Alphabetical Poem First Lines

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Loved this city poem!

"."Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,".Claude-McKay,"America"
https://www.poemine.com/Claude-McKay/America.html

Defiantly in love with America... Enjoyed :)

"Down the road someone is practising scales," - Louis MacNeice; Sunday Morning... https://allpoetry.com/Sunday-Morning

Enjoyed this poem a lot the justaposition of music and mobility.

"enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh"."enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh" by e.e. cummings
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493935-e...-e.e.-cummings

Lol... Wonderful poem! - "one / dead leaf stirring makes a crash".

"From yonder gilded minaret" - Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Batuschka... https://allpoetry.com/Batuschka

"Batuschka" Though in it´s form it is a XIX century poem, it reads so very modern.

"t's guessing time at our house; every evening after tea"."Guessing Time" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poemine.com/Edgar-Albert...sing-Time.html

"Batuschka": agree

Delightful Christmas tradition... enjoyed :)

"He who walks through the meadows of Champagne" - Emile Verhaeren; The Cathedral Of Rheims... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-32048

Beautiful and terrible poem!To think that today it takes only minutes to work that kind of destruction!

"I am a bard - I am a heaven bird,"."I Am A Bard" by Anna Akhmatova
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327860-...Anna-Akhmatova

Enjoyed very much this brief little gem :)

"John-a-Dreams and Harum-Scarum" - Madison Julius Cawein; Ballad Of Low-Lie-Down... https://www.poemine.com/Madison-Juli...-Lie-Down.html

Enjoyed this realistic and romantic ballad! :)

"KNOW you the river near to Grez,". "Know You The River NEar To Grez" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Louis...r-To-Grez.html

Love lost... "So may that love grow never old, / But, clear and pure and fountain-cold, / Go on from grace to grace."..... wonderful :)

"LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hover" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; May... https://www.poemine.com/Johann-Wolfg...oethe/May.html

May- lovely poem

"My felisberto is handsomer than your mergotroid,"My Felisberto" by James Tate
https://www.poemine.com/James-Tate/My-Felisberto.html

O k. Proof that poetry is in the eye of the beholder... but here's an eye opener: http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP113-DES110.htm... Amazing :)

"Now fare-thee-well, England; no further I'll roam;" - Robert Bloomfield; Song For A Highland Drover Returning From England... https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Bloom...m-England.html

I don't know, tailor, the critic may be right, but he may also be dictated by envy, as Tate received the Prizes and honors of a good poet.I don't find the poem outstanding but it reminded me a bit of Lewis Carrol.

Sweet homecoming poem!

"Of old sat Freedom on the heights,"."Of Old Sat Freedom by Alfred Tennyson
https://www.poemine.com/Alfred-Tenny...t-Freedom.html

Tate: Hmmm... maybe... more research needed!!! :)

Oh those pesky extremes... Enjoyed :)

"Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof" - Allen Ginsberg; Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters... https://www.poemine.com/Allen-Ginsbe...g-Letters.html

Lovely poem that reminds me of my dawn vista with pigeons.

'Quick! we have but a second,'."Quick! We Have But A Second" by Thomas Moore
https://www.litscape.com/author/Thom..._A_Second.html