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Subject: WHISTLES & WHISTLING
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOY'S WHISTLE, by JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could whistle like I used to when I was just a boy
Last Line: No use in tryin' when we're old, we've been away too long!
Subject(s): Lips; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sound; Whistles & Whistling


PEEWEE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a wish - that tiny tin whistle
Last Line: Or much too local to be continental?
Subject(s): Whistles & Whistling


THE SEVEN WHISTLERS, by ALICE E. GILLINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whistling strangely, whistling sadly
Last Line: How they're calling, calling, calling, pentruan of porthmeor?
Alternate Author Name(s): Romany Rawny, The
Subject(s): Sea; Whistles & Whistling; Ocean


THE WHISTLE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of a whistle, a whistle of worth
Last Line: "the field thou hast won, by yon bright god of day!"
Subject(s): Whistles & Whistling; War; Patriotism


THE WHISTLER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'you have heard,' said a youth to his sweetheart"
Subject(s): Kisses;whistles & Whistling;women;youth