Poetry for Students

356 Poetry for Students

When they said CarrickfergusI could hear (The Singer’s

House) V17:205

When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold

(The City Limits) V19:78

Whenever Richard Cory went down town (Richard Cory)

V4:116

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead

(The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter)

V8:164

While the long grain is softening (Early in the Morning)

V17:75

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity,

heavily thickening to empire (Shine, Perishing

Republic) V4:161

While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth,

(The Afterlife) V18:39

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of

Lamont Cranston? (In Memory of Radio)

V9:144

Whose woods these are I think I know (Stopping by

Woods on a Snowy Evening) V1:272

Why should I let the toad work(Toads) V4:244

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You are small and intense (To a Child Running With

Outstretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly)

V11:173

You do not have to be good. (Wild Geese) V15:207

You were never told, Mother, how old Illya was drunk

(The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter) V12:44

When they said Carrickfergus I could hear

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