Poetry for Students, Volume 31

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o, walk your body down, don’t let it
go it alone. (Walk Your Body
Down) V26:219
Of all our joys, this must be the
deepest. (Drinking Alone
Beneath the Moon) V20:59–60
of blood and ignorance. (Art Thou
the Thing I Wanted) V25:2–3
of gentleness (To a Sad Daughter)
V8:231
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
(Those Winter Sundays) V1:300
of peaches (The Weight of
Sweetness) V11:230
Of the camellia (Falling Upon Earth)
V2:64
Of the Creator. And he waits for the
world to begin (Leviathan)
V5:204
of our festivities (Fragment 2)
V31:63
Of what is past, or passing, or to
come (Sailing to Byzantium)
V2:207
Oh that was the garden of
abundance, seeing you. (Seeing
You) V24:244–245
Old Ryan, not yours (The
Constellation Orion) V8:53
On the dark distant flurry (Angle of
Geese) V2:2
on the frosty autumn air. (The
Cossacks) V25:70
On the look of Death— (There’s a
Certain Slant of Light) V6:212
On the reef of Norman s Woe! (The
Wreck of the Hesperus)
V31:317
On your head like a crown (Any
Human to Another) V3:2
One could do worse that be a swinger
of birches. (Birches) V13:15
‘‘Only the Lonely,’’ trying his best to
sound like Elvis. (The Women
Who Loved Elvis All Their
Lives) V28:274
or a loose seed. (Freeway 280)
V30:62
Or does it explode?(Harlem) V1:63
Or help to half-a-crown.’’ (The Man
He Killed) V3:167
or last time, we look. (In Particular)
V20:125
or last time, we look. (In Particular)
V20:125
Or might not have lain dormant
forever. (Mastectomy) V26:123
or nothing (Queen-Ann’s-Lace)
V6:179
Or pleasures, seldom reached, again
pursued. (A Nocturnal Reverie)
V30:119–120


or the one red leaf the snow releases
in March. (ThreeTimes My Life
Has Opened) V16:213
ORANGE forever. (Ballad of
Orange and Grape) V10:18
our every corpuscle become an elf.
(Moreover, the Moon) V20:153
outside. (it was New York and
beautifully, snowing... (i was
sitting in mcsorley’s) V13:152
owing old (old age sticks) V3:246

P
patient in mind remembers the time.
(Fading Light) V21:49
Penelope, who really cried. (An
Ancient Gesture) V31:3
Perhaps he will fall. (Wilderness
Gothic) V12:242
Petals on a wet, black bough (In a
Station of the Metro) V2:116
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her
long black hair(The
Highwayman) V4:68
Powerless, I drown. (Maternity)
V21:142–143
Pra ́ise him. (Pied Beauty) V26:161
Pro patria mori. (Dulce et Decorum
Est) V10:110

R
Rage, rage against the dying of the
light (Do Not Go Gentle into
that Good Night) V1:51
Raise it again, man. We still believe
what we hear. (The Singer’s
House) V17:206
Remember the Giverfading off the lip
(A Drink of Water) V8:66
Ride me.(Witness) V26:285
rise & walk away like a panther. (Ode
to a Drum) V20:172–173
Rises toward her day after day, like a
terrible fish (Mirror) V1:116

S
Shall be lifted—nevermore! (The
Raven) V1:202
Shantih shantih shantih (The Waste
Land) V20:248–252
share my shivering bed. (Chorale)
V25:51
Show an affirming flame.
(September 1, 1939) V27:235
Shuddering with rain, coming down
around me. (Omen) V22:107
Simply melted into the perfect light.
(Perfect Light) V19:187
Singing of him what they could
understand (Beowulf) V11:3

Singing with open mouths their
strong melodious songs (I Hear
America Singing) V3:152
Sister, one of those who never
married. (My Grandmother’s
Plot in the Family Cemetery)
V27:155
Sleep, fly, rest: even the sea dies!
(Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as) V31:128–30
slides by on grease (For the Union
Dead) V7:67
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be
born? (The Second Coming)
V7:179
So long lives this, and this gives life
to thee (Sonnet 18) V2:222
So prick my skin. (Pine)
V23:223–224
Somebody loves us all. (Filling
Station) V12:57
Speak through my words and my
blood. (The Heights of Macchu
Picchu) V28:141
spill darker kissmarks on that dark.
(Ten Years after Your
Deliberate Drowning) V21:240
Stand still, yet we will make him run
(To His Coy Mistress) V5:277
startled into eternity (Four
Mountain Wolves) V9:132
Still clinging to your shirt (My
Papa’s Waltz) V3:192
Stood up, coiled above his head,
transforming all. (A Tall Man
Executes a Jig) V12:229
strangers ask.Originally?And I
hesitate. (Originally)
V25:146–147
Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of
the Lord for ever (Psalm 23)
V4:103
syllables of an old order. (A Grafted
Tongue) V12:93

T
Take any streetful of people buying
clothes and groceries, cheering
a hero or throwing confetti and
blowing tin horns... tell me if
the lovers are losers... tell me if
any get more than the lovers...
in the dust...inthecool tombs
(Cool Tombs) V6:46
Than from everything else life
promised that you could do?
(Paradiso) V20:190–191
Than that you should remember and
be sad. (Remember) V14:255

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