320 Poetry for Students
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! (Old Ironsides)
V9:172B
Back then, before we came (On Freedom’s Ground)
V12:186
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root (The Tropics in
New York) V4:255
Because I could not stop for Death— (Because I Could
Not Stop for Death) V2:27
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? (Leda and
the Swan) V13:182
Before you know what kindness really is (Kindness)
V24:84–85
Be happy if the wind inside the orchard (On the
Threshold) V22:128
Bent double, like old beggars under slacks, (Dulce et
Decorum Est) V10:109
Between my finger and my thumb (Digging) V5:70
Beware of ruins: they have a treacherous charm (Beware
of Ruins) V8:43
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— (Bright
Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art)
V9:44
But perhaps God needs the longing, wherever else should
it dwell, (But Perhaps God Needs the Longing)
V20:41
By the rude bridge that arched the flood (Concord Hymn)
V4:30
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river (The
Garden Shukkei-en) V18:107C
Cassandra’s kind of crying was (Three To’s and an Oi)
V24:264
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, (To His
Excellency General Washington V13:212
Come with me into those things that have felt his despair
for so long— (Come with Me) V6:31
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late (Sunday Morning)
V16:189
Composed in the Tower, before his execution (“More
Light! More Light!”) V6:119D
Darkened by time, the masters, like our memories, mix
(Black Zodiac) V10:46
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (Holy
Sonnet 10) V2:103
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws (Sonnet 19)
V9:210
Disoriented, the newly dead try to turn back, (Our Side)
V24:177
Do not go gentle into that good night (Do Not Go Gentle
into that Good Night) V1:51
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind (War Is Kind)
V9:252
Don Arturo says: (Business) V16:2Drink to me only with thine eyes, (Song: To Celia)
V23:270–271
(Dumb, (A Grafted Tongue) V12:92E
Each day the shadow swings (In the Land of Shinar) V7:83
Each morning the man rises from bed because the
invisible (It’s like This) V23:138–139
Each night she waits by the road (Bidwell Ghost) V14:2F
Face of the skies (Moreover, the Moon) V20:153
Falling upon earth (Falling Upon Earth) V2:64
Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces. (An
Elementary School Classroom in a Slum)
V23:88–89
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
(Tintern Abbey) V2:249
Flesh is heretic. (Anorexic) V12:2
For a long time the butterfly held a prominent place in
psychology (Lepidopterology) V23:171–172
For three years, out of key with his time, (Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley) V16:26
Forgive me for thinking I saw (For a New Citizen of
These United States) V15:55
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State (The Death
of the Ball Turret Gunner) V2:41G
Gardener:Sir, I encountered Death (Incident in a Rose
Garden) V14:190
Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, (To the Virgins, to
Make Much of Time ) V13:226
Gazelle, I killed you (Ode to a Drum) V20:172–173
Go down, Moses (Go Down, Moses) V11:42
Gray mist wolf (Four Mountain Wolves) V9:131H
“Had he and I but met (The Man He Killed) V3:167
Had we but world enough, and time (To His Coy
Mistress) V5:276
Half a league, half a league (The Charge of the Light
Brigade) V1:2
Having a Coke with You (Having a Coke with You)
V12:105
He clasps the crag with crooked hands (The Eagle) V11:30
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be (The
Unknown Citizen) V3:302
He was seen, surrounded by rifles, (The Crime Was in
Granada) V23:55–56
Hear the sledges with the bells— (The Bells) V3:46
Heart, you bully, you punk, I’m wrecked, I’m shocked
(One Is One) V24:158
Her body is not so white as (Queen-Ann’s-Lace) V6:179
Her eyes were coins of porter and her West (A Farewell
to English) V10:126
Here they are. The soft eyes open (The Heaven of
Animals) V6:75At noon in the desert a panting lizard