Cumulative
Index of Last Lines
A
...a capital T in the endless mass of
the text. (Answers to Letters)
V21:30–31
a fleck of foam. (Accounting)
V21:2–3
A heart that will one day beat you to
death. (Monologue for an
Onion) V24:120–121
A heart whose love is innocent! (She
Walks in Beauty) V14:268
a man then suddenly stops running
(Island of Three Marias)
V11:80
A perfect evening! (Temple Bells Die
Out) V18:210
a space in the lives of their friends
(Beware: Do Not Read This
Poem) V6:3
A sudden blow: the great wings
beating still (Leda and the
Swan) V13:181
A terrible beauty is born (Easter
1916) V5:91
About him, and lies down to pleasant
dreams. (Thanatopsis)
V30:232–233
About my big, new, automatically
defrosting refrigerator with the
built-in electric eye
(Reactionary Essay on Applied
Science) V9:199
about the tall mounds of termites.
(Song of a Citizen) V16:126
Across the expedient and wicked
stones (Auto Wreck) V3:31
affirming its brilliant and dizzying
love. (Lepidopterology) V23:171
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely
old courage-teacher, what
America did you have when
Charon quit poling his ferry
and you got out on a smoking
bank and stood watching the
boat disappear on the black
waters of Lethe? (A
Supermarket in California)
V5:261
All losses are restored and sorrows
end (Sonnet 30) V4:192
Amen. Amen (The Creation) V1:20
Anasazi (Anasazi) V9:3
and a vase of wild flowers. (The War
Correspondent) V26:239
and all beyond saving by children
(Ethics) V8:88
and all the richer for it. (Mind)
V17:146
And all we need of hell (My Life
Closed Twice Before Its Close)
V8:127
And, being heard, doesn’t vanish in
the dark. (Variations on
Nothing) V20:234
and changed, back to the class
(‘‘Trouble with Math in a
One-Room Country School’’)
V9:238
And covered up—our names—
(I Died for Beauty) V28:174
And Death shall be no more: Death,
thou shalt die (Holy Sonnet 10)
V2:103and destruction. (Allegory) V23:2–3
And drunk the milk of Paradise
(Kubla Khan) V5:172
and fear lit by the breadth of such
calmly turns to praise. (The
City Limits) V19:78
And Finished knowing—then— (I
Felt a Funeral in My Brain)
V13:137
And gallop terribly against each
other’s bodies (Autumn Begins
in Martins Ferry, Ohio) V8:17
and go back. (For the White poets
who would be Indian) V13:112
And handled with a Chain— (Much
Madness is Divinest Sense)
V16:86
And has not begun to grow a manly
smile. (Deep Woods) V14:139
And his own Word (The Phoenix)
V10:226
And I am Nicholas. (The Czar’s Last
Christmas Letter) V12:45
And I let the fish go. (The Fish)
V31:44
And I was unaware. (The Darkling
Thrush) V18:74
And in the suburbs Can’t sat down and
cried. (Kilroy) V14:213
And it’s been years. (Anniversary)
V15:3
and joy may come, and make its test
of us. (One Is One) V24:158
and leaving essence to the inner eye.
(Memory) V21:156
And life for me ain’t been no crystal
stair (Mother to Son) V3:179391