Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Mostly tender ways of parting... Enjoyed :)

"RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier
and fiercer sweep! - Walt Whitman; RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOM-
LESS DEEPS... https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00473_00635

Very Whitman. Grandiose and intense. Enjoyed!


"Still must the poet as of old,"."To Kathleen" by Edna Millay


https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vi...ay/to-kathleen

Enjoyed :) Found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/To-Kathleen

"Too happy Time dissolves" - Emily Dickinson; Too happy Time dissolves itself... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15109021-...mily-Dickinson

Enjoyed the summary on E M's poem.


About Happiness (English lyrics)

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Br...lation/english
The original song by Antonio Jobin and lyrics by poet Vinicius de Moraes
https://www.letras.mus.br/tom-jobim/53/

"Under a daisied bank"."The Milkmaid" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy/the-milkmaid

"Happiness is like a drop / Of dew on a flower petal / It shines, serenely / Then, smoothly, it oscillates / And falls, like a tear of love" :)

Link said I had an ad blocker on (I don't think so?)... used this link: https://www.google.com/search?client...NQh1BW5SQ,st:0

Enjoyed :) but who's Fred ?

"Venus, redress a wrong thats done" - William Cartwright; A Complaint against Cupid... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=103706

Those link are all very complicated. I have an add blocker.

Fred seems to be the guy the milkmaid would like to date who likes another girl.

Lol! Charming complaint!


"We sailed..."."Honeybee, Inner Hebrides" by Valerie Gillies

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/honeybee-inner-hebrides/






Honeybee, Inne





















from The Cream of the Well: New and Selected Poems (Luath Press, 2014), © Valerie Gillies 2014, used by permission of the author.

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Ah, Fred, lol.

Enjoyed this honeybee tale :)

Poem(s) by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"The blue work clothes are covered in grease" - Xiao Hai; We Come from the Workshop... https://worldliteraturetoday.org/202...poems-xiao-hai

Forgive the untidy last post. I tried to correct it and the poem threatened to disappear.

A legit communist poems. :)

"You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with"."Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda.
https://allpoetry.com/Enigmas

Interesting poem... Pablo Neruda channeling Jacques Cousteau... Enjoyed :)

Poem(s) by a poet with a 'z' AND an 'x' in their name:

"The mountains are bathed in spring’s radiance." - Zhang Xu; ‘Guest in the Mountain’《山中留客》... https://ink-and-brush.com/zhang-xu-calligrapher/

Delicate poem! He was also famous for his calligraphy and his eccentricity!


"And God stepped out on space,"The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8526373-T...Weldon-Johnson

Enjoyed this revised creation story :)

"Buildings above the leafless trees" - Sara Teasdale; Central Park At Dusk... https://allpoetry.com/Central-Park-At-Dusk

Sara Teasdale is so romantic. This poem reminds me of the beginning of one of the most famous Goethe poems, "The Nightsong of the Wanderer". The context is different, nature is preparing to rest:

https://sites.google.com/site/german...r-s-night-song (second poem).

"Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair."."Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair." by Eleanor Farjeon
https://huasaicats.com/catpoems/

Enjoyed Goethe's poem... I would have taken poetic license and rendered the last line "You too shall rest.

Love, love, Eleanor's cat poem :) Will have to find time today to read the rest of the poets' cat poems later :)

"Daily the fair Sultan's daughter" - Heinrich Heine; The Asra... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=37833

Summary: https://allpoetry.com/Der-Asra

I fully agree with you. In fhe English version the "too" in the second position sounds more natural.

Rather ambivalent about this narrative poem.

"Every time I kiss you"."Every Time I Kiss You" by Nizar Qabbani
https://www.best-poems.net/nizar_qab...r_qabbani.html

Very evocative... Enjoyed :)

"Fancy! Nymph, that loves to lye" - John Dyer; Towy Landscape... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=537794

Wikipedia (Grongar, Hill): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grongar_Hill