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"
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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)
"Death sets a thing significant" ..... Emily Dickinson, Memorials
Edain came out of Midhirs hill, and Lay- The Harp of Aengus W.B.Yeats
Fast-anchor'd eternal O love! O woman I love!--Walt Whitman, "Fast Anchor'd"
"Gold is for the mistress—silver for the maid—" ..... Rudyard Kipling, Cold Iron
"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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. Joyful lady, sing!--Thomas Hardy, To A Lady
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan" ..... Alexander Pope - The Riddle of the World
"Like a bird on the wire".....Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire
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
"Of asphodel, that greeny flower," ..... William Carlos Williams - from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
I'll confess, I have no idea! It is in my very excellent anthology by Bloodaxe called 'Staying Alive'.Quote:
Originally Posted by firefangled
Pick a card, any card - Tyranny of Choice (Elizabeth Garrett) (ace poem!)
I could only think of Lionel Richie for Q.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
Stuck on Q
I've got this feeling down deep in my soul that I just can't choose
Guess it's back to A...
May we use titles and/or first lines for Q and X? Being presumtuous, he writes:
"Questions Are Remarks".....Title by Wallace Stevens: Questions Are Remarks: "In the weed of summer comes this green sprout why."
^^^ That works for me! ;) (Z might be interesting too)
"Russia and America circle each other;" ..... Ted Hughes, A Woman Unconscious
"Smudges of moon in the morning -" Preparation for the big emptiness (Kapka Kassabova)
"This chair was once a student of Euclid."...Charles Simic...The Chair
"Under my bowels, yellow with smoke," ..... Anne Sexton, The Other
Trying to find a V. Managed to find a Z though!:p
"Very bitter were the sorrows..." Randall Jarrell, Lament of the Children of Israel in Rome (from the Complete Poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
It's a long one and I couldn't find it on line and I am a horrible typist. I would die typing this, but it is very good.
"Wait till the Majesty of Death" ..... Emily Dickinson, Wait till the Majesty of Death
"X had the funds, the friends, the plan."...James Merrill, Snow Jobs (Alfred Knopf, 2001) It is political, having mention of recent scandals.
Don't wanna be a bum, you better chew gum. The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle. - Dylan
you think about the time in Malibu - late, late poem (Charles Bukowki - who else?!)
"Zealously my muse doth salute all thee"-First line of one of John Donnes Verse letters to Mr.R.W;)
"A young spring-tender girl" ...... Spike Milligan, Mirror Mirror
"But now secure the painted vessel glides,"-Canto II Alexander Pope
"Did The Harebell Loose Her Girdle..." ~ Emily Dickinson
Hey Logos! What happened to "C" ??? :lol:
"Calm is all nature as a resting wheel." ..... William Wordsworth, Calm Is All Nature as a Resting Wheel
oh geeze! grumble grumble multitasking grumble... :p
"Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood!"
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Alastor: or, The Spirit of Solitude"
"Fleas interest me so much" ..... Pablo Neruda, Fleas Interest Me So Much
"Galahad....soldier that perished...ages ago," - Galahad, Knight Who Perished, by Vachel Lindsay
"Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month" .... Dylan Thomas
"Into the infinite white,".....Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez
"Just once I knew what life was for" .... Anne Sexton, Just Once
"Kind Sir: This is an old game" - Anne Sexton, Kind Sir: These Woods
"Look children, the wood is full of tigers" - Think Before you Shoot (Fleur Adcock)