Alphabetical Poem First Lines

A bit sad and sleepless!

"Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer," Laurentian Shield by F. R. Scott
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/...ld?language=fr

Laurentian Shield: Complex poem; conveys a melancholy about "progress".

"In the midst of a bleakness I dare;" - Susan N Aassahde Elbo Foe... https://internetpoem.com/susan-n-aas...elbo-foe-poem/

Compact and full of meaning!

"Just above yon sandy bar," Chrysaor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=38538 - Wonderful short poem. Trying to find out if Chrysaor was a star or constellation or ? with no joy :(

"“Keep, ancient lands,” we cry, “your foreign brains!"" - Jay Scott The New Democracy
... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/t...democracy.html

I wasn´t lucky either.

The New Democracy-very opportune. Elections in October
"Leave the early bells at chime," Road-Hymn For The Start by William Vaughn Moody
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-start-26490

Enjoyed Road-Hymn For The Start... had something in common with your previous poem: "Down the road the day-star calls;" :)

"My father threw his language overboard," - Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Winter House... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/winter-house

Delicate poem about losing and acquiring language. Some more about the author:https://library.torontomu.ca/asianhe...uthors/tsiang/

"No coward soul is mine". No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Brontë
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/no-coward-soul-mine

re: Sarah - Quite an accomplished author !

re: No Coward... - a most uplifting poem "So surely anchored on/The steadfast rock of Immortality./With wide-embracing love/Thy spirit animates eternal years" :)

"On your way of travel," - A Jung Lim Message in the air... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3737685...ge-in-the-air/

Enjoyed "On your way of travel,". Compact and to the point.
"People who live by the sea" People Who Live by Erica Jong
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...oems/2858.html

Very evocative poem... enjoyed :)

"Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering:" - Kieron Winn First Day of Spring in Bath... https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...spring-in-bath

Liked: "Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering:"

"Redbirds, redbirds," Redbirds by Sara Teasdale

re: "Redbirds, redbirds," - enjoyed :)

"Sleep on, sleep on, another hour —" - E.A. Poe For the Baltimore Visiter. TO ———....
https://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/to03a.htm

Beautiful (and I don´t like Poe)!Hope you are getting more sleep!

"The memory of my father is wrapped up in" My Father by Yehuda Amichai

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ichai/poems/51

... I think I cat napped for a bit this morning... going to bed about 7:30 am.

Amazing short poem by Yehuda Amichai :)

"Unknown with passing away, she put" - Catharina Boer Utrecht... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...9/utrecht.html

This atlas only informs the first line and the title of the poem. The poem itself it gently informs is under copyright.

"Vanish, dark clouds on high," Chorus Of Spirits by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-spirits-16817

Must be the difference in copyright laws here and there... I'll go ahead and stop linking to that site :(

"Vanish...": delightful :)

"Within the long grass where I lay" - Andrew Blakemore Long Grass... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-grass/

Thanks, tailor! Yes I think so too, because in the Google selection, the beginning of the poems appear!
Long Grass...a very bucolic poem, one needs these respites!

"Yellowish-grey sand, soft at the top, hard, grating below " The Sphinx , Ivan Turgeniev
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-31630

Intriguing poem... did some quick study on Turgeniev and after a read or two found some more of his short story/prose/poems here of all places: http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/2707/ :)

"Zeus is in a bad mood" - Linda Frances Zeus the God of the Sky... https://www.lineofpoetry.com/linda-f...god-of-the-sky

Thanks for the Turgeniev link. I have read some of his short stories but I didn´t know he was also a poet.
Enjoyed the climate change poem, ha,ha!

A curious poem: "All those times I was bored". Bored by Margaret Atwood

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...wood/poems/324

I agree... found an analysis of the poem that may be of interest... https://poemanalysis.com/margaret-atwood/bored/

"brash talk on sidewalk" - Hari Alluri area boys... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/area-boys

re: Bored .Thanks for the interesting analysis. What got me is how the feeling expressed in the poem went against the title. As we would say in Brazil, the narrator "was happy and didn´t know it".

Enjoyed Area Boys light irreverence. And the author adhered to our occasional esthetical mean ;):
to three generation base-/ment epithets we remain.

"Conchita debemos to speak totalmente in English" Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Conceptión Before Entering Searsby Maurice Kilwein Guevara
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/...rs?language=fr

lol... love the Brasilian expression: "was happy and didn´t know it"

re: "Conchita debemos to speak totalmente in English"... lololololololololololololololololol !!!

"darkly fills all the space" - Bonnie Manion The Iowa River at Floodstage... http://www.bonniemanion.com/poems.php ... "Nature" heading/ 2nd column/ near end

Enjoyed the modern river poem by Bonnie Mannion. Thanks for seeking the authors page, tailor ( I stand rebuked) as the poetry atlas works here only as atlas.

Explored this poet´s page "Every newborn"- What Every Newborn Knows also by Bonnie Manion

bonniemanion.com/poems/poem.php?id=54

Sweet poem of innocence :)

More Bonnie Manion... "flooring, though manmade," Terrazo
http://www.bonniemanion.com/poems/poem.php?id=325

Interesting. The poem itself is a flood of words.
"G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy--" When Malindy Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...dy-sings-14833

Had a look at the poets site, I thought this was Scottish dialect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar

Enjoyed his dialectic tone, it's something I try to convey with much less effect in my few dialectical poems. Such a promising career cut short through disease.

"Hadst thou wished for things good or noble and had not" - Sappho... https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sappho/sappho1.htm#26

Interesting fragment. Never read Sap pho before
"In the middle of our porridge plates" Butterfly Laughter by Katherine Mansfield
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...eld/poems/2738

Delightful poem :) I once had dinner at my old Bishop's home, a finer dinner than I'd had in quite a while, when someone remarked that I shouldn't eat the plate's decoration (lol).

"Jingzhou Dongwu mutual meet water for place" - Meng Haoran Seeing Off Du Shisi South of the River... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seei...-of-the-river/

Beautiful!

"King David was a sorrowful man:". King David by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ng-david-33418

Touching poem. Our Monday evening FHE group and Sunday School is studying the Old Testament this year and we're in the middle of the Books of Psalms, so this poem is quite timely :)

"Leaves swoon" - Rajinder Apr 2018 On a foggy morning... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2446265...foggy-morning/

"Leaves swoon", synthetic and charming

"My grandmother puts her feet in the sink" My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Searsby Mohja Kahf
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/...rs?language=fr

Loving poem depicting a clash of cultures... enjoyed :)

"Now this particular girl" - Sylvia Plath Spinster... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/spinster

A very insightful and original poem!
"Once more, my now bewildered Dove". Once more my now bewildered Dove by Emily Dickinson
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/...ewildered-dove

Lovely poem... more complex at second glance: http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.co...f-65-1859.html

"Poetry is like flowers in the rain" - Rini Shibu Flowers in the Rain... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flowers-in-the-rain/

Thanks for the link, tailor. Loved the comment on Dickinson's poem specially the Columba/ Columbos part of it.
"Poetry is like flowers in the rain" -delicate poem :)

Breaking the rule of first line with Q by Michael McFee
https://poets.org/poem/q-1

An homage to "Q" :)

A List Poem:

"Random Link Clicker." - Suzanne Buffam Dream Jobs...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/dream-jobs

Enjoyed this list poem!

Sadness came to me for a cup of tea. Sadness came to me for a cup of tea by Alla Bordakh
https://www.poetry.com/poem/107319/s...r-a-cup-of-tea

Sweet poem... singing really does raise one's spirits; "magic cookies" (lol)

"Take this kiss upon the brow!" - E.A. Poe A Dream within a Dream... https://poemanalysis.com/edgar-allan...ithin-a-dream/

That´s beautiful! Had no idea that Poe wrote such warm poems. There seems to be an echo of Calderon de la Barca here: "Life is a dream and the dreams are but dreams".

Just cited her above, but, besides of her being an exceptional poet, her first lines travel trough the alphabet. So:

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

So True :)

"Visual world not exactly shaped –" - Yoko Ono Color Piece... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/color-piece