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Subject: TRUMPETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MELOLOGUE UPON NATIONAL MUSIC: FLOURISH OF TRUMPET, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! 'tis the sound that charms
Last Line: Now melting mournful lose themselves in tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Trumpets


A SONG, by BRADFORD STEWART    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fairy music is silvery sweet
Last Line: In the love-lighted eyes of you.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Trumpets


A TRUMPET BLAST, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale patricians, sunk in self-indulgence
Last Line: Demos dawning, and the darkness done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Trumpets; Sunrise


AT THE PARTY, by ROBERT ALEXANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ralph has just bought himself a new pair of red sneakers
Last Line: Air is still warm and, falling asleep, he can smell the catalpa flowers
Subject(s): Parties; Trumpets


DRUMS AND BRASS, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring trumpet throats that are big with a gust of moons
Last Line: Till the untold morning be come and the dancers be fled.
Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Trumpets


GABRIEL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once let the angel blow!
Last Line: And take reproach from the fallen time!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Gabriel; Heaven; Trumpets; World; Paradise


HOW HIGH THE MOON, by LANCE JEFFERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: First the melody, clean and hard
Last Line: Full from the sullen grace of his street it sprouts: %never your captive
Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Trumpets


INTERIM, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jewel the sword and grave the shield
Last Line: Having learned life's shibboleth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T.
Subject(s): Death; Swords; Trumpets; Dead, The


LITTLE TRUMPET, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that is left
Last Line: Is all the wondrousness of spring
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Trumpets


REPORTS: 5. TAPS, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: As night fell and the end of the world
Last Line: All things and the breath that held their fire
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Trumpets


SONG (SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME), by NICK MOUDRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometime after the last phrase was uttered
Last Line: Till the girls undressed & they danced
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Musical Instruments; Singing And Singers; Trumpets


THE LOST TRUMPET, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It lies in a brooklyn garret
Last Line: Not even a trafalgar square.
Subject(s): Balaclava, Crimea; Trumpets


THE RECRUITING SERGEANT; A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT: AIR, by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a charming thing's a battle!
Last Line: What a charming thing's a battle!
Subject(s): Guns; Soldiers; Trumpets; War


THE TRUMPET, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trumpet's voice hath roused the land
Last Line: The blast that wakes the dead?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Trumpets


THE TRUMPET CALL (1), by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over earth awakes a whirring
Last Line: "glad or grieving, thou shalt rise."
Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri
Subject(s): Christianity; Judgment Day; Trumpets; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


THE TRUMPET OF LIBERTY, by JOHN TAYLOR (1750-1826)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trumpet of liberty sounds through the world
Last Line: Fall, tyrants, fall! Etc.
Subject(s): Freedom; Mankind; Trumpets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Human Race


TRUMPET, by ILYA GRIGORYEVICH EHRENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the trumpet blown by time
Last Line: Of those by whom I was subdued
Subject(s): Trumpets


TRUMPET, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy trumpet lies in the dust
Subject(s): Trumpets; World War I


TRUMPET, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise up, rise up %and, as the trumpet blowing
Last Line: To the old wars; %arise, arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Trumpets; World War I


TRUMPETS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drums, you are too tame
Last Line: The hound's deep, hoarse, harsh cry.
Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Trumpets


TRUMPETS IN LOHENGRIN, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! 'tis the golden trumpets of the dawn
Last Line: Blown to him from the kingdom of the grail!
Subject(s): Trumpets


WAR, by DONALD BYRON WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Screaming shells, whining lead
Last Line: More is lost than can ever be won.
Subject(s): Death; Trumpets; War; Dead, The


WHAT THE TRUMPETER SAID, by SEBASTIAN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At a pot-house bar as I chanced to pass
Last Line: Trumpeter, trumpet it out!
Subject(s): Trumpets