Poetry for Students

302 Poetry for Students

Names of Horses

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Names of Horses (Hall): V8

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

(Dickinson): V11

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

(Hughes): V10

Nemerov, Howard

Deep Woods:V14

The Phoenix:V10

Neruda, Pablo

Tonight I Can Write: V11

The Nerve(Maxwell): V23

New Rule(Carson): V18

Not like a Cypress(Amichai): V24

Not Waving but Drowning(Smith):

V3

Nothing Gold Can Stay(Frost): V3

Nowlan, Alden

For Jean Vincent D’abbadie,

Baron St.-Castin: V12

Noyes, Alfred

The Highwayman:V4

Nye, Naomi Shihab

Kindness: V24

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd

(Raleigh): V14

O

O Captain! My Captain!(Whitman):

V2

Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats): V1

Ode to a Drum(Komunyakaa): V20

Ode to a Nightingale(Keats): V3

Ode to the West Wind(Shelley): V2

O’Hara, Frank

Having a Coke with You: V12

Why I Am Not a Painter: V8

old age sticks(cummings): V3

Old Ironsides (Holmes): V9

Olds, Sharon

I Go Back to May 1937:V17

Oliver, Mary

Music Lessons: V8

Wild Geese:V15

Omen(Hirsch): V22

On Freedom’s Ground (Wilbur): V12

[On His Blindness] Sonnet 16

(Milton): V3

On His Having Arrived at the Age of

Twenty-Three(Milton): V17

On Location in the Loire Valley

(Ackerman): V19

On the Pulse of Morning(Angelou):

V3

On the Threshold(Montale): V22

Once Again I Prove the Theory of

Relativity(Cisneros): V19

Ondaatje, Michael

The Cinnamon Peeler: V19

To a Sad Daughter: V8

One Is One(Ponsot): V24

Onomatopoeia (Merriam): V6

Ordinary Words(Stone): V19

Ortiz, Simon

Hunger in New York City:V4

My Father’s Song:V16

Ostriker, Alicia

His Speed and Strength: V19

Our Side(Muske-Dukes): V24

Out, Out— (Frost): V10

Overture to a Dance of Locomotives

(Williams): V11

Ovid, (Naso, Publius Ovidius)

Metamorphoses: V22

Owen, Wilfred

Dulce et Decorum Est:V10

Oysters(Sexton): V4

P

Paradiso(Koch): V20

Paradoxes and Oxymorons

(Ashbery): V11

Parker, Dorothy

The Last Question: V18

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

(Marlowe): V22

Pastan, Linda

Ethics: V8

Paul Revere’s Ride(Longfellow): V2

Pavese, Cesare

Two Poems for T.: V20

Paz, Octavio

Duration: V18

Perfect Light(Hughes): V19

Phillips, Carl

All It Takes: V23

The Phoenix (Nemerov): V10

Piano(Lawrence): V6

Piercy, Marge

Apple sauce for Eve: V22

Barbie Doll:V9

Pine(Hahn): V23

Pineapples and Pomegranates

(Muldoon): V22

Pinsky, Robert

Song of Reasons: V18

Plath, Sylvia

Blackberrying:V15

Mirror:V1

A Psalm of Life(Longfellow): V7

Po, Li

Drinking Alone Beneath the

Moon: V20

Poe, Edgar Allan

Annabel Lee:V9

The Bells:V3

The Raven:V1

Poetry(Moore): V17

A Poison Tree(Blake): V24

Ponsot, Marie

One Is One: V24

Pope, Alexander

The Rape of the Lock: V12

Porphyria’s Lover(Browning): V15

Portrait of a Couple at Century’s

End(Santos): V24

Pound, Ezra

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley:V16

In a Station of the Metro:V2

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A

Letter:V8

Practice(Voigt): V23

Proem(Tennyson): V19

Psalm 8 (King James Bible): V9

Psalm 23(King James Bible): V4

Purdy, Al

Lament for the Dorsets:V5

Wilderness Gothic: V12

Q

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

(Lowell): V6

Queen-Ann’s-Lace (Williams): V6

R

Raine, Craig

A Martian Sends a Postcard

Home:V7

Raleigh, Walter, Sir

The Nymph’s Reply to the

Shepherd:V14

Randall, Dudley

Ballad of Birmingham:V5

The Rape of the Lock (Pope): V12

Rapture(Biele): V21

The Raven(Poe): V1

Reactionary Essay on Applied

Science (McGinley): V9

A Rebirth(Farrokhzaad): V21

A Red, Red Rose (Burns): V8

The Red Wheelbarrow(Williams):

V1

Reed, Ishmael

Beware: Do Not Read This Poem:

V6

Remember (Rossetti): V14

Reunions with a Ghost (Ai): V16

Revard, Carter

Birch Canoe:V5

The Reverse Side(Dunn): V21

The Rhodora(Emerson): V17

Rich, Adrienne

Rusted Legacy:V15

Richard Cory(Robinson): V4

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Childhood: V19

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(Coleridge): V4

Ríos, Alberto

Island of the Three Marias: V11

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

(Pound): V8

The Road Not Taken(Frost): V2