Cumulative Index of First Lines
Volume 19 353I 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’m delighted to see you (The Constellation Orion) V8:53
I’ve known rivers; (The Negro Speaks of Rivers) V10:197
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
“Imagine being the first to say: surveillance,” (Inventors)
V7:97
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 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 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 seems vainglorious and proud (The Conquerors) V13:67
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)
V13:112L
l(a (l(a) V1:85
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
V3:288
Listen, my children, and you shall hear (Paul Revere’s
Ride) V2:178
Little Lamb, who made thee? (The Lamb) V12:134
Long long ago when the world was a wild place (Bedtime
Story) V8:32M
maggie and milly and molly and may (maggie & milly &
molly & may) V12:149
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table (The
Death of the Hired Man) V4:42
Men with picked voices chant the names (Overture to a
Dance of Locomotives) V11:143
“Mother dear, may I go downtown (Ballad of
Birmingham) V5:17
Much Madness is divinest Sense— (Much Madness is
Divinest Sense) V16:86
My black face fades (Facing It) V5:109
My father stands in the warm evening (Starlight) V8:213
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Ode to a
Nightingale) V3:228
My heart is like a singing bird (A Birthday) V10:33
My life closed twice before its close— (My Life Closed
Twice Before Its Close) V8:127
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
V1:247
My uncle in East Germany (The Exhibit) V9:107N
Nature’s first green is gold (Nothing Gold Can Stay)
V3:203
No easy thing to bear, the weight of sweetness (The
Weight of Sweetness) V11:230
Nobody heard him, the dead man (Not Waving but
Drowning) V3:216
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) V5:246
Not the memorized phone numbers. (What Belongs to Us)
V15:196
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
(Fern Hill) V3:92
Now as I watch the progress of the plague (The Missing)
V9:158O
O Captain! my Captain, our fearful trip is done (O
Captain! My Captain!) V2:146
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the
earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens
(Psalm 8) V9:182
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose (A Red, Red Rose)
V8:152
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, (La Belle Dame sans
Merci) V17:18
“O where ha’ you been, Lord Randal, my son? (Lord
Randal) V6:105“O where ha’ you been, Lord Randal, my son?67082 _PFS_V19XINDxfirst 351 - 356 .qxd 9/16/2003 10:06 M Page 353