| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 473 | 03 Jul 2000 | Julia Ward Howe | The Battle-Hymn of the Republic | Mine eyes have seen ... | 31 |
| 474 | 03 Jul 2000 | Jane Kenyon | Otherwise | I got out of bed | 26 |
| 475 | 04 Jul 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | The Other Tiger | A tiger comes to min... | 47 |
| 476 | 5 Jul 2000 | Dylan Thomas | In my craft or sullen art | In my craft or sullen art | 20 |
| 477 | 06 Jul 2000 | William Shakespeare | Fear no more the heat o' the sun | Fear no more the hea... | 24 |
| 478 | 07 Jul 2000 | Duncan Campbell Scott | Enigma | Some men are born to... | 15 |
| 479 | 08 Jul 2000 | Thomas Hardy | The Man He Killed | "Had he and I but met | 20 |
| 480 | 09 Jul 2000 | W. N. Hodgson | Before Action | By all the glories o... | 24 |
| 481 | 10 Jul 2000 | Leonard Cohen | Who By fire | And who by fire, | 27 |
| 482 | 10 Jul 2000 | John Berryman | Winter Landscape | The three men coming... | 25 |
| 483 | 11 Jul 2000 | Walter de la Mare | Brueghel's Winter | Jagg'd mountain peak... | 20 |
| 484 | 12 Jul 2000 | William Carlos Williams | Hunters in the Snow | The over-all picture... | 21 |
| 485 | 13 Jul 2000 | Joseph Langland | Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel | Quail and rabbit hun... | 49 |
| 486 | 14 Jul 2000 | Dorothy Parker | Epitaph for a Darling Lady | All her hours were y... | 12 |
| 487 | 15 Jul 2000 | John William Burgon | Petra | Match me such marvel... | 2 |
| 488 | 17 Jul 2000 | U. A. Fanthorpe | Dear Mr Lee | Dear Mr Lee (Mr Smar... | 50 |
| 489 | 17 Jul 2000 | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Horatius | A Lay Made About the... | 660 |
| 490 | 19 Jul 2000 | Tom Lehrer | The Elements | There's antimony, ar... | 26 |
| 491 | 19 Jul 2000 | W. H. Auden | Roman Wall Blues | Over the heather the... | 14 |
| 492 | 21 Jul 2000 | e. e. cummings | Poem 42 | n | 15 |
| 493 | 22 Jul 2000 | Rudyard Kipling | A Pict Song | Rome never looks whe... | 33 |
| 494 | 24 Jul 2000 | W.H. Auden | The Fall of Rome | The piers are pummel... | 28 |
| 495 | 24 Jul 2000 | Sir Walter Scott | Marmion | (A Tale of Flodden Field) | 74 |
| 496 | 24 Jul 2000 | Edgar A. Guest | The Lay of the Troubled Golfer | His eye was wild and... | 24 |
| 497 | 26 Jul 2000 | bpNichol | Landscape: I | (for thomas a. clark) | 3 |
| 498 | 27 Jul 2000 | Walt Whitman | The World Below the Brine | The world below the ... | 19 |
| 499 | 28 Jul 2000 | Thomas Ybarra | Lay of Ancient Rome | Oh, the Roman was a ... | 32 |
| 500 | 29 Jul 2000 | Percy Bysshe shelley | A Dirge | Rough Wind, that moa... | 8 |
| 501 | 31 Jul 2000 | Stanley Kunitz | King of the River | If the water were cl... | 77 |
| 502 | 31 Jul 2000 | Philip Larkin | MCMXIV | Those long uneven lines | 32 |
| 503 | 01 Aug 2000 | Donald Justice | Anonymous Drawing | A delicate young Neg... | 24 |
| 504 | 02 Aug 2000 | Li Po | About Tu Fu | I met Tu Fu on a mou... | 8 |
| 505 | 3 Aug 2000 | W.S. Gilbert | The Story of Prince Agib | Strike the concertin... | 85 |
| 506 | 04 Aug 2000 | Christopher Marlowe | Lament for Zenocrate | Black is the beauty ... | 37 |
| 507 | 06 Aug 2000 | James Dickey | The Sheep-Child | Farm boys wild to couple | 62 |
| 508 | 06 Aug 2000 | Walt Whitman | I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | I saw in Louisiana a... | 16 |
| 509 | 07 Aug 2000 | James Elroy Flecker | The Golden Road to Samarkand | HASSAN | 25 |
| 510 | 8 Aug 2000 | Lord Byron | There is a pleasure in the pathless woods | There is a pleasure ... | 9 |
| 511 | 09 Aug 2000 | William Butler Yeats | Beautiful Lofty Things | Beautiful lofty thin... | 12 |
| 512 | 10 Aug 2000 | Thomas Hood | Silence | There is a silence w... | 14 |
| 513 | 11 Aug 2000 | Jalaluddin Rumi | The Tavern | All day I think abou... | 26 |
| 514 | 13 Aug 2000 | Rupert Brooke | The Chilterns | Your hands, my dear,... | 40 |
| 515 | 14 Aug 2000 | Robert Graves | The Persian Version | Truth-loving Persian... | 16 |
| 516 | 15 Aug 2000 | Nissim Ezekiel | The Patriot | I am standing for pe... | 46 |
| 517 | 16 Aug 2000 | Ralph Hodgson | The Gipsy Girl | "Come, try your skil... | 20 |
| 518 | 17 Aug 2000 | James Elroy Flecker | The Gates of Damascus | Four great gates has... | 76 |
| 519 | 19 Aug 2000 | Thomas Hardy | The Roman Road | The Roman Road runs ... | 15 |
| 520 | 19 Aug 2000 | Adelaide Procter | A Lost Chord | Seated one day at th... | 28 |
| 521 | 20 Aug 2000 | Louis MacNeice | The Suicide | And this, ladies and... | 19 |
| 522 | 21 Aug 2000 | Constantine Cavafy | In Harbor | A young man, twenty ... | 12 |
| 523 | 22 Aug 2000 | Joyce Sutphen | Naming the Stars | This present tragedy... | 14 |
| 524 | 23 Aug 2000 | Ezra Pound | Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord | O fan of white silk, | 3 |
| 525 | 23 Aug 2000 | Conrad Aiken | Morning Song of Senlin | It is morning, Senli... | 64 |
| 526 | 24 Aug 2000 | Robert Browning | A Toccata of Galuppi's | Oh Galuppi, Baldassa... | 45 |
| 527 | 25 Aug 2000 | Thomas Edward Brown | I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May | I bended unto me a b... | 12 |
| 528 | 27 Aug 2000 | James Merrill | A Renewal | Having used every su... | 8 |
| 529 | 28 Aug 2000 | Emily Dickinson | If you were coming in the fall | If you were coming i... | 20 |
| 530 | 28 Aug 2000 | J. K. Stephen | A Sonnet | Two voices are there... | 14 |
| 531 | 29 Aug 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Love's Philosophy | The fountains mingle... | 16 |
| 532 | 30 Aug 2000 | T. S. Eliot | Little Gidding | Ash on an old man's ... | 95 |
| 533 | 31 Aug 2000 | Carole Oles | The Gift | Thinking she was the gift | 25 |
| 534 | 01 Sep 2000 | Charles Baudelaire | The Albatross | Often to pass the ti... | 16 |
| 535 | 02 Sep 2000 | Siegfried Sassoon | The Working Party | Three hours ago he b... | 49 |
| 536 | 03 Sep 2000 | Diana Bridge | Lighter than a feather | I | 47 |
| 537 | 05 Sep 2000 | Mark Defoe | The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker (at a McDonald's somewhere in Appalachia) | All day he crushed t... | 25 |
| 538 | 05 Sep 2000 | John Updike | Back From Vacation | "Back from vacation"... | 14 |
| 539 | 06 Sep 2000 | A. E. Housman | Last Poems: XI | Yonder see the morni... | 10 |
| 540 | 07 Sep 2000 | Gavin Ewart | Office Friendships | Eve is madly in love... | 16 |
| 541 | 08 Sep 2000 | U. A. Fanthorpe | You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly | You feel adequate to... | 38 |
| 542 | 09 Sep 2000 | Ogden Nash | Will Consider Situation | There here are words... | 34 |
| 543 | 10 Sep 2000 | John Betjeman | Executive | I am a young executi... | 24 |
| 544 | 12 Sep 2000 | Philip Larkin | Toads | Why should I let the... | 36 |
| 545 | 13 Sep 2000 | Omar Khayyam | The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ | The Moving Finger wr... | 4 |
| 546 | 14 Sep 2000 | William Blake | The Sick Rose | O Rose, thou art sick! | 8 |
| 547 | 15 Sep 2000 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Isles of Greece | The isles of Greece!... | 96 |
| 548 | 16 Sep 2000 | Anonymous | Barbara Allen | In Scarlet town, whe... | 44 |
| 549 | 17 Sep 2000 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy | Trochee trips from l... | 19 |
| 550 | 19 Sep 2000 | Langdon Smith | Evolution | When you were a tadp... | 108 |
| 551 | 19 Sep 2000 | Max Plowman | Her Beauty | I heard them say, "H... | 10 |
| 552 | 20 Sep 2000 | Robert Creeley | Morning | dam's broke, | 3 |
| 553 | 21 Sep 2000 | Christopher Morley | Caught in the Undertow | Colin, worshipping s... | 8 |
| 554 | 22 Sep 2000 | R. S. Thomas | Taliesin | I have been all men ... | 20 |
| 555 | 23 Sep 2000 | John Masefield | Trade Winds | In the harbor, in th... | 12 |
| 556 | 25 Sep 2000 | Francois Villon | Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) | Brothers that live w... | 35 |
| 557 | 25 Sep 2000 | Andrei Voznesensky | Parabolic Balad | Among a parabola lif... | 39 |
| 558 | 26 Sep 2000 | Norman Rowland Gale | Bees | You voluble, | 24 |
| 559 | 27 Sep 2000 | George A. Strong | The Modern Hiawatha | He killed the noble ... | 11 |
| 560 | 28 Sep 2000 | Dorothy Parker | Chant for Dark Hours | Some men, some men | 24 |
| 561 | 29 Sep 2000 | Anon | The Metre Columbian | This is the metre Co... | 10 |
| 562 | 30 Sep 2000 | A. A. Milne | The King's Breakfast | The King asked | 94 |
| 563 | 1 Oct 2000 | S. Thomas Ansell | Butterfly | Down the air | 12 |
| 564 | 2 Oct 2000 | Robert Graves | Warning to Children | Children, if you dar... | 37 |
| 565 | 3 Oct 2000 | Thomas Campion | Now Winter Nights Enlarge | Now winter nights enlarge | 24 |
| 566 | 4 Oct 2000 | A. B. "Banjo" Paterson | Clancy of the Overflow | I had written him a ... | 34 |
| 567 | 5 Oct 2000 | George Herbert | Easter Wings | Lord, Who createdst ... | 20 |
| 568 | 6 Oct 2000 | Dylan Thomas | Especially when the October wind | Especially when the ... | 32 |
| 569 | 8 Oct 2000 | Henry Lawson | The Great Grey Plain | Out West, where the ... | 64 |
| 570 | 9 Oct 2000 | William Shakespeare | Come, Night; Come, Romeo | Come, night; come, R... | 9 |
| 571 | 10 Oct 2000 | A. D. Hope | The Death Of The Bird | For every bird there... | 36 |
| 572 | 11 Oct 2000 | Peter Porter | Mort aux Chats | There will be no mor... | 36 |
| 573 | 12 Oct 2000 | Alistair Campbell | At a Fishing Settlement | October, and a rain-... | 20 |
| 574 | 13 Oct 2000 | T. S. Eliot | Growltiger's Last Stand | Growltiger was a Bra... | 56 |
| 575 | 14 Oct 2000 | John Keats | To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat | Cat! who hast pass'd... | 14 |
| 576 | 15 Oct 2000 | A. A. Milne | Tra-la-la, tra-la-la | He had made up a lit... | 12 |
| 577 | 16 Oct 2000 | William Butler Yeats | The Cat and the Moon | The cat went here an... | 28 |
| 578 | 17 Oct 2000 | Margurite Kingman | Autumn Song | The firelight glows, | 9 |
| 579 | 18 Oct 2000 | Nissim Ezekiel | The Professor | Remember me? I am Pr... | 36 |
| 580 | 19 Oct 2000 | Emily Dickinson | Split the Lark | Split the Lark--and ... | 8 |
| 581 | 20 Oct 2000 | Charles Baudelaire | Get Drunk! | Always be drunk. | 38 |
| 582 | 21 Oct 2000 | Edmund Waller | Go, Lovely Rose | Go, lovely Rose- | 20 |
| 583 | 22 Oct 2000 | Ezra Pound | Envoi (1919) | Go, dumb-born book, | 26 |
| 584 | 23 Oct 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | History of the Night | Throughout the cours... | 27 |
| 585 | 24 Oct 2000 | R. T. Smith | Split the Lark | 'Split the lark, and... | 35 |
| 586 | 25 Oct 2000 | Rudyard Kipling | The Anvil | England's on the anv... | 12 |
| 587 | 26 Oct 2000 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Rubaiyat | 1 | 30 |
| 588 | 28 Oct 2000 | A. E. Housman | Terence, this is stupid stuff | "Terence, this is st... | 76 |
| 589 | 28 Oct 2000 | Rupert Brooke | Sonnet Reversed | Hand trembling towar... | 14 |
| 590 | 30 Oct 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Sonnet XLIII | What lips my lips ha... | 14 |
| 591 | 31 Oct 2000 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnet XIV | If thou must love me... | 14 |
| 592 | 31 Oct 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sonnet: England in 1819 | An old, mad, blind, ... | 14 |
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