Alphabetical Poem First Lines

"joy" Aiii! Loved the poem!

"KITTY's charming voice and face,"."The PLAY-THING chang'd." by Anonymous.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....57-w0790.shtml

Another sweet poem... Enjoyed! :)

"LIKE to the damaske rose you see," - Francis Quarles; Hos Ego Versiculos... https://allpoetry.com/Hos-Ego-Versiculos

My half finished answer blown away!
Enjoyed the poem! About the title:https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog...y-the-beehive/

"Mysterious keeper of the key". 'Music" by Alaric Alexander Watts
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8572961-M...lexander-Watts

Enjoyed the link and tie-in to Virgil and Bathyllus. The MA Historical Society would have many a note about some of my distant cousins (Adams), and in the article therein even a mention of another surname with whom I may also be related :)

The beehive theme is used quite often in my faith... the term "Deseret" being very beloved :)

I can identify wholeheartedly with Watts' poem. Enjoyed Very much. Music takes hold of our hearts, minds, and spirits: I'm often taken away on flights to bygones past, covering every emotion possible by a riff or a song... sometimes goosebumps may appear :) other times a melancholy may beset me (more often) :( and then, when singing in the choir or with the congregation at church, to a higher place. :)

"Now rests my love : till nuw her tender brest," - Francis Quorles; Sion's Sonnets... Bridegroom.... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sion-s-sonnets/

:)

Majestic Salomon poem!

"O generation of the thoroughly smug". "Salutation" by Ezra Pound
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...by-ezra-pound/

Delightful poem lauding the working man... Enjoyed :)

"poetry readings have to be some of the saddest" - Charles Bukowski; Poetry Readings... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12345579-...arles-Bukowski

Don´t agree with Bukowsky. I think good poetry doesn´t usually fall from heaven .It needs an training space. These readings are a cultural activity, they keep the production of poetry alive and sometimes this produces a good or even a great poet.. Of course there is a lot of bad poetry too as one can see in those sites that are open to contribution. But even that helps to fertilize the common poetry soil.

"Queen of wit and"."To Betty, The Grisette by Jonathan Swift
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...grisette-35931

I agree. I was surprised at Boo's poem and thought that perhaps he was being tongue and cheek... the AI doesn't think so, but then the AI might be at sea regarding sarcasm and the ilk. That being said I'm grateful for the off chance for an open microphone to spread my poetic mulch - on the off chance that a toadstool might find a haven and flourish for a færie's fancy :)

Dictionary: "Grisette" - Oh, my goodness! Not sure if this poem is an homage or a poetic undressing... Enjoyed :)

"Rigged poker -stiff on her back" - Sylvia Plath; All The Dead Dears... https://allpoetry.com/All-The-Dead-Dears

Grisette-More used with French I think. It may be both: a homage and a "poetic undressing" but a homage despising the subject of it.Certainly not my favorite poem but a legit "q".

Sylvia Plath on a great day!

"Slopes". "Slopes of Mount Kugami" byTaigu Ryokan
https://allpoetry.com/Slopes-Of-Mount-Kugami".

legit "q" :)

Enjoyed TR's poem of angst over relocating... have felt the emotion too many times myself and envision it soon/not soon in the future.

"The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful" - Amy Lowell; Lead Soldiers... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ll/poems/19971

"Lead Soldiers... " Phantastic and terrible poem, a strong criticism on senseless warfare. Having a new respect for Amy Lowell


"UNYIELDING in the pride of his defiance,". "The Flying Dutchman" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...eIdx/fl-u.html

Enjoyed this simple 5-stanza ABAB poem :)

"Venus, take my votive glass:" - Matthew Prior; The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass To Venus... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-...lass-to-venus/

Forgot to add this context link to the poem in #2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman

" Venus..."Grim poem, very much to the point!

'We built a ship upon the stairs"."A Good Play" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/rls02.html#13

context: :)

Delightful poem of child's play... enjoyed :)

"Xmas isn't only about happiness" - Iain Douglas Miller-Potter; Xmas... https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=14502

For me X-mas is a time of contrasts. The sad ones are more sad than usual, because they think every one else is happy.

"When I was girl by Nilus stream". "The Witch" by Adelaide Crapsey
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8543847-T...elaide-Crapsey