Poetry for Students

310 Poetry for Students

Irish

Pineapples and Pomegranates:

V22

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

Israeli

Amichai, Yehuda

Not like a Cypress: V24

Italian

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Always: V24

Montale, Eugenio

On the Threshold:V22

Pavese, Cesare

Two Poems for T.:V20

Ungaretti, Giuseppe

Variations on Nothing:V20

Jamaican

McKay, Claude

The Tropics in New York:V4

Simpson, Louis

In the Suburbs:V14

Japanese

Ai

Reunions with a Ghost:V16

Basho ̄, Matsuo

Falling Upon Earth:V2

The Moon Glows the Same:V7

Temple Bells Die Out:V18

Jewish

Blumenthal, Michael

Inventors:V7

Espada, Martín

Colibrí:V16

We Live by What We See at

Night:V13

Hirsch, Edward

Omen:V22

Piercy, Marge

Apple sauce for Eve:V22

Barbie Doll: V9

Sachs, Nelly

But Perhaps God Needs the

Longing:V20

Shapiro, Karl

Auto Wreck:V3

Kiowa

Momaday, N. Scott

Angle of Geese:V2

To a Child Running With

Outstretched Arms in Canyon

de Chelly: V11

Lithuanian

Milosz, Czeslaw

Song of a Citizen:V16

Mexican

Paz, Octavio

Duration:V18

Soto, Gary

Small Town with One Road:V7

Native American

Ai

Reunions with a Ghost:V16

Erdrich, Louise

Bidwell Ghost:V14

Harjo, Joy

Anniversary:V15

Momaday, N. Scott

Angle of Geese:V2

To a Child Running With

Outstretched Arms in Canyon

de Chelly: V11

Ortiz, Simon

Hunger in New York City:V4

My Father’s Song:V16

Revard, Carter

Birch Canoe:V5

Rose, Wendy

For the White poets who would be

Indian:V13

Silko, Leslie Marmon

Four Mountain Wolves: V9

Story from Bear Country:V16

Osage

Revard, Carter

Birch Canoe:V5

Polish

Herbert, Zbigniew

Why The Classics:V22

Milosz, Czeslaw

Song of a Citizen:V16

Swir, Anna

Maternity:V21

Szymborska, Wislawa

Astonishment:V15

Roman

Ovid (Naso, Publius Ovidius)

Metamorphoses:V22

Romanian

Celan, Paul

Late and Deep:V21

Russian

Akhmatova, Anna

Midnight Verses:V18

Levertov, Denise

In the Land of Shinar:V7

Merriam, Eve

Onomatopoeia:V6

Shapiro, Karl

Auto Wreck:V3

St. Lucian

Walcott, Derek

A Far Cry from Africa: V6

Scottish

Burns, Robert

A Red, Red Rose: V8

Byron, Lord

The Destruction of Sennacherib:

V1

MacBeth, George

Bedtime Story: V8

Senegalese

Wheatley, Phillis

To His Excellency General

Washington:V13

Serbian

Lazic ́, Radmila

Death Sentences:V22

Spanish

García Lorca, Federico

Gacela of the Dark Death:

V20