25 great first lines of poetry - piano

1. Mexico rises into view like a textbook description of a dead civilization;
   from the poem Roadside, by Esteban Rodriguez
 
2. O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done;
   from the poem O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman
 
3. I saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness
   from the poem Howl, by Allen Ginsberg

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1. The first boy to kiss your mother later raped women
   from the poem Your mother's first kiss, by Warsan Shire
 
2. All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
   from the poem For Malcolm X, by Margaret Abigail Walker
 
3. All night long I hear the sleepers toss
   from the poem Such simple love, by Thomas McGrath
 
4. You chose to leave, that's fine by me
   from the poem Choices, by Edward Baugh
 
5. All day the stars watch from long ago
   from the poem Rain light, by W. S. Merwin
 
6. Your hands have no more worth than tree stumps at harvest.
   from the poem A sestina for a black girl who does not know..., by Rachel Jackson
 
7. I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
   from the poem Sea fever, by John Masefield
 
8. There I was, all spread out for the taking,
   from the poem From �Lacing�, by Tacey M. Atsitty

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3. Has it turned out we�ve wasted our time?
   from the poem The end game of bloom, by Deborah Landau
 
4. We ate alone in the immense dining room.
   from the poem The nowhere water, by Mark Rudman
 
5. The planets whirled across the blackboard all morning,
   from the poem Learning the Planets, by Len Roberts
 
6. Listen
   from the poem Thanks, by W. S. Merwin
 
7. It was many and many a year ago, [Thank you, Terry K.]
   from the poem Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan poe
 
8. Do not stand at my grave and weep, [Thank you, Diane M.]
   from the poem Do not stand at my grave and weep, by Mary Elizabeth Frye
 
9. Where dips the rocky highland [Thank you, David R.]
   from the poem Stolen child, by W. B. Yeats
 
10. Do not go gentle into that good night [Thank you, Robert W.]
    from the poem Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas
 
11. My son�s head is a fist
    from the poem Knuckle head, by Terri Ellen Cross Davis
 
12. When despair for the world grows in me
    from the poem The peace of wild things, by Wendell Berry
 
13. Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
    from the poem Morning song, by Sylvia Plath
 
14. On my desk there is a stone with the word "Amen" on it,
    from the poem The amen stone, by Yehuda Amichai
 
15. I know the truth�give up all other truths!
    from the poem I know the truth�give up all other truths!, by Marina Tsvetayeva
 

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