Poetry for Students Vol. 10

(Martin Jones) #1

Volume 10 273


Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) V5:246
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
(Fern Hill) V3:92
Now as I watch the progress of the plague (The Missing)
V9:158


O
O Captain! my Captain, our fearful trip is done (O
Captain! My Captain!) V2:146
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the
earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens
(Psalm 8) V9:182
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose (A Red, Red Rose)
V8:152
“O where ha’ you been, Lord Randal, my son? (Lord
Randal) V6:105
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being (Ode
to the West Wind) V2:163
old age sticks (old age sticks) V3:246
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and
weary (The Raven) V1:200
One foot down, then hop! It’s hot (Harlem Hopscotch)
V2:93
one shoe on the roadway presents (A PiŠd) V3:16
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day (The
Wood-Pile) V6:251
Oysters we ate (Oysters) V4:91


Q
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir (Cargoes)
V5:44


R
Red men embraced my body’s whiteness (Birch Canoe)
V5:31


S
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)
V2:222
She came every morning to draw water (A Drink of
Water) V8:66
Since the professional wars— (Midnight) V2:130
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse(The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock) V1:97
so much depends (The Red Wheelbarrow) V1:219
Softly, in the dark, a woman is singing to me (Piano)
V6:145
Some say the world will end in fire (Fire and Ice) V7:57
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (Mending
Wall) V5:231
Sometimes walking late at night (Butcher Shop) V7:43
Sometimes, a lion with a prophet’s beard (For An
Assyrian Frieze) V9:120
Sometimes, in the middle of the lesson (Music Lessons)
V8:117
South of the bridge on Seventeenth (Fifteen) V2:78
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, (Funeral Blues)
V10:139


Strong Men, riding horses. In the West (Strong Men,
Riding Horses) V4:209
Sundays too my father got up early (Those Winter
Sundays) V1:300
Swing low sweet chariot (Swing Low Sweet Chariot)
V1:283

T
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean (Tears, Idle
Tears) V4:220
Tell me not, in mournful numbers (A Psalm of Life)
V7:165
That is no country for old men. The young (Sailing to
Byzantium) V2:207
That time of drought the embered air (Drought Year) V8:78
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall (My Last
Duchess) V1:165
The apparition of these faces in the crowd (In a Station of
the Metro) V2:116
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold (The
Destruction of Sennacherib) V1:38
The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted
shoulder (Hurt Hawks) V3:138
The bud (Saint Francis and the Sow) V9:222
The Bustle in a House (The Bustle in a House) V10:62
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard (Out, Out—)
V10:212
The courage that my mother had (The Courage that My
Mother Had) V3:79
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard) V9:73
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
(The Force That Through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower) V8:101
The green lamp flares on the table (This Life) V1:293
The ills I sorrow at (Any Human to Another) V3:2
The instructor said (Theme for English B) V6:194
The king sits in Dumferling toune (Sir Patrick Spens)
V4:177
The last time I saw it was 1968. (The Hiding Place)
V10:152
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want (Psalm 23)
V4:103
The moon glows the same (The Moon Glows the Same)
V7:152
The old South Boston Aquarium stands (For the Union
Dead) V7:67
The others bent their heads and started in (“Trouble with
Math in a One-Room Country School”) V9:238
The Phoenix comes of flame and dust (The Phoenix)
V10:226
The river brought down (How we Heard the Name)
V10:167
The rusty spigot (Onomatopoeia) V6:133
The sea is calm tonight (Dover Beach) V2:52
The Soul selects her own Society— (The Soul Selects Her
Own Society) V1:259
The time you won your town the race (To an Athlete
Dying Young) V7:230
The whiskey on your breath (My Papa’s Waltz) V3:191
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
(The Highwayman) V4:66

The wind was a torrent...

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