340 Poetry for StudentsAmericanCullen, Countee
Any Human to Another:V3
cummings, e. e.
i was sitting in mcsorley’s:V13
l(a:V1
maggie and milly and molly and
may:V12
old age sticks:V3
somewhere i have never
travelled,gladly beyond:V19
Dickey, James
The Heaven of Animals:V6
The Hospital Window: V11
Dickinson, Emily
Because I Could Not Stop for
Death:V2
The Bustle in a House:V10
“Hope” Is the Thing with
Feathers:V3
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain:V13
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I
Died—:V5
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense:
V16
My Life Closed Twice Before Its
Close:V8
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass:
V11
The Soul Selects Her Own
Society:V1
There’s a Certain Slant of Light:
V6
This Is My Letter to the World:
V4
Dove, Rita
Geometry:V15
This Life:V1
Dubie, Norman
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter.
A Barn in the Urals: V12
Du Bois, W. E. B.
The Song of the Smoke:V13
Dugan, Alan
How We Heard the Name:V10
Duncan, Robert
An African Elegy:V13
Eliot, T. S.
Journey of the Magi:V7
The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock:V1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Concord Hymn:V4
The Rhodora:V17
Erdrich, Louise
Bidwell Ghost:V14
Espada, Martín
Colibrí:V16
We Live by What We See at
Night:V13
Forché, Carolyn
The Garden Shukkei-En:V18
Francis, Robert
The Base Stealer: V12Frost, Robert
Birches:V13
The Death of the Hired Man:V4
Fire and Ice:V7
Mending Wall:V5
Nothing Gold Can Stay:V3
Out, Out—:V10
The Road Not Taken:V2
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening:V1
The Wood-Pile:V6
Gallagher, Tess
I Stop Writing the Poem:V16
Ginsberg, Allen
A Supermarket in California:V5
Giovanni, Nikki
Knoxville, Tennessee:V17
Glück, Louise
The Gold Lily:V5
The Mystery:V15
Graham, Jorie
The Hiding Place:V10
Mind:V17
Gunn, Thom
The Missing: V9
H.D.
Helen:V6
Hacker, Marilyn
The Boy:V19
Hall, Donald
Names of Horses: V8
Harjo, Joy
Anniversary:V15
Hayden, Robert
Those Winter Sundays:V1
Hecht, Anthony
“More Light! More Light!”:V6
Hirshfield, Jane
Three Times My Life Has
Opened:V16
Hoagland, Tony
Social Life:V19
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Old Ironsides: V9
Howe, Marie
What Belongs to Us:V15
Hudgins, Andrew
Elegy for My Father, Who is Not
Dead:V14
Hughes, Langston
Dream Variations:V15
Harlem:V1
Mother to Son:V3
The Negro Speaks of Rivers:V10
Theme for English B:V6
Hugo, Richard
For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton:
V17
Jarrell, Randall
The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner:V2
Jeffers, Robinson
Hurt Hawks:V3
Shine, Perishing Republic:V4Johnson, James Weldon
The Creation:V1
Justice, Donald
Incident in a Rose Garden:V14
Kenyon, Jane
Having it Out with Melancholy:V17
“Trouble with Math in a One-
Room Country School”: V9
Kinnell, Galway
Saint Francis and the Sow: V9
Kizer, Carolyn
To An Unknown Poet:V18
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Facing It:V5
Kooser, Ted
The Constellation Orion: V8
Kumin, Maxine
Address to the Angels:V18
Kunitz, Stanley
The War Against the Trees: V11
Lanier, Sidney
Song of the Chattahoochee:V14
Lee, Li-Young
Early in the Morning: V17
For a New Citizen of These
United States: V15
The Weight of Sweetness: V11
Levertov, Denise
The Blue Rim of Memory:V17
In the Land of Shinar:V7
Levine, Philip
Starlight:V8
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Arsenal at Springfield:V17
Paul Revere’s Ride:V2
A Psalm of Life:V7
Lorde, Audre
What My Child Learns of the Sea:
V16
Lowell, Robert
For the Union Dead:V7
The Quaker Graveyard in
Nantucket:V6
MacLeish, Archibald
Ars Poetica:V5
Madgett, Naomi Long
Alabama Centennial:V10
McElroy, Colleen
A Pièd:V3
McGinley, Phyllis
The Conquerors:V13
Reactionary Essay on Applied
Science:V9
McKay, Claude
The Tropics in New York:V4
Merriam, Eve
Onomatopoeia:V6
Merwin, W. S.
The Horizons of Rooms:V15
Leviathan:V5
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
The Courage that My Mother
Had:V3
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