in earth’s gasp, ocean’s yawn. (Lake)
V23:158
In Flanders fields (In Flanders
Fields) V5:155
In ghostlier demarcations, keener
sounds. (The Idea of Order at
Key West) V13:164
In hearts at peace, under an English
heaven (The Soldier) V7:218
In her tomb by the side of the sea
(Annabel Lee) V9:14
in the family of things. (Wild Geese)
V15:208
in the grit gray light of day.
(Daylights) V13:102
In the rear-view mirrors of the
passing cars (The War Against
the Trees) V11:216
In these Chicago avenues. (A Thirst
Against) V20:205
in this bastion of culture. (To an
Unknown Poet) V18:221
in your unsteady, opening hand.
(What the Poets Could Have
Been) V26:262
iness (l(a) V1:85
Into blossom (A Blessing) V7:24
Is Come, my love is come to me. (A
Birthday) V10:34
is love—that’s all. (Two Poems for
T.) V20:218
is safeis what you said. (Practice)
V23:240
is still warm (Lament for the
Dorsets) V5:191
It asked a crumb—of Me (‘‘Hope’’ Is
the Thing with Feathers)
V3:123
It had no mirrors. I no longer needed
mirrors. (I, I, I) V26:97
It is our god. (Fiddler Crab)
V23:111–112
it is the bell to awaken God that
we’ve heard ringing. (The
Garden Shukkei-en) V18:107
it over my face and mouth. (An
Anthem) V26:34
It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be
brave. (The Country Without a
Post Office) V18:64
It was your resting place.’’ (Ah, Are
You Digging on My Grave?)
V4:2
it’s always ourselves we find in the
sea (maggie & milly & molly &
may) V12:150
its bright, unequivocal eye. (Having
it Out with Melancholy) V17:99
It’s the fall through wind lifting white
leaves. (Rapture) V21:181
its youth. The sea grows old in it.
(The Fish) V14:172
J
Judge tenderly—of Me (This Is My
Letter to the World) V4:233
Just imagine it (Inventors) V7:97L
Laughing the stormy, husky,
brawling laughter of Youth,
half-naked, sweating, proud to
be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker,
Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler
to the Nation (Chicago) V3:61
Learn to labor and to wait (A Psalm
of Life) V7:165
Leashed in my throat (Midnight)
V2:131
Leaving thine outgrown shell by
life’s un-resting sea (The
Chambered Nautilus)
V24:52–53
Let my people go (Go Down, Moses)
V11:43
Let the water come. (America,
America) V29:4
life, our life and its forgetting. (For a
New Citizen of These United
States) V15:55
Life to Victory (Always) V24:15
like a bird in the sky...(Ego-
Tripping) V28:113
like a shadow or a friend.Colombia.
(Kindness) V24:84–85
Like Stone— (The Soul Selects Her
Own Society) V1:259
Little Lamb, God bless thee. (The
Lamb) V12:135
Look’d up in perfect silence at the
stars. (When I Heard the
Learn’d Astronomer) V22:244
love (The Toni Morrison Dreams)
V22:202–203
Luck was rid of its clover. (Yet we
insist that life is full of happy
chance) V27:292M
‘Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.’
(Drifters) V10: 98
make it seem to change (The Moon
Glows the Same) V7:152
May be refined, and join the angelic
train. (On Being Brought from
Africa to America) V29:223
midnight-oiled in the metric laws? (A
Farewell to English) V10:126
Monkey business (Business) V16:2
More dear, both for themselves and
for thy sake! (Tintern Abbey)
V2:250My foe outstretchd beneath the tree.
(A Poison Tree) V24:195–196
My love shall in my verse ever live
young (Sonnet 19) V9:211
My soul has grown deep like the
rivers. (The Negro Speaks of
Rivers) V10:198
My soul I’ll pour into thee. (The
Night Piece: To Julia) V29:206N
never to waken in that world again
(Starlight) V8:213
newness comes into the world
(Daughter-Mother-Maya-
Seeta) V25:83
Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten.
(Spring-Watching Pavilion)
V18:198
No, she’s brushing a boy’s hair
(Facing It) V5:110
no—tell themno— (The Hiding
Place) V10:153
Noble six hundred! (The Charge of
the Light Brigade) V1:3
nobody,not even the rain,has such
small hands (somewhere i have
never travelled,gladly beyond)
V19:265
Nor swim under the terrible eyes of
prison ships. (The Drunken
Boat) V28:84
Not a roof but a field of stars. (Rent)
V25:164
not be seeing you, for you have no
insurance. (The River Mumma
Wants Out) V25:191
Not even the blisters. Look. (What
Belongs to Us) V15:196
Not of itself, but thee. (Song: To
Celia) V23:270–271
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is
endless (High Windows) V3:108
Nothing gold can stay (Nothing
Gold Can Stay) V3:203
Now! (Alabama Centennial) V10:2
nursing the tough skin of figs (This
Life) V1:293O
O Death in Life, the days that are no
more! (Tears, Idle Tears)
V4:220
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is
thy name in all the earth! (Psalm
8) V9:182
O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned,
Nellie, Chester, Lady Ghost
(Names of Horses) V8:142CumulativeIndexofLastLines