Wocky Jivvy: Poetry and Art "When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
from Rudyard Kipling's The Conundrum of the Workshops

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* Poetry: Poems of Acclaim

Index by First Line

Title: The Rubaiyat
Author: Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)
First Line: A Book of Verses underneath the bough

Title: Contrast
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: A door just opened on a street --

Title: Abou Ben Adhem
Author: Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
First Line: Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)

Title: Summum Bonum
Author: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
First Line: All the breath and the bloom of the year

Title: Love
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
First Line: All thoughts, all passions, all delights,

Title: To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair
Author: Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
First Line: Amarantha sweet and fair,

Title: Old Ironsides
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!

Title: The Chariot
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: Because I could not stop for Death

Title: Break, Break, Break
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: Break, break, break

Title: Wassail Chorus at the Mermaid Tavern
Author: Theodore Watts-Dunton (1836-1914)
First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place,

Title: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Author: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
First Line: Come live with me and be my love,

Title: Longing
Author: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
First Line: Come to me in my dreams, and then

Title: Comin thro' the Rye
Author: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Line: Comin thro' the rye, poor body

Title: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
First Line: The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

Title: The Little Vagabond
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold

Title: To Celia
Author: Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
First Line: Drink to me only with thine eyes

Title: Meeting At Night
Author: Robert Browning (1812-98)
First Line: The grey sea and the long black land;

Title: Rabbi Ben Ezra
Author: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
First Line: Grow old along with me!

Title: To His Coy Mistress
Author: Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
First Line: Had we but world enough, and time,

Title: Charge of the Light Brigade
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: Half a league, half a league,

Title: Philomela
Author: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
First Line: Hark! ah, the Nightingale!

Title: A Farewell to Arms (To Queen Elizabeth)
Author: George Peele (1558?-1597)
First Line: His golden locks Time hath to silver turn'd;

Title: Freedom and Love
Author: Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
First Line: How delicious is the winning

Title: XLIII
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
First Line: How Do I love Thee? Let me count the ways

Title: I died for beauty...
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: I died for beauty, but was scarce

Title: To My Dear and Loving Husband
Author: Anne Bradstreet (1612-72)
First Line: If ever two were one, then surely we.

Title: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Author: Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
First Line: I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,

Title: I Heard a Fly Buzz
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died

Title: The Lost Thought
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: I felt a cleaving in my mind

Title: Trees
Author: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
First Line: I think that I shall never see

Title: Daffodils
Author: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
First Line: I wander'd lonely as a cloud

Title: A Poison Tree
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: I was angry with my friend

Title: If-
Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you

Title:In Flanders Fields
Author: John McCrae (1872-1918)
First Line: In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Title: New Love and Old
Author: Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
First Line: In my heart the old love

Title: Kubla Khan
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
First Line: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

Title: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
First Line: It is an ancient Mariner,

Title: The Miller's Daughter
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: It is the miller's daughter,

Title: Ulysses
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: It little profits that an idle king

Title: Annabel Lee
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
First Line: It was many and many a year ago

Title: Jenny Kiss'd Me
Author: Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
First Line: Jenny kiss'd me when we met

Title: Paul Revere's Ride
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
First Line: Listen my children and you shall hear

Title: The Lamb
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Little Lamb, who made thee?

Title: The CLOD & the PEBBLE
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Love seeketh not Itself to please

Title: VIII.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Title: Parting
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: My life was closed twice before its close

Title: CXXX.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

Title: Infant Sorrow
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: My mother groan'd, my father wept

Title: A Red, Red Rose
Author: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Line: O, my luve is like a red, red rose

Title: O Captain! My Captain!
Author: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
First Line: O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

Title: Theocritus (a villanelle)
Author: Oscar Wilde (1809-1894)
First Line: O singer of Persephone!

Title: High Flight
Author: John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
First Line: Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

Title: The Raven
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered...

Title: Invictus
Author: William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
First Line: Out of the night that covers me,

Title: Solomon to Sheba
Author: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
First Line: Sang Solomon to Sheba,

Title: XVIII.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Title: Auld Lang Syne
Author: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot?

Title:The Song of Hiawatha
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Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
First Line: Should you ask me, whence these stories?

Title: We'll Go No More A-roving
Author: Lord Byron (1788-1824)
First Line: So, we'll go no more a-roving

Title: The Walrus and The Carpenter
Author: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
First Line: The sun was shining on the sea

Title: Crossing the Bar
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
First Line: Sunset and evening star

Title: My Last Duchess
Author: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
First Line: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Title: There's a Certain Slant of Light
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: There's a certain slant of light

Title: There's been a death...
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: There's been a death in the opposite house

Title: The Battlefield
Author: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
First Line: They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars

Title: The Jumblies
Author: Edward Lear (1812-1888)
First Line: They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,

Title: The Chambered Nautilus
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
First Line: This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,

Title: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Author: John Keats (1795-1821)
First Line: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

Title: Jabberwocky
Author: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
First Line: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Title: On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Author: Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side,

Title: The Night Before Christmas
Author: Clement C. Moore
First Line: Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house

Title: She Walks In Beauty
Author: Lord Byron (1788-1824)
First Line: She walks in beauty, like the night

Title: Silent Noon
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)
First Line: Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass...

Title: The Tyger
Author: William Blake (1757-1827)
First Line: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

Title: The Village Blacksmith
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
First Line: Under a spreading chestnut-tree

Title: XXIX.
Author: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...

Title: The Conundrum of the Workshops
Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
First Line: When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold

Title: When You are Old
Author: William Butler Yeats
First Line: When you are old and gray and full of sleep

Title: Where be you going, you Devon maid?
Author: John Keats (1795-1821)
First Line: Where be you going, you Devon maid?

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