Poetry for Students

304 Poetry for Students

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

Proem: V19

Tears, Idle Tears:V4

Ulysses:V2

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence

Casey at the Bat:V5

Theme for English B (Hughes): V6

There’s a Certain Slant of Light

(Dickinson): V6

There Will Come Soft Rains

(Teasdale): V14

A Thirst Against(Gregg): V20

This Life(Dove): V1

Thomas, Dylan

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good

Night:V1

Fern Hill:V3

The Force That Through the

Green Fuse Drives the

Flower: V8

Those Winter Sundays(Hayden): V1

Three Times My Life Has Opened

(Hirshfield): V16

Three To’s and an Oi(McHugh):

V24

Tintern Abbey(Wordsworth): V2

To a Child Running With

Outstretched Arms in Canyon

de Chelly (Momaday): V11

To a Sad Daughter (Ondaatje): V8

To an Athlete Dying Young

(Housman): V7

To an Unknown Poet(Kizer): V18

To His Coy Mistress(Marvell): V5

To His Excellency General

Washington(Wheatley): V13

To My Dear and Loving Husband

(Bradstreet): V6

To the Virgins, to Make Much of

Time(Herrick): V13

Toads(Larkin): V4

Tonight I Can Write (Neruda): V11

The Toni Morrison Dreams

(Alexander): V22

Tranströmer, Tomas

Answers to Letters: V21

Trompe l’Oeil(Salter): V22

The Tropics in New York(McKay):

V4

True Night(Snyder): V19

Two Poems for T.(Pavese): V20

The Tyger(Blake): V2

U

Ulysses(Tennyson): V2

Ungaretti, Giuseppe

Variations on Nothing: V20

The Unknown Citizen(Auden): V3

V

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

(Donne): V11

Valentine, Jean

Seeing You: V24

Van Duyn, Mona

Memoir: V20

Vancouver Lights (Birney): V8

Variations on Nothing(Ungaretti):

V20

Viereck, Peter

For An Assyrian Frieze:V9

Kilroy:V14

Voigt, Ellen Bryant

Practice: V23

W

Walcott, Derek

A Far Cry from Africa: V6

The War Against the Trees (Kunitz):

V11

War Is Kind (Crane): V9

Warren, Rosanna

Daylights:V13

Lake: V23

The Waste Land(Eliot): V20

Ways to Live (Stafford): V16

We Live by What We See at Night

(Espada): V13

We Real Cool (Brooks): V6

The Weight of Sweetness (Lee): V11

What Belongs to Us(Howe): V15

What I Would Ask My Husband’s

Dead Father(Hashimoto):

V22

What My Child Learns of the Sea

(Lorde): V16

Wheatley, Phillis

To His Excellency General

Washington:V13

When I Have Fears That I May

Cease to Be(Keats): V2

When I Heard the Learn’d

Astronomer(Whitman): V22

When I Was One-and-Twenty

(Housman): V4

While I Was Gone a War Began

(Castillo): V21

Whitman, Walt

Cavalry Crossing a Ford:V13

I Hear America Singing:V3

O Captain! My Captain!:V2

When I Heard the Learn’d

Astronomer: V22

Why I Am Not a Painter (O’Hara):

V8

Why The Classics(Herbert): V22

Wilbur, Richard

Beowulf: V11

Merlin Enthralled:V16

On Freedom’s Ground: V12

Wild Geese(Oliver): V15

Wild Swans(Millay): V17

Wilderness Gothic (Purdy): V12

Williams, William Carlos

Overture to a Dance of

Locomotives: V11

Queen-Ann’s-Lace: V6

The Red Wheelbarrow:V1

The Wood-Pile (Frost): V6

Words for Departure(Bogan): V21

Wordsworth, William

Lines Composed a Few Miles

above Tintern Abbey:V2

Wright, Charles

Black Zodiac:V10

Wright, James

A Blessing:V7

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry,

Ohio: V8

Wright, Judith

Drought Year: V8

Y

Yeats, William Butler

Easter 1916:V5

An Irish Airman Foresees His

Death:V1

The Lake Isle of Innisfree:V15

Leda and the Swan:V13

Sailing to Byzantium:V2

The Second Coming:V7