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His speed and strength, which is the strength of ten (His
Speed and Strength) V19:96
Hog Butcher for the World (Chicago) V3:61
Hold fast to dreams (Dream Variations) V15:42
Hope is a tattered flag and a dream out of time. (Hope is
a Tattered Flag) V12:120
“Hope” is the thing with feathers— (Hope Is the Thing
with Feathers) V3:123
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43)
V2:236
How shall we adorn (Angle of Geese) V2:2
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, (On His
Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three)
V17:159
How would it be if you took yourself off (Landscape with
Tractor) V10:182
Hunger crawls into you (Hunger in New York City) V4:79
I
I am not a painter, I am a poet (Why I Am Not a Painter)
V8:258
I am the Smoke King (The Song of the Smoke) V13:196
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions (Mirror)
V1:116
I am trying to pry open your casket (Dear Reader) V10:85
I became a creature of light (The Mystery) V15:137
I cannot love the Brothers Wright (Reactionary Essay on
Applied Science) V9:199
I don’t mean to make you cry. (Monologue for an Onion)
V24:120–121
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (I felt a Funeral in my
Brain) V13:137
I gave birth to life. (Maternity) V21:142–143
I have just come down from my father (The Hospital
Window) V11:58
I have met them at close of day (Easter 1916) V5:91
I haven’t the heart to say (To an Unknown Poet) V18:221
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear (I Hear
America Singing) V3:152
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— (I Heard a Fly Buzz—
When I Died—) V5:140
I know that I shall meet my fate (An Irish Airman
Foresees His Death) V1:76
I leant upon a coppice gate (The Darkling Thrush) V18:74
I lie down on my side in the moist grass (Omen) v22:107
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
(Wild Swans) V17:221
I prove a theorem and the house expands: (Geometry)
V15:68
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,
(I go Back to May 1937) V17:112
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed (Hawk
Roosting) V4:55
I thought wearing an evergreen dress (Pine) V23:223–224
I’m delighted to see you (The Constellation Orion) V8:53
I’ve known rivers; (The Negro Speaks of Rivers) V10:197
I was angry with my friend; (A Poison Tree) V24:195–196
I was born too late and I am much too old, (Death
Sentences) V22:23
I was born under the mudbank (Seeing You) V24:244–245
I was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New York and
beautifully snowing. (i was sitting in
mcsorley’s) V13:151
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, (The Lake
Isle of Innisfree) V15:121
If all the world and love were young, (The Nymph’s
Reply to the Shepard) V14:241
If ever two were one, then surely we (To My Dear and
Loving Husband) V6:228
If I should die, think only this of me (The Soldier) V7:218
If you can keep your head when all about you (If)
V22:54–55
“Imagine being the first to say: surveillance,” (Inventors)
V7:97
Impatient for home, (Portrait of a Couple at Century’s
End) V24:214–215
In 1790 a woman could die by falling (The Art of the
Novel) V23:29
In 1936, a child (Blood Oranges) V13:34
In a while they rose and went out aimlessly riding,
(Merlin Enthralled) V16:72
In China (Lost Sister) V5:216
In ethics class so many years ago (Ethics) V8:88
In Flanders fields the poppies blow (In Flanders Fields)
V5:155
In India in their lives they happen (Ways to Live) V16:228
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, (The
Rhodora) V17:191
In the bottom drawer of my desk... (Answers to Letters)
V21:30–31
In the groves of Africa from their natural wonder (An
African Elegy) V13:3
In the Shreve High football stadium (Autumn Begins in
Martins Ferry, Ohio) V8:17
In the sixty-eight years (Accounting) V21:2–3
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (Kubla Khan) V5:172
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth (Eating Poetry)
V9:60
Is it the boy in me who’s looking out (The Boy) V19:14
It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted.
(Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter) V17:63
It is an ancient Mariner (The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner) V4:127
It is in the small things we see it. (Courage) V14:125
It little profits that an idle king (Ulysses) V2:278
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day
(Casey at the Bat) V5:57
It must be troubling for the god who loves you (The God
Who Loves You) V20:88
It seems vainglorious and proud (The Conquerors) V13:67
It starts with a low rumbling, white static, (Rapture)
V21:181
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)
V3:31J
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)
V13:112just onceCumulative Index of First Lines