Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Delightful nature poem... Enjoyed :)

"Beside the idle summer sea," - William Ernest Henley; Beside The Idle Summer Sea... https://allpoetry.com/Beside-The-Idle-Summer-Sea

Enjoyed Henley's poem!


"CHEEKS of an ominous crimson," In the Pouts" by Ina Donna Coolbrith
https://allpoetry.com/In-The-Pouts

Amusing Victorian poem of love and rejection?... Enjoyed :)

"Drifting, drifting, light and free,' - Mordekaiserblu; Jellyfish... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18534748-...Mordekaiserblu

:)

Enjoyed song rhythm and playfulness of the poem.Posted a comment on Jellyfish.



"ecco a letter starting"dearest we"."ecco a letter" by e.e. cummings
https://allpoetry.com/ecco-a-letter-starting

Lol... his cat avatar looks like Tinky.

Started off badly... had to look up 'ecco', then 'chauvesouris' because I had forgotten since last I read this poem... ending delightfully with "and you'll wear your silver shoes". Thankfully a summary :) Enjoyed.

"From the swing;" - Erwinism; Fairground... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18061723-...d--by-Erwinism

Interesting images:"when the mind is clear/as honeyed water," an irony, I suppose. This recent poetry is usually pessimistic and an depiction of helplessness.


"Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,"."Memorial Verses" by Matthew Arnold
https://allpoetry.com/Memorial-Verses

Enjoyed very much this homage to three great poets :)

"Hardened mud forms ancient ruts" - Hannaht; The Roman Road... https://allpoetry.com/poem/6412679-T...oad-by-hannaht

"The Roman Road" enjoyed this historical poem.



"I think of Jesus as a carpenter,"."Sawdust" by Jim Daniels
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/sawdust.shtml

Not sure what to make of this bit: "soft smell / of getting it down". A retrospective of Jesus as a humble carpenter before he started His ministry, and the questioning of faith by the protagonist... Enjoyed :)

"Johnny had a golden head" - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Johnny... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/johnny

Had to interrupt my Litnet activity in the morning because of a base banning attack.

Maybe he is talking about the stron smell of sawdust, when one saws a piece of wood.

Touching legend!

"Krishna said, 'O fair beauty, who are you?".«Krishna Approaches Radha" by Sant Surdas
https://www.poemine.com/Sant-Surdas/...hes-Radha.html

Ah.

Enjoyed the poem, even more after I read the poets bio... https://www.poemine.com/Sant-Surdas/biography/ :)

"Last night I fled until I came" - Allen Tate; Light... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8572635-Light-by-Allen-Tate

Thanks for the link, tailor. You must have found it somewhere else in Poemine. I found only a very short notice. What a difficult life!

Interesting poem, sharp unusual images.

"Mouse my cat killed"."Words for the Dead" by Ursula K. Le Guin
http://www.versedaily.org/2018/wordsforthedead.shtml

Lovely sentiment to a departed creature by Ursula... Enjoyed :)

"Neither here nor there," - Anonymous117; Trapped... https://allpoetry.com/poem/18622373-...y-Anonymous117

Aaiiii!

Anguished poem. Fun fact: Anonymous protecting his/her authorship,

"O, the fun, the fun and frolic"."Interlude" by William Ernest Henley
https://allpoetry.com/Interlude

True.

A bitter-sweet celebration... Enjoyed :)

"Pink eucalyptus flowers"- Lesbia Harford; Pink eucalyptus flowers... https://www.poemine.com/Lesbia-Harfo...s-flowers.html

Simple and beautiful

A poem by a poet with "Q"in his name:
"When young, I'd not enjoyed the common pleasures" Returning to live in the Southùby Tao Quiang
http://www.chinese-poems.com/young.html

Home from confinement... enjoying the everyday. "eight or nine rooms there in my thatched hut." - seems like a large home for a thatched hut. Enjoyed :)

"Reverse cannot befall" - Emily Dickinson; Reverse cannot befall... https://allpoetry.com/Reverse-cannot-befall

Lol! A rich politician?

Curious ED poem. Diamond set quite out of reach. Did Emily consult a map?

"Say he eats a grapefruit, flays thick rind,". "Miracle at Hiroshima" by Paola R. Bruna
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/miracleathiroshima.shtml

Perhaps :)

Emily - I believe she had access to a fine library at home and would have been very familiar with all of the books.
Another summary: https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...ot-befall.html

Hiroshima/Nagasaki: The miracle of survival... the horrors of surviving. I pray never again.
Enjoyed :)

"The voice of my poem" - Little Dragonfly; [The Voice of My Poem]... https://allpoetry.com/poem/16026237-...ttle-Dragonfly

I had forgotten about the prowling bee. Enjoyed the analysis.

Succinct clean poem. Enjoyed!

"UNDER a tree where the breezes blow,"."Under A Tree" by Edgar Albert Guest
https://www.poemine.com/Edgar-Albert...er-A-Tree.html

Wonderful poem of innocence :)

"Vincent Watchman was shot" - Luci Tapahonso; "Pay Up or Else"... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/lt-pay.htm

Same here, but no poem about it that I know.


"Wind against the trees, and then the cause of the hunger"."An Economics" by David Gregory Welch
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/aneconomics.shtml

My first image is an accident... an economy of understanding for my part... Enjoyed :)

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

"they came in droves" - D.A. Xiaolin Spires; rookery...
https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/rookery

Me too! Yes, the poem is a riddle for me too, but some strong images.

Interesting poem built like a row of flying birds.

"Yes we are fierce, yes we take our"."Migrant Letters" by Luisa A. Igloria
http://www.versedaily.org/2020/migrantletters.shtml

"a row of flying birds"... extraterrestrial bug type beings is my guess :)

Sad poem. I always thought as a child I was unrooted too much, to my detriment, but in these latter-days I realize that it is nothing in comparison to those who are forcibly uprooted beyond their control, whatever the circumstances. Enjoyed :)

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

"When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me." - Liz Berry; BIRD... https://www.poetryinternational.com/...103-26701_BIRD

Spoken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLo6iQM7ud0

My family moved also a lot and I didn't like it. But you're right. Nothing compares with the forced migrations today.

Luminous coming of age poem!

"Awake in bed I listened to my father"."The Folk Songs of North America" by Ann Huston
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thef...hamerica.shtml

Another wonderful retrospective... Enjoyed :)

"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—" - John Keats; Bright Star... https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/bright-star/

Enjoyed that bright poem.


"Crow realized God loved him-"."Crow's Theology" by Ted Hugues
https://www.poemine.com/Ted-Hughes/Crow-s-Theology.html

Odd poem by Ted, though I'm not well versed with his poetry; a summary: https://theexaminedlife.org/library/...gs-of-the-crow Enjoyed :)

"Do I have time" - Mary Ruefle; Hello Rooster... https://www.versedaily.org/2025/

Thanks for the summary, I enjoyed it, had quite forgotten that Ted Hughes had been the husband of Sylvia Platt?



"Everyone knows her secret:"Lana Turner" by Jo Sarzotti
http://www.versedaily.org/2020/lanaturner.shtml

Enjoyed the poem :) A bio of Lana in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Turner

"Feeling sick to my stomach" - BerrySweett; Disappear in the rain... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12377689-...by-BerrySweett

Thanks for the !ana Turner link!

A very anguished poem

"General, minister, poet,"."Ars Poetica" by Christopher Buckley
http://www.versedaily.org/2022/arspoetica.shtml

Wonderful images, albeit an apparent swan song for Lu Ji... Enjoyed :)

"How shall I be a poet?" - Lewis Carroll; Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur
(A poet is made, not born)... https://allpoetry.com/Poeta-Fit,-Non-Nascitur

Charming humorous ars poetica by Lewis Carroll! Enjoyed it very much!

"If you sit down at set of sun"."Count That Day Lost" by George Elliot
https://allpoetry.com/Count-That-Day-Lost

Brilliant poem of altruism... Enjoyed :)

"Just because I am white" - Wandering Youth; Just Because...... https://allpoetry.com/poem/11946107-...ndering-Youth/

A very affirmative poem. Enjoyed!

"Kind Sir: This is an old game"."Kind Sir: These woods" by Anne Sexton
https://allpoetry.com/Kind-Sir:-These-Woods

Enjoyed :) I used to enjoy "getting lost" in the canyons in NW Seattle... somehow I always made it home before Dark :)

"left for scrap" - LeRoy Gorman; “left for scrap”... https://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/023issue.html

:)

robotic! interesting collection!


"My wedding-ring lies in a basket"."Wedding-Ring" by Denise Levertov
https://allpoetry.com/Wedding-Ring

Sad, sad poem. Been there. Enjoyed :)

"NAY, blame me not; I might have spared" - Oliver Wendell Holmes; To My Readers... https://www.poemine.com/Oliver-Wende...y-Readers.html

Sad and beautiful. The song of a poet who feels his work is of limited excellence. However his verses are still able to move readers.


"ONE winter night, at half-past nine,"."Phantasmagoria Canto The-Trystyn" by Lewis-Carroll
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8439301-P...-Lewis-Carroll