It was in and about the Martinmas
time (Barbara Allan) V7:10
It was many and many a year ago
(Annabel Lee) V9:14
Its quick soft silver bell beating,
beating (Auto Wreck) V3:31
I’ve known rivers; (The Negro
Speaks of Rivers) V10:197
J
Januaries, Nature greets our eyes
(Brazil, January 1, 1502) V6:15
Just off the highway to Rochester,
Minnesota (A Blessing) V7:24
just once (For the White poets who
would be Indian) V13:112
L
l(a (l(a) V1:85
Legs! (Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted) V29:262
Let me not to the marriage of true
minds (Sonnet 116) V3:288
Let us console you. (Allegory)
V23:2–3
Listen, my children, and you shall
hear (Paul Revere’s Ride)
V2:178
Little Lamb, who made thee? (The
Lamb) V12:134
Long long ago when the world was a
wild place (Bedtime Story)
V8:32
M
Made of the first gray light (One of
the Smallest) V26:141
maggie and milly and molly and may
(maggie & milly & molly &
may) V12:149
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame
at the table (The Death of the
Hired Man) V4:42
May breath for a dead moment cease
as jerking your (Curse) V26:75
Men with picked voices chant the
names (Overture to a Dance of
Locomotives) V11:143
Morning and evening (Goblin
Market) V27:92
‘‘Mother dear, may I go downtown
(Ballad of Birmingham) V5:17
Much Madness is divinest Sense—
(Much Madness is Divinest
Sense) V16:86
My black face fades (Facing It)
V5:109
My father stands in the warm
evening (Starlight) V8:213
My heart aches, and a drowsy
numbness pains (Ode to a
Nightingale) V3:228
My heart is like a singing bird (A
Birthday) V10:33
My life closed twice before its close—
(My Life Closed Twice Before
Its Close) V8:127
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the
sun (Sonnet 130) V1:247
My uncle in East Germany (The
Exhibit) V9:107N
Nature’s first green is gold (Nothing
Gold Can Stay) V3:203
No easy thing to bear, the weight of
sweetness (The Weight of
Sweetness) V11:230
No monument stands over Babii
Yar. (Babii Yar) V29:38
Nobody heard him, the dead man
(Not Waving but Drowning)
V3:216
Not like a cypress, (Not like a
Cypress) V24:135
Not marble nor the gilded
monuments (Sonnet 55) V5:246
Not the memorized phone numbers.
(What Belongs to Us) V15:196
Now as I was young and easy under
the apple boughs (Fern Hill)
V3:92
Now as I watch the progress of the
plague (The Missing) V9:158
Now I rest my head on the satyr’s
carved chest, (The Satyr’s
Heart) V22:187
Now one might catch it see it (Fading
Light) V21:49O
O Captain! my Captain, our fearful
trip is done (O Captain! My
Captain!) V2:146
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is
thy name in all the earth! who
hast set thy glory above the
heavens (Psalm 8) V9:182
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose (A
Red, Red Rose) V8:152
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
(La Belle Dame sans Merci)
V17:18
‘‘O where ha’ you been, Lord
Randal, my son? (Lord Randal)
V6:105
O wild West Wind, thou breath of
Autumn’s being (Ode to the
West Wind) V2:163Oh, but it is dirty! (Filling Station)
V12:57
old age sticks (old age sticks) V3:246
On a shore washed by desolate
waves,hestood, (The Bronze
Horseman) V28:27
On either side the river lie (The Lady
of Shalott) V15:95
On the seashore of endless worlds
children meet. The infinite (60)
V18:3
Once some people were visiting
Chekhov (Chocolates) V11:17
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
pondered, weak and weary (The
Raven) V1:200
One day I’ll lift the telephone (Elegy
for My Father, Who Is Not
Dead) V14:154
One foot down, then hop! It’s hot
(Harlem Hopscotch) V2:93
one shoe on the roadway presents (A
Pie ́d) V3:16
Our vision is our voice (An Anthem)
V26:34
Out of the hills of Habersham, (Song
of the Chattahoochee) V14:283
Out walking in the frozen swamp one
gray day (The Wood-Pile)
V6:251
Oysters we ate (Oysters) V4:91P
Pentagon code (Smart and Final Iris)
V15:183
Poised between going on and back,
pulled (The Base Stealer)
V12:30Q
Quinquireme of Nineveh from
distant Ophir (Cargoes) V5:44
Quite difficult, belief. (Chorale)
V25:51R
Recognition in the body (In
Particular) V20:125
Red men embraced my body’s
whiteness (Birch Canoe) V5:31
Remember me when I am gone away
(Remember) V14:255S
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s
day? (Sonnet 18) V2:222
She came every morning to draw
water (A Drink of Water) V8:66
She reads, of course, what he’s doing,
shaking Nixon’s hand, (The
Women Who Loved Elvis All
Their Lives) V28:273Cumulative Index of First Lines