Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Wow... incredible poem.

"Pray why are you so bare, so bare," - Paul Laurence Dunbar; The Haunted Oak... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw357.html

"The Haunted Oak..." Enjoyed this ancient sounding ballad!

"Quick through the gates of Fairyland" "Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-spring-21143

Delightful færie tale ! :)

"Remorse-is Memory-awake-" - Emily Dickinson; Remorse is Memory-awake... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...onfession.html

"Remorse is cureless", how true. More interesting than the poem itself I found the short description of the confession of the poor, in group and with the payment of a fee.

"The stone-built villages of England.""Stone Villages" by Joseph Brodsky

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...sky/poems/4070

Melancholy poem of desertion and time.

"The little box which contains the world" - Vasko Popa; Last News About The Little Box... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22628

Enjoyed very much! The poem reminded me of the Russian Matryoshkas you probably know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll

"UP the airy mountain,""The Fairies" by William Allingham
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw98.html

Yes :)

"voices to voices,lip to lip" - e.e. cummings; ONE XXXIX... https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/one-xxxix/

Loved this enigmatic cummings poem!

"WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer;" "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw101.html

The wonder of the universe is in experiencing it :)

Poem by a poet whose name contains an 'x':
"All My Life, I Have Loved It" - Xiu Ouyang; All My Life, I Have Loved It... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/all-...have-loved-it/

A wise poem: "Riches and honours are floating clouds," :)

"You little box, held to me escaping" Radio Poem by Bertolt Brecht
https://www.poetrycat.com/bertolt-brecht/radio-poem

Interesting poem by Brecht, found this... https://yiddishkayt.org/juxtapoetry-brecht-mikhail/

"Zzzzzz, hisssss, ssss….." - Melinda Albrycht; Ziggy, the Snake...
https://tdc.ds106.us/writings/ziggy-...-daily-create/

Thanks for the link, the juxtaposition and the beautiful poem by Dunya Mikhail,tailor.

Enjoyed "Ziggy, the Snake" and your untiring efforts to find "z" poems. :)

At six of clock we were waiting for breakfast" "A Miracle for Breakfast" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://www.poetrycat.com/elizabeth-...-for-breakfast

Enjoyed. Complex poem... found this to help with my understanding... https://beamingnotes.com/2017/08/02/...zabeth-bishop/

"By the sad fellowship of human suffering," - Nora Pembroke; Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People
... https://www.poetrycat.com/nora-pembr...t-ye-my-people

Thanks for the link, tailor. It was very helpful for me too. Seemed to be a Brazilian scene but I got a bit confused with the different locations and perspectives in the poem.

Nora Pembroke, a beautiful and sad poem!

"CUpid as he lay among""The wounded Cupid"Anacreontea (Anonymous c.100 BC-600 AD)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw141.html

To Cupid: "Come, tel me then, how great's the smart / Of those, thou woundest with thy Dart!"... enjoyed.

"Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong." - Vachel Lindsay; A Dirge For A Righteous Kitten... https://allpoetry.com/A-Dirge-For-A-Righteous-Kitten