Alphabetical List of First Lines

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain

All that I know

 

But do not let us quarrel any more

Gr-r-r—there go, my heart’s abhorrence!

Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare

Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick

 

I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!

I only knew one poet in my life

I said—Then, dearest, since ’t is so

I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he

It once might have been, once only

It was roses, roses, all the way

I wonder do you feel to-day

Just for a handful of silver he left us

Karshish, the picker-up of learning’s crumbs

Let us begin and carry up this corpse

My first thought was, he lied in every word

Never any more

Never the time and the place

No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since

Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!

Oh, to be in England now that April’s there

Oh, what a dawn of day!

Room after room

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea

See, as the prettiest graves will do in time

Shakespeare!—to such names sounding, what succeeds

Shall I sonnet-sing you about myself?

So, the year’s done with!

Stop, let me have the truth of that!

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall

That was I, you heard last night

The gray sea and the long black land

The rain set early in to-night

There’s heaven above, and night by night

The year’s at the spring

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!

Wanting is—what?

What is he buzzing in my ears?

Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles

“Why?” Because all I haply can and do

[’Will sprawl, now that the heat of day is best

You know, we French stormed Ratisbon