This girlchild was: born as usual
(Barbie Doll) V9:33
This is a litany of lost things, (The
Litany) V24:101–102
This is my letter to the World (This Is
My Letter to the World) V4:233
This is the Arsenal. From floor to
ceiling, (The Arsenal at
Springfield) V17:2
This is the black sea-brute bulling
through wave-wrack
(Leviathan) V5:203
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets
feign, (The Chambered
Nautilus) V24:52–53
This poem is concerned with language
on a very plain level (Paradoxes
and Oxymorons) V11:162
This tale is true, and mine. It tells
(The Seafarer) V8:177
Thou still unravish’d bride of
quietness (Ode on a Grecian
Urn) V1:179
Three days Natasha’d been astray,
(The Bridegroom) V34:26
Three times my life has opened.
(Three Times My Life Has
Opened) V16:213
Time in school drags along with so
much worry, (Childhood) V19:29
to fold the clothes. No matter who
lives (I Stop Writimg the Poem)
V16:58
To him who in the love of Nature
holds (Thanatopsis)
V30:232–233
To replay errors (Daughter-Mother-
Maya-Seeta) V25:83
To weep unbidden, to wake
(Practice) V23:240
Toni Morrison despises (The Toni
Morrison Dreams)
V22:202–203
Tonight I can write the saddest lines
(Tonight I Can Write) V11:187
tonite,thrillerwas (Beware: Do Not
Read This Poem) V6:3
Truth be told, I do not want to forget
(Native Guard) V29:183
Turning and turning in the widening
gyre (The Second Coming)
V7:179
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
(Jabberwocky) V11:91
’Twas mercy brought me from my
pagan land, (On Being Brought
from Africa to America)
V29:223
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
(The Road Not Taken) V2:195
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright (The
Tyger) V2:263
W
wade (The Fish) V14:171
Wailing of a flute, a little drum
(In Music) V35:105
Wanting to say things, (My Father’s
Song) V16:102
We are saying goodbye (Station)
V21:226–227
We came from our own country in a
red room (Originally)
V25:146–147
We cannot know his legendary head
(Archaic Torso of Apollo)
V27:3
We could be here. This is the valley
(Small Town with One Road)
V7:207
We met the British in the dead of winter
(Meeting the British) V7:138
We real cool. We (We Real Cool)
V6:242
Well, son, I’ll tell you (Mother to
Son) V3:178
What dire offense from amorous
causes springs, (The Rape of the
Lock) V12:202
What happens to a dream deferred?
(Harlem) V1:63
What of the neighborhood homes
awash (The Continuous Life)
V18:51
What thoughts I have of you tonight,
Walt Whitman, for I walked
down the sidestreets under the
trees with a headache self-
conscious looking at the full
moon (A Supermarket in
California) V5:261
Whatever it is, it must have
(American Poetry) V7:2
When Abraham Lincoln was
shoveled into the tombs, he
forgot the copperheads, and
the assassin...in the dust, in
the cool tombs (Cool Tombs)
V6:45
When despair for the world grows in
me (The Peace of Wild Things)
V30:159
When he spoke of where he came
from, (Grudnow) V32:73
When I consider how my light is
spent ([On His Blindness]
Sonnet 16) V3:262
When I die, I want your hands on
my eyes: (Sonnet LXXXIX)
V35:259
When I go away from you (The Taxi)
V30:211–212
When I have fears that I may cease to
be (When I Have Fears that I
May Cease to Be) V2:295When I heard the learn’d
astronomer, (When I Heard
the Learn’d Astronomer)
V22:244
When I see a couple of kids (High
Windows) V3:108
When I see birches bend to left and
right (Birches) V13:14
When I was a child (Autobiographia
Literaria) V34:2
When I was born, you waited
(Having it Out with
Melancholy) V17:98
When I was one-and-twenty (When
I Was One-and-Twenty)
V4:268
When I watch you (Miss Rosie)
V1:133
When Love with confine ́d wings
(To Althea, From Prison)
V34:254
When the mountains of Puerto Rico
(We Live by What We See at
Night) V13:240
When the world was created wasn’t it
like this? (Anniversary) V15:2
When they saidCarrickfergusI could
hear (The Singer’s House)
V17:205
When we two parted (When We Two
Parted) V29:297
When you consider the radiance,
that it does not withhold (The
City Limits) V19:78
When you look through the window
in Sag Harbor and see (View)
V25:246–247
When, in disgrace with Fortune
and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29)
V8:198
Whenever Richard Cory went
down town (Richard Cory)
V4:116
Where dips the rocky highland (The
Stolen Child) V34:216
While I was gone a war began.
(While I Was Gone a War
Began) V21:253–254
While my hair was still cut straight
across my forehead (The River-
Merchant’s Wife: A Letter)
V8:164
While the long grain is softening
(Early in the Morning)
V17:75
While this America settles in the
mould of its vulgarity, heavily
thickening to empire (Shine,
Perishing Republic) V4:161
While you are preparing for sleep,
brushing your teeth, (The
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