Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Lol... a poet who seeks not for fame... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet whose name has a 'z' in it (in this case, two):

"The soldier under earth shall joy in night -" - Zinaida Lazda; First Night... https://allpoetry.com/Zinaida-Lazda

Enjoyed this war poem. Tried to learn more about Zinaida, but only found a Wikipedia page in her own language. The curious thing about this Latvian poet of the first half of 20C is that she died in Salem, Oregon, so she probably spent the end of her life there but no English information about her.


"A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze,"."A Summer Afternoon" by James Riley
https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Afternoon

Zinaida: I found a page that offered an English translation: https://www-womage-lv.translate.goog...n&_x_tr_pto=sc

Wonderful poem: "A dreamy day; and tranquilly I lie / At anchor from all storms of mental strain; / With absent vision, gazing at the sky, / "Like one that hears it rain."" :)

""Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,"" - William Wordsworth; The Waterfall And The Eglantine... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ne-23881172358

Thanks, quite a lot of information on Zinaida you got there. No German Wikipedia page though she lived also in Germany.

Ai, sorry for the gentle Eglantine? That comes when one as an Eglantine tampers with Waterfalls.Enjoyed.!


"COME, Holy Spirit, love divine,"."The Retrospect" by Maria Frances Cecília Cowper
https://allpoetry.com/The-Retrospect

Wonderful devotional poem :)

"Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!" - Emily Dickinson; Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!... https://allpoetry.com/Doubt-Me!-My-Dim-Companion!

Strikes me as a bit ironic, this poem of ED. A poetic DR with an invisible lover? Enjoyed!


"Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast decoy'd me,"Farewell to the Muse" by Sir Walter Scott
https://allpoetry.com/Farewell-to-the-Muse

Odd... I can't get back to ED's poem through the link now :( Through EliteSkills found this snippet: ""Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!" was written in the later years of Dickinson's life, and it reflects her growing preoccupation with themes of mortality, doubt, and faith. It is one of many poems in which she grapples with the nature of God, the meaning of life, and the inevitability of death."...

The loss of a muse... Enjoyed :)

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray," - Abraham Lincoln; Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=108954

I couldn't also access ED'S poem through the link, but by Google seach.

Didn't imagine Lincoln writing poetry. But this looks like a speech distributed in verses. Enjoyed though!

"God is the refuge of his saints,"."Psalm 46, Part1" by Isaac Watts

https://allpoetry.com/Psalm-46--part-1

More poetry by Abraham Lincoln: https://allpoetry.com/Abraham-Lincoln

Wonderful poem... Enjoyed. One of the snippets from Psalm 46 is most memorable: Ps 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God" :)

"High above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven," - Gu Kuang; A Palace Poem... https://www.cn-poetry.com/gukuang-po...lace-poem.html

Thanks! They confer another image of Lincoln.
Wonderful poem by Gu Kuang and fluent translation


"it's 1962 March 28th"."Things I Didn't Know I Loved" by Nazim Hikmet
https://allpoetry.com/Things-I-Didn't-Know-I-Loved

Enjoyed this frenetic love fest :)

"Just because we've torn their statues down," - Constantine P Cavafy; Ionian Song... https://allpoetry.com/Ionian-Song

Enjoyed this powerfull poem.



"King and Queen of the Pelicans we;"."The Pelican Chorus." by Edward Lear
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-chorus-23385

Delightful tale of a pelican family :) I love to watch the pelicans fly by the sea shore... been too long.

"Long vast shapes...cooled and flushed through with darkness...." - Lola Ridge; Wall Street At Night... https://allpoetry.com/poem/13753364-...-by-Lola-Ridge

:)

Loved that poem!

"Men die…"."Dreams" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8520251-Dreams-by-Lola-Ridge

I like the idea that dreams exist unto themselves and persist even when the dreamer dies... Enjoyed :)

"Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and Night" - John Brown; A Rhapsody; written at the Lakes in Westmorland... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10042145