Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Interesting poem, images of dead and decay!

"Queen Venus on a day of cloud". "Queen Venus" by Robert Laurence Binyon
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Laure...een-Venus.html

Another sea perspective for Venus which brings to mind her origin in Botticelli's painting: https://www.artdependence.com/articl...irth-of-venus/
... Enjoyed :)

"Remnants of sun ribbon the river--" - Bai Juyi; Song of the Evening River... https://www.poemine.com/Bai-Juyi/Son...ing-River.html

Thanks for the interesting link on Venus and Botticelli. Though the setting of the poem is different the poet might have had the well known picture in mind.

"Song of the Evening River... " Delicate, very visual, a painting in words of the river.

"Sweet poet of the woods---a long adieu!" Sonnet VII: "Sweet Poet of the Woods" by Charlotte Turner Smith
https://www.poemine.com/Charlotte-Tu...the-Woods.html

Delightful poem: "For still thy voice shall soft affections move, / And still be dear to sorrow, and to love!"... Enjoyed :)

"the moon and the stars" - Sherry Anne; Gifts of the Night... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18013637-...by-Sherry-Anne

"Gifts of the Night"-a gentle poem.

"Under the mountain, as when first I knew"."Under the mountain..." by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
https://www.poemine.com/Frederick-Go...-mountain.html

Enigmatic poem... found this for a summary:
https://www.nysun.com/article/poem-o...r-the-mountain... enjoyed :)

"Vatic levens gnarl the gloam," - HaviOneEyedRaven; Hate called: 'Paradise'... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17999213-...viOneEyedRaven

Thanks, tailor. Enjoyed the open part of the article, maybe going to subscribe for free later. Curious poem, more curious the career of this poet ignored by most of his contemporaneity but who now jumped out from the folds of the poetry of 19 C.

"Hate called: 'Paradise'..." Ambivalence? Contradictory feelings?

"With life's tomorrow time you grasp,". "With Life's Tomorrow Time You Grasp" by Mihai Eminescu
https://www.poemine.com/Mihai-Emines...You-Grasp.html

A somehow dreamy rhyme poem in the translation... curious if the original was so... enjoyed :)

"Xanthippe, one day, urged her Socrates" - Wolfgang Niesielski; Socrates & Xanthippe... https://philosophynow.org/issues/151..._and_Xanthippe

re Eminescu:
Found a slightly different translation by Octavian Cocos in this Eminescu poem collection:

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...Octavian_Cocos

Lol: This Xantippe poem confirms my Xantippe thesis, as exposed above about the last Xantippe poem.# 2038 or 2048.

"You'll know it—as you know 'tis Noon—"."You'll know it—as you know 'tis Noon by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...-tis-Noon.html

Found it: "You get more days with your tomorrow...[Cu mâine zilele-ţi adaogi...]" Not sure which translation is better, being totally inept in languages... the second is more pleasing to me to read.

Yes, agree re: Xantippe in #2038. Lol, I remember you called out my lol... thread poem, a villanelle attempt, #20: "After thunder comes the rain !" on 7/4/2022: "Lol! Somewhat partial to Xanthippe, but laving the chamberpot on the pate is mean!" :)

Wonderful poem by dear Emily... more in tune with my other distant poet/lyricist cousin Eliza R. Snow :)

"Zinging the zen-zone I was in" - Lori Jones McCaffery; A 'Z' POEM FOR SUN PRINCESS... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1892046...-sun-princess/

re Eminescu. I prefer the second translation too. it flows better. I think you have a good feeling for foreign languages but little opportunity for using them.

Xantippe: Lol! Socrates didn´t have an easy life it seems, but neither did Xantippe.

Enjoyed the intrinsic Ziness of that Z poem!

"I ran across the street, I didn’t know any better."."Across the Street" by Austin Segrest.
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/across-the-street/

An interesting tension within the poem, and enjoyed the awkward repetition throughout :)

"By day the bat is cousin to the mouse." - Theodore Roethke; The Bat... https://voetica.com/poem/984

"The Bat..."- Enjoyed this poem. It draws the bat with much sensibility.

"Come into the garden, Maud,"Come Into The Garden, Maud" by Alfred Tennyson
https://www.poemine.com/Alfred-Tenny...rden-Maud.html

An enchanting poem by a master romanticist. "On a bed of daffodil sky," particularly stood out for me :) ... But, after a wee bit of research one finds this is only one scene in a web of poetic complexity... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud,_and_Other_Poems Enjoyed :)

"Dusk fairies fly by across the night sky," - Natliegh; Dusk Fairies... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17181855-...es-by-Natliegh

Thanks for the enlightining link on "Maud,tailor!

"even a pencil has fear to"."even a pencil has fear to" by e.e. cummings
https://allpoetry.com/even-a-pencil-has-fear-to