Alphabetical Poem First Lines

The seedy side of the Depression of '29 - '41 in the last century... with a little spunk... Enjoyed :)

"No longer I follow a sound;" - William Cowper; Song On Peace... https://www.poemine.com/William-Cowp...-On-Peace.html

Poem on much needed peace of mind. Enjoyed,

"Oh earth, oh dewy mother, breathe on us"."A Prayer" by Archibald Lampman

https://www.poetrycat.com/archibald-lampman/a-prayer

Googled "dolorous": dol·or·ous /ˈdōlərəs / adjective / literary: feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress. "a dolorous and repetitive tale of atrocity"... A poem of prayer and lamentation. "Grant us, oh mother, therefore, us who pray, / Some little of thy light and majesty." Enjoyed :)

"Poets with whom I learned my trade," - Yeats; The Grey Rock... https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E910001-002/text001.html

A bit digressive as story telling in a bar would be. The closest to an analysis that I found (excepting the inevitable analysis from AI eliteskills):
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...n_Men_and_Gods
Enjoyed!


An author with name beginning with "Q":
"I NEVER quite saw fairy-folk"."Very Nearly!" by Queenie Scott Hopper
https://allpoetry.com/Queenie-Scott-Hopper

I liked what I saw in the abstract and have requested the full text... also joined :)

Delightful poem! "I very, very nearly did !" Whimsical... Enjoyed :)

"Rose o' my hert," - George MacDonald; A Lown Nicht... https://www.poemine.com/George-MacDo...own-Nicht.html

:)

"A Lown Nicht... "Enjoyed the poem very much,specially that I understood most of the words.

"She gave a rose,"."She Gave Me A Rose" by Paul Dunbar
https://allpoetry.com/She-Gave-Me-A-Rose

:)

Very sentimental poem... not what I'd expect from Dunbar after reading his bio... Enjoyed :)

"There is wind where the rose was," - Walter de la Mare; November... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494499-N...ter-de-la-Mare

Beautiful, nostalgic images.

[under the evening moon]
by Kobayashi Issa

'Under the evening moon
the snail
is stripped to the waist.'
https://www.poemine.com/Kobayashi-Is...ning-moon.html

Beautiful evocative images in such a short poem... Issa is truly a master :)

"Vitus came tripping over the grass" - Lord Alfred Douglas; The Ballad Of Saint Vitus... https://www.poemine.com/Lord-Alfred-...int-Vitus.html

Beautiful legend of St. Vitus. But do you remember, who Lord Alfred Douglas was? If not, take a look at his bio.

"We, too, had known golden hours"."WeToo Had Known Golden Hours" by W Auden
https://allpoetry.com/We-Too-Had-Known-Golden-Hours

Yes, I read his bio... a rather colorful life... some might say wilde.

Things haven't changed too much: "Concocted by editors / Into spells to befuddle the crowd"... enjoyed the poem :)

"Xceptionally creative, your ideas are a boundless" - (author not stated); Xanthus... https://namesaurus.com/name/xanthus/2/

Interesting information from namesaurus. Is the name Xanthus usual in US?
Here in Brazil we have Xande, nick for Alexandre.


"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
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...-tis-noon.html

No... no one named Xanthus that I can recall.

Ah, yes... perhaps the spiritual eye... as far as personal revelation goes anyone with a spiritual bent is open to it IMHO. Enjoyed :)


"Zap Zap Zap" - Mallow; Take Me To The Nest... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1257640...e-to-the-nest/

Enjoyed "Zap Zap Zap"!

"A man without a party, he"."The Lone Wolf Of Canberra' by C J Dennis
https://allpoetry.com/'The-Lone-Wolf-Of-Canberra'

Got a 404 error... tried https://allpoetry.com/%27The-Lone-Wolf-Of-Canberra%27
Freedom from a party... Enjoyed :)

"BLACK in the midnight lies the City vast." - Christopher Pearse Cranch; Sonnet XLIII. London... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xliii-london/