Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-
root (The Tropics in New York)
V4:255
Be happy if the wind inside the
orchard (On the Threshold)
V22:128
Because I could not stop for Death—
(Because I Could Not Stop for
Death) V2:27
Before the indifferent beak could let
her drop? (Leda and the Swan)
V13:182
Before you know what kindness
really is (Kindness) V24:84–85
Bent double, like old beggars under
slacks, (Dulce et Decorum Est)
V10:109
Between my finger and my thumb
(Digging) V5:70
Beware of ruins: they have a
treacherous charm (Beware of
Ruins) V8:43
Bright star! would I were steadfast as
thou art— (Bright Star! Would
I Were Steadfast as Thou Art)
V9:44
But perhaps God needs the longing,
wherever else should it dwell,
(But Perhaps God Needs the
Longing) V20:41
By the rude bridge that arched the
flood (Concord Hymn) V4:30
By way of a vanished bridge we cross
this river (The Garden Shukkei-
en) V18:107
C
Cassandra’s kind of crying was
(Three To’s and an Oi) V24:264
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms
of light, (To His Excellency
General Washington) V13:212
Come with me into those things that
have felt his despair for so
long— (Come with Me) V6:31
Complacencies of the peignoir, and
late (Sunday Morning) V16:189
Composed in the Tower, before his
execution (‘‘More Light! More
Light!’’) V6:119
D
Darkened by time, the masters, like
our memories, mix (Black
Zodiac) V10:46
Death, be not proud, though some
have called thee (Holy Sonnet
10) V2:103
Devouring Time, blunt thou the
lion’s paws (Sonnet 19) V9:210
Disoriented, the newly dead try to
turn back, (Our Side) V24:177
Do not go gentle into that good night
(Do Not Go Gentle into that
Good Night) V1:51
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
(War Is Kind) V9:252
Don Arturo says: (Business) V16:2
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
(Song: To Celia) V23:270–271
(Dumb, (A Grafted Tongue) V12:92E
Each day the shadow swings (In the
Land of Shinar) V7:83
Each morning the man rises from
bed because the invisible (It’s
like This) V23:138–139
Each night she waits by the road
(Bidwell Ghost) V14:2
Even when you know what people are
capable of, (Knowledge) V25:113F
Face of the skies (Moreover, the
Moon) V20:153
Falling upon earth (Falling Upon
Earth) V2:64
Far far from gusty waves these
children’s faces. (An
Elementary School Classroom
in a Slum) V23:88–89
Fast breaks. Lay ups. With
Mercury’s (Slam, Dunk, &
Hook) V30:176–177
First, the self. Then, the observing
self. (I, I, I) V26:97
Five years have past; five summers,
with the length (Tintern Abbey)
V2:249
Flesh is heretic. (Anorexic) V12:2
For a long time the butterfly held a
prominent place in psychology
(Lepidopterology)
V23:171–172
For Jews, the Cossacks are always
coming. (The Cossacks) V25:70
For three years, out of key with his
time, (Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley) V16:26
Forgive me for thinking I saw (For a
New Citizen of These United
States) V15:55
From my mother’s sleep I fell into
the State (The Death of the Ball
Turret Gunner) V2:41
From the air to the air, like an empty
net, (The Heights of Macchu
Picchu) V28:137G
Gardener:Sir, I encountered Death
(Incident in a Rose Garden)
V14:190
Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may,
(To the Virgins, to Make Much
of Time ) V13:226
Gazelle, I killed you (Ode to a Drum)
V20:172–173
Glory be to God for dappled
things— (Pied Beauty) V26:161
Go down, Moses (Go Down, Moses)
V11:42
God save America, (America,
America) V29:2
Gray mist wolf (Four Mountain
Wolves) V9:131H
‘‘Had he and I but met (The Man He
Killed) V3:167
Had we but world enough, and time
(To His Coy Mistress) V5:276
Half a league, half a league (The
Charge of the Light Brigade) V1:2
Having a Coke with You (Having a
Coke with You) V12:105
He clasps the crag with crooked
hands (The Eagle) V11:30
He was found by the Bureau of
Statistics to be (The Unknown
Citizen) V3:302
He was seen, surrounded by rifles,
(The Crime Was in Granada)
V23:55–56
Hear the sledges with the bells—
(The Bells) V3:46
Heart, you bully, you punk, I’m
wrecked, I’m shocked (One Is
One) V24:158
Her body is not so white as (Queen-
Ann’s-Lace) V6:179
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee;
(The Night Piece: To Julia)
V29:206
Her eyes were coins of porter and her
West (A Farewell to English)
V10:126
Here, above, (The Man-Moth)
V27:135
Here they are. The soft eyes open
(The Heaven of Animals) V6:75
His Grace! impossible! what dead! (A
Satirical Elegy on the Death of a
Late Famous General) V27:216
His speed and strength, which is the
strength of ten (His Speed and
Strength) V19:96
Hog Butcher for the World
(Chicago) V3:61Cumulative Index of First Lines