Take sheds and stalls from
Billingsgate, (The War
Correspondent) V26:235
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they
mean (Tears, Idle Tears) V4:220
Tell me not, in mournful numbers (A
Psalm of Life) V7:165
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, (To
Lucasta, Going to the Wars)
V32:291
Temple bells die out. (Temple Bells
Die Out) V18:210
That is no country for old men. The
young (Sailing to Byzantium)
V2:207
That negligible bit of sand which
slides (Variations on Nothing)
V20:234
That time of drought the embered air
(Drought Year) V8:78
That’s my last Duchess painted on
the wall (My Last Duchess)
V1:165
The apparition of these faces in the
crowd (In a Station of the
Metro) V2:116
The Assyrian came down like the wolf
on the fold (The Destruction of
Sennacherib) V1:38
The bored child at the auction
(The Wings) V28:242
The brief secrets are still here,
(Words Are the Diminution of
All Things) V35:316
The broken pillar of the wing jags
from the clotted shoulder (Hurt
Hawks) V3:138
The bud (Saint Francis and the Sow)
V9:222
The Bustle in a House (The Bustle in
a House) V10:62
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in
the yard (Out, Out—) V10:212
The couple on the left of me (Walk
Your Body Down) V26:219
The courage that my mother had
(The Courage that My Mother
Had) V3:79
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting
day (Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard) V9:73
The fiddler crab fiddles, glides and
dithers, (Fiddler Crab)
V23:111–112
The force that through the green fuse
drives the flower (The Force
That Through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower) V8:101
The grasses are light brown
(September) V23:258–259
The green lamp flares on the table
(This Life) V1:293
The house is crammed: tier beyond
tier they grin (‘‘Blighters’’)
V28:3
The ills I sorrow at (Any Human to
Another) V3:2
The instructor said (Theme for
English B) V6:194
The king sits in Dumferling toune
(Sir Patrick Spens) V4:177
The land was overmuch like scenery
(Beowulf) V11:2
The last time I saw it was 1968. (The
Hiding Place) V10:152
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not
want (Psalm 23) V4:103
The man who sold his lawn to
standard oil (The War Against
the Trees) V11:215
The moon glows the same (The
Moon Glows the Same) V7:152
The old South Boston Aquarium
stands (For the Union Dead)
V7:67
The others bent their heads and
started in (‘‘Trouble with Math
in a One-Room Country
School’’) V9:238
The pale nuns of St. Joseph are here
(Island of Three Marias)
V11:79
The Phoenix comes of flame and dust
(The Phoenix) V10:226
The plants of the lake (Two Poems
for T.) V20:218
The poetry of earth is never dead:
(On the Grasshopper and the
Cricket) V32:161
The rain set early in to-night:
(Porphyria’s Lover) V15:151
The river brought down (How We
Heard the Name) V10:167
The room is full (My Mother Combs
My Hair) V34:132
The rusty spigot (Onomatopoeia)
V6:133
The sea is calm tonight (Dover
Beach) V2:52
The sea sounds insincere (The
Milkfish Gatherers) V11:111
The slow overture of rain, (Mind)
V17:145
The Soul selects her own Society—
(The Soul Selects Her Own
Society) V1:259
The summer that I was ten— (The
Centaur) V30:20
‘‘The sun was shining on the sea,
(The Walrus and the Carpenter)
V30:258–259
The surface of the pond was mostly
green— (The Lotus Flowers)
V33:107The time you won your town the race
(To an Athlete Dying Young)
V7:230
The way sorrow enters the bone (The
Blue Rim of Memory) V17:38
The whiskey on your breath (My
Papa’s Waltz) V3:191
The white ocean in which birds swim
(Morning Walk) V21:167
The wind was a torrent of darkness
among the gusty trees (The
Highwayman) V4:66
The windows were open and the
morning air was, by the smell of
lilac and some darker flowering
shrub, filled with the brown and
chirping trills of birds. (Yet we
insist that life is full of happy
chance) V27:291
There are blows in life, so hard...I
just don’t know! (The Black
Heralds) V26:47
There are strange things done in the
midnight sun(The Cremation of
Sam McGee) V10:75
There have been rooms for such a
short time (The Horizons of
Rooms) V15:79
There is a hunger for order, (A Thirst
Against) V20:205
There is a pleasure in the pathless
woods (Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage, Canto IV, stanzas
178–184) V35:46
There is no way not to be excited
(Paradiso) V20:190–191
There is the one song everyone (Siren
Song) V7:196
There will come soft rains and the
smell of the ground, (There Will
Come Soft Rains) V14:301
There you are, in all your innocence,
(Perfect Light) V19:187
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
(There’s a Certain Slant of
Light) V6:211
There’s no way out. (In the Suburbs)
V14:201
These open years, the river (For
Jennifer, 6, on the Teton) V17:86
These unprepossessing sunsets
(Art Thou the Thing I Wanted)
V25:2–3
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow
pair (The Bean Eaters) V2:16
They said, ‘‘Wait.’’ Well, I waited.
(Alabama Centennial) V10:2
They say a child with two mouths is
no good. (Pantoun for Chinese
Women) V29:241
they were just meant as covers (My
Mother Pieced Quilts) V12:169Cumulative Index of First Lines