Cumulative
Index of First Lines
A
A brackish reach of shoal off
Madaket,— (The Quaker
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:158
‘‘A cold coming we had of it (Journey
of the Magi) V7:110
A few minutes ago, I stepped onto
the deck (The Cobweb) V17:50
A gentle spring evening arrives (Spring-
Watching Pavilion) V18:198
A line in long array where they wind
betwixt green islands, (Cavalry
Crossing a Ford) V13:50
A narrow Fellow in the grass (A
Narrow Fellow in the Grass)
V11:127
A noiseless patient spider, (A
Noiseless Patient Spider)
V31:190–91
A pine box for me. I mean it.(Last
Request) V14: 231
A poem should be palpable and mute
(Ars Poetica) V5:2
A stone from the depths that has
witnessed the seas drying up
(Song of a Citizen) V16:125
A tourist came in from Orbitville,
(Southbound on the Freeway)
V16:158
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt (A
Far Cry from Africa) V6:60
a woman precedes me up the long
rope, (Climbing) V14:113
About me the night moonless
wimples the mountains
(Vancouver Lights) V8:245
About suffering they were never
wrong (Muse ́e des Beaux Arts)
V1:148
Across Roblin Lake, two shores away,
(Wilderness Gothic) V12:241
After the double party (Air for
Mercury) V20:2–3
After the party ends another party
begins (Social Life) V19:251
After you finish your work (Ballad of
Orange and Grape) V10:17
Again I’ve returned to this country
(The Country Without a Post
Office) V18:64
‘‘Ah, are you digging on my grave
(Ah, Are You Digging on My
Grave?) V4:2
All Greece hates (Helen) V6:92
All my existence is a dark sign a dark
(A Rebirth) V21:193–194
All night long the hockey pictures
(To a Sad Daughter) V8:230
All over Genoa (Trompe l’Oeil)
V22:216
All winter your brute shoulders
strained against collars,
padding (Names of Horses)
V8:141
Also Ulysses once—that other war.
(Kilroy) V14:213
Always (Always) V24:15
Among the blossoms, a single jar of
wine. (Drinking Alone Beneath
the Moon) V20:59–60
Anasazi (Anasazi) V9:2
‘‘And do we remember our living
lives?’’ (Memory) V21:156And God stepped out on space (The
Creation) V1:19
And what if I spoke of despair—who
doesn’t (And What If I Spoke of
Despair) V19:2
Animal bones and some mossy tent
rings (Lament for the Dorsets)
V5:190
Any force— (All It Takes) V23:15
April is the cruellest month,
breeding (The Waste Land)
V20:248–252
As I perceive (The Gold Lily) V5:127
As I walked out one evening (As I
Walked Out One Evening)
V4:15
As I was going down impassive
Rivers, (The Drunken Boat)
V28:83
As in an illuminated page, whose
busy edges (Bonnard’s Garden)
V25:33
As virtuous men pass mildly away (A
Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning) V11:201
As you set out for Ithaka (Ithaka)
V19:114
At five in the afternoon. (Lament for
Ignacio Sa ́nchez Mejı ́as)
V31:128–30
At noon in the desert a panting lizard
(At the Bomb Testing Site) V8:2
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
(Old Ironsides) V9:172B
Back then, before we came (On
Freedom’s Ground) V12:186383