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Poetry and music have been intertwined for thousands of years. In antiquity, poems were often sung: the first lyric poets in ancient Greece performed their work to the accompaniment of the lyre, and the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry, the Shijing, was a collection of songs.
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Poems about Music - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Read classic and contemporary poems about making and listening to music.
These poems about music often remind readers of music's profound impact on human expression and connection throughout history.
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- “Latin & Soul” by Victor Hernandez Cruz
- “Piano” by Dan Howell
- “Music When Soft Voices Die (To –)” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “The Everyday Enchantment of Music” by Mark Strand
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- “The Guitar” by Federico Garcia Lorca
- “Elegy” by Anne Stevenson
Excerpt: 1 some waves a shadow the shadows of dancers dancers they are dancing falling out that space made for dancing
Excerpt: Her wattled fingers can’t stroke the keys with much grace or assurance anymore, and the tempo is always rubato, halting, but still that sound—
Excerpt: Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory— Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.
Excerpt: A rough sound was polished until it became a smoother sound, which was polished until it became music. Then the music was polished until it became the memory of a night in Venice when tears of the sea fell from the Bridge of Sighs, which in turn was polished until it ceased to be and in its place stood the empty home of a heart in trouble.
Excerpt: when she came on the stage, this Ella there were rumors of hurricanes and over the rooftops of concert stages the moon turned red in the sky, it was Ella, Ella.
Excerpt: The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it.
Excerpt: Whenever my father was left with nothing to do — waiting for someone to ‘get ready’, or facing the gap between graduate seminars and dull after-suppers in his study grading papers or writing a review — he played the piano.
Apr 11, 2018 · Here are ten of the best poems about music, song, dance, instruments, and the like. 1. Anonymous, ‘ When the Nightingale Sings ’. This medieval poem dating from the early fourteenth century begins, in Middle English, When the nyhtegale singes, The wodes waxen grene, Lef ant gras ant blosme springes. In Averyl, Y wene …
Each poet represented, from well-known names like William Shakespeare to lesser-known modern poets like Emilie Buchwald, have something original and noteworthy to say about the power of poetry and music in our everyday lives.
Table of Contents. Music by William Francis Barnard. Music by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Jack Collings Squire. Music by Walter de la Mare. Music by John Edward Everett. On Music by Thomas Moore. The Opening of the Piano by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. To a Violin by Bertha F. Gordon.
