Cumulative Index of
First Lines
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A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket,— (The Quaker
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:158
“A cold coming we had of it (Journey of the Magi) V7:110
A few minutes ago, I stepped onto the deck (The Cobweb)
V17:50
A gentle spring evening arrives (Spring-Watching
Pavilion) V18:198
A line in long array where they wind betwixt green
islands, (Cavalry Crossing a Ford) V13:50
A narrow Fellow in the grass (A Narrow Fellow in the
Grass) V11:127
A pine box for me. I mean it.(Last Request) V14: 231
A poem should be palpable and mute (Ars Poetica) V5:2
A stone from the depths that has witnessed the seas
drying up (Song of a Citizen) V16:125
A tourist came in from Orbitville, (Southbound on the
Freeway) V16:158
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt (A Far Cry from Africa)
V6:60
a woman precedes me up the long rope, (Climbing) V14:113
About me the night moonless wimples the mountains
(Vancouver Lights) V8:245
About suffering they were never wrong (Musée des Beaux
Arts) V1:148
Across Roblin Lake, two shores away, (Wilderness
Gothic) V12:241
After the party ends another party begins (Social Life)
V19:251
After you finish your work (Ballad of Orange and Grape)
V10:17
Again I’ve returned to this country (The Country Without
a Post Office) V18:64
“Ah, are you digging on my grave (Ah, Are You Digging
on My Grave?) V4:2
All Greece hates (Helen) V6:92All night long the hockey pictures (To a Sad Daughter)
V8:230
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars,
padding (Names of Horses) V8:141
Also Ulysses once—that other war. (Kilroy) V14:213
Anasazi (Anasazi) V9:2
And God stepped out on space (The Creation) V1:19
And what if I spoke of despair—who doesn’t (And What
If I Spoke of Despair) V19:2
Animal bones and some mossy tent rings (Lament for the
Dorsets) V5:190
As I perceive (The Gold Lily) V5:127
As I walked out one evening (As I Walked Out One
Evening) V4:15
As virtuous men pass mildly away (A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning) V11:201
As you set out for Ithaka (Ithaka) V19:114
At noon in the desert a panting lizard (At the Bomb
Testing Site) V8:2
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! (Old Ironsides)
V9:172B
Back then, before we came (On Freedom’s Ground)
V12:186
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root (The Tropics in
New York) V4:255
Because I could not stop for Death— (Because I Could
Not Stop for Death) V2:27
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? (Leda and
the Swan) V13:182
Bent double, like old beggars under slacks, (Dulce et
Decorum Est) V10:109
Between my finger and my thumb (Digging) V5:70
Beware of ruins: they have a treacherous charm (Beware
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