Poetry for Students

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352 Poetry for Students

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— (Bright
Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art)
V9:44
By the rude bridge that arched the flood (Concord Hymn)
V4:30
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river (The
Garden Shukkei-en) V18:107

C
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, (To His
Excellency General Washington V13:212
Come with me into those things that have felt his despair
for so long— (Come with Me) V6:31
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late (Sunday Morning)
V16:189
Composed in the Tower, before his execution (“More
Light! More Light!”) V6:119

D
Darkened by time, the masters, like our memories, mix
(Black Zodiac) V10:46
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (Holy
Sonnet 10) V2:103
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws (Sonnet 19)
V9:210
Do not go gentle into that good night (Do Not Go Gentle
into that Good Night) V1:51
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind (War Is Kind)
V9:252
Don Arturo says: (Business) V16:2
(Dumb, (A Grafted Tongue) V12:92

E
Each day the shadow swings (In the Land of Shinar)
V7:83
Each night she waits by the road (Bidwell Ghost) V14:2

F
Falling upon earth (Falling Upon Earth) V2:64
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
(Tintern Abbey) V2:249
Flesh is heretic. (Anorexic) V12:2
For three years, out of key with his time, (Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley) V16:26
Forgive me for thinking I saw (For a New Citizen of
These United States) V15:55
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State (The Death
of the Ball Turret Gunner) V2:41

G
Gardener:Sir, I encountered Death (Incident in a Rose
Garden) V14:190
Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, (To the Virgins, to
Make Much of Time ) V13:226
Go down, Moses (Go Down, Moses) V11:42
Gray mist wolf (Four Mountain Wolves) V9:131

H
“Had he and I but met (The Man He Killed) V3:167
Had we but world enough, and time (To His Coy
Mistress) V5:276
Half a league, half a league (The Charge of the Light
Brigade) V1:2
Having a Coke with You (Having a Coke with You)
V12:105
He clasps the crag with crooked hands (The Eagle)
V11:30
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be (The
Unknown Citizen) V3:302
Hear the sledges with the bells— (The Bells) V3:46
Her body is not so white as (Queen-Ann’s-Lace) V6:179
Her eyes were coins of porter and her West (A Farewell
to English) V10:126
Here they are. The soft eyes open (The Heaven of
Animals) V6:75
His speed and strength, which is the strength of ten (His
Speed and Strength) V19:96
Hog Butcher for the World (Chicago) V3:61
Hold fast to dreams (Dream Variations) V15:42
Hope is a tattered flag and a dream out of time. (Hope is
a Tattered Flag) V12:120
“Hope” is the thing with feathers— (Hope Is the Thing
with Feathers) V3:123
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43)
V2:236
How shall we adorn (Angle of Geese) V2:2
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, (On His
Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three)
V17:159
How would it be if you took yourself off (Landscape with
Tractor) V10:182
Hunger crawls into you (Hunger in New York City) V4:79

I
I am not a painter, I am a poet (Why I Am Not a Painter)
V8:258
I am the Smoke King (The Song of the Smoke) V13:196
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions (Mirror)
V1:116
I am trying to pry open your casket (Dear Reader) V10:85
I became a creature of light (The Mystery) V15:137
I cannot love the Brothers Wright (Reactionary Essay on
Applied Science) V9:199
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (I felt a Funeral in my
Brain) V13:137
I have just come down from my father (The Hospital
Window) V11:58
I have met them at close of day (Easter 1916) V5:91
I haven’t the heart to say (To an Unknown Poet) V18:221
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear (I Hear
America Singing) V3:152
I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— (I Heard a Fly Buzz—
When I Died—) V5:140
I know that I shall meet my fate (An Irish Airman
Foresees His Death) V1:76
I leant upon a coppice gate (The Darkling Thrush) V18:74
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
(Wild Swans) V17:221

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