Poems begining by I
/ page 63 of 145 /I Ask You
© Billy Collins
It gives me time to think
about all that is going on outside--
leaves gathering in corners,
lichen greening the high grey rocks,
while over the dunes the world sails on,
huge, ocean-going, history bubbling in its wake.
In Due Form
© Laura Riding Jackson
I do not doubt you.
I know you love me.
It is a fact of your indoor face,
A true fancy of your muscularity.
If I Were King
© William Ernest Henley
If I were king, my pipe should be premier.
The skies of time and chance are seldom clear,
We would inform them all with bland blue weather.
Delight alone would need to shed a tear,
For dream and deed should war no more together.
I am the Reaper
© William Ernest Henley
I am the Reaper.
All things with heedful hook
Silent I gather.
Pale roses touched with the spring,
I. M. R. T. Hamilton Bruce (1846-1899)
© William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
I See A Woman Making Up
© Luis Benitez
I see a woman any woman making up and change
first she is thinking of something else (because when
a woman
begins to make up she hasn't yet separated this act
If I Could But Forget
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
If I could but forget
The fullness of those first sweet days,
When you burst sun-like thro' the haze
Of unacquaintance, on my sight,
Insomniac
© Maya Angelou
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
I know why the caged bird sings
© Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange suns rays
And dares to claim the sky.
I saw Old General at Bay.
© Walt Whitman
I SAW old General at bay;
(Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;)
His small force was now completely hemmd in, in his works;
He calld for volunteers to run the enemys linesa desperate emergency;
In the New Garden in all the Parts.
© Walt Whitman
IN the new garden, in all the parts,
In cities now, modern, I wander,
Though the second or third result, or still further, primitive yet,
Days, places, indifferentthough various, the same,
I Heard You, Solemn-sweet Pipes of the Organ.
© Walt Whitman
I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I passd the
church;
Winds of autumn!as I walkd the woods at dusk, I heard your long-stretchd
sighs, up above, so mournful;
In Former Songs.
© Walt Whitman
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IN former songs Pride have I sung, and Love, and passionate, joyful Life,
But here I twine the strands of Patriotism and Death.
Inscription.
© Walt Whitman
SMALL is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatestnamely,
Ones-Selfthat wondrous thing a simple, separate person. That, for the use of
the
New World, I sing.
Italian Music in Dakota.
© Walt Whitman
THROUGH the soft evening air enwrinding all,
Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds,
In dulcet streams, in flutes and cornets notes,
Electric, pensive, turbulent artificial,
I will Take an Egg Out of the Robins Nest.
© Walt Whitman
I WILL take an egg out of the robins nest in the orchard,
I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the garden, and go and preach to
the
world;
I was Looking a Long While.
© Walt Whitman
I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these
chantsand now I have found it;
It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject;)
It is no more in the legends than in all else;
Indications, The.
© Walt Whitman
THE indications, and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts;
What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their
I Thought I was not Alone.
© Walt Whitman
I THOUGHT I was not alone, walking here by the shore,
But the one I thought was with me, as now I walk by the shore,
As I lean and look through the glimmering lightthat one has utterly disappeared,
And those appear that perplex me.