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The term "narrative poems about music" has been searched for 112 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on February 2nd, 2005.
1. MUSIC - written by Charles Baudelaire
From The Poems and Prose Poems .
Published in 1919.
Read 906 times on Poetry Connection.
MUSIC doth uplift me like a sea
Towards my planet pale,
Then through dark fogs or heaven's infinity
I lift my wandering sail.
With breast advanced, drinking the winds that flee,
And through the cordage wail,
I mount the hurrying... (Read full poem)
2. Secret Music - written by Siegfried Sassoon
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I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell.
My dreaming spirit will not heed
The roar of guns that would destroy
My life that on the gloom can read... (Read full poem)
3. Music - written by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Take me by the hand;
it's so easy for you, Angel,
for you are the road
even while being immobile.
You see, I'm scared no one
here will look for me again;
I couldn't make use of
whatever was given,
so they abandoned me.
At first the... (Read full poem)
4. To Music - written by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
Feelings for whom? O you the transformation
of feelings into what?--: into audible... (Read full poem)
6. Music's Empire - written by Andrew Marvell
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First was the world as one great cymbal made,
Where jarring winds to infant Nature played.
All music was a solitary sound,
To hollow rocks and murm'ring fountains bound.
Jubal first made the wilder notes agree;
And Jubal tuned music's... (Read full poem)
9. Trilogy of Passion: III. ATONEMENT. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
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[Composed, when 74 years old, for a Polish lady, who excelled in
playing on the pianoforte.]
PASSION brings reason--who can pacify
An anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?
Where are the hours that fled so swiftly by?
In vain the... (Read full poem)
10. A Crazed Girl - written by William Butler Yeats
From New Poems.
Published in 1938.
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That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty... (Read full poem)
11. Music - written by Mary Oliver
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I tied together
a few slender reeds, cut
notches to breathe across and made
such music you stood
shock still and then
followed as I wandered growing
moment by moment
slant-eyes and shaggy, my feet
slamming over the rocks, growing
hard as horn, and... (Read full poem)
12. TO MUSIC: A SONG - written by Robert Herrick
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Music, thou queen of heaven, care-charming spell,
That strik'st a stillness into hell;
Thou that tam'st tigers, and fierce storms, that rise,
With thy soul-melting lullabies;
Fall down, down, down, from those thy chiming spheres
To charm our... (Read full poem)
13. Wagner - written by Rupert Brooke
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Creeps in half wanton, half asleep,
One with a fat wide hairless face.
He likes love-music that is cheap;
Likes women in a crowded place;
And wants to hear the noise they're making.
His heavy eyelids droop half-over,
Great pouches swing... (Read full poem)
14. Music, When Soft Voices Die - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory --
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love... (Read full poem)
15. ROLLICKING HANS. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 905 times on Poetry Connection.
HALLO there! A glass!
Ha! the draught's truly sweet!
If for drink go my shoes,
I shall still have my feet.
A maiden and wine,
With sweet music and song,--
I would they were mine,
All life's journey along!
If I depart from this sad... (Read full poem)
16. The Spirit Medium - written by William Butler Yeats
From New Poems.
Published in 1938.
Read 2402 times on Poetry Connection.
Poetry, music, I have loved, and yet
Because of those new dead
That come into my soul and escape
Confusion of the bed,
Or those begotten or unbegotten
Perning in a band,
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
Or those begotten or... (Read full poem)
17. Polyphony In A Cathedral - written by A.S.J. Tessimond
From The Walls of Glass.
Published in 1934.
Read 683 times on Poetry Connection.
Music curls
In the stone shells
Of the arches, and rings
Their stone bells.
Music lips
Each cold groove
Of parabolas' laced
Warp and woof,
And lingers round nodes
Of the ribbed roof
Chords open
Their flowers among
The stone flowers;... (Read full poem)
19. Careers - written by Robert Graves
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Father is quite the greatest poet
That ever lived anywhere.
You say you’re going to write great music—
I chose that first: it’s unfair.
Besides, now I can’t be the greatest painter and
do Christ and angels, or lovely pears... (Read full poem)
20. At The Beating Of A Drum - written by Henry Lawson
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Fear ye not the stormy future, for the Battle Hymn is strong,
And the armies of Australia shall not march without a song;
The glorious words and music of Australia's song shall come
When her true hearts rush together at the beating of a drum.... (Read full poem)
21. Music: An Ode - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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WAS it light that spake from the darkness,
or music that shone from the word,
When the night was enkindled with sound
of the sun or the first-born bird?
Souls enthralled and entrammelled in bondage
of seasons that fall and rise,
Bound fast... (Read full poem)
22. For Music - written by Lord Byron
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THERE be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the... (Read full poem)
23. Stanzas For Music - written by Lord Byron
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There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lulled winds seem... (Read full poem)
24. Music, In A Foreign Language - written by Andrew Crumey
From Music, in a Foreign Language Dedalus Press, p 162-3.
Published in 1994.
Read 688 times on Poetry Connection.
In a cafe, once more I heard
Your voice - those sparse and frugal notes.
Do they not say that you spoke your native Greek
With an English accent?
Briefest of visions: eyes meet across the cafe;
A man of about my age - eyelids heavy,
Perhaps from... (Read full poem)
25. Silentium - written by Osip Mandelstam
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She has not yet been born:
she is music and word,
and therefore the untorn,
fabric of what is stirred.
Silent the ocean breathes.
Madly day’s glitter roams.
Spray of pale lilac foams,
in a bowl of grey-blue leaves.
May my lips... (Read full poem)
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