The Wondering Minstrels

Personal: Writing a letter

#	Date	Poet	Title	1stLine	Length
4	12 Feb 1999	J R R Tolkien	The Road Goes Ever On	The Road goes ever o...	8
8	17 Feb 1999	Christina Rosetti	Song	When I am dead, my d...	16
17	26 Feb 1999	Rudyard Kipling	The Way Through the Woods	They shut the road t...	25
20	1 Mar 1999	Robert L. Stevenson	Requiem	Under the wide and s...	8
38	19 Mar 1999	Dylan Thomas	Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night	Do not go gentle int...	19
51	2 Apr 1999	Robert Frost	The Road Not Taken	Two roads diverged i...	20
54	5 Apr 1999	Walt Whitman	When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer	When I heard the lea...	10
68	21 Apr 1999	W. H. Auden	Musee des Beaux Arts	About suffering they...	22
155	22 Jul 1999	Robert Frost	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Whose woods these ar...	16
163	31 Jul 1999	Carl Sandburg	Dust	Here is dust remembe...	6
177	15 Aug 1999	Rabindranath Tagore	Where The Mind is Without Fear	Where the mind is wi...	11
224	3 Oct 1999	Wislawa Szymborska	Under One Small Star	My apologies to chan...	29
236	16 Oct 1999	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Memory	My mind lets go a th...	10
255	5 Nov 1999	Charles S. Calverley	Forever	"Forever": 'tis a si...	36
271	23 Nov 1999	Rudyard Kipling	If	If you can keep your...	32
307	2 Jan 2000	W.H.Auden	Lay your sleeping head, my love	Lay your sleeping he...	40
315	19 Jan 2000	Hilaire Belloc	Juliet	How did the party go...	4
430	18 May 2000	Sara Teasdale	Wild Asters	In the spring I aske...	8
433	21 May 2000	John Keats	Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell	Why did I laugh toni...	14
452	12 Jun 2000	José Martí	I wish to leave the world	I wish to leave the world	8
471	30 Jun 2000	Ilam Peruvaluti	This world lives	This world lives	17
512	10 Aug 2000	Thomas Hood	Silence	There is a silence w...	14
546	14 Sep 2000	William Blake	The Sick Rose	O Rose, thou art sick!	8
582	21 Oct 2000	Edmund Waller	Go, Lovely Rose	Go, lovely Rose-	20
584	23 Oct 2000	Jorge Luis Borges	History of the Night	Throughout the cours...	27
612	20 Nov 2000	Sylvia Plath	Love Letter	Not easy to state th...	36
618	27 Nov 2000	W. H. Auden	The More Loving One	Looking up at the st...	16
637	16 Dec 2000	Thom Gunn	The Hug	It was your birthday...	22
713	2 Mar 2001	Carl Sandburg	Last Answers	I wrote a poem on th...	12
730	21 Mar 2001	Robert Frost	Mending Wall	Something there is t...	44
737	28 Mar 2001	William Allingham	Writing	A man who keeps a di...	6
779	12 May 2001	Robert Frost	Fire and Ice	Some say the world w...	9
786	20 May 2001	Margaret Atwood	Postcard	I'm thinking of you....	42
793	28 May 2001	Philip Larkin	No Road	Since we agreed to l...	18
796	31 May 2001	John Donne	Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X)	Death be not proud, ...	14
820	26 Jun 2001	George Herbert	Love bade me welcome	Love bade me welcome...	18
865	13 Aug 2001	Carol Ann Duffy	Valentine	Not a red rose or a ...	23
868	16 Aug 2001	W. H. Auden	Partition	Unbiased at least he...	25
869	19 Aug 2001	Louis McKee	Scrabble	We used to pride our...	17
956	7 Dec 2001	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Ashes of Life	Love has gone and le...	12
976	1 Jan 2002	Ernest Hemingway	Chapter Heading	For we have thought ...	6
987	22 Jan 2002	Carol Ann Duffy	Prayer	Some days, although ...	14
996	11 Feb 2002	Shel Silverstein	The Little Boy and the Old Man	Said the little boy,...	10
1007	25 Feb 2002	Henry F. Lyte	Abide with me	Abide with me; fast ...	32
1012	5 Mar 2002	Robert Frost	Nothing Gold Can Stay	Nature's first green...	8
1019	20 Mar 2002	Elizabeth Jennings	A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon	Nature teaches us ou...	30
1026	30 Mar 2002	Rudyard Kipling	The Prodigal Son	Here come I to my ow...	48
1029	4 Apr 2002	Piet Hein	Prayer (to the sun above the clouds)	Sun that givest all ...	6
1031	7 Apr 2002	Robert Graves	Wild Strawberries	Strawberries that in...	24
1033	9 Apr 2002	Bret Harte	What the Bullet sang	O Joy of creation,	24
1034	11 Apr 2002	Tadeusz Ròzewicz	Pigtail	When all the women i...	21
1035	13 Apr 2002	Dylan Thomas	The Hand That Signed The Paper	The hand that signed...	16
1036	13 Apr 2002	Robert Frost	Range Finding	The battle rent a co...	14
1037	17 Apr 2002	Wilfred Owen	The Last Laugh	'O Jesus Christ! I'...	15
1038	20 Apr 2002	W. H. Auden	Epitaph on a tyrant	Perfection, of a kin...	6
1039	21 Apr 2002	Louis MacNeice	Prayer before Birth	I am not yet born; O...	39
1042	23 Apr 2002	Walt Whitman	I Sit and Look Out	I sit and look out u...	19
1047	5 May 2002	Rupert Brooke	Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire	Oh! Death will find ...	14
1052	15 May 2002	Brian Patten	Angel Wings	In the morning I ope...	54
1058	31 May 2002	John Wilmot	A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover	Ancient Person, for ...	26
1059	3 Jun 2002	Wendy Cope	An Unusual Cat-Poem	My cat is dead	2
1060	7 Jun 2002	Laura Riding	The World and I	This is not exactly ...	16
1063	23 Jun 2002	Stephen Dunn	Named	He'd spent his life ...	27
1067	27 Jun 2002	Dylan Thomas	On A Wedding Anniversary	The sky is torn across	12
1069	30 Jun 2002	Vachel Lindsay	The Leaden-Eyed	Let not young souls ...	8
1070	3 Jul 2002	Philip Larkin	Wires	The widest prairies ...	8
1072	12 Jul 2002	e. e. cummings	next to of course god america i	"next to of course g...	14
1082	29 Aug 2002	W. H. Auden	Under Which Lyre	A Reactionary Tract ...	175
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
1086	4 Sep 2002	William Jay Smith	The Floor and the Ceiling	Winter and summer, w...	36
1087	5 Sep 2002	William Blake	A Poison Tree	I was angry with my ...	16
1088	6 Sep 2002	Norman MacCaig	The Two Friends	The last word this o...	12
1089	7 Sep 2002	John Thomas	By Heart	The years pass like ...	19
1090	9 Sep 2002	Dorothy Parker	Unfortunate Coincidence	By the time you swea...	6
1092	13 Sep 2002	Piet Hein	What Love is Like	Love is like	4
1093	24 Sep 2002	Margaret Atwood	Variations on the Word "Sleep"	I would like to watc...	30
1094	25 Sep 2002	Rabrindranath Tagore	On the Nature of Love	The night is black a...	14
1096	1 Oct 2002	Billy Collins	On Turning Ten	The whole idea of it...	32
1099	4 Oct 2002	Raymond Carver	Happiness	So early it's still ...	24
1103	12 Oct 2002	Robert Browning	Prospice	Fear death? -- to fe...	28
1104	13 Oct 2002	Fernando Pessoa	Untitled	What grieves me is not	12
1114	21 Nov 2002	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Sandinista Avioncitos	The little airplanes...	14
1115	22 Nov 2002	Robinson Jeffers	Shine, Perishing Republic	While this America s...	20
1139	9 Jan 2003	Billy Collins	Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes	First, her tippet ma...	47
1140	10 Jan 2003	Arthur Guiterman	What One Approves, Another Scorns	What one approves,	8
1141	11 Jan 2003	Charlotte Mew	I So Liked Spring	I so liked Spring la...	9
1142	12 Jan 2003	James Fenton	In Paris with You	Don’t talk to me of ...	30
1143	13 Jan 2003	Andrew Motion	Causa Belli	They read good books...	4
1144	14 Jan 2003	W. B. Yeats	The Stare's Nest by My Window	The bees build in th...	20
1148	18 Jan 2003	Ruth Padel	Misty	How I love	12
1149	19 Jan 2003	Pablo Neruda	Don't Go Far Off	Don't go far off, no...	14
1156	26 Jan 2003	Piet Hein	A Psychological Tip	Whenever you're call...	8
1157	27 Jan 2003	Pablo Neruda	Love Sonnet XI	I crave your mouth, ...	14
1162	1 Feb 2003	Robert A. Heinlein	Almighty Ruler of the All	Almighty ruler of the all	6
1168	7 Feb 2003	John Donne	The Good-morrow	I wonder by my troth...	21
1170	10 Feb 2003	Edgar Allan Poe	Annabel Lee	It was many and many...	41
1174	16 Feb 2003	Edward Thomas	No One So Much As You	No one so much as you	40
1182	24 Feb 2003	Shel Silverstein	In Search of Cinderella	From dusk to dawn,	10
1187	3 Mar 2003	Anonymous	Sadness in Spring	Maytime, loveliest s...	11
1191	7 Mar 2003	Charles Kingsley	A Farewell	I	10

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