Famous Sheet Music Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Sheet Music poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sheet music poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sheet music poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Tebb, Barry
...a
Get you and keep you
In my arms evermoreAuntie Nellie’s hands
Thrummed the tunes
On the black and white
Upright, sheet music
From Banks in County Arcade
Gleaming in Burmantofts
Faience tiles, marble and onyx.
23
May blossoms hang
In Mill Hill churchyard
Over the ultramarine
Signboard; in Trinity Church
I share God with no-one
Stained glass
Colours the silence.
24
Margaret, Nancy and I
Had always played together
When we went walking
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by
Kinnell, Galway
...
Now she is flying--tossing back the goblets
of Saint-Amour standing empty,
half-empty, or full on the tablecloth-
like sheet music. Her knees tighten
and loosen around the big-hipped creature
wailing and groaning between them
as if in elemental amplexus.
The music seems to rise from the crater left
when heaven was torn up and taken off the earth;
more likely it comes up through her priest's dress,
up from that clump of hair which by now
may be so wet with its waters,...Read more of this...
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