Collected Poems of John Holmes
Holmes, John A., Jr.
2002
Lines beginning "I"
Lines beginning "I"
(on proof-reading a first-line index) | |
I was angry with my friend, p. 20. I struck the board, and cry'd, "No more!" I must go down to the seas again, p. 2, Though I'm not quite sure what for. I am the teacher of athletes, p. 41. I strove with none, as is only right. Ich weiss nicht was soll as bedeuten. I saw Eternity the other night. | |
I caught this morning morning's minion. I hear an army charging, p. 73. Not knowing what else to do about it, I placed a jar in Tennessee. Here I am, an old man in a dry month. I, too, dislike it. How about you? Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? I am his Highness' dog at Kew. | |
I wandered lonely as a cloud, p. 94. I met a traveler from an antique land. I fled him down the nights and days. He cornered me. I shook his hand. I canna tell what has come ower me. I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. | |
If I should die, think only this of me: I was not feeling very well. | |
I sit in one of the dives on 52d St. I sing of Olaf, but when I get up to go, I arise from dreams of thee. Whose woods these are I think I know. I saw the Congo creeping through the black. I told my love, I told my love, a chore, And there I shut her wild wild eyes With kisses four, and a few more. | |
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, when suddenly, By the road to the contagious hospital, I said, I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree. I intended an Ode, but the fact is this: I long to talk to some old lover's ghost, And ask him why the first person singular Is so much more plural in poetry than most. | |