i was sitting in mcsorley’s
i was sitting in mcsorley’s Kunitz, Stanley The Man He Killed (Hardy): V3
(cummings): V13 The War Against the Trees: V11 A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
The Idea of Order at Key West L (Raine): V7
(Stevens): V13 Marvell, Andrew
l(a (cummings): V1
In a Station of the Metro (Pound): V2 The Lady of Shalott (Tennyson): V15 To His Coy Mistress: V5
Incident in a Rose Garden (Justice): The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats): Masefield, John
V14 V15 Cargoes: V5
In Flanders Fields (McCrae): V5 The Lamb (Blake): V12 Matsuo Basho¯
In Memory of Radio (Baraka): V9 Lament for the Dorsets (Purdy): V5
In the Land of Shinar (Levertov): V7 Landscape with Tractor (Taylor): Falling Upon Earth: V2
In the Suburbs (Simpson): V14 The Moon Glows the Same: V7
Inventors (Blumentha): V7 V10 Temple Bells Die Out: V18
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Lanier, Sidney McCrae, John
In Flanders Fields: V5
(Yeats): V1 Song of the Chattahoochee: V14 McElroy, Colleen
Island of the Three Marias (Ríos): V11 Larkin, Philip A Pièd: V3
Ithaka (Cavafy): V19 McGinley, Phyllis
An Arundel Tomb: V12 The Conquerors: V13
J High Windows: V3 Reactionary Essay on Applied
Toads: V4
Jabberwocky (Carroll): V11 The Last Question (Parker): V18 Science: V9
Jarrell, Randall Last Request (Brouwer): V14 McKay, Claude
Lawrence, D. H.
The Death of the Ball Turret Piano: V6 The Tropics in New York: V4
Gunner: V2 Layton, Irving Meeting the British (Muldoon): V7
A Tall Man Executes a Jig: V12 Mending Wall (Frost): V5
Jeffers, Robinson Leda and the Swan (Yeats): V13 Merlin Enthralled (Wilbur): V16
Hurt Hawks: V3 Lee, Li-Young Merriam, Eve
Shine Perishing Republic: V4 Early in the Morning: V17
For a New Citizen of These Onomatopoeia: V6
Johnson, James Weldon Merwin, W. S.
The Creation: V1 United States: V15
The Weight of Sweetness: V11 The Horizons of Rooms: V15
Journey of the Magi (Eliot): V7 Levertov, Denise Leviathan: V5
Justice, Donald The Blue Rim of Memory: V17 Midnight (Heaney): V2
In the Land of Shinar: V7 Midnight Verses (Akhmatova): V18
Incident in a Rose Garden: V14 Leviathan (Merwin): V5 The Milkfish Gatherers (Fenton): V11
Levine, Philip Millay, Edna St. Vincent
K Starlight: V8 The Courage That My Mother
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Keats, John The Arsenal at Springfield: V17 Had: V3
La Belle Dame sans Merci: V17 Paul Revere’s Ride: V2 Wild Swans: V17
Bright Star! Would I Were A Psalm of Life: V7 Milosz, Czeslaw
Steadfast as Thou Art: V9 Lord Randal (Anonymous): V6 Song of a Citizen: V16
Ode on a Grecian Urn: V1 Lorde, Audre Milton, John
Ode to a Nightingale: V3 What My Child Learns of the Sea: [On His Blindness] Sonnet 16: V3
When I Have Fears that I May On His Having Arrived at the Age
Cease to Be: V2 V16
Lost Sister (Song): V5 of Twenty-Three: V17
Kenyon, Jane The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Mind (Graham): V17
Having it Out with Melancholy: Mirror (Plath): V1
V17 (Eliot): V1 Miss Rosie (Clifton): V1
“Trouble with Math in a One- Lowell, Robert The Missing (Gunn): V9
Room Country School”: V9 Momaday, N. Scott
For the Union Dead: V7
Kilroy (Viereck): V14 The Quaker Graveyard in Angle of Geese: V2
King James Bible To a Child Running With
Nantucket: V6
Psalm 8: V9 Outstretched Arms in Canyon
Psalm 23: V4 M de Chelly: V11
Kinnell, Galway Montague, John
Saint Francis and the Sow: V9 MacBeth, George A Grafted Tongue: V12
Kizer, Carolyn Bedtime Story: V8 The Moon Glows the Same (Basho¯):
To an Unknown Poet: V18 V7
Knoxville, Tennessee (Giovanni): V17 MacLeish, Archibald Moore, Marianne
Kooser, Ted Ars Poetica: V5 The Fish: V14
The Constellation Orion: V8 Poetry: V17
Komunyakaa, Yusef Madgett, Naomi Long “More Light! More Light!” (Hecht):
Facing It: V5 Alabama Centennial: V10 V6
Kubla Khan (Coleridge): V5 Mother to Son (Hughes): V3
Kumin, Maxine maggie and milly and molly and may Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Address to the Angels: V18 (cummings): V12 (Dickinson): V16
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Muldoon, Paul On the Pulse of Morning (Angelou): Q Cumulative Author/Title Index
Meeting the British: V7 V3
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Mueller, Lisel Once Again I Prove the Theory of (Lowell): V6
Blood Oranges: V13 Relativity (Cisneros): V19
The Exhibit: V9 Queen-Ann’s-Lace (Williams): V6
Ondaatje, Michael
Musée des Beaux Arts (Auden): V1 The Cinnamon Peeler: V19 R
Music Lessons (Oliver): V8 To a Sad Daughter: V8
My Father’s Song (Ortiz): V16 Raine, Craig
My Last Duchess (Browning): V1 Onomatopoeia (Merriam): V6 A Martian Sends a Postcard
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Ordinary Words (Stone): V19 Home: V7
Ortiz, Simon
Close (Dickinson): V8 Raleigh, Walter, Sir
My Mother Pieced Quilts (Acosta): Hunger in New York City: V4 The Nymph’s Reply to the
My Father’s Song: V16 Shepherd: V14
V12 Ostriker, Alicia
My Papa’s Waltz (Roethke): V3 His Speed and Strength: V19 Randall, Dudley
The Mystery (Glück): V15 Out, Out— (Frost): V10 Ballad of Birmingham: V5
Overture to a Dance of Locomotives
N The Rape of the Lock (Pope): V12
(Williams): V11 The Raven (Poe): V1
Names of Horses (Hall): V8 Owen, Wilfred Reactionary Essay on Applied
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Dulce et Decorum Est: V10 Science (McGinley): V9
(Dickinson): V11 Oysters (Sexton): V4 A Red, Red Rose (Burns): V8
The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Red Wheelbarrow (Williams): V1
P Reed, Ishmael
(Hughes): V10
Nemerov, Howard Paradoxes and Oxymorons Beware: Do Not Read This Poem:
(Ashbery): V11 V6
Deep Woods: V14
The Phoenix: V10 Parker, Dorothy Remember (Rossetti): V14
Neruda, Pablo The Last Question: V18 Reunions with a Ghost (Ai): V16
Tonight I Can Write: V11 Revard, Carter
New Rule (Carson): V18 Pastan, Linda
Not Waving but Drowning (Smith): V3 Ethics: V8 Birch Canoe: V5
Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost): V3 The Rhodora (Emerson): V17
Nowlan, Alden Paul Revere’s Ride (Longfellow): Rich, Adrienne
For Jean Vincent D’abbadie, V2
Rusted Legacy: V15
Baron St.-Castin: V12 Paz, Octavio Richard Cory (Robinson): V4
Noyes, Alfred Duration: V18 Rilke, Rainer Maria
The Highwayman: V4 Perfect Light (Hughes): V19 Childhood: V19
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd The Phoenix (Nemerov): V10 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Piano (Lawrence): V6
(Raleigh): V14 Piercy, Marge (Coleridge): V4
Ríos, Alberto
O Barbie Doll: V9
Pinsky, Robert Island of the Three Marias: V11
O Captain! My Captain! (Whitman): The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
V2 Song of Reasons: V18
Plath, Sylvia (Pound): V8
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats): V1 The Road Not Taken (Frost): V2
Ode to a Nightingale (Keats): V3 Blackberrying: V15 Robinson, E. A.
Ode to the West Wind (Shelley): V2 Mirror: V1
O’Hara, Frank A Psalm of Life (Longfellow): V7 Richard Cory: V4
Poe, Edgar Allan Roethke, Theodore
Having a Coke with You: V12 Annabel Lee: V9
Why I Am Not a Painter: V8 The Bells: V3 My Papa’s Waltz: V3
old age sticks (cummings): V3 The Raven: V1 Rogers, Pattiann
Old Ironsides (Holmes): V9 Poetry (Moore): V17
Olds, Sharon Pope, Alexander The Greatest Grandeur: V18
I Go Back to May 1937: V17 The Rape of the Lock: V12 Rose, Wendy
Oliver, Mary Porphyria’s Lover (Browning): V15
Music Lessons: V8 Pound, Ezra For the White poets who would be
Wild Geese: V15 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: V16 Indian: V13
On Freedom’s Ground (Wilbur): V12 In a Station of the Metro: V2
[On His Blindness] Sonnet 16 The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Rossetti, Christina
A Birthday: V10
(Milton): V3 Letter: V8 Remember: V14
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Proem (Tennyson): V19
Psalm 8 (King James Bible): V9 Rukeyser, Muriel
Twenty-Three (Milton): V17 Psalm 23 (King James Bible): V4 Ballad of Orange and Grape: V10
On Location in the Loire Valley Purdy, Al
Rusted Legacy (Rich): V15
(Ackerman): V19 Lament for the Dorsets: V5
Wilderness Gothic: V12 S
Sailing to Byzantium (Yeats): V2
Saint Francis and the Sow (Kinnell):
V9
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Sandburg, Carl The Song of the Smoke (Du Bois): Teasdale, Sara
Chicago: V3 V13 There Will Come Soft Rains: V14
Cool Tombs: V6
Hope Is a Tattered Flag: V12 Sonnet 16 [On His Blindness] Temple Bells Die Out (Basho¯): V18
(Milton): V3 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
Darwin in 1881: V13 Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare): V2 The Charge of the Light Brigade:
Sonnet 19 (Shakespeare): V9 V1
The Seafarer (Anonymous): V8 Sonnet 30 (Shakespeare): V4
The Second Coming (Yeats): V7 Sonnet 29 (Shakespeare): V8 The Eagle: V11
Service, Robert W. Sonnet XXIX (Browning): V16 The Lady of Shalott: V15
Sonnet 43 (Browning): V2 Proem: V19
The Cremation of Sam McGee: V10 Sonnet 55 (Shakespeare): V5 Tears, Idle Tears: V4
Seven Seeds (Bialosky): V19 Sonnet 116 (Shakespeare): V3 Ulysses: V2
Sexton, Anne Sonnet 130 (Shakespeare): V1 Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
The Sonnet-Ballad (Brooks): V1 Casey at the Bat: V5
Courage: V14 Soto, Gary Theme for English B (Hughes): V6
Oysters: V4 There’s a Certain Slant of Light
Shahid Ali, Agha Small Town with One Road: V7
The Country Without a Post The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Dickinson): V6
There Will Come Soft Rains
Office: V18 (Dickinson): V1
Shakespeare, William Southbound on the Freeway (Teasdale): V14
This Life (Dove): V1
Sonnet 18: V2 (Swenson): V16 Thomas, Dylan
Sonnet 19: V9 Spring-Watching Pavilion (Huong):
Sonnet 29: V8 Do Not Go Gentle into that Good
Sonnet 30: V4 V18 Night: V1
Sonnet 55: V5 Stafford, William
Sonnet 116: V3 Fern Hill: V3
Sonnet 130: V1 At the Bomb Testing Site: V8 The Force That Through the
Shapiro, Karl Fifteen: V2
Auto Wreck: V3 Ways to Live: V16 Green Fuse Drives the
She Walks in Beauty (Byron): V14 Starlight (Levine): V8 Flower: V8
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Stevens, Wallace Those Winter Sundays (Hayden): V1
Ode to the West Wind: V2 The Idea of Order at Key West: Three Times My Life Has Opened
Shine, Perishing Republic (Jeffers): (Hirshfield): V16
V13 Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth): V2
V4 Sunday Morning: V16 To a Child Running With
Silko, Leslie Marmon Stone, Ruth Outstretched Arms in Canyon
Ordinary Words: V19 de Chelly (Momaday): V11
Four Mountain Wolves: V9 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy To a Sad Daughter (Ondaatje): V8
Story from Bear Country: V16 To an Athlete Dying Young
Simic, Charles Evening (Frost): V1 (Housman): V7
Butcher Shop: V7 Story from Bear Country (Silko): V16 To an Unknown Poet (Kizer): V18
Simpson, Louis Strand, Mark To His Coy Mistress (Marvell): V5
American Poetry: V7 To His Excellency General
Chocolates: V11 The Continuous Life: V18 Washington (Wheatley): V13
In the Suburbs: V14 Eating Poetry: V9 To My Dear and Loving Husband
The Singer’s House (Heaney): V17 Strong Men, Riding Horses (Brooks): (Bradstreet): V6
Sir Patrick Spens (Anonymous): V4 To the Virgins, to Make Much of
Siren Song (Atwood): V7 V4 Time (Herrick): V13
60 (Tagore): V18 Sunday Morning (Stevens): V16 Toads (Larkin): V4
Small Town with One Road (Soto): V7 A Supermarket in California Tonight I Can Write (Neruda): V11
Smart and Final Iris (Tate): V15 The Tropics in New York (McKay): V4
Smith, Stevie (Ginsberg): V5 True Night (Snyder): V19
Not Waving but Drowning: V3 Swenson, May The Tyger (Blake): V2
Snyder, Gary
Anasazi: V9 Southbound on the Freeway: V16 U
True Night: V19 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Social Life (Hoagland): V19 Ulysses (Tennyson): V2
The Soldier (Brooke): V7 (Anonymous): V1 The Unknown Citizen (Auden): V3
somewhere i have never Szymborska, Wislawa
V
travelled,gladly beyond Astonishment: V15
(cummings): V19 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Song, Cathy T (Donne): V11
Lost Sister: V5
Song of a Citizen (Milosz): V16 Tagore, Rabindranath Vancouver Lights (Birney): V8
Song of Reasons (Pinsky): V18 60: V18 Viereck, Peter
Song of the Chattahoochee (Lanier):
V14 A Tall Man Executes a Jig (Layton): For An Assyrian Frieze: V9
V12 Kilroy: V14
Tate, James
Dear Reader: V10
Smart and Final Iris: V15
Taylor, Henry
Landscape with Tractor: V10
Tears, Idle Tears (Tennyson): V4
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W When I Was One-and-Twenty Wordsworth, William Cumulative Author/Title Index
(Housman): V4 Lines Composed a Few Miles
Walcott, Derek above Tintern Abbey: V2
A Far Cry from Africa: V6 Whitman, Walt
Cavalry Crossing a Ford: V13 Wright, Charles
The War Against the Trees (Kunitz): I Hear America Singing: V3 Black Zodiac: V10
V11 O Captain! My Captain!: V2
Wright, James
War Is Kind (Crane): V9 Why I Am Not a Painter (O’Hara): A Blessing: V7
Warren, Rosanna V8 Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry,
Ohio: V8
Daylights: V13 Wilbur, Richard
Ways to Live (Stafford): V16 Beowulf: V11 Wright, Judith
We Live by What We See at Night Merlin Enthralled: V16 Drought Year: V8
On Freedom’s Ground: V12
(Espada): V13 Y
We Real Cool (Brooks): V6 Wild Geese (Oliver): V15
The Weight of Sweetness (Lee): V11 Wild Swans (Millay): V17 Yeats, William Butler
What Belongs to Us (Howe): V15 Wilderness Gothic (Purdy): V12 Easter 1916: V5
What My Child Learns of the Sea Williams, William Carlos An Irish Airman Foresees His
Death: V1
(Lorde): V16 Overture to a Dance of The Lake Isle of Innisfree: V15
Wheatley, Phillis Locomotives: V11 Leda and the Swan: V13
Sailing to Byzantium: V2
To His Excellency General Queen-Ann’s-Lace: V6 The Second Coming: V7
Washington: V13 The Red Wheelbarrow: V1
The Wood-Pile (Frost): V6
When I Have Fears That I May
Cease to Be (Keats): V2
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Nationality/Ethnicity Index
Acoma Pueblo Johnson, James Weldon Bass, Ellen
The Creation: V1 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Ortiz, Simon V19
Hunger in New York City: V4 Komunyakaa, Yusef
My Father’s Song: V16 Facing It: V5 Bialosky, Jill
Seven Seeds: V19
African American Lorde, Audre
What My Child Learns of the Sea: Bishop, Elizabeth
Ai V16 Brazil, January 1, 1502: V6
Reunions with a Ghost: V16 Filling Station: V12
Madgett, Naomi Long
Angelou, Maya Alabama Centennial: V10 Blumenthal, Michael
Harlem Hopscotch: V2 Inventors: V7
On the Pulse of Morning: V3 McElroy, Colleen
A Pièd: V3 Bly, Robert
Baraka, Amiri Come with Me: V6
In Memory of Radio: V9 Randall, Dudley Driving to Town Late to Mail a
Ballad of Birmingham: V5 Letter: V17
Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Bean Eaters: V2 Reed, Ishmael Bradstreet, Anne
The Sonnet-Ballad: V1 Beware: Do Not Read This Poem: To My Dear and Loving
Strong Men, Riding Horses: V4 V6 Husband: V6
We Real Cool: V6
American Brooks, Gwendolyn
Clifton, Lucille The Bean Eaters: V2
Climbing: V14 Ackerman, Diane The Sonnet-Ballad: V1
Miss Rosie: V1 On Location in the Loire Valley: Strong Men, Riding Horses: V4
V19 We Real Cool: V6
Cullen, Countee
Any Human to Another: V3 Acosta, Teresa Palomo Brouwer, Joel
My Mother Pieced Quilts: V12 Last Request: V14
Dove, Rita
Geometry: V15 Ai Carver, Raymond
This Life: V1 Reunions with a Ghost: V16 The Cobweb: V17
Giovanni, Nikki Ammons, A. R. Cisneros, Sandra
Knoxville, Tennessee: V17 The City Limits: V19 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
Relativity: V19
Hayden, Robert Angelou, Maya
Those Winter Sundays: V1 Harlem Hopscotch: V2 Clifton, Lucille
On the Pulse of Morning: V3 Climbing: V14
Hughes, Langston Miss Rosie: V1
Dream Variations: V15 Ashbery, John
Harlem: V1 Paradoxes and Oxymorons: Collins, Billy
Mother to Son: V3 V11 The Afterlife: V18
The Negro Speaks of Rivers: V10
Theme for English B: V6 Auden, W. H. Crane, Stephen
As I Walked Out One Evening: V4 War Is Kind: V9
Musée des Beaux Arts: V1
The Unknown Citizen: V3 Cruz, Victor Hernandez
Business: V16
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Cullen, Countee Frost, Robert Johnson, James Weldon
Any Human to Another: V3 Birches: V13 The Creation: V1
The Death of the Hired Man: V4
cummings, e. e. Fire and Ice: V7 Justice, Donald
i was sitting in mcsorley’s: V13 Mending Wall: V5 Incident in a Rose Garden: V14
l(a: V1 Nothing Gold Can Stay: V3
maggie and milly and molly and Out, Out—: V10 Kenyon, Jane
may: V12 The Road Not Taken: V2 Having it Out with Melancholy: V17
old age sticks: V3 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy “Trouble with Math in a One-
somewhere i have never Evening: V1 Room Country School”: V9
travelled,gladly beyond: V19 The Wood-Pile: V6
Kinnell, Galway
Dickey, James Gallagher, Tess Saint Francis and the Sow: V9
The Heaven of Animals: V6 I Stop Writing the Poem: V16
The Hospital Window: V11 Kizer, Carolyn
Ginsberg, Allen To An Unknown Poet: V18
Dickinson, Emily A Supermarket in California: V5
Because I Could Not Stop for Komunyakaa, Yusef
Death: V2 Giovanni, Nikki Facing It: V5
The Bustle in a House: V10 Knoxville, Tennessee: V17
“Hope” Is the Thing with Kooser, Ted
Feathers: V3 Glück, Louise The Constellation Orion: V8
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: V13 The Gold Lily: V5
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I The Mystery: V15 Kumin, Maxine
Died—: V5 Address to the Angels: V18
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense: Graham, Jorie
V16 The Hiding Place: V10 Kunitz, Stanley
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Mind: V17 The War Against the Trees: V11
Close: V8
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass: Gunn, Thom Lanier, Sidney
V11 The Missing: V9 Song of the Chattahoochee: V14
The Soul Selects Her Own
Society: V1 H.D. Lee, Li-Young
There’s a Certain Slant of Light: Helen: V6 Early in the Morning: V17
V6 For a New Citizen of These
This Is My Letter to the World: Hacker, Marilyn United States: V15
V4 The Boy: V19 The Weight of Sweetness: V11
Dove, Rita Hall, Donald Levertov, Denise
Geometry: V15 Names of Horses: V8 The Blue Rim of Memory: V17
This Life: V1 In the Land of Shinar: V7
Harjo, Joy
Dubie, Norman Anniversary: V15 Levine, Philip
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter. Starlight: V8
A Barn in the Urals: V12 Hayden, Robert
Those Winter Sundays: V1 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Arsenal at Springfield: V17
The Song of the Smoke: V13 Hecht, Anthony Paul Revere’s Ride: V2
“More Light! More Light!”: V6 A Psalm of Life: V7
Dugan, Alan
How We Heard the Name: V10 Hirshfield, Jane Lorde, Audre
Three Times My Life Has What My Child Learns of the Sea:
Duncan, Robert Opened: V16 V16
An African Elegy: V13
Hoagland, Tony Lowell, Robert
Eliot, T. S. Social Life: V19 For the Union Dead: V7
Journey of the Magi: V7 The Quaker Graveyard in
The Love Song of J. Alfred Holmes, Oliver Wendell Nantucket: V6
Prufrock: V1 Old Ironsides: V9
MacLeish, Archibald
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Howe, Marie Ars Poetica: V5
Concord Hymn: V4 What Belongs to Us: V15
The Rhodora: V17 Madgett, Naomi Long
Hudgins, Andrew Alabama Centennial: V10
Erdrich, Louise Elegy for My Father, Who is Not
Bidwell Ghost: V14 Dead: V14 McElroy, Colleen
A Pièd: V3
Espada, Martín Hughes, Langston
Colibrí: V16 Dream Variations: V15 McGinley, Phyllis
We Live by What We See at Harlem: V1 The Conquerors: V13
Night: V13 Mother to Son: V3 Reactionary Essay on Applied
The Negro Speaks of Rivers: V10 Science: V9
Forché, Carolyn Theme for English B: V6
The Garden Shukkei-En: V18 McKay, Claude
Hugo, Richard The Tropics in New York: V4
Francis, Robert For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton:
The Base Stealer: V12 V17 Merriam, Eve
Onomatopoeia: V6
Jarrell, Randall
The Death of the Ball Turret Merwin, W. S.
Gunner: V2 The Horizons of Rooms: V15
Leviathan: V5
Jeffers, Robinson
Hurt Hawks: V3 Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Shine, Perishing Republic: V4 The Courage that My Mother
Had: V3
Wild Swans: V17
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Chilean
Momaday, N. Scott Rose, Wendy Whitman, Walt Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index
Angle of Geese: V2 For the White poets who would be Cavalry Crossing a Ford: V13
To a Child Running With Indian: V13 I Hear America Singing: V3
Outstretched Arms in Canyon O Captain! My Captain!: V2
de Chelly: V11 Rukeyser, Muriel
Ballad of Orange and Grape: Wilbur, Richard
Montague, John V10 Beowulf: V11
A Grafted Tongue: V12 Merlin Enthralled: V16
Sandburg, Carl On Freedom’s Ground: V12
Moore, Marianne Chicago: V3
The Fish: V14 Cool Tombs: V6 Williams, William Carlos
Poetry: V17 Hope Is a Tattered Flag: V12 Overture to a Dance of
Locomotives: V11
Mueller, Lisel Schnackenberg, Gjertrud Queen-Ann’s-Lace: V6
The Exhibit: V9 Darwin in 1881: V13 The Red Wheelbarrow: V1
Nemerov, Howard Sexton, Anne Wright, Charles
Deep Woods: V14 Courage: V14 Black Zodiac: V10
The Phoenix: V10 Oysters: V4
Wright, James
O’Hara, Frank Shapiro, Karl A Blessing: V7
Having a Coke with You: V12 Auto Wreck: V3 Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry,
Why I Am Not a Painter: V8 Ohio: V8
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Olds, Sharon Four Mountain Wolves: V9 Australian
I Go Back to May 1937: V17 Story from Bear Country: V16
Dawe, Bruce
Oliver, Mary Simic, Charles Drifters: V10
Music Lessons: V8 Butcher Shop: V7
Wild Geese: V15 Hope, A. D.
Simpson, Louis Beware of Ruins: V8
Ortiz, Simon American Poetry: V7
Hunger in New York City: V4 Chocolates: V11 Wright, Judith
My Father’s Song: V16 In the Suburbs: V14 Drought Year: V8
Ostriker, Alicia Snyder, Gary Canadian
His Speed and Strength: V19 Anasazi: V9
True Night: V19 Atwood, Margaret
Parker, Dorothy Siren Song: V7
The Last Question: V18 Song, Cathy
Lost Sister: V5 Birney, Earle
Pastan, Linda Vancouver Lights: V8
Ethics: V8 Soto, Gary
Small Town with One Road: V7 Carson, Anne
Piercy, Marge New Rule: V18
Barbie Doll: V9 Stafford, William
At the Bomb Testing Site: V8 Layton, Irving
Pinsky, Robert Fifteen: V2 A Tall Man Executes a Jig: V12
Song of Reasons: V18 Ways to Live: V16
McCrae, John
Plath, Sylvia Stevens, Wallace In Flanders Fields: V5
Blackberrying: V15 The Idea of Order at Key West:
Mirror: V1 V13 Nowlan, Alden
Sunday Morning: V16 For Jean Vincent D’abbadie,
Poe, Edgar Allan Baron St.-Castin: V12
Annabel Lee: V9 Stone, Ruth
The Bells: V3 Ordinary Words: V19 Purdy, Al
The Raven: V1 Lament for the Dorsets: V5
Strand, Mark Wilderness Gothic: V12
Pound, Ezra The Continuous Life: V18
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: V16 Strand, Mark
In a Station of the Metro: V2 Swenson, May Eating Poetry: V9
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Southbound on the Freeway: V16
Letter: V8 Canadian, Sri
Tate, James Lankan
Randall, Dudley Dear Reader: V10
Ballad of Birmingham: V5 Smart and Final Iris: V15 Ondaatje, Michael
The Cinnamon Peeler: V19
Reed, Ishmael Taylor, Henry To a Sad Daughter: V8
Beware: Do Not Read This Poem: Landscape with Tractor: V10
V6 Chilean
Teasdale, Sara
Revard, Carter There Will Come Soft Rains: V14 Neruda, Pablo
Birch Canoe: V5 Tonight I Can Write: V11
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Rich, Adrienne Casey at the Bat: V5
Rusted Legacy: V15
Viereck, Peter
Ríos, Alberto For An Assyrian Frieze: V9
Island of the Three Marias: V11 Kilroy: V14
Robinson, E. A. Warren, Rosanna
Richard Cory: V4 Daylights: V13
Roethke, Theodore Wheatley, Phillis
My Papa’s Waltz: V3 To His Excellency General
Washington: V13
Rogers, Pattiann
The Greatest Grandeur: V18
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Egyptian, Greek
Egyptian, Greek Herrick, Robert Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
To the Virgins, to Make Much of The Charge of the Light
Cavafy, C. P. Time: V13 Brigade: V1
Ithaka: V19 The Eagle: V11
Housman, A. E. The Lady of Shalott: V15
English To an Athlete Dying Young: V7 Proem: V19
When I Was One-and-Twenty: V4 Tears, Idle Tears: V4
Alleyn, Ellen Ulysses: V2
A Birthday: V10 Hughes, Ted
Hawk Roosting: V4 Williams, William Carlos
Arnold, Matthew Perfect Light: V19 Queen-Ann’s-Lace: V6
Dover Beach: V2 The Red Wheelbarrow: V1
Keats, John
Auden, W. H. La Belle Dame sans Merci: V17 Wordsworth, William
As I Walked Out One Evening: V4 Bright Star! Would I Were Lines Composed a Few Miles
Funeral Blues: V10 Steadfast as Thou Art: V9 above Tintern Abbey: V2
Musée des Beaux Arts: V1 Ode on a Grecian Urn: V1
The Unknown Citizen: V3 Ode to a Nightingale: V3 Yeats, W. B.
When I Have Fears that I May Easter 1916: V5
Blake, William Cease to Be: V2 An Irish Airman Forsees His
The Lamb: V12 Death: V1
The Tyger: V2 Larkin, Philip The Lake Isle of Innisfree: V15
An Arundel Tomb: V12 Leda and the Swan: V13
Bradstreet, Anne High Windows: V3 Sailing to Byzantium: V2
To My Dear and Loving Toads: V4 The Second Coming: V7
Husband: V6
Lawrence, D. H. German
Brooke, Rupert Piano: V6
The Soldier: V7 Blumenthal, Michael
Levertov, Denise Inventors: V7
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett The Blue Rim of Memory: V17
Sonnet XXIX: V16 Erdrich, Louise
Sonnet 43: V2 Marvell, Andrew Bidwell Ghost: V14
To His Coy Mistress: V5
Browning, Robert Mueller, Lisel
My Last Duchess: V1 Masefield, John Blood Oranges: V13
Porphyria’s Lover: V15 Cargoes: V5 The Exhibit: V9
Byron, Lord Milton, John Rilke, Rainer Maria
The Destruction of [On His Blindness] Sonnet 16: V3 Childhood: V19
Sennacherib: V1 On His Having Arrived at the Age
She Walks in Beauty: V14 of Twenty-Three: V17 Roethke, Theodore
My Papa’s Waltz: V3
Carroll, Lewis Noyes, Alfred
Jabberwocky: V11 The Highwayman: V4 Ghanaian
Chaucer, Geoffrey Owen, Wilfred Du Bois, W. E. B.
The Canterbury Tales: V14 Dulce et Decorum Est: V10 The Song of the Smoke: V13
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Pope, Alexander Hispanic
Kubla Khan: V5 The Rape of the Lock: V12
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Cruz, Victor Hernandez
V4 Raine, Craig Business: V16
A Martian Sends a Postcard
Donne, John Home: V7 Espada, Martín
Holy Sonnet 10: V2 Colibrí: V16
A Valediction: Forbidding Raleigh, Walter, Sir
Mourning: V11 The Nymph’s Reply to the Indian
Shepherd: V14
Eliot, T. S. Shahid Ali, Agha
Journey of the Magi: V7 Rossetti, Christina Country Without a Post Office:
The Love Song of J. Alfred A Birthday: V10 V18
Prufrock: V1 Remember: V14
Tagore, Rabindranath
Fenton, James Service, Robert W. 60: V18
The Milkfish Gatherers: V11 The Cremation of Sam McGee: V10
Indonesian
Gray, Thomas Shakespeare, William
Elegy Written in a Country Sonnet 18: V2 Lee, Li-Young
Churchyard: V9 Sonnet 19: V9 Early in the Morning: V17
Sonnet 30: V4 For a New Citizen of These
Gunn, Thom Sonnet 29: V8 United States: V15
The Missing: V9 Sonnet 55: V5 The Weight of Sweetness: V11
Sonnet 116: V3
Hardy, Thomas Sonnet 130: V1
Ah, Are You Digging on My
Grave?: V4 Shelley, Percy Bysshe
The Darkling Thrush: V18 Ode to the West Wind: V2
The Man He Killed: V3
Smith, Stevie
Not Waving but Drowning: V3
342 Poetry for Students
Welsh
Irish To a Child Running With Levertov, Denise Cumulative Nationality/Ethnicity Index
Outstretched Arms in Canyon In the Land of Shinar: V7
Boland, Eavan de Chelly: V11
Anorexic: V12 Merriam, Eve
Lithuanian Onomatopoeia: V6
Hartnett, Michael
A Farewell to English: V10 Milosz, Czeslaw Shapiro, Karl
Song of a Citizen: V16 Auto Wreck: V3
Heaney, Seamus
Digging: V5 Mexican St. Lucian
A Drink of Water: V8
Midnight: V2 Paz, Octavio Walcott, Derek
The Singer’s House: V17 Duration: V18 A Far Cry from Africa: V6
Muldoon, Paul Soto, Gary Scottish
Meeting the British: V7 Small Town with One Road: V7
Burns, Robert
Yeats, William Butler Native American A Red, Red Rose: V8
Easter 1916: V5
An Irish Airman Foresees His Ai Byron, Lord
Death: V1 Reunions with a Ghost: V16 The Destruction of
The Lake Isle of Innisfree: V15 Sennacherib: V1
Leda and the Swan: V13 Erdrich, Louise
Sailing to Byzantium: V2 Bidwell Ghost: V14 MacBeth, George
The Second Coming: V7 Bedtime Story: V8
Harjo, Joy
Jamaican Anniversary: V15 Senegalese
McKay, Claude Momaday, N. Scott Wheatley, Phillis
The Tropics in New York: V4 Angle of Geese: V2 To His Excellency General
To a Child Running With Washington: V13
Simpson, Louis Outstretched Arms in Canyon
In the Suburbs: V14 de Chelly: V11 Spanish
Japanese Ortiz, Simon Williams, William Carlos
Hunger in New York City: V4 The Red Wheelbarrow: V1
Ai My Father’s Song: V16
Reunions with a Ghost: V16 Swedish
Revard, Carter
Basho¯, Matsuo Birch Canoe: V5 Sandburg, Carl
Falling Upon Earth: V2 Chicago: V3
The Moon Glows the Same: V7 Rose, Wendy
Temple Bells Die Out: V18 For the White poets who would be
Indian: V13
Jewish
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Blumenthal, Michael Four Mountain Wolves: V9
Inventors: V7 Story from Bear Country: V16
Espada, Martín Osage Vietnamese
Colibrí: V16
We Live by What We See at Revard, Carter Huong, Ho Xuan
Night: V13 Birch Canoe: V5 Spring-Watching Pavilion: V18
Piercy, Marge Polish Welsh
Barbie Doll: V9
Milosz, Czeslaw Levertov, Denise
Shapiro, Karl Song of a Citizen: V16 In the Land of Shinar: V7
Auto Wreck: V3
Szymborska, Wislawa Thomas, Dylan
Kiowa Astonishment: V15 Do Not Go Gentle into that Good
Night: V1
Momaday, N. Scott Russian Fern Hill: V3
Angle of Geese: V2 The Force That Through the Green
Akhmatova, Anna Fuse Drives the Flower: V8
Midnight Verses: V18
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Subject/Theme Index Subject/Theme Index
*Boldface denotes discussion in Ambition Proem: 214, 220–221, 223–224
Themes section. True Night: 297–299, 306 somewhere i have never
A American Midwest travelled,gladly beyond:
Once Again I Prove the Theory of 266–269
Abandonment Relativity: 143–146 Birth and Motherhood
Childhood: 42, 46, 50 Seven Seeds: 240
Ithaka: 124, 126 American Northwest The Brevity of Life
Proem: 217–218, 223 True Night: 291–293, 295 Perfect Light: 189
somewhere i have never Buddhism
travelled,gladly beyond: American West True Night: 283, 288, 294–297,
277–279 True Night: 291, 293–297 299–300, 302, 305–306
True Night: 295, 297
Anger C
Acceptance and Belonging Perfect Light: 199, 203, 204
The City Limits: 80 Chaos and Order
Anti-Semitism The Boy: 16
Adultery The Boy: 17–18
The Cinnamon Peeler: 64 Childhood
Perfect Light: 192–193 Art And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Childhood: 30 7–8
Adulthood The Boy: 22–24
Childhood: 30–33 Arthurian Legend Childhood: 28, 30–38, 40–41,
His Speed and Strength: 95, 97, Proem: 221 49–50
99–100 His Speed and Strength: 97–100
Asia Once Again I Prove the Theory of
Adventure and Exploration His Speed and Strength: 102–104 Relativity: 139–142
Ithaka: 114, 117, 119–120, True Night: 291, 294, 298–301,
124–125 304 Christianity
On Location in the Loire Valley: The City Limits: 86–87
166–169 Atonement
Perfect Light: 196, 200, 203 City Life
Africa Proem: 220, 223–224 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
Ithaka: 115–116, 118 somewhere i have never Relativity: 143, 145
Once Again I Prove the Theory of travelled,gladly beyond: 270
Relativity: 131, 133 Class
Authoritarianism Ordinary Words: 174
Alcoholism, Drugs, and Drug The Boy: 15, 18
Addiction Classicism
B Perfect Light: 198–199
Proem: 214, 216–217 Seven Seeds: 246–247
Alliteration Beauty
And What If I Spoke of Despair: Communism
On Location in the Loire Valley: 3, 5–8 His Speed and Strength: 100–101
157–158 Childhood: 38, 40, 42–46, 48, 50,
52
True Night: 286–287 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
Relativity: 129, 131–133
345
Couplet
Couplet Drama Evil
On Location in the Loire Valley: Childhood: 39–40, 44, 48, 50 Perfect Light: 196, 199–200, 203
154–160 Proem: 218, 220
Dreams and Visions
Courage Childhood: 30–32, 37–41, 43, 45 F
Childhood: 42, 46 The City Limits: 88–91
True Night: 298–303, 305, Faith
Creativity 307–310 somewhere i have never
Once Again I Prove the Theory of travelled,gladly beyond: 268
Relativity: 143–145 E
Family Life
Cruelty Ecology The Cinnamon Peeler: 64
The Cinnamon Peeler: 69–70, 72 And What If I Spoke of Despair: His Speed and Strength: 105
Once Again I Prove the Theory of 1, 3–6 Ordinary Words: 181
Relativity: 139–140, 142 True Night: 287–288 Proem: 229, 232
Curiosity Elegy Farm and Rural Life
On Location in the Loire Valley: Proem: 217–219, 224, 226, The Cinnamon Peeler: 55–56,
165–168, 170 232–233 59–60
Ordinary Words: 181–182, 184
Emotions Fate and Chance
Cynicism And What If I Spoke of Despair: On Location in the Loire Valley:
Ithaka: 125 3–4, 6–7, 9, 11 168, 170
The Boy: 25 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
D Childhood: 31–32, 34–35, 41, 43, Relativity: 146–149, 152
48–49 Perfect Light: 186, 188–190,
Dance The Cinnamon Peeler: 58, 60, 65, 196–203
Once Again I Prove the Theory of 69–70, 74 Proem: 215, 218–220, 223
Relativity: 130, 132, 152 The City Limits: 79–81
True Night: 302, 304–306 His Speed and Strength: 109 Fear
Ithaka: 115, 126–127 The City Limits: 81
Death On Location in the Loire Valley:
The Boy: 17–18, 25–26 165, 167–168 Fear and Terror
Childhood: 37, 40–50 Once Again I Prove the Theory of Childhood: 30–32, 41–44, 46–47,
The Cinnamon Peeler: 70–72, 74 Relativity: 129, 132–133, 135, 49–50
On Location in the Loire Valley: 137, 144 The City Limits: 77, 80–81, 83,
161–163, 165 Ordinary Words: 174–175, 85–86
Ordinary Words: 179–180, 177–178 Proem: 207–209, 217–219, 222,
182–184 Perfect Light: 186, 190, 193, 198, 224
Perfect Light: 189, 191–203 201–202, 204
Proem: 205, 207–211, 214, Proem: 211, 213, 215–219, 223, Femininity
216–225, 227–236 225–232 His Speed and Strength: 98–99,
Seven Seeds: 237–238, 240–241, Social Life: 256 102
244–248 somewhere i have never somewhere i have never travelled,
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond: 264, gladly beyond: 266–267
travelled,gladly beyond: 266, 270, 274, 276–279, 281
266–270, 276–277, 279–280 True Night: 294, 301, 304 Feminism
True Night: 300–302, 304–305 The Boy: 17
Environmental Destruction His Speed and Strength: 104–106
Death In Life And What If I Spoke of Despair: 4 Perfect Light: 197, 202–203
On Location in the Loire Valley:
156 Eternity Film
Perfect Light: 198, 201 The Cinnamon Peeler: 68, 70–71,
Depression and Melancholy Proem: 225, 228, 231 74–75
Perfect Light: 197–198, 202–203 somewhere i have never On Location in the Loire Valley:
Proem: 214, 216, 218, 220, 224 travelled,gladly beyond: 153–156, 161–162
272–275
Description True Night: 302, 304–305 Folklore
The Cinnamon Peeler: 54, 56 The Cinnamon Peeler: 74
The City Limits: 90–91 Europe Ithaka: 115, 117
Perfect Light: 196, 199, 202–203 The Boy: 17–18 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
Proem: 225–226 Childhood: 32–33, 37–52 Relativity: 150
The Cinnamon Peeler: 68, 70, 72, Perfect Light: 197
Desire 75
Seven Seeds: 241 His Speed and Strength: 100–101 Forgiveness
Ithaka: 114, 117–118 Perfect Light: 197–198, 204
Despair Perfect Light: 190–191 Proem: 208–209, 212–213
And What If I Spoke of Despair: Proem: 205, 210–211, 214,
1–9, 11 216–224 Free Will
Proem: 225, 228, 231 Proem: 208
Disease Free Will vs. Determinism
Childhood: 40, 43–44, 49, 52 Proem: 207–208, 210
Divorce Friendship
Ordinary Words: 178 Proem: 215, 222
346 Poetry for Students
Loneliness
G Homosexuality Innocence Versus Knowledge Subject/Theme Index
The Boy: 20–21 Perfect Light: 189
Gender Ithaka: 122–123, 125–127
The Boy: 17 Insanity
Honor The Cinnamon Peeler: 71–72, 74
Gender Roles Childhood: 46 Proem: 214, 217, 220
The Boy: 17 Proem: 222
True Night: 297 Irony
Genetic Engineering His Speed and Strength: 110–111
And What If I Spoke of Despair: 5 Hope Ithaka: 125, 127
His Speed and Strength: 95, 98, Perfect Light: 188, 190, 195–196
Ghost 100, 102 Social Life: 253–254, 261–262
Childhood: 43, 47, 49, 51 Ithaka: 114–117 somewhere i have never travelled,
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Once Again I Prove the Theory of gladly beyond: 279–280
Relativity: 147–148 Relativity: 144–146
Perfect Light: 198, 201 Proem: 215, 217–218, 223, Isolation
Proem: 220, 222, 224, 234 235–236 Childhood: 31
God Human Condition J
Childhood: 41, 45–46 Childhood: 37
The City Limits: 84–88 Judaism
Perfect Light: 201–203 Humility The Boy: 13, 15–18
Proem: 206–213 Proem: 227, 231
K
Great Depression Humor
somewhere i have never The Cinnamon Peeler: 71–72, Killers and Killing
travelled,gladly beyond: 266, 74–75 The Cinnamon Peeler: 70, 72
269–270 His Speed and Strength: 97, 99 Perfect Light: 189, 196–198, 203
Ordinary Words: 181, 183–185
Grief and Sorrow Proem: 214, 221, 225 Kindness
And What If I Spoke of Despair: Social Life: 252, 254 Childhood: 41–42, 45, 49–50, 52
3, 6, 7, 9 somewhere i have never
Childhood: 30–34 travelled,gladly beyond: Knowledge
Ordinary Words: 172, 174–175, 279–280 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
182–185 11
Perfect Light: 192–194, 196–204 I On Location in the Loire Valley:
Proem: 205, 208–214, 217, 167–168
219–221, 233–236 Ignorance Perfect Light: 188–190, 195–196
Seven Seeds: 237, 240–241 somewhere i have never Proem: 207–209, 211
travelled,gladly beyond: 274 True Night: 297, 300, 302, 305
H
Imagery and Symbolism L
Happiness and Gaiety And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Ithaka: 120, 121, 124–125 5–8 Landscape
Perfect Light: 201, 203 Childhood: 30–32, 35, 37 Childhood: 39–40, 46–47, 51–52
The Cinnamon Peeler: 57, 59, The Cinnamon Peeler: 69–70, 72,
Hatred 69–70 74–75
Childhood: 38, 40–41, 45, 47 The City Limits: 79–80, 83, 88–91 The City Limits: 88–91
His Speed and Strength: 98–103 His Speed and Strength: 98–99 Ithaka: 114–115, 117–118
Ithaka: 126–127 Ithaka: 116–117, 119, 122, 124, On Location in the Loire Valley:
Perfect Light: 198–199, 202–204 127 167–169
On Location in the Loire Valley: Ordinary Words: 177–178
Heaven 166–167 Proem: 216, 219–220, 223–224
Childhood: 45–46 Ordinary Words: 175, 177 Seven Seeds: 239–243
On Location in the Loire Valley: Perfect Light: 186, 188, 192 Social Life: 253–256
169 Proem: 214, 216, 221, 223, True Night: 291–306
225–227, 229–232
Hell Seven Seeds: 237–239, 241–242, Language
Seven Seeds: 237, 239, 243 244–248 Ordinary Words: 174
Social Life: 260
Heroism somewhere i have never Life As a Journey
Childhood: 44, 46, 49–50 travelled,gladly beyond: Ithaka: 115
Proem: 218–220 268–269, 274–275
True Night: 298, 300, 302 True Night: 298–301 Limitations and Opportunities
The City Limits: 84–85, 88
History Imagination
The Boy: 13, 16–17 The Boy: 19–20 Literary Criticism
The Cinnamon Peeler: 68, 74–75 The City Limits: 83
His Speed and Strength: 95, 100 The Inability To Know True Night: 293
Ithaka: 117–119 On Location in the Loire Valley:
Proem: 214–215, 220, 224 156 Loneliness
somewhere i have never Childhood: 28, 30–32, 43–44,
travelled,gladly beyond: 269 49–50
True Night: 288, 292, 294,
296–297, 299, 306
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Loss
Loneliness (continued) Memory Social Life: 260
Ithaka: 122, 125 Childhood: 31 True Night: 293–296, 298–300, 303
Proem: 216–218, 220–221 Ordinary Words: 174
somewhere i have never N
travelled,gladly beyond: 276, Memory and Reminiscence
281 Ithaka: 124–126 Naivete
True Night: 292 Perfect Light: 196, 200–202 Perfect Light: 186, 188–190,
194–196
Loss Mental and Physical Infirmity
Ordinary Words: 174 Proem: 214, 217, 219 Narration
The Boy: 13, 15, 17–21
Love Mental Instability Childhood: 37, 40, 43, 45–46, 50
The Cinnamon Peeler: 58 Proem: 214 The Cinnamon Peeler: 65–68,
somewhere i have never 70–72, 75
travelled,gladly beyond: 267 Middle East The City Limits: 88–90
The Cinnamon Peeler: 54, 58–60, His Speed and Strength: 99,
Love and Passion 68, 70, 74 105–106
And What If I Spoke of Despair: Once Again I Prove the Theory of Ithaka: 113, 116, 119–121
3–4 Relativity: 131, 133 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
The Boy: 25–26 Relativity: 141–145
Childhood: 39–51 Monarchy Perfect Light: 196, 198–200, 202
The Cinnamon Peeler: 54–60, Childhood: 40–41, 46–47, 49, 51 Proem: 217–220, 222–223
63–65, 70–71, 73–75 Proem: 214, 216, 219–224 True Night: 292, 295
His Speed and Strength: 106,
109–111 Money and Economics Nature
Ithaka: 124–127 Childhood: 38, 40, 47, 51 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
On Location in the Loire Valley: Proem: 214, 216–218 3–9, 11
160–161, 165–170 Childhood: 46
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Morals and Morality The Cinnamon Peeler: 71
Relativity: 129–133, 135–138, Ithaka: 123–125, 127 The City Limits: 77, 79–93
140–146 Perfect Light: 197, 204 His Speed and Strength: 97
Ordinary Words: 177–178, 181, Proem: 214, 220–221, 224–225, On Location in the Loire Valley:
183–184 227, 231–232 153, 165–167, 169–170
Perfect Light: 193–194, 197, True Night: 301–302, 304 Ordinary Words: 177
199–200, 202, 204 Perfect Light: 188, 197, 199,
Proem: 213–215, 217–236 Motherhood 201–202
Seven Seeds: 239, 241, 243 His Speed and Strength: 96–97, Proem: 214, 219, 223, 225,
Social Life: 261–262 102, 104–108 227–230
somewhere i have never Seven Seeds: 237–238, 240, Social Life: 252–255, 257–259,
travelled,gladly beyond: 264, 242–243 261
266–281 somewhere i have never
True Night: 300, 302, 304, 306 Mourning travelled,gladly beyond:
Proem: 209 267–269, 276
Love As the Origin of Art True Night: 283, 289–290, 292,
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Music 294, 296–299, 302–306, 308
Relativity: 133 Childhood: 38, 40, 46, 49, 51–52
The Cinnamon Peeler: 68, 70–74 Nature In Suburban America
Lower Class On Location in the Loire Valley: Social Life: 254
Childhood: 39, 42, 45–46 168, 170
Once Again I Prove the Theory of 1950s
Loyalty Relativity: 130–132 Ordinary Words: 176, 178
Childhood: 38–39, 43, 45–46, 48, Ordinary Words: 172, 174–175,
52 181–184 1960s
Proem: 214–215 Perfect Light: 198–202 The City Limits: 82–83
True Night: 305–306 Proem: 228, 230–232
Social Life: 252–254, 256 1980s
M somewhere i have never True Night: 287
travelled,gladly beyond:
Marriage 277–279, 281 North America
The Cinnamon Peeler: 56–61, The Cinnamon Peeler: 68, 71, 75
63–64 Mystery and Intrigue His Speed and Strength: 100–104
Ordinary Words: 174–178 somewhere i have never Once Again I Prove the Theory of
Perfect Light: 196–202 travelled,gladly beyond: 264, Relativity: 131, 133–134, 143
Proem: 215, 217, 219, 225, 266–269 True Night: 300–306
229–232
Myths and Legends Nuclear War
Masculine Versus Feminine Childhood: 37, 40–42, 46, 50–51 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
His Speed and Strength: 99 The Cinnamon Peeler: 65–72, 74 4–5
His Speed and Strength: 95, 97, 102
Masculinity Ithaka: 113–121 Nurturance
His Speed and Strength: 96–97, 99 Once Again I Prove the Theory of And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Relativity: 150 3, 6
Perfect Light: 197–203
Proem: 215, 217, 224
Seven Seeds: 237–248
348 Poetry for Students
Sonnet
O On Location in the Loire Valley: somewhere i have never travelled, Subject/Theme Index
153–170 gladly beyond: 280–281
The Odyssey
Ithaka: 116 Once Again I Prove the Theory of True Night: 298, 302, 304
Relativity: 129, 131–140, Religious Works
P 143–146, 149–150, 152
The City Limits: 86–88
Painting Ordinary Words: 172, 174–185 Revenge
Childhood: 30–32, 35–36, 39–41, Perfect Light: 186–204
43, 47, 51 Proem: 205–236 Perfect Light: 204
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Seven Seeds: 237–243, 246–248 Reverence
Relativity: 130–131 Social Life: 250, 252, 254–256,
Perfect Light: 194 Proem: 208
259–262 Romantic Love
Paradox somewhere i have never
The City Limits: 80 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
travelled,gladly beyond: 264, Relativity: 131
Paranormal 266–269, 271–281
Once Again I Prove the Theory of True Night: 283–310 S
Relativity: 148 Point of View
The Boy: 21 Saints
Perception Politicians Childhood: 39, 41, 45–46, 49–50
Childhood: 37–40, 42, 45, 48 His Speed and Strength: 100–101
True Night: 285–287, 289, 298, Politics Science and Technology
302, 304–306 The Boy: 15–17 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Childhood: 38, 40, 44, 52 1, 3–7, 9–11
Permanence The Cinnamon Peeler: 59–60 On Location in the Loire Valley:
The Cinnamon Peeler: 66 His Speed and Strength: 100–101 165–168, 170
Perfect Light: 201–202 Perfect Light: 190–191 Ordinary Words: 181, 184
Proem: 229–230, 232 Proem: 216, 218, 222, 224 Proem: 207–208, 211
True Night: 297–298, 301–305
Persecution Poverty Sculpture
Ithaka: 123, 125 Childhood: 41–42, 45– 47 Childhood: 30, 32, 39, 46–48
The Power of Scent
Perseverance The Cinnamon Peeler: 58 Self-Absorption
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Pride Social Life: 254
Relativity: 132–134 Childhood: 38, 41, 46, 51–52
Prophecy Self-Discovery
Personal Identity The City Limits: 88–91 The City Limits: 81
The Boy: 13, 15–22 Psychology and the Human Mind
The Cinnamon Peeler: 65–67 The Boy: 16–17 Sentimentality
Childhood: 31–33, 40–43 Ithaka: 125, 127
Personification The Cinnamon Peeler: 68–69
And What If I Spoke of Despair: 6 Ithaka: 123–125 Setting
The City Limits: 88, 90 Perfect Light: 196, 202–203 The Cinnamon Peeler: 59
Seven Seeds: 238, 240, 242 Proem: 215, 219 Perfect Light: 188, 190, 192
somewhere i have never Social Life: 250, 253, 255,
travelled,gladly beyond: R 257–258
266–267
Race Sex and Sexuality
Philosophical Ideas The Boy: 13, 16–17 The Boy: 15– 18
On Location in the Loire Valley: His Speed and Strength: 95, Childhood: 39–45, 47, 51–52
168–170 97–99, 101 The Cinnamon Peeler: 54–63,
Proem: 219–220, 225, 231–232 Once Again I Prove the Theory of 70–74
somewhere i have never Relativity: 129, 133–134, Ithaka: 122–124, 126–127
travelled,gladly beyond: 275, 138–141, 143–146 Once Again I Prove the Theory of
279, 281 Relativity: 139–140, 142
Racial Conflict Perfect Light: 196, 199, 202
Plants His Speed and Strength: 99 somewhere i have never
Social Life: 252–255, 259 travelled,gladly beyond:
Racism and Prejudice 268–271, 275, 277, 279–280
Pleasure The Boy: 20–21
Ithaka: 120–127 Sexual Desire
Religion and Religious Thought The Cinnamon Peeler: 58
Poetry Childhood: 43, 45
And What If I Spoke of Despair: The City Limits: 84–87 Shifts of Consciousness
1–11 Once Again I Prove the Theory of True Night: 285
The Boy: 13, 15–26 Relativity: 147
Childhood: 28, 30–39, 47–48, Perfect Light: 201 Sickness
51–52 Proem: 207–208, 211, 215–216, Childhood: 38, 40–42, 44, 52
The Cinnamon Peeler: 54–72, 219, 228–232 Proem: 217, 219, 222, 224
74–75
The City Limits: 77, 79–93 Sin
His Speed and Strength: 95–111 Perfect Light: 199
Ithaka: 113–127 Proem: 208, 221–222
Social Order
The Cinnamon Peeler: 63–66
Sonnet
The Boy: 22, 24–25
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Soul
Sonnet (continued) Suicide V
Proem: 226–227 Perfect Light: 186, 189–197, 199,
203 Vietnam War
Soul His Speed and Strength: 102–103,
The City Limits: 90–91 T 104
Proem: 234–236
Time and Change W
Space Exploration and Study Perfect Light: 198–199, 202
On Location in the Loire Valley: Proem: 216, 219, 221–222, 225 War, the Military, and Soldier
165, 167–170 Seven Seeds: 238, 240, 242 Life
Ordinary Words: 181–182, 184 somewhere i have never
travelled,gladly beyond: 274 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Spirituality True Night: 300–301, 304 3–4, 6, 8
Childhood: 38, 40, 45–46
Proem: 206–211, 228–232 Tone Childhood: 37–38, 40–45, 47,
somewhere i have never Ithaka: 120–122, 126–127 49–51
travelled,gladly beyond: On Location in the Loire Valley:
268–269 155–156 His Speed and Strength: 95–104
Perfect Light: 188–191
Sports and the Sporting Life Transcendentalism somewhere i have never
His Speed and Strength: 99–100, somewhere i have never
105–106 travelled,gladly beyond: 281 travelled,gladly beyond: 270
True Night: 302–305
Storms and Weather Conditions Trust Wildlife
Childhood: 35–37, 39, 42–44, 51 Proem: 229–231 And What If I Spoke of Despair:
Perfect Light: 197, 201–202 somewhere i have never travelled,
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond: 276, 281 3–6, 9–11
gladly beyond: 266–268 The Cinnamon Peeler: 69–73,
True Night: 285, 287, 291–292, U
295–296 75
Uncertainty The City Limits: 77, 79–80, 82,
Strength somewhere i have never
His Speed and Strength: 95–97, travelled,gladly beyond: 87–88
99–101, 105–106 273–275 Ordinary Words: 172, 174
Perfect Light: 197, 199–200
Structure Understanding somewhere i have never
Childhood: 36–37 Childhood: 42, 46
The Cinnamon Peeler: 61–62, True Night: 299 travelled,gladly beyond: 276,
71–72 280–281
The City Limits: 86–87 Utopianism True Night: 289–290, 299–302,
Proem: 210–211, 218–219, 221 Ithaka: 120–121 304, 306, 309
True Night: 299, 302, 306–307, Perfect Light: 195 World War II
309 somewhere i have never
travelled,gladly beyond: 270
Suburban Life Writing
Social Life: 250, 252–258 The Boy: 16
350 Poetry for Students
Cumulative Index of Cumulative Index of First Lines
First Lines
A All night long the hockey pictures (To a Sad Daughter)
V8:230
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket,— (The Quaker
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:158 All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars,
padding (Names of Horses) V8:141
“A cold coming we had of it (Journey of the Magi) V7:110
A few minutes ago, I stepped onto the deck (The Cobweb) Also Ulysses once—that other war. (Kilroy) V14:213
Anasazi (Anasazi) V9:2
V17:50 And God stepped out on space (The Creation) V1:19
A gentle spring evening arrives (Spring-Watching And what if I spoke of despair—who doesn’t (And What
Pavilion) V18:198 If I Spoke of Despair) V19:2
A line in long array where they wind betwixt green Animal bones and some mossy tent rings (Lament for the
islands, (Cavalry Crossing a Ford) V13:50 Dorsets) V5:190
A narrow Fellow in the grass (A Narrow Fellow in the As I perceive (The Gold Lily) V5:127
As I walked out one evening (As I Walked Out One
Grass) V11:127
A pine box for me. I mean it. (Last Request) V14: 231 Evening) V4:15
A poem should be palpable and mute (Ars Poetica) V5:2 As virtuous men pass mildly away (A Valediction:
A stone from the depths that has witnessed the seas
Forbidding Mourning) V11:201
drying up (Song of a Citizen) V16:125 As you set out for Ithaka (Ithaka) V19:114
A tourist came in from Orbitville, (Southbound on the At noon in the desert a panting lizard (At the Bomb
Freeway) V16:158 Testing Site) V8:2
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt (A Far Cry from Africa) Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! (Old Ironsides)
V6:60 V9:172
a woman precedes me up the long rope, (Climbing) V14:113
About me the night moonless wimples the mountains B
(Vancouver Lights) V8:245 Back then, before we came (On Freedom’s Ground)
About suffering they were never wrong (Musée des Beaux V12:186
Arts) V1:148 Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root (The Tropics in
Across Roblin Lake, two shores away, (Wilderness New York) V4:255
Gothic) V12:241 Because I could not stop for Death— (Because I Could
After the party ends another party begins (Social Life) Not Stop for Death) V2:27
V19:251 Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? (Leda and
After you finish your work (Ballad of Orange and Grape) the Swan) V13:182
V10:17 Bent double, like old beggars under slacks, (Dulce et
Again I’ve returned to this country (The Country Without Decorum Est) V10:109
a Post Office) V18:64 Between my finger and my thumb (Digging) V5:70
“Ah, are you digging on my grave (Ah, Are You Digging Beware of ruins: they have a treacherous charm (Beware
on My Grave?) V4:2 of Ruins) V8:43
All Greece hates (Helen) V6:92
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Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art—
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art— (Bright H
Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art)
V9:44 “Had he and I but met (The Man He Killed) V3:167
Had we but world enough, and time (To His Coy
By the rude bridge that arched the flood (Concord Hymn)
V4:30 Mistress) V5:276
Half a league, half a league (The Charge of the Light
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river (The
Garden Shukkei-en) V18:107 Brigade) V1:2
Having a Coke with You (Having a Coke with You)
C
V12:105
Celestial choir! enthron’d in realms of light, (To His He clasps the crag with crooked hands (The Eagle)
Excellency General Washington V13:212
V11:30
Come with me into those things that have felt his despair He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be (The
for so long— (Come with Me) V6:31
Unknown Citizen) V3:302
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late (Sunday Morning) Hear the sledges with the bells— (The Bells) V3:46
V16:189 Her body is not so white as (Queen-Ann’s-Lace) V6:179
Her eyes were coins of porter and her West (A Farewell
Composed in the Tower, before his execution (“More
Light! More Light!”) V6:119 to English) V10:126
Here they are. The soft eyes open (The Heaven of
D
Animals) V6:75
Darkened by time, the masters, like our memories, mix His speed and strength, which is the strength of ten (His
(Black Zodiac) V10:46
Speed and Strength) V19:96
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (Holy Hog Butcher for the World (Chicago) V3:61
Sonnet 10) V2:103 Hold fast to dreams (Dream Variations) V15:42
Hope is a tattered flag and a dream out of time. (Hope is
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws (Sonnet 19)
V9:210 a Tattered Flag) V12:120
“Hope” is the thing with feathers— (Hope Is the Thing
Do not go gentle into that good night (Do Not Go Gentle
into that Good Night) V1:51 with Feathers) V3:123
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43)
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind (War Is Kind)
V9:252 V2:236
How shall we adorn (Angle of Geese) V2:2
Don Arturo says: (Business) V16:2 How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, (On His
(Dumb, (A Grafted Tongue) V12:92
Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three)
E V17:159
How would it be if you took yourself off (Landscape with
Each day the shadow swings (In the Land of Shinar) Tractor) V10:182
V7:83 Hunger crawls into you (Hunger in New York City) V4:79
Each night she waits by the road (Bidwell Ghost) V14:2 I
F I am not a painter, I am a poet (Why I Am Not a Painter)
V8:258
Falling upon earth (Falling Upon Earth) V2:64
Five years have past; five summers, with the length I am the Smoke King (The Song of the Smoke) V13:196
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions (Mirror)
(Tintern Abbey) V2:249
Flesh is heretic. (Anorexic) V12:2 V1:116
For three years, out of key with his time, (Hugh Selwyn I am trying to pry open your casket (Dear Reader) V10:85
I became a creature of light (The Mystery) V15:137
Mauberley) V16:26 I cannot love the Brothers Wright (Reactionary Essay on
Forgive me for thinking I saw (For a New Citizen of
Applied Science) V9:199
These United States) V15:55 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (I felt a Funeral in my
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State (The Death
Brain) V13:137
of the Ball Turret Gunner) V2:41 I have just come down from my father (The Hospital
G Window) V11:58
I have met them at close of day (Easter 1916) V5:91
Gardener: Sir, I encountered Death (Incident in a Rose I haven’t the heart to say (To an Unknown Poet) V18:221
Garden) V14:190 I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear (I Hear
Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, (To the Virgins, to America Singing) V3:152
Make Much of Time ) V13:226 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— (I Heard a Fly Buzz—
Go down, Moses (Go Down, Moses) V11:42 When I Died—) V5:140
Gray mist wolf (Four Mountain Wolves) V9:131 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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“O where ha’ you been, Lord Randal, my son?
I prove a theorem and the house expands: (Geometry) L Cumulative Index of First Lines
V15:68
l(a (l(a) V1:85
I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, (I Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
go Back to May 1937) V17:112
V3:288
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed (Hawk Listen, my children, and you shall hear (Paul Revere’s
Roosting) V4:55
Ride) V2:178
I’m delighted to see you (The Constellation Orion) V8:53 Little Lamb, who made thee? (The Lamb) V12:134
I’ve known rivers; (The Negro Speaks of Rivers) V10:197 Long long ago when the world was a wild place (Bedtime
I was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New York and
Story) V8:32
beautifully snowing. (i was sitting in
mcsorley’s) V13:151 M
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, (The Lake
Isle of Innisfree) V15:121 maggie and milly and molly and may (maggie & milly &
If all the world and love were young, (The Nymph’s molly & may) V12:149
Reply to the Shepard) V14:241
If ever two were one, then surely we (To My Dear and Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table (The
Loving Husband) V6:228 Death of the Hired Man) V4:42
If I should die, think only this of me (The Soldier)
V7:218 Men with picked voices chant the names (Overture to a
“Imagine being the first to say: surveillance,” (Inventors) Dance of Locomotives) V11:143
V7:97
In 1936, a child (Blood Oranges) V13:34 “Mother dear, may I go downtown (Ballad of
In a while they rose and went out aimlessly riding, Birmingham) V5:17
(Merlin Enthralled) V16:72
In China (Lost Sister) V5:216 Much Madness is divinest Sense— (Much Madness is
In ethics class so many years ago (Ethics) V8:88 Divinest Sense) V16:86
In Flanders fields the poppies blow (In Flanders Fields)
V5:155 My black face fades (Facing It) V5:109
In India in their lives they happen (Ways to Live) My father stands in the warm evening (Starlight) V8:213
V16:228 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains (Ode to a
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, (The
Rhodora) V17:191 Nightingale) V3:228
In the groves of Africa from their natural wonder (An My heart is like a singing bird (A Birthday) V10:33
African Elegy) V13:3 My life closed twice before its close— (My Life Closed
In the Shreve High football stadium (Autumn Begins in
Martins Ferry, Ohio) V8:17 Twice Before Its Close) V8:127
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (Kubla Khan) V5:172 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth (Eating Poetry)
V9:60 V1:247
Is it the boy in me who’s looking out (The Boy) V19:14 My uncle in East Germany (The Exhibit) V9:107
It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted.
(Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter) V17:63 N
It is an ancient Mariner (The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner) V4:127 Nature’s first green is gold (Nothing Gold Can Stay)
It is in the small things we see it. (Courage) V14:125 V3:203
It little profits that an idle king (Ulysses) V2:278
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day No easy thing to bear, the weight of sweetness (The
(Casey at the Bat) V5:57 Weight of Sweetness) V11:230
It seems vainglorious and proud (The Conquerors) V13:67
It was in and about the Martinmas time (Barbara Allan) Nobody heard him, the dead man (Not Waving but
V7:10 Drowning) V3:216
It was many and many a year ago (Annabel Lee) V9:14
Its quick soft silver bell beating, beating (Auto Wreck) Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) V5:246
V3:31 Not the memorized phone numbers. (What Belongs to Us)
J V15:196
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
Januaries, Nature greets our eyes (Brazil, January 1, 1502)
V6:15 (Fern Hill) V3:92
Now as I watch the progress of the plague (The Missing)
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota (A Blessing)
V7:24 V9:158
just once (For the White poets who would be Indian) O
V13:112
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 what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, (La Belle Dame sans
Merci) V17:18
“O where ha’ you been, Lord Randal, my son? (Lord
Randal) V6:105
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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being (Ode Softly, in the dark, a woman is singing to me (Piano)
to the West Wind) V2:163 V6:145
Oh, but it is dirty! (Filling Station) V12:57 Some say it’s in the reptilian dance (The Greatest
old age sticks (old age sticks) V3:246 Grandeur) V18:119
On either side the river lie (The Lady of Shalott) V15:95
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The Some say the world will end in fire (Fire and Ice) V7:57
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall (Mending
infinite (60) V18:3
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and Wall) V5:231
Sometimes walking late at night (Butcher Shop) V7:43
weary (The Raven) V1:200 Sometimes, a lion with a prophet’s beard (For An
Once some people were visiting Chekhov (Chocolates)
Assyrian Frieze) V9:120
V11:17 Sometimes, in the middle of the lesson (Music Lessons)
One day I’ll lift the telephone (Elegy for My Father, Who
V8:117
Is Not Dead) V14:154 somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
One foot down, then hop! It’s hot (Harlem Hopscotch)
(somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
V2:93 beyond) V19:265
one shoe on the roadway presents (A Piéd) V3:16 South of the bridge on Seventeenth (Fifteen) V2:78
Out of the hills of Habersham, (Song of the Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, (Funeral Blues)
V10:139
Chattahoochee) V14:283 Strong Men, riding horses. In the West (Strong Men,
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day (The Riding Horses) V4:209
Such places are too still for history, (Deep Woods) V14:138
Wood-Pile) V6:251 Sundays too my father got up early (Those Winter
Oysters we ate (Oysters) V4:91 Sundays) V1:300
Swing low sweet chariot (Swing Low Sweet Chariot)
P V1:283
Pentagon code (Smart and Final Iris) V15:183 T
Poised between going on and back, pulled (The Base
Take heart, monsieur, four-fifths of this province (For
Stealer) V12:30 Jean Vincent D’abbadie, Baron St.-Castin)
V12:78
Q
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean (Tears, Idle
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir (Cargoes) Tears) V4:220
V5:44
Tell me not, in mournful numbers (A Psalm of Life)
R V7:165
Red men embraced my body’s whiteness (Birch Canoe) Temple bells die out. (Temple Bells Die Out) V18:210
V5:31 That is no country for old men. The young (Sailing to
Remember me when I am gone away (Remember) Byzantium) V2:207
V14:255 That time of drought the embered air (Drought Year) V8:78
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall (My Last
S
Duchess) V1:165
Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? (Sonnet 18) The apparition of these faces in the crowd (In a Station of
V2:222
the Metro) V2:116
She came every morning to draw water (A Drink of The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold (The
Water) V8:66
Destruction of Sennacherib) V1:38
She sang beyond the genius of the sea. (The Idea of Order The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted
at Key West) V13:164
shoulder (Hurt Hawks) V3:138
She walks in beauty, like the night (She Walks in Beauty) The bud (Saint Francis and the Sow) V9:222
V14:268 The Bustle in a House (The Bustle in a House) V10:62
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard (Out, Out—)
Side by side, their faces blurred, (An Arundel Tomb) V12:17
Since the professional wars— (Midnight) V2:130 V10:212
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse (The Love Song of J. The courage that my mother had (The Courage that My
Alfred Prufrock) V1:97 Mother Had) V3:79
Sky black (Duration) V18:93 The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Elegy Written
Sleepless as Prospero back in his bedroom (Darwin in
in a Country Churchyard) V9:73
1881) V13:83 The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
so much depends (The Red Wheelbarrow) V1:219
So the man spread his blanket on the field (A Tall Man (The Force That Through the Green Fuse
Drives the Flower) V8:101
Executes a Jig) V12:228 The green lamp flares on the table (This Life) V1:293
So the sky wounded you, jagged at the heart, (Daylights) The ills I sorrow at (Any Human to Another) V3:2
The instructor said (Theme for English B) V6:194
V13:101 The king sits in Dumferling toune (Sir Patrick Spens)
V4:177
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When the world was created wasn’t it like this?
The land was overmuch like scenery (Beowulf) V11:2 This tale is true, and mine. It tells (The Seafarer) V8:177 Cumulative Index of First Lines
The last time I saw it was 1968. (The Hiding Place) Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness (Ode on a Grecian
V10:152 Urn) V1:179
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want (Psalm 23) Three times my life has opened. (Three Times My Life
V4:103 Has Opened) V16:213
The man who sold his lawn to standard oil (The War Time in school drags along with so much worry,
Against the Trees) V11:215 (Childhood) V19:29
The moon glows the same (The Moon Glows the Same) to fold the clothes. No matter who lives (I Stop Writimg
V7:152 the Poem) V16:58
The old South Boston Aquarium stands (For the Union Tonight I can write the saddest lines (Tonight I Can
Dead) V7:67 Write) V11:187
The others bent their heads and started in (“Trouble with tonite, thriller was (Beware: Do Not Read This Poem)
Math in a One-Room Country School”) V9:238 V6:3
The pale nuns of St. Joseph are here (Island of Three Turning and turning in the widening gyre (The Second
Marias) V11:79 Coming) V7:179
The Phoenix comes of flame and dust (The Phoenix) ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves (Jabberwocky) V11:91
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood (The Road Not
V10:226
The rain set early in to-night: (Porphyria’s Lover) V15:151 Taken) V2:195
The river brought down (How We Heard the Name) Tyger! Tyger! burning bright (The Tyger) V2:263
V10:167 W
The rusty spigot (Onomatopoeia) V6:133
The sea is calm tonight (Dover Beach) V2:52 wade (The Fish) V14:171
The sea sounds insincere (The Milkfish Gatherers) Wanting to say things, (My Father’s Song) V16:102
We could be here. This is the valley (Small Town with
V11:111
The slow overture of rain, (Mind) V17:145 One Road) V7:207
The Soul selects her own Society—(The Soul Selects Her We met the British in the dead of winter (Meeting the
Own Society) V1:259 British) V7:138
The time you won your town the race (To an Athlete We real cool. We (We Real Cool) V6:242
Well, son, I’ll tell you (Mother to Son) V3:178
Dying Young) V7:230 What dire offense from amorous causes springs, (The
The way sorrow enters the bone (The Blue Rim of
Rape of the Lock) V12:202
Memory) V17:38 What happens to a dream deferred? (Harlem) V1:63
The whiskey on your breath (My Papa’s Waltz) V3:191 What of the neighborhood homes awash (The Continuous
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
Life) V18:51
(The Highwayman) V4:66 What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for
There are strange things done in the midnight sun (The
I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
Cremation of Sam McGee) V10:75 with a headache self-conscious looking at the
There have been rooms for such a short time (The full moon (A Supermarket in California)
V5:261
Horizons of Rooms) V15:79 Whatever it is, it must have (American Poetry) V7:2
There is the one song everyone (Siren Song) V7:196 When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs,
There’s a Certain Slant of Light (There’s a Certain Slant he forgot the copperheads, and the assassin . . .
in the dust, in the cool tombs (Cool Tombs)
of Light) V6:211 V6:45
There’s no way out. (In the Suburbs) V14:201 When I consider how my light is spent ([On His
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, Blindness] Sonnet 16) V3:262
When I have fears that I may cease to be (When I Have
(There Will Come Soft Rains) V14:301 Fears that I May Cease to Be) V2:295
There you are, in all your innocence, (Perfect Light) When I see a couple of kids (High Windows) V3:108
When I see birches bend to left and right (Birches)
V19:187 V13:14
These open years, the river (For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton) When I was born, you waited (Having it Out with
Melancholy) V17:98
V17:86 When I was one-and-twenty (When I Was One-and-
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair (The Bean Twenty) V4:268
When I watch you (Miss Rosie) V1:133
Eaters) V2:16 When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet
they were just meant as covers (My Mother Pieced Quilts) 29) V8:198
When the mountains of Puerto Rico (We Live by What
V12:169 We See at Night) V13:240
They said, “Wait.” Well, I waited. (Alabama Centennial) When the world was created wasn’t it like this?
(Anniversary) V15:2
V10:2
This girlchild was: born as usual (Barbie Doll) V9:33
This is my letter to the World (This Is My Letter to the
World) V4:233
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, (The Arsenal at
Springfield) V17:2
This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack
(Leviathan) V5:203
This poem is concerned with language on a very plain
level (Paradoxes and Oxymorons) V11:162
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When they said Carrickfergus I could hear
When they said Carrickfergus I could hear (The Singer’s Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of
House) V17:205 Lamont Cranston? (In Memory of Radio)
V9:144
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
(The City Limits) V19:78 Whose woods these are I think I know (Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening) V1:272
Whenever Richard Cory went down town (Richard Cory)
V4:116 Why should I let the toad work (Toads) V4:244
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Y
(The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter)
V8:164 You are small and intense (To a Child Running With
Outstretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly)
While the long grain is softening (Early in the Morning) V11:173
V17:75
You do not have to be good. (Wild Geese) V15:207
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, You were never told, Mother, how old Illya was drunk
heavily thickening to empire (Shine, Perishing
Republic) V4:161 (The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter) V12:44
While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth,
(The Afterlife) V18:39
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Cumulative Index of
Last Lines
A and fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise. Cumulative Index of Last Lines
(The City Limits) V19:78
A heart whose love is innocent! (She Walks in Beauty)
V14:268 And Finished knowing—then— (I Felt a Funeral in My
Brain) V13:137
a man then suddenly stops running (Island of Three
Marias) V11:80 And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies (Autumn
Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio) V8:17
A perfect evening! (Temple Bells Die Out) V18:210
a space in the lives of their friends (Beware: Do Not Read and go back. (For the White poets who would be Indian)
V13:112
This Poem) V6:3
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still (Leda and And handled with a Chain—(Much Madness is Divinest
Sense) V16:86
the Swan) V13:181
A terrible beauty is born (Easter 1916) V5:91 And has not begun to grow a manly smile. (Deep Woods)
About my big, new, automatically defrosting refrigerator V14:139
with the built-in electric eye (Reactionary Essay And his own Word (The Phoenix) V10:226
on Applied Science) V9:199 And I am Nicholas. (The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter)
about the tall mounds of termites. (Song of a Citizen)
V16:126 V12:45
Across the expedient and wicked stones (Auto Wreck) And I was unaware. (The Darkling Thrush) V18:74
V3:31 And in the suburbs Can’t sat down and cried. (Kilroy)
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit V14:213
poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking And it’s been years. (Anniversary) V15:3
bank and stood watching the boat disappear on And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair (Mother to Son)
the black waters of Lethe? (A Supermarket in
California) V5:261 V3:179
All losses are restored and sorrows end (Sonnet 30) And like a thunderbolt he falls (The Eagle) V11:30
V4:192 And makes me end where I begun (A Valediction:
Amen. Amen (The Creation) V1:20
Anasazi (Anasazi) V9:3 Forbidding Mourning) V11:202
and all beyond saving by children (Ethics) V8:88 And ‘midst the stars inscribe Belinda’s name. (The Rape
and all the richer for it. (Mind) V17:146
And all we need of hell (My Life Closed Twice Before Its of the Lock) V12:209
Close) V8:127 And miles to go before I sleep (Stopping by Woods on a
and changed, back to the class (“Trouble with Math in a
One-Room Country School”) V9:238 Snowy Evening) V1:272
And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die (Holy and my father saying things. (My Father’s Song) V16:102
Sonnet 10) V2:103 And no birds sing. (La Belle Dame sans Merci) V17:18
And drunk the milk of Paradise (Kubla Khan) V5:172 And not waving but drowning (Not Waving but
Drowning) V3:216
And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true (When I Was One-and-Twenty)
V4:268
And reach for your scalping knife. (For Jean Vincent
D’abbadie, Baron St.-Castin) V12:78
357
and retreating, always retreating, behind it
and retreating, always retreating, behind it (Brazil, January Bless me (Hunger in New York City) V4:79
1, 1502) V6:16 But be (Ars Poetica) V5:3
but it works every time (Siren Song) V7:196
And settled upon his eyes in a black soot (“More Light! But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has
More Light!”) V6:120
“Struck Out.” (Casey at the Bat) V5:58
And shuts his eyes. (Darwin in 1881) V13: 84 But, baby, where are you?” (Ballad of Birmingham) V5:17
And so live ever—or else swoon to death (Bright Star! But we hold our course, and the wind is with us. (On
Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art) V9:44 Freedom’s Ground) V12:187
and strange and loud was the dingoes’ cry (Drought Year) by good fortune (The Horizons of Rooms) V15:80
V8:78 C
and stride out. (Courage) V14:126
and sweat and fat and greed. (Anorexic) V12:3 Calls through the valleys of Hall. (Song of the
And that has made all the difference (The Road Not Chattahoochee) V14:284
Taken) V2:195 chickens (The Red Wheelbarrow) V1:219
And the deep river ran on (As I Walked Out One clear water dashes (Onomatopoeia) V6:133
come to life and burn? (Bidwell Ghost) V14:2
Evening) V4:16 Comin’ for to carry me home (Swing Low Sweet Chariot)
And the midnight message of Paul Revere (Paul Revere’s
V1:284
Ride) V2:180
And the mome raths outgrabe (Jabberwocky) V11:91 D
And the Salvation Army singing God loves us. . . . (Hope
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? (The Tyger) V2:263
is a Tattered Flag) V12:120 “Dead,” was all he answered (The Death of the Hired
and these the last verses that I write for her (Tonight I
Man) V4:44
Can Write) V11:187 deep in the deepest one, tributaries burn. (For Jennifer, 6,
And those roads in South Dakota that feel around in the
on the Teton) V17:86
darkness . . . (Come with Me) V6:31 Delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate—now! (The Base
and to know she will stay in the field till you die?
Stealer) V12:30
(Landscape with Tractor) V10:183 Die soon (We Real Cool) V6:242
and two blankets embroidered with smallpox (Meeting the Do what you are going to do, I will tell about it. (I go
British) V7:138 Back to May 1937) V17:113
and waving, shouting, Welcome back. (Elegy for My Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child
Father, Who Is Not Dead) V14:154 for the past (Piano) V6:145
And would suffice (Fire and Ice) V7:57 Downward to darkness, on extended wings. (Sunday
And yet God has not said a word! (Porphyria’s Lover)
Morning) V16:190
V15:151 Driving around, I will waste more time. (Driving to Town
and you spread un the thin halo of night mist. (Ways to
Late to Mail a Letter) V17:63
Live) V16:229 dry wells that fill so easily now (The Exhibit) V9:107
And Zero at the Bone— (A Narrow Fellow in the Grass)
E
V11:127
(answer with a tower of birds) (Duration) V18:93 endless worlds is the great meeting of children. (60) V18:3
As any She belied with false compare (Sonnet 130) Eternal, unchanging creator of earth. Amen (The Seafarer)
V1:248 V8:178
As ever in my great Task-Master’s eye. (On His Having every branch traced with the ghost writing of snow. (The
Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three) V17:160 Afterlife) V18:39
As far as Cho-fu-Sa (The River-Merchant’s Wife: A
F
Letter) V8:165
As the contagion of those molten eyes (For An Assyrian fall upon us, the dwellers in shadow (In the Land of
Shinar) V7:84
Frieze) V9:120
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that Fallen cold and dead (O Captain! My Captain!) V2:147
filled, never. (The Greatest Grandeur) V18:119
is full of beads and receipts and dolls and Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays (Cargoes) V5:44
clothes, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes (The Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep? (Ode to a
Bean Eaters) V2:16
aspired to become lighter than air (Blood Oranges) Nightingale) V3:229
V13:34 For I’m sick at the heart, and I fain wad lie down.” (Lord
at home in the fish’s fallen heaven (Birch Canoe) V5:31
away, pedaling hard, rocket and pilot. (His Speed and Randal) V6:105
Strength) V19:96 For nothing now can ever come to any good. (Funeral
B Blues) V10:139
forget me as fast as you can. (Last Request) V14:231
Back to the play of constant give and change (The
Missing) V9:158
Before it was quite unsheathed from reality (Hurt Hawks)
V3:138
Black like me. (Dream Variations) V15:42
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midnight-oiled in the metric laws?
G If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Ode to the Cumulative Index of Last Lines
West Wind) V2:163
going where? Where? (Childhood) V19:29
In a convulsive misery (The Milkfish Gatherers) V11:112
H In balance with this life, this death (An Irish Airman
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard Foresees His Death) V1:76
(The Unknown Citizen) V3:303 In Flanders fields (In Flanders Fields) V5:155
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. (The Idea of
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on (Mus‚e des
Beaux Arts) V1:148 Order at Key West) V13:164
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven (The Soldier)
half eaten by the moon. (Dear Reader) V10:85
hand over hungry hand. (Climbing) V14:113 V7:218
Happen on a red tongue (Small Town with One Road) In her tomb by the side of the sea (Annabel Lee) V9:14
in the family of things. (Wild Geese) V15:208
V7:207 in the grit gray light of day. (Daylights) V13:102
Has no more need of, and I have (The Courage that My In the rear-view mirrors of the passing cars (The War
Mother Had) V3:80 Against the Trees) V11:216
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! (The in this bastion of culture. (To an Unknown Poet) V18:221
iness (l(a) V1:85
Destruction of Sennacherib) V1:39 Into blossom (A Blessing) V7:24
He rose the morrow morn (The Rime of the Ancient Is Come, my love is come to me. (A Birthday) V10:34
is still warm (Lament for the Dorsets) V5:191
Mariner) V4:132 It asked a crumb—of Me (Hope Is the Thing with
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Feathers) V3:123
(Mending Wall) V5:232 it is the bell to awaken God that we’ve heard ringing.
He writes down something that he crosses out. (The Boy)
(The Garden Shukkei-en) V18:107
V19:14 It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be brave. (The Country
Has set me softly down beside you. The Poem is you
Without a Post Office) V18:64
(Paradoxes and Oxymorons) V11:162 It was your resting place.” (Ah, Are You Digging on My
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm (The Force
Grave?) V4:2
That Through the Green Fuse Drives the it’s always ourselves we find in the sea (maggie & milly
Flower) V8:101
How can I turn from Africa and live? (A Far Cry from & molly & may) V12:150
Africa) V6:61 its bright, unequivocal eye. (Having it Out with
How sad then is even the marvelous! (An Africian Elegy)
V13:4 Melancholy) V17:99
its youth. The sea grows old in it. (The Fish) V14:172
I J
I am black. (The Song of the Smoke) V13:197 Judge tenderly—of Me (This Is My Letter to the World)
I am going to keep things like this (Hawk Roosting) V4:55 V4:233
I am not brave at all (Strong Men, Riding Horses) V4:209
I could not see to see— (I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Just imagine it (Inventors) V7:97
Died—) V5:140 L
I didn’t want to put them down. (And What If I Spoke of
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth,
Despair) V19:2 half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher,
I have just come down from my father (The Hospital Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation
Window) V11:58 (Chicago) V3:61
I cremated Sam McGee (The Cremation of Sam McGee)
Learn to labor and to wait (A Psalm of Life) V7:165
V10:76 Leashed in my throat (Midnight) V2:131
I hear it in the deep heart’s core. (The Lake Isle of Let my people go (Go Down, Moses) V11:43
life, our life and its forgetting. (For a New Citizen of
Innisfree) V15:121
I never writ, nor no man ever loved (Sonnet 116) V3:288 These United States) V15:55
I romp with joy in the bookish dark (Eating Poetry) V9:61 Like Stone— (The Soul Selects Her Own Society) V1:259
I see Mike’s painting, called SARDINES (Why I Am Not Little Lamb, God bless thee. (The Lamb) V12:135
a Painter) V8:259 M
I shall but love thee better after death (Sonnet 43) V2:236
I should be glad of another death (Journey of the Magi) ‘Make a wish, Tom, make a wish.’ (Drifters) V10: 98
make it seem to change (The Moon Glows the Same)
V7:110
I stand up (Miss Rosie) V1:133 V7:152
I stood there, fifteen (Fifteen) V2:78 midnight-oiled in the metric laws? (A Farewell to English)
I take it you are he? (Incident in a Rose Garden) V14:191
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept (The Tropics V10:126
in New York) V4:255
I’ll be gone from here. (The Cobweb) V17:51
I’ll dig with it (Digging) V5:71
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Monkey business P
Monkey business (Business) V16:2 Perhaps he will fall. (Wilderness Gothic) V12:242
More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! (Tintern Petals on a wet, black bough (In a Station of the Metro)
Abbey) V2:250 V2:116
My love shall in my verse ever live young (Sonnet 19) Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair
V9:211 (The Highwayman) V4:68
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. (The Negro Pro patria mori. (Dulce et Decorum Est) V10:110
Speaks of Rivers) V10:198 R
N Rage, rage against the dying of the light (Do Not Go
Gentle into that Good Night) V1:51
never to waken in that world again (Starlight) V8:213
Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten. (Spring-Watching Raise it again, man. We still believe what we hear. (The
Singer’s House) V17:206
Pavilion) V18:198
No, she’s brushing a boy’s hair (Facing It) V5:110 Remember the Giver fading off the lip (A Drink of Water)
no—tell them no— (The Hiding Place) V10:153 V8:66
Noble six hundred! (The Charge of the Light Brigade)
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish (Mirror)
V1:3 V1:116
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
S
(somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
beyond) V19:265 Shall be lifted—nevermore! (The Raven) V1:202
Not even the blisters. Look. (What Belongs to Us) Simply melted into the perfect light. (Perfect Light)
V15:196
Nothing gold can stay (Nothing Gold Can Stay) V3:203 V19:187
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless (High Windows) Singing of him what they could understand (Beowulf)
V3:108
Now! (Alabama Centennial) V10:2 V11:3
nursing the tough skin of figs (This Life) V1:293 Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs (I
O Hear America Singing) V3:152
slides by on grease (For the Union Dead) V7:67
O Death in Life, the days that are no more! (Tears, Idle Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? (The Second
Tears) V4:220
Coming) V7:179
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the So long lives this, and this gives life to thee (Sonnet 18)
earth! (Psalm 8) V9:182
V2:222
O Roger, Mackerel, Riley, Ned, Nellie, Chester, Lady Somebody loves us all. (Filling Station) V12:57
Ghost (Names of Horses) V8:142 Stand still, yet we will make him run (To His Coy
of gentleness (To a Sad Daughter) V8:231 Mistress) V5:277
of love’s austere and lonely offices? (Those Winter startled into eternity (Four Mountain Wolves) V9:132
Still clinging to your shirt (My Papa’s Waltz) V3:192
Sundays) V1:300 Stood up, coiled above his head, transforming all. (A Tall
of peaches (The Weight of Sweetness) V11:230
Of the camellia (Falling Upon Earth) V2:64 Man Executes a Jig) V12:229
Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days
(Leviathan) V5:204 of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the
Of what is past, or passing, or to come (Sailing to Lord for ever (Psalm 23) V4:103
syllables of an old order. (A Grafted Tongue) V12:93
Byzantium) V2:207
Old Ryan, not yours (The Constellation Orion) V8:53 T
On the dark distant flurry (Angle of Geese) V2:2
On the look of Death— (There’s a Certain Slant of Light) Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing
V6:212 tin horns . . . tell me if the lovers are losers . . .
On your head like a crown (Any Human to Another) tell me if any get more than the lovers . . . in the
dust . . . in the cool tombs (Cool Tombs) V6:46
V3:2
One could do worse that be a swinger of birches. Than that you should remember and be sad. (Remember)
V14:255
(Birches) V13:15
Or does it explode? (Harlem) V1:63 That then I scorn to change my state with Kings (Sonnet
Or help to half-a-crown.” (The Man He Killed) V3:167 29) V8:198
or nothing (Queen-Ann’s-Lace) V6:179
or the one red leaf the snow releases in March. (Three That when we live no more, we may live ever (To My
Dear and Loving Husband) V6:228
Times My Life Has Opened) V16:213
ORANGE forever. (Ballad of Orange and Grape) V10:18 That’s the word. (Black Zodiac) V10:47
outside. (it was New York and beautifully, snowing . . . the bigger it gets. (Smart and Final Iris) V15:183
The bosom of his Father and his God (Elegy Written in a
(i was sitting in mcsorley’s) V13:152
owing old (old age sticks) V3:246 Country Churchyard) V9:74
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Would scarcely know that we were gone.
The dance is sure (Overture to a Dance of Locomotives) To live with thee and be thy love. (The Nymph’s Reply to Cumulative Index of Last Lines
V11:143 the Shepherd) V14:241
The eyes turn topaz. (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) V16:30 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield (Ulysses)
The garland briefer than a girl’s (To an Athlete Dying V2:279
Young) V7:230 To the moaning and the groaning of the bells (The Bells)
The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. (Cavalry V3:47
Crossing a Ford) V13:50 To the temple, singing. (In the Suburbs) V14:201
The hands gripped hard on the desert (At the Bomb
U
Testing Site) V8:3
The holy melodies of love arise. (The Arsenal at Undeniable selves, into your days, and beyond. (The
Continuous Life) V18:51
Springfield) V17:3
the knife at the throat, the death in the metronome (Music Until Eternity. (The Bustle in a House) V10:62
unusual conservation (Chocolates) V11:17
Lessons) V8:117 Uttering cries that are almost human (American Poetry)
The Lady of Shalott.” (The Lady of Shalott) V15:97
The lightning and the gale! (Old Ironsides) V9:172 V7:2
the long, perfect loveliness of sow (Saint Francis and the
W
Sow) V9:222
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will (The Quaker War is kind (War Is Kind) V9:253
watching to see how it’s done. (I Stop Writing the Poem)
Graveyard in Nantucket) V6:159
The man I was when I was part of it (Beware of Ruins) V16:58
Went home and put a bullet through his head (Richard
V8:43
the quilts sing on (My Mother Pieced Quilts) V12:169 Cory) V4:117
The red rose and the brier (Barbara Allan) V7:11 Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. (Out,
The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Out—) V10:213
(The Rhodora) V17:191 Were toward Eternity— (Because I Could Not Stop for
The shaft we raise to them and thee (Concord Hymn)
Death) V2:27
V4:30 What will survive of us is love. (An Arundel Tomb)
The sky became a still and woven blue. (Merlin Enthralled)
V12:18
V16:73 When I died they washed me out of the turret with a
The spirit of this place (To a Child Running With
hose (The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner)
Outstretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly) V2:41
V11:173 when they untie them in the evening. (Early in the
The town again, trailing your legs and crying! (Wild Morning) V17:75
Swans) V17:221 when you are at a party. (Social Life) V19:251
the unremitting space of your rebellion (Lost Sister) When you have both (Toads) V4:244
V5:217 Where deep in the night I hear a voice (Butcher Shop)
The woman won (Oysters) V4:91 V7:43
their guts or their brains? (Southbound on the Freeway) Where ignorant armies clash by night (Dover Beach)
V16:158 V2:52
There is the trap that catches noblest spiritts, that Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! (My
caught—they say—God, when he walked on Last Duchess) V1:166
earth (Shine, Perishing Republic) V4:162 which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m
there was light (Vancouver Lights) V8:246 telling you about it (Having a Coke with You)
They also serve who only stand and wait.” ([On His V12:106
Blindness] Sonnet 16) V3:262 white ash amid funereal cypresses (Helen) V6:92
They are going to some point true and unproven. Who are you and what is your purpose? (The Mystery)
(Geometry) V15:68 V15:138
They rise, they walk again (The Heaven of Animals) V6:76 Wi’ the Scots lords at his feit (Sir Patrick Spens) V4:177
They think I lost. I think I won (Harlem Hopscotch) V2:93 Will hear of as a god.” (How we Heard the Name)
This is my page for English B (Theme for English B) V10:167
V6:194 Wind, like the dodo’s (Bedtime Story) V8:33
This Love (In Memory of Radio) V9:145 With gold unfading, WASHINGTON! be thine. (To His
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile! (A Red, Red Rose) Excellency General Washington) V13:213
V8:152 with my eyes closed. (We Live by What We See at Night)
Though I sang in my chains like the sea (Fern Hill) V3:92 V13:240
Till human voices wake us, and we drown (The Love With the slow smokeless burning of decay (The Wood-
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock) V1:99 Pile) V6:252
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink (When I Have With what they had to go on. (The Conquerors) V13:67
Fears that I May Cease to Be) V2:295 Would scarcely know that we were gone. (There Will
To every woman a happy ending (Barbie Doll) V9:33 Come Soft Rains) V14:301
to glow at midnight. (The Blue Rim of Memory) V17:39
to its owner or what horror has befallen the other shoe
(A Piéd) V3:16
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Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
Y
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know (Ode on a
Grecian Urn) V1:180
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes (Sonnet 55)
V5:246
You may for ever tarry. (To the Virgins, to Make Much
of Time) V13:226
you who raised me? (The Gold Lily) V5:127
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
(Ithaka) V19:114
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