Poetry for Students

326 Poetry for Students

And ‘midst the stars inscribe Belinda’s name. (The Rape

of the Lock) V12:209

And miles to go before I sleep (Stopping by Woods on a

Snowy Evening) V1:272

and my father saying things. (My Father’s Song) V16:102

And no birds sing. (La Belle Dame sans Merci) V17:18

And not waving but drowning (Not Waving but

Drowning) V3:216

And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true (When I Was One-and-Twenty)

V4:268

And reach for your scalping knife. (For Jean Vincent

D’abbadie, Baron St.-Castin) V12:78

and retreating, always retreating, behind it (Brazil, January

1, 1502) V6:16

And settled upon his eyes in a black soot (“More Light!

More Light!”) V6:120

And shuts his eyes. (Darwin in 1881) V13: 84

And so live ever—or else swoon to death (Bright Star!

Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art) V9:44

and strange and loud was the dingoes’ cry (Drought Year)

V8:78

and stride out. (Courage) V14:126

and sweat and fat and greed. (Anorexic) V12:3

And that has made all the difference (The Road Not

Taken) V2:195

And the deep river ran on (As I Walked Out One Evening)

V4:16

And the midnight message of Paul Revere (Paul Revere’s

Ride) V2:180

And the mome raths outgrabe (Jabberwocky) V11:91

And the Salvation Army singing God loves us.... (Hope

is a Tattered Flag) V12:120

and these the last verses that I write for her (Tonight I

Can Write) V11:187

and thickly wooded country; the moon. (The Art of the

Novel) V23:29

And those roads in South Dakota that feel around in the

darkness... (Come with Me) V6:31

and to know she will stay in the field till you die?

(Landscape with Tractor) V10:183

and two blankets embroidered with smallpox (Meeting the

British) V7:138

and waving, shouting, Welcome back. (Elegy for My

Father, Who Is Not Dead) V14:154

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! (If)

V22:54–55

and whose skin is made dusky by stars. (September)

V23:258–259

And would suffice (Fire and Ice) V7:57

And yet God has not said a word! (Porphyria’s Lover)

V15:151

and you spread un the thin halo of night mist. (Ways to

Live) V16:229

And Zero at the Bone— (A Narrow Fellow in the Grass)

V11:127

(answer with a tower of birds) (Duration) V18:93

Around us already perhaps future moons, suns and stars

blaze in a fiery wreath. (But Perhaps God

Needs the Longing) V20:41

As any She belied with false compare (Sonnet 130) V1:248

As ever in my great Task-Master’s eye. (On His Having

Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three) V17:160

As far as Cho-fu-Sa (The River-Merchant’s Wife: A

Letter) V8:165

As the contagion of those molten eyes (For An Assyrian

Frieze) V9:120

As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that

is full of beads and receipts and dolls and

clothes, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes (The

Bean Eaters) V2:16

aspired to become lighter than air (Blood Oranges) V13:34

at home in the fish’s fallen heaven (Birch Canoe) V5:31

away, pedaling hard, rocket and pilot. (His Speed and

Strength) V19:96

B

Back to the play of constant give and change (The

Missing) V9:158

Before it was quite unsheathed from reality (Hurt Hawks)

V3:138

before we’re even able to name them. (Station)

V21:226–227

behind us and all our shining ambivalent love airborne

there before us. (Our Side) V24:177

Black like me. (Dream Variations) V15:42

Bless me (Hunger in New York City) V4:79

bombs scandalizing the sanctity of night. (While I Was

Gone a War Began) V21:253–254

But, baby, where are you?” (Ballad of Birmingham) V5:17

But be (Ars Poetica) V5:3

but it works every time (Siren Song) V7:196

but the truth is, it is, lost to us now. (The Forest) V22:36–37

But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has

“Struck Out.” (Casey at the Bat) V5:58

But we hold our course, and the wind is with us. (On

Freedom’s Ground) V12:187

by a beeswax candle pooling beside their dinnerware.

(Portrait of a Couple at Century’s End)

V24:214–215

by good fortune (The Horizons of Rooms) V15:80

C

Calls through the valleys of Hall. (Song of the

Chattahoochee) V14:284

chickens (The Red Wheelbarrow) V1:219

clear water dashes (Onomatopoeia) V6:133

Columbia.(Kindness) V24:84–85

come to life and burn? (Bidwell Ghost) V14:2

Comin’ for to carry me home (Swing Low Sweet Chariot)

V1:284

crossed the water. (All It Takes) V23:15

D

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? (The Tyger) V2:263

“Dead,” was all he answered (The Death of the Hired

Man) V4:44

deep in the deepest one, tributaries burn. (For Jennifer, 6,

on the Teton) V17:86

Delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate—now! (The Base

Stealer) V12:30

Die soon (We Real Cool) V6:242

Do what you are going to do, I will tell about it. (I go

Back to May 1937) V17:113

And ‘midst the stars inscribe Belinda’s name.