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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIDDLER, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fiddler knows what's brewing Last Line: By my sweet viol and bow!' Subject(s): Violins | |||
THE fiddler knows what's brewing To the lilt of his lyric wiles: The fiddler knows what rueing Will come of this night's smiles! He sees couples join them for dancing, And afterwards joining for life, He sees them pay high for their prancing By a welter of wedded strife. He twangs: 'Music hails from the devil, Though vaunted to come from heaven, For it makes people do at a revel What multiplies sins by seven. 'There's many a heart now mangled, And waiting its time to go, Whose tendrils were first entangled By my sweet viol and bow!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEAR MISS HAIKU by ANSELM HOLLO OUT-OF-THE-BODY TRAVEL by STANLEY PLUMLY HE'D BE NOTHING BUT HIS VIOLIN by MARY KYLE DALLAS THE OLD VIOLIN by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN THE VIOLINIST by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON THE VIOLIN'S ENCHANTRESS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A VIOLINIST by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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