There are 83 Poems that have a first line beginning with "e"
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.Either she was foul, or her attire was bad,
"Either she was foul, or her attire was bad"
By Ovid
Early to bed and early to rise:
‘Early to bed’
By Mary Mapes Dodge
Except when once we drew identical lots
A Secret Matter of Grave Importance
By Dara Wier
Everything was the apple and the glass of tea.
Adult
By Ray Gonzalez
Every story has its lean meat
After That
By Primus St. John
Even now this landscape is assembling.
All Hallows
By Louise Glück
Even iron can put forth,
Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from college
Angels
By B. H. Fairchild
Elm branches radiate green heat,
As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Enclosure, steam-heated; a trial casket.
At Eighty-three She Lives Alone
By Ruth Stone
Extreme exertion
Atlas 
By Kay Ryan
Every day I peruse the box scores for hours
Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark
Each could picture probably
Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard
Every few minutes, he wants
Boy and Egg
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Each face in the street is a slice of bread
Bread
By W. S. Merwin
Everyone comes back here to die
Burial Rites
By Philip Levine
eviction people arrive to haunt me
Cabin
By Anne Waldman
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth
Every day a wilderness—no
Dusting 
By Rita Dove
Earth took of earth, earth with woe,
Earth Upon Earth
By Anonymous
Earth rais'd up her head
Earth's Answer
By William Blake
Even on Easter Sunday
Easter in Pittsburgh 
By James Laughlin
Echo that loved hid within a wood
Echo
By Daryl Hine
Effort for distraction grew
Effort for Distraction
By Josephine Miles
Eleven o’clock, and the curtain falls.
End of the Comedy 
By Louis Untermeyer
Emily,
from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Evans? Yes, many a time
Evans
By R. S. Thomas
Evening! as slow thy placid shades descend,
Evening
By William Lisle Bowles
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert
Ever let the Fancy roam,
Fancy
By John Keats
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin
Equisetum, horsetail, railway weed
Forgotten of the Foot
By Anne Stevenson
Each house smells of strangers.
Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton
Even in fortunate times,
Golden Age
By Timothy Steele
E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre
H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [Part I]
By Ezra Pound
Every Wednesday when I went to the shared office
Hammer
By Dean Young
Each morning we begin again. My wife
Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns
Each escape
Houdini 
By Kay Ryan
Easy to say
Hour on Hour
By Mary Kinzie
Even your odds and ends.
I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter
Everyone in me is a bird.
In Celebration of My Uterus
By Anne Sexton
every wall
In My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray
Even before I saw the chambered nautilus
Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer
Each morning the man rises from bed because the invisible
It’s Like This 
By Stephen Dobyns
Every city in America is approached
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye
By Gerald Stern
Escape me?
Life in a Love
By Robert Browning
Each morning in the little white cabin
Lions Are Interesting 
By Joel Brouwer
Every morning the maple leaves.
Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
By Richard Siken
Eyeing the grass for mushrooms, you will find
Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson
Esteville begins to burn;
On Summer
By George Moses Horton
Easter was the old North
Paschal 
By Robert Pinsky
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear
Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath
Each day we go about our business,
Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander
Everything’s been said
Rabbits and Fire
By Alberto Ríos
Every night, we couldn’t sleep.
Recitative 
By A.E. Stallings
Even the flags seemed frozen
Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan
Ease is the pray’r of him who, in a whaleboat
Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery
By Thomas Morris
Everything contains some
Sharks' Teeth 
By Kay Ryan
Eight hours by bus, and night
Shawl
By Albert Goldbarth
Ethics without faith, excuse me,
Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell
Every town with black Catholics has a St. Peter Claver’s.
St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte
Each morning he’d anoint the room’s four corners
Stonehenge
By Albert Goldbarth
Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand Station and Customs,
Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens
By Robert Duncan
Everyone at Lake Kearney had a nickname:
Sway
By Louis Simpson
Each instant comes with a price, the blue-edged bill
The Cradle Logic of Autumn
By Jay Wright
Everything stops.
The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart
Even the old woman likes to lie in the sun
The Drunk Old Woman
By Cesare Pavese
Egg-white house, old
The House Gift 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.
The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Extravagant sweep
The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro
Eastern Sea, 100 fathoms,
The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each morning I made my way
The Ship Pounding
By Donald Hall
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still
from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper
Each new moment—cruising along the salt pond,
The White Faces
By Charlie Smith
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!
To a Skylark
By William Wordsworth
Exert thy voice, sweet harbinger of spring!
To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Everything is half here,
Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms 
By Francesca Abbate
Even as the sunne with purple-colourd face,
Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare
Every seaworthy vessel a woman
Vermeer
By Debora Greger
Everyone's spending Christmas Eve adrift
Where Are The Stars Pristine
By Alice Fulton
evening the priest
[Two poems]
By Frank Stanford
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