Alphabetical Poem First Lines

A bit cryptic for me... found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/One-Sea-Side-Grave... enjoyed :)

"Vulcan! hear your glorious task;" - Thomas Moore; Odes Of Anacreon - Ode IV... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-ode-iv-26516

Enjoyed the ode!

"Whisk!--away in the sun"."Tony" by Clara Doty Bates
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8626397-T...ara-Doty-Bates

Delightful poem about Tony... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"In winter, sprawled on soft cushions," - Xenophanes; War Memories... https://allpoetry.com/War-Memories

The curious about these war horrors is how they are toned down and banalized. Enjoyed!



"Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less"."A Confession To A Friend In Trouble" by Thomas Hardy
https://allpoetry.com/A-Confession-T...end-In-Trouble

Alas yes re: war.

Enjoyed :) I would like to believe I am not as stoic as my forbearers were with regards to empathy.

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"frost on grass" - Zaishiki; frost on grass... https://allpoetry.com/Zaishiki

Liked Zaishiki's poem very much! Sadly, found no more information in the net about this interesting poet.


""At ten a.m. the young housewife"."The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams
https://allpoetry.com/The-Young-Housewife

Interesting vignette... Enjoyed WCW's poem :)

"Brief, on a flying night," - Alice Christina Meynell; Chimes... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8475799-C...-Alice-Meynell

Charming poem. The bells flight transforms itself until it becomes poetry.



"Center of all centers, core of cores,"."Buddha in Glory" by Rainer Maria Rilke
https://allpoetry.com/Buddha-in-Glory

"infinite peace"... Enjoyed :)

"Dainty are birds’ footprints in the snow," - Eduard Mörike; Zierlich ist des Vogels Tritt im Schnee / Hunter's Song... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=134719

A cute poem! Mörike is mostly forgotten today, I think. The translator took some liberties with the text, to adequate it to the song,

"Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams,"."Love And Art." by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
https://allpoetry.com/Love-And-Art

More about Mörike (we can't have him be forgotten): https://www.ebsco.com/research-start...-eduard-morike

Translation - Yes.

A poem of choices: "The poem's theme of choosing between two compelling but ultimately incompatible forces (love and art) resonates with other Romantic works."... Enjoyed :)

"Far are the shades of Arabia," - Walter de la Mare; Arabia... https://allpoetry.com/Arabia

Thanks! This poem about "the golden middle way" is probably his most famous.I once knew it by heart.
Wonderful images, but I wonder if our friend has ever been to Arabia. "Lush green" and what about the deserts?


"Gentle Spring! - in sunshine clad,"."Spring." by William Henry Giles Kingston

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n/spring-21834

"Lord, send what pleaseth Thee! Let it be weal or woe; Thy hands give both, and so Either contenteth me. But, Lord, whichever Thou giv’st, pain or pleasure, O do not drench me! In sweet mid-measure Lieth true plenty." :)

I think WdlM was romanticizing quite a bit.

Enjoyed this comparison of Winter & Spring :)

"How soft the night wind strokes the meadow grasses" - Eduard Mörike; A Song For Two In The Night... https://allpoetry.com/A-Song-For-Two-In-The-Night

I think I found the song but I can listen to it only tomorrow because it is near midnight.

True about WdlM.

A very romantic poem!

"I'd like to be off to France,"."On Journey " by Sakutaro Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/On-Journey

A poem of longing and yet contentment in the poet's condition in a time of societal upheaval. Enjoyed :)

"Just a span and half a span" - Walter de la Mare; A Midget... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=22634

Here is the song called "Prayer":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVGhQNyCSYk&t=116s

"Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire"."The Knight-Errant" by Virna Sheard
https://allpoetry.com/The-Knight-Errant

Love the prayer; also found here with English lyrics and the video playing in German if selected :)

We need more people like the knight: "The knight's unwavering belief in truth and justice is juxtaposed with the mundanity of city life, where his chivalrous actions are overlooked. This contrast highlights the loss of idealistic values and the prevalence of pragmatism." Enjoyed :)

"Like to the falling of a star," - Henry King; Sic Vita (Such is Life)... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8511685-S...-by-Henry-King

:)

True!Idealism seems dead and buried.

"Maidy with the laughing eyes"."Maidy" by Maria Frances Cecília Cowper
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8575299-M...Cecilia-Cowper

Charming poem :)

"Not a breath of air" - William Wordsworth; Airey-Force Valley... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-wo...y-force-valley

Enjoyed this poetic landscape!


"O aptly named, Illustrious One!"."Mystical Rose, Pray For Us!" by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-for-us-23736

An ode to a Mystical Rose... Enjoyed :)

"Prayer is the little implement" - Emily Dickinson; Prayer is the little implement... https://allpoetry.com/Prayer-is-the-little-implement

Enjoyed ED'S poem.


Poem by a poet with name beginning with "Q":

"Delicate clouds tease skillfully". "The Fairy of the Magpie Bridge", by Qin Guan
https://www.wukongsch.com/blog/chine...ms-post-37330/

Love this short fanciful poem... also enjoyed the summary and the many other lovely poems :)

"River, river, little river!" - Caroline Ann Bowles; The River... https://tnpsc.academy/unit/the-river...-FpdQpboPb02jz

Cute poem that sumarizes the lives of rivers and humans.


"Snowdrift of the mountains,"."A Rover's Song" by William Bliss Carman
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bl.../a-rovers-song

"They" can have the kingdoms but the protagonist only desires Joscelyn... Enjoyed :)

"There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—" - Bliss William Carman; A Vagabond Song... https://allpoetry.com/A-Vagabond-Song

Enjoyed the autumn poem!

"Under black yew-trees, in the shade,"."Owls" by Charles Baudelaire
https://allpoetry.com/The-Owls

Enjoyed the contrast of owl and man... persist to be still :)

"Vine leaves rustled, moonbeams shone," - George Augustus Baker, Jr.; An Afterthought.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rthought-34927

Sad, nostalgic romanticism.


"Whilst the moon decks herself in Neptune's glass"."The Moon and Sea" by George Darley

https://allpoetry.com/The-Moon-And-Sea

Celestial vanity... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with both an 'x' and 'z' in their name (and maybe a q' to start the first line {a trifecta!}) :) :

"Quietly now I leave the Cam," - Xu Zhimo; Leaving the Revisited Cambridge... http://ssb22.user.srcf.net/poem/

Enjoyed Xu Zhimo's Cam poem.


"You, the choice minions of the proud-lipped nine"."The Anonymous Poet" by George Darley
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494137-T...-George-Darley

Lol... a poet who seeks not for fame... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet whose name has a 'z' in it (in this case, two):

"The soldier under earth shall joy in night -" - Zinaida Lazda; First Night... https://allpoetry.com/Zinaida-Lazda

Enjoyed this war poem. Tried to learn more about Zinaida, but only found a Wikipedia page in her own language. The curious thing about this Latvian poet of the first half of 20C is that she died in Salem, Oregon, so she probably spent the end of her life there but no English information about her.


"A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze,"."A Summer Afternoon" by James Riley
https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Afternoon

Zinaida: I found a page that offered an English translation: https://www-womage-lv.translate.goog...n&_x_tr_pto=sc

Wonderful poem: "A dreamy day; and tranquilly I lie / At anchor from all storms of mental strain; / With absent vision, gazing at the sky, / "Like one that hears it rain."" :)

""Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,"" - William Wordsworth; The Waterfall And The Eglantine... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ne-23881172358

Thanks, quite a lot of information on Zinaida you got there. No German Wikipedia page though she lived also in Germany.

Ai, sorry for the gentle Eglantine? That comes when one as an Eglantine tampers with Waterfalls.Enjoyed.!


"COME, Holy Spirit, love divine,"."The Retrospect" by Maria Frances Cecília Cowper
https://allpoetry.com/The-Retrospect

Wonderful devotional poem :)

"Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!" - Emily Dickinson; Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!... https://allpoetry.com/Doubt-Me!-My-Dim-Companion!

Strikes me as a bit ironic, this poem of ED. A poetic DR with an invisible lover? Enjoyed!


"Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast decoy'd me,"Farewell to the Muse" by Sir Walter Scott
https://allpoetry.com/Farewell-to-the-Muse

Odd... I can't get back to ED's poem through the link now :( Through EliteSkills found this snippet: ""Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!" was written in the later years of Dickinson's life, and it reflects her growing preoccupation with themes of mortality, doubt, and faith. It is one of many poems in which she grapples with the nature of God, the meaning of life, and the inevitability of death."...

The loss of a muse... Enjoyed :)

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray," - Abraham Lincoln; Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=108954

I couldn't also access ED'S poem through the link, but by Google seach.

Didn't imagine Lincoln writing poetry. But this looks like a speech distributed in verses. Enjoyed though!

"God is the refuge of his saints,"."Psalm 46, Part1" by Isaac Watts

https://allpoetry.com/Psalm-46--part-1

More poetry by Abraham Lincoln: https://allpoetry.com/Abraham-Lincoln

Wonderful poem... Enjoyed. One of the snippets from Psalm 46 is most memorable: Ps 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God" :)

"High above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven," - Gu Kuang; A Palace Poem... https://www.cn-poetry.com/gukuang-po...lace-poem.html

Thanks! They confer another image of Lincoln.
Wonderful poem by Gu Kuang and fluent translation


"it's 1962 March 28th"."Things I Didn't Know I Loved" by Nazim Hikmet
https://allpoetry.com/Things-I-Didn't-Know-I-Loved