First lines
- A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of William Carlos Williams Berket and the Stars
- A governor it was proclaimed this time, Robert Frost The Generations of Men
- A lantern light from deeper in the barn Robert Frost The Fear
- A middle-northern March, now as always— William Carlos Williams A Celebration
- A plow, they say, to plow the snow. Robert Frost Plowmen
- A rock, for ages, stern and high, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Truth
- A silver Lucifer Mina Loy Lunar Baedeker
- A song for occupations! Walt Whitman A Song for Occupations
- A spray of pine-needles, Jean Toomer Nullo
- A three-day-long rain from the east— William Carlos Williams The Dark Day
- A wind might blow a lotus petal William Carlos Williams History
- A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted William Shakespeare XX
- A year ago I breathed the Italian air— Oscar Wilde Ravenna
- Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all William Shakespeare CXVII
- Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Walt Whitman Song of the Open Road
- African Guardian of Souls, Jean Toomer Conversion
- After the blast of lightning from the east, Wilfred Owen The End
- Again I reply to the triple winds William Carlos Williams January
- Against my love shall be, as I am now, William Shakespeare LXIII
- Against that time, if ever that time come, William Shakespeare XLIX
- Ah! wherefore with infection should he live, William Shakespeare LXVII
- Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth, William Shakespeare CIII
- Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there William Shakespeare CX
- All crying “We will go with you, O Wind!” Robert Frost Misgiving
- All the complicated details William Carlos Williams Winter Trees
- Although you do your best to regard me William Carlos Williams Translations from the Spanish, “El Romancero”
- Always our old feuillage! Walt Whitman Our Old Feuillage
- Always the same, when on a fated night Robert Frost The Onset
- Among the rain William Carlos Williams The Great Figure
- Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon T. S. Eliot Portrait of a Lady
- An oblique cloud of purple smoke William Carlos Williams Woman Walking
- An old willow with hollow branches William Carlos Williams Epitaph
- And God called Moses from the burning bush, James Weldon Johnson Let My People Go
- And God stepped out on space, James Weldon Johnson The Creation
- And yet one arrives somehow, William Carlos Williams Arrival
- Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- Are you bowed down in heart? James Weldon Johnson Deep in the Quiet Wood
- Are you not weary, William Carlos Williams Ballet
- Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head, James Weldon Johnson And the Greatest of These Is War
- Artsybashev is a Russian. William Carlos Williams Foreign
- As a bad orator, badly o’er-book-skilled, Fernando Pessoa VI
- As a decrepit father takes delight William Shakespeare XXXVII
- As an unperfect actor on the stage William Shakespeare XXIII
- As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest William Shakespeare XI
- As the lone, frighted user of a night-road Fernando Pessoa XII
- As to a child, I talked my heart asleep Fernando Pessoa X
- At the Portals of the Future, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lines
- Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press William Shakespeare CXL
- Beauty and love let no one separate, Fernando Pessoa XIX
- Before man came to blow it right Robert Frost The Aim Was Song
- Being your slave, what should I do but tend William Shakespeare LVII
- Beneath the burden of our joy Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fifteenth Amendment
- Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan William Shakespeare CXXXIII
- Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, William Shakespeare XLVII
- Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Jean Toomer Reapers
- Boll-weevil’s coming, and the winter’s cold, Jean Toomer November Cotton Flower
- “Build me a house,” said the Master, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Building
- Builder, in building the little house, Robert Frost The Kitchen Chimney
- Burbank crossed a little bridge T. S. Eliot Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
- But be contented: when that fell arrest William Shakespeare LXXIV
- But do thy worst to steal thyself away, William Shakespeare XCII
- But wherefore do not you a mightier way William Shakespeare XVI
- By blue Ontario’s shore, Walt Whitman By Blue Ontario’s Shore
- By constantly tormenting them William Carlos Williams The Poor
- Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not, William Shakespeare CXLIX
- Come nearer to me, husband, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Mother
- Come speak to me of Jesus, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Jesus
- Come with us and play! William Carlos Williams From “The Birth of Venus,” Song
- Come, brother, come. Lets lift it; Jean Toomer Cotton Song
- Come, gather around me, children, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Jewish Grandfather’s Story
- Crooked, black tree William Carlos Williams Trees
- Cruel in vengeance, reckless in wrath, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Death of Zombi
- Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo’ bed, James Weldon Johnson De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep
- Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: William Shakespeare CLIII
- Daisies are broken William Carlos Williams Love Song
- Dear father, I hear a whisper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Child to Her Blind Father
- Der ain’t no use in sayin’ de Lawd won’t answer prah; James Weldon Johnson Answer to Prayer
- Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, William Shakespeare XIX
- Do you blame me that I loved him? Frances Ellen Watkins Harper A Double Standard
- Do you see this cup—this tempting cup— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Signing the Pledge
- Do you see this grain of sand Frances Ellen Watkins Harper A Grain of Sand
- Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way Wilfred Owen The Send-Off
- Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Langston Hughes The Weary Blues
- Earth’s wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that. Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting
- Ecstatic bird songs pound William Carlos Williams Dawn
- Elvira, by love’s grace William Carlos Williams Homage
- En Amerique, professeur; T. S. Eliot Mélange Adultère de Tout
- Eternities before the first-born day, James Weldon Johnson Mother Night
- Even as upon a low and cloud-domed day, Fernando Pessoa XXIII
- Farewell, father! I am a dying, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Eva’s Farewell
- Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, William Shakespeare LXXXVII
- Father, Father Abraham, James Weldon Johnson Father, Father Abraham
- Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Walt Whitman Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Fool, William Carlos Williams Hero
- For fifty years, James Weldon Johnson The Suicide
- For shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any, William Shakespeare X
- From fairest creatures we desire increase, William Shakespeare I
- From Rome’s palaces and villas Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Hermit’s Sacrifice
- From where I lingered in a lull in March Robert Frost Evening in a Sugar Orchard
- From you have I been absent in the spring, William Shakespeare XCVIII
- Full many a glorious morning have I seen William Shakespeare XXXIII
- Full moon rising on the waters of my heart, Jean Toomer Evening Song
- Girl of fifteen, James Weldon Johnson Girl of Fifteen
- Go to sleep—though of course you will not— William Carlos Williams A Goodnight
- Go work in my vineyard, said the Lord, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Go Work in My Vineyard
- God bless our native land, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper God Bless Our Native Land
- Good. I have done. My heart weighs. I am sad. Fernando Pessoa XXXV
- Hair— Jean Toomer Face
- Hair—braided chestnut, Jean Toomer Portrait in Georgia
- Halted against the shade of a last hill, Wilfred Owen Spring Offensive
- Happy are men who yet before they are killed Wilfred Owen Insensibility
- Happy the maimed, the halt, the mad, the blind— Fernando Pessoa XXXIV
- Hard, chilly colors: William Carlos Williams Conquest
- Have I seen her? William Carlos Williams Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart
- Have the bright and glowing visions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lines to Hon. Thaddeus Stevens
- Have you been sore discouraged in the fight, James Weldon Johnson To Horace Bumstead
- Having a wheel and four legs of its own Robert Frost The Grindstone
- He came—a wanderer; years of sin Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Prodigal’s Return
- He did not wear his scarlet coat, Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- He dropped—more sullenly than wearily, Wilfred Owen The Dead-Beat
- He halted in the wind, and—what was that Robert Frost A Boundless Moment
- He lifted up his pleading eyes, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Martyr of Alabama
- He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, Wilfred Owen Disabled
- He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Robert Frost Home Burial
- He stood before his finished work; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Artist
- He stood before my heart’s closed door, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Refiner’s Gold
- He stood before the savage throng, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Tennessee Hero
- He stood before the sons of Heth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Burial of Sarah
- He stood beside his dying child, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Drunkard’s Child
- He that goes back does, since he goes, advance, Fernando Pessoa XXXIII
- He was a Grecian lad, who coming home Oscar Wilde Charmides
- Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned Wilfred Owen Smile, Smile, Smile
- Heard you that shriek? It rose Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Slave Mother
- Her body is not so white as William Carlos Williams Queen-Ann’s-Lace
- Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light, James Weldon Johnson Her Eyes Twin Pools
- Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight, Georgia Douglas Johnson Foredoom
- Her teacher’s certainty it must be Mabel Robert Frost Maple
- Here I am, an old man in a dry month, T. S. Eliot Gerontion
- Here it is spring again William Carlos Williams The Late Singer
- His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed. Wilfred Owen Conscious
- How can I then return in happy plight, William Shakespeare XXVIII
- How can I think, or edge my thoughts to action, Fernando Pessoa V
- How can my Muse want subject to invent, William Shakespeare XXXVIII
- How careful was I, when I took my way, William Shakespeare XLVIII
- How heavy do I journey on the way, William Shakespeare L
- How like a winter hath my absence been William Shakespeare XCVII
- How many masks wear we, and undermasks, Fernando Pessoa VIII
- How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st, William Shakespeare CXXVIII
- How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame William Shakespeare XCV
- How would you have us, as we are? James Weldon Johnson To America
- How yesterday is long ago! The past Fernando Pessoa XXVII
- I am a Negro: Langston Hughes The Negro
- I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled. Jean Toomer Harvest Song
- I am older than Nature and her Time Fernando Pessoa XXXI
- I am the centre Mina Loy Parturition
- I bought a dishmop— William Carlos Williams Youth and Beauty
- I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening Robert Frost The Census-Taker
- I celebrate myself, and sing myself, Walt Whitman Song of Myself
- I could not think of thee as piecèd rot, Fernando Pessoa IV
- I didn’t make you know how glad I was Robert Frost A Servant to Servants
- I do not know what truth the false untruth Fernando Pessoa XXX
- I dreamed that I was a rose James Weldon Johnson The Awakening
- I feel the caress of my own fingers William Carlos Williams The Gentle Man
- I grant thou wert not married to my Muse William Shakespeare LXXXII
- I had a dream, a varied dream: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “Fishers of Men”
- I had for my winter evening walk— Robert Frost Good Hours
- I have but four, the treasures of my soul, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Slave Mother
- I have discovered that most of William Carlos Williams January Morning
- I have had my dream—like others— William Carlos Williams Thursday
- I hear the stars still singing James Weldon Johnson I Hear the Stars Still Singing
- I heard, my young friend Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Report
- I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine James Weldon Johnson Before a Painting
- I know only the bare rocks of today. William Carlos Williams A Prelude
- I let myself in at the kitchen door. Robert Frost The Housekeeper
- I lie here thinking of you:— William Carlos Williams Love Song
- I love to sit alone, and dream, James Weldon Johnson A Mid-Day Dreamer
- I met a lady from the South who said Robert Frost New Hampshire
- I mind as ’ow the night afore that show Wilfred Owen The Chances
- I never saw that you did painting need William Shakespeare LXXXIII
- I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! T. S. Eliot Conversation Galante
- I remember, well remember, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Aunt Chloe
- I slumbered with your poems on my breast Robert Frost To E. T.
- I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know, James Weldon Johnson Vashti
- I staid the night for shelter at a farm Robert Frost Two Witches
- I stay; Robert Frost An Empty Threat
- I stopped the car William Carlos Williams Blueflags
- I thirst, but earth cannot allay Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “I Thirst”
- I tried to put a bird in a cage. William Carlos Williams The Fool’s Song
- I wander all night in my vision, Walt Whitman The Sleepers
- I want to die while you love me, Georgia Douglas Johnson I Want to Die While You Love Me
- I wear an easy garment, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Free Labor
- I will teach you my townspeople William Carlos Williams Tract
- I, too, saw God through mud— Wilfred Owen Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
- I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes I Too
- I’m back down in ole Georgy w’ere de sun is shinin’ hot, James Weldon Johnson July in Georgy
- I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; Robert Frost The Pasture
- I’ve known ere now an interfering branch Robert Frost The Axe-Helve
- I’ve known rivers: Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- If I say I have heard voices William Carlos Williams Pastoral
- If I when my wife is sleeping William Carlos Williams Danse Russe
- If my dear love were but the child of state, William Shakespeare CXXIV
- If that apparent part of life’s delight Fernando Pessoa II
- If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, William Shakespeare XLIV
- If there be nothing new, but that which is William Shakespeare LIX
- If thou survive my well-contented day, William Shakespeare XXXII
- If thy soul check thee that I come so near, William Shakespeare CXXXVI
- If you had come away with me William Carlos Williams April
- Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute; T. S. Eliot Lune de Miel
- In a backwoods town James Weldon Johnson The Ghost of Deacon Brown
- In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks Oscar Wilde The Sphinx
- In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds William Carlos Williams Spring Strains
- In brilliant gas light William Carlos Williams Good Night
- In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, William Shakespeare CXLI
- In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn, William Shakespeare CLII
- In the cool of the day— James Weldon Johnson Noah Built the Ark
- In the flashes and black shadows William Carlos Williams The Hunter
- In the old age black was not counted fair, William Shakespeare CXXVII
- In this world of William Carlos Williams Spouts
- In yonder halls reclining Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Revel
- Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night, Fernando Pessoa XVIII
- Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye William Shakespeare IX
- Is it thy will thy image should keep open William Shakespeare LXI
- It is a willow when summer is over, William Carlos Williams Willow Poem
- It is blue-butterfly day here in spring, Robert Frost Blue-Butterfly Day
- It is cold. The white moon William Carlos Williams The Cold Night
- It is full summer now, the heart of June; Oscar Wilde The Garden of Eros
- It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Oscar Wilde Humanitad
- It is nothing to me, the beauty said, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Nothing and Something
- It is useless, good woman, useless: the spark fails me. William Carlos Williams The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven
- It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting
- It shall flash through coming ages; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper President Lincoln’s Proclamation of Freedom
- It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm Robert Frost Our Singing Strength
- It was an icy day. William Carlos Williams Complete Destruction
- It was long I lay Robert Frost I Will Sing You One-O
- It was my sad and weary lot Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Fugitive’s Wife
- It went many years, Robert Frost The Lockless Door
- It’s a strange courage William Carlos Williams El Hombre
- Jesus, my gentle Jesus, James Weldon Johnson The Crucifixion
- Joy to my bosom! rest to my fear! Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Syrophenician Woman
- Judgment slumbered. God in mercy Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Retribution
- Lady of dusk wood fastnesses, William Carlos Williams First Praise
- Lancaster bore him—such a little town, Robert Frost A Hundred Collars
- Le garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire T. S. Eliot Dans le Restaurant
- Leaves are greygreen, William Carlos Williams Lines
- Let me confess that we two must be twain, William Shakespeare XXXVI
- Let me make the songs for the people, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Songs for the People
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare CXVI
- Let not my love be call’d idolatry, William Shakespeare CV
- Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Wilfred Owen Arms and the Boy
- Let those who are in favour with their stars William Shakespeare XXV
- Let us go then, you and I, T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Life to her no brightness brought, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Saved by Faith
- Life was trembling, faintly trembling Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Bondman
- Lift your flowers William Carlos Williams Chickory and Daisies
- Light hearted William twirled William Carlos Williams Light Hearted William
- Light! more light! the shadows deepen, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “Let the Light Enter!”
- Like a bad suitor desperate and trembling Fernando Pessoa XV
- Like a fawn from the arrow, startled and wild, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Eliza Harris
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, William Shakespeare LX
- Like as, to make our appetite more keen, William Shakespeare CXVIII
- Like Dives in the deeps of Hell Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Save the Boys
- Like to a ship that storms urge on its course, Fernando Pessoa XI
- Limb to limb, mouth to mouth William Carlos Williams Winter Quiet
- Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch William Shakespeare CXLIII
- Lo! in the orient when the gracious light William Shakespeare VII
- Look heah, Tunk!—Now, ain’t dis awful! T’ought I sont you off to school. James Weldon Johnson Tunk
- Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason James Weldon Johnson An Explanation
- Look heah! Is I evah tole you ’bout de curious way I won James Weldon Johnson The Rivals
- Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest William Shakespeare III
- Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage William Shakespeare XXVI
- Love and forgetting might have carried them Robert Frost Two Look at Two
- Love at the lips was touch Robert Frost To Earthward
- Love is like water or the air William Carlos Williams Riposte
- Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate, William Shakespeare CXLII
- Love is too young to know what conscience is; William Shakespeare CLI
- Make me a grave where’er you will, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bury Me in a Free Land
- Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise! T. S. Eliot Le Directeur
- Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Robert Frost The Death of the Hired Man
- Master only left old Mistus Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Deliverance
- Men of the North! it is no time Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Words for the Hour
- Men with picked voices chant the names William Carlos Williams Overture to a Dance of Locomotives
- Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war William Shakespeare XLVI
- Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath stell’d William Shakespeare XXIV
- Miserable little woman William Carlos Williams Divertimiento
- Miserly, is the best description of that poor fool William Carlos Williams Con Brio
- Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt, T. S. Eliot Aunt Helen
- Miss Nancy Ellicott T. S. Eliot Cousin Nancy
- Mother of flames, William Carlos Williams Crude Lament
- Mother, shed no mournful tears, James Weldon Johnson The Young Warrior
- Move him into the sun— Wilfred Owen Futility
- Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? William Shakespeare VIII
- My arms have mutinied against me—brutes! Wilfred Owen Wild with All Regrets
- My body is opaque to the soul. Jean Toomer Prayer
- My glass shall not persuade me I am old, William Shakespeare XXII
- My home is so glad, my heart is so light, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Wanderer’s Return
- My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Robert Frost After Apple-Picking
- My love is as a fever, longing still William Shakespeare CXLVII
- My love is strengthen’d, though more weak in seeming; William Shakespeare CII
- My love, and not I, is the egoist. Fernando Pessoa XVII
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; William Shakespeare CXXX
- My mother’s kiss, my mother’s kiss, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper My Mother’s Kiss
- My old man’s a white old man Langston Hughes Cross
- My shoes as I lean William Carlos Williams The Nightingales
- My soul is a stiff pageant, man by man, Fernando Pessoa XXII
- My soul looked down from a vague height with Death, Wilfred Owen The Show
- My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, William Shakespeare LXXXV
- My townspeople, beyond in the great world, William Carlos Williams Gulls
- My weary life, that lives unsatisfied Fernando Pessoa XXIX
- My wife’s new pink slippers William Carlos Williams The Thinker
- Nature’s first green is gold, Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay
- Nay, do not blush! I only heard Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Advice to the Girls
- Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, Oscar Wilde Panthea
- Never tell me that not one star of all Robert Frost A Star in a Stone-Boat
- Night closed o’er the battling army, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Sin of Achan
- No greater earthly boon than this I crave, James Weldon Johnson The Reward
- No longer mourn for me when I am dead William Shakespeare LXXI
- No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: William Shakespeare XXXV
- No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: William Shakespeare CXXIII
- Not for them the length’ning shadows Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Youth in Heaven
- Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck; William Shakespeare XIV
- Not marble, nor the gilded monuments William Shakespeare LV
- Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul William Shakespeare CVII
- Nothing to say to all those marriages! Robert Frost Place for a Third
- Now that I have cooled to you William Carlos Williams Postlude
- Now? Why— William Carlos Williams Virtue
- O black and unknown bards of long ago, James Weldon Johnson O Black and Unknown Bards
- O brothers mine, take care! Take care! James Weldon Johnson The White Witch
- O brothers mine, today we stand James Weldon Johnson Fifty Years
- O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!
- O Crimson salamander, William Carlos Williams The Ordeal
- O Lord, we come this morning James Weldon Johnson Listen Lord
- O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head, William Shakespeare CXLVIII
- O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun, James Weldon Johnson Prayer at Sunrise
- O my grey hairs! William Carlos Williams Spring
- O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, James Weldon Johnson Sleep
- O Southland! O Southland! James Weldon Johnson O Southland!
- O take my hand Walt Whitman! Walt Whitman Salut au Monde!
- O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power William Shakespeare CXXVI
- O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends William Shakespeare CI
- O whitened head entwined in turban gay, James Weldon Johnson The Black Mammy
- O, call not me to justify the wrong William Shakespeare CXXXIX
- O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, William Shakespeare CXI
- O, from what power hast thou this powerful might William Shakespeare CL
- O, how I faint when I of you do write, William Shakespeare LXXX
- O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem William Shakespeare LIV
- O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, William Shakespeare XXXIX
- O, lest the world should task you to recite William Shakespeare LXXII
- O, never say that I was false of heart, William Shakespeare CIX
- O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are William Shakespeare XIII
- Of course, I don’t know very much Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Aunt Chloe’s Politics
- Oh strong ridged and deeply hollowed William Carlos Williams Smell!
- Oh to be idle loving idleness! Fernando Pessoa IX
- Oh, black Persian cat! William Carlos Williams Mujer
- Oh, my soul had grown so weary Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Mother’s Blessing
- Oh, silver tree! Langston Hughes Jazzonia
- Oh! crush it not, that hope so blest, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper That Blessed Hope
- Old age is William Carlos Williams To Waken an Old Lady
- Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain Robert Frost A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books
- Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail, James Weldon Johnson The Temptress
- Old men who have studied William Carlos Williams The Old Men
- Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be James Weldon Johnson Omar
- On the day when youth is no more upon me William Carlos Williams To Wish Myself Courage
- Once der was a meetin’ in de wilderness, James Weldon Johnson Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All
- Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, Robert Frost The Runaway
- One leaves his leaves at home William Carlos Williams Great Mullen
- Only a little scrap of blue Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “A Little Child Shall Lead Them”
- Or I shall live your epitaph to make, William Shakespeare LXXXI
- Or whether doth my mind, being crown’d with you, William Shakespeare CXIV
- Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Robert Frost For Once, Then, Something
- Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us … Wilfred Owen Exposure
- Out in the cold mid the dreary night, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Out in the Cold
- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Walt Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- Out of the infinite sea of eternity James Weldon Johnson Life
- Out walking in the frozen swamp one grey day Robert Frost The Wood-Pile
- Outcast from her home in Syria Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Dedication Poem
- Paint me a cavernous waste shore T. S. Eliot Sweeney Erect
- Patting goodbye, doubtless they told the lad Wilfred Owen S.I.W.
- Pipit sate upright in her chair T. S. Eliot A Cooking Egg
- Polyphiloprogenitive T. S. Eliot Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
- Poor old Abner, old white-haired nigger! William Carlos Williams Time the Hangman
- Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, William Shakespeare CXLVI
- Pour O pour that parting soul in song, Jean Toomer Song of the Son
- Rather notice, mon cher, William Carlos Williams To a Solitary Disciple
- Red cradle of the night, William Carlos Williams Portent
- Red lips are not so red Wilfred Owen Greater Love
- Ring, aye, ring the freedom bell, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Freedom Bell
- Say not the age is hard and cold— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Present Age
- Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, William Shakespeare LXXXIX
- School is over. It is too hot William Carlos Williams The Lonely Street
- See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air James Weldon Johnson Brothers
- Seems lak to me de stars don’t shine so bright, James Weldon Johnson Sence You Went Away
- Served him right! How could he dare Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dismissal of Tyng
- Set ope all shutters, that the day come in Fernando Pessoa Epithalamium
- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare XVIII
- Sharers of a common country, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Home, Sweet Home
- She came from the East a fair, young bride, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Going East
- She leaned her head upon her hand Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Vashti
- She stood at Jesus’ feet, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Mary at the Feet of Christ
- “She’s built of steel James Weldon Johnson The Word of an Engineer
- Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye William Shakespeare LXII
- Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, William Shakespeare LXV
- Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; William Shakespeare CXIII
- Singing my days, Walt Whitman Passage to India
- Sit on the bed; I’m blind, and three parts shell, Wilfred Owen A Terre
- Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress, James Weldon Johnson Dat Gal o’ Mine
- Slowly o’er his darkened features Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Fugitive
- Snow: William Carlos Williams Blizzard
- So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, Wilfred Owen Parable of the Old Men and the Young
- So am I as the rich, whose blessed key William Shakespeare LII
- So are you to my thoughts as food to life, William Shakespeare LXXV
- So art thou broken in upon me, Apollo, William Carlos Williams An After Song
- So is it not with me as with that Muse William Shakespeare XXI
- So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse William Shakespeare LXXVIII
- So shall I live, supposing thou art true, William Shakespeare XCIII
- So, now I have confess’d that he is thine, William Shakespeare CXXXIV
- Sol, Sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone, James Weldon Johnson Down by the Carib Sea
- Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, William Shakespeare XCI
- Some leaves hang late, some fall William Carlos Williams The Soughing Wind
- Some men enjoy the constant strife James Weldon Johnson “Lazy”
- Some say the world will end in fire, Robert Frost Fire and Ice
- Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; William Shakespeare XCVI
- Something in me was born before the stars Fernando Pessoa XXIV
- Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, Robert Frost Mending Wall
- Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, James Weldon Johnson The Gift to Sing
- Sorrow is my own yard William Carlos Williams The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
- Spades take up leaves Robert Frost Gathering Leaves
- Spawn of Fantasies Mina Loy Songs to Joannes
- Stand on the highest pavement of the stair— T. S. Eliot La Figlia Che Piange
- Still I bring flowers William Carlos Williams Ad Infinitum
- Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, William Carlos Williams Play
- Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind; William Carlos Williams In Harbor
- Sweep the house clean, William Carlos Williams Love Song
- Sweet child, William Carlos Williams The Ogre
- Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said William Shakespeare LVI
- Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; William Shakespeare XL
- Take sackcloth of the darkest dye, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bible Defence of Slavery
- Take that, damn you; and that! William Carlos Williams Mezzo Forte
- Tell me, did the angels greet thee? Frances Ellen Watkins Harper To a Babe Smiling in Her Sleep
- Thank God for little children, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Thank God for Little Children
- Thank God that thou hast spoken Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lines to Charles Sumner
- That god forbid that made me first your slave, William Shakespeare LVIII
- That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, William Shakespeare LXX
- That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, William Shakespeare XLII
- That time of year thou mayst in me behold William Shakespeare LXXIII
- That you were once unkind befriends me now, William Shakespeare CXX
- The Archer is wake! William Carlos Williams Peace on Earth
- The birches are mad with green points William Carlos Williams Portrait of the Author
- The blue sky arching overhead, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Change
- The broad-backed hippopotamus T. S. Eliot The Hippopotamus
- The conies had their hiding-place, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper He “Had Not Where to Lay His Head”
- The corner of a great rain William Carlos Williams Contemporania
- The coroner’s merry little children William Carlos Williams Hic Jacet
- The dayseye hugging the earth William Carlos Williams Daisy
- The dew is on the grasses, dear, Georgia Douglas Johnson Youth
- The door was an absurd thing Mina Loy The Effectual Marriage
- The edge of the green wave whitely doth hiss Fernando Pessoa XXVIII
- The expense of spirit in a waste of shame William Shakespeare CXXIX
- The farm house lingers, though averse to square Robert Frost A Brook in the City
- The forward violet thus did I chide: William Shakespeare XCIX
- The glory of the day was in her face, James Weldon Johnson The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
- The half stripped trees William Carlos Williams Approach of Winter
- The hand of Fate cannot be stayed, James Weldon Johnson Fragment
- The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, Georgia Douglas Johnson The Heart of a Woman
- The hostess, in pink satin and blond hair—dressed William Carlos Williams The Delicacies
- The house had gone to bring again Robert Frost The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
- The light was faintly streaming Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Christian
- The little Love-god lying once asleep William Shakespeare CLIV
- The little sparrows William Carlos Williams Pastoral
- The living come with grassy tread Robert Frost In a Disused Graveyard
- The low beating of the tom-toms, Langston Hughes Danse Africaine
- The May sun—whom William Carlos Williams The Tulip Bed
- The mountain held the town as in a shadow Robert Frost The Mountain
- The murderer’s little daughter William Carlos Williams Sympathetic Portrait of a Child
- The murmurs of a distant strife Frances Ellen Watkins Harper A Mother’s Heroism
- The old black-man showed me William Carlos Williams Canthara
- The other two, slight air and purging fire, William Shakespeare XLV
- The prison-house in which I live Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Renewal of Strength
- The rain outside was cold in Hadrian’s soul. Fernando Pessoa Antinous
- The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript T. S. Eliot The Boston Evening Transcript
- The sale began—young girls were there, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Slave Auction
- The sky has given over William Carlos Williams Spring Storm
- The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue Jean Toomer Georgia Dusk
- The snow has ceased its fluttering flight, James Weldon Johnson Ghosts of the Old Year
- The sound of the closing outside door was all. Robert Frost The Valley’s Singing Day
- The strength that bore her on for years Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Queen
- The treacherous sands had caught our boat, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper A Story of the Rebellion
- The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Robert Frost On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
- The way a crow Robert Frost Dust of Snow
- The west was getting out of gold, Robert Frost Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
- The winter evening settles down T. S. Eliot Preludes
- The world begins again! William Carlos Williams The Birds
- The world is woven all of dream and error Fernando Pessoa XXVI
- Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; William Shakespeare XC
- Then I raised my head William Carlos Williams Winter Sunset
- Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface William Shakespeare VI
- There is a bird in the poplars! William Carlos Williams Metric Figure
- There was grief within our household Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Jamie’s Puzzle
- There were three in the meadow by the brook Robert Frost The Code
- There’s my things William Carlos Williams Portrait of a Woman in Bed
- They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, T. S. Eliot Morning at the Window
- They call me and I go William Carlos Williams Complaint
- They forced him into prison, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Died of Starvation
- They heard the South wind sighing Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Crocuses
- They robed her for another groom, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Bride of Death
- They scorned her for her sinning, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Contrast
- They sent him back to her. The letter came Robert Frost Not to Keep
- They shall see Him in the crimson flush Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Pure in Heart Shall See God
- They that have power to hurt and will do none, William Shakespeare XCIV
- Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, William Shakespeare CXXXII
- This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Oscar Wilde The Burden of Itys
- This plot of ground William Carlos Williams Dedication for a Plot of Ground
- This saying good-bye on the edge of the dark Robert Frost Good-Bye and Keep Cold
- Those hours, that with gentle work did frame William Shakespeare V
- Those lines that I before have writ do lie, William Shakespeare CXV
- Those lips that Love’s own hand did make William Shakespeare CXLV
- Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view William Shakespeare LXIX
- Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits, William Shakespeare XLI
- Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, William Shakespeare CXXXI
- Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, William Shakespeare CXXXVII
- Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing. Fernando Pessoa XXI
- Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Jean Toomer Storm Ending
- Thus can my love excuse the slow offence William Shakespeare LI
- Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, William Shakespeare LXVIII
- Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, William Shakespeare XXXI
- Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain William Shakespeare CXXII
- Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, William Shakespeare LXXVII
- Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee— Fernando Pessoa VII
- Tidings! sad tidings for the daughter of Ai, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Rizpah, the Daughter of Ai
- Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, William Shakespeare LXVI
- ’Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d, William Shakespeare CXXI
- To chase a never-reached mirage James Weldon Johnson Voluptas
- To drift with every passion till my soul Oscar Wilde Hélas!
- To drive Paul out of any lumber camp Robert Frost Paul’s Wife
- To fling my arms wide Langston Hughes Dream Variation
- To me, fair friend, you never can be old, William Shakespeare CIV
- To think to know the country and not know Robert Frost A Hillside Thaw
- Too frail to soar—a feeble thing— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Sparrow’s Fall
- Tracks of rain and light linger in William Carlos Williams Romance Moderne
- Turn my daughters, full of woe, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Ruth and Naomi
- ’Twas a fearful night—the tempest raved Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Death of the Old Sea King
- ’Twas a night of dreadful horror— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Night of Death
- ’Twas at early morning, James Weldon Johnson Venus in a Garden
- Twelve o’clock. T. S. Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy Night
- Twenty years go by on noiseless feet, James Weldon Johnson From the Spanish
- Two little children sit by my side, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Mother’s Treasures
- Two loves I have of comfort and despair, William Shakespeare CXLIV
- Uncle Jacob often told us, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Church Building
- Under a burning tropic sun, James Weldon Johnson The Color Sergeant
- Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend William Shakespeare IV
- Upon the table in their bowl William Carlos Williams The Disputants
- Vast and grey, the sky William Carlos Williams The Desolate Field
- Very soon the Yankee teachers Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Learning to Read
- W’en de leaves begin to fall, James Weldon Johnson The Seasons
- W’en ole Mister Sun gits tiah’d a-hangin’ James Weldon Johnson A Plantation Bacchanal
- Wanderer moon William Carlos Williams Summer Song
- Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, William Shakespeare LXXXVI
- We are born at sunset and we die ere morn, Fernando Pessoa XIV
- We are in Fate and Fate’s and do but lack Fernando Pessoa XXV
- We are the hollow men T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men
- We chanced in passing by that afternoon Robert Frost The Black Cottage
- We never joy enjoy to that full point Fernando Pessoa XVI
- We pass and dream. Earth smiles. Virtue is rare. Fernando Pessoa Inscriptions
- We would see Jesus; earth is grand, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “Sir, We Would See Jesus”
- We’d found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, Wilfred Owen The Sentry
- We’ve room to build holy altars Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Light in Darkness
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, William Shakespeare XXVII
- Webster was much possessed by death T. S. Eliot Whispers of Immortality
- Weep not, weep not, James Weldon Johnson Go Down Death
- Welcome children of the Spring, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Dandelions
- Well, Lizzie Anderson! seventeen men—and William Carlos Williams To a Friend
- Well, mind, here we have William Carlos Williams Promenade
- Well, one morning real early Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Reunion
- Well, son, I’ll tell you: Langston Hughes Mother to Son
- Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy, William Shakespeare CXXV
- What is your substance, whereof are you made, William Shakespeare LIII
- What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth
- What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, William Shakespeare CXIX
- What tree may not the fig be gathered from? Robert Frost Wild Grapes
- What’s in the brain that ink may character William Shakespeare CVIII
- When a dark and fearful strife Frances Ellen Watkins Harper An Appeal to the American People
- When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, James Weldon Johnson Beauty That Is Never Old
- When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, William Shakespeare II
- When I am alone I am happy. William Carlos Williams Waiting
- When I consider everything that grows William Shakespeare XV
- When I do count the clock that tells the time, William Shakespeare XII
- When I do think my meanest line shall be Fernando Pessoa III
- When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced William Shakespeare LXIV
- When I have sense of what to sense appears, Fernando Pessoa XXXII
- When I should be asleep to mine own voice Fernando Pessoa XIII
- When I was younger William Carlos Williams Pastoral
- When in the chronicle of wasted time William Shakespeare CVI
- When in the widening circle of rebirth Fernando Pessoa XX
- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, Walt Whitman When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- When morning shows her first faint flush, James Weldon Johnson Morning, Noon and Night
- When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, William Shakespeare XLIII
- When Mr. Apollinax visited the United States T. S. Eliot Mr. Apollinax
- When my love swears that she is made of truth William Shakespeare CXXXVIII
- When thou shalt be disposed to set me light William Shakespeare LXXXVIII
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought William Shakespeare XXX
- When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, William Shakespeare XXIX
- Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long William Shakespeare C
- Where shall I find you, William Carlos Williams Sub Terra
- Whether we write or speak or do but look Fernando Pessoa I
- Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, William Shakespeare LXXIX
- whisper of yellow globes Jean Toomer Her Lips Are Copper Wire
- Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wilfred Owen Mental Cases
- Who is it that says most? which can say more William Shakespeare LXXXIV
- Who will believe my verse in time to come, William Shakespeare XVII
- Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy “Will,” William Shakespeare CXXXV
- Whose woods these are I think I know. Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day William Shakespeare XXXIV
- Why do I write today? William Carlos Williams Apology
- Why is my verse so barren of new pride, William Shakespeare LXXVI
- Why make so much of fragmentary blue Robert Frost Fragmentary Blue
- Will it never be possible William Carlos Williams A Portrait in Greys
- “Willis, I didn’t want you here today: Robert Frost The Self-Seeker
- Winter has spent this snow William Carlos Williams M. B.
- Winter is long in this climate William Carlos Williams March
- Within this black hive to-night Jean Toomer Beehive
- Witness, would you— William Carlos Williams Keller Gegen Dom
- Would I might mend the fabric of my youth Georgia Douglas Johnson Welt
- Ye are builders, little builders, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Little Builders
- Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! William Carlos Williams Primrose
- Yes, there is one thing braver than all flowers; William Carlos Williams Immortal
- Yes! Ethiopia yet shall stretch Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Ethiopia
- You exquisite chunk of mud William Carlos Williams K. McB.
- “You know Orion always comes up sideways. Robert Frost The Star-Splitter
- You know there is not much William Carlos Williams To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies
- “You ought to have seen what I saw on my way Robert Frost Blueberries
- You say love is this, love is that: William Carlos Williams Memory of April
- You sullen pig of a man William Carlos Williams Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!
- You who are so mighty, William Carlos Williams Appeal
- You who had the sense William Carlos Williams Invitation
- You’ve heard no doubt of Irish bulls, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lines to Miles O’Reiley
- Young man— James Weldon Johnson The Prodigal Son
- Your land is crowned with regal men, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Our English Friends
- Your love and pity doth the impression fill William Shakespeare CXII
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