Poetry for Students

298 Poetry for Students

The Bean Eaters

The Bean Eaters(Brooks): V2

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

(Dickinson): V2

Bedtime Story (MacBeth): V8

Behn, Robin

Ten Years after Your Deliberate

Drowning: V21

La Belle Dame sans Merci (Keats):

V17

The Bells(Poe): V3

Beowulf (Wilbur): V11

Beware: Do Not Read This Poem

(Reed): V6

Beware of Ruins (Hope): V8

Bialosky, Jill

Seven Seeds: V19

Bidwell Ghost (Erdrich): V14

Biele, Joelle

Rapture: V21

Birch Canoe(Revard): V5

Birches(Frost): V13

Birney, Earle

Vancouver Lights: V8

A Birthday (Rossetti): V10

Bishop, Elizabeth

Brazil, January 1, 1502: V6

Filling Station: V12

Blackberrying(Plath): V15

Black Zodiac (Wright): V10

Blake, William

The Lamb: V12

A Poison Tree: V24

The Tyger:V2

A Blessing(Wright): V7

Blood Oranges(Mueller): V13

The Blue Rim of Memory(Levertov):

V17

Blumenthal, Michael

Inventors:V7

Bly, Robert

Come with Me: V6

Driving to Town Late to Mail a

Letter:V17

Bogan, Louise

Words for Departure: V21

Boland, Eavan

Anorexic: V12

It’s a Woman’s World: V22

The Boy(Hacker): V19

Bradstreet, Anne

To My Dear and Loving

Husband: V6

Brazil, January 1, 1502 (Bishop):

V6

Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast

as Thou Art (Keats): V9

Brooke, Rupert

The Soldier:V7

Brooks, Gwendolyn

The Bean Eaters:V2

The Sonnet-Ballad:V1

Strong Men, Riding Horses:V4

We Real Cool: V6

Brouwer, Joel

Last Request:V14

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Aurora Leigh: V23

Sonnet 43:V2

Sonnet XXIX:V16

Browning, Robert

My Last Duchess:V1

Porphyria’s Lover:V15

Burns, Robert

A Red, Red Rose: V8

Business (Cruz): V16

The Bustle in a House (Dickinson):

V10

But Perhaps God Needs the Longing

(Sachs): V20

Butcher Shop(Simic): V7

Byrne, Elena Karina

In Particular: V20

Byron, Lord

The Destruction of Sennacherib:

V1

She Walks in Beauty:V14

C

The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer): V14

Cargoes(Masefield): V5

Carroll, Lewis

Jabberwocky: V11

Carson, Anne

New Rule: V18

Carver, Raymond

The Cobweb:V17

Casey at the Bat(Thayer): V5

Castillo, Ana

While I Was Gone a War Began:

V21

Cavafy, C. P.

Ithaka: V19

Cavalry Crossing a Ford(Whitman):

V13

Celan, Paul

Late and Deep: V21

The Chambered Nautilus(Holmes):

V24

The Charge of the Light Brigade

(Tennyson): V1

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales:V14

Chicago(Sandburg): V3

Childhood(Rilke): V19

Chocolates (Simpson): V11

The Cinnamon Peeler(Ondaatje): V19

Cisneros, Sandra

Once Again I Prove the Theory of

Relativity: V19

The City Limits(Ammons): V19

Clifton, Lucille

Climbing:V14

Miss Rosie:V1

Climbing (Clifton): V14

The Cobweb(Carver): V17

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Kubla Khan:V5

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

V4

Colibrí (Espada): V16

Collins, Billy

The Afterlife: V18

Come with Me (Bly): V6

The Constellation Orion (Kooser):

V8

Concord Hymn(Emerson): V4

The Conquerors(McGinley): V13

The Continuous Life(Strand): V18

Cool Tombs (Sandburg): V6

The Country Without a Post Office

(Shahid Ali): V18

Courage (Sexton): V14

The Courage That My Mother Had

(Millay): V3

Crane, Stephen

War Is Kind:V9

The Creation(Johnson): V1

Creeley, Robert

Fading Light: V21

The Cremation of Sam McGee

(Service): V10

The Crime Was in Granada

(Machado): V23

Cruz, Victor Hernandez

Business:V16

Cullen, Countee

Any Human to Another:V3

cummings, e. e.

i was sitting in mcsorley’s:V13

l(a:V1

maggie and milly and molly and

may: V12

old age sticks:V3

somewhere i have never

travelled,gladly beyond: V19

The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter. A

Barn in the Urals (Dubie):

V12

D

The Darkling Thrush(Hardy): V18

Darwin in 1881(Schnackenberg):

V13

Dawe, Bruce

Drifters:V10

Daylights(Warren): V13

Dear Reader (Tate): V10

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

(Jarrell): V2

The Death of the Hired Man(Frost):

V4

Death Sentences(Lazic ́): V22

Deep Woods (Nemerov): V14

Dennis, Carl

The God Who Loves You: V20

The Destruction of Sennacherib

(Byron): V1