Poetry for Students

(Rick Simeone) #1

Volume 24 323


Sleepless as Prospero back in his bedroom (Darwin in
1881) V13:83
so much depends (The Red Wheelbarrow) V1:219
So the man spread his blanket on the field (A Tall Man
Executes a Jig) V12:228
So the sky wounded you, jagged at the heart, (Daylights)
V13:101
Softly, in the dark, a woman is singing to me (Piano)
V6:145
Some say it’s in the reptilian dance (The Greatest
Grandeur) V18:119
Some say the world will end in fire (Fire and Ice) V7:57
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (Mending
Wall) V5:231
Sometimes walking late at night (Butcher Shop) V7:43
Sometimes, a lion with a prophet’s beard (For An
Assyrian Frieze) V9:120
Sometimes, in the middle of the lesson (Music Lessons)
V8:117
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
(somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
beyond) V19:265
South of the bridge on Seventeenth (Fifteen) V2:78
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, (Funeral Blues)
V10:139
Strong Men, riding horses. In the West (Strong Men,
Riding Horses) V4:209
Such places are too still for history, (Deep Woods) V14:138
Sundays too my father got up early (Those Winter
Sundays) V1:300
Swing low sweet chariot (Swing Low Sweet Chariot)
V1:283


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Take heart, monsieur, four-fifths of this province (For
Jean Vincent D’abbadie, Baron St.-Castin)
V12:78
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean (Tears, Idle
Tears) V4:220
Tell me not, in mournful numbers (A Psalm of Life)
V7:165
Temple bells die out. (Temple Bells Die Out) V18:210
That is no country for old men. The young (Sailing to
Byzantium) V2:207
That negligible bit of sand which slides (Variations on
Nothing) V20:234
That time of drought the embered air (Drought Year)
V8:78
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall (My Last
Duchess) V1:165
The apparition of these faces in the crowd (In a Station of
the Metro) V2:116
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold (The
Destruction of Sennacherib) V1:38
The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted
shoulder (Hurt Hawks) V3:138
The bud (Saint Francis and the Sow) V9:222
The Bustle in a House (The Bustle in a House) V10:62
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard (Out, Out—)
V10:212
The courage that my mother had (The Courage that My
Mother Had) V3:79


The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard) V9:73
The fiddler crab fiddles, glides and dithers, (Fiddler Crab)
V23:111–112
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
(The Force That Through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower) V8:101
The grasses are light brown (September) V23:258–259
The green lamp flares on the table (This Life) V1:293
The ills I sorrow at (Any Human to Another) V3:2
The instructor said (Theme for English B) V6:194
The king sits in Dumferling toune (Sir Patrick Spens)
V4:177
The land was overmuch like scenery (Beowulf) V11:2
The last time I saw it was 1968. (The Hiding Place)
V10:152
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want (Psalm 23)
V4:103
The man who sold his lawn to standard oil (The War
Against the Trees) V11:215
The moon glows the same (The Moon Glows the Same)
V7:152
The old South Boston Aquarium stands (For the Union
Dead) V7:67
The others bent their heads and started in (“Trouble with
Math in a One-Room Country School”) V9:238
The pale nuns of St. Joseph are here (Island of Three
Marias) V11:79
The Phoenix comes of flame and dust (The Phoenix)
V10:226
The plants of the lake (Two Poems for T.) V20:218
The rain set early in to-night: (Porphyria’s Lover) V15:151
The river brought down (How We Heard the Name)
V10:167
The rusty spigot (Onomatopoeia) V6:133
The sea is calm tonight (Dover Beach) V2:52
The sea sounds insincere (The Milkfish Gatherers) V11:111
The slow overture of rain, (Mind) V17:145
The Soul selects her own Society—(The Soul Selects Her
Own Society) V1:259
The time you won your town the race (To an Athlete
Dying Young) V7:230
The way sorrow enters the bone (The Blue Rim of
Memory) V17:38
The whiskey on your breath (My Papa’s Waltz) V3:191
The white ocean in which birds swim (Morning Walk)
V21:167
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
(The Highwayman) V4:66
There are strange things done in the midnight sun(The
Cremation of Sam McGee) V10:75
There have been rooms for such a short time (The
Horizons of Rooms) V15:79
There is a hunger for order, (A Thirst Against) V20:205
There is no way not to be excited (Paradiso)
V20:190–191
There is the one song everyone (Siren Song) V7:196
There’s a Certain Slant of Light (There’s a Certain Slant
of Light) V6:211
There’s no way out. (In the Suburbs) V14:201
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
(There Will Come Soft Rains) V14:301
There you are, in all your innocence, (Perfect Light)
V19:187

There you are, in all your innocence,

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