Famous Tambourines Poems by Famous Poets

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General William Booth Enters into Heaven

...!
Sages and sibyls now, and athletes clean,
Rulers of empires, and of forests green!

[Grand chorus of all instruments. Tambourines to the foreground.]

The hosts were sandalled, and their wings were fire!
(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
But their noise played havoc with the angel-choir.
(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
O shout Salvation! It was good to see
Kings and Princes by the Lamb set free.
The banjos rattled and the tambourines
Jing-jing-jingled in...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel


Nero's Incendiary Song

...iber floats Aglae in galley gay, 
 'Neath Asian tent of brilliant stripes, in gorgeous array; 
 Nor when to lutes and tambourines the wealthy prefect flings 
 A score of slaves, their fetters wreathed, to feed grim, greedy 
 things. 
 
 I vow to show ye Rome aflame, the whole town in a mass; 
 Upon this tower we'll take our stand to watch the 'wildered pass; 
 How paltry fights of men and beasts! here be my combatants,— 
 The Seven Hills my circus form, and fiends sh...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Peter Quince At The Clavier

...ed the night. 
38 She turned -- 
39 A cymbal crashed, 
40 Amid roaring horns. 

III 

41 Soon, with a noise like tambourines, 
42 Came her attendant Byzantines. 

43 They wondered why Susanna cried 
44 Against the elders by her side; 

45 And as they whispered, the refrain 
46 Was like a willow swept by rain. 

47 Anon, their lamps' uplifted flame 
48 Revealed Susanna and her shame. 

49 And then, the simpering Byzantines 
50 Fled, with a noise like tambou...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

Prelude

...the lion-throated seas,
Outchide the north-wind if it chid,
And hush the torrent-tongued ravines
With thunders of their tambourines.

But the fierce flute whose notes acclaim
Dim goddesses of fiery fame,
Cymbal and clamorous kettledrum,
Timbrels and tabrets, all are dumb
That turned the high chill air to flame;
The singing tongues of fire are numb
That called on Cotys by her name
Edonian, till they felt her come
And maddened, and her mystic face
Lightened along the streams of...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Romance Son?mbulo

...eaving a trail of blood. 
Leaving a trail of teardrops. 
Tin bell vines
were trembling on the roofs.
A thousand crystal tambourines 
struck at the dawn light.

Green, how I want you green, 
green wind, green branches. 
The two friends climbed up. 
The stiff wind left 
in their mouths, a strange taste 
of bile, of mint, and of basil 
My friend, where is she--tell me--
where is your bitter girl?
How many times she waited for you! 
How many times would she wait for you, 
cool fa...Read more of this...
by García Lorca, Federico


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