Poetry for Students, Volume 35

(Ben Green) #1

share my shivering bed. (Chorale)
V25:51
she’d miss me. (In Response to
Executive Order 9066: All
Americans of Japanese Descent
Must Report to Relocation
Centers) V32:129
Show an affirming flame.
(September 1, 1939) V27:235
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
Sister, one of those who never
married. (My Grandmother’s
Plot in the Family Cemetery)
V27:155
Sleep, fly, rest: even the sea dies!
(Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as) V31:128–30
slides by on grease (For the Union
Dead) V7:67
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be
born? (The Second Coming)
V7:179
so like the smaller stars we rowed
among. (The Lotus Flowers)
V33:108
So long lives this, and this gives life
to thee (Sonnet 18) V2:222
So prick my skin. (Pine)
V23:223–224
so that everything can learn the
reason for my song. (Sonnet
LXXXIX) V35:260
Somebody loves us all. (Filling
Station) V12:57
Speak through my words and my
blood. (The Heights of Macchu
Picchu) V28:141
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
strangers ask.Originally?And I
hesitate. (Originally)
V25:146–147
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

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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 does not see you. You must
change your life. (Archaic
Torso of Apollo) V27:3
that might have been sweet in
Grudnow. (Grudnow) V32:74
That then I scorn to change my state
with Kings (Sonnet 29) V8:198
that there is more to know, that one
day you will know it.
(Knowledge) V25:113
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 ofveyz 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 flames? (Another Night in the
Ruins) V26:13
The frolic architecture of the snow.
(The Snow-Storm) V34:196
The garland briefer than a girl’s
(To an Athlete Dying Young)
V7:230
The Grasshopper’s among some
grassy hills. (On the
Grasshopper and the Cricket)
V32:161

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 lone and level sands stretch far
away. (Ozymandias) V27:173
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 skin of another,what I have made
is a curse. (Curse) V26:75
The sky became a still and woven
blue. (Merlin Enthralled)
V16:73
The spirit of this place (To a Child
Running With Outstretched
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
The world should listen then—as I
am listening now. (To a
Sky-Lark) V32:252
their dinnerware. (Portrait of a
Couple at Century’s End)
V24:214–215
their guts or their brains?
(Southbound on the Freeway)
V16:158
Then chiefly lives. (Virtue) V25:263
There are blows in life, so hard...
I just don’t know! (The Black
Heralds) V26:47

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