Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Cumulative Index of

First Lines

A
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket,— (The Quaker
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:158
“A cold coming we had of it (Journey of the Magi)
V7:110
A poem should be palpable and mute (Ars Poetica) V5:2
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt (A Far Cry from Africa)
V6:60
About me the night moonless wimples the mountains
(Vancouver Lights) V8:245
About suffering they were never wrong (Mus‚e des Beaux
Arts) V1:148
After you finish your work (Ballad of Orange and Grape)
V10:17
“Ah, are you digging on my grave (Ah, Are You Digging
on My Grave?) V4:2
All Greece hates (Helen) V6:92
All night long the hockey pictures (To a Sad Daughter)
V8:230
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars,
padding (Names of Horses) V8:141
Anasazi (Anasazi) V9:2
And God stepped out on space (The Creation) V1:19
Animal bones and some mossy tent rings (Lament for the
Dorsets) V5:190
As I perceive (The Gold Lily) V5:127
As I walked out one evening (As I Walked Out One
Evening) V4:15
At noon in the desert a panting lizard (At the Bomb
Testing Site) V8:2
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! (Old Ironsides) V9:172

B
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root (The Tropics in
New York) V4:255

Because I could not stop for Death— (Because I Could

Not Stop for Death) V2:27

Bent double, like old beggars under slacks, (Dulce et

Decorum Est) V10:109

Between my finger and my thumb (Digging) V5:70

Beware of ruins: they have a treacherous charm (Beware

of Ruins) V8:43

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

C

Come with me into those things that have felt his despair

for so long— (Come with Me) V6:31

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

E

Each day the shadow swings (In the Land of Shinar) V7:83

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Cumulative Index of First Lines