Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Wonderful homage of where I have many forebearers :)

"Demons dwelling within shadows" - silver thunder; Halifax... https://allpoetry.com/poem/9682001-H...silver-thunder

Lol!Legit Halloween poem. Younger generations tuned in.


"Every journey begins"."Facing the Future" by Mattie Stepanek
Bio
https://www.poemine.com/Mattie-Stepa...he-Future.html

Heartbreaking poem given the poet's life.................................

Fare thee well, we've no wish to detain thee," - Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney; Farewell... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...oogle_vignette

"Farewell" Trying to accept the loss of a loved one.

"GOOD-BY to the cradle, the dear wooden cradle,".'Good-By To The Cradle" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.poemine.com/Wilcox-Ella-...he-Cradle.html

Enjoyed... These lines caught my attention: "I bow to Progression; and ask no concession, / Though strewn be her pathway with wrecks of the Past." :)

"Hush'd be the camps today" - Walt Whitman; Hush'd Be the Camps Today... https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00707_00894

Enjoyed the poem, though sad.Thanks specially for the WW archive.

"It is foolish"."Tree " by Jane Hirshfield
https://allpoetry.com/poem/15333984-...ane-Hirshfield

Sad poem of consequences... Enjoyed :)

"Jesus, do I love Thee?" - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Jesus, Do I Love Thee?... https://www.poemine.com/Christina-Ro...Love-Thee.html

"Jesus, Do I Love Thee?" - Intense poem from the point of view of the barren fig tree!

"Krinken was a little child,"."Krinken" by Eugene Field
https://www.poemine.com/Eugene-Field/Krinken.html

Delightful bitter-sweet poem of youth and loss. Interesting bio. Enjoyed :)

"Let the Nile cloak his head in the clouds, and defy" -
Joel Barlow; On The Discoveries Of Captain Lewis (January 14, 1807)... https://www.poemine.com/Joel-Barlow/...y-14-1807.html

Curious to read a heroic discovery premature a time when climate is redefining boundaries and rivers. Enjoyed!

"My name is Johnson"."Madam's Past History" by Langston Hughes
https://www.poemine.com/Langston-Hug...t-History.html

The seedy side of the Depression of '29 - '41 in the last century... with a little spunk... Enjoyed :)

"No longer I follow a sound;" - William Cowper; Song On Peace... https://www.poemine.com/William-Cowp...-On-Peace.html

Poem on much needed peace of mind. Enjoyed,

"Oh earth, oh dewy mother, breathe on us"."A Prayer" by Archibald Lampman

https://www.poetrycat.com/archibald-lampman/a-prayer

Googled "dolorous": dol·or·ous /ˈdōlərəs / adjective / literary: feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress. "a dolorous and repetitive tale of atrocity"... A poem of prayer and lamentation. "Grant us, oh mother, therefore, us who pray, / Some little of thy light and majesty." Enjoyed :)

"Poets with whom I learned my trade," - Yeats; The Grey Rock... https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E910001-002/text001.html

A bit digressive as story telling in a bar would be. The closest to an analysis that I found (excepting the inevitable analysis from AI eliteskills):
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...n_Men_and_Gods
Enjoyed!


An author with name beginning with "Q":
"I NEVER quite saw fairy-folk"."Very Nearly!" by Queenie Scott Hopper
https://allpoetry.com/Queenie-Scott-Hopper

I liked what I saw in the abstract and have requested the full text... also joined :)

Delightful poem! "I very, very nearly did !" Whimsical... Enjoyed :)

"Rose o' my hert," - George MacDonald; A Lown Nicht... https://www.poemine.com/George-MacDo...own-Nicht.html

:)

"A Lown Nicht... "Enjoyed the poem very much,specially that I understood most of the words.

"She gave a rose,"."She Gave Me A Rose" by Paul Dunbar
https://allpoetry.com/She-Gave-Me-A-Rose

:)

Very sentimental poem... not what I'd expect from Dunbar after reading his bio... Enjoyed :)

"There is wind where the rose was," - Walter de la Mare; November... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494499-N...ter-de-la-Mare

Beautiful, nostalgic images.

[under the evening moon]
by Kobayashi Issa

'Under the evening moon
the snail
is stripped to the waist.'
https://www.poemine.com/Kobayashi-Is...ning-moon.html

Beautiful evocative images in such a short poem... Issa is truly a master :)

"Vitus came tripping over the grass" - Lord Alfred Douglas; The Ballad Of Saint Vitus... https://www.poemine.com/Lord-Alfred-...int-Vitus.html

Beautiful legend of St. Vitus. But do you remember, who Lord Alfred Douglas was? If not, take a look at his bio.

"We, too, had known golden hours"."WeToo Had Known Golden Hours" by W Auden
https://allpoetry.com/We-Too-Had-Known-Golden-Hours

Yes, I read his bio... a rather colorful life... some might say wilde.

Things haven't changed too much: "Concocted by editors / Into spells to befuddle the crowd"... enjoyed the poem :)

"Xceptionally creative, your ideas are a boundless" - (author not stated); Xanthus... https://namesaurus.com/name/xanthus/2/

Interesting information from namesaurus. Is the name Xanthus usual in US?
Here in Brazil we have Xande, nick for Alexandre.


"You'll know it—as you know 'tis Noon—"."You'll know it—as you know 'tis Noon" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickin...-tis-Noon.html
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...-tis-noon.html

No... no one named Xanthus that I can recall.

Ah, yes... perhaps the spiritual eye... as far as personal revelation goes anyone with a spiritual bent is open to it IMHO. Enjoyed :)


"Zap Zap Zap" - Mallow; Take Me To The Nest... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1257640...e-to-the-nest/

Enjoyed "Zap Zap Zap"!

"A man without a party, he"."The Lone Wolf Of Canberra' by C J Dennis
https://allpoetry.com/'The-Lone-Wolf-Of-Canberra'

Got a 404 error... tried https://allpoetry.com/%27The-Lone-Wolf-Of-Canberra%27
Freedom from a party... Enjoyed :)

"BLACK in the midnight lies the City vast." - Christopher Pearse Cranch; Sonnet XLIII. London... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xliii-london/

Some error from me. Got the error too.

Loved this city poem!

"."Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,".Claude-McKay,"America"
https://www.poemine.com/Claude-McKay/America.html

Defiantly in love with America... Enjoyed :)

"Down the road someone is practising scales," - Louis MacNeice; Sunday Morning... https://allpoetry.com/Sunday-Morning

Enjoyed this poem a lot the justaposition of music and mobility.

"enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh"."enter no(silence is the blood whose flesh" by e.e. cummings
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493935-e...-e.e.-cummings

Lol... Wonderful poem! - "one / dead leaf stirring makes a crash".

"From yonder gilded minaret" - Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Batuschka... https://allpoetry.com/Batuschka

"Batuschka" Though in it´s form it is a XIX century poem, it reads so very modern.

"t's guessing time at our house; every evening after tea"."Guessing Time" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poemine.com/Edgar-Albert...sing-Time.html

"Batuschka": agree

Delightful Christmas tradition... enjoyed :)

"He who walks through the meadows of Champagne" - Emile Verhaeren; The Cathedral Of Rheims... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-32048

Beautiful and terrible poem!To think that today it takes only minutes to work that kind of destruction!

"I am a bard - I am a heaven bird,"."I Am A Bard" by Anna Akhmatova
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327860-...Anna-Akhmatova

Enjoyed very much this brief little gem :)

"John-a-Dreams and Harum-Scarum" - Madison Julius Cawein; Ballad Of Low-Lie-Down... https://www.poemine.com/Madison-Juli...-Lie-Down.html

Enjoyed this realistic and romantic ballad! :)

"KNOW you the river near to Grez,". "Know You The River NEar To Grez" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Louis...r-To-Grez.html

Love lost... "So may that love grow never old, / But, clear and pure and fountain-cold, / Go on from grace to grace."..... wonderful :)

"LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hover" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; May... https://www.poemine.com/Johann-Wolfg...oethe/May.html

May- lovely poem

"My felisberto is handsomer than your mergotroid,"My Felisberto" by James Tate
https://www.poemine.com/James-Tate/My-Felisberto.html

O k. Proof that poetry is in the eye of the beholder... but here's an eye opener: http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP113-DES110.htm... Amazing :)

"Now fare-thee-well, England; no further I'll roam;" - Robert Bloomfield; Song For A Highland Drover Returning From England... https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Bloom...m-England.html

I don't know, tailor, the critic may be right, but he may also be dictated by envy, as Tate received the Prizes and honors of a good poet.I don't find the poem outstanding but it reminded me a bit of Lewis Carrol.

Sweet homecoming poem!

"Of old sat Freedom on the heights,"."Of Old Sat Freedom by Alfred Tennyson
https://www.poemine.com/Alfred-Tenny...t-Freedom.html

Tate: Hmmm... maybe... more research needed!!! :)

Oh those pesky extremes... Enjoyed :)

"Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof" - Allen Ginsberg; Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters... https://www.poemine.com/Allen-Ginsbe...g-Letters.html

Lovely poem that reminds me of my dawn vista with pigeons.

'Quick! we have but a second,'."Quick! We Have But A Second" by Thomas Moore
https://www.litscape.com/author/Thom..._A_Second.html