Gedichten uit de wereldliteratuur/Engelse gedichten eerste versregel

• "Best image of myself, and dearer half" (John Milton: Paradise Lost)
• "Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy"
• "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee/ Mighty and dreadful"
• "Do not go gentle into that good night"
• "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
• "Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters!"
• "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
• "I had a dream, which was not all a dream"
• "I started early - took my dog"
• I went alone into a shepherd's boat
• "Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey."
• "Marke but this flea, and marke in this"
• "Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene" (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus)
• "Of comfort no man speak! Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs"
• "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit"
• "O there is blessing in this gentle breeze" (William Wordsworth)
• "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
• "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"
• "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
• "Sing Heav'nly Muse"
• "The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept"
• "To be or not to be, that is the question" (versdrama)
• "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"
• "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night"
• "Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote"
• "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships"
• "Whose woods these are I think I know"