Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Very evocative... cup/glass, a lip... opportunities not to be wasted: "Then quick! we have but a second, / Fill round, fill round while you may; / For Time, the churl, hath beckoned, / And we must away, away!"... Enjoyed :)

Asked Alexa to play a favorite artist of mine and was shared this beautiful piece (amongst others :) )... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnhxbZL5P8s

"Rushing war-hosts, horsemen or foot or galleys ?" - Sappho; To Anactoria, Who Has Forsaken A Once-Loved Girlfriend Of Sappho... https://www.poemine.com/Sappho/To-An...Of-Sappho.html

Thanks for the link,will play it tomorrow.

Dramatic poem by Sappho.
"SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries,"."by Walt Wĥi
https://www.poemine.com/Walt-Whitman...oors-andc.html

"The words of my book nothing—the drift of it everything;" Enjoyed the witticism :)

"There is a bird in the poplars!" - William Carlos Williams; Metric Figure... https://www.poemine.com/William-Carl...ic-Figure.html

'Metric Figure'- Wonderful images"! Enjoyed!

'Unto like Story—Trouble"."Unto like Story—Trouble has enticed me—" by Emily Dickinson
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...nticed-me.html

Triumphant poetic role playing... enjoyed both the poem and the summary :)

"VHEN sommer drees shake fort deir leafs," - Charles Godfrey Leland; Breitmann In Belgium. Spa.
... https://www.poemine.com/Charles-Godf...lgium-Spa.html

lololol Englisch vith Scherman akzent. You have never heard me speaking English Enjoyed!

"With life's tomorrow time you grasp,"."With Life's Tomorrow Time You Grasp" by Mihai Eminescu
https://www.poemine.com/Mihai-Emines...You-Grasp.html

The lyricism in the translation was done very well: "A radiant and brilliant view, / In many rapid glimpses caught, / Of infinite, unending calm, / Bathed in the rays of timeless thought."... Enjoyed :)

"Xanadu, a replica of paradise" - Abdul Malik; Xanadu... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/xanadu_1543807

Enjoyed "Xanadu", glittering images!

"Your past is past and never to return,". "To Virginia (On Her Birthday) by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8590853-T...am-Joseph-Ryan

The tone of the poem starts ominously with the past, but brightens with a hope, a prayer for the future... enjoyed :)

"Zebra stripes, and a zebra" - Reflectionshadow; Ink Zebra... https://allpoetry.com/poem/14290489-...flectionshadow

Oh, enjoed so much this zebra poem.

"A ray of sun strayed softly round,"."Kittens" by Robert William Service
https://www.poemine.com/Robert-Willi...e/Kittens.html

Bitter sweet poem... and kitties!: "So Mother, drop your foolish dreams / And emulate the Cat." :)

"BECAUSE I show a guarded face" - Aline Murray Kilmer; To An Intruder... https://www.poemine.com/Aline-Murray...-Intruder.html

Curious poem about being reserved. Enjoyed¡

"Close her eyes: she must not peep!« Cottage-Songs(by the craddle) by George MacDonald

https://www.poemine.com/George-MacDo...age-Songs.html

Delightful poem of the everyday... Enjoyed :)

"Don't kill the spider, little Fred," - H. P. Nichols; The Spider... https://www.poetrycat.com/h-p-nichols/the-spider

Not fond of spiders but cute, wise poem. Enjoyed!

"Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid"."Eddi's Service" by Rudyard Kipling
https://www.poetrycat.com/rudyard-kipling/eddis-service

Such a poem of faith I had yet to see... Enjoyed :)

"Farewell, Romantic Tivoli!" - John Kenyon; A Day At Tivoli - Epilogue... https://allpoetry.com/A-Day-At-Tivoli---Epilogue

:)

"A Day At Tivoli"-Charming travel poem.

“Gabble-gabble,… brethren,… gabble-gabble!” . "A Boy in Church" by Robert Graves
https://www.poetrycat.com/robert-graves/a-boy-in-church

Loved the mind-wanderings of a parishioner both inside the church and viewing outside... Enjoyed :)

"How wonderful are the cities that man hath builded:" - Henry Van Dyke; The Great Cities
... https://www.poemine.com/Henry-Van-Dy...at-Cities.html

Poem showing aspects of the big cities!

"In covert of a leafy porch,". "A Blind Singer." by Susan Coolidge
https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/a-blind-singer

Sad poem... Especially enjoyed the last stanza: "O, what is joy? In vain we grasp / Her purple wings;
Unwon, unwooed, she flits to dwell / With humble things; / She shares my sightless singer's cage, / And so--he sings." :)

"Joy of the Milliner, Envy of the Line," - William Ernest Henley; London Types:Life-Guardsman... https://www.poemine.com/William-Erne...Guardsman.html

Lol! Reminds me of the one time I was in London. Ŵe went to watch the change of the guards at Westminster. Everyone behaved impeccably including the horses. No horse of the Royal Guard would follow a call of nature in this grand moment.

«Kept up by relays of generations young"."Jack Roy by Herman Melville
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...jack-roy-25972

A rollicking sea shanty of Captain Jack Roy... enjoyed :)

"Let's get our dreams unstuck" - Jean Cocteau; Preamble, A rough draft for an ars poetica...
https://www.poetrycat.com/jean-cocte...an-ars-poetica

" Preamble, A rough draft for an ars poetica... " Wonderful! I think this is the most creative ars poetica I ever read. The poet practices it, while writing about it.

"Millions busily toil, that the human race may continue;"."Different Destinies" by Friedrich Schiller
https://www.poetrycat.com/friedrich-...rent-destinies

"But if one only can blossom, that one is able to scatter"... Enjoyed this thoughtful poem :)

"Never thy veil, in sun or in the shade," - Francesco Petrarca; Ballata I. A poem by Lassare il velo o per sole o per ombra. / Perceiving His Passion, Laura's Severity Increases.... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...-i-93623128540

Liked the playful translation of Nott. whoever that may be. And Laura must have had her reasons...

"Over the moonless land of Bathrolaire"."The First Sonnet Of Bathrolaire" by James Elroy Flecker
https://www.poetrycat.com/james-elroy-flecker

Laura had excellent reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch

Fanciful poem of the land of Bathrolaire... at first a bit bright, then ambiguous. Enjoyed :)

"Poor Molly O'Flannagan (Lord rest her soul!)" - John Carr; An Irish Song... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-carr/an-irish-song

Lol! indeed she had. Mostly an absorbing platonic love it seems!

Poor Molly O'Flannagan

By Francisco Quevedo- A poet with surname starting with "Q".

"You, the lovely princess of the dawn,"(‘He asks Aurora, the Dawn, to stay, so he may view his lover’s image in the sky’) by Francisco Quevedo (translated by A. S. Kline ).

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/...r_Toc145324019

Aurora:

• (AI Overview) "In Greco-Roman mythology, Aurora is the goddess of dawn and the sister of the sun and the moon"

• Wikipedia: Aurōra appears most often in sexual poetry with one of her mortal lovers. "
I think the translation of the original word rendered into "flagrant" could have been a bit more poetic.

Enjoyed :)

"ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World!" - William Butler Yeats; The Rose Of Battle... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/9799/the-rose-of-battle/

re: it is "flagrante" in the Spanish original. But the disposition of the verses is very different:

"Tú, princesa bellísima del día…
[Poema - Texto completo.]

Francisco de Quevedo

Tú, princesa bellísima del día,
de las sombras nocturnas triunfadora,
oro risueño y púrpura pintora,
del aire melancólico alegría;

pues del sol que te sigue y que te envía
eres flagrante y rica embajadora;
pues por ennoblecerte llamé Aurora
la hermosa sin igual, zagala mía;"
https://ciudadseva.com/texto/tu-prin...isima-del-dia/

"The Rose Of Battle" Wonderful poem!

"Space"."Spaces" by Octavio Paz
https://www.poemine.com/Octavio-Paz/Spaces.html

Ah... never took Spanish, which is bad on me being a Californian. Re: "pues del sol que te sigue y que te envía / eres flagrante y rica embajadora;"... Google AI: "This line, from a poem, means "because of the sun that follows you and sends you, you are a radiant and rich ambassador"; essentially saying that the person being addressed is like a shining representative of the sun's light and warmth."
If the translator had even used "flagrante" it would have read better... so, not a stellar translation... which always bugs me when we read translated poetry.

Case in point, after reading this article on Paz: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/...nish-practices I've come to the conclusion that the passion, the soul of the poem is lost... even if rendered faithfully in another language. "Space" may be of these poems; as brilliant it may be in English it appears almost sterile, devoid of the poet's intent. Enjoyed otherwise

"The faieries gave him the propertie of the Thracian" - Katharine Lee Bates; The Thracian Stone... https://www.poetry.com/poem/24917/the-thracian-stone

I think you have got a point there. I love Spanish poetry, but it is very difficult to translate it maintaining its soul. Also it often delights in dramatic exaggeration, or spelling of feelings which sounds beautiful, if it's good poetry and one loves the Spanish language which is my case.English poetry is more sober and contained, another sort of beauty.

Interesting poem about contentement

"Unable are the Loved to die"."Unable are the Loved to die" by Emily Dickinson.

https://www.poetry.com/poem/12388/un...e-loved-to-die

Allpoetry AI:

Quote:

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Analysis (ai): This poem explores the enduring nature of love, suggesting that love is not subject to the constraints of mortality. The speaker asserts that the loved cannot truly die because love itself is immortal, even divine. Love has the power to transform the very essence of life, elevating it to a higher plane of existence. This theme of love's transcendence is echoed in other works by the author, who often writes about the transformative power of love and its enduring legacy. The poem also reflects the Romantic era's emphasis on emotions and the celebration of love as a spiritual force.

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... https://allpoetry.com/Unable-are-the-Loved-to-die Enjoyed this take on ED's poem :)

"Vain the Concern which You express," - by Matthew Prior; To the Duke de Noalles... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10117015

Thanks for the reference, tailor. I agree.

"To the Duke de Noalles..." A wise suggestion

"Well, there was still a sure hand, anyway,"."Amorosa and Company" by Conrad Aiken
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/a/amorosa_and_company.html

Found a summary to help immensely... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/exp.php?id=10000444

"Xanadu," - Kylieshada58;Xanadu... https://www.wattpad.com/1306727437-hiraeth-xanadu-poem

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Xanadu-Charming, light poem. Enjoyed!

"your little voice"."your little voice" by e e Cummings
https://www.poemine.com/Edward-Estli...e-voice-I.html

Over the moon listening to a voice... enjoyed :)

"Zippity Zappity Zap" - Nicholas Fonte; Superior... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2407243/superior/

Enjoyed "Superior"!

"After yesterday"."After Yesterday" by A.R. Ammons
https://allpoetry.com/After-Yesterday

Lovely poem and concise summary... Enjoyed :)

"By painful sickness long severely prest," - Sir John Carr; Epitaph On A Friend... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/epitaph-friend-0

Epitaph the feeling of loss is proportional to the virtues of the deceased.

"COME balmy Sleep! tir'd Nature's soft resort!"."SONNET [11] XI. "To Sleep." by Charlotte Smith

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....cs-w0110.shtml

Enjoyed :) A short summary included: https://allpoetry.com/Sonnet-XI.-To-Sleep To get quality sleep would be a blessing.

"Dear is my little native vale," - Samuel Rogers; An Italian Song... https://www.poemine.com/Samuel-Roger...lian-Song.html

Thanks! Lol! It refers to a tradition of "sleep poetry" in the 18 C. Insomnia seems to be no recent phenomena.

Charming idyllic Italian song!Enjoyed!

"Earliest morning, switching all the tracks"."Love Lies Sleeping" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://allpoetry.com/Love-Lies-Sleeping