Poetry for Students, Volume 35

At five in the afternoon. (Lament for
Ignacio Sa ́nchez Mejı ́as)
V31:128–30
At night the dead come down to the
river to drink (The Dead)
V35:69
At noon in the desert a panting lizard
(At the Bomb Testing Site) V8:2
At six I lived for spells: (What For)
V33:266
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
(Old Ironsides) V9:172

B
Back then, before we came (On
Freedom’s Ground) V12:186
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-
root (The Tropics in New York)
V4:255
Be happy if the wind inside the
orchard (On the Threshold)
V22:128
Because I could not stop for Death—
(Because I Could Not Stop for
Death) V2:27
Before the indifferent beak could let
her drop? (Leda and the Swan)
V13:182
Before you know what kindness
really is (Kindness) V24:84–85
Below long pine winds, a stream
twists. (Jade Flower Palace)
V32:145
Bent double, like old beggars under
slacks, (Dulce et Decorum Est)
V10:109
Between my finger and my thumb
(Digging) V5:70
Beware of ruins: they have a
treacherous charm (Beware of
Ruins) V8:43
Bright star! would I were steadfast as
thou art— (Bright Star! Would
I Were Steadfast as Thou Art)
V9:44
But perhaps God needs the longing,
wherever else should it dwell,
(But Perhaps God Needs the
Longing) V20:41
By the rude bridge that arched the
flood (Concord Hymn) V4:30
By way of a vanished bridge we cross
this river (The Garden
Shukkei-en) V18:107

C
Cassandra’s kind of crying was
(Three To’s and an Oi) V24:264
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms
of light, (To His Excellency
General Washington) V13:212

Come with me into those things that

have felt his despair for so

long— (Come with Me) V6:31

Complacencies of the peignoir, and

late (Sunday Morning) V16:189

Composed in the Tower, before his

execution (‘‘More Light! More

Light!’’) V6:119

D

Darkened by time, the masters, like

our memories, mix (Black

Zodiac) V10:46

Dear Sirs: (In Response to Executive

Order 9066: All Americans of

Japanese Descent Must Report

to Relocation Centers) V32:129

Death, be not proud, though some

have called thee (Holy Sonnet

10) V2:103

Devouring Time, blunt thou the

lion’s paws (Sonnet 19) V9:210

Disoriented, the newly dead try to

turn back, (Our Side) V24:177

Do not go gentle into that good night

(Do Not Go Gentle into that

Good Night) V1:51

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind

(War Is Kind) V9:252

Does the road wind up-hill all the

way? (Up-Hill) V34:279

Don Arturo says: (Business) V16:2

Drink to me only with thine eyes,

(Song: To Celia) V23:270–271

(Dumb, (A Grafted Tongue) V12:92

E

Each day the shadow swings (In the

Land of Shinar) V7:83

Each morning the man rises from

bed because the invisible (It’s

like This) V23:138–139

Each night she waits by the road

(Bidwell Ghost) V14:2

Even when you know what people

are capable of, (Knowledge)

V25:113

Everything has been plundered,

betrayed, sold out, (Everything

Is Plundered) V32:113

F

Face of the skies (Moreover, the

Moon) V20:153

Falling upon earth (Falling Upon

Earth) V2:64

Farewell, thou child of my right

hand, and joy; (On My First

Son) V33:166

Far far from gusty waves these

children’s faces. (An

Elementary School Classroom

in a Slum) V23:88–89

Fast breaks. Lay ups. With

Mercury’s (Slam, Dunk, &

Hook) V30:176–177

First, the self. Then, the observing

self. (I, I, I) V26:97

Five years have past; five summers,

with the length (Tintern Abbey)

V2:249

Flesh is heretic. (Anorexic) V12:2

For a long time the butterfly held a

prominent place in psychology

(Lepidopterology)

V23:171–172

For Jews, the Cossacks are always

coming. (The Cossacks) V25:70

For three years, out of key with his

time, (Hugh Selwyn

Mauberley) V16:26

Forgive me for thinking I saw (For a

New Citizen of These United

States) V15:55

Frogs burrow the mud (Winter)

V35:297

From my mother’s sleep I fell into

the State (The Death of the Ball

Turret Gunner) V2:41

From the air to the air, like an empty

net, (The Heights of Macchu

Picchu) V28:137

G

Gardener:Sir, I encountered Death

(Incident in a Rose Garden)

V14:190

Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may,

(To the Virgins, to Make Much

of Time ) V13:226

Gazelle, I killed you (Ode to a Drum)

V20:172–173

Glory be to God for dappled

things— (Pied Beauty) V26:161

Go, and catch a falling star, (Song)

V35:237

Go down, Moses (Go Down, Moses)

V11:42

God save America, (America,

America) V29:2

Grandmothers who wring the necks

(Classic Ballroom Dances)

V33:3

Gray mist wolf (Four Mountain

Wolves) V9:131

H

‘‘Had he and I but met (The Man He

Killed) V3:167

Cumulative Index of First Lines