[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Use a hanging indent. Something like this in your css file...

.hanging {
  text-indent: -1em;
}

and then use...

<p class="hanging">My poetry line</p>

That CSS is not going to work properly because you've left out the left-margin..

.hanging {
  left-margin: 1em;
  text-indent: -1em;
}