Alphabetical Poem First Lines

ET: From your link - "Considered one of the more significant poets to appear in America in the 17th and 18th centuries,"... In “A Letter sent to his Brother Joseph Taylor and his wife after a visit” Taylor exhibited his early interest in acrostic verse, a form in which he continued to write in Massachusetts."... interesting for the times :)

However, my mistake... I somehow stated the poets name incorrectly, typing Edward Taylor instead of James Tate (no clue)... here's Tate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tate_(writer)

ME - Sad poem anticipating his death before his mother's ? Sardonically: "On 8 April 2008, a crater on the planet Mercury was named for him." - wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Eminescu

"Poet! if on a lasting fame be bent" - Henry Timrod; Poet! If on a Lasting Fame Be Bent ... https://www.poemine.com/Henry-Timrod...e-Be-Bent.html

re: The mistake was mine, tailor. You typed the name James Tate correctly (see above) and I somehow changed it for Edward Taylor. Must have read some poem by him.

HT- Beautiful and positive sonnet about the art of the poet!

"Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,"."Queen and Huntress" by Benjamin Jonson
https://www.poemine.com/Benjamin-Jon...-Huntress.html

No, no, no... my error :)

Moon's names anciently were: Diana or Cynthia in Latin, also Diana; and Artemis/Selene/Mene in Greek. Wonderful poem :)

"Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain," - Oscar Wilde; The Grave Of Keats... https://allpoetry.com/The-Grave-Of-Keats

rater-lol! These astronomers like to pay homage naming their finds after famous people.

"The Grave Of Keats..."- Oscar Wilde´s romantic side. Beautiful Poem!

"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!"."Sound, Sound the Clarion" by Sir Walter Scott
https://www.poemine.com/Sir-Walter-S...e-Clarion.html

Lol, appears SWS likes to party.. enjoyed this brief poem :)

"They're coming! And it seems so long" - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; They're Coming!... https://allpoetry.com/They%27re-Coming!

Delicate Spring poem. Officially we have Spring now, but the temperatures are mostly above 30 grades and the streets are strewn with leaves.

"Up to the ceiling"."Up to the Ceiling" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poemine.com/Edgar-Albert...e-Ceiling.html

30° C ~ 86° F... a bit warmer here.

Sweet pom... enjoyed :)

"VOICES of strange sea breezes caught," - Paul Hamilton Hayne; The Imprisoned Sea-Winds... https://www.poemine.com/Paul-Hamilto...Sea-Winds.html

Loved the poem. Line before last. Shouldn´t it be "cheek" instead of "check"?

"WITH klingle, klangle, klingle,"When the Cows Come Home" by Agnes E. Mitchell
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/a-l...ows-come-home/

PHH - I would think so... but it seems to be perpetuated even here... https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/hayne/hayne.html

Wonderful!... One can hear the cows come slowly home :)

"...Xenon cry, reverberator night" - Joe Geraci; Xenon Cry... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xenon_cry_876511

re: Saw it but got lost. But another edition I saw also stated "check".

Interesting X poem: a cry of distress.

"You've seen Balloons set—Haven't You?"."You've seen Balloons set—Haven't You?" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...ven-t-You.html

https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...avent-you.html

Metaphorically dense poem... and a well needed summary (thanks) :) Enjoyed.

"Zonked Yanks eXport Weird Views Underpinning Terrorist Suspects," - Daniel Simon Black; A-Z_Z-***... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/526378/a-z_z-a/

Enjoyed the zonked Yanks. The Litnet thread with similar exercises must be buried somewhere.

"A sincere man am I"."A Sincere Man Am I" by José Martí
https://www.poemine.com/Jose-Marti/A...-Man-Am-I.html

Interesting poem by a complex man/poet... enjoyed :)

"Booth led boldly with his big bass drum " - Vachel Lindsay; General William Booth Enters Into Heaven... https://allpoetry.com/General-Willia...rs-Into-Heaven

A bit more about José Marti:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD

The song with verses of the poem:
Cuban version with translation of the lyrics (in yellow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmE0Cw1JgTg

Slightly different version with English lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mRjBajzcs

Vachel Lindsay- Beautiful poem. Tried to imagine it with the musical background

"Child! do not throw this book about!"."On The Gift Of A Book To A Child" by Hilaire Belloc

https://allpoetry.com/On-The-Gift-Of-A-Book-To-A-Child

Marti was spot on in his criticisms. I remember the song and will think of it through a different lens :)

Loved Belloc's poem, especially the last stanza :)

"Dark forms slip through he sky" - SilverHeart12; Night Flyers... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12601245-...-SilverHeart12

re Marti: :)

Enjoyed the poem. You have posted several interesting poems from users of all poetry. Though I can't help associating these dark forms with missiles and drones.

"Elijah's example declares,"."Elijah Fed By Ravens" by John Newton
https://www.poemine.com/John-Newton/...By-Ravens.html

So sorry for that perception... these are trying times.

A wonderful poem of faith :)

"Fine as the dust of plumy fountains blowing" - Aldous Huxley; The Elms... https://allpoetry.com/The-Elms

Loved "The Elms". From a time when the trees weren´t considered the villains of the environment.

"Green and blue". "Green and blue" by Lesbia Harford
https://www.poemine.com/Lesbia-Harfo...-and-blue.html

Enjoyed very much. From her bio linked on the same page: "her poetry did not follow the actions of her activism, the partial reason for this was that she felt that ?poetry and fiction should not be consciously propagandised? and secondly that because the majority of her work did not resemble the bush worker ballad or satirical feel of much that was published." :)

"He is known" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Game of God... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/game-of-god-2/

Game of God-interesting poem!

"I never saw that land before,"."I never saw that land before" by Edward Thomas
https://www.poemine.com/Edward-Thoma...nd-Before.html

"The blackthorns down along the brook / With wounds yellow as crocuses / Where yesterday the labourer's hook / Had sliced them cleanly; and the breeze / That hinted all and nothing spoke."... Enjoyed :)

"Juno, Queen of Heaven, wears her strand of opulent sea gems," - RobotStarfish; Juno's Pearl... https://allpoetry.com/poem/4856257-J...-RobotStarfish

Juno poem-opulent imagery. Enjoyed!


"Koenig knew now there was no one on the river."."Koenig Of The River" by Derek Walcott
https://www.poemine.com/Derek-Walcot...The-River.html
(Tailor, I corrected the German word in the first line and in the title. I didn't correct it in the link, because the link might not work. Several versions of the poem contain the mistake.)

Noticed the typo, one of the multitude of words in German I still remember... also used in chess on occasion, there are a few other typos. Found the typo perpetuated on another page, but with an analysis that helped me with this wonderful poem... https://eliteskills.com/c/14838 Enjoyed :)

"Let all the flowers wake to life;" - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick; Easter... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8608469-E...elle-Sherrick-

re: Didn't know it was used with chess. Did you learn German? Thanks for the analysis. It is also by AI I see.

Delicate Easter poem

"Marriage is not". "Habitation" by Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetrycat.com/margaret-atwood/habitation

3-yrs study German in HS ages ago; prior ~3-yrs French; also tried "Duo Lingo" free app study for French a year? ago but couldn't keep up.

Found a longer version of Atwood's poem including a short summary... https://thedewdrop.org/2020/06/24/ma...od-habitation/ Enjoyed :)

"New house Mengcheng entrance" - Wang Wei; Mengcheng Col... https://allpoetry.com/Mengcheng-Col

Good HS teaching two foreign languages. It is difficult to keep up with a foreign language, when there is no opportunity for using it. What helps me to maintain written fluency in English: LitNet and WLF :).

Thanks! Why any one would omit those two or three lines of the poem is a riddle to me.

" Mengcheng Col...". How much is expressed in four concise lines. The poet is not interested in the house itself, he merely points out its localization. He is interested in the feelings of the people that live/lived in it.

"Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out."."On The Road To Gundagai by A B Banjo Paterson
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14373887-...Banjo-Paterson

A rollicking ditty... enjoyed :)

"Poor throbbing heart! the battle wave of life" - Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney; At A Time Of Deep Proving... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ng-67664929814

Eliza Gurney-A very intense poem.

"Quite empty, quite at rest,"."Quite empty, quite at rest" by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...e-at-rest.html
The AI analysis from eliteskills
https://eliteskills.com/c/5970

Interesting tension in ED's poem... the AI offers some interesting explanations for lines that do not exist. I revisited the ED Riddle pages and found this: https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...migration.html Enjoyed :)

"Roads not yet glistening, rain slight," - Du Fu; Rain... https://www.poemine.com/Du-Fu/Rain.html

Lol, this made my day." the AI offers some interesting explanations for lines that do not exist." Used to get crazy about those eliteskills analysis until it dawned that they weren´t human work. AI is so intelligent that it recreates the poem.

ED reminds me of an episode I witnessed these days. I make physiotherapy near my flat. From the window of the room one could observe a dove´s nest in a nook outside and the dove taking care of the eggs. The next day one of the two eggs was broken and the dove had disappeared. Since then the nest has been abandoned.

Beautiful poem by Du Fu!

"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,"."Sonnet LXV" by William Shakespeare
https://shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/65

Lol...

Strong sonnet: "That in black ink my love may still shine bright." - How to immortalize Love :)

At least for us Northerners:
"Turn and turn again" - LindseyCalvert; Octobers Child... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18031019-...LindseyCalvert

Charming October poem, but here we are having quite a mix̌ of seasons with heat predominating.

"Until she died we never knew"."Until She Died" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poemine.com/Edgar-Albert...-She-Died.html

Heat: Here too... heat advisories for previous days and for at least the next 2.

Touching poem. A funeral service for a church friend tomorrow, this poem fits nicely for our dear sister-in-Christ and her family... Enjoyed :)

"— VIRTUOUS youth!" - Christopher Anstey; ON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK... https://allpoetry.com/On-The-Much-La...s-Of-Tavistock

Note: Not shown on this website is the epigram: "sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt" or "even here, the world is a world of tears and the burdens of mortality touch the heart." - Virgil (from the Aeneid)

Sorry for your church friend!

Solem elegy on the death of a young nobleman.

"Wei City morning rain"."Wei City Song" by Wang Wei

https://allpoetry.com/Wei-City-Song

The now vs. the unknown later... Enjoyed this brief poem :)

"X-ray explore xenolith," - Peter Rose; X-ray explore xenolith... https://ks5.vocal.media/poets/alphabet-poems

Lol! Legitimate "X" segment in an alphabetical poem. Curiously "Y" was left out.

"You ought to have a medal, Mrs. More,"."You OughtTo Have A Medal,Mrs.-More" by A. P. Herbert
https://allpoetry.com/You-Ought-To-H...dal,-Mrs.-More

Domesticity acknowledged with blessings :"But all the rest of every day is yours."... with a few lines for the men. Enjoyed :)


"Zaiden Ziggy my grandson" - Teres Dana; Zaiden Ziggy Zookeeper... https://allpoetry.com/poem/17621464-...-by-Teres-Dana

Cute "Z" poem. Enjoyed !

"At gauzy dusk, thin haze like cigarette smoke"."Hospital-Window" by Allen Guinsberg
https://allpoetry.com/Hospital-Window.

I understood the NYC view from the window... then the poem got weird; found this as a help: https://www.josieholford.com/nyc-window-poetry/ I still want to visit NYC someday... Enjoyed :)

"Between two nights" - Peter Huchel; Answer... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...el/poems/14103

re: Thanks for the helpful analysis. Enjoyed this poem because it reminded me of the time I went to NY city.

"Answer" beautiful nostalgic poem.

"Caledonia! thou land of the mountain and rock,"."Caledonia" by James Hogg
https://www.poemine.com/James-Hogg/Caledonia.html