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Poetry Listing Alphabetical by Title

This listing is of poetry that is now in the 'public domain'.
Please, if you find an error, please let me know.

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First Line of Poem Poem Title Author Lines Views
A kid, a kid, my father bought,  Nursery Rhyme. DXCV. Accumulative Stories.  Unknown  72  19 
A baby played with the surplice sleeve  Life  Abram Joseph Ryan  60  421 
A baby shines as bright If winter or if May be  Babyhood  Algernon Charles Swinburne  44  959 
A baby watched a ford, whereto  Wagtail And Baby  Thomas Hardy  16  467 
A baby went to heaven while it slept,  Turquoise  Ella Wheeler Wilcox  4  26 
A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink,  Etude Realiste  Algernon Charles Swinburne  33  862 
A bachelor caress'd his cat,  The Cat Metamorphosed Into A Woman.  Jean de La Fontaine  42  545 
A bachelor I will  No Spouse But A Sister.  Robert Herrick  10  456 
A barbered woman's man,"--yes, so  Contemporaries.  Bliss Carman (William)  49  632 
A barking sound the Shepherd hears,  Fidelity  William Wordsworth    939 
A barren field o'ergrown with thorn and weed  Adversity  Madison Julius Cawein  4  762 
A batter'd, wreck'd old man,  Prayer Of Columbus  Walt Whitman    708 
A battered swordsman, slashed and scarred,  Ballade Of The Oldest Duel In The World  Richard Le Gallienne  28  509 
A beam of tranquillity smiled in the west,  Stanzas.  Thomas Moore  28  453 
A beam upon the myrtle fell  To Eva.  Joseph Rodman Drake  12  658 
A beanfield full in blossom smells as sweet  The Beanfield  John Clare  9  552 
A beardless crew we launched our little boat;  Mariners  Madison Julius Cawein  90  613 
A Beast he would be, or a bird,  Neither Beast Nor Bird  Walter Crane  5  704 
A beauteous summer-home had I  Not Known.  Denis Florence MacCarthy  72  443 
A beautiful and happy girl,  Memories  John Greenleaf Whittier  81  1034 
A beautiful flower, that bedeck'd a mean pasture,  Song. "A Beautiful Flower, That Bedeck'd A Mean Pasture"  John Clare  16  591 
A beautiful form and a beautiful face,  Two Pictures.  Fannie Isabelle Sherrick  44  391 
A beautiful great lady, past her prime,  England, Awake!  Ella Wheeler Wilcox  14  24 
A bee that was searching for sweets one day  Song  Paul Laurence Dunbar  21  580 
A beggar through the world am I,  The Beggar  James Russell Lowell  46  503 
A Being, a Form, an Idea Having fallen from out of the blue  The Irremediable  Charles Baudelaire  40  556 
A beldam kept two spinning maids,  The Old Woman And Her Two Servants.  Jean de La Fontaine  39  526 
A bell tolls on in my heart  A Dirge  Algernon Charles Swinburne  24  925 
A bending staff I would not break,  Questions Of Life  John Greenleaf Whittier  167  728 
A big bud of moon hangs out of the twilight,  Liaison  D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards)  28  492 
A bird bills the selfsame song,  The Selfsame Song  Thomas Hardy  12  482 
A bird came down the walk:  In The Garden.  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson  20  593 
A bird flew out at the break of day  The Ballad Of God-Makers  Gilbert Keith Chesterton  56  825 
A bird, with plumèd arrow shot,  The Bird Wounded By An Arrow.  Jean de La Fontaine  10  491 
A Birdie cocked his little head,  An Inquiry  Oliver Herford  4  611 
A birdless heaven, seadusk, one lone star  Tutto è Sciolto  James Joyce  12  971 
A birthday: - and a day that rose  A Birthday Walk.  Jean Ingelow  52  547 
A Bishop and a bold dragoon,  Recent Dialogue.  Thomas Moore  40  384 
A BISHOP once I will not name his see  The Phantom Curate. A Fable  William Schwenck Gilbert  60  481 
A Bishop, by his neighbours hated,  Epigram.  Alexander Pope  8  378 
A bitch, that felt her time approaching,  The Bitch And Her Friend.  Jean de La Fontaine  24  486 
A black and glassy float, opaque and still,  Attadale West Highlands - To A. J.  William Ernest Henley  14  516 
A blanket low and leaden,  Above Crow’s Nest - Sydney  Henry Lawson  64  1650 
A blesséd lot hath he, who having passed  To the Rev. George Coleridge  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  76  1158 
A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness  A Mood  Thomas Bailey Aldrich  6  787 
A block of marble was so fine,  The Sculptor And The Statue Of Jupiter.  Jean de La Fontaine  36  482 
A Bloody and a sudden end,  John Kinsella's Lament For Mr. Mary Moore  William Butler Yeats  36  882 
A blossom pink, a blossom blue,  A Bouquet  Edward Smyth Jones  8  572 
A blotch of pallor stirs beneath the high  In The Dark  D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards)  42  459 
A blue line to the westward that surely is not cloud;  Nearing Port  Mary Hannay Foott  40  910 


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