Poetry for Students

(Rick Simeone) #1

330 Poetry for Students


There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught—
they say—God, when he walked on earth
(Shine, Perishing Republic) V4:162
there was light (Vancouver Lights) V8:246
They also serve who only stand and wait.” ([On His
Blindness] Sonnet 16) V3:262
They are going to some point true and unproven.
(Geometry) V15:68
They rise, they walk again (The Heaven of Animals) V6:76
They think I lost. I think I won (Harlem Hopscotch)
V2:93
This is my page for English B (Theme for English B)
V6:194
This Love (In Memory of Radio) V9:145
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile! (A Red, Red Rose)
V8:152
Though I sang in my chains like the sea (Fern Hill) V3:92
Till human voices wake us, and we drown (The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) V1:99
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink (When I Have
Fears that I May Cease to Be) V2:295
To every woman a happy ending (Barbie Doll) V9:33
to glow at midnight. (The Blue Rim of Memory) V17:39
to its owner or what horror has befallen the other shoe
(A Piéd) V3:16
To live with thee and be thy love. (The Nymph’s Reply to
the Shepherd) V14:241
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (Ulysses)
V2:279
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells (The Bells)
V3:47
To the temple, singing. (In the Suburbs) V14:201

U
Undeniable selves, into your days, and beyond. (The
Continuous Life) V18:51
until at last I lift you up and wrap you within me. (It’s
like This) V23:138–139
Until Eternity. (The Bustle in a House) V10:62
unusual conservation (Chocolates) V11:17
Uttering cries that are almost human (American Poetry)
V7:2

W
War is kind (War Is Kind) V9:253
watching to see how it’s done. (I Stop Writing the Poem)
V16:58
Went home and put a bullet through his head (Richard
Cory) V4:117
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. (Out,
Out—) V10:213
Were toward Eternity— (Because I Could Not Stop for
Death) V2:27

What will survive of us is love. (An Arundel Tomb)
V12:18
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a
hose (The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner)
V2:41
when they untie them in the evening. (Early in the
Morning) V17:75
when you are at a party. (Social Life) V19:251
When you have both (Toads) V4:244
Where deep in the night I hear a voice (Butcher Shop)
V7:43
Where ignorant armies clash by night (Dover Beach)
V2:52
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! (My
Last Duchess) V1:166
Which for all you know is the life you’ve chosen. (The
God Who Loves You) V20:88
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m
telling you about it (Having a Coke with You)
V12:106
which only looks like an l, and is silent. (Trompe l’Oeil)
V22:216
white ash amid funereal cypresses (Helen) V6:92
Who are you and what is your purpose?(The Mystery)
V15:138
Wi’ the Scots lords at his feit (Sir Patrick Spens) V4:177
Will always be ready to bless the day (Morning Walk)
V21:167
will be easy, my rancor less bitter... (On the Threshold)
V22:128
Will hear of as a god.” (How we Heard the Name)
V10:167
Wind, like the dodo’s (Bedtime Story) V8:33
With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! be thine. (To His
Excellency General Washington) V13:213
with my eyes closed. (We Live by What We See at Night)
V13:240
With the slow smokeless burning of decay (The Wood-
Pile) V6:252
With what they had to go on. (The Conquerors) V13:67
Without cease or doubt sew the sweet sad earth. (The
Satyr’s Heart) V22:187
Would scarcely know that we were gone. (There Will
Come Soft Rains) V14:301

Y
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know (Ode on a
Grecian Urn) V1:180
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes (Sonnet 55)
V5:246
You may for ever tarry. (To the Virgins, to Make Much
of Time) V13:226
you who raised me? (The Gold Lily) V5:127
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
(Ithaka) V19:114

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