Poetry for Students

308 Poetry for Students

American

Stewart, Susan

The Forest:V22

Stone, Ruth

Ordinary Words:V19

Strand, Mark

The Continuous Life:V18

Swenson, May

Southbound on the Freeway:

V16

Tate, James

Dear Reader:V10

Smart and Final Iris:V15

Taylor, Henry

Landscape with Tractor:V10

Teasdale, Sara

There Will Come Soft Rains:V14

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence

Casey at the Bat:V5

Valentine, Jean

Seeing You: V24

Van Duyn, Mona

Memoir:V20

Viereck, Peter

For An Assyrian Frieze: V9

Kilroy:V14

Voigt, Ellen Bryant

Practice:V23

Warren, Rosanna

Daylights:V13

Lake:V23

Wheatley, Phillis

To His Excellency General

Washington:V13

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

Wilbur, Richard

Beowulf: V11

Merlin Enthralled:V16

On Freedom’s Ground: V12

Williams, William Carlos

Overture to a Dance of

Locomotives: V11

Queen-Ann’s-Lace:V6

The Red Wheelbarrow:V1

Wright, Charles

Black Zodiac:V10

Wright, James

A Blessing:V7

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry,

Ohio: V8

Asian American

Hahn, Kimiko

Pine:V23

Hashimoto, Sharon

What I Would Ask My Husband’s

Dead Father:V22

Kim, Sue (Suji) Kwok

Monologue for an Onion:V24

Australian

Dawe, Bruce

Drifters:V10

Hope, A. D.

Beware of Ruins: V8

Wright, Judith

Drought Year: V8

Canadian

Atwood, Margaret

Siren Song:V7

Birney, Earle

Vancouver Lights: V8

Carson, Anne

New Rule:V18

Hébert, Anne

The Alchemy of Day:V20

Jacobsen, Josephine

Fiddler Crab:V23

Layton, Irving

A Tall Man Executes a Jig: V12

McCrae, John

In Flanders Fields:V5

Nowlan, Alden

For Jean Vincent D’abbadie,

Baron St.-Castin: V12

Purdy, Al

Lament for the Dorsets:V5

Wilderness Gothic: V12

Strand, Mark

Eating Poetry: V9

Canadian,

Sri Lankan

Ondaatje, Michael

The Cinnamon Peeler:V19

To a Sad Daughter: V8

Chilean

Neruda, Pablo

Tonight I Can Write: V11

Chinese

Po, Li

Drinking Alone Beneath the

Moon:V20

Egyptian

Cavafy, C. P.

Ithaka:V19

English

Alleyn, Ellen

A Birthday:V10

Arnold, Matthew

Dover Beach:V2

Auden, W. H.

As I Walked Out One Evening:

V4

Funeral Blues:V10

Musée des Beaux Arts:V1

The Unknown Citizen:V3

Blake, William

The Lamb: V12

A Poison Tree: V24

The Tyger:V2

Bradstreet, Anne

To My Dear and Loving

Husband:V6

Brooke, Rupert

The Soldier:V7

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Aurora Leigh:V23

Sonnet XXIX:V16

Sonnet 43:V2

Browning, Robert

My Last Duchess:V1

Porphyria’s Lover:V15

Byron, Lord

The Destruction of Sennacherib:

V1

She Walks in Beauty:V14

Carroll, Lewis

Jabberwocky: V11

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales:V14

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Kubla Khan:V5

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

V4

Donne, John

Holy Sonnet 10:V2

A Valediction: Forbidding

Mourning: V11

Eliot, T. S.

Journey of the Magi:V7

The Love Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock:V1

The Waste Land:V20

Fenton, James

The Milkfish Gatherers: V11

Gray, Thomas

Elegy Written in a Country

Churchyard: V9

Gunn, Thom

The Missing: V9

Hardy, Thomas

Ah, Are You Digging on My

Grave?:V4

The Darkling Thrush:V18

The Man He Killed:V3

Herrick, Robert

To the Virgins, to Make Much of

Time:V13

Housman, A. E.

To an Athlete Dying Young:V7

When I Was One-and-Twenty:V4