Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Herm: Found this thoughtful piece: https://www.huckgutman.com/blog-1/me...and-modern-war
• an electronic book with more of his war poetry: https://melville.electroniclibrary.o...d-bound-proofs
• Project Gutenberg version: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1238...-h/12384-h.htm
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville

Incredibly rich for such a short poem... saving for use in our poetry group for our short reciting segment: "poems by other poets". Enjoyed :)

"By promise fair and artful flattery" - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet LVI. Amor con sue promesse lusingando. / Love Chains Are Still Dear to Him... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/sonnet-lvii

Thanks for this complete Melville research, specially the poems and the analysis by Huck Gutman!

Prefered the translation of Wolaston of Petrarca.

"Closed like confessionals, they thread"."Ambulances" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-larkin/ambulances

Odd, my mistake... my link referenced the wrong poem; should have been: https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...vi-52591204701

Enjoyed Larkin's poem... I believe he's beginning to grow on me in the literary sense; a review: https://philiplarkin.com/poem-reviews/ambulances/

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee" - John Donne; Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/h...-be-not-proud/

I noticed it but ok! Got conjunctivitis so little internet today.
Thanks for the Larkin review. Going to enjoy it when my eyes are better.
Overcoming death!

"EACH saucy cit, who strolls from town,"."Written near BATH." by Richard Graves
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....56-w0310.shtml

Take care of your eyes... I get allergic conjunctivitis nearly every year :(

Enjoyed :)

Epigraph: "What you say to the desolate and inhospitable you, calls pleasant with me who feels." ? (ran through google translate)

• Poems about Bath... http://www.poetryatlas.com/search/bath.html
• Chronology of Bath... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...Bath,_Somerset

"From Cocoon forth a Butterfly" - Emily Dickinson; From cocoon forth a butterfly (The Butterfly's Day)... https://poemanalysis.com/emily-dicki...h-a-butterfly/

Thanks. Seems to be allergic, trying to find a doctor for confirmation.

Thanks for translating the epigraph and for the amplification links.

Enjoyed this charming ED poem. One possible reference you probably know:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fable...er_and_the_Ant

"The gardener does not love to talk."."The Gardener" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/rls03.html#17

Delightful fable ! I hadn't read this version before :)

Lol! Wonderful poem about a young man's dealing with the gardener... Enjoyed! :)

"He said no word of her to us" - Stevie Smith; Nor We of Her to Him... https://allpoetry.com/Nor-We-of-Her-to-Him

:)

https://www.best-books-for-kids.com/...son-poems.html
"He said no word of her to us". Loved this wordplay revealing a concealed very destructive relationship.

"If ever the time comes for me to die". "My Wake" by Albinas Zukauskas.
https://allpoetry.com/My-Wake

I didn't remember/know of RLS's delightful child verse... I wonder if Alan Rickman was ever approached to portray him.

AZ put a lot of thought in his wake poem... enjoyed :)

"Just this one day in all the year" - Dora Sigerson Shorter; The Skeleton In The Cupboard... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_C...n_the_Cupboard

"The Skeleton In The Cupboard..." Very interesting take. Enjoyed! The demand to be happy on Christmas Eve has sometimes the opposite effect, families quarrel, lonely people are sad, destituted people are reminded of their losses...

Flexibilising the rule a bit:
"I am king of the room"."The King" by Fouad Mohammad Fouad (translation Atef Alshaer)
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poems/the-king

Sad poem of the aged... we kings and queens in waiting... Enjoyed :)

"Let us build a fire" - Joseph O. Legaspi; Poetry... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-6667f0ff4bf70

Yes, alas!
Enjoyed the imagery of this poem about destruction of one's home.

'My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole"."Cyrus & the Snakes" by Ada Limón
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...rus-the-snakes

Enjoyed the retrospective by Ada :)

"Nature, the gentlest mother," - Emily Dickinson; Nature, the gentlest mother...
• Poem: https://songofamerica.net/song/natur...lest-mother-1/
• Music: https://www.google.com/search?newwin...rtV931pjo,st:0

Thanks for EDs gentle poem and the music!

'O black and unknown bards of long ago,"."O Black and Unknown Bards" by James Weldon Johnson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/johnson3.html#2

Wonderful poem... Enjoyed :)

"Pain has an element of blank;" - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson ; The Mystery Of Pain... https://allpoetry.com/The-Mystery-Of-Pain

E D explores a quite unusual aspect of pain in this poem. Enjoyed!

"Quiet form of silent nun,"."Soeur Monique - A Rondeau By Couperin" by Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...couperin-38432

Nice "Q" find - An homage to an idyllic nun: "Was his music-dream of you / Of some perfect nun he knew, / Or of some ideal, as true?"... enjoyed :)

"Rhaicos was born amid the hills wherefrom" - Walter Savage Landor; The Hamadryad... https://allpoetry.com/The-Hamadryad

Sorry, tailor, lost the poem I had selected so starting again.

Enjoyed the legend.

"Sent as a present from Annam—". The Red Cockatoo byi Bai JuYi
https://allpoetry.com/The-Red-Cockatoo

Sad tale... enjoyed... You and I met Bai Juyi through his poetry some time ago:
• More poetry: http://www.chinese-poems.com/bo.html :)
• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi

"Tenuous and Precarious" - Stevie Smith; Tenuous and Precarious... https://allpoetry.com/Tenuous-and-Precarious

Thanks for the links about Bai Juyi and his poems. :)

Lol"Tenuous and Precarious"! Stevie Smith (another new poet I enjoy very much) summing up what I think about 21C.

"UNLESS I learn to ask no help". "III.Lessons" by Sara Teasdale
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/...songs02.html#3

Lessons ? Have to ponder... enjoyed :)

"VAIN Love, why do'st thou boast of Wings," Anne Kingsmill Finch; Jealousy... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8509161-J...ingsmill-Finch

A very realistic depiction of jealousy.

"When I was born, a crooked angel,"."Seven-Sided Poem" by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
https://allpoetry.com/Seven-Sided-Poem

I remember this incredible poem... Enjoyed :)

"X-play is arranged by coach." - Dalton Jones; Xfl... http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=584360

Oh sorry if it was a repetition!
legit X poem!
"We sat together at one summer’s end,"Adam’s Curse By William Butler Yeats
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/adams-curse/

Andrade: No, not in this game... another game in the past (authors?) :)

Incredible poem by Yeats :)

"zoom" - Elizabeth Squires; Broom That Zooms... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/522379/broom-that-zooms/

Good memory!


Nice children poem.

"A happy vicar I might have been"."A Little Poem" by George Orwell
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-orwell/a-little-poem

Light and dark poem... dark - (Arum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Aram... followed later by "I wasn’t born for an age like this;"; I wonder who hasn't thought this in the modern age ? ~ Enjoyed :)

"Because my mama lost her daddy when she was too young" - Kinsale Drake; How I learned to hold grief at such a young age... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ch-a-young-age

Curious dark character, this Aram. The curious thing is, it seems he wanted the goods mainly to pay his debts. He disn´t acquire goods of his own. And with his learning perhaps he might have got a better position.

Beautiful poem about ancestry!

"Caught -- the bubble". "Sonnet" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://www.poetrycat.com/elizabeth-bishop/sonnet-1979

Such great language usage! Enjoyed very much :) A link: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/doc...ngs/bishop.htm

"Don't box down to the little box" - Vasko Popa; The Enemies Of The Little Box... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22624

re EB:true! Enjoyed so much the article!
Harsh poem! This little box can have so many meanings!

"Even as we speak, there's a smoker's cough"."Cows" by Paul Muldoon
https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldoon/cows

Enjoyed, though I was a bit out to sea on this poem and found some help... https://eliteskills.com/c/17774 :)

"From Deutschland I come with my light wares all laden," - Walter Crane; Buy A Broom... https://www.poetrycat.com/walter-crane/buy-a-broom

Thanks for the analysis tailor, but I'm getting crazy at these analyses of eliteskills. Where are the cows on the fields? Where are the birds? This seems to refer to another poem. I can´t say that I understood this poem well, but as far as I did understand it, these cows are being taken to the slaughterhouse (I only chose it because I had difficulty in finding an "E" poem).

"Buy A Broom' Cute poem in it´s Bavarian style. :)

"Goldbrown upon the sated flood". "Flood" by James Joyce
https://www.poetrycat.com/james-joyce/flood

Muldoon's poem is a bit enigmatic/surreal (perhaps Dada)... cows and cattle are mentioned by name including kine and calves. Birds are alluded to in "bottle of Redbreast" in S3 and S6 gives us ""through the air"" then perhaps "should one taillight flash and flare / then flicker-fade / to an afterimage of tourmaline / set in a dark part-jet, part-jasper or -jade?". But yes, the summary does seem to go far of field.

Enjoyed Joyce's dreamy poem about a flood :)

"Her oval face is so soft and succulent" - Penman; QUEEN OF BEAUTY... https://www.poetry.com/poem/136530/queen-of-beauty

You are right. I am not familiar with bird names specially not in English so I didn´t recognise them. I also think, that to undestand this poem one must decipher it´s allusions. What may have happened too is that this analysis was the work of AI that caught the elements but not the complexities of the poem and thus tried to simplify it.

Queen of Beauty-Some unexpected comparisons "Gap toothed like the cymbal of famous artists" but enjoyed.

"I'm a fussy little fellow"."The YellowTailed Thornbill" by C.J. Dennis
https://allpoetry.com/'The-Yellow-Tailed-Thornbill'

Sweet poem !!! "If you'll listen to this cheerful little air -- / "Chip, chip." / Oh, I'll charm you with my cheerful little air." Enjoyed ! :)

"joyful to see" - PinkFaerie5; Joy... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17971388-joy-by-PinkFaerie5

"joy" Aiii! Loved the poem!

"KITTY's charming voice and face,"."The PLAY-THING chang'd." by Anonymous.
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....57-w0790.shtml

Another sweet poem... Enjoyed! :)

"LIKE to the damaske rose you see," - Francis Quarles; Hos Ego Versiculos... https://allpoetry.com/Hos-Ego-Versiculos

My half finished answer blown away!
Enjoyed the poem! About the title:https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog...y-the-beehive/

"Mysterious keeper of the key". 'Music" by Alaric Alexander Watts
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8572961-M...lexander-Watts

Enjoyed the link and tie-in to Virgil and Bathyllus. The MA Historical Society would have many a note about some of my distant cousins (Adams), and in the article therein even a mention of another surname with whom I may also be related :)

The beehive theme is used quite often in my faith... the term "Deseret" being very beloved :)

I can identify wholeheartedly with Watts' poem. Enjoyed Very much. Music takes hold of our hearts, minds, and spirits: I'm often taken away on flights to bygones past, covering every emotion possible by a riff or a song... sometimes goosebumps may appear :) other times a melancholy may beset me (more often) :( and then, when singing in the choir or with the congregation at church, to a higher place. :)

"Now rests my love : till nuw her tender brest," - Francis Quorles; Sion's Sonnets... Bridegroom.... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sion-s-sonnets/

:)

Majestic Salomon poem!

"O generation of the thoroughly smug". "Salutation" by Ezra Pound
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...by-ezra-pound/