Poetry for Students

328 Poetry for Students

Is Come, my love is come to me. (A Birthday) V10:34

is love—that’s all. (Two Poems for T.) V20:218

is safeis what you said. (Practice) V23:240

is still warm (Lament for the Dorsets) V5:191

It asked a crumb—of Me (Hope Is the Thing with

Feathers) V3:123

It is our god. (Fiddler Crab) V23:111–112

it is the bell to awaken God that we’ve heard ringing.

(The Garden Shukkei-en) V18:107

It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be brave. (The Country

Without a Post Office) V18:64

It was your resting place.” (Ah, Are You Digging on My

Grave?) V4:2

it’s always ourselves we find in the sea (maggie & milly

& molly & may) V12:150

its bright, unequivocal eye. (Having it Out with

Melancholy) V17:99

It’s the fall through wind lifting white leaves. (Rapture)

V21:181

its youth. The sea grows old in it. (The Fish) V14:172

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Judge tenderly—of Me (This Is My Letter to the World)

V4:233

Just imagine it (Inventors) V7:97

L

Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth,

half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher,

Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with

Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation

(Chicago) V3:61

Learn to labor and to wait (A Psalm of Life) V7:165

Leashed in my throat (Midnight) V2:131

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s un-resting sea (The

Chambered Nautilus) V24:52–53

Let my people go (Go Down, Moses) V11:43

life, our life and its forgetting. (For a New Citizen of

These United States) V15:55

Life to Victory (Always) V24:15

like a shadow or a friend. Colombia. (Kindness)

V24:84–85

Like Stone— (The Soul Selects Her Own Society) V1:259

Little Lamb, God bless thee. (The Lamb) V12:135

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. (When I Heard

the Learn’d Astronomer) V22:244

love (The Toni Morrison Dreams) V22:202–203

M

‘Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.’ (Drifters) V10: 98

make it seem to change (The Moon Glows the Same)

V7:152

midnight-oiled in the metric laws? (A Farewell to English)

V10:126

Monkey business (Business) V16:2

More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! (Tintern

Abbey) V2:250

My foe outstretchd beneath the tree. (A Poison Tree)

V24:195–196

My love shall in my verse ever live young (Sonnet 19)

V9:211

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. (The Negro

Speaks of Rivers) V10:198

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never to waken in that world again (Starlight) V8:213

Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten. (Spring-Watching

Pavilion) V18:198

No, she’s brushing a boy’s hair (Facing It) V5:110

no—tell them no— (The Hiding Place) V10:153

Noble six hundred! (The Charge of the Light Brigade)

V1:3

nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

(somewhere i have never travelled,gladly

beyond) V19:265

Not even the blisters. Look. (What Belongs to Us)

V15:196

Not of itself, but thee. (Song: To Celia) V23:270–271

Nothing gold can stay (Nothing Gold Can Stay) V3:203

Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless (High Windows)

V3:108

Now! (Alabama Centennial) V10:2

nursing the tough skin of figs (This Life) V1:293

O

O Death in Life, the days that are no more! (Tears, Idle

Tears) V4:220

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the

earth! (Psalm 8) V9:182

O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady

Ghost (Names of Horses) V8:142

Of all our joys, this must be the deepest. (Drinking Alone

Beneath the Moon) V20:59–60

of gentleness (To a Sad Daughter) V8:231

of love’s austere and lonely offices? (Those Winter

Sundays) V1:300

of peaches (The Weight of Sweetness) V11:230

Of the camellia (Falling Upon Earth) V2:64

Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin

(Leviathan) V5:204

Of what is past, or passing, or to come (Sailing to

Byzantium) V2:207

Oh that was the garden of abundance, seeing you. (Seeing

You) V24:244–245

Old Ryan, not yours (The Constellation Orion) V8:53

On the dark distant flurry (Angle of Geese) V2:2

On the look of Death— (There’s a Certain Slant of Light)

V6:212

On your head like a crown (Any Human to Another) V3:2

One could do worse that be a swinger of birches.

(Birches) V13:15

Or does it explode?(Harlem) V1:63

Or help to half-a-crown.” (The Man He Killed) V3:167

or last time, we look. (In Particular) V20:125

or nothing (Queen-Ann’s-Lace) V6:179

or the one red leaf the snow releases in March. (Three

Times My Life Has Opened) V16:213

ORANGE forever. (Ballad of Orange and Grape) V10:18

Is Come, my love is come to me.