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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIOLINS Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VIOLINIST, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark above our heads doth know Last Line: List raptured, and thank god for thee. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Violins; Skylarks 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 FIDDLER'S FAREWELL, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fold now the song within the songster Last Line: Above your tuneless sobbing? Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violins HE'D BE NOTHING BUT HIS VIOLIN, by MARY KYLE DALLAS Poem Text First Line: He'd nothing but his violin Last Line: And I my sweet love-song. Subject(s): Violins I CHUCK THEIR CHINS, by ANNE BORN Poem Source Last Line: Run their melodies in the dark Subject(s): Riddles; Violins KREISLER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood Last Line: For one more song. Subject(s): Kreisler, Fritz (1875-1962); Violins LEGACY, by GENA FORD Poem Source First Line: Grandad, I didn't burn it Last Line: No one here could play it Subject(s): Grandparents; Violins MOTIF, by CORDELIA PEARSON Poem Text First Line: Have you heard the song of the violin Last Line: Have you heard the song of the violin? Subject(s): Violins MUSIC HALL, by NICOLAS BEAUDIN Poem Text First Line: Crowd with alcoholic eyes Last Line: High evening, bored by the apotheosis. Subject(s): Bands; Collective Behavior; Music & Musicians; Theater & Theaters; Violins; Orchestras; Mobs; Crowds; Stage Life MY FIDDLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My fiddle? - well, I kindo' keep Last Line: She kindo' understands! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Violins MY FIDDLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Violins MY LADY OF THE VIOLIN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady sits in idle pose Last Line: My lady, my sweet lady. Subject(s): Violins; Women NEAR MISS HAIKU, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Order out of chaos equals frogs Last Line: Opens the book Subject(s): Books; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Poetry & Poets; Violins; Reading NEBULA, by PETRONELLA HELEN URASKY-CHAPP Poem Text First Line: Just beyond the words / floats an elusive Last Line: Of an unfinished chord. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Violins ODE TO A 'STRAD' VIOLIN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Conceived in heaven, formed on earth Last Line: Of its brief radiance pale! Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Silence; Violins; Paradise OLD VIOLIN, by MARY STEWART Poem Source First Line: No man has ever sunk so low Subject(s): Violins ON SIVORI'S VIOLIN, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dryad's home was once the tree Last Line: She warbles wildly as before! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Sivori, Camillo (1815-1894); Violins OUT-OF-THE-BODY TRAVEL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then he would lift this finest / of furniture Subject(s): Violins OUT-OF-THE-BODY TRAVEL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then he would lift this finest %of furniture Last Line: I will feel the wind coming down hard %like his hand, in fe ver, on my forehead Subject(s): Violins PAGANINI'S VIOLINS, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All april's larks in her most lavish sky Last Line: Prancing like peacocks up the four gay strings! Subject(s): Violins RICHES, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My violin was in cremona wrought Last Line: I'll buy another bow—of john-a-dreams. Subject(s): Violins STRADIVARIUS, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul was lifted by the wings to-day Last Line: "without antonio. Get thee to thy easel." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Religion; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Violins; Theology STRING PLAYER IN THE SHACK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of double-stopping, violin Last Line: Now, even as they are dissolved Subject(s): Violins THAT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You and I, and that night, with its perfume and glory Last Line: My rival who found us, and waltzed you away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): June; Love; Night; Violins; Bedtime THE FIDDLER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fiddler knows what's brewing Last Line: By my sweet viol and bow!' Subject(s): Violins THE FIRST VIOLINIST, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: We passed him Last Line: And shut us in! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Violins THE OLD VIOLIN, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though tuneless, stringless, it lies there in the dust Last Line: A master-touch! -- its sweet soul wakes and sings. Subject(s): Violins THE UNHEARD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One in the musical throng Last Line: The song in her heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Music & Musicians; Roses; Singing & Singers; Violins THE VIOLIN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the listening world behold him stand Last Line: From that good viol pressed against his cheek. Subject(s): Violins THE VIOLIN, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: The heart's own voice, sweet viol, by thy name Last Line: And waft it heavenward as on angel wings. Subject(s): Violins THE VIOLIN'S ENCHANTRESS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ripple of light applause. We see her stand Last Line: Knows how those living echoes linger on! Subject(s): Violins THE VIOLIN-PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who love music and comprehend Last Line: Which are the beginning and end of art. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Violins; Vision THE VIOLINIST, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But that one air for all that throng! And yet Last Line: Margaret steele anderson. Subject(s): Religion; Violins; Theology TO A VIOLIN, by BERTHA FRANCES GORDON Poem Text First Line: Strange shape, who moulded first thy dainty shell? Last Line: To quench his thirst, and help his load to bear. Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Sound; Violins TO A VIOLINIST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This woman who is gentle to the last Last Line: Cries and defies her in her violin. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Violins; Women TO AN AMATEUR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love thy violin Last Line: Life in love complete. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Love; Violins TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does he want you down there Last Line: Your present dumbness, shape your olden story. Subject(s): Fathers; Violins TO MY JACOBUS STAINER, by EDITH FLINT VON WALD Poem Text First Line: Oh silent violin Last Line: As fades the beauty of an autumn day. Subject(s): Violins VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN SONATA, NO. 2, A MAJOR, by IDA FASEL Poem Source First Line: Martin hears rippling arpeggios %in dominant seventh harmony Last Line: Hand to the text in the intensity %of his careful thought Subject(s): Violins 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 VIOLINIST, by JEAN-PIERRE LEMAIRE Poem Source First Line: The violinist leaning over his soul Subject(s): Violins VIOLINISTE, by WILDER DWIGHT QUINT Poem Text First Line: Under your rounded chin Last Line: Deftly your fingers go. Subject(s): Violins VIOLINS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved violins, and I have thought as I Subject(s): Violins WHISPERS OF EACH OTHER'S WATCH, by EDWARD D. PAUL Poem Source First Line: Oh he singled me out all right Last Line: Not while I'm standing here, %watching Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Violins YOUR VIOLIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your violin! Ah me! Last Line: Of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Music & Musicians; Trees; Violins |
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