Poetry for Students, Volume 31

(Ann) #1

Red men embraced my body’s
whiteness (Birch Canoe) V5:31
Remember me when I am gone away
(Remember) V14:255


S
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s
day? (Sonnet 18) V2:222
She came every morning to draw
water (A Drink of Water) V8:66
She reads, of course, what he’s doing,
shaking Nixon’s hand, (The
Women Who Loved Elvis All
Their Lives) V28:273
She sang beyond the genius of the
sea. (The Idea of Order at Key
West) V13:164
She walks in beauty, like the night
(She Walks in Beauty) V14:268
She was my grandfather’s second
wife. Coming late (My
Grandmother’s Plot in the
Family Cemetery) V27:154
Side by side, their faces blurred, (An
Arundel Tomb) V12:17
Since the professional wars—
(Midnight) V2:130
Since then, I work at night. (Ten
Years after Your Deliberate
Drowning) V21:240
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
(The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock) V1:97
Sky black (Duration) V18:93
Sleepless as Prospero back in his
bedroom (Darwin in 1881)
V13:83
so much depends (The Red
Wheelbarrow) V1:219
So the man spread his blanket on the
field (A Tall Man Executes a
Jig) V12:228
So the sky wounded you, jagged at
the heart, (Daylights) V13:101
Softly, in the dark, a woman is
singing to me (Piano) V6:145
Some say it’s in the reptilian dance
(The Greatest Grandeur)
V18:119
Some say the world will end in fire
(Fire and Ice) V7:57
Something there is that doesn’t love a
wall (Mending Wall) V5:231
Sometimes walking late at night
(Butcher Shop) V7:43
Sometimes, a lion with a prophet’s
beard (For An Assyrian Frieze)
V9:120
Sometimes, in the middle of the
lesson (Music Lessons) V8:117


somewhere i have never
travelled,gladly beyond
(somewhere i have never
travelled,gladly beyond)
V19:265
South of the bridge on Seventeenth
(Fifteen) V2:78
Stop all the clocks, cut off the
telephone, (Funeral Blues)
V10:139
Strong Men, riding horses. In the
West (Strong Men, Riding
Horses) V4:209
Such places are too still for history,
(Deep Woods) V14:138
Sundays too my father got up early
(Those Winter Sundays)
V1:300
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so
bright, (Virtue) V25:263
Swing low sweet chariot (Swing Low
Sweet Chariot) V1:283

T
Take heart, monsieur, four-fifths of
this province (For Jean Vincent
D’abbadie, Baron St.-Castin)
V12:78
Take sheds and stalls from
Billingsgate, (The War
Correspondent) V26:235
Tears, idle tears, I know not what
they mean (Tears, Idle Tears)
V4:220
Tell me not, in mournful numbers (A
Psalm of Life) V7:165
Temple bells die out. (Temple Bells
Die Out) V18:210
That is no country for old men. The
young (Sailing to Byzantium)
V2:207
That negligible bit of sand which
slides (Variations on Nothing)
V20:234
That time of drought the embered air
(Drought Year) V8:78
That’s my last Duchess painted on
the wall (My Last Duchess)
V1:165
The apparition of these faces in the
crowd (In a Station of the
Metro) V2:116
The Assyrian came down like the
wolf on the fold (The
Destruction of Sennacherib)
V1:38
The bored child at the auction (The
Wings) V28:242
The broken pillar of the wing jags
from the clotted shoulder (Hurt
Hawks) V3:138

The bud (Saint Francis and the Sow)
V9:222
The Bustle in a House (The Bustle in
a House) V10:62
The buzz saw snarled and rattled
in the yard (Out, Out—)
V10:212
The couple on the left of me (Walk
Your Body Down) V26:219
The courage that my mother had
(The Courage that My Mother
Had) V3:79
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting
day (Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard) V9:73
The fiddler crab fiddles, glides and
dithers, (Fiddler Crab)
V23:111–112
The force that through the green fuse
drives the flower (The Force
That Through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower) V8:101
The grasses are light brown
(September) V23:258–259
The green lamp flares on the table
(This Life) V1:293
The house is crammed: tier beyond
tier they grin (‘‘Blighters’’)
V28:3
The ills I sorrow at (Any Human to
Another) V3:2
The instructor said (Theme for
English B) V6:194
The king sits in Dumferling toune
(Sir Patrick Spens) V4:177
The land was overmuch like scenery
(Beowulf) V11:2
The last time I saw it was 1968. (The
Hiding Place) V10:152
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not
want (Psalm 23) V4:103
The man who sold his lawn to
standard oil (The War Against
the Trees) V11:215
The moon glows the same (The
Moon Glows the Same) V7:152
The old South Boston Aquarium
stands (For the Union Dead)
V7:67
The others bent their heads and
started in (‘‘Trouble with Math
in a One-Room Country
School’’) V9:238
The pale nuns of St. Joseph are here
(Island of Three Marias)
V11:79
The Phoenix comes of flame and dust
(The Phoenix) V10:226
The plants of the lake (Two Poems
for T.) V20:218
The rain set early in to-night:
(Porphyria’s Lover) V15:151

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