Cumulative Index of
Last Lines
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... 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 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 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 Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die (Holy
Sonnet 10) V2:103
and 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 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)
V3:179
And like a thunderbolt he falls (The Eagle) V11:30
And makes me end where I begun (A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning) V11:202325Cumulative Index of Last Lines