Are you sure you don't mean "On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three" which is an Italian Sonnet?
i think you might be looking for What happened to our friendship by Chad Fisher. This poem starts with that line.
It is part of the play "The boy with a cart by Christopher Fry".
Stone by Stone by Rachel Bentley
This line is very much like John Keats' famous poem," La Belle Dame Sans Merci' . "Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms " is the first the line of that poem.
What is the poem's first line?
Just like every other day or All you could think about was running away
You can find the poem with the first line "You shall do so much in the years to come, but what have you done today" in the book "The Poems of Edgar A. Guest". It was penned by the renowned American poet Edgar A. Guest.
An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each word (or line) spells out a word or phrase. So an acrostic for the name Jamie would simply be a poem where the first line begins with "J", the second line begins with "A", etc. Often these poems are written to describe the word/phrase being spelled out. For example, Joyful Ambitious Mysterious Independent Exciting
William Wilfred Campbell's "Indian Summer"
The poem that begins with the line "It was many and many a year ago" is "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a poem about the narrator's love for his deceased wife Annabel Lee.
pattiann rogers
The first line can set the tone for the rest of the poem :)