Index of First Lines

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A Chieftain to the Highlands bound	211
A child’s a plaything for an hour	270
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by	305
A slumber did my spirit seal	210
A sweet disorder in the dress	95
A weary lot is thine, fair maid	225
A wet sheet and a flowing sea	235
Absence, hear thou this protestation	8
Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit	86
Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh	217
All in the Downs the fleet was moor’d	149
All thoughts, all passions, all delights	199
And are ye sure the news is true	181
And is this—Yarrow?—This the Stream	297
And thou art dead, as young and fair	231
And wilt thou leave me thus	26
Ariel to Miranda:—Take	288
Art thou pale for weariness	305
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers	50
As it fell upon a day	27
As I was walking all alane	107
As slow our ship her foamy track	251
At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears	288
At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly	230
Avenge, O Lord! Thy slaughter’d saints, whose bones	64
Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake	157
Awake, awake, my Lyre	101
Bards of Passion and of Mirth	197
Beauty sat bathing by a spring	13
Behold her, single in the field	287
Being your slave, what should I do but tend	9
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed	277
Best and brightest, come away	299
Bid me to live, and I will live	97
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven’s joy	125
Blow, blow, thou winter wind	34
Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art	228
Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren	41
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air	45
Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in Arms	75
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the Sable Night	28
Come away, come away, Death	38
Come, cheerful day, part of my life to me	51
Come little babe, come silly soul	35
Come live with me and be my Love	5
Come, Sleep: O Sleep! the certain knot of peace	24
Come unto these yellow sands	2
Crabbed Age and Youth	6
Cupid and my Campaspe play’d	44
Cyriack, whose grandsire, on the royal bench	80
Daughter of Jove, relentless power	188
Daughter to that good Earl, once President	89
Degenerate Douglas! oh, the unworthy lord	283
Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move	54
Down in yon garden sweet and gay	147
Drink to me only with thine eyes	92
Duncan Gray cam here to woo	180
Earl March look’d on his dying child	228
Earth has not anything to show more fair	281
E’en like two little bank-dividing brooks	96
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind	240
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky	273
Ever let the Fancy roam	310
Fain would I change that note	6
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see	111
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree	110
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing	25
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun	40
Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new	22
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow	30
For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove	155
Forget not yet the tried intent	18
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year	339
From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony	63
From Stirling Castle we had seen	295
Full fathom five thy father lies	40
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may	87
Gem of the crimson-colour’d Even	218
Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn	93
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine	152
Go, lovely Rose	91
Hail thou most sacred venerable thing	128
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit	274
Happy the man, whose wish and care	136
Happy those early days, when I	78
Happy were he could finish forth his fate	55
He that loves a rosy cheek	90
He is gone on the mountain	264
Hence, all you vain delights	103
Hence, loathéd Melancholy	116
Hence, vain deluding Joys	120
He sang of God, the mighty source	164
High-way, since you my chief Parnassus be	9
How happy is he born and taught	76
How like a winter hath my absence been	10
How sleep the brave who sink to rest	144
How sweet the answer Echo makes	217
How vainly men themselves amaze	113
I am monarch of all I survey	190
I arise from dreams of Thee	205
I cannot change, as others do	87
I dream’d that as I wander’d by the way	307
I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden	208
I have had playmates, I have had companions	250
I have no name	165
I heard a thousand blended notes	312
I meet thy pensive, moonlight face	211
I met a traveller from an antique land	282
I remember, I remember	254
I saw Eternity the other night	129
I saw her in childhood	265
I saw my lady weep	19
I saw where in the shroud did lurk	268
I travell’d among unknown men	208
I wander’d lonely as a cloud	291
I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile	327
I wish I were where Helen lies	106
If aught of oaten stop or pastoral song	170
If doughty deeds my lady please	153
If I had thought thou couldst have died	263
If Thou survive my well-contented day	41
If to be absent were to be	100
I’m wearing awa’, Jean	184
In a drear-nighted December	222
In the downhill of life, when I find I’m declining	195
In the sweet shire of Cardigan	248
In this still place, remote from men	329
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan	308
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free	303
It is not growing like a tree	77
It was a dismal and a fearful night	108
It was a lover and his lass	8
It was a summer evening	244
I’ve heard them lilting at our ewe-milking	145
Jack and Joan, they think no ill	115
John Anderson my jo, John	185
Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting	43
Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son	79
Let me not to the marriage of true minds	20
Life! I know not what thou art	196
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore	25
Like to the clear in highest sphere	12
Love in my bosom, like a bee	43
Love in thy youth, fair Maid, be wise	90
Love not me for comely grace	98
Lo! where the rosy-bosom’d Hours	166
Many a green isle needs must be	320
Mary! I want a lyre with other strings	191
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour	242
Mine be a cot beside the hill	169
Mortality, behold and fear	73
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes	309
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold	199
Music, when soft voices die	346
My days among the Dead are past	257
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains	279
My heart leaps up when I behold	341
My Love in her attire doth shew her wit	96
My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow	39
My thoughts hold mortal strife	38
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his	20
Never love unless you can	16
Never seek to tell thy love	156
No longer mourn for me when I am dead	42
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note	247
Not, Celia, that I juster am	98
Now the golden Morn aloft	133
Now the last day of many days	301
O blithe new-comer! I have heard	278
O Brignall banks are wild and fair	203
O Friend! I know not which way I must look	242
O happy shades! to me unblest	188
O if thou knew’st how thou thyself dost harm	18
O leave this barren spot to me	283
O listen, listen, ladies gay	266
O lovers’ eyes are sharp to see	227
O Mary, at thy window be	175
O me! what eyes hath love put in my head	31
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming	22
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose	177
O never say that I was false of heart	11
O saw ye bonnie Lesley	176
O say what is that thing call’d Light	136
O talk not to me of a name great in story	202
O Thou, by Nature taught	134
O waly waly up the bank	104
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms	224
O wild West Wind, thou breath Of Autumn’s being	325
O World! O Life! O Time	340
Obscurest night involved the sky	193
Of all the girls that are so smart	151
Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw	183
Of Nelson and the North	237
Of Neptune’s empire let us sing	80
Of this fair volume which we World do name	53
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray	213
Oft in the stilly night	255
Oh snatch’d away in beauty’s bloom	262
On a day, alack the day	17
On a Poet’s lips I slept	329
Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee	241
One more Unfortunate	259
One word is too often profaned	233
On Linden, when the sun was low	243
Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower’d	306
Over the mountains	84
Pack, clouds, away, and welcome day	45
Phoebus, arise	2
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu	233
Poor Soul, the centre of my sinful earth	52
Proud Maisie is in the wood	258
Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair	81
Rough Wind, that moanest loud	339
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King	140
Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness	293
See with what simplicity	85
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day	15
Shall I, wasting in despair	102
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	208
She is not fair to outward view	207
She walks in beauty, like the night	206
She was a Phantom of delight	206
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea	4
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part	30
Sleep, angry beauty, sleep and fear not me	31
Sleep on, and dream of Heaven awhile	154
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright	165
Souls of Poets dead and gone	257
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year’s pleasant king	1
Star that bringest home the bee	304
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God	239
Surprized by joy—impatient as the wind	230
Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes	90
Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower	285
Sweet Love, if thou wilt gain a monarch’s glory	14
Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade	154
Swiftly walk over the western wave	219
Take, O take those lips away	29
Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense	331
Tell me not, Sweet, I an unkind	88
Tell me where is Fancy bred	42
That time of year thou may’st in me behold	23
That which her slender waist confined	96
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day	172
The forward youth that would appear	65
The fountains mingle with the river	216
The glories of our blood and state	74
The last and greatest Herald of Heaven’s King	55
The lovely lass o’ Inverness	144
The man of life upright	52
The merchant, to secure his treasure	155
The more we live, more brief appear	338
The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth	28
The poplars are fell’d; farewell to the shade	167
There be none of Beauty’s daughters	204
There is a flower, the lesser Celandine	253
There is a garden in her face	92
There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away	252
There’s not a nook within this solemn Pass	340
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream	341
The sea hath many thousand sands	33
The sun is warm, the sky is clear	256
The sun upon the lake is low	304
The twentieth year is well-nigh past	192
The world is too much with us; late and soon	330
They are all gone into the world of light	109
They that have power to hurt, and will do none	26
This is the month, and this the happy morn	56
This Life, which seems so fair	51
Though others may her brow adore	21
Thou art not fair, for all thy red and white	34
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness	331
Three years she grew in sun and shower	209
Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream	146
Timely blossom, Infant fair	138
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry	54
Toll for the Brave	148
To me, fair Friend, you never can be old	11
To one who has been long in city pent	282
Turn back, you wanton flyer	16
’Twas at the royal feast for Persia won	129
’Twas on a lofty vase’s side	137
Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea	241
Under the greenwood tree	7
Upon my lap my sovereign sits	105
Verse, a breeze ’mid blossoms straying	333
Victorious men of earth, no more	74
Waken, lords and ladies gay	272
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie	168
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee	37
Weep you no more, sad fountains	14
Were I as base as is the lowly plain	21
We talk’d with open heart, and tongue	336
We walk’d along, while bright and red	334
We watch’d her breathing thro’ the night	265
Whenas in silks my Julia goes	95
When Britain first at Heaven’s command	139
When first the fiery-mantled Sun	294
When God at first made Man	78
When he who adores thee has left but the name	246
When icicles hang by the wall	23
When I consider how my light is spent	76
When I have borne in memory what has tamed	243
When I have fears that I may cease to be	229
When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced	4
When I survey the bright	126
When I think on the happy days	182
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes	10
When in the chronicle of wasted time	15
When lovely woman stoops to folly	156
When Love with unconfinéd wings	99
When maidens such as Hester die	262
When Music, heavenly maid, was young	161
When Ruth was left half desolate	313
When the lamp is shatter’d	226
When the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame	178
When thou must home to shades of underground	37
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought	24
When we two parted	221
Where art thou, my beloved Son	270
Where shall the lover rest	222
Where the bee sucks, there suck I	2
Where the remote Bermudas ride	124
Whether on Ida’s shady brow	197
While that the sun with his beams hot	32
Whoe’er she be	82
Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant	220
Why so pale and wan, fond lover	100
Why weep ye by the tide, ladie	215
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies	36
With little here to do or see	291
With sweetest milk and sugar first	112
Ye banks and braes and streams around	177
Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon	157
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers	185
Ye Mariners of England	235
Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye	284
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more	68
You meaner beauties of the night	88

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