Poetry for Students

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360 Poetry for Students

Monkey business (Business) V16:2
More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! (Tintern
Abbey) V2:250
My love shall in my verse ever live young (Sonnet 19)
V9:211
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. (The Negro
Speaks of Rivers) V10:198

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never to waken in that world again (Starlight) V8:213
Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten. (Spring-Watching
Pavilion) V18:198
No, she’s brushing a boy’s hair (Facing It) V5:110
no—tell them no— (The Hiding Place) V10:153
Noble six hundred! (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
V1:3
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
(somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
beyond) V19:265
Not even the blisters. Look. (What Belongs to Us)
V15:196
Nothing gold can stay (Nothing Gold Can Stay) V3:203
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless (High Windows)
V3:108
Now! (Alabama Centennial) V10:2
nursing the tough skin of figs (This Life) V1:293

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O Death in Life, the days that are no more! (Tears, Idle
Tears) V4:220
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the
earth! (Psalm 8) V9:182
O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady
Ghost (Names of Horses) V8:142
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 what is past, or passing, or to come (Sailing to
Byzantium) V2:207
Old Ryan, not yours (The Constellation Orion) V8:53
On the dark distant flurry (Angle of Geese) V2:2
On the look of Death— (There’s a Certain Slant of Light)
V6:212
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
Or does it explode?(Harlem) V1:63
Or help to half-a-crown.” (The Man He Killed) V3:167
or nothing (Queen-Ann’s-Lace) V6:179
or the one red leaf the snow releases in March. (Three
Times My Life Has Opened) V16:213
ORANGE forever. (Ballad of Orange and Grape) V10:18
outside. (it was New York and beautifully, snowing...
(i was sitting in mcsorley’s) V13:152
owing old (old age sticks) V3:246

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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
Pro patria mori. (Dulce et Decorum Est) V10:110

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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
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish (Mirror)
V1:116

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Shall be lifted—nevermore! (The Raven) V1:202
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
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
Somebody loves us all. (Filling Station) V12:57
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
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

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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... in the cool tombs (Cool Tombs) V6:46
Than that you should remember and be sad. (Remember)
V14:255
That then I scorn to change my state with Kings (Sonnet
29) V8:198
That when we live no more, we may live ever (To My
Dear and Loving Husband) V6:228
That’s the word. (Black Zodiac) V10:47
the bigger it gets. (Smart and Final Iris) V15:183
The bosom of his Father and his God (Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard) V9:74

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