Poetry for Students Vol. 10

(Martin Jones) #1

Volume 10 277


M
‘Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.’ (Drifters) V10: 98
make it seem to change (The Moon Glows the Same)
V7:152
midnight-oiled in the metric laws? (A Farewell to English)
V10:126
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


N
never to waken in that world again (Starlight) V8:213
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
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


O
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 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
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
ORANGE forever. (Ballad of Orange and Grape) V10:18
owing old (old age sticks) V3:246


P
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


R
Rage, rage against the dying of the light (Do Not Go
Gentle into that Good Night) V1:51
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

S
Shall be lifted—nevermore! (The Raven) V1:202
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
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
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

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 ... in the cool tombs (Cool
Tombs) V6:46
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 bosom of his Father and his God (Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard) V9:74
The garland briefer than a girl’s (To an Athlete Dying
Young) V7:230
The hands gripped hard on the desert (At the Bomb
Testing Site) V8:3
the knife at the throat, the death in the metronome (Music
Lessons) V8:117
The lightning and the gale! (Old Ironsides) V9:172
the long, perfect loveliness of sow (Saint Francis and the
Sow) V9:222
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will (The Quaker
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:159
The man I was when I was part of it (Beware of Ruins)
V8:43
The red rose and the brier (Barbara Allan) V7:11
The shaft we raise to them and thee (Concord Hymn)
V4:30
the unremitting space of your rebellion (Lost Sister) V5:217
The woman won (Oysters) V4:91
There is the trap that catches noblest spiritts, that
caught—they say—God, when he walked on
earth (Shine, Perishing Republic) V4:162

There is the trap...

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