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Some of the most powerful opening lines from famous poems in this post. From Dylan Thomas and William Wordsworth to T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson, these opening lines captivate readers and set the tone for some of the greatest works of literature. Whether you're a poetry lover or just curious about the art of writing, you'll find inspiration and enjoyment in these examples.

Here are a few examples of powerful opening lines from famous poems:

    "Do not go gentle into that good night" - from "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

1.     "I wandered lonely as a cloud" - from "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
2.     "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" - from "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
3.     "Let us go then, you and I" - from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
4.     "I sing the body electric" - from "I Sing the Body Electric" by Walt Whitman
5.     "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" - from "Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6.     "Because I could not stop for Death" - from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
7.     "Whose woods these are I think I know" - from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
8.     "The world is too much with us; late and soon" - from "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth
9.     "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" - from "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare.
10.     "O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done" - from "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
11.     "April is the cruellest month" - from "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
12.     "I have a rendezvous with Death" - from "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
13.     "Tyger Tyger, burning bright" - from "The Tyger" by William Blake
14.     "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" - from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15.     "No man is an island" - from "Meditation XVII" by John Donne
16.     "The night is darkening round me" - from "Remembrance" by Emily Bronte
17.     "Out of the night that covers me" - from "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
18.     "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments" - from "Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
19.     "The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees" - from "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes

These opening lines are famous for their power to immediately capture the reader's attention and set the tone for the rest of the poem.

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