject(s): Marseillaise, La; National Songs - France; French National Anthem STAVIN CHAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stavin chain he's dead an' gone, lef me to carry the good work Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STEALING A RIDE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Two liddle nigger boys as black as tar Last Line: Dey's gwineter git to heaben shoer bye-an'-bye Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STICK-A MA-STEW (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Cain't mend dat randsome, handsome gown Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STILL WATER CREEK, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Way down yon'er on still water creek Last Line: If it goes back dar, I sho's gwine to die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STILL WATER RUNS DEEP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat still water, it run deep Last Line: Jes roll 'round an' rattle Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STRANGE BROOD (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De ole hen sot on tucky aigs Last Line: Mighty queer chickens! See? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STRANGE FAMILY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Once dere's an ole 'oman dat lived in de wes' Last Line: An' dey're all deir own gran'mother. %can you guess? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STRANGE OLD WOMAN (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere wus an ole 'oman, her name was nan Last Line: One leg stood still, while de tother kep' runnin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs STRASBOURG, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee sombrely enthralled Last Line: Seen thro' glad tears, the tricolors! Subject(s): Flags; France; Happiness; National Songs; Pride; Progress; Strasbourg, France; Victory; Joy; Delight; National Anthems; Self-esteem; Self-respect STREET CRIERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When poll stays here, her jack goes there Last Line: Who'll buy young watercress?' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs STRONG HANDS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Heres' yo' bread, an' here's yo' butter Last Line: W'en dey hits you, it's 'good-bye-cow' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SUGAR IN COFFEE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Sheep's in de meader, a-mowing o' de hay Last Line: So I'll take sugar in de coffee-o Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SUGAR LOAF TEA, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Bring through yo' sugar-lo'-tea, bring through yo' candy Last Line: But all I wants is to wheel, an' tu'n, an' bow to my love so handy Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SUNDAY RADIO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my husband's window I hear a woman Last Line: To how his voice breaks, then goes on with the song. Subject(s): Marriage; Radio; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs SUSAN JANE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I know somebody's got my lover Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SUSIE GIRL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ring 'round, miss susie gal Last Line: Yes 'love' 'my darlin' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SUZE ANN, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Yes: I loves dat gal wid a blue dress on Last Line: He hain't got nothin' to do Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SWAN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not just as individuals, but also as a couple, they Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs SWEET PINKS AND ROSES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Sweet pinks an' roses, strawbeers on de vines Last Line: You kiss dat pretty gal, an' I'll stan' back Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs SYLVIA'S SONG, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The streams that wind among the hills Last Line: But I will never wend from thee! Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs T-U-TURKEY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: T-u, tucky, t-u, ti Last Line: Go wuk him in de co'n field jes fer fun Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TAKE YO' TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Honey baby take yo' time, please don't break this leg uv mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TAKING A WALK (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: We's a-walkin' in de green grass dust, dust, dust Last Line: I'll take you by yo' liddle hand to walk wid me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TAKING THE BRIDE HOME, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll go not alone, my sweetheart dear! Last Line: The night-wind pipes the melody. Subject(s): Brides; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs TANTO E AMARA, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the dread song I had not heard Last Line: The song of the worms? Subject(s): Songs TEACHING TABLE MANNERS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Now whilst we's here 'round de table Last Line: I'se had manners ev'r since Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TEMPERANCE RHYME (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Whisky nor brandy hain't no friend to my kind Last Line: Dey killed my po' daddy, an' dey troubled my mind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TENDER MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watching by the river where the lilies blow Last Line: With the sublime and sacred light of truth. Subject(s): Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs THAT HYPOCRITE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I tell you how dat hypocrite do Last Line: An' dat's de way dat hypocrite 'ten' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs THE APOLLO TRIO, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From acting profile parts in the legit, Last Line: Of the girl he loved, or the one time he was star Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE ARTIST'S MORNING SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dwelling is the muses' home Last Line: From that dear marriage-bed! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Love; Muses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE ASSIGNATION: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long betwixt love and fear phillis tormented Last Line: That I'm forsaken. Subject(s): Fear; Fire; Hearts; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs THE BALLAD OF YAADA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are fires on lulu island, and the sky is opalescent Last Line: In the capilano cañon of the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: SONG. AIR 16: OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I laid on greenland's coast Last Line: Polly over the hills and far away. Variant Title(s): Macheath And Polly;macheath Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE BELLS OF YOUTH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells of youth are ringing in the gate Last Line: And is singing, singing, singing thro' the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Spring; Youth; Songs THE BIRD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Only a bird in a cage Last Line: "I thank thee, bird — dear bird." Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BIRTH OF SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I am as certain of my song Last Line: Come perfect to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism THE BLACKBIRD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ov all the birds upon the wing Last Line: Where I do hear the blackbird's zong. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BLUEBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the very spring Last Line: He is off, he is mutely whelmed in the southern haze! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; March (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE CARDINAL, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: I hear him singing, loud and gay Last Line: Is just a red flash in the tree. Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE CATBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A skulker in a thicket, loud and harsh Last Line: Enthralled, the melody is so divine. Subject(s): Birds; Catbirds; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs THE CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Infamous general, baron von plattenberg, if this song of love for my Last Line: Barbarian! Subject(s): Churches; France; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Songs THE CHILD'S SOUL WARD, by SAMUEL DUNIEVITZ Poem Text First Line: A little child soul / once forlorn Last Line: "from this: ""child's soul ward." Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE CHRISTMAS RADIO, by MARY P. DENNY Poem Text First Line: I heard the radio proclaim / the wonder of a Last Line: The glory of a matchless name. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Radio; Singing & Singers; Sound; Songs THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do neither plight nor wed Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs THE COMPANION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is here, and the music gone Last Line: With dark and dew. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Winter; Songs THE COUNTRY SINGER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There ain't nothin special about me. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Middle Age; Songs THE CRYSTAL PALACE BAND OF HOPE CHOIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory shone o'er bethlehem's plains Last Line: "peace on earth, good will to men." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Christmas; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Optimism; Songs THE DAUGHTERS OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Earth and horizons round Last Line: Alas! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Love; Singing & Singers; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE DEAD GIRL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This girl is dead, is dead in love's old way Last Line: They went afield, afield as every day . . . Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the death day of the brave Last Line: With the sword, his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs THE DEBUT (ODE TO ANNA MOFFO), by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What possesses me Subject(s): Moffo, Anna (1934-2006); Singing & Singers; Songs THE DIVAGATOR, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: You think my songs are strange Last Line: I want my songs unique. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE DREAM REALM; WRITTEN WHILE HEARING ONE SINGING IN A FOREIGN TONGUE, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Dear mona, asleep by the wonder well Last Line: Singing no more, you have left me ... A rose. Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds instead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs THE DUKE OF GUISE: SONG BETWIXT A SHEPHERD AND A SHEPHERDESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherdess: tell me thirsis, tell your anguish Last Line: Still the more 'tis melted down. Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE ETERNAL ADVENTURE: BOOK 3, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I do not claim a writer's bays. A poet I, who sings his lays - what! Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE, by EMMA BOWERS Poem Text First Line: Two robins on the lawn Last Line: For she flew away with the other fellow. Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Singing & Singers; Songs THE EYES OF THE EAST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I sing the east at sunset, the low east Last Line: With awe are holden and with strange surmise. Subject(s): Evening; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunset; Twilight; Songs THE FESTIVAL OF SERPENTS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shining ones awake, we seek your chosen temples Last Line: Where life and death and sorrow and ecstasy are one. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Praise; Prayer THE FIRST SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poet writ a song of may Last Line: Deep hidden in his heart. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FLUTE, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: For the festival of the hyacinths, he gave me a syrinx Last Line: The girdle I have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Festivals; Flutes; Music & Musicians; Play; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs THE FLUTE-PLAYER, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes a day when april's in and spring walks Last Line: They die in the echoes down the hollow. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Flutes; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE GIFT OF SONG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was born Last Line: But men turned from me, saying: he is dead. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE GIFT TO SING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the mist overhangs my path Last Line: And I can sing. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE HAUNTED, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Masters of music, ye of tuneful vein Last Line: God's blessing is your bane. Subject(s): Ghosts; Loss; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Supernatural; Songs THE HOMECOMING SINGER, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plane tilts in to nashville Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Homecoming; Colleges & Universities; Songs THE HYMN OF GLORY, by JUDAH BEN SAMUEL HE-ASID OF REGENSBURG Poem Text First Line: Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs Last Line: For all my being is athirst for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Judah He-hasid Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Worship; Judaism; Songs THE IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She sang beyond the genius of the sea Last Line: In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds Subject(s): Key West, Florida; Order; Perception; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE IMPALPABLE BRUSH FIRE SINGER, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No/he is not an urn singer Last Line: Stung at its source by piranhas Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE FIRST FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dank is the air and dusk the sky Last Line: Amid the mazy paths of song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE SECOND FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minstrel ceased; the music's wings Last Line: Caught his wild story from the blast. Subject(s): Advice; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Rites & Ceremonies; Singing & Singers; Songs THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE THIRD FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tale was said. Fair agnes rose Last Line: Upon the marvels of his tongue. Subject(s): Aging; Bribery; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE INDIAN BASKET WEAVER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: The voice of my singing is dumb Last Line: Do songs from my silent heart spring. Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INDIAN EMPEROR: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fading joy, how quickly art thou past! Last Line: To gentle slumbers call. Subject(s): Books; Fate; Peace; Singing & Singers; Reading; Destiny; Songs THE INDIAN QUEEN: SONG OF AERIAL SPIRITS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mortals that are clog'd with earth below Last Line: They slide to us and air. Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; World; Songs THE JOY OF SERVICE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: My heart is ever singing Last Line: That sorrows flee away. Subject(s): Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: SONG FROM THE ITALIAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a dismal cypress lying Last Line: But cruel she I lov'd in vain. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Sing sweetly, killore Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs THE LILY OF OUR VALLEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Once on a time, in pontypool Last Line: Sally, the lily of our valley!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE LOVE-SONG, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: You often hear me speak of joe Last Line: "me? O! Maria!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE LOVE-SONG, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am more tall today than ever before Last Line: Rudderless,—lost,—in the song that is not forgotten. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE LOVER TO HIS LUTE, by ELIZABETH HIRST FLEISHER Poem Text First Line: I would make a song for my beloved Last Line: That she may know how grave a thing my love is, and be glad. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Wellesley College; Songs THE MAIDEN DEAD IN THE ECSTACY OF LOVE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This maiden she is dead, is dead, while love was fresh and new Last Line: They went to till the fields, the fields, as every day they do. . . . Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE MARSEILLAISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O song that with one blow, at its initial strain, explodes, sets free the Last Line: To arms ye citizens of every land on earth! Subject(s): France; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE MARSEILLAISE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A band a-playing a few sooty rods Last Line: Not france alone, but man! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; France; French Revolution (1789); Hope; Justice; National Songs; Optimism; National Anthems THE MASTER SINGS, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They move on tracks of never-ending light Last Line: God in his heaven bidding light arise. Variant Title(s): The Master-singers Subject(s): Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology; Songs THE MEISTERSINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magic moment of the eve has come Last Line: So long as men have ears and time a tongue. Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Time; Woods; Songs THE MINISTRY OF SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In god's great field of labour Last Line: To praise him and rejoice. Subject(s): Children; Clergy; Praise; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Songs 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 MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 1 (ADAGIO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft and slow / ever a gentle underflow Last Line: With sudden sparkle of delight, a new and joyous strain. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: THE SONATA: PART 3 (PRESTO AGITATO), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in awful tempest swelling Last Line: And to the master, -- praise! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE MUSIC STRAIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music strain, where do you go Last Line: "hope and hark, and have no fear." Subject(s): Death; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE OFFERING, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: If I could change these words to flow'rs Last Line: May never reach your heart. Subject(s): Language; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs THE OLD SINGER, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a strange old man went singing Last Line: "slow and sure the hour draws nigh!" Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE OLD SONGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds far away in the air Last Line: Its own song of the cruelty of love Subject(s): Love; Songs THE ONE SINGER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Dead leaves from off the tree Last Line: When she is left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Songs THE ORIGIN OF SONG-WRITING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cupid, wanton boy, was young Last Line: To lay the wreath at beauty's feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Songs THE OVEN BIRD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singer everyone has heard Last Line: Is what to make of a diminished thing. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs THE PASTORAL, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The flute that melts beneath his spreading fingers Last Line: My pastoral flute to your silver olympian lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Flutes; Muses; Music & Musicians; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 28, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This maid is from hantan Last Line: Her embroidered quilt fills a silver bed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 282, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a lofty mountain peak Last Line: A song in which there is no zen Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Zen Buddhism; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 7, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moth-browed girl in town Last Line: The hibiscus can't bear cold Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Girls; Lutes; Singing & Singers; Songs THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF SCOTTISH SONG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake every chord, strike every string Last Line: In all their native charms, confessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Patriotism; Scotland; Singing & Singers; Songs THE PRICE, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man lived fifty years - joy dashed with tears Last Line: God paid — and thought it cheap. Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; David (bible); Dead, The; Songs THE PRISONER'S SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandmother once had bewitch'd a poor girl Last Line: When I merrily soar hence to-morrow. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers; Convicts; Songs THE PSALMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With ecstacy the heart responds Last Line: Majestic and sublime. Subject(s): Bible; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of june Last Line: And may she wear a crown of glory hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Crows; National Songs; National Anthems THE RARE BIRDS; FOR TED BERRIGAN, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brook no obscurity, merely plunging deeper Last Line: Impressions, and it was a message, from like a very rare bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Songs THE RAVEN, by NICARCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gloom of death is on the raven's wing Last Line: The raven dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicarchos Variant Title(s): The Singer;variations Of Greek Themes: 3. The Raven Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE REWARD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No greater earthly boon than this I crave Last Line: "he sang a song that reached the hearts of men." Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE RIVALS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a bird at dawn Last Line: As he sang upon a tree! Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs THE ROAD, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My way of life is a winding road Last Line: "and something coming around the bend!'" Subject(s): Life; New York City - Dutch Period; Roads; Singing & Singers; Paths; Trails; Songs THE RURAL PIPE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, chide me not because my pipe oft sings Last Line: His airs sicilian and his message clear. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs THE SECOND ANTEMASQUE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost my melch cow Last Line: Pr. And our purses they are empty. Subject(s): Country Life; Cows; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SEED OF SONG, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seed of song was cast Last Line: In the glorious holy land. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SELFSAME SONG, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird sings the selfsame song Last Line: That song with me. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SINGER, by GARNET L. ESHEN Poem Text First Line: This is a song that fell from a tree Last Line: Tweedledy -- eedledy -- ay! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SINGER, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before that crowd she stood a flowerlike thing Last Line: Shall be to me a glory till I die! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SINGER, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had peace to sit and sing Last Line: If it is sometimes swift and strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SINGERS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God sent his singers upon earth Last Line: "but the most perfect harmony." Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SINGERS OF DELLA ROBBIA, by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Three florentines in stone, three singing boys Last Line: Like angel altos listening for their key! Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep? Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE SOLITARY REAPER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her, single in the field Last Line: Long after it was heard no more. Variant Title(s): The Reaper Subject(s): Girls; Harvest; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From somewhere / a calm musical note arrives Subject(s): Songs THE SONG AMERICAN, by MARJORY TITUS GREENE Poem Text First Line: Cosmopolitan the american is Last Line: Tis a saga of all creation. Subject(s): Americans; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG AND THE SINGER, by CLARENCE L. HAYNIE Poem Text First Line: The song and the singer are one Last Line: When the singer is one with death. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG CHALICE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bear the chalice.' is it so, my friend? Last Line: And, bearing thus, to pour it at his feet. Subject(s): Harmonicas; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG I HAVE SUNG, by BESSIE LOGAN FURMAN Poem Text First Line: Song, I have shrined you deep in my heart Last Line: Song of beauty, you will always be there. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF HER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art my singing and my voice Last Line: And from her living learn to sing! Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF ISRAFEL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet-seraph israfel, chief player on / the lyre Last Line: The song that soars, the song that leaps, beyond the written word! Subject(s): Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology; Songs THE SONG OF MIGNON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knows't thou the land where citron-flowers Last Line: Our pathway leads: o father, let us go! Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF REPENTANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir ulrich rides in the forest so green Last Line: "he'll repeat it sentence by sentence." Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence; Songs THE SONG OF SONGS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair woman's body is a song Last Line: Be thinner than befitting. Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE SONG OF THE DUCATS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my golden ducats dear Last Line: Hold you safely in their claws. Subject(s): Money; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF THE ILL-BELOVED; TO PAUL LEAUTARD, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And this is the ballad that I sang / in 1903 not knowing then Last Line: And such songs as the sirens sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Desire; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONG OF THE SPANISH MAIN, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the south, when the day is done Last Line: Then, hush, forevermore. Subject(s): National Songs; Singing & Singers; Southern Hemisphere; Spain; War; National Anthems; Songs THE SONG THAT MOTHER SANG TO CUSH (IN NOAH'S ARK), by SARAH MARGARET FULLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O hush-a-bye, my darling, - hush! Last Line: Of hearts that know his love. Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Arks; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean; Songs THE SONGS OF OUR FATHERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing them upon the sunny hills Last Line: The songs your fathers loved! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SONGSTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a plaintive note, and long Last Line: That his breast was born for song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Robins; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE SOUL TO THE BODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mate, who long hast friended me Last Line: I may behold thee face to face! Subject(s): Bodies; Friendship; Peace; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tears; Time; Songs THE STRANGER'S ALMS, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lyons, on the mart of that french town Last Line: For the two beggars in the market-place. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Singing & Singers; Philanthropy; Songs THE STRUCTURE OF SONG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its syllables should come Last Line: What torment gave it birth Subject(s): Songs THE SUMMONS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day the dreamy distances / of grape-stained, purple hills Last Line: Oh, vagabond am I! Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SUTTLER'S (FROM THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brave hussars I dearly love Last Line: From a fresh-open'd barrel daily. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs THE SWAN AND THE GOOSE, by AESOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rich man bought a swan and goose Last Line: Is sometimes very opportune. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SWEETEST SONG, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I would sing no louder than the shepherd's pipe, nor than the croon Last Line: Fountains form a firmament. Subject(s): Bells; Singing & Singers; Songs THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank, beside a willow Last Line: Love and damon are no more. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs THE THEMES OF SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall the minstrel find a theme? Last Line: The exhaustless flood rolls on. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE THING TO DO, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: For, after all, the thing to do Last Line: But all will listen eagerly. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs THE THREE SAD SHEPPARDESSES, GOE TO A LITTLE TABLE, WHERE THEY SINGE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When once the presence of a friend is gone Last Line: Your welcome, when wee owne him as our day. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is always the cough. In the afternoon Last Line: Showing her breasts to a boy in a cemetery. Subject(s): Convalescence; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Trees; Walking; Songs THE UNKNOWN SINGER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One singer in the oratorio Last Line: Made music visible not less than heard. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE UNWRITTEN SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now where's a song for our small dear Last Line: And hush herself to sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE VALLEY'S SINGING DAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of the closing outside door was all Last Line: That once you had opened the valley's singing day. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs THE VIVANDIERE ('70), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yvonne, / how you dazzled in the dance! Last Line: For yvonne the vivandière! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Marital; Singing & Singers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Songs THE VOICE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich is the music of sweet instruments Last Line: Or pale bržnhilde moans her bitter fate. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away I heard it Last Line: From the throne of god. Subject(s): God; Praise; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE VOICES TELL OVER, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The voices tell over: the song that breaks Last Line: Brusque reawakening and end of love. Subject(s): Flutes; Passion; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs THE WARNING WAIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A minstrel old, in feudal hall Last Line: Shut ye the flood-gates, never! Never! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Minstrels; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE WOOD THRUSH, by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS Poem Text First Line: At eve I hear him in the woods Last Line: To reproduce his wildwood lay. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Songs THEY STEAL' GOSSIP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Some folks say dat a nigger won't steal Last Line: An' dey had to leave de land Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs THIS BANTAM STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Is this the blackbird's richest song Last Line: Can match this little bantam star!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Stars; Songs THIS OLE WORL' AIN'T GOIN' TO STAN' MUCH LONGER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs THIS SUN IS HOT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dis sun are hot Last Line: I thinks I mus' 'a' been called to preach Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs THRIFTY SLAVE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jes wuk all day Last Line: Big pig, liddle pig, root hot or die Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs THROWIN' SAN' ON ME (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Car' de news! Car'd de news to mary! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TO A CHINESE LARK, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Out in the squalid village sits and sings Last Line: With hymns of praise, uplifted to the sun. Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs TO A LADY WHO DID SING EXCELLENTLY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When our rude and unfashion'd words, that long Last Line: Or only the delights which you did give? Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO A LADY, WHO SINGING RESEMBLED THAT OF AN ABSENT SISTER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Oh! Touch the chord yet once again Last Line: For thou canst calm the storm at will! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO A PHOEBE-BIRD, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eaves, out of the wet Last Line: What eloquence you teach! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Birds; Eloquence; Messages & Messengers; Phoebe (bird); Silence; Singing & Singers; Teaching & Teachers; Songs; Educators; Professors TO A SINGER, ON HER SINGING AN OLD ROMANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still think I of the magic fair one Last Line: Low bow'd the singer gracefully. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO A WANDERING FEMALE SINGER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast loved and thou hast suffer'd Last Line: I know it by thy song! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO A. E. HOUSMAN, by MARGARET ASH Poem Text First Line: Your fifty springs and seven more you saw Last Line: Whose soul still lingers here in songs, too few? Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Singing & Singers; Soul; Spring; Songs TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah hapless sex! Who bear no charms Last Line: After fruition ne're to be concern'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Happiness; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs TO BARON DE STONNE WITH AIKIN'S ESSAYS ON SONG-WRITING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To gallia's gay and gallant coast Last Line: To sing their praise in numbers due. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Songs TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States; Songs; Independence Day; America TO CHLORIS, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloris, yourself you so excel Last Line: But of his voice, the boy had mourned. Variant Title(s): To A Lady In Retirement;to A Lady Singing Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs TO CONSTANTIA, SINGING (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die Last Line: Lingering, suspends my soul in its voluptuous flight. Subject(s): Clairmont, Claire; Singing & Singers; Songs TO DELIA: 16 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame Last Line: And that makes happy lovers ever dumb. Subject(s): Love; Sacrifices; Singing & Singers; Youth; Songs TO F. H., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little the world will heed Last Line: Some image of my face. Subject(s): Faces; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs TO HEAR AN ORIOLE SING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "no sir! In thee!" Subject(s): Orioles; Songs TO HIS LYRE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever, as I struck thy strings Last Line: "will make the public yell, ""oh, boy!" Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO IONE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day within me, sweet and clear Last Line: I hear you singing -- singing. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs TO JANE: KEEN STARS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The keen stars were twinkling Last Line: Are one. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Williams, Jane; Songs TO MR IOSUAH SYLUESTER, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare confesse; of muses, more then nine Last Line: One bartas speaks in tongues, in nations, twayn. Subject(s): Confessions; Freedom; Muses; Nations; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs TO MY MOTHER, by FLORANZ HILDRUP EMTAGE Poem Text First Line: She walked a high road, I could see her there Last Line: But this I know, that she still walks -- and sings. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Roads; Singing & Singers; Walking; Paths; Trails; Songs TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether you sing or scream Last Line: To no one in particular. Subject(s): Language; Murder; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Words; Vocabulary; Songs TO PERDITA, SINGING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is like a fountain Last Line: Into a waving silver flower. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO WILLIAM BEDELL, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willy, thy rhythms so sweetly run and rise Last Line: To follow him, while others follow thee. Subject(s): Books; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Reading; Songs TO WIN A YELLOW GIRL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: If you wants to win a yaller girl Last Line: An' slip on his long-tailed blue Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TOM CAT, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: My father has a big tom cat Last Line: And he stuck it in the middle Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TONGUE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Got a tongue dat jes run when it walk? Last Line: It cain't squawk Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TOO MUCH WATERMELON (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dere wus a great big watermillion growin' on de vine Last Line: An' den, - - dat great big watermillion up an' finish him Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I AM A VOICE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a voice singing the song of deliverance Last Line: The song of joy—of deliverance. Subject(s): Happiness; Home; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE SONG OF THE BIRDS, WHO HEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the birds, who hears? In the high trees calling Last Line: And goal of its agelong pilgrimage. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs TOWN AND COUNTRY BIRD (NURSERY RHYME) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jaybird a-swinin' a two hoss plow Last Line: Dat suits fer country-jakes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TRAINING THE BOY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en I was a liddle boy Last Line: Dey 'spects me to act wise Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TREE FROGS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Shool! Shool! Shool! I rule Last Line: Buska! Buskra-reel! Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can life be a blessing Last Line: When we hope, when we hope to be happy again. Subject(s): Life; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs TRUE TO POLL, by FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND Poem Text First Line: I'll sing you a song, not very long Last Line: And his heart was true to poll. Subject(s): Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at me. I'm standing on a deck Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs TUBA BLAY OR AN EVENING SONG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh please, tuba blay Last Line: Tuba sing, tuba sing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TURKEY BUZZARD, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Turkey, buzzard, turkey buzzard, your child is lost Last Line: That is all right, we will increase in number Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TURKEY FUNERAL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dis tucky once on earth did dwell Last Line: An' he struts in tucky peace Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TURTLE'S SONG (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Mud turtle setin' on de end of a log Last Line: But you'd oughter git a liddle mo' pull in de head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TWO BARDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard who wrote in staves Last Line: The bitter north. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Singing & Singers; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean; Songs TWO SICK NEGRO BOYS (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Two liddle niggers sick in bed Last Line: He almos' cut dat pigeon's wing Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings Last Line: Or day or night be there. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs TWO TIMES ONE IS TWO, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: You 'tend to yo' business, an' I'll tend to mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs UN BELLE MARIE COOLIE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Beautiful marie, the east indian Last Line: You beautiful woman, you're good enough for me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs UNCLE BUD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, uncle bud goin' down the road Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs UNCLE JERRY FANTS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Has you heared 'bout uncle jerry fants? Last Line: An' he sot down on a bunch o' grapes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs UNCLE NED, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Jes lay down de shovel an' de hoe Last Line: Dat she wouldn' see de ole nigger 'gain Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs UPHEAD AB' SCATTER, BOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs UPON A GENTLEWOMAN WITH A SWEET VOICE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long you did not sing, or touch your lute Last Line: Twas no more you then, but a cherubin. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs VERSES ON MRS. ROWE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such were the notes our chaster sappho sung Last Line: Yet in my life let me transcribe the saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737); Singing & Singers; Songs VERSES WRITTEN IN A BLANK LEAF OF TIGHE'S 'PSYCHE', by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond dreamer! Meditate thine idle song Last Line: And still shall chaunt his praise when time shall be no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Songs VICKSBURG 'ROUND THE BEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, vicksburg is in the bend, - natches jes' below Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs VILLAGE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full are my pitchers and far to carry Last Line: Ram re ram! I shall die. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Storms; Survival 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 VILLONELLE, by MAX JACOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me the song that the sirens sang Last Line: And my songs? May they come back to me! Subject(s): Echoes; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs VINIE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I loves coffee, an' I loves tea Last Line: God bless you, vinie! I wish you 'us mine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs VIOLET, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the song's beginning Last Line: Healing, until the close of the soft cadence, the dominant wound Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs VIOLIN SONG, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thing that I am seeking Last Line: My heart has told me so. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Violins; Songs VISIONS: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came from the house of my mistress dear Last Line: And the spirits rush'd back to their graves with a yell Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Silence; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs WAITING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Again, a song! / would he be silent? Silence and doubt are wrong Last Line: And in the cold night lies my life, under a beechen tree! Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Singing & Singers; Waiting; Joy; Delight; Songs WALK TOM WILSON, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Ole tom wilson, he had 'im a hoss Last Line: Sweep dat kitchen wid a bran' new broom Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WANTED! CORNBREAD AND COON, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se gwine now a-huntin' to ketch a big fat coon Last Line: An' I sho' won't git hongry 'fore de middle o' nex' june Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WAR IS ON, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: De boll-weevil's in de cotton Last Line: Poor nigger hain't got no home Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WASHING MAMMA'S DISHES (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: When I wus a liddle boy Last Line: I wonder wus I drinkin'? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WATERMELON PREFERRED, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Dat hambone an' chicken are sweet Last Line: Dat watermillion, smilin' on de vine Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WE ARE 'ALL THE GO', by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Yes! We's 'all-de-go,' boys; we's 'all-de-go' Last Line: House steps an' town Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WE'LL STICK TO THE HOE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: To de fiel' whar de sugar cane grow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WERE YOU THERE WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text Last Line: "were you there, when they laid him in the tomb?" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;jesus Christ; Negro Spirituals WHAT SONGS THE SOLDIERS SANG, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those with few images, lyrics Last Line: And that there were no words for others. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Soldiers; War; Songs WHAT WILL WE DO FOR BACON (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' - 'bam' - I shot her on de tail Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHAT YO' GWINE T' DO WHEN DE LAMP BURN DOWN?, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Oh, po' sinner Last Line: If yo' don't mind, he slip on yo' %what yo' gwine t' do when de lamp burn dowm? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs 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 WHEN I GO TO MARRY, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: So's I can w'ar de britches Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHEN I HAD BUT FIFTY CENTS, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I took my gal to a fancy ball Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHEN I WAS A 'ROUSTABOUT' (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' my long week's wuk is about at its end Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: An' set up ev'ry night Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHEN MALINDY SINGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: G'way an' quit dat noise, miss lucy Last Line: Ez malindy sings. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Song & Music; Singing & Singers; Negroes; American Blacks; Songs WHEN MY WIFE DIES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'en my wife dies, gwineter git me anudder one Last Line: An' go an' tell de folks I'se done gone to 'res' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHERE WUZ YOU LAS' NIGHT?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHIP-POOR-WILL, by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: We travelled through the soundless night Last Line: As that immortal night. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs WHITE-THROAT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brief, brief is the song I sing Last Line: Why I sing,—where I go! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs WHY LOOK AT ME?, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: What's you lookin' at me fer? Last Line: Fer to sae my soul Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WHY THE WOODPECKER'S HEAD IS RED (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Bill dillix say to day woodpecker bird Last Line: Till it's done burnt my head Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WILD HOG HUNT (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Nigger in de woods, a-settin' on a log Last Line: An' de nigger grab dat wild hog wid all his grip Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WILD NEGRO BILL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: I'se wild nigger bill Last Line: But ole mosser hain't cotch me, an' he never will Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WILLIE WEE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Willie, willie, willie wee Last Line: Come kiss me Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WIND SONG, by LUCIA PEARL BOORNAZIAN Poem Text First Line: Cast my heart up on your barren shores Last Line: Dash the tingling spray over me. Subject(s): Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Wind; Ocean; Songs WIND-BAG, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: A nigger come a-strutin' up to me las' night Last Line: When it's sumpin' to be filled up wid wind Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WINSTANLEY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes Last Line: Winstanley lieth low. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Storms; Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-1660); Bedtime; Ocean; Songs WINTER SONG, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I sang in april Last Line: And whispers it to me. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs 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 WOMAN, WOMAN, I SEEN YO' MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs WOOING, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: W'at is dat a wukin Last Line: If not, w'at does you wush? Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YANITA; A SPANISH LOVE SONG, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet yanita, / amorita Last Line: "whisper ""señor, I am thine." Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs YANKEE DOODLE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn this morning burned all red Last Line: While seas roll on in laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Singing & Singers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Songs YEAR OF JUBILEE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Niggers, has you seed ole mosser Last Line: Go ring dat nigger field-bell Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOU HAD BETTER MIND MASTER, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Way down yon'er in 'possum trot Last Line: So's you won't git sol' down to ole miss'sip' Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOU HAVE MADE ME WEEP, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: You'se made me weep, you'se made me mourn Last Line: I'se gwine away to-morrow Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOU LOVE YOUR GIRL, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source Last Line: Sweeter 'an juice Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOU SHALL BE FREE, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: A nigger will be a nigger, don't care what you do Last Line: When de good lord sat you free Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOU TALK ABOUT YO' GREENBACKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOUNG MASTER AND OLD MASTER (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Hick'ry leaves an' calico sleeves Last Line: Better know dat ole mosser's not easy to please Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Black Songs YOUR SMILE, by LAURA L. ATKINS Poem Text First Line: There's a song in my heart, my friend Last Line: Because you gave one to me. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Songs |
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