The Wondering Minstrels

Personal: Simon armitage

Any thoughts on these poems are welcome. You can reach me at tansa_menna@yahoo.com

#	Date	Poet	Title	1stLine	Length
36	17 Mar 1999	Don Marquis	the lesson of the moth	i was talking to a moth	54
38	19 Mar 1999	Dylan Thomas	Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night	Do not go gentle int...	19
44	26 Mar 1999	William Shakespeare	My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX)	My mistress' eyes ar...	14
105	31 May 1999	Edwin Brock	Five Ways to Kill a Man	There are many cumbe...	32
108	2 Jun 1999	Edna St. Vincent Millay	The Penitent	I had a little Sorrow,	24
110	5 Jun 1999	D.H.Lawrence	Intimates	Don't you care for m...	11
122	17 Jun 1999	Don Marquis	certain maxims of archy	many a man spanks his	125
126	21 Jun 1999	William Shakespeare	Our revels now are ended	Our revels now are e...	11
150	17 Jul 1999	Dorothy Parker	Resume	Razors pain you;	8
158	25 Jul 1999	Andrew Marvell	To His Coy Mistress	Had we but world eno...	46
193	01 Sep 1999	T. S. Eliot	The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock	S`io credesse che mi...	142
196	4 Sep 1999	Stephen Crane	In the desert	In the desert	10
208	17 Sep 1999	Samuel Foote	The Great Panjandrum	So she went into the...	17
230	9 Oct 1999	Don Marquis	pity the poor spiders	i have just been reading	54
271	23 Nov 1999	Rudyard Kipling	If	If you can keep your...	32
347	21 Feb 2000	Lewis Carroll	The Walrus and the Carpenter	The sun was shining ...	108
363	08 Mar 2000	William Shakespeare	Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI)	Let me not to the ma...	14
422	11 May 2000	Pablo Neruda	Sonnet XVII: Love	I don't love you as ...	14
453	12 Jun 2000	Mark Strand	Keeping Things Whole	In a field	17
465	23 Jun 2000	John Donne	The Sun Rising	Busy old fool, unrul...	30
587	26 Oct 2000	Wendy Cope	Strugnell's Rubaiyat	1	30
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
615	23 Nov 2000	Monty Python	The Philosopher's Drinking Song	Immanuel Kant was a ...	21
623	1 Dec 2000	Adrian Mitchell	Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody	1 PATRIOTIC	34
676	25 Jan 2001	Mark Strand	Eating Poetry	Ink runs from the co...	18
711	28 Feb 2001	Emily Dickinson	I'm Nobody! Who are you?	I'm Nobody! Who are you?	8
779	12 May 2001	Robert Frost	Fire and Ice	Some say the world w...	9
812	16 Jun 2001	Sharon Olds	Sex Without Love	How do they do it, t...	24
859	8 Aug 2001	Wendy Cope	Waste Land Limericks	I	30
876	29 Aug 2001	Louis Alexander MacKay	I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver	I wish my tongue wer...	15
878	31 Aug 2001	Dorothy Parker	Frustration	If I had a shiny gun,	12
892	19 Sep 2001	Shel Silverstein	Stupid Pencil Maker	Some dummy built thi...	4
937	10 Nov 2001	Sara Teasdale	The Look	Strephon kissed me i...	8
953	1 Dec 2001	Friedrich Nietzsche	Parable of the Madman	Have you not heard o...	65
956	7 Dec 2001	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Ashes of Life	Love has gone and le...	12
961	14 Dec 2001	Agha Shahid Ali	The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'	First, grant me my s...	33
962	14 Dec 2001	Rudyard Kipling	The Idiot Boy	He wandered down the...	8
969	23 Dec 2001	Tony Harrison	Long Distance II	Though my mother was...	16
978	3 Jan 2002	Anne Sexton	Cinderella	You always read about it	109
982	11 Jan 2002	Rachel Rose	What We Heard About the Japanese	We heard they would ...	28
998	13 Feb 2002	Brian Patten	A blade of grass	You ask for a poem.	23
1003	20 Feb 2002	Sharon Olds	The Connoisseuse of Slugs	When I was a connois...	22
1006	24 Feb 2002	Langston Hughes	Dream Deferred	What happens to a dr...	11
1042	23 Apr 2002	Walt Whitman	I Sit and Look Out	I sit and look out u...	19
1049	9 May 2002	Roger Woddis	Down With Fanatics!	If I had my way with...	24
1063	23 Jun 2002	Stephen Dunn	Named	He'd spent his life ...	27
1084	1 Sep 2002	Brian Patten	Sometimes it Happens	And sometimes it hap...	25
1085	2 Sep 2002	Harry Guest	Death of a Friendship	I mourn, now that yo...	52
1093	24 Sep 2002	Margaret Atwood	Variations on the Word "Sleep"	I would like to watc...	30
1130	16 Dec 2002	Billy Collins	Marginalia	Sometimes the notes ...	64
1137	3 Jan 2003	Robert Service	The Smoking Frog	Three men I saw besi...	48
1140	10 Jan 2003	Arthur Guiterman	What One Approves, Another Scorns	What one approves,	8
1142	12 Jan 2003	James Fenton	In Paris with You	Don’t talk to me of ...	30
1149	19 Jan 2003	Pablo Neruda	Don't Go Far Off	Don't go far off, no...	14
1165	4 Feb 2003	Raymond Calvert	The Ballad Of William Bloat	In a mean abode on t...	30
1174	16 Feb 2003	Edward Thomas	No One So Much As You	No one so much as you	40
1185	1 Mar 2003	Traditional	Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free)	Die Gedanken sind frei	32
1200	17 Mar 2003	Stephen Crane	A Man Said to the Universe	A man said to the un...	5
1205	24 Mar 2003	Stanislaw Lem	Love and Tensor Algebra	Come, let us hasten ...	32
1236	25 Apr 2003	Tony Hoagland	Self-Improvement	Just before she flew...	56
1246	5 May 2003	Lucille Clifton	the lost baby poem	the time i dropped y...	20
1247	6 May 2003	Shel Silverstein	Dreadful	Someone ate the baby.	24
1248	7 May 2003	James Patrick Kinney	The Cold Within	Six humans trapped b...	32
1249	8 May 2003	Wallace Stevens	The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm	The house was quiet ...	16
1250	9 May 2003	Tony Hoagland	Brave World	But what about the c...	38
1267	2 Jun 2003	Wislawa Szymborska	A Contribution to Statistics	Out of a hundred people	49
1276	13 Jun 2003	Robert Frost	A Dream Pang	I had withdrawn in f...	14
1279	16 Jun 2003	Plato	Untitled	Star of my life, to ...	2
1288	26 Jun 2003	Amanda Townsend	Let's be discreet	Tell me	19
1310	27 Jul 2003	Simon Armitage	I am Very Bothered	I am very bothered w...	14
1314	31 Jul 2003	Becky Dennison Sakellariou	Math Is Beautiful and So Are You	If n is an even number	16
1315	1 Aug 2003	Judith Saunders	Mathematicians at Work	hunker down on their...	20
1317	4 Aug 2003	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Richard Cory	Whenever Richard Cor...	16
1323	12 Aug 2003	Wendy Cope	Strugnell's Sonnets (VI)	Let me not to the ma...	14
1327	17 Aug 2003	X. J. Kennedy	What We Might Be, What We Are	If you were a scoop ...	16
1339	31 Aug 2003	Robert Desnos	I've Dreamed of You So Much	I've dreamed of you ...	27
1343	5 Sep 2003	Donald Justice	Poem to be read at 3 a.m.	Excepting the diner	18
1344	6 Sep 2003	Deborah Garrison	Please Fire Me	Here comes another a...	24

A brief note on collections. Probably worth a quick read at this point.