I have just come down from my
father (The Hospital Window)
V11:58
I hear it in the deep heart’s core. (The
Lake Isle of Innisfree) V15:121
I know why the caged bird sings!
(Sympathy) V33:203
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
(Sonnet 116) V3:288
I rest in the grace of the world, and
am free. (The Peace of Wild
Things) V30:159
I romp with joy in the bookish dark
(Eating Poetry) V9:61
I see Mike’s painting, called
SARDINES (Why I Am Not a
Painter) V8:259
I shall but love thee better after death
(Sonnet 43) V2:236
I should be glad of another death
(Journey of the Magi) V7:110
I stand up (Miss Rosie) V1:133
I stood there, fifteen (Fifteen) V2:78
I take it you are he? (Incident in a
Rose Garden) V14:191
I, too, am America. (I, Too) V30:99
I turned aside and bowed my head
and wept (The Tropics in New
York) V4:255
If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind? (Ode to the West Wind)
V2:163
I’ll be gone from here. (The Cobweb)
V17:51
I’ll dig with it (Digging) V5:71
Imagine! (Autobiographia Literaria)
V34:2
In a convulsive misery (The Milkfish
Gatherers) V11:112
In balance with this life, this death
(An Irish Airman Foresees His
Death) V1:76
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) V14:172J
Judge tenderly—of Me (This Is My
Letter to the World) V4:233
Just imagine it (Inventors) V7:97K
kisses you (Grandmother) V34:95L
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) V3:61Learn 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
Loved I not Honour more. (To
Lucasta, Going to the Wars)
V32:291
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
may your mercy be near. (Two
Eclipses) V33:221
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)
V2:250
My 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) V29:206CumulativeIndexofLastLines