Poems : By First Line "U" : The Poetry Foundation

There are 45 Poems that have a first line beginning with "u"

= First appeared in Poetry magazine.

Upon a day, came Sorrow in to me,
"Upon a day, came Sorrow in to me"
By Dante Alighieri

Uncomprising year—I see no meaning to life.
1959
By Gregory Corso

Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,
Gloria Mundi
By Walter De La Mare

Under the French horns of a November afternoon
A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler

Under the separated leaves of shade
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street
By Randall Jarrell

Underwater, keeled in seas,
All Wet
By Marie Ponsot

Under the sloped snow
As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché

Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Use a new conductor every time-out
Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks
Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Uncle Johnny died after rigid years
Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty
Delia I
By Samuel Daniel

Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers,
Delia LIII
By Samuel Daniel

Under the trellised arbor, and our supper’s over
Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

unwavering noon, self-minus
Hudson First appeared in Poetry
By Hugh Seidman

Unhappy verse, the witness of my unhappy state,
Iambicum Trimetrum
By Edmund Spenser

Unwitting accomplice in the scheme of law
In the Kingdom of Pleasure
By Alan Shapiro

unlike you and I jesus knew he’d die
jesus knew
By Nick Flynn

Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward,
Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Up in the billboard, over old South Station,
Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Under the level winter sky
Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall

Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire

Up the dog bounds to the window, baying
Mongrel Heart
By David Baker

U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN GULF WAR
News Report, September 1991
By Denise Levertov

Under a heavy wire milk case,
Nikita
By Alberto Ríos

Up from the valley
Now and then First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Ur ol’ Hyar lib in ur house on de hill,
Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell

Up ahead, I know, he felt it stirring in himself already, the glance,
Orpheus and Eurydice
By Jorie Graham

Unreasonable lenses refract the
Prairie Houses
By Barbara Guest

Undesirable you may have been, untouchable
September Song
By Geoffrey Hill

Unraveling velvet, wave after wave, driven
Song of the Sea to the Shore First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Fanning

Under no hanging heaven-rooted tree,
Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper
The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

Up the reputable walks of old established trees
The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders,
The Desk First appeared in Poetry
By David Bottoms

Ugliest little boy
The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Up stand
The Menage
By Carl Rakosi

Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

Unemployed, I recollect setting a plumb
The Weather Shifts
By Arthur Sze

Uncessant Minutes, whil’st you move you tell
To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep
By Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

Uncles who burst on childhood, from the East,
To the Poetry^* of Hugh McCrae
By Kenneth Slessor

Using the gun mounts
Toys in a Field
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Unstable dream, according to the place,
Unstable Dream
By Thomas Wyatt

up from slobbery
[up from slobbery]
By Harryette Mullen