There are 64 Poems that have a first line beginning with "r"

Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,
"Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,"
By Anonymous

Ring around the rosy,
"Ring around the rosy,"
By Anonymous

Rise up, rise up,
"Rise up, rise up"
By Hilda Morley

Red cheeked boyfriends tenderly kiss me sweet mouthed
τεθνάκην δ’ ολίγω ’πιδεύης φαίνομ’ αλαία
By Allen Ginsberg

Rhyme, the rack of finest wits,
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
By Ben Jonson

Rome never looks where she treads.
A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling

Right up to my final hour
Ach/Last Call
By Robert Gernhardt

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought,
An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
By Edmund Spenser

Remember the night you got drunk
Anthropology
By James Galvin

Robinson at cards at the Algonquin; a thin
Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Rain commenced, and wind did.
Assault to Abjury
By Raymond McDaniel

Rotting in the wet gray air
Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Rent a flatbed with a winch.
Dismantling the House
By Stephen Dunn

Ray’s third new car in half as many years.
Family Reunion
By Louise Erdrich

Ranks of electroplated cubes, dwindling to glitters,
Fixed Ideas
By Kenneth Slessor

Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again,
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again,
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 99
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Reason is not offended: certainly a western vir-
In Praise of a Western Virgin
By Victor Segalen

Reading in the paper a summary
Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits,
Life Cycle of Common Man
By Howard Nemerov

Remote and ineffectual Don
Lines to a Don
By Hilaire Belloc

Roses caged in windows, heighten
from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

Recurrences.
Measure
By Robert Hass

Ribs ripple skin
Mirror Image
By Samuel Menashe

Red, hard-shelled berry clusters
More Rain
By W. S. Di Piero

Rise, cleanly trust, divided star,
Night Piece
By Ben Belitt

Remember the 1340s? We were doing a dance called the Catapult.
Nostalgia
By Billy Collins

Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo,
Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

rocket water
Our Motorbike
By Elfriede Jelinek

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Remember when you love, from that same hour
Pastoral Dialogue
By Anne Killigrew

Rebuked, she turned and ran
Portrait of a Figure near Water
By Jane Kenyon

Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
Rain
By Edward Thomas

raise the shade
raise the shade
By E. E. Cummings

Remember me when I am gone away,
Remember
By Christina Rossetti

Razors pain you;
Resum�
By Dorothy Parker

Retired ballerinas on winter afternoons
Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

RUN AWAY from this sub-
Reward
By Kevin Young

Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread;
Ring Out Your Bells
By Philip Sidney

Running off with the boy at the gas station,
River Road
By Herbert Morris

Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
Romance
By Edgar Allan Poe

Roslyn has nothing going
Roslyn
By Thulani Davis

Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness
Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden

Rose, harsh rose,
Sea Rose
By H. D.

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
By Yvor Winters

Ravished lute, sing to her virgin ears,
Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald

Rarely, rarely, comest thou,
Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reader unmov’d and Reader unshaken, Reader unseduc’d
sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

Ray Way, Thunderbird Homeagain,
Tea Party
By Joanie V. Mackowski

Rudolph Reed was oaken.
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Reading in bed, full of sentiment
The Bat
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders!
The Black-Faced Sheep
By Donald Hall

Rain will fall again
The Cats Will Know
By Cesare Pavese

Rum and raisin, vanilla, butter-scotch, walnut, peach:
The Ice-Cream Man
By Michael Longley

Robed in dungeon black, in mourning
The Nuns Assist at Childbirth
By Barbara Howes

Roger a doleful widower,
The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands

Roman Virgil, thou that singest
To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Manuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

ROXANA from the court retiring late,
Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Roselva says the only thing that doesn’t change
Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Rich, honored by my fellow citizens,
Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

Ruth visits her mother’s grave in the California hills.
Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

Rather than hold his hands properly
Well, You Needn’t
By William Matthews

rings diminish, duck reflects flight then threads off
Winter Journal: Fish Rises, Dark Brown Muscle Turns Over
By Emily Wilson

Record no oiled tongue, diary—
[Record no oiled tongue]
By Dan Beachy-Quick