Poetry for Students

306 Poetry for Students

American

The Sonnet-Ballad:V1

Strong Men, Riding Horses:V4

We Real Cool:V6

Brouwer, Joel

Last Request:V14

Byrne, Elena Karina

In Particular:V20

Carver, Raymond

The Cobweb:V17

Castillo, Ana

While I Was Gone a War Began:

V21

Cisneros, Sandra

Once Again I Prove the Theory of

Relativity:V19

Clifton, Lucille

Climbing:V14

Miss Rosie:V1

Collins, Billy

The Afterlife:V18

Crane, Stephen

War Is Kind: V9

Creeley, Robert

Fading Light:V21

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

Dennis, Carl

The God Who Loves You:V20

Dickey, James

The Heaven of Animals:V6

The Hospital Window: V11

Dickinson, Emily

Because I Could Not Stop for

Death:V2

The Bustle in a House:V10

“Hope” Is the Thing with

Feathers:V3

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain:

V13

I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I

Died—:V5

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense:

V16

My Life Closed Twice Before Its

Close: V8

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass:

V11

The Soul Selects Her Own

Society:V1

There’s a Certain Slant of Light:

V6

This Is My Letter to the World:

V4

Dobyns, Stephen

It’s like This:V23

Dove, Rita

Geometry:V15

This Life:V1

Dubie, Norman

The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter.

A Barn in the Urals: V12

Du Bois, W. E. B.

The Song of the Smoke:V13

Dugan, Alan

How We Heard the Name:V10

Duncan, Robert

An African Elegy:V13

Dunn, Stephen

The Reverse Side:V21

Eliot, T. S.

Journey of the Magi:V7

The Love Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock:V1

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Concord Hymn:V4

The Rhodora:V17

Erdrich, Louise

Bidwell Ghost:V14

Espada, Martín

Colibrí:V16

We Live by What We See at

Night:V13

Forché, Carolyn

The Garden Shukkei-En:V18

Francis, Robert

The Base Stealer: V12

Frost, Robert

Birches:V13

The Death of the Hired Man:V4

Fire and Ice:V7

Mending Wall:V5

Nothing Gold Can Stay:V3

Out, Out—:V10

The Road Not Taken:V2

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy

Evening:V1

The Wood-Pile:V6

Gallagher, Tess

I Stop Writing the Poem:V16

Ginsberg, Allen

A Supermarket in California:V5

Gioia, Dana

The Litany: V24

Giovanni, Nikki

Knoxville, Tennessee:V17

Glück, Louise

The Gold Lily:V5

The Mystery:V15

Graham, Jorie

The Hiding Place:V10

Mind:V17

Gregg, Linda

A Thirst Against:V20

Gunn, Thom

The Missing: V9

H.D.

Helen:V6

Hacker, Marilyn

The Boy:V19

Hahn, Kimiko

Pine:V23

Hall, Donald

Names of Horses: V8

Harjo, Joy

Anniversary:V15

Hashimoto, Sharon

What I Would Ask My Husband’s

Dead Father:V22

Hayden, Robert

Those Winter Sundays:V1

Hecht, Anthony

“More Light! More Light!”:V6

Hillman, Brenda

Air for Mercury:V20

Hirsch, Edward

Omen:V22

Hirshfield, Jane

Three Times My Life Has

Opened:V16

Hoagland, Tony

Social Life:V19

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Chambered Nautilus: V24

Old Ironsides: V9

Howe, Marie

What Belongs to Us:V15

Hudgins, Andrew

Elegy for My Father, Who is Not

Dead:V14

Hughes, Langston

Dream Variations:V15

Harlem:V1

Mother to Son:V3

The Negro Speaks of Rivers:V10

Theme for English B:V6

Hugo, Richard

For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton:

V17

Jarrell, Randall

The Death of the Ball Turret

Gunner:V2

Jeffers, Robinson

Hurt Hawks:V3

Shine, Perishing Republic:V4

Johnson, James Weldon

The Creation:V1

Justice, Donald

Incident in a Rose Garden:V14

Kelly, Brigit Pegeen

The Satyr’s Heart:V22

Kenyon, Jane

Having it Out with Melancholy:

V17

“Trouble with Math in a One-

Room Country School”: V9

Kim, Sue (Suji) Kwock

Monologue for an Onion: V24

Kinnell, Galway

Saint Francis and the Sow: V9