Poetry for Students

(Rick Simeone) #1

Volume 24 329


our every corpuscle become an elf. (Moreover, the Moon)
V20:153
outside. (it was New York and beautifully, snowing...
(i was sitting in mcsorley’s) V13:152
owing old (old age sticks) V3:246


P
patient in mind remembers the time. (Fading Light)
V21:49
Perhaps he will fall. (Wilderness Gothic) V12:242
Petals on a wet, black bough (In a Station of the Metro)
V2:116
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair
(The Highwayman) V4:68
Powerless, I drown. (Maternity) V21:142–143
Pro patria mori. (Dulce et Decorum Est) V10:110


R
Rage, rage against the dying of the light (Do Not Go
Gentle into that Good Night) V1:51
Raise it again, man. We still believe what we hear. (The
Singer’s House) V17:206
Remember the Giverfading off the lip (A Drink of Water)
V8:66
rise & walk away like a panther. (Ode to a Drum)
V20:172–173
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish (Mirror)
V1:116


S
Shall be lifted—nevermore! (The Raven) V1:202
Shantih shantih shantih (The Waste Land) V20:248–252
Shuddering with rain, coming down around me. (Omen)
v22:107
Simply melted into the perfect light. (Perfect Light)
V19:187
Singing of him what they could understand (Beowulf) V11:3
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs (I
Hear America Singing) V3:152
slides by on grease (For the Union Dead) V7:67
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? (The Second
Coming) V7:179
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee (Sonnet 18)
V2:222
So prick my skin. (Pine) V23:223–224
Somebody loves us all. (Filling Station) V12:57
spill darker kissmarks on that dark. (Ten Years after Your
Deliberate Drowning) V21:240
Stand still, yet we will make him run (To His Coy
Mistress) V5:277
startled into eternity (Four Mountain Wolves) V9:132
Still clinging to your shirt (My Papa’s Waltz) V3:192
Stood up, coiled above his head, transforming all. (A Tall
Man Executes a Jig) V12:229
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days
of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the
Lord for ever (Psalm 23) V4:103
syllables of an old order. (A Grafted Tongue) V12:93


T
Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
cheering a hero or throwing confetti and
blowing tin horns... tell me if the lovers are
losers... tell me if any get more than the
lovers... in the dust... in the cool tombs
(Cool Tombs) V6:46
Than from everything else life promised that you could
do? (Paradiso) V20:190–191
Than that you should remember and be sad. (Remember)
V14:255
That then I scorn to change my state with Kings (Sonnet
29) V8:198
That when we live no more, we may live ever (To My
Dear and Loving Husband) V6:228
That’s the word. (Black Zodiac) V10:47
the bigger it gets. (Smart and Final Iris) V15:183
The bosom of his Father and his God (Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard) V9:74
the bow toward torrents of veyz mir.(Three To’s and an
Oi) V24:264
The crime was in Granada, his Granada. (The Crime Was
in Granada) V23:55–56
The dance is sure (Overture to a Dance of Locomotives)
V11:143
The eyes turn topaz. (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) V16:30
The garland briefer than a girl’s (To an Athlete Dying
Young) V7:230
The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. (Cavalry
Crossing a Ford) V13:50
The hands gripped hard on the desert (At the Bomb
Testing Site) V8:3
The holy melodies of love arise. (The Arsenal at
Springfield) V17:3
the knife at the throat, the death in the metronome (Music
Lessons) V8:117
The Lady of Shalott.” (The Lady of Shalott) V15:97
The lightning and the gale! (Old Ironsides) V9:172
the long, perfect loveliness of sow (Saint Francis and the
Sow) V9:222
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will (The Quaker
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:159
The man I was when I was part of it (Beware of Ruins)
V8:43
the quilts sing on (My Mother Pieced Quilts) V12:169
The red rose and the brier (Barbara Allan) V7:11
The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
(The Rhodora) V17:191
The shaft we raise to them and thee (Concord Hymn)
V4:30
The sky became a still and woven blue. (Merlin
Enthralled) V16:73
The spirit of this place (To a Child Running With Out-
stretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly) V11:173
The town again, trailing your legs and crying! (Wild
Swans) V17:221
the unremitting space of your rebellion (Lost Sister) V5:217
The woman won (Oysters) V4:91
their guts or their brains? (Southbound on the Freeway)
V16:158
their dinnerware. (Portrait of a Couple at Century’s End)
V24:214–215

their dinnerware.

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