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First Lines of Texts in All Languages, IA up to IM

I Aftenens Glands mon gløde

Sang paa Fjeldet

I al sin glans nu stråler solen

I al sin glans nu stråler solen

I alle de riger og lande

I alle de riger og lande

I always beg yet never am relieved

I always beg

I always remember your beautiful flowers

Pad, pad

I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened

Knock on the door

I am a King

I am a King

I am a poor and harmless maid

I am a poor and harmless maid

I am a poor tiler in simple array

Tom Tyler

I am afraid these verses will not please you

Sonnet to Byron

I am alone, in spite of love

Alone

I am an unusual thing

I am an unusual thing

I am black but comely, daughters of Jerusalem

I am black but comely

I am bow’d down, with years

The Wandering Minstrel

I am come to be changed

Mors Janua Vitae

I am fever'd with the sunset

The Sea Gypsy

I am glad God saw Death

The Junk Man

I am gone, sir

I am gone, sir

Adieu, Good Man Devil

I am he that aches with amorous love

I am he . . .

I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn

I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn

I am not a metaphor or symbol

The distant drum

I am not going to share

This and that

I am not lazy

Frenzy

I am playing my oldest tunes, declared she

The old tunes

I am Rose my eyes are blue

I am Rose

I am sailing for America

The Californy song

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions

Mirror

I am singing to you

Killers

I am supple of body and sport with the wind

A cross

I am the family face

Heredity

I am the fever in the head

The Freedom of the City

I am the Friar of Orders gray

The Friar of Orders Grey

I am the great Sun. This hour begins

Sky canticles

I am the nearest nightingale

Edensong

I am the one whom ringdoves see

I am the one

I am the only being whose doom

I am the only being whose doom

I am the still rain falling

Moods

I am the still rain

Moods

I am thy harp, that all unknown thou sweepest

I am thy harp

I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me

Giant Toad

I am two fools, I know

The triple fool

I am weary and my heel is tired

The Dance

I am weary and torn by the restless and lingering pain

Song of darkness

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows

I am

Elegy

I am

I änglar, som vandren bland palmer där ovan

Madonnans vaggvisa

I arise from dreams of thee

Indian Serenade

I arise from dreams of thee

Indian love song

I arise from dreams of thee

Serenade

I arise from dreams

Indian serenade

I arise from dreams of thee

I arise from dreams

Indian serenade

I arise from dreams

Indian serenade

From dreams of thee

The Indian serenade

Indian song

The Indian serenade

Indian serenade

I arise from dreams

Indian serenade

I arise from dreams

I arise from dreams of thee

I ask but this

I ask but this

I ask you this

Prayer

I ask'd my fair one happy day

Names

I asked a thief to steal me a peach

I asked a thief

I asked a Thief

I asked a thief to steal me a peach

I asked the heaven of stars

Night Song at Amalfi

Night Song

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life

Happiness

I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain

Rondo

I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain

I attempt from Love's sickness to fly

I aust sat gamle

I aust sat gamle

I begin through the grass once again to be bound to the Lord

Reconciliation

I, being born a woman and distressed

I, being born a woman and distressed

I bin a Tyroler Bua

Teppichkrämer-Lied

I bin e chline Pfüder

Die Hilfreiche

I bin en arme Fischer

I bin en arme Fischer

I bin i d'Beeri gange

Zur Unzeit

I bin Tenor, oje oje

I bin Tenor

I bol'no, i sladko

I bol'no, i sladko

I, born in Weimar

Russian Sonia

I bought me a cat, my cat pleased me

I Bought Me a Cat

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers

The cloud

Clouds

The cloud

I came forth from the mouth of the most high

A song of Wisdom

I came, I saw, and was undone

I came, I saw, and was undone

I came to the crowded Inn of Earth

The Inn of Earth

I can love both fair and brown

The indifferent

I canna get to my love, if I would dee

Water o' Tyne

I cannot die, who drank delight

The wine

I cannot eat but little meat

Maltworms

I can't abear a butcher

I can't abear

I can't be talkin' of love, dear

I can't be talkin' of love

I can't say I enjoyed it, but the pay was good

The Actress

I care not for these Ladies

I care not for these Ladies

Amaryllis

I care not for those Ladies

I care not for these Ladies

Amaryllis

I care not greatly

Hokku

i carry your heart with me i carry it in

i carry your heart

I caught a little ladybird

The ladybird

I caught this morning morning's minion

The windhover

I cling and swing

So early in the morning, O

I collected the instruments of life around me

A Ghost Story

I command that all the rats that are hereabout

Rats away

I could make you songs beautiful and frail

To a Neglectful Lover

I could not dig: I dared not rob

A Dead Statesman

I cried unto the Lord with my voice

Psalm 142

I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds

The withering of the boughs

I dag kong Harald

Bergliot

Í dag skein sól á

Í dag skein sól

I dalens skød en hytte lå

I dalens skød en hytte lå

I Danmark er jeg født, dér har jeg hjemme

I Danmark er jeg født

I Danmark ligger der hus ved hus

I Danmark ligger der hus ved hus

I dardi d'amore m'han colto nel cor

Carillon

I dare not ask a kiss

To Electra

I de forunderlig blonde nætter

Blonde nætter

I den gamla goda tiden

Ludvigs faster

I denne søde juletid

I denne søde juletid

I did not look upon her eyes

Penumbra

I did not sleep twas noon of day

I did not sleep twas noon of day

I die whenas I do not see

I die whenas I do not see

I died for beauty, but was scarce

I died for beauty

I died for beauty, but was scarce

I do not know which to prefer

I do not know which to prefer

I do not know why

I do not know why

I do not know with whom Edan will sleep

Promiscuity

I do not like my state of mind

Symptom Recital

I drank from ev'ry vine

Feast

I dreaded that first robin so

I dreaded that first robin so

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

I dream of thee, my love, by night

Through night and day

I dream'd I lay where flow'rs were springing

I dream'd I lay where flow'rs were springing

I dream'd there would be Spring no more

Angel of the night

I dreamed and wept a-dreaming

I dreamed and wept a-dreaming

I dreamed I climbed upon a cliff

My Sister's Hand In Mine

I dreamed I held

Lady Kasa (II)

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears

Soldier's Dream

I dreamed of a princess fair to see

I dreamed of a princess fair to see

I dreamed that one had died in a strange place

A dream

I dreamt

Dreams (I dreamt)

I dreamt a dream! what can it mean

The angel

Maiden's song

The angel

I dreamt I loved a Star

My Star

I dreamt of a King's fair daughter

I dreamt of a King's fair daughter

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls

I drink the fragrance of the rose

I drink the fragrance of the rose

I drognuli vragi ot druzhnogo napora

I drognuli vragi

I drömmar träden stå

I drömmar träden stå

I drömmen du är mig nära

I drömmen du är mig nära

I drömmen har jag gråtit

I drömmen har jag gråtit

I dug and dug amongst the snow

Hope

I dug and dug amongst the snow

I dwell in Possibility

I dwell in possibility

I dwelt alone in a world of moan

Eulalie

I envy not the splendour fine

The cottage maid

I envy seas whereon he rides

I envy seas

I fain would linger near thee

I fain would linger near thee

I fain would outpour all my sorrows

I fain would outpour all my sorrows

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow

I faint, I perish

I fall, I fall O stay me

I fall, I fall O stay me

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden

I fear thy kisses

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden

To a maiden

The heart's devotion

I fear thy kisses

I fear'd the fury of my wind

I fear'd the fury of my wind

I feed a flame within which so torments me

I feed a flame within

I feel thy soul's dear presence

I feel thy soul's dear presence

I fell in love with a Limehouse lass

Limehouse Reach

I fell in love with the Major Spruce

Progression

I felt a cleavage in my mind

I felt a cleavage in my mind

I felt a cleavage

I felt a cleaving in my mind

I felt a cleavage in my mind

I felt a cleavage

I felt a funeral in my brain

I felt a funeral in my brain

I fjerne kirketårne hist

I fjerne kirketårne hist

Í fögrum dal hjá fjalla bláum straumi

Í fögrum dal

I found her out there

I found her out there

I found to-day out walking

The heart's prevention

I gamle dage det var engang

I gamle dage der var engang

I går jeg fik min trøje

I går jeg fik min trøje

I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale

I gave her cakes and I gave her ale

I gazed upon her picture

I gazed upon her picture

I gazed upon the cloudless moon

I gazed upon the cloudless moon

I gently touched her hand

I gently touched her hand

I give thee all--I can no more-

My heart and lute

I give thee all

I give you now Professor Twist

The Purist

I go out of the darkness

Lady Izumi Shikibu

I goe before my darling

I goe before my darling

I got me flowers to strew thy way

I got me flowers

I had a dove and the sweet dove died

I had a dove

I had a dream last night

Through the ivory gate

I had a little nobby mare

Jenny Gray

I had a little nut-tree, and nothing would it bear

The little nut-tree

I had a little pony

I had a little pony

I had a silver buckle

The buckle

I had a true love, none so dear

Fortune's wheel

I had a wife but, but she is gone. She left me a week ago. God bless her!

The Drunkard

I had an aspidistra

The aspidistra

i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure

nobody loses all the time

I had no time to hate, because

I had no time to hate

I had withdrawn in forest, and my song

A dream pang

I ha'e a wee brig o' praties

Kitty, my love, will you marry me?

I ha'e been courting at a lass

The miller's daughter

I Hagen sat Mod'ri med Barnet på Fang

Millom Rosor

I han es Hüsli nett und blank

I han es Hüsli nett und blank

I Hasans trådgård bland förvuxna trän

Molnet

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood

I hate the dreadful hollow

I have a bonnet trimmed with blue

I have a bonnet trimmed with blue

I have a garden of my own

I have a garden

I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh

I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh

I have been here before

Sudden light

Fallen veils

Sudden light

Fallen veils

Sudden light

I have been one acquainted with the night

Acquainted with the night

I have been there before thee, O my love

Armida's garden

I have come to the borders of sleep

Lights Out

I have desired to go

A nun takes the veil

Heaven-Haven

I have desired to go

Heaven-Haven

I have done it again

Lady Lazarus

I have gone out, a possessed witch

Her kind

Her Kind

I have had enough of women, and enough of love

Wanderer's song

I have heard a music

The song in the twilight

I have heard the sunset song of the birches

I have heard the sunset song

I have in a dream been weeping

In a dream

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils

Dolor

I have led her home, my love, my only friend

I have led her home

I have longed to move away

I have longed to move away

I have loved flowers that fade

I have loved flowers that fade

I have minded me

Night

I have no life but this

I have no life but this

I have no name

Infant Joy

Infant joy

Infant Joy

Joy

Infant Joy

Joy is my name

Infant Joy

Infant joy

Infant Joy

I have no wit, no words, no tears

Water meadow

I have no words to tell thee how I love thee

Thoughts have wings

I have observed pink monks eating blue raisins

Monks and raisins

I have old women's secrets now

The secrets of the old

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions

No exaggeration

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills

I have seen dawn

Beauty

I have seen dawn

I have seen her in gowns the brightest

The old gown

I have trod the upward and the downward slope

I have trod the upward and the downward slope

I have twelve oxen that be fair and brown

I have twelve oxen

Twelve Oxen

I have wished a bird would fly away

A minor bird

I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth

For a poet

Epitaph for a poet

To a poet

Epitaph for a poet

I Haven her du hvisked engang, jeg var dig kjær

Den Ærgjerige

I hear a tone so wondrous rare

A tone

I hear an army charging upon the land

I hear an army charging upon the land

I hear an army

I hear an army charging upon the land

I hear an army

I Hear an Army

I hear an army charging upon the land

I hear an army

I hear an army charging upon the land

I hear an army

I hear an army charging

I hear an army

I hear an army charging upon the land

I hear the flutes & fiddles

I hear the flutes & fiddles

I hear the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake

Michael Robartes Bids his Beloved be at Peace

I hear the voices..

...and in the night the gentle earth is falling into morning...

I heard a bird at dawn

The rivals

I heard a brooklet gushing

I heard a brooklet gushing

Whither?

The Brooklet

Whither?

I heard a cry in the night

Message

It was your voice

I heard a cry

To one away

I heard a cry in the night

I heard a fly buzz when I died

Dying

I heard a fly buzz when I died

I heard a linnet courting

I heard a linnet

I heard a linnet courting

The linnet

I heard a linnet courting

The linnet

I heard an Angel singing

I heard an angel singing

I heard last night a little child go singing

I heard last night a little child go singing

I heard the old, old men say

The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

I heard their young hearts crying

Watching the needleboats at San Saba

I heard their young hearts crying

Watching the needleboats at San Saba

I heard you singing when the dawn was grey

I heard you singing

I held a jewel in my fingers

I held a jewel in my fingers

I held a jewel

I held Love's head while it did ache

I held Love's head

I Himmelen, i Himmelen

I himmelen

I hope and pray that once you'll yawn

Love Song

I hoped that he would love me

The kiss

I idly cut a parsley stalk

On a midsummer eve

I ja vyjdu l' na krylechko

I ja vyjdu l' na krylechko

I kissed them in fancy as I came

Two lips

I knew and loved a maid on a time

I knew and loved a maid

I know a baby, such a baby

I know a baby

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows

Titania's Cradle

I know a falcon swift and peerless

The Falcon

I know a green grass path that leaves the field

The Green River

I know a little cupboard

The cupboard

I know a maiden fair to see

Beware!

I know a place in London where the country comes to town

Covent Garden

I know a place where summer strives

I know a place

I know a pool where nightshade preens

Crazed

I know my soul hath power to know all things

I know my soul hath power

I know noble accents

I know noble accents

I know not how it falls on me

I know not how it falls on me

Gentle Greeting

I know some lonely houses off the road

I know some lonely houses off the road

I know that if the sea and skies were not so blue

Song

I know that thou must love me

I know that thou must love me

I know the man without a soul

The king of the fairy men

I know the song that the bluebird is singing

The bluebird

I know you love me not

I know you love me not

I Kongelunden skal brylluppet stå

I Kongelunden skal brylluppet stå

I laid me down upon a bank

I laid me down upon a bank

I laid me down upon a pillow soft

A dream

I leaned upon a coppice gate

The darkling thrush

I let the dearest dream depart

Matin Song

I liden høit deroppe

I liden høit deroppe

I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

I lift my heavy heart

I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

Ashes

I like Americans

I like Americans

I like to see it lap the miles

I like to see it lap the miles

The railway train

I liken my love to a gossamer

For ever mine

I lingered near a cottage door

The Magpie

I lingered through the night to break of day

Her definition

I listened, there was not a sound to hear

Full Moon (Santa Barbara)

I little know or care

Forever and a Day

I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe

I live, and yet methinks

I live with him, I see his face

I live with him, I see his face

I live with him, I see his face

I live with him, I see his face

I lived with visions for my company

I lived with visions for my company

I long again for tears

I long again for tears

I longed to love a full-boughed beech

The Ivy-Wife

I lönnens skymning står ett lutat kors

I lönnens skymning

I look in the glass

The repentance of Lady T

I look into my glass

I look into my glass

I look'd and saw within the Book of Fate

I look'd and saw within

I look'd into the midnight deep

In my beloved's eyes

I looked back suddenly

I looked back suddenly

I looked in my heart when the wild swans went over

The wild swans

Wild swans

Wild Swans

I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over

The wild swans

Wild swans

Wild Swans

I love a flower

I love a flower

I love a flower

I love a flower

I love, alas, alas, yet am not loved

I love, alas, alas, yet am not loved

I love all beauteous things

I love all beauteous things

I love all things that move with grace

I love all graceful things

I love and fear him

Lady Kasa

I love and I must, and yet I would fain

I love and I must

I love in Isas bed to lie

In Isas Bed

I love the cradle-songs the mothers sing

Desire in Spring

I love the fitful gust that shakes

I love the fitful gust

I love the jocund dance

I love the merry dance

The jocund dance

I love the jocund dance

I love the merry dance

I love the merry dance

The jocund dance

I love the jocund dance

I love thee -- I love thee!

I love thee

I love to rise in a summer morn

The school boy

I love you

The wind in your hair

I loved fair Celia many years

I loved fair Celia

I loved my friend

I loved my friend

Poem (To F.S.)

I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago

I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago

I made a posie while the day ran by

Life

I make my shroud but no one knows

The shroud

Song

Triolet

Where the lilac blows

I many times thought peace had come

Peace

Reflection

I marked her ruined hues

Amabel

I marked when the weather changed

A Night in November

I mastered pastoral theology, the Greek of the Apostles, and all the difficult subjects in a minister's carriculum.

The Minister

I mchitsja trojka udalaja

Kolokol'chik

I mesjac belyj

Iz Polja Verlena

I met a singer on the hill

The singer

I met a traveller from an antique land

Ozymandias

Ozymandias, king of kings

Ozymandias

I met at eve the Prince of sleep

The prince of sleep

I met my mates in the morning and oh, but I am old

The beaches of Lukannon

I miei piedi son stanchi e doloranti

I miei piedi son stanchi

I möcht e Jäger finde

I möcht e Jäger finde

I moln går solen och jag bländas dock

Jag vänter månen

I mun be married a Sunday

Roister Doister

I mun be married on Sunday

I mun be married on Sunday

Roister Doister

I mun be married on Sunday

I must complain, yet doe enioy my Loue

I must complain

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky

Sea-Fever

I must go down to the seas again

Sea-Fever

I must go down to the seas again

Sea-Fever

Down to the sea

Sea-Fever

I must go down to the seas again

Sea-Fever

I must have passed the crest a while ago

The long hill

I natten klam og kold

I natten klam og kold

I need not go

I need not go

I net v mire ochej

I net v mire ochej

I never felt at Home - Below

I never felt at home below

New England Pastoral

I never gave a lock of hair away

I never gave a lock of hair away

I never saw a moor

I never saw a moor

Chartless

I never saw a moor

Revelation

Chartless

I never went to Mamble

Mamble

I once loved a boy, just a bold Irish boy

I will walk with my love

I østen stiger solen op

I østen stiger solen op

I pant for the music which is divine

Music

I paused on the threshold

I paused on the threshold

I pioppi, curvati dal vento

Terra e mare

I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane

The dark-eyed gentleman

I più bei fior comprate

La fioraia fiorentina

I play my sweet old airs

Lost Love

I plyvut, i rastut, `eti chudnyje zvuki

Muzyka

I praise the tender flower

I praise the tender flower

I prithee send me back my heart

I prithee send me back my heart

I prithee send me back my heart

I question with the amber daffodils

Daffodils

I rassudok, i serdce, i pamjat' gubja

Poceluj

I reason, earth is short

I reason, earth is short

I reckon, when I count at all

Poets

I remember

August

I remember all the beauty of her

Gone with the wind

I remember, I remember

I remember, I remember

I remember

I remember, I remember

I remember

I remember running and running to my house

Displaced (Song of the D. P.)

I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James

Plain Language from Truthful James

I resolve against cringing and whining

I resolve against cringing and whining

I rise and grieve

I rise and grieve

I rose and went to Rou'tor Town

I rose and went to Rou'tor Town

I rose up as my custom is

I rose up as my custom is

I ruki l'nut k rukam, i ochi smotrjat v ochi

I ruki l'nut k rukam

I said goodbye to Earth

I said goodbye to Earth

I said to Love

I said to Love

I sang that song on Sunday

Her song

I sat on the shore of the ocean

Shore musings

I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea

Childhood among the ferns

I saw -- 't was in a dream, the other night

Montefiore

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

I saw a man

I saw a man pursuing

I saw a man

I saw a man who knelt in prayer, and heard him say

A Prayer for Today

I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color

I saw a mass . . .

I saw a peacock with a fiery tail

The wonder of wonders

I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing, a-sailing

An old song re-sung

I saw a spirit standing, Man

A vision

I saw a strange creature

Sun and moon

I saw a weeping maiden

A Song of Love

I saw a young snake glide

Snake

I saw fair Cloris walk alone

I saw fair Cloris walk alone

Chloris in the snow

I saw her in a Broadway car

The old maid

I saw him once before

The last leaf

I saw him steal the light away

God's education