Volume 19 355The 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 rain set early in to-night: (Porphyria’s Lover) V15:151
The river brought down (How We Heard the Name)
V10:167
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 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 wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
(The Highwayman) V4:66
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 the one song everyone (Siren Song) V7:196
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
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
These open years, the river (For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton)
V17:86
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair (The Bean
Eaters) V2:16
they were just meant as covers (My Mother Pieced Quilts)
V12:169
They said, “Wait.” Well, I waited. (Alabama Centennial)
V10:2
This girlchild was: born as usual (Barbie Doll) V9:33
This is my letter to the World (This Is My Letter to the
World) V4:233
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, (The Arsenal at
Springfield) V17:2
This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack
(Leviathan) V5:203
This poem is concerned with language on a very plain
level (Paradoxes and Oxymorons) V11:162This tale is true, and mine. It tells (The Seafarer) V8:177
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness (Ode on a Grecian
Urn) V1:179
Three times my life has opened. (Three Times My Life
Has Opened) V16:213
Time in school drags along with so much worry,
(Childhood) V19:29
to fold the clothes. No matter who lives (I Stop Writimg
the Poem) V16:58
Tonight I can write the saddest lines (Tonight I Can
Write) V11:187
tonite,thrillerwas (Beware: Do Not Read This Poem)
V6:3
Turning and turning in the widening gyre (The Second
Coming) V7:179
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves (Jabberwocky) V11:91
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood (The Road Not
Taken) V2:195
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright (The Tyger) V2:263W
wade (The Fish) V14:171
Wanting to say things, (My Father’s Song) V16:102
We could be here. This is the valley (Small Town with
One Road) V7:207
We met the British in the dead of winter (Meeting the
British) V7:138
We real cool. We (We Real Cool) V6:242
Well, son, I’ll tell you (Mother to Son) V3:178
What dire offense from amorous causes springs, (The
Rape of the Lock) V12:202
What happens to a dream deferred? (Harlem) V1:63
What of the neighborhood homes awash (The Continuous
Life) V18:51
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for
I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
with a headache self-conscious looking at the
full moon (A Supermarket in California)
V5:261
Whatever it is, it must have (American Poetry) V7:2
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
he forgot the copperheads, and the assassin...
in the dust, in the cool tombs (Cool Tombs)
V6:45
When I consider how my light is spent ([On His
Blindness] Sonnet 16) V3:262
When I have fears that I may cease to be (When I Have
Fears that I May Cease to Be) V2:295
When I see a couple of kids (High Windows) V3:108
When I see birches bend to left and right (Birches)
V13:14
When I was born, you waited (Having it Out with
Melancholy) V17:98
When I was one-and-twenty (When I Was One-and-
Twenty) V4:268
When I watch you (Miss Rosie) V1:133
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet
29) V8:198
When the mountains of Puerto Rico (We Live by What
We See at Night) V13:240
When the world was created wasn’t it like this?
(Anniversary) V15:2When the world was created wasn’t it like this?Cumulative Index of First Lines
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