Alphabetical Poem First Lines
Post the first line of a poem that starts with the next letter of the alphabet
"A neighbor of mine in the village" . . . . Robert Frost's "A Girl's Garden"
"Being apart and lonely is like rain."....Rainer Maria Rilke Loneliness
Call the roller of big cigars - Emperor of Ice Cream (Wallace Stevens)
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Edain came out of Midhirs hill, and Lay- The Harp of Aengus W.B.Yeats
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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"Gold is for the mistress—silver for the maid—" ..... Rudyard Kipling, Cold Iron
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
"He mispronounces you,".....Jane Mead - Substance Abuse Trial
"I saw a little elephant standing in my garden" .....Spike Milligan - Jumbo Jet
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan" ..... Alexander Pope - The Riddle of the World
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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon
CR: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
JF: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. My review is here.
"Like a bird on the wire".....Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire
Last edited by firefangled; 10-05-2007 at 02:29 PM.
My dog's assumed my alter ego - The Strange Case (Michael Ondaatje)
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Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
Just had to say, I just love Michael Ondaatje. Is this in the Cinnamon Peeler?
No one expected all three of them to sit there...See No Evil by Billy Collins
I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.
"If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor
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