Alphabetical Poem First Lines

An ekphrastic poem! Enjoyed the poem and the pix ! :)

"Questions find the answers" - Wallace Dean LaBenne; Questions Are In Question... https://www.poetry.com/poem/82499/qu...re-in-question

Lol! No questions about "Questions are in Question!"

"ROSE, harsh rose,"."Sea Rose" by H. D.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hd01.html#8

Enjoyed !; a summary... https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/ed...a%20and%20wind.

"Silver clock! O silver clock! tell to me the time o' day!" - Virna Sheard... The Fairy Clock... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ck-19704487012

Enjoyed so much the summary about H D. Doolittle must have cropped up somewhere with another poem, not sure if in alphabetical.
A silvery poem!

"This is not Love, perhaps,". "Not Love, Perhaps" by A.S.J. Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/Not-Love-Perhaps

Incredible poem! - "But something written in lighter ink," Enjoyed :)

"Uncommon Charms, I plainly see," - Mary Barber; To Mrs. Putland... https://www.best-poems.net/mary-barb...s-putland.html

Poor Mrs. Putland. I don´t think she enjoyed this poem.

"VIRTUE and prudence once agreed,". "APPEARANCE AND REALITY." by Eliza Day
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....98-w0040.shtml

Mrs. Putland: Lol

Enjoyed the personification poem: "Without Appearance few would see / The merits of Reality." :)

"Water hollows stone," - Ocavio Paz; Wind, Water, Stone / for Roger Caillois / TRANSLATED BY ELIOT WEINBERGER... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...nd-water-stone

Loved the play with "wind, water and stone" in Octavio's Paz poem

"Flowers bloom:"."Gazing at Spring" by Xue Tao
https://allpoetry.com/Gazing-at-Spring

Enjoyed the existential simplicity of the poem's premise :)

"Youth is the time when hearts are large," - Herman Melville; On The Slain Collegians... https://www.poetrycat.com/herman-mel...ain-collegians

Looked for some context to this poem but the one reference I found is behind paywall. It seems to refer to a battle in the Civil War

"A home above the year's seasons". "Home" by Zbigniew Herbert
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8508019-H...igniew-Herbert

Herm: Found this thoughtful piece: https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/me...and-modern-war
• an electronic book with more of his war poetry: https://melville.electroniclibrary.o...d-bound-proofs
• Project Gutenberg version: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1238...-h/12384-h.htm
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville

Incredibly rich for such a short poem... saving for use in our poetry group for our short reciting segment: "poems by other poets". Enjoyed :)

"By promise fair and artful flattery" - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet LVI. Amor con sue promesse lusingando. / Love Chains Are Still Dear to Him... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/sonnet-lvii

Thanks for this complete Melville research, specially the poems and the analysis by Huck Gutman!

Prefered the translation of Wolaston of Petrarca.

"Closed like confessionals, they thread"."Ambulances" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-larkin/ambulances

Odd, my mistake... my link referenced the wrong poem; should have been: https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...vi-52591204701

Enjoyed Larkin's poem... I believe he's beginning to grow on me in the literary sense; a review: https://philiplarkin.com/poem-reviews/ambulances/

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee" - John Donne; Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/h...-be-not-proud/

I noticed it but ok! Got conjunctivitis so little internet today.
Thanks for the Larkin review. Going to enjoy it when my eyes are better.
Overcoming death!

"EACH saucy cit, who strolls from town,"."Written near BATH." by Richard Graves
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....56-w0310.shtml

Take care of your eyes... I get allergic conjunctivitis nearly every year :(

Enjoyed :)

Epigraph: "What you say to the desolate and inhospitable you, calls pleasant with me who feels." ? (ran through google translate)

• Poems about Bath... http://www.poetryatlas.com/search/bath.html
• Chronology of Bath... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...Bath,_Somerset

"From Cocoon forth a Butterfly" - Emily Dickinson; From cocoon forth a butterfly (The Butterfly's Day)... https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dicki...h-a-butterfly/