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Subject: WAGNER, RICHARD (1813-1883)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` RING' CYCLE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're doing a ring cycle at the met
Last Line: A son till now undreamed of -- makes to rise
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


STREET CRIES: 6. TO RICHARD WAGNER, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a sky of stars that rolled in grime
Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


TANNHAUSER, by NEWMAN LEVY    Poem Source                    
First Line: While strolling through the hills one day
Last Line: And died. I think it's some fool show
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


TANNHAUSER, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sin-satiate, and haggard with despair
Last Line: That for him too the saviour once did bleed.
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


THE 'RING' CYCLE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're doing a ring cycle at the met
Subject(s): Composers; Opera; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend
Last Line: From the depths of the sea
Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


TO RICHARD WAGNER, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O you who chafe at every fetter's link
Last Line: For I escaped!
Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


WAGNER, by MAURICE BARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O strange awakening to a world of gloom
Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


WAGNER, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Creeps in half wanton, half asleep
Last Line: His pendulous stomach hangs a-shaking.
Subject(s): Composers; Soldiers' Writings; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


WAGNER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the eternal mystery of art
Last Line: Whispered, lo, this am I, -- and that art thou.
Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)


WAGNER, by HENRY JOHNSON (1855-1918)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whom shall I purify? Whose soul is strong
Last Line: Thou bid them rise to love and hate again.
Subject(s): Composers; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)