Poetry for Students, Volume 31

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And like a thunderbolt he falls (The
Eagle) V11:30
And makes me end where I begun (A
Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning) V11:202
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.... (Hopeis 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 wild for to hold, though I seem
tame.’ (Whoso List to Hunt)
V25:286
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 it has disappeared.(The Wings)
V28:244
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
as we crossed the field, I told her.
(The Centaur) V30:20
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
Beautiful & dangerous. (Slam,
Dunk, & Hook) V30:176–177
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
cool as from underground springs
and pure enough to drink. (The
Man-Moth) V27:135
crossed the water. (All It Takes)
V23:15

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