Alphabetical Poem First Lines

Enjoyed this lol poem!

"The rain that fell a yesterday is ruby on the roses,"."Yesterday's Grief" by Katharine Lee Bates
https://www.litscape.com/author/Kath...ays_Grief.html

"Yet sorrow shall be beauty in the magic of the morn." :)

"Upon the mead a violet stood," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Violet... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/violet-3

Enjoyed Goethe at his most tragic. :)

"O VENICE! Venice! when thy marble walls". (Sorry for the "O"). "Ode on Venice" by Lord Byron.
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poe...ode-on-venice/

Good choice... my next assignment is an Ode.

"and thus they creep, / Crouching and crab-like, through their sapping streets." Enjoyed :)

"When I looked back" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; A Man Recalled... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-man-recalled/

re Ode: :).
re A man recalled:"And now he is no more

Leaving behind a legacy of work
As worship for all to think over……… ", yea!

"IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan"."Xanadu" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/poe...volumes/xanadu

Enjoyed :)

I found an analysis of Xanadu that proves my poetic interpretations to be quite inept... https://study.com/learn/lesson/kubla...%20imagination.

"You wanted to link but I had reservations," - Ashley Young; Queen Bee... https://www.poetry.com/poem/126536/queen-bee

re "Xanadu:These poems often can have several interpretations, I think.It is about creativity but I think pleasure plays also a great role in it.
Enjoyed that love explosion.
Poem with title starting with "z":
"Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean,"."Zephyrus the Awakaner"by Shelley
https://www.poetry.com/poem/29344/zephyrus-the-awakener

Enjoyed this tiny poem :)

"At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour," - Thomas Campbell; Lines - Written On Visiting A Scene In Argyleshire... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...gyleshire-7030

Lovely poem, but mused on USA's near future (elections) when I read it

"Baby's brain is tired of thinking"."Boston Lullaby" by James Jeffrey Roche
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-lullaby-39158

Oy, don't remind me :( Lol, most appropriate: "Baby must have relaxation, / Let the world go wrong or right."

"Can we suppress the old Remorse" - Charles Baudelaire; The Irreparable... https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ba...he-old-remorse

Baudelaire at his most bitter!

"Deliver us from evil, Heavenly Father!"."Deliver Us From Evil" by George Pope Morris
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-pop...r-us-from-evil

Wonderful prayer poem :)

"Even now I seem to see thee," - Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow; Acrostic... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...acrostic-34989

Sad, sad, sad!

"Faintly as tolls the evening chime"."A Canadian Boat Song" by Thomas Moore
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...oat-song-26741

"and the song encourages the sailor" :)

"Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;" - Hilaire Belloc;
Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...e-a-boot-black

Lol! " So now Godolphin is the Boy/ Who blacks the Boots at the Savoy."

"Had I but lived a hundred years ago"."At Lulworth Cove a Century Back". by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...a-century-back