Index of First Lines

A boy skips flat stones out to sea – each does fine 1053

A city plum is not a plum 776

A constant keeping-past of shaken trees 795

A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket 1009

A horn hung on an oak 1042

A lake 719

A lamb could not get born. Ice wind 1066

A misremembered lyric: a soft catch of its song 1098

A mountain’s giddy height I sought 800

A picture has no grammar. It has neither evil nor good. It has only colour, say orange or mauve 1016

A silent conquering army 1026

A slumber did my spirit seal 566

A square, squat room (a cellar on promotion) 802

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still 885

A sweet disorder in the dresse 294

A thousand martyrs I have made 356

A touch of cold in the Autumn night 832

A way feare with thy projectes, noe false fyre 151

A worm fed on the heart of Corinth 853

A wreathed garland of deserved praise 249

A year ago I fell in love with the functional ward 981

About suffering they were never wrong 936

About ten days or so 1100

Above her face 1062

Absence, the noble truce 169

Absent from thee I languish still 393

Accept thou Shrine of my Dead Saint 267

Adam lay y-bownden bownden in a bond 46

Adieu, farewell earths blisse 176

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever 534

Ae weet forenicht i’ the yow-trummle 889

After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains 609

Aftir that hervest inned had hise sheves 41

Against an elm a sheep was ty’d 442

Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men 1008

Aged man, that mowes these fields 313

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain 725

Ah friend, ’tis true – this truth you lovers know – 429

‘Ah, he was a grand man’ 1071

Ah! no, not these! 812

Ah! sad wer we as we did peäce 750

Ah Sun-flower! weary of time 540

Al night by the rosë, rosë 4

Alas! for Peter not an helping Hand 602

Alas my love, ye do me wrong 103

Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace 90

All day and night, save winter, every weather 844

All hushed and still within the house 706

All is lithogenesis – or lochia 910

All my past life is mine noe more 355

All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids 760

Always the same hills 1007

Amazing monster! that, for aught I know 691

An Age in her Embraces past 394

An affable Irregular 893

An incident here and there 953

Ancient Person, for whom I 392

And as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold spinie Grashoppers 205

And as in winter time when Jove his cold-sharpe javelines throwes 205

And at the upper end of that faire rowme 117

And call yee this to utter what is just 154

And did those feet in ancient time 584

‘And first the walles and dark entrie I sought’ 90

And here the precious dust is layd 271

And now behold your tender Nurse the Ayre 148

And the deepened stillness as a calm, cast over us 922

And thou wert sad – yet I was not with thee 680

And what’s your tune? 716

Another and another and another 721

Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees 865

April is the cruellest month, breeding 876

As a child, they could not keep me from wells 1008

As bryght Phebus, scheyn soverane hevynnys e 67

As he came near death things grew shallower for us 1012

As I drive to the junction of lane and highway 836

As I in hoarie Winters night stoode shivering in the snow 141

As I lay asleep in Italy 615

As I was walking all alane 580

As I was walking in the Mall of late 374

As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay 656

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame 790

As some brave Admiral, in former War 363

As some fond virgin, whom her mother’s care 424

As virtuous men passe mildly away 227

As when it hapneth that some lovely Towne 236

As you came from the holy land 109

Ash on an old man’s sleeve 941

Aske me no more whither doe stray 272

At dawn she unmasked 812

At dinner she is hostess, I am host 746

At half-past eight o’clock, booms, hencoops, spars 619

At night, sometimes, when I cannot sleep 1009

At noon, in the dead centre of a faith 1079

At Polwart on the Green 428

At Timon’s Villa let us pass a day 446

At the large foot of a fair hollow tree 330

At the round earths imagin’d corners, blow 231

Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods 1056

Avenge O Lord thy slaughter’d Saints, whose bones 352

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night 732

Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair 674

Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho! 191

Barely a twelvemonth after 975

Basho, coming 1044

Batter my heart, three person’d God, for, you 232

Be plain in Dress and sober in your Diet 450

Be this was said a grondyn dart leit he glide 66

Because I liked you better 920

Before the Moone should circlewise close both hir homes in one 98

Before we shall again behold 350

Behind her big fan 812

Behind his wife stood, ever fixed alone 320

Beholde this fle- 94

Below the surface-stream, shallow and light 767

Best and brightest, come away 651

Between the brown hands of a server-lad 859

Bitwenë March and Avëril 5

Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying 811

Borgia, thou once wert almost too august 680

Bothered by his wife 1063

’Bout th’ Husband Oke, the Vine 275

Brag, sweet tenor bull 1003

Brick dust in sunlight 982

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art 640

Brisk chaunticleer his mattins had begun 481

— Brook and road 699

… but chief of all 342

But for lust we could be friends 962

but now lead on 339

But sweet sister death has gone debauched today 923

But there are 609

‘But why do you go?’ said the lady, while both sat under the yew 741

Butt stay my thoughts, make end, geve fortune way 221

By our first strange and fatall interview 161

By Saynt Mary, my lady 75

By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand 840

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea 806

By the waters of Babylon 79

By this he knew she wept with waking eyes 746

Call for the Robin-Red-brest and the wren 209

Calm is the morn without a sound 714

Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre 143

Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe 215

Can death be faithfull or the grave be just 362

Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night 125

Careful Observers may fortel the Hour 415

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings 1064

Children, if you dare to think 900

Children of wealth in your warm nursery 927

Chloe, in Verse by your commande I write 356

Christ was the word that spake it 100

Christ, whose Glory fills the Skies 468

Christ’s teeth ascended with him into heaven 1068

Chronos, Chronos, mend thy Pace 405

Clay is the word and clay is the flesh 946

Close and slow, summer is ending in Hampshire 932

Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee 706

‘Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height’ 709

Come live with mee, and be my love 174

Come my CELIA, let us prove 190

Come unto these yellow sands 208

Comes to mind as another small upheaval 1078

Condemn’d to hope’s delusive mine 519

Constant Penelope, sends to thee carelesse Ulisses 107

Corinna, Pride of Drury-Lane 452

Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head 148

Cou’d our First Father, at his toilsome Plough 412

Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown 328

Creation’s mildest charms are there combin’d 494

Crossing alone the nighted ferry 919

Crowding this beach 1028

Cyriack, this three years day these eys though clear 353

Dark house, by which once more I stand 713

Dazel’d thus, with height of place 311

Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush 775

Dear Cloe, how blubber’d is that pretty Face? 426

Dear little Bog-Face 945

Dearest, it was a night 825

Death be not proud, though some have called thee 231

Deere to my soule, then leave me not forsaken 126

Descended of an ancient Line 381

Design, or chance, makes others wive 279

Do not go gentle into that good night 968

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short 265

Done is a battell on the dragon blak 63

Doris, I that could repell 310

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet 804

Down the close darkening lanes they sang their way 858

Down to me quickly, down! I am such dust 826

Downe in the depth of mine iniquity 171

Draw me nere, draw me nere 72

Dulled by the slow glare of the yellow bulb 951

Each inmost peece in me is thine 155

Early, each morning, Martha Blake 991

Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, vaulty, voluminous,… stupendous 794

Earth has not any thing to shew more fair 590

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound 111

Erthë tok of erthe 6

Even in the bluest noonday of July 799

Even now there are places where a thought might grow 1045

Even suche is tyme that takes in trust 223

Every day I see from my window 1015

Everyone suddenly burst out singing 860

Everything passes and vanishes 792

Evil, if rightly understood 508

Fair Amoret is gone astray 410

Faire Friend, ’tis true, your beauties move 265

Fall leaves fall die flowers away 706

Far in a western brookland 816

Farewel, too little and too lately known 380

Farewell, Life! My senses swim 700

Farewell sweet Boy, complaine not of my truth 170

Farewell, this world! I take my leve for evere 70

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy 215

Father of lights! what Sunnie seed 316

Fayre Summer droops, droope men and beasts therefore 176

Feare no more the heate o’ th’ Sun 200

Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest 791

Fine knacks for ladies, cheape choise brave and new 178

Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June 841

Five years have passed; five summers, with the length 554

Followe thy faire sunne unhappy shaddowe 183

Fond Painter, why woulds’t thou my picture draw? 237

For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love 224

For maple and for pine 1055

For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend 336

For shame, thou everlasting Woer 307

For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent 488

Forbear bold Youth, all’s Heaven here 340

Forget not yet the tryde entent 82

Forsaken woods, trees with sharpe storms opprest 151

Fra banc to banc fra wod to wod I rin 110

From a friend’s friend I taste friendship 945

From Frozen Climes, and Endless Tracks of Snow 413

From my father my strong heart 1007

From the hagg and hungrie goblin 212

Full fadom five thy Father lies 209

Gasholders, russet among fields 1025

Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may 294

George the Third 898

‘Get up!’ the caller calls, ‘Get up!’ 789

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet 186

Gloria mundi est 7

Glory be to God for dappled things 778

Go forth myn hert wyth my lady 46

Go, litel boke, go, litel myn tragedye 12

Go lovely Rose 278

God give me strength to lead a double life 1100

God hath the whole world perfect made, and free 210

God moves in a mysterious way 511

God of our fathers, known of old 818

Goe hurtles soules, whom mischiefe hath opprest 103

Goe soule the bodies guest 126

Gold and al this worldës wyn 7

Gone, gone again 855

Good, and great GOD, can I not thinke of thee 217

‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the General said 860

Good-night to the Season! ’tis over! 663

Grass of levity 201

Grasshopper thrice-happy! who 310

Great Folks are of a finer Mold 449

Gut eates all day, and lechers all the night 217

Had we but World enough, and Time 368

Happy Insect, what can be 319

Happy those early dayes! when I 303

Hard by the lilied Nile I saw 719

Hark, all ye lovely saints above 159

Harke, al you ladies that do sleep 121

Harke how my Celia, with the choyce 270

Harmonious powers with nature work 670

Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion 512

Having been tenant long to a rich Lord 243

He could raise Scruples dark and nice 326

He did not wear his scarlet coat 819

He disappeared in the dead of winter 929

He first deceas’d: She for a little tri’d 276

He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed 776

He is gone on the mountain 603

He sees the gentle stir of birth 711

He sipped at a weak hock and seltzer 921

He that but once too nearly hears 727

He was lodging above in Coom 830

He was the first always: Fortune 739

Hear the voice of the Bard! 538

Hearke, now everything is still 212

Heere uninterr’d suspendes (though not to save 242

Hence to deep Acheron they take their way 403

Her Chariot ready straight is made 240

Here are two pictures from my father’s head 1037

Here I am, an old man in a dry month 871

Here, in this little Bay 777

Here Johnson lies; what human can deny 513

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can 513

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such 513

Here lies the best and worst of Fate 291

Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust 292

Here lies wrapt up in forty thousand towels 467

Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind 514

Here should my wonder dwell, and here my praise 276

Here’s to the maiden of Bashful fifteen 516

Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost 835

Heroes, and Kings! your distance keep 463

He’s gone, and all our plans 860

High diddle diddle 495

His bodie was as straight as Circes wand 156

His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn’d 110

His Grace! impossible! what dead! 430

His hand came from the east 987

Horse Boyle was called Horse Boyle because of his brother Mule 1087

Hot sunne, coole fire, temperd with sweet aire 167

Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake 938

How comes it, Flora, that, whenever we 761

How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean 247

How Life and Death in Thee 285

How like an Angel came I down! 345

How many times Nights silent Queene her Face 218

How often have I carried our family word 1078

How sleep the Brave, who sink to Rest 477

How small, of all that human hearts endure 495

How vainly men themselves amaze 372

Hurry me Nymphs! O, hurry me 687

I always remember your beautiful flowers 966

I am a man now 982

I am in love, meantime, you think; no doubt you would think so 731

‘I am just going outside and may be some time’ 1083

I am the ancient Apple-Queen 804

I am – yet what I am, none cares or knows 710

I cannot tell you how it was 739

I caught a little ladybird 776

I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- 778

I could not look on Death, which being known 862

I couldn’t touch a stop and turn a screw 808

I did not live until this time 340

‘I fear thee, ancient Mariner! 607

I finde hou whilom ther was on 37

I found a ball of grass among the hay 688

I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he 246

I had come to the edge of the water 1080

I have been here before 751

I have been noting events forty years 904

I have been young, and now am not too old 899

I have got into the slow train 1051

I have laborede sore and suffered deyyth 49

I have lived in important places, times 980

I have met them at close of day 869

I have put on a grotesque mask 1101

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest 976

I leant upon a coppice gate 824

I love my work and my children. God 1011

I love you, rotten 879

I met a traveller from an antique land 611

I met ayont the cairney 890

I might, unhappie word, ô me, I might 120

I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind 238

I only knew one poet in my life 722

I ordered this, this clean wood box 1001

I place my hope on the water 1096

I play a spade: – Such strange new faces 676

I pray thee Nymph Penaeis stay, I chase not as a fo 95

I rode one evening with Count Maddalo 653

I saw Eternity the other night 305

I saw faire Cloris walke alone 321

I say although the fire were wondrous hot 122

I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure 227

I see as through a skylight in my brain 1014

I sing of Brooks, of Blossomes, Birds, and Bowers 293

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife 711

I struck the board, and cry’d, No more 246

I syng of a mayden that is makëles 47

I tell my secret? No indeed, not I 740

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless 698

I that in heill wes and gladnes 59

I’ the how-dumb-deid o’ the cauld hairst nicht 889

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day 794

I walk through the long schoolroom questioning 894

I wander thro’ each charter’d street 541

I was angry with my friend 542

I was going up to say something 1037

I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare 257

I was of delicate mind. I went aside for my needs 862

I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile! 591

I watch the happier people of the house 802

I went to the Garden of Love 541

‘I wille you allë swalewë withouten any bot 8

I wonder do you feel today 726

I wrote: in the dark cavern of our birth 987

Ich am of Irlande 3

If a pig wore a wig 776

If all the world and love were young 175

If any question why we died 862

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath 859

If ought of Oaten Stop, or Pastoral Song 477

If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream 201

If you complain your Flames are hot 388

I’m going out to dine at Gray’s 884

I’m wearin’ awa’, John 661

I’me made in sport by Nature, when 395

Imprimis – My departed Shade I trust 480

In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland 781

In a herber green asleep whereas I lay 93

In a solitude of the sea 831

In a somur sesoun whan softe was the sonne 15

In all the space of space 1094

In my childhood trees were green 940

In Night when colours all to blacke are cast 172

In our town, people live in rows 844

In pious times, e’r Priest-craft did begin 376

In Saturn’s Reign, at Nature’s Early Birth 396

In Siberia’s wastes 707

In such a Night, when every louder Wind 417

In summers heate and mid-time of the day 159

In that instant 1029

In that same Gardin all the goodly flowres 114

In the first taxi he was alone tra-la 991

In the forest of Noyous Hevynes 44

In the third decade of March 1069

In the way that the most of the wind 1038

In the wrackes of Walsingham 177

In this cold Monument lies one 390

In this little Urne is laid 296

In this small fort, besieged with snow 478

In this strang labourinth how shall I turne? 234

In this world (the Isle of Dreames) 296

In to thir dirk and drublie dayis 64

In unexperienc’d Infancy 347

In what torne ship soever I embarke 232

In winter, when the fields are white 773

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 604

Indoors the tang of a tiny oil lamp. Outdoors 977

Into my heart an air that kills 816

Is she mine, – and for life 813

Is there a solitary wretch who hies 546

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime 334

It fell upon a holly eve 100

It had been badly shot 1080

It is a fearful thing to be 876

It is an ancyent Marinere 547

It is December in Wicklow 1043

It is early morning within this room: without 956

It is most curious to see what a power a few calm words (in 731

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down 1073

It is summer, and we are in a house 1032

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange 963

It little profits that an idle king 696

It once might have been, once only 752

It was my thirtieth year to heaven 960

It was the first gift he ever gave her 1096

It was the Winter wilde 280

It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined 1099

‘Ithin the woodlands, flow’ry gleäded 734

It’s Lamkin was a mason good 587

James Cagney was the one up both our streets 1076

Jean-Baptiste Chardin 1091

Just like unto a Nest of Boxes round 314

Just when our drawing-rooms begin to blaze 521

Kilbarchan now may say alas! 252

King of the perennial holly-graus 1023

Last night we had a thunderstorm in style 791

Late in the Forest I did Cupid see 235

Lawne as white as driven Snow 207

Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom 687

Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust 153

Leaving the white glow of filling stations 1067

Let Earth and Heaven combine 476

Let me not to the marriage of true mindes 197

Let the bird of lowdest lay 181

Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceived 203

Let them bestow on ev’ry Airth a Limb 301

Let us go then, you and I 847

Life is a jest; and all things show it 429

Like as the waves make towards the pibled shore 194

Like to the Artick needle, that doth guide 250

Living in a wide landscape are the flowers 952

London Bridge is broken down 474

Long time a child, and still a child, when years 682

Long time hath Christ, long time I must confess 150

Long time he lay upon the sunny hill 888

Long-expected one and twenty 518

‘Look not thou on Beauty’s charming 612

Look there! What a wheaten 999

Lord Thomas and Fair Annet 498

Lord when the wise men came from Farr 266

Lost to the world; lost to my selfe; alone 296

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back 249

Love in Fantastique Triumph satt 355

Love is the Peace, whereto all thoughts doe strive 171

Love me broughte 8

Love seeketh not Itself to please 539

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher 886

Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show 119

Lully, lulley; lully, lulley 70

Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use 370

Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace 138

Lyke as the armed knyght 87

Madam Life’s a piece in bloom 822

Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes 747

Maiden in the morë lay 3

Maides to bed, and cover coale 207

Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell 273

Man is a Glas: Life is 201

Man’s and woman’s bodies lay without souls 1023

Man’s Life 201

Me not no Oxford don 1084

Methought I saw my late espoused Saint 351

Miles of pram in the wind and Pam in the gorse track 936

Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt 851

Mobile, immaculate and austere 978

Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau 584

Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day 139

Move him into the sun 857

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold 606

Muses helpe me, sorrow swarmeth 129

My comforts drop and melt away like snow 248

My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely 962

My dearest dust could not thy hasty day 234

‘My deere doghter Venus,’ quod Saturne 24

My fourthe housbonde was a revelour 26

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains 635

My house, I say. But hark to the sunny doves 799

My Love is of a birth as rare 371

My lute, awake! Perfourme the last 81

My luve is like a red, red rose 544

My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined 542

My prime of youth is but a froste of cares 106

My Son, these maxims make a rule 525

My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew 862

My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love 183

My true love hath my hart, and I have his 108

Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know 83

Nature, and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night 459

Nature selects the longest way 817

Naughty Paughty Jack-a-Dandy 435

Nay, Ivy, nay, hyt shal not be, iwys 49

‘Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? 545

Ne’er fash your thumb what gods decree 518

Nell 899

Never seek to tell thy love 537

Never weather-beaten Saile more willing bent to shore 211

Nightmare of beasthood, snorting, how to wake 1024

No, no; for my Virginity 427

No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist 639

No, no, no, I know I was not important as I moved 981

Nobody heard him, the dead man 977

Not a line of her writing have I 823

Not every man has gentians in his house 907

Not marble, nor the guilded monuments 194

Not mine owne feares, nor the prophetick soule 196

Not only how far away, but the way that you say it 949

Nothing but No and I, and I and No 163

Nothing so true as what you once let fall 454

Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye 838

Now bygynneth Glotoun for to go to shryfte 17

Now fades the last long streak of snow 716

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour 841

Now, I gain the Mountain’s Brow 436

Now is Jonas the Jwe jugged to drowne 31

Now is the time for the burning of the leaves 957

Now Israel 301

Now mirk December’s dowie face 509

Now rides this renk thurgh the ryalme of Logres 33

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white 709

Now the leaves are falling fast 917

Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne softe 11

Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames 285

‘Now when King Offa was alive and dead’ 1026

Now winter nights enlarge 220

Nowe, Parott, my swete byrde, speke owte yet ons agayn 76

O DAVID, highest in the list 491

O happy dames, that may embrace 89

‘O ladyis fair of Troy and Grece, attend’ 54

O Love, be fed with apples while you may 899

O luely, luely cam she in 914

O perfite light, quhilk schaid away 163

O ragyng Seas 93

O Rose thou art sick 539

O roving Muse, recal that wond’rous Year 423

O sweet incendiary! shew here thy art 312

O tender time that love thinks long to see 783

O wha’s the bride that cairries the bunch 890

O what a strange parcel of creatures are we 528

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms 640

O where ha’ you been, Lord Randal my son? 578

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being 642

O zummer clote! when the brook’s a-glidèn 698

Oblique light on the trite, on brick and tile 1077

Obscurest night involved the sky 582

Odysseus rested on his oar and saw 1033

O’er me alas! thou dost too much prevail 407

OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit 333

Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers 599

Oh that my Lungs could bleat like butter’d pease 322

Oh thou that swing’st upon the waving haire 299

Oh wert thou in the cauld blast 567

Oh what a pity, Oh! don’t you agree 897

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? 920

Old and abandon’d by each venal friend 504

Old Fitz, who from your suburb grange 792

Old houses were scaffolding once 833

Old Man, or Lad’s-love, – in the name there’s nothing 854

Old Yew, which graspest at the stones 713

On a holy day when sails were blowing southward 925

On a squeaking cart, they push the usual stuff 1015

On Sundays I watch the hermits coming out of their holes 1102

On the day of the explosion 1041

One by one they appear in 986

Only think, dearest Louisa, what fearful scenes we have witnessed! 730

Orphan in my first years, I early learnt 671

Our God, our Help in Ages past 427

Our youth was happy: why repine 720

Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night 843

Out of their slumber Europeans spun 950

Out on the lawn I lie in bed 914

Out upon it, I have lov’d 323

Over Sir John’s hill 966

Pan’s Syrinx was a Girle indeed 125

Past ruin’d Ilion Helen lives 680

Perhaps you may of Priam’s Fate enquire 400

Phillips! whose touch harmonious could remove 468

Phillis, let’s shun the common Fate 407

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead 878

Pike, three inches long, perfect 979

Pious Celinda goes to Pray’rs 409

Pity the poor weightlifter 1065

Pleasure it is 78

Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know 606

Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts 767

Poor Paddy Maguire, a fourteen-hour day 946

Poore bird, I doe not envie thee 323

Praisd be Dianas faire and harmles light 129

Pray how did she look? Was she pale, was she wan? 515

Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age 243

Pressed by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides 527

Promise me no promises 814

‘Proud Maisie is in the wood 611

Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me 1039

Quhy dois your brand sae drop wi’ bluid 497

Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain 856

Reader 252

Remember, imbeciles and wits 887

Remember now thy Creatour in the days of thy youth, while the evil daies come not, nor the yeeres drawe nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them 204

Remember thee, remember thee! 650

Riverbank, the long rigs 1032

Room after room 722

Rose-cheekt Lawra come 185

Sad is the burying in the sunshine 663

Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate 646

Sand, caravans, and teetering sea-edge graves 1075

Sand has the ants, clay ferny weeds for play 879

Says Tweed to Till 662

Sche broghte him to his chambre tho 39

Seal up the book, all vision’s at an end 472

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness 638

See the Chariot at hand here of Love 264

See the smoking bowl before us 565

See, they return; ah, see the tentative 833

Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing 160

Sees not my love how Time resumes 279

Seventeen years ago you said 845

Seventy feet down 1040

Shaking the black earth 1063

Shall I compare thee to a Summers day? 193

She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways 566

She looked over his shoulder 970

She sat on a willow-trunk 1010

She was skilled in music and the dance 965

Sheepheard, what’s Love, I pray thee tell? 173

Shelley and jazz and lieder and love and hymn-tunes 934

Shephard loveth thow me vell? 300

Ship-broken men whom stormy seas sore toss 211

Silence, and stealth of dayes! ’tis now 304

Silent is the house: all are laid asleep 712

Since Bonny-boots was dead, that so divinely 150

Since that this thing we call the world 290

Since ther’s no helpe, Come let us kisse and part 223

Sir Drake whom well the world’s end knew 276

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills 937

Smile, smile 445

‘So careful of the type?’ but no 715

So Good-luck came, and on my roofe did light 295

So, I have seen a man killed! An experience, that, among others! 729

So much for Julia. Now we’ll turn to Juan 617

So smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry is thy voice 293

So, we’ll go no more a roving 679

Soe well I love thee, as without thee I 241

Softly the civilized 944

Sol thro’ white Curtains shot a tim’rous Ray 419

Some day I will go to Aarhus 1030

Sometimes in the over-heated house, but not for long 838

Spies, you are lights in state, but of base stuffe 216

Sprawled on the crates and sacks in the rear of the truck 944

St. Agnes’ Eve – Ah, bitter chill it was! 624

Stand close around, ye Stygian set 680

Standing under the greengrocer’s awning 1085

Still to be neat, still to be drest 191

Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe 88

Strange the Formation of the Eely Race 431

Straws like tame lightnings lie about the grass 974

Stroke the small silk with your whispering hands 1057

Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks 1095

Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven 837

Summer is fading 999

Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow 758

Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight 224

Sweet was the sound when oft at evening’s close 504

Sweete Soule of goodnesse, in whose Saintlike brest 255

Swept into limbo is the host 803

Swerving east, from rich industrial shadows 997

Take, take this cosse, atonys, atonys, my hert! 45

Take telegraph wires, a lonely moor 1094

Tall nettles cover up, as they have done 855

Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings 896

Television aerials, Chinese characters 1015

Tell me no more of minds embracing minds 306

Tell me not here, it needs not saying 875

Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkinde 297

That civilisation may not sink 928

That is no country for old men. The young 892

That time of yeeare thou maist in me behold 195

That was the top of the walk, when he said 839

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall 692

The accursèd power which stands on Privilege 884

The age demanded an image 867

The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise 1097

The apparition of these faces in the crowd 833

The autumn leaves that strew the brooks 1047

The beauty of Israel is slaine upon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen! 202

The bees build in the crevices 894

The bicycles go by in twos and threes 919

The black flies kept nagging in the heat 1057

The bloudy trunck of him who did possesse 292

The blue jay with a crest on his head 883

The boy stood on the burning deck 668

The cards are shuffled and the deck 947

The child not yet is lulled to rest 811

The cold transparent ham is on my fork 691

The Corn was Orient and Immortal Wheat 344

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day 484

The daw 438

The darkness crumbles away 852

The Day’s grown old, the fainting Sun 389

The dead on all sides 1062

The evening oer the meadow seems to stoop 680

The eye can hardly pick them out 973

The eyes that mock me sign the way 891

The feelings I don’t have I don’t have 897

The feverish room and that white bed 818

The fields were bleached white 948

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower 909

The forward Youth that would appear 364

The fountain plays 1013

The Frost performs its secret ministry 558

The Garden called Gethsemane 862

The gaunt brown walls 803

The glories of our blood and state 291

The Gods, by right of Nature, must possess 395

The Gods of old are silent on their shore 649

The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen 971

The Helmett now an hive for Bees becomes 349

The high hills have a bitterness 879

The hills step off into whiteness 1000

The hop-poles stand in cones 886

The huge wound in my head began to heal 973

The idea of trust, or 1049

The king sits in Dumferling toune 495

The Lady Mary Villers lyes 271

The laird o’Cockpen, he’s proud and he’s great 660

The languid lady next appears in state 434

The last and greatest Herauld of Heavens King 235

The laws of God, the laws of man 873

The light of evening, Lissadell 908

The little hedge-row birds 553

The longe love that in my thought doeth harbar 79

The LORD will happiness divine 517

The loud Report through Lybian Cities goes 402

The lowest trees have tops, the Ant her gall 184

The Maiden caught me in the Wild 585

The Merchant, to secure his Treasure 412

The merthe of alle this londe 48

The mosquito knows full well, small as he is 897

The mother of the Muses, we are taught 751

The mountain sheep are sweeter 675

The night is darkening round me 705

The noon heat in the yard 1034

The old pond full of flags and fenced around 689

The One remains, the many change and pass 645

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea 772

The Pansie, Thistle, all with prickles set 218

The piers are pummelled by the waves 969

The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please 139

The princes of Mercia were badger and raven 1025

The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves 807

The Robin and the Wren 662

The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside 685

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was 913

The sea is calm to-night 762

The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke 757

The Snows are thaw’d, now grass new cloaths the earth 312

The són’s a poor, wrétched, unfórtunate creáture 721

The Spacious Firmament on high 416

The Star that bids the Shepherd fold 255

The sunlight on the garden 927

The Time is not remote, when I 463

The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain 319

The thunder mutters louder and more loud 754

The tortured mullet served the Roman’s pride 765

The trees are in their autumn beauty 864

The Vietnam war drags on 1022

The wind flapped loose, the wind was still 771

The wind suffers of blowing 918

The window is nailed and boarded 955

The woman is perfected 1002

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall 735

Then blessing all, ‘Go Children of my care! 470

Then, first with lockes disheveled, and bare 132

Then grave Clarissa graceful wav’d her Fan 422

Then Oothoon waited silent all the day, and all the night 535

Then since within this wide great Universe 192

Then thick as Locusts black’ning all the ground 469

Ther is no rose of swych vertu 50

Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse 21

There – but for the clutch of luck – go I 1072

There Cintheus sat twynklyng upon his harpe stringis 74

There died a myriad 869

There is a Flower, the Lesser Celandine 593

There is a Garden in her face 220

There is a mountain and a wood between us 721

There is a Supreme God in the ethnological section 913

There is a wind where the rose was 825

‘There is no God,’ the wicked saith 757

There is one story and one story only 959

There lived a wife at Usher’s Well 573

There the ash-tree leaves do vall 749

There was a river overhung with trees 1060

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream 594

There was an Old Man of Whitehaven 705

There was an old man who screamed out 772

There was an Old Man with a beard 704

There was an Old Person of Basing 704

There was Dai Puw. He was no good 990

There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away 604

These fought in any case 868

These, in the day when heaven was falling 875

Th’expence of Spirit in a waste of shame 198

They are all gone into the world of light! 314

They are lang deid, folk that I used to ken 972

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter 815

They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock 1092

They fie from me that sometyme did me seke 80

They fuck you up, your mum and dad 1039

They sing their dearest songs 853

They that have powre to hurt, and will doe none 196

‘They told me you had been to her 756

They’ve let me walk with you 1021

Think not this Paper comes with vain pretence 432

This ae nighte, this ae nighte 579

This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big 990

This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wyf 25

This darksome burn, horseback brown 790

This Earth our mighty Mother is, the Stones 397

This is the end of him, here he lies 792

This is the farmer sowing his corn 488

this is thi 1022

This last pain for the damned the Fathers found 911

This little Babe so few dayes olde 141

This little Grave embraces 242

This lunar beauty 902

This night presents a play, which publick rage 515

‘This night shall thy soul be required of thee’ 1027

‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room. He stayed 996

Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle 28

Tho’ grief and fondness in my breast rebel 461

Thou cursed Cock, with thy perpetual Noise 396

Thou fair-hair’d angel of the evening 520

Thou hermit haunter of the lonely glen 686

Thou mastering me 779

Thou shalt have one God only; who 748

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness 637

Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace 221

Three weeks gone and the combatants gone 958

Three weeks had past, and Richard rambles now 612

Through that pure Virgin-shrine 317

Through the open French window the warm sun 918

Thule, the period of cosmography 179

Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated 179

Thus piteously Love closed what he begat 747

Thus to Glaucus spake 341

Thy mind which Voluntary doubts molest 516

Time was away and somewhere else 939

Time was, when we were sow’d, and just began 403

’Tis April again in my garden, again the grey stone-wall 886

Tis now since I sate down before 289

’Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes 225

’Tis time this heart should be unmoved 649

’Tis true, our life is but a long disease 341

To all things there is an appointed time 92

To cure the mind’s wrong biass, spleen 460

To evoke posterity 926

To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall 581

To luve unluvit it is ane pane 99

To night, grave sir, both my poore house, and I 216

To see a World in a Grain of Sand 586

To see both blended in one flood 285

To survived the flood 1102

To the dim light and the large circle of shade 737

To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose 789

To whom thus Michael. Those whom last thou sawst 337

Tobroken been the statutz hye in hevene 36

Today the sunlight is the paint on lead soldiers 984

Today, Tuesday, I decided to move on 1017

Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? 212

Trim, thou are right! – ’Tis sure that I 666

Troop home to silent grots and caves! 688

True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank 575

Truly My Satan thou art but a Dunce 614

Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean 527

’Twas on a summer noon, in Stainsford mead 459

Two loves I have of comfort and dispaire 199

Tyger Tyger, burning bright 539

Tyr’d with all these for restfull death I cry 195

Unchanged within, to see all changed without 668

Under the parabola of a ball 963

Under this stone, Reader, survey 436

Underneth this Marble Hearse 236

Undesirable you may have been, untouchable 1011

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state 102

Up this green woodland ride lets softly rove 683

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! 701

Venus, take my Votive Glass 427

Vire will wind in other shadows 963

Virtue may chuse the high or low Degree 462

W. resteth here, that quick could never rest 85

Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea 786

Waiting for when the sun an hour or less 985

Was it for this 560

We are not near enough to love 813

We are upon the Scheldt. We know we move 796

We could have crossed the road but hesitated 964

We know the Rocket’s upward whizz 907

We stood by a pond that winter day 823

We were together since the War began 862

Weare I a Kinge I coude commande content 138

Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me 188

Weary already, weary miles to-night 771

Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie 523

Weepe you no more sad fountaines 185

Well; if ever I saw such another Man since my Mother bound my Head 449

Well! if the Bard was weather-wise, who made 569

Well then; the promis’d hour is come at last 398

Were I laid on Greenland’s Coast 446

Were I (who to my cost already am 360

Westron wynde when wyll thow blow 74

Whan I remembre agayn 50

Whan I was come ayeyn into the place 9

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote 20

What are days for? 998

‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade 805

What can I do in Poetry 296

What has this Bugbear death to frighten Man 384

What in our lives is burnt 852

What is it to grow old? 764

‘What is the world, O soldiers? 826

What is thought that is not free? 748

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 857

What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands 902

What should one 988

What slender Youth bedew’d with liquid odours 353

What was he doing, the great god Pan 745

What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me thro’ 762

What young Raw Muisted Beau Bred at his Glass 438

What’s become of Waring 693

When Adam dalf and Eve span 15

When all this is over, said the swineherd 1033

When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper 308

When as the Rie reach to the chin 142

When Cleomira disbelieves 418

When chapman billies leave the street 528

When Daffadils begin to peere 207

When Dasies pied, and Violets blew 137

When did you start your tricks 881

When first the College Rolls receive his Name 482

When he had made sure there were no survivors in his house 1098

When I am dead, my dearest 740

When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare 193

When I consider how my light is spent 352

‘When I last saw Waring…’ 695

When I reached his place 901

When I survay the bright 274

When I survey the wond’rous Cross 411

When I was once in Baltimore 830

When I watch the living meet 815

When I wer still a bwoy, an’ mother’s pride 735

When Letty had scarce pass’d her third glad year 789

When Love its utmost vigour does imploy 385

When Love with unconfined wings 298

When lovely woman stoops to folly 503

When midnight comes a host of dogs and men 689

When my devotions could not pierce 245

When my love sweares that she is made of truth 198

When night stirred at sea 892

When that I was and a little tiny boy 180

When the eye of day is shut 874

When the fierce North Wind with his airy Forces 410

When the Master was calling the roll 1070

When thou must home to shades of under ground 184

When to my deadlie pleasure 152

When to my House you come dear Dean 442

When Venus first did see 107

When VENUS her ADONIS found 387

When we for Age could neither read nor write 386

When we were children old Nurse used to say 845

When Westwell Downes I gan to treade 321

When, when and whenever death closes our eyelids 866

When you see millions of the mouthless dead 843

When your lobster was lifted out of the tank 1086

Where do’st thou carelesse lie 238

Where is the grace of Sir Arthur O’Kellyn? 682

Where is this stupendous stranger 502

Where, like a pillow on a bed 229

Where London’s column, pointing at the skies 451

Where now the vital energy that moved 522

Where the remote Bermudas ride 367

Where, to me, is the loss 826

Where wil you have your vertuous names safe laid 168

Whether at Doomsday (tell, ye reverend wise) 452

Whether the Sensitive-plant, or that 644

Which I was given because 1054

While going the road to sweet Athy 797

While in this garden Proserpine was taking hir pastime 95

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead 839

While that my soul repairs to her devotion 244

Whil’st Alexis lay prest 354

Whilst in this cold and blust’ring Clime 391

Whirl up, sea 834

‘Who affirms that crystals are alive?’ 827

Who did kill Cock Robbin? 473

Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two 861

Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde 80

Who would true Valour see 379

Why Brownlee left, and where he went 1069

Why does the sea moan evermore? 777

Why does the thin grey strand 842

Why sholde I noght as wel eek telle yow al 22

Why so pale and wan fond Lover? 258

Why will Delia thus retire 479

Wild raspberries gathered in a silent valley 1047

Will there be snowfall on lofty Soracte 766

Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne 233

Wine, the red coals, the flaring gas 808

Wise Emblem of our Politick World 324

With a Whirl of Thought oppress’d 448

With how sad steps, ô Moone, thou climb’st the skies 120

With my forked branch of Lebanese cedar 1093

With my looks I am bound to look simple or fast I would rather look simple 978

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children 863

With the wasp at the innermost heart of a peach 765

Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me 834

Women reminded him of lilies and roses 1048

Ye captive soules of blindefold Cyprians boate 103

Ye have been fresh and green 295

Ye jovial boys who love the joys 568

Ye living Lamps, by whose dear light 369

Years ago I was a gardener 1095

Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines 134

Yes! e’en in Sleep th’impressions all remain 600

Yes! in the sea of life enisled 720

Yes, we are fighting at last, it appears. This morning as usual 728

Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more 259

Yf my deare love were but the childe of state 197

‘You are old, Father William,’ the young man said 754

You could draw a straight line from the heels 1048

You did not walk with me 834

You meaner Beauties of the Night 237

You, Morningtide Star, now are steady-eyed, over the east 891

You stood with your back to me 1083

You strange, astonish’d-looking, angle-faced 690

You think this cruel? take it for a rule 456

You well compacted Groves, whose light and shade 333

Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh 351

You’ve plucked a curlew, drawn a hen 829