Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Thanks for these context pages and bio.
Interesting poem!

"If you wish to be happy at home,"."Open Hearted"
by Charles Swain
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/heart-poems/

Excellent advice... Enjoyed so much :)

"Jealousy. Whispered weather reports." - Randall Mann; Poem Beginning with a Line by John Ashbery... https://poets.org/poem/poem-beginning-line-john-ashbery

Enjoyed the interplay of words and lines in this poem!

"Keep out of the Past! for its highways"."Keep out of the Past! " by Ella W. Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella..._The_Past.html

Excellent advice, though I rarely heed it... Enjoyed :)

"Lily! lady of the garden!" - Henry Timrod; The Lily Confidante... https://www.litscape.com/author/Henr...onfidante.html

This Lily is between 6 and 10 years old. Did I get that right?


"Mix a little shake of laughter in the doings of the day,"."Credo"
by Roy Neal
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/a-life-well-lived/

6 to 1/2(20)... yes, I believe the flowers are that old... seeking advice about love from the Lily in the garden as I see it.

A good credo to live by :) Enjoyed.

"New England woods are fair of face," - Amos Russel Wells; New England Woods... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/amo...england-woods/

Yes, but seems somewhat ambiguos to my no native understanding.

Endearing trait to give all trees names. Enjoyed the poem!


"Once on the kind of day called “weather breeder,”. "An Encounter" by Robert Frost
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-trees/

Hmmm, I see how it could be.

Wonderful poem by Frost... Orchid Calypso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calypso_bulbosa

Slightly redacted, lol:

"Pussy-cat" - Spike Milligan; Pussy-cat... https://allpoetry.com/Pussy-cat

Lol!


By a poet with "q " in his name

"THE world's an Inn; and I her guest."."On the World" by Francis Quarles
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/quarles1.html#2

"The smiling conscience in a sleeping breast / Has only peace, has only rest"... :) Enjoyed.

"Rising to wide sky" - Nelson D Reyes; Legacy... https://www.poeticous.com/nelson-d-reyes/legacy

Enjoyed this succinct poem.


"Sho-shó-ne Sa-cá-ga-we-a—captive and wife was she"."Sa-cá-ga-we-a"
by Edna Dean Proctor
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-west/

I didn't know "with her baby nestling there— / Girl of but sixteen summers"... Enjoyed :)

"The moon is tired and old;" - Celia Thaxter; The Waning Moon... https://www.litscape.com/author/Celi...ning_Moon.html

Endearing moon poem.

under my tree-roof by Matsuo Basho

"under my tree-roof
slanting lines of april rain
separate to drops"
https://www.poetry.com/poem/27231/under-my-tree-roof

Delightful Haiku by one of the masters :)

"Valencia's streets are thronged. With fearful state " - Hannah Flagg Gould; The Summoned ... https://www.litscape.com/author/Hann...-Summoned.html

Enjoyed this dramatic poem.



"We wear the mask that grins and lies."."The Mask" by Maya Angelou.
https://www.poeticous.com/maya-angel...grins-and-lies