First lines

An index of all the public-domain poems listed by their opening lines.

    1. (and i imagine
    2. (as that named Fred
    3. (let us tremble)a personal radiance sits
    4. (one!)
    5. (ponder,darling,these busted statues
    6. (the phonograph’s voice like a keen spider skipping
    7. (thee will i praise between those rivers whose
    8. 16 heures
    9. 5
    10. a blue woman with sticking out breasts hanging
    11. a connotation of infinity
    12. a fragrant sag of fruit distinctly grouped.
    13. a man who had fallen among thieves
    14. a thing most new complete fragile intense,
    15. a wind has blown the rain away and blown
    16. after all white horses are in bed
    17. after five
    18. All in green went my love riding
    19. along the brittle treacherous bright streets
    20. Always before your voice my soul
    21. Among these red pieces of
    22. an amiable putrescence carpenters
    23. and this day it was Spring....us
    24. and what were roses. Perfume? for i do
    25. any man is wonderful
    26. as is the sea marvelous
    27. as usual i did not find him in cafes, the more dissolute
    28. at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o’clock i find myself gently decompos-
    29. at the head of this street a gasping organ is waving moth-eaten
    30. autumn is:that between there and here
    31. Babylon slim
    32. Babylon slim
    33. because
    34. before the fragile gradual throne of night
    35. being
    36. between green mountains
    37. between nose-red gross
    38. between the breasts
    39. beyond the brittle towns asleep
    40. Buffalo Bill ’s
    41. but if I should say
    42. but observe;although
    43. but the other
    44. by god i want above fourteenth
    45. by little accurate saints thickly which tread
    46. candles and
    47. Cleopatra built
    48. come nothing to my comparable soul
    49. come,gaze with me upon this dome
    50. consider O
    51. conversation with my friend is particularly
    52. cruelly,love
    53. curtains part)
    54. death is more than
    55. Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows
    56. Dick Mid’s large bluish face without eyebrows
    57. Doll’s boy ’s asleep
    58. dreaming in marble all the castle lay
    59. earth like a tipsy
    60. even a pencil has fear to
    61. even if all desires things moments be
    62. fabulous against ,a,fathoming jelly
    63. first Jock he
    64. Forward
    65. gee i like to think of dead it means nearer because deeper firmer
    66. god gloats upon Her stunning flesh. Upon
    67. god pity me whom(god distinctly has)
    68. goodby Betty,don’t remember me
    69. Harun Omar and Master Hafiz
    70. her
    71. her careful distinct sex whose sharp lips comb
    72. here is little Effie’s head
    73. here’s a little mouse)and
    74. hist whist
    75. how this uncouth enchanted
    76. Humanity i love you
    77. i am a beggar always
    78. i am going to utter a tree, Nobody
    79. i go to this window
    80. i have found what you are like
    81. i have loved,let us see if that’s all.
    82. i have loved,let us see if that’s all.
    83. I have seen her stealthily frail
    84. i like
    85. i like my body when it is with your
    86. I remark this beach has been used too. much Too. originally
    87. i spoke to thee
    88. i walked the boulevard
    89. i was considering how
    90. i was sitting in mcsorley’s outside it was New York and beauti-
    91. i was sitting in mcsorley’s outside it was New York and beauti-
    92. i will be
    93. i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
    94. if being morticed with a dream
    95. if i believe
    96. if i have made,my lady,intricate
    97. if i should sleep with a lady called death
    98. if learned darkness from our searched world
    99. if within tonight’s erect
    100. IKEY(GOLDBERG)’S WORTH I’M
    101. impossibly
    102. impossibly
    103. in Just-
    104. in making Marjorie god hurried
    105. in spite of everything
    106. in the rain-
    107. inthe,exquisite;
    108. inthe,exquisite;
    109. into the smiting
    110. into the strenuous briefness
    111. irreproachable ladies firmly lewd
    112. it is at moments after i have dreamed
    113. it is funny,you will be dead some day.
    114. it is so long since my heart has been with yours
    115. it is winter a moon in the afternoon
    116. it may not always be so;and i say
    117. it really must
    118. it started when Bill’s chip let on to
    119. it started when Bill’s chip let on to
    120. it’s jolly
    121. it’s just like a coffin’s
    122. i’ll tell you a dream i had once i was away up in the sky Blue,everything:
    123. Jimmie’s got a goil goil goil, Jimmie
    124. joggle i think will do it although the glad
    125. ladies and gentlemen this little girl
    126. Lady of Silence
    127. lean candles hunger in
    128. let’s live suddenly without thinking
    129. life boosts herself rapidly at me
    130. life hurl my
    131. life?
    132. light cursed falling in a singular block
    133. lis
    134. listen
    135. listen my children and you
    136. little ladies more
    137. little ladies more
    138. little tree
    139. look at this)
    140. mr youse needn’t be so spry
    141. my eyes are fond of the east side
    142. my girl’s tall with hard long eyes
    143. my love
    144. my love is buiding a building
    145. my mind is
    146. my naked lady framed
    147. my smallheaded pearshaped
    148. my sonnet is A light goes on in
    149. my strength becoming wistful in a glib
    150. my sweet old etcetera
    151. my uncle
    152. nearer:breath of my breath:take not thy tingling
    153. nobody loses all the time
    154. Nobody wears a yellow
    155. notice the convulsed orange inch of moon
    156. now dis “daughter” uv eve(who aint precisely slim)sim
    157. now that fierce few
    158. o
    159. O Distinct
    160. O It’s Nice To Get Up In,the slipshod mucous kiss
    161. O sweet spontaneous
    162. O Thou to whom the musical white spring
    163. of evident invisibles
    164. of my
    165. of this sunset(which is so
    166. of this wilting wall the colour drub
    167. on the Madam’s best april the
    168. one April dusk the
    169. opening of the chambers close
    170. our touching hearts slenderly comprehend
    171. Paris;this April sunset completely utters;
    172. Paris;this April sunset completely utters;
    173. perhaps it is to feel strike
    174. Picasso
    175. poets yeggs and thirsties
    176. raise the shade
    177. riverly is a flower
    178. she being Brand
    179. she puts down the handmirror. “Look at” arranging
    180. she sits dropping on a caret of clenched arms
    181. should i entirely ask of god why
    182. since feeling is first
    183. slighty before the middle of Congressman Pudd
    184. SNO
    185. some ask praise of their fellows
    186. somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes
    187. Spring is like a perhaps hand
    188. spring omnipotent goddess thou dost
    189. stinging
    190. stop look &
    191. sunlight was over
    192. suppose
    193. supposing i dreamed this)
    194. ta
    195. ta
    196. Take for example this:
    197. take it from me kiddo
    198. than(by yon sunset’s wintry glow
    199. the
    200. the sky was
    201. the bed is not very big
    202. the bigness of cannon
    203. the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
    204. the dress was a suspicious madder, importing the cruelty of roses.
    205. the emperor
    206. The fingers make early flowers of
    207. the glory is fallen out of
    208. the hills
    209. the hours rise up putting off stars and it is
    210. the ivory performing rose
    211. the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.
    212. the moon is hiding in
    213. the moon looked into my window
    214. the poem her belly marched through me as
    215. the rose
    216. the season ’tis,my lovely lambs,
    217. the skinny voice
    218. the sky a silver
    219. the waddling
    220. the waddling
    221. the young
    222. there is a
    223. this evangelist
    224. this is the garden:colours come and go
    225. this man is o so
    226. this wind is a Lady with
    227. this young question mark man
    228. Thou aged unreluctant earth who dost
    229. Thou in whose swordgreat story shine the deeds
    230. touching you I say(it being Spring
    231. Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets
    232. twentyseven bums give a prostitute the once
    233. unnoticed woman from whose kind large flesh
    234. unto thee i
    235. upon the room’s silence,i will sew
    236. utterly and amusingly i am pash
    237. voices to voices,lip to lip
    238. weazened Irrefutable unastonished
    239. when citied day with the sonorous homes
    240. when god lets my body be
    241. when i am in Boston,i do not speak
    242. when i have thought of you somewhat too
    243. when life is quite through with
    244. when my love comes to see me it’s
    245. when my sensational moments are no more
    246. when the proficient poison sure sleep
    247. when the spent day begins to frail
    248. when thou hast taken thy last applause,and when
    249. when unto nights of autumn do complain
    250. when you rang at Dick Mid’s Place
    251. when you went away it was morning
    252. whereas by dark really released,the modern
    253. Where’s Madge then,
    254. Who threw the silver dollar up into the tree? I didn’t
    255. who knows if the moon’s
    256. who’s most afraid of death?thou art of him
    257. why are these pipples taking their hets off?
    258. why did you go
    259. Will i ever forget that precarious moment?
    260. will out of the kindness of their hearts a few philosophers tell me
    261. will suddenly trees leap from winter and will
    262. windows go orange in the slowly.
    263. with breathing as(faithfully)her lownecked
    264. workingman with hand so hairy-sturdy
    265. writhe and
    266. yonder deadfromtheheckup graduate of a
    267. you are like the snow only
    268. you are not going to,dear. You are not going to and
    269. you asked me to come:it was raining a little,
    270. you being in love
    271. your little voice Over the wires came leaping
    272. yours is the music for no instrument
    273. —G O N splashes-sink
    274. “kitty”. sixteen,5’ 1”,white,prostitute.
    275. “next to of course god america i