| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | 20 Jul 1999 | James Leigh Hunt | Abou Ben Adhem | Abou Ben Adhem (may ... | 18 |
| 1782 | 21 Oct 2005 | Philip Larkin | When First We Faced | When first we faced,... | 18 |
| 1507 | 14 May 2004 | John Clare | I Am | I am - yet what I am... | 18 |
| 1663 | 31 Mar 2005 | Queen Elizabeth I | On Monsieur's Departure | I grieve and dare no... | 18 |
| 460 | 19 Jun 2000 | Vikram Seth | Round and Round | After a long and wre... | 18 |
| 459 | 18 Jun 2000 | Wallace Stevens | Two Figures in Dense Violet Light | I had as lief be emb... | 18 |
| 924 | 25 Oct 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | Christian | I dreamed I stood up... | 18 |
| 1753 | 8 Aug 2005 | Thomas Hardy | The Dynasts | Yea, the coneys are ... | 18 |
| 634 | 12 Dec 2000 | Sir Charles Sedley | Phyllis is my only joy | Phyllis is my only joy, | 18 |
| 861 | 10 Aug 2001 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Spanish Dancer | As on all its sides ... | 18 |
| 408 | 24 Apr 2000 | P. G. Wodehouse | Caliban at Sunset | I stood with a man | 18 |
| 719 | 9 Mar 2001 | Lady John Scott | Loch Lomond | By yon bonnie banks,... | 18 |
| 941 | 14 Nov 2001 | Pablo Neruda | Clenched Soul | We have lost even th... | 18 |
| 1368 | 25 Oct 2003 | John Berryman | Dream Song 14 | Life, friends, is bo... | 18 |
| 724 | 14 Mar 2001 | Ben Jonson | Hymn to Diana | Queen and huntress, ... | 18 |
| 1135 | 1 Jan 2003 | R. S. Thomas | Song at the Year's Turning | Shelley dreamed it. ... | 18 |
| 625 | 4 Dec 2000 | Ogden Nash | The Sniffle | In spite of her sniffle | 18 |
| 1579 | 21 Dec 2004 | Traditional | The Cherry Tree Carol | When Joseph was an o... | 18 |
| 144 | 11 Jul 1999 | Chidiock Tichborne | On the Eve of His Execution | My prime of youth is... | 18 |
| 820 | 26 Jun 2001 | George Herbert | Love bade me welcome | Love bade me welcome... | 18 |
| 1153 | 23 Jan 2003 | Paul Muldoon | Meeting the British | We met the British i... | 18 |
| 169 | 7 Aug 1999 | Lord Byron | She Walks in Beauty | She walks in beauty ... | 18 |
| 449 | 7 Jun 2000 | H. D | Helen | All Greece hates | 18 |
| 935 | 7 Nov 2001 | Lewis Carroll | The Lobster Quadrille | "Will you walk a lit... | 18 |
| 446 | 05 Jun 2000 | Jibanananda Das | Banalata Sen | For thousands of yea... | 18 |
| 1209 | 28 Mar 2003 | Barbara Pescan | She Speaks of Death | Oblivion, she said | 18 |
| 759 | 19 Apr 2001 | William Wordsworth | A Complaint | There is a change--a... | 18 |
| 426 | 14 May 2000 | Mary Oliver | Wild Geese | You do not have to b... | 18 |
| 1810 | 7 Jan 2006 | D. H. Lawrence | True Love at Last | The handsome and sel... | 18 |
| 614 | 22 Nov 2000 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | The pennycandystore beyond the El | The pennycandystore ... | 18 |
| 1287 | 25 Jun 2003 | J. H. Frere | A Fable | (In imitation of Dryden) | 18 |
| 1343 | 5 Sep 2003 | Donald Justice | Poem to be read at 3 a.m. | Excepting the diner | 18 |
| 298 | 22 Dec 1999 | Robert Graves | The Cool Web | Children are dumb to... | 18 |
| 1613 | 4 Feb 2005 | Sarojini Naidu | The Coromandel Fishers | Rise, brothers, rise... | 18 |
| 1704 | 20 May 2005 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The Oblation | Ask nothing more of ... | 18 |
| 1269 | 4 Jun 2003 | Dionysius Cato | The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) | Libros lege. | 18 |
| 676 | 25 Jan 2001 | Mark Strand | Eating Poetry | Ink runs from the co... | 18 |
| 678 | 27 Jan 2001 | Sylvia Plath | Mirror | I am silver and exac... | 18 |
| 1465 | 25 Feb 2004 | Ben Jonson | Come, My Celia | Come, my Celia, let ... | 18 |
| 849 | 27 Jul 2001 | Edith Sitwell | Sir Beelzebub | When | 18 |
| 1066 | 26 Jun 2002 | Jane Kenyon | Let Evening Come | Let the light of lat... | 18 |
| 793 | 28 May 2001 | Philip Larkin | No Road | Since we agreed to l... | 18 |
| 1640 | 3 Mar 2005 | William Morris | In Prison | Wearily, drearily, | 18 |
| 838 | 15 Jul 2001 | Ben Okri | They Say | They say | 18 |
| 699 | 17 Feb 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Incident | I look across the ta... | 18 |
| 1773 | 29 Sep 2005 | We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. | [Links] | 18 | |
| 1042 | 23 Apr 2002 | Walt Whitman | I Sit and Look Out | I sit and look out u... | 19 |
| 38 | 19 Mar 1999 | Dylan Thomas | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Do not go gentle int... | 19 |
| 1515 | 7 Jun 2004 | Seamus Heaney | Villanelle for an Anniversary | A spirit moved. John... | 19 |
| 1517 | 11 Jun 2004 | Dorianne Laux | The Shipfitter's Wife | I loved him most | 19 |
| 639 | 18 Dec 2000 | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | The art of losing is... | 19 |
| 912 | 13 Oct 2001 | Theodore Roethke | The Waking | I wake to sleep, and... | 19 |
| 349 | 23 Feb 2000 | Geoffrey Hill | A Prayer to the Sun | (in memory of Miguel... | 19 |
| 549 | 17 Sep 2000 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy | Trochee trips from l... | 19 |
| 1299 | 9 Jul 2003 | Norman MacCaig | Of You | When the little devi... | 19 |
| 1324 | 13 Aug 2003 | Robert Frost | The Telephone | "When I was just as ... | 19 |
| 521 | 20 Aug 2000 | Louis MacNeice | The Suicide | And this, ladies and... | 19 |
| 1229 | 18 Apr 2003 | Czelaw Milosz | You Whose Name | You whose name is ag... | 19 |
| 393 | 8 Apr 2000 | Peter Schaeffer | Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night | I think | 19 |
| 1703 | 19 May 2005 | Samuel Beckett | Untitled | My way is in the san... | 19 |
| 202 | 10 Sep 1999 | William Empson | Missing Dates | Slowly the poison th... | 19 |
| 1288 | 26 Jun 2003 | Amanda Townsend | Let's be discreet | Tell me | 19 |
| 677 | 26 Jan 2001 | W. H. Auden | Villanelle | Time will say nothin... | 19 |
| 741 | 1 Apr 2001 | Ian Anderson | Reasons For Waiting | What a sight for my eyes | 19 |
| 296 | 20 Dec 1999 | Constantine Cavafy | Footsteps | On an ebony bed decorated | 19 |
| 1466 | 26 Feb 2004 | Thomas Campion | My Sweetest Lesbia | (in imitation of Cat... | 19 |
| 1089 | 7 Sep 2002 | John Thomas | By Heart | The years pass like ... | 19 |
| 1770 | 23 Sep 2005 | John Hegley | Uncle and Auntie | my auntie gave me a ... | 19 |
| 872 | 23 Aug 2001 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | The House on the Hill | They are all gone away, | 19 |
| 762 | 23 Apr 2001 | W. H. Auden | Miranda | My dear one is mine ... | 19 |
| 1682 | 22 Apr 2005 | Tom Waits | The Piano Has Been Drinking | The piano has been d... | 19 |
| 498 | 27 Jul 2000 | Walt Whitman | The World Below the Brine | The world below the ... | 19 |
| 1145 | 15 Jan 2003 | James Elroy Flecker | War Song of the Saracens | We are they who come... | 19 |
| 706 | 23 Feb 2001 | William Empson | Villanelle | It is the pain, it i... | 19 |
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