Poetry for Students, Volume 31

(Ann) #1

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
down from the sky (Russian Letter)
V26:181
Down in the flood of remembrance, I
weep like a child for the past
(Piano) V6:145
Downward to darkness, on extended
wings. (Sunday Morning)
V16:190
Driving around, I will waste more
time. (Driving to Town Late to
Mail a Letter) V17:63
dry wells that fill so easily now (The
Exhibit) V9:107
dust rises in many myriads of grains.
(Not like a Cypress) V24:135
dusty as miners, into the restored
volumes. (Bonnard’s Garden)
V25:33


E
endless worlds is the great meeting of
children. (60) V18:3
Eternal, unchanging creator of earth.
Amen (The Seafarer) V8:178
Eternity of your arms around my
neck. (Death Sentences) V22:23
even as it vanishes—were not our
life. (The Litany) V24:101–102
every branch traced with the ghost
writing of snow. (The Afterlife)
V18:39


F
fall upon us, the dwellers in shadow
(In the Land of Shinar) V7:84
Fallen cold and dead (O Captain!
My Captain!) V2:147
filled, never. (The Greatest
Grandeur) V18:119
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin
trays (Cargoes) V5:44
Fled is that music:—Do I wake or
sleep? (Ode to a Nightingale)
V3:229


For I’m sick at the heart, and I fain
wad lie down.’’ (Lord Randal)
V6:105
For nothing now can ever come to
any good. (Funeral Blues)
V10:139
For the love of God they buried his
cold corpse. (The Bronze
Horseman) V28:31
forget me as fast as you can. (Last
Request) V14:231
from one kiss (A Rebirth)
V21:193–194

G
garish for a while and burned. (One
of the Smallest) V26:142
going where? Where? (Childhood)
V19:29

H
Had anything been wrong, we should
certainly have heard (The
Unknown Citizen) V3:303
Had somewhere to get to and sailed
calmly on (Muse ́e des Beaux
Arts) V1:148
half eaten by the moon. (Dear
Reader) V10:85
hand over hungry hand. (Climbing)
V14:113
Happen on a red tongue (Small
Town with One Road) V7:207
hard as mine with another man? (An
Attempt at Jealousy) V29:24
Has no more need of, and I have
(The Courage that My Mother
Had) V3:80
Has set me softly down beside you.
The Poem is you (Paradoxes
and Oxymorons) V11:162
Hath melted like snow in the glance
of the Lord! (The Destruction
of Sennacherib) V1:39
He rose the morrow morn (The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner) V4:132
He says again, ‘‘Good fences make
good neighbors.’’ (Mending
Wall) V5:232
He writes down something that he
crosses out. (The Boy) V19:14
here; passion will save you. (Air for
Mercury) V20:2–3
History theirs whose languages is the
sun. (An Elementary School
Classroom in a Slum)
V23:88–89
How at my sheet goes the same
crooked worm (The Force That
Through the Green Fuse Drives
the Flower) V8:101

How can I turn from Africa and live?
(A Far Cry from Africa) V6:61
How sad then is even the marvelous!
(An Africian Elegy) V13:4

I
I am a true Russian! (Babii Yar)
V29:38
I am black. (The Song of the Smoke)
V13:197
I am going to keep things like this
(Hawk Roosting) V4:55
I am not brave at all (Strong Men,
Riding Horses) V4:209
I could not see to see— (I Heard a
Fly Buzz—When I Died—)
V5:140
I cremated Sam McGee(The
Cremation of Sam McGee)
V10:76
I didn’t want to put them down.
(And What If I Spoke of
Despair) V19:2
I have just come down from my
father (The Hospital Window)
V11:58
I hear it in the deep heart’s core. (The
Lake Isle of Innisfree) V15:121
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
(Sonnet 116) V3:288
I rest in the grace of the world, and
am free. (The Peace of Wild
Things) V30:159
I romp with joy in the bookish dark
(Eating Poetry) V9:61
I see Mike’s painting, called
SARDINES (Why I Am Not a
Painter) V8:259
I shall but love thee better after death
(Sonnet 43) V2:236
I should be glad of another death
(Journey of the Magi) V7:110
I stand up (Miss Rosie) V1:133
I stood there, fifteen (Fifteen) V2:78
I take it you are he? (Incident in a
Rose Garden) V14:191
I, too, am America. (I, Too) V30:99
I turned aside and bowed my head
and wept (The Tropics in New
York) V4:255
If Winter comes, can Spring be far
behind? (Ode to the West Wind)
V2:163
I’ll be gone from here. (The Cobweb)
V17:51
I’ll dig with it (Digging) V5:71
In a convulsive misery (The Milkfish
Gatherers) V11:112
In balance with this life, this death
(An Irish Airman Foresees His
Death) V1:76

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