There are 235 Poems that have a first line beginning with "l"

Ladybird, ladybird,
"Ladybird, ladybird,"
By Anonymous

Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust;
"Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"
By Philip Sidney

Like the pied piper
“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé

Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
from The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I
By Edmund Spenser

Let it not your wonder move,
A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
By Ben Jonson

Love, thou are absolute sole lord
A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw

Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear.
A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman

Love, thou art best of Human Joys,
A Song
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Look at their faces. You know it all.
A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams

Lord, Thou hast given me a cell
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick

Look, above the creek, hummingbirds in the trumpet vine.
A Walk to Carter’s Lake
By David Bottoms

Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love,
Advice to a Writer Imagining Conception and Birth
By Colette Inez

like most boys, ignorant
Aesthetics
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Love is no more.
Amor Vincit Omnia
By Edgar Bowers

Like as a huntsman after weary chase,
Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
By Edmund Spenser

Lyke as the Culver on the barèd bough,
Amoretti LXXXIX: Lyke as the Culver on the barèd bough
By Edmund Spenser

Life was a thorough pool of restoration
An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

Let us forget that it is spring and celebrate the riderless will of five victims.
An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
By Thomas James Merton

Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason
An Explanation
By James Weldon Johnson

like a downhill brakes-burned freight train
And Still It Comes
By Thomas Lux

Let the rain kiss you.
April Rain Song
By Langston Hughes

Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade
Arms and the Boy
By Wilfred Owen

Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
Astrophel and Stella I
By Philip Sidney

Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine,
Astrophel and Stella III
By Philip Sidney

Let the musicians begin,
At a Solemn Musick
By Delmore Schwartz

Like a distant singing, like a finger sizzling
At Six
By Susan Stewart

Looking at the photograph is somehow not
At the Beach
By Elizabeth Alexander

Lying in bed I think about you,
“Lying in bed I think about you ...”
By Joshua Beckman

Life has loveliness to sell,
Barter
By Sara Teasdale

LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves
Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Lights are burning
Bus Stop
By Donald Justice

Let’s get this straight: Charles Graner
Charles Graner Is Not America
By Geoffrey Brock

Like the waxwings in the juniper,
Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was made lovely, we thought, with love?
Choriambics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Let midnight gather up the wind
Christmas Night
By Conrad Hilberry

Like finding a bar of aluminum wedged in a bull’s jaw. Like discovering
Coal Deliveryman
By Ramón Cote Baraibar

Little I ask; my wants are few;
Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lunch: as we close the twentieth century,
Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

Like seven birds sleeping on the plateau
Dead Orchard
By Frank Stanford

Last night I heard your voice, mother,
December, 1919
By Claude McKay

Let others sing of knights and paladins
Delia L
By Samuel Daniel

Lamps have begun to light as evening,
Devon House
By C. Dale Young

Let it no longer be a forlorn hope
Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
Dream Song 14
By John Berryman

Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown,
Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like being reassigned to a case being made—to win?
Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes Or, Roll ’em!
By Rodrigo Toscano

Lear's five nevers over
Early Morning, Left-Handed
By Hilda Raz

Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Let me propose to you this way.
Eclipsed
By Richard Meier

Linoleum and half a dozen eggs
Elegy a Little
By Donald Revell

Like a fawn from the arrow, startled and wild,
Eliza Harris
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Leaning from the platform, waiting for a glimmer
Elsewhere, Mon Amour
By Nick Flynn

London returns in damp, fragmented flurries
English Sonnet
By Chelsea Rathburn

Lean back, and get some minutes' peace;
Faustine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lord she’s gone done left me done packed / up and split
Feeling Fucked Up
By Etheridge Knight

Look at them flit
Fish
By Mary Ann Hoberman

Like bodiless water passing in a sigh,
Fog
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Looking into my daughter’s eyes I read
For My Daughter
By Weldon Kees

Let me say outright that I bear you no
For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday
By Thomas P. Lynch

Last night I awoke knew
Free Verses
By Sarah Kirsch

Las casitas near the gray cannery,
Freeway 280
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Left to itself, they say, every foetus
From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

Love not
Game Night
By Conor O'Callaghan

Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this,
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Lying in bed and waiting to find out
Goodnight
By David Ferry

Little arms ripped out
Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major

Less the shadow
Hymn
By Carl Phillips

Liebe, meine liebe, I had not hoped
If It Were Not for You
By Hayden Carruth

Last night the apple trees shook and gave each lettuce a heart
In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden
By Matthea Harvey

Like the stamen inside a flower
from In Lovely Blue
By Friedrich Hölderlin

Love is and was my Lord and King,
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 126
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Leave go my hands, let me catch breath and see;
In the Orchard
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside.
Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Little Tokyo bar—
Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Lone amid the café’s cheer,
It Is Later Than You Think
By Robert W. Service

Lazy laughing languid Jenny,
Jenny
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers.
from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Listen, children:
Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Let me pick
Lament
By Arthur Sze

Look in the mirror. Let us both look.
Large Intestine
By Anna Swir

Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen,
Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns

Leave him now quiet by the way
Leave him now Quiet by the Way
By Trumbull Stickney

Let the light of late afternoon
Let Evening Come
By Jane Kenyon

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
Let It Be Forgotten
By Sara Teasdale

Let me die on the prairie! and o’er my rude grave,
Let Me Die on the Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Let me not thirst with this Hock at my Lip,
Let me not thirst with this Hock at my Lip
By Emily Dickinson

Let me tell you about my marvelous god, how he hides in the hexagons
Let me tell you about my marvelous god
By Susan Stewart

Let the fall leaves fall
Let the Fall Leaves Fall
By Clyde Watson

Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
By Dylan Thomas

Life, like a marble block, is given to all,
Life
By Edith Wharton

Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lift every voice and sing
Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lady, take care; for in the diamond eyes
Light and Dark
By Barbara Howes

Light the first of eight tonight—
Light the Festive Candles
By Aileen Fisher

Lilacs,
Lilacs
By Amy Lowell

Lions don’t need your help. In the Serengeti,
Lions
By Sandra McPherson

Last night I traced with my finger
Lisa
By David Hernandez

Last year we went to Lissadell.
Lissadell
By Wendy Cope

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
Little Bo-Peep
By Anonymous

Little boy blue,
Little Boy Blue
By Anonymous

Little Boy Blue,
Little Boy Blue
By Darren Sardelli

Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes,
Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner
By Anonymous

Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
By Anonymous

Little Robin Redbreast
Little Robin Redbreast
By Anonymous

Little soul little stray
Little Soul
By Hadrian

little tree
little tree
By E. E. Cummings

Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord,
Live Blindly and upon the Hour
By Trumbull Stickney

Long time a child, and still a child, when years
Long time a child, and still a child, when years
By Hartley Coleridge

Love brought by night a vision to my bed,
Lost Desire
By Meleager

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Love (III)
By George Herbert

Love again: wanking at ten past three
Love Again
By Philip Larkin

Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Love and Friendship
By Emily Jane Brontë

Lying asleep between the strokes of night
Love and Sleep
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love in Fantastic Triumph sat,
Love Armed
By Aphra Behn

Love is a sickness full of woes,
Love Is A Sickness Full of Woes
By Samuel Daniel

Love me little, love me long,
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
By Anonymous

Like a lone Arab, old and blind,
Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all,
Lucks, My Fair Falcon
By Thomas Wyatt

Lusty Youth should us ensue,
Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England

Like the Idalian queen,
Madrigal: "Like the Idalian queen"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Light, so low upon earth,
Marriage Morning
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love, meet me in the green glen,
Meet Me in the Green Glen
By John Clare

Love ere he bleeds, an eagle in high skies,
Modern Love: XXVI
By George Meredith

Ladies, gentlemen, raise your glasses
Moments of Terror
By Roddy Lumsden

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
Morning Song
By Sylvia Plath

Like fishermen at dusk, the soldiers returned
Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Limped out of the hot sky a hurt plane,
Navy Field
By William Meredith

Late in the cold night wakened, and heard wind,
Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald

Long after Ovid’s story of Philomela
Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin

Listen. .
November Night
By Adelaide Crapsey

Like a bowerbird trailing a beakful of weeds
Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

Late August was a pressure drop,
Obbligato
By Bruce Smith

Last night, as half asleep I dreaming lay,
Ode 44
By Hafiz

Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,
Ode I. 11
By Horace

Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours,
Ode on the Spring
By Thomas Gray

Let us come upon him first as if in a dream,
from Odes: 10. Chorus of Furies
By Basil Bunting

LXI. Of Man by Nature
Of Man by Nature
By John Bunyan

Listen, you silk-hearted bastard,
One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer

Late in the season the world digs in, the fat blossoms
Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham

Love long dormant showing itself:
Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Lilacs look neon in fading light.
Pass It On, III
By Rachel Hadas

Luxury, then, is a way of
Political Poem
By Amiri Baraka

Little poppies, little hell flames,
Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath

Long before you see train
Railway
By Fred D'Aguiar

Light at each point was beating then to flight,
Recollection of the Wood
By Léonie Adams

Little has been made
Repulsive Theory
By Kay Ryan

Last night in a dream
Reunion
By Jeff Daniel Marion

Lay down these words
Riprap
By Gary Snyder

Love in my bosom like a bee
Rosalind’s Madrigal
By Thomas Lodge

Little left of me that year—I had a vision
Rune for the Parable of Despair
By Deborah Digges

Love the drill, confound the dentist.
Saints’ Logic
By Linda Gregerson

Listen, Sanoe
Sanoe
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani

Long scree of pill bottles
Scree
By Alan Shapiro

Lo, in my soul there lies a hidden lake,
Secret Waters
By Eva Gore-Booth

Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer,
September Midnight
By Sara Teasdale

Like everyone, I wanted my animal
Shamanism 101
By Dean Young

Landscape without regrets whose weakest junipers
Sierra Nevada
By Anne Stevenson

Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!
Sin (I)
By George Herbert

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Solitude
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Listen: there was a goat’s head hanging by ropes in a tree.
Song
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Love has crept into her sealed heart
Song (“Love has crept...”)
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Let me call a ghost,
Song of Three Smiles
By W. S. Merwin

Long have I long’d to see my love againe,
Sonnet 16
By Richard Barnfield

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
By William Shakespeare

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,
Sonnet III: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
By William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore,
Sonnet LX: Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
By William Shakespeare

Let those who are in favour with their stars
Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars
By William Shakespeare

Like Gorky, I sometimes follow my doubts
Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Leaves flare up, kitchen matches
Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek

Like the foghorn that’s all lung,
Syrinx
By Amy Clampitt

Leaf-keep, un-sibyl; if the soul
Tea-Strainer
By Joyelle McSweeney

Like hearts marked out but not yet colored in,
The Astronomical Hen
By Cynthia Zarin

Like all his people he felt at home in the forest.
The Bearer
By Hayden Carruth

Like the blue angels of the nativity, the museum patrons
The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,
The Buried Life
By Matthew Arnold

Lo! ’t is a gala night
The Conqueror Worm
By Edgar Allan Poe

Lord, confound this surly sister,
The Curse
By J. M. Synge

Lie down—lie down!—my noble hound,
The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

Lordship is the same activity
The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
By Medbh McGuckian

Long after it was
The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Like labour-laden moonclouds faint to flee
The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Life kept rolling her over
The Invisible Person
By James Laughlin

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Locate I
The Language
By Robert Creeley

Let me cook you some dinner.
The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett

Let us go then, you and I,
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

Let my music be found wanting
The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use,
The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use,
The Mower against Gardens
By Andrew Marvell

Let not the title of my verse offend,
The Natural Child
By Helen Leigh

Late dazzle
The November Angels
By Jane Hirshfield

Local his discourse, not yet exemplary,
The Paradox of Jerome’s Lion
By Christopher Middleton

Lincoln?
from The People, Yes
By Carl Sandburg

Love faded in my heart—
The Root
By Helen Hoyt

Like shoes
The Sensible Girlfriend
By Terry Wolverton

Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Listen, nephew.
The Tale of Sunlight
By Gary Soto

Last night when I was sound asleep,
The Toothless Wonder
By Phil Bolsta

Let observation with extensive view,
from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

Late, I have come to a parched land
The Water Diviner
By Dannie Abse

Living, I had no might
The Wife
By Marjorie Pickthall

Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word?
The Windows
By George Herbert

Look! From my window there’s a view
There Is
By Louis Simpson

Lie still now
This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Like a loose island on the wide expanse,
To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
By Hartley Coleridge

Lying asleep walking
To Alexander Graham
By W. S. Graham

Let’s call for Hymen if agreed thou art –
To Anthea
By Robert Herrick

LOVING friend, the gift of one,
To Flush, My Dog
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lucy, you brightness of our sphere, who are
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson

Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,
To Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton

Late October. It is afternoon.
To My Daughter in a Red Coat
By Anne Stevenson

Leo bends over his desk
To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch

Let me thy Properties explain,
To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair
By Jonathan Swift

Lately, the weather aches;
Truly Pathetic
By Neal Bowers

Lying here
Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe

Like priestly imprisoned poets,
Under the Poplars
By César Vallejo

LXVI. Upon the Disobedient Child.
Upon the Disobedient Child
By John Bunyan

LXXII. Upon Time and Eternity.
Upon Time and Eternity
By John Bunyan

let me get the vocabulary of this song
vocabulary I
By Robin Blaser

Long ago we quit lifting our heels
Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser

Late in the twenties when I was small
Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan

Lightning hits the roof,
Woman to Man
By Ai

Loaf after loaf, in several sizes,
Wonderbread
By Alfred Corn

Leaving the beach on a Sunday in a streetcar
[Leaving the beach on a Sunday in a streetcar]
By Charles Reznikoff

Les plantes et les planètes
[Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets]
By Robert Marteau

Let us gather in a flourishing way
[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
By Juan Felipe Herrera

listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying
[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
By D.A. Powell

Long neglect has worn away
[Long Neglect Has Worn Away]
By Emily Jane Brontë

love is more thicker than forget
[love is more thicker than forget]
By E. E. Cummings