UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2021 William Wordsworth's "Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known" Percy Bysshe Shelley "To Wordsworth" Mark Hoult's clerihew "[Edmund Clerihew Bentley]" unattributed clerihew "[Lady Gaga—]" 2021 A 2021 Richard Wilbur's "The Catch" William Wordsworth's "[Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes]" William Wordsworth's "She Dwelt among Untrodden Ways" Marge Piercy's "What's That Smell in the Kitchen?" Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night" Donald Justice's "Sonnet: The Poet at Seven" 2021 B 2021 William Wordsworth's "To Sleep" William Wordsworth's "Lucy Gray" William Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" Richard Wilbur's "Boy at the Window" Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears" 2021 D 2021 Christina Rossetti's "Sleeping at Last" William Wordsworth's "[My heart leaps up when I behold]" William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us" John Keats's "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" Anthony Hecht's "The End of the Weekend" 2021 R 2021 Elizabeth Bishop's "Little Exercise" Billy Collins's "Dharma" William Wordsworth's "Expostulation and Reply" William Wordsworth's "Matthew" Charles Lamb's "The Old Familiar Faces" Louis Untermeyer's "The Victory of the Beet-Fields" 2021 S 2021 Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Bramha" Elinor Wylie's "Pretty Words" italics indicate that the poem is found in Part 4 UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Song: To the Men of England" William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 A Alanis Morissette's "Head over Feet" Mary Holtby's "Milk-cart" Emily Dickinson's "[A Bird came down the Walk]" 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" and Sheikh Sa'di's "[A Vision of the Sultan Mahmud]" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "England in 1819" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "One word is too often profaned" B William Shakespeare's Sonnet 2 John Updike's "Player Piano" 2020 Thomas Hardy's "Transformations" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "[Tell me thou Star, whose wings of light]" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To Wordsworth" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To Jane. The Invitation" (excerpted) D Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Nightingale" (excerpted) John Clare's "The Flight of Birds" 2020 Robert B. Shaw's "Shut In" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "An Exhortation" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mutability" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "[Lift not the painted veil]" R E. E. Cummings's "since feeling is first" John Frederick Nims's "Love Poem" 2021 Emily Brontë's "The Wind I Hear It Sighing" Carl Sandburg's "Hangman at Home" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (excerpted) Percy Bysshe Shelley's "[Ye hasten to the grave!]" S Bruce Bennett's "The True Story of Snow White" John Ashbery's "Some Trees" Polonsky's and Larkworthy's two senryus 2020 Barry Spacks's "October" Reina del Cid's "Common Man" italics indicate that the poem is found in Part 4 UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2019 Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Conscientious Objector" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "To Inez Milholland" Charles Martin's "Sharks at the New York Aquarium" Larkworthy's "[The teacher says 'Learn . .']" Alistair Reid's "Living in Time" 2019 A 2019 Maya Angelou's "The Mothering Blackness" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "An Ancient Gesture" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "[Time, that renews the tissues of this frame]" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnet in Dialectic" William Butler Yeats "All Things Can Tempt Me" Claude McKay's "The Tropics In New York" 2019 B 2019 Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Inland" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Passer Mortuus Est" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "[I will put Chaos into fourteen lines]" Robert Graves's "In Broken Images" Thomas Hardy's "Hap" 2019 D 2019 William Empson's "Missing Dates" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "[Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!]" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo" from Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Dirge" "Memorial to D.C." Sharon Olds's "My Son the Man" William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802" E. E. Cummings's "[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]" 2019 R 2019 Robert Francis's "The Catcher" Lilace Mellin Guignard's "Lullaby in Frackland" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Fatal Interview, Sonnet XLVI" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Dirge without Music" Wendy Cope's "After the Lunch" unattributed (two quatrains) "[Alan Turing]" and "[The Art of Biography]" William Wordsworth's "To the Cuckoo" 2019 S 2019 Sir Walter Raleigh's "What Is Our Love" Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" italics indicate that the poem is found in Part 4 UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2018 John Donne's "Love's Deity" John Donne's Holy Sonnet X Emily Brontë's "[The night's darkening round me]" Sharon Olds's "Earliest Memory" 2018 A 2018 Lucille Clifton's "The Lost Women" John Donne's "[This is my play's last scene; here heavens appoint]" John Donne's "The Anniversary" John Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV Andrea Forbing-Maglione's "My Body" Anne's Reeve Aldrich's "Recollection" Philip Larkin's "Since the Majority of Me" 2018 B 2018 Walt Whitman's "Best! Beat! Drums!" John Donne's "The Triple Foole" John Donne's "The Baite" John Donne's Holy Sonnet I Adrienne Rich's "Solfeggietto" Robinson Jeffers's "Mountain Pines" Walter de la Mare's "Silver" 2018 D 2018 Jane Taylor's "Finery John Donne's "Meditation XVII" (excerpted) John Donne's "Loves Alchymie" John Donne's Holy Sonnet VII various attribution "[Sir, I admit your general rule]" D. H. Lawrence's "Piano" 2018 R 2018 Norman MacCaig's "Sheep Dipping" Robinson Jefferson's "Hurt Hawks" John Donne's "Just" John Donne's Holy Sonnet V Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder" Seamus Heaney's "From the Frontier of Writing" 2018 S 2018 May Swenson's "Women" Charlotte Perkin's Gilman's "To the Indifferent Women" italics indicate that the poem is found in Part 4 UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2017 Rudyard Kipling's "The Hyaenas" Rudyard Kipling's "A Pict Song" Linda Pastan's "Prosody 101" 17 A 17 Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Song" [Rarely, rarely . .] 20 William Shakespeare's Sonnet 146 Rudyard Kipling's "The Power of the Dog" Rudyard Kipling's "Arithmetic on the Frontier" Rudyard Kipling's "A Charm" Henry David Thoreau's "Smoke" E. E. Cummings's "if up's the word;and world goes greener" 17 B 17 Robert Frost's "Neither Out Far nor In Deep" 20 Edna St. Vincent Millay's "[What's this of death . ?]" Rudyard Kipling's "The Deep Sea Cables" Rudyard Kipling's "The Explanation" Rudyard Kipling's "[The Stream is shrunk—the pool is dry]" Rudyard Kipling's "The Two-Sided Man" Sally Ann Roberts's "It All Started with a Packet of Seeds" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Love Is Not All" 017 D 017 2 Christina Rossetti's "[I dream of you to wake]" John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Inaugural Speech, 20 January 1961 Rudyard Kipling's "The Fabulists" Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" Rudyard Kipling's "The Winners" Jean Toomer's "November Cotton Flower" 17 R 17 Geoffrey Hill's "In Memory of Jane Fraser" 20 John Updike's "Player Piano" Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" Rudyard Kipling's "Justice: October 1918" Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" Edna St. Vincent Millay's "[What lips my lips have kissed . .]" Wilfred Owen's "Futility" 17 S 17 Robert Francis's "Swimmer" 20 Anne Sexton's "Lobster" Maya Angelou's "My Arkansas" italics indicate that the poem is found in Part 4 UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2016 Robert Frost's "Mowing" Seamus Heaney's "Follower" Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" 16 A 16 0 Thomas Hardy's "Transformations" 2 Robert Frost's "The Figure in the Doorway" Robert Frost's "The Ovenbird" Sylvia Plath's "Wreath for a Bridal" William Empson's "Missing Dates" 016 B 016 William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802" 2 Robert Frost's "A Leaf Treader" Robert Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" Robert Frost's "To the Thawing Wind" John Crowe Ransom's "Winter Remembered" Susan Wick's "On Re-recording Mozart" Emily Dickinson's "[We Like March, his shoes are purple]" 2016 1 2016 Thomas Hardy's "How Great My Grief" Robert Frost's "The Investment" Robert Frost's "Ghost House" Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night" Robert Lowell's "To John Keats" Emily Dickinson's "[The moon was but a chin of gold]" 16 2 16 Wendell Berry's "The Vacation" 20 Jo-Anne McLaughlin-Carruth's "Night-Court at Solomon's" Robert Frost's "Writers" Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost's "A Prayer in Spring" William Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The House on the Hill" 16 R 16 Frederick Nims's "Love Poem" 20 Garrison Keillor's "The Anthem: If Robert Frost Had Written 'The Star Spangled Banner'" Ruth Fainlight's "Crocuses" Robert Frost's "Birches" Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" Robert Herrick's "Delight in Disorder" Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy" 16 S 16 Arthur Guiterman's "The Vanity of Human Greatness" 20 William Shakespeare's "Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun" from Cymbeline 4.2 Garrison Keillor's "The Anthem: If Robert Frost Had Written 'The Star Spangled Banner'" italics indicate that the poem is found in Part 4 UIL Literary Criticism Poetry Selections 2015 Emily Dickinson's "[Success is counted sweetest]" Emily Dickinson's "[There is no frigate like a book]" Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Credo" Edwin Muir's "Animals" Old English anonymous "The Wanderer" excerpted 2015 A 2015 Yvor Winters's "To a Military Rifle" Emily Dickinson's "[The mountain sat upon the plain]" Emily Dickinson's ["A wounded deer leaps highest"] Emily Dickinson's ["A route of evanescence"] Henry Taylor's "Green