Sorted on 1stline,
Complete listing
| # |
Date |
Poet |
Title |
1stLine |
Length |
| 1593 |
9 Jan 2005 |
Derek Walcott |
from The Estranging Sea |
1 |
86 |
| 587 |
26 Oct 2000 |
Wendy Cope |
Strugnell's Rubaiyat |
1 |
30 |
| 1057 |
24 May 2002 |
William Stafford |
Atavism |
1 |
27 |
| 267 |
19 Nov 1999 |
Theodore Roethke |
The Meadow Mouse |
1 |
32 |
| 837 |
14 Jul 2001 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
Child of Europe |
1 |
100 |
| 1108 |
29 Oct 2002 |
Yehuda Amichai |
Seven Laments for the War-Dead |
1 |
130 |
| 278 |
30 Nov 1999 |
Kenneth Koch |
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams |
1 |
17 |
| 623 |
1 Dec 2000 |
Adrian Mitchell |
Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody |
1 PATRIOTIC |
34 |
| 1041 |
25 Apr 2002 |
Derek Walcott |
The Schooner 'Flight' |
1. Adios, Carenage |
78 |
| 1007 |
25 Feb 2002 |
Henry F. Lyte |
Abide with me |
Abide with me; fast ... |
32 |
| 153 |
20 Jul 1999 |
James Leigh Hunt |
Abou Ben Adhem |
Abou Ben Adhem (may ... |
18 |
| 68 |
21 Apr 1999 |
W. H. Auden |
Musee des Beaux Arts |
About suffering they... |
22 |
| 775 |
8 May 2001 |
Herman Melville |
The Maldive Shark |
About the Shark, phl... |
16 |
| 1598 |
15 Jan 2005 |
Hart Crane |
Voyages - I |
Above the fresh ruff... |
16 |
| 726 |
16 Mar 2001 |
T. E. Hulme |
Above the Dock |
Above the quiet dock... |
4 |
| 1801 |
28 Dec 2005 |
Ted Kooser |
Flying at Night |
Above us, stars. Ben... |
8 |
| 1601 |
21 Jan 2005 |
Henry King |
Exequy on his Wife |
Accept, thou shrine ... |
120 |
| 1585 |
30 Dec 2004 |
Benjamin Zephaniah |
Vegan Delight |
Ackees, chapatties |
48 |
| 1635 |
26 Feb 2005 |
Sara Teasdale |
A Minuet of Mozart's |
Across the dimly lig... |
8 |
| 413 |
01 May 2000 |
William Shakespeare |
Admired Miranda! |
Admired Miranda! |
12 |
| 1215 |
3 Apr 2003 |
Andrew Motion |
Regime Change |
Advancing down the r... |
22 |
| 1474 |
8 Mar 2004 |
Robert Burns |
Ae Fond Kiss |
Ae fond kiss, and th... |
24 |
| 1748 |
3 Aug 2005 |
Wendy Cope |
The Aerial |
The aerial on this r... |
12 |
| 641 |
19 Dec 2000 |
William Butler Yeats |
The Road at My Door |
An affable Irregular, |
15 |
| 460 |
19 Jun 2000 |
Vikram Seth |
Round and Round |
After a long and wre... |
18 |
| 1543 |
17 Sep 2004 |
Issa |
Untitled - Haiku |
After a long nap, |
3 |
| 1483 |
21 Mar 2004 |
Ronald Koertge |
An Infinite Number of Monkeys |
After all the Shakes... |
15 |
| 938 |
12 Nov 2001 |
Cicely Herbert |
Everything Changes |
after Brecht, 'Alles... |
11 |
| 1046 |
4 May 2002 |
Henrik Nordbrandt |
Sailing |
After having loved w... |
22 |
| 1541 |
14 Sep 2004 |
Gary Snyder |
John Muir on Mt. Ritter |
After scanning its f... |
24 |
| 335 |
09 Feb 2000 |
Dylan Thomas |
After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) |
After the funeral, m... |
40 |
| 245 |
26 Oct 1999 |
Alfred Kreymborg |
Whitman |
After we've had |
7 |
| 662 |
9 Jan 2001 |
Jibanananda Das |
Cat |
Again and again thro... |
16 |
| 417 |
03 May 2000 |
Ted Hughes |
Thistles |
Against the rubber t... |
12 |
| 1113 |
20 Nov 2002 |
Ernest Hemingway |
The Age Demanded |
The age demanded tha... |
8 |
| 983 |
17 Jan 2002 |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
The General Public |
"Ah, did you once se... |
43 |
| 425 |
12 May 2000 |
Robert Browning |
Memorabilia |
Ah, did you once see... |
16 |
| 1354 |
20 Sep 2003 |
Omar Khayyam |
Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire |
Ah, Love! could thou... |
4 |
| 266 |
18 Nov 1999 |
Patrick O'Kelly |
The Litany for Doneraile |
Alas! how dismal is ... |
62 |
| 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 |
| 513 |
11 Aug 2000 |
Jalaluddin Rumi |
The Tavern |
All day I think abou... |
26 |
| 449 |
7 Jun 2000 |
H. D |
Helen |
All Greece hates |
18 |
| 486 |
14 Jul 2000 |
Dorothy Parker |
Epitaph for a Darling Lady |
All her hours were y... |
12 |
| 1536 |
18 Aug 2004 |
e. e. cummings |
All in green went my love riding |
All in green went my... |
35 |
| 1270 |
5 Jun 2003 |
Michael Ondaatje |
To A Sad Daughter |
All night long the h... |
85 |
| 1666 |
4 Apr 2005 |
Robert Creeley |
The Rain |
All night the sound had |
24 |
| 352 |
26 Feb 2000 |
Robert Browning |
My Star |
All that I know |
13 |
| 1757 |
23 Aug 2005 |
John Webster |
Vanitas Vanitatum |
All the flowers of t... |
16 |
| 1216 |
5 Apr 2003 |
Billy Collins |
Sonnet |
All we need is fourt... |
14 |
| 650 |
29 Dec 2000 |
Vikram Seth |
All You who Sleep Tonight |
All you who sleep tonight |
8 |
| 1722 |
17 Jun 2005 |
Robert Browning |
The Lost Mistress |
All's over, then: do... |
20 |
| 1162 |
1 Feb 2003 |
Robert A. Heinlein |
Almighty Ruler of the All |
Almighty ruler of the all |
6 |
| 1513 |
1 Jun 2004 |
D. M. Thomas |
Poetry Reading |
Almost too diffident... |
56 |
| 405 |
20 Apr 2000 |
Dylan Thomas |
Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) |
Altarwise by owl-lig... |
56 |
| 581 |
20 Oct 2000 |
Charles Baudelaire |
Get Drunk! |
Always be drunk. |
38 |
| 557 |
25 Sep 2000 |
Andrei Voznesensky |
Parabolic Balad |
Among a parabola lif... |
39 |
| 1184 |
28 Feb 2003 |
Denise Levertov |
In California During the Gulf War |
Among the blight-kil... |
29 |
| 1337 |
29 Aug 2003 |
Emily Dickinson |
Ample Make This Bed |
Ample make this bed. |
8 |
| 1058 |
31 May 2002 |
John Wilmot |
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover |
Ancient Person, for ... |
26 |
| 1194 |
10 Mar 2003 |
Kahlil Gibran |
Children |
And a woman who held... |
20 |
| 1243 |
2 May 2003 |
David Lee |
Behold |
And came forth like ... |
11 |
| 1486 |
27 Mar 2004 |
Dylan Thomas |
And Death Shall Have No Dominion |
And death shall have... |
27 |
| 26 |
08 Mar 1999 |
William Blake |
Jerusalem |
And did those feet i... |
16 |
| 1190 |
6 Mar 2003 |
Mark Twain |
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd |
And did young Stephe... |
24 |
| 1652 |
15 Mar 2005 |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
Gay Chaps at the Bar |
...and guys I knew i... |
20 |
| 1692 |
8 May 2005 |
Archibald MacLeish |
You, Andrew Marvell |
And here face down b... |
36 |
| 752 |
13 Apr 2001 |
Alfred Kreymborg |
Overheard In An Asylum |
And here we have ano... |
23 |
| 1271 |
7 Jun 2003 |
Pablo Neruda |
Poetry |
And it was at that a... |
46 |
| 951 |
26 Nov 2001 |
Hayden Carruth |
Wife Poem |
And it's clear at la... |
24 |
| 1677 |
15 Apr 2005 |
Joni Mitchell |
The Fiddle and the Drum |
And so once again |
35 |
| 1084 |
1 Sep 2002 |
Brian Patten |
Sometimes it Happens |
And sometimes it hap... |
25 |
| 913 |
14 Oct 2001 |
W. H. Auden |
In Time of War, XII |
And the age ended, a... |
14 |
| 123 |
18 Jun 1999 |
Ezra Pound |
And the days are not full enough |
And the days are not... |
4 |
| 1511 |
27 May 2004 |
Anna Akhmatova |
Lot's Wife |
And the just man tra... |
16 |
| 379 |
24 Mar 2000 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Buddha at Kamakura |
"And there is a Japa... |
49 |
| 365 |
10 Mar 2000 |
John Collins Bossidy |
Boston |
And this is good old... |
4 |
| 521 |
20 Aug 2000 |
Louis MacNeice |
The Suicide |
And this, ladies and... |
19 |
| 407 |
22 Apr 2000 |
William Butler Yeats |
Solomon and the Witch |
And thus declared th... |
45 |
| 481 |
10 Jul 2000 |
Leonard Cohen |
Who By fire |
And who by fire, |
27 |
| 1293 |
2 Jul 2003 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Beloved Dust |
And you as well must... |
14 |
| 1634 |
25 Feb 2005 |
William Butler Yeats |
A Cradle Song |
The angels are stooping |
12 |
| 929 |
1 Nov 2001 |
Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner |
Synchronicity II |
Another suburban fam... |
30 |
| 596 |
4 Nov 2000 |
Simon Armitage |
I Say I Say I Say |
Anyone here had a go... |
16 |
| 1260 |
24 May 2003 |
E. E. Cummings |
Anyone lived in a pretty how town |
anyone lived in a pr... |
36 |
| 319 |
24 Jan 2000 |
Ezra Pound |
In a Station of the Metro |
The apparition of th... |
2 |
| 7 |
17 Feb 1999 |
Anon |
Scarborough Fair |
Are you going to Sca... |
20 |
| 1549 |
8 Oct 2004 |
John Cooper Clarke |
Health Fanatic |
Around the block, ag... |
43 |
| 207 |
15 Sep 1999 |
Edmund Clerihew Bentley |
Clerihews |
The art of Biography |
28 |
| 639 |
18 Dec 2000 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
One Art |
The art of losing is... |
19 |
| 1743 |
28 Jul 2005 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
To the Moon |
Art thou pale for we... |
6 |
| 1440 |
25 Jan 2004 |
Francis Brett Young |
Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus |
Arthur is gone . . .... |
48 |
| 883 |
7 Sep 2001 |
Seamus Heaney |
Personal Helicon |
As a child, they cou... |
20 |
| 688 |
6 Feb 2001 |
Hillaire Belloc |
The Yak |
As a friend to the c... |
15 |
| 1714 |
7 Jun 2005 |
Joseph Campbell |
The Old Woman |
As a white candle |
12 |
| 1277 |
14 Jun 2003 |
A. B. "Banjo" Paterson |
Come-By-Chance |
As I pondered very w... |
33 |
| 1150 |
20 Jan 2003 |
John Ashbery |
The Instruction Manual |
As I sit looking out... |
93 |
| 303 |
28 Dec 1999 |
Anon |
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard |
As it fell out on a ... |
116 |
| 1595 |
12 Jan 2005 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
As Kingfishers Catch Fire |
As kingfishers catch... |
14 |
| 925 |
27 Oct 2001 |
Lee Tzu Pheng |
Candlesong |
As my years burn down |
10 |
| 861 |
10 Aug 2001 |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
Spanish Dancer |
As on all its sides ... |
18 |
| 659 |
7 Jan 2001 |
William Carlos Williams |
Poem |
As the cat |
12 |
| 1403 |
10 Dec 2003 |
W. H. Auden |
As the poets have mournfully sung |
As the poets have mo... |
5 |
| 330 |
04 Feb 2000 |
John Donne |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
As virtuous men pass... |
36 |
| 1506 |
10 May 2004 |
James K. Baxter |
Rocket Show |
As warm north rain b... |
34 |
| 1621 |
12 Feb 2005 |
A. D. Hope |
As Well as They Can |
As well as it can, t... |
12 |
| 1696 |
11 May 2005 |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
As You Came from the Holy Land |
As you came from the... |
44 |
| 201 |
8 Sep 1999 |
Denise Levertov |
To the Reader |
As you read, a white... |
10 |
| 217 |
26 Sep 1999 |
Constantine Cavafy |
Ithaka |
As you set out for Ithaka |
37 |
| 532 |
30 Aug 2000 |
T. S. Eliot |
Little Gidding |
Ash on an old man's ... |
95 |
| 1704 |
20 May 2005 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne |
The Oblation |
Ask nothing more of ... |
18 |
| 718 |
8 Mar 2001 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron |
The Destruction of Sennacherib |
The Assyrian came do... |
24 |
| 1129 |
15 Dec 2002 |
Agha Shahid Ali |
Farewell |
At a certain point I... |
46 |
| 1320 |
7 Aug 2003 |
Alfred Tennyson |
The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet |
At Flores in the Azo... |
119 |
| 1402 |
9 Dec 2003 |
Tarjei Vesaas |
Sun-corner |
At home there's a su... |
26 |
| 1224 |
13 Apr 2003 |
Louise Glück |
The Wild Iris |
At the end of my suf... |
23 |
| 810 |
14 Jun 2001 |
Adrian Mitchell |
Beatrix is Three |
At the top of the stairs |
9 |
| 1105 |
19 Oct 2002 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Sunrise Along Shore |
Athwart the harbor l... |
32 |
| 674 |
22 Jan 2001 |
Adrienne Rich |
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers |
Aunt Jennifer's tige... |
12 |
| 162 |
30 Jul 1999 |
Omar Khayyam |
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Awake! for Morning i... |
28 |
| 538 |
05 Sep 2000 |
John Updike |
Back From Vacation |
"Back from vacation"... |
14 |
| 211 |
20 Sep 1999 |
Adrian Mitchell |
The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry |
Back in the caveman ... |
83 |
| 323 |
28 Jan 2000 |
Robert Francis |
Silent Poem |
backroad leafmold st... |
12 |
| 1482 |
18 Mar 2004 |
William Butler Yeats |
The Scholars |
Bald heads, forgetfu... |
12 |
| 1285 |
23 Jun 2003 |
W. S. Gilbert |
Etiquette |
The Ballyshannon fou... |
88 |
| 700 |
18 Feb 2001 |
Rudyard Kipling |
Outsong in the Jungle |
[Baloo:] For the sak... |
72 |
| 1375 |
23 Oct 2003 |
Sarojini Naidu |
The Bangle Sellers |
Bangle sellers are w... |
24 |
| 1391 |
19 Nov 2003 |
Robert Morgan |
The Grain of Sound |
A banjo maker in the... |
24 |
| 1798 |
29 Nov 2005 |
Seamus Heaney |
An Ulster Twilight |
The bare bulb, a sca... |
36 |
| 1378 |
2 Nov 2003 |
Edwin Muir |
The Horses |
Barely a twelvemonth... |
53 |
| 1036 |
13 Apr 2002 |
Robert Frost |
Range Finding |
The battle rent a co... |
14 |
| 1418 |
3 Jan 2004 |
Gerald Jonas |
Electronically Yours |
Baud: the rate of sp... |
12 |
| 1318 |
5 Aug 2003 |
Vikram Seth |
The Wind |
The bay is thick wit... |
8 |
| 887 |
11 Sep 2001 |
Walt Whitman |
Beat! Beat! Drums! |
Beat! beat! drums! -... |
23 |
| 511 |
09 Aug 2000 |
William Butler Yeats |
Beautiful Lofty Things |
Beautiful lofty thin... |
12 |
| 343 |
16 Feb 2000 |
William McGonagall |
The Tay Bridge Disaster |
Beautiful Railway Br... |
59 |
| 898 |
26 Sep 2001 |
Lewis Carroll |
Beautiful Soup |
Beautiful Soup, so r... |
14 |
| 458 |
17 Jun 2000 |
Emily Dickinson |
The Chariot |
Because I could not ... |
20 |
| 1144 |
14 Jan 2003 |
W. B. Yeats |
The Stare's Nest by My Window |
The bees build in th... |
20 |
| 857 |
5 Aug 2001 |
A. C. Swinburne |
Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' |
Before the beginning... |
48 |
| 228 |
7 Oct 1999 |
G.K. Chesterton |
The Rolling English Road |
Before the Roman cam... |
24 |
| 1015 |
12 Mar 2002 |
Gerard Bacher |
Corsica |
(Before the Walk) |
50 |
| 1171 |
12 Feb 2003 |
Edward E. Paramore Jr |
The Ballad of Yukon Jake |
Begging Robert W. Se... |
125 |
| 82 |
5 May 1999 |
William Wordsworth |
The Solitary Reaper |
Behold her, single i... |
32 |
| 848 |
25 Jul 2001 |
Ogden Nash |
The Hippopotamus |
Behold the hippopotamus! |
8 |
| 1121 |
4 Dec 2002 |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
H.M.S. Foudroyant |
[Being an humble add... |
50 |
| 1673 |
11 Apr 2005 |
Ogden Nash |
The Tale of Custard the Dragon |
Belinda lived in a l... |
56 |
| 896 |
23 Sep 2001 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The Kraken |
Below the thunders o... |
15 |
| 1454 |
9 Feb 2004 |
Jacqueline Carey |
An Exile's Lament |
Beneath the golden balm |
8 |
| 132 |
28 Jun 1999 |
Wilfred Owen |
Dulce Et Decorum Est |
Bent double, like ol... |
28 |
| 629 |
7 Dec 2000 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The Slave's Dream |
Beside the ungathere... |
48 |
| 1220 |
9 Apr 2003 |
Oliver Goldsmith |
The Village Schoolmaster |
Beside yon stragglin... |
26 |
| 1411 |
27 Dec 2003 |
Derek Walcott |
Pentecost |
Better a jungle in t... |
20 |
| 1396 |
24 Nov 2003 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The Children’s Hour |
Between the dark and... |
40 |
| 932 |
3 Nov 2001 |
Richard Thompson |
Fast Food |
Big mac, small mac, ... |
26 |
| 797 |
31 May 2001 |
Lewis F. Richardson |
Big Whorls Have Little Whorls |
Big whorls have litt... |
4 |
| 1800 |
27 Dec 2005 |
John O'Brien |
Tangmalangaloo |
The bishop sat in lo... |
30 |
| 109 |
04 Jun 1999 |
Anon |
The Viking Terror |
Bitter is the wind t... |
4 |
| 506 |
04 Aug 2000 |
Christopher Marlowe |
Lament for Zenocrate |
Black is the beauty ... |
37 |
| 968 |
22 Dec 2001 |
Robert Penn Warren |
Grackles, Goodbye |
Black of grackles gl... |
20 |
| 314 |
17 Jan 2000 |
Anon |
The Sermon on the Mount |
Blessed are the poor... |
10 |
| 715 |
5 Mar 2001 |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
The Blessed Damozel |
The blessed damozel ... |
144 |
| 300 |
24 Dec 1999 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
The Gift of God - |
Blessed with a joy t... |
48 |
| 918 |
20 Oct 2001 |
William Butler Yeats |
John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore |
A bloody and a sudde... |
36 |
| 200 |
09 Sep 1999 |
William Shakespeare |
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks |
Blow, winds, and cra... |
23 |
| 1620 |
11 Feb 2005 |
Tony Scanlon |
Second Honeymoon |
The blue that startl... |
14 |
| 76 |
29 Apr 1999 |
Don Marquis |
archy interviews a pharoh |
boss i went |
137 |
| 353 |
27 Feb 2000 |
Ogden Nash |
PG Wooster, Just as he Useter |
Bound to your bookse... |
24 |
| 114 |
09 Jun 1999 |
Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner |
The Soul Cages |
A boy child lies loc... |
44 |
| 1000 |
15 Feb 2002 |
Felicia Hemans |
Casabianca |
The boy stod on the ... |
36 |
| 31 |
12 Mar 1999 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Break, break, break |
Break, break, break, |
16 |
| 1691 |
6 May 2005 |
Sir Walter Scott |
Patriotism |
Breathes there the m... |
16 |
| 696 |
14 Feb 2001 |
John Keats |
Last Sonnet |
Bright Star, would I... |
14 |
| 993 |
7 Feb 2002 |
Derek Walcott |
Midsummer, Tobago |
Broad sun-stoned beaches. |
11 |
| 846 |
23 Jul 2001 |
T. S. Eliot |
The Hippopotamus |
The broad-backed hip... |
36 |
| 1590 |
6 Jan 2005 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Epitaph for the Race of Man: X |
The broken dike, the... |
14 |
| 441 |
30 May 2000 |
William Wordsworth |
The Simplon Pass |
-Brook and road |
20 |
| 556 |
25 Sep 2000 |
Francois Villon |
Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) |
Brothers that live w... |
35 |
| 970 |
25 Dec 2001 |
Sigerson Clifford |
The Kerry Christmas Carol |
Brush the floor and ... |
28 |
| 139 |
5 Jul 1999 |
E. E. Cummings |
Buffalo Bill's/ defunct |
Buffalo Bill's |
11 |
| 464 |
22 Jun 2000 |
Sara Teasdale |
Central Park at Dusk |
Buildings above the ... |
8 |
| 1126 |
12 Dec 2002 |
Robert W. Service |
The Shooting of Dan McGrew |
A bunch of the boys ... |
71 |
| 465 |
23 Jun 2000 |
John Donne |
The Sun Rising |
Busy old fool, unrul... |
30 |
| 359 |
4 Mar 2000 |
Thomas Buchanan Read |
The Angler |
But look! o'er the f... |
21 |
| 55 |
07 Apr 1999 |
Robert Graves |
Welsh Incident |
'But that was nothin... |
51 |
| 1250 |
9 May 2003 |
Tony Hoagland |
Brave World |
But what about the c... |
38 |
| 480 |
09 Jul 2000 |
W. N. Hodgson |
Before Action |
By all the glories o... |
24 |
| 885 |
11 Sep 2001 |
Suzanne Vega |
Night Vision |
By day give thanks, ... |
20 |
| 595 |
3 Nov 2000 |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
The Last Man |
By heaven and hell, ... |
13 |
| 362 |
07 Mar 2000 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Hiawatha's Departure |
By the shore of Gitc... |
29 |
| 1090 |
9 Sep 2002 |
Dorothy Parker |
Unfortunate Coincidence |
By the time you swea... |
6 |
| 719 |
9 Mar 2001 |
Lady John Scott |
Loch Lomond |
By yon bonnie banks,... |
18 |
| 1358 |
25 Sep 2003 |
Judith Viorst |
Someday Someone Will Bet That You Can't Name All Fifty States |
California, Mississippi |
25 |
| 180 |
18 Aug 1999 |
Wallace Stevens |
The Emperor of Ice-Cream |
Call the roller of b... |
16 |
| 903 |
30 Sep 2001 |
Anon |
Leviathan |
Can you draw out Lev... |
42 |
| 40 |
22 Mar 1999 |
Anon |
The Book of Job |
Can you hunt the pre... |
62 |
| 782 |
16 May 2001 |
F.R. Scott |
National Identity |
The Canadian Centena... |
20 |
| 667 |
16 Jan 2001 |
Ogden Nash |
Reflections on Ice-Breaking |
Candy |
4 |
| 1009 |
28 Feb 2002 |
Samuel Daniel |
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night (Delia LIV) |
Care-charmer Sleep, ... |
14 |
| 577 |
16 Oct 2000 |
William Butler Yeats |
The Cat and the Moon |
The cat went here an... |
28 |
| 575 |
14 Oct 2000 |
John Keats |
To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat |
Cat! who hast pass'd... |
14 |
| 660 |
8 Jan 2001 |
Elizabeth Coatsworth |
On A Night of Snow |
Cat, if you go outdo... |
14 |
| 1709 |
30 May 2005 |
Michael Ondaatje |
Elizabeth |
Catch, my Uncle Jack said |
45 |
| 1010 |
1 Mar 2002 |
A. S. J. Tessimond |
Cats |
Cats no less liquid ... |
16 |
| 1740 |
25 Jul 2005 |
Mairead Byrne |
Mahi-Mahi |
Caught. |
4 |
| 131 |
27 Jun 1999 |
Craig Raine |
A Martian Sends A Postcard Home |
Caxtons are mechanic... |
34 |
| 1665 |
3 Apr 2005 |
Anonymous |
The Distracted Centipede |
A centipede was happ... |
6 |
| 921 |
23 Oct 2001 |
Steely Dan |
Charlie Freak |
Charlie Freak had bu... |
20 |
| 199 |
7 Sep 1999 |
Thomas Campbell |
Lord Ullin's Daughter |
A Chieftain, to the ... |
56 |
| 1764 |
12 Sep 2005 |
Walt Whitman |
Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 |
A child said, *What ... |
39 |
| 242 |
23 Oct 1999 |
Robert Browning |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
A Child's Story |
320 |
| 298 |
22 Dec 1999 |
Robert Graves |
The Cool Web |
Children are dumb to... |
18 |
| 630 |
9 Dec 2000 |
T. S. Eliot |
To Walter de la Mare |
The children who exp... |
33 |
| 564 |
2 Oct 2000 |
Robert Graves |
Warning to Children |
Children, if you dar... |
37 |
| 783 |
17 May 2001 |
Stan Rogers |
Northwest Passage |
Chorus |
26 |
| 291 |
16 Dec 1999 |
T. S. Eliot |
The Journey of the Magi |
'A cold coming we ha... |
43 |
| 1345 |
9 Sep 2003 |
Emily Bronte |
Remembrance |
Cold in the earth an... |
32 |
| 553 |
21 Sep 2000 |
Christopher Morley |
Caught in the Undertow |
Colin, worshipping s... |
8 |
| 1808 |
4 Jan 2006 |
Phil Ochs |
Power and Glory |
Come and take a walk... |
16 |
| 997 |
12 Feb 2002 |
Christopher Marlowe |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
Come live with me an... |
24 |
| 1002 |
18 Feb 2002 |
John Donne |
The Bait |
Come live with me, a... |
28 |
| 1522 |
21 Jun 2004 |
John Betjeman |
Slough |
Come, friendly bombs... |
40 |
| 1205 |
24 Mar 2003 |
Stanislaw Lem |
Love and Tensor Algebra |
Come, let us hasten ... |
32 |
| 1465 |
25 Feb 2004 |
Ben Jonson |
Come, My Celia |
Come, my Celia, let ... |
18 |
| 570 |
9 Oct 2000 |
William Shakespeare |
Come, Night; Come, Romeo |
Come, night; come, R... |
9 |
| 517 |
16 Aug 2000 |
Ralph Hodgson |
The Gipsy Girl |
"Come, try your skil... |
20 |
| 1778 |
6 Oct 2005 |
A. D. Hope |
The Invaders |
Coming by night, fur... |
24 |
| 73 |
26 Apr 1999 |
Philip Larkin |
I Remember, I Remember |
Coming up England by... |
36 |
| 1111 |
17 Nov 2002 |
Christopher Isherwood |
The Common Cormorant |
The common cormorant... |
8 |
| 1303 |
17 Jul 2003 |
Piet Hein |
Similarity |
Commutative Law |
5 |
| 1106 |
26 Oct 2002 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Locksley Hall |
Comrades, leave me h... |
194 |
| 1394 |
22 Nov 2003 |
Ruth Forman |
Even If You Grab A Piece of Time |
Conjure something glowing |
12 |
| 743 |
4 Apr 2001 |
Keith Reid |
Conquistador |
Conquistador -- your... |
24 |
| 841 |
18 Jul 2001 |
Jalaluddin Rumi |
Emptiness |
Consider the difference |
65 |
| 723 |
13 Mar 2001 |
Ted Hughes |
Full Moon and Little Frieda |
A cool small evening... |
12 |
| 91 |
17 May 1999 |
A. A. Milne |
Cottleston Pie |
Cottleston Cottlesto... |
12 |
| 989 |
25 Jan 2002 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The Lotos-Eaters |
"Courage!" he said, ... |
182 |
| 950 |
24 Nov 2001 |
Emily Dickinson |
The cricket sang |
The cricket sang, |
12 |
| 1812 |
19 Jan 2006 |
A. D. Hope |
Crossing the Frontier |
Crossing the frontie... |
42 |
| 980 |
6 Jan 2002 |
Robert Service |
The March of the Dead |
The cruel war was ov... |
48 |
| 771 |
2 May 2001 |
William Blake |
The Divine Image |
Cruelty has a Human ... |
8 |
| 400 |
15 Apr 2000 |
Ambrose Bierce |
Elegy |
The cur foretells th... |
4 |
| 1091 |
10 Sep 2002 |
Thomas Gray |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
The curfew tolls the... |
129 |
| 1687 |
1 May 2005 |
Traditional |
Curly-locks |
Curly-locks, Curly-l... |
4 |
| 552 |
20 Sep 2000 |
Robert Creeley |
Morning |
dam's broke, |
3 |
| 828 |
4 Jul 2001 |
Robert L. Stevenson |
Where Go the Boats? |
Dark brown is the river, |
16 |
| 1567 |
27 Nov 2004 |
Vikram Seth |
Untitled |
Dark night, and sile... |
14 |
| 1296 |
6 Jul 2003 |
Gulzar |
Evening |
Day abandons it |
10 |
| 884 |
9 Sep 2001 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The Day is Done |
The day is done, and... |
44 |
| 1112 |
19 Nov 2002 |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
Bilbo's Last Song |
Day is ended, dim my... |
24 |
| 626 |
4 Dec 2000 |
Edmond Rostand |
Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose |
DE GUICHE: Will no o... |
63 |
| 1755 |
11 Aug 2005 |
Angel Gonzalez |
Diatribe Against the Dead |
The dead are selfish |
17 |
| 189 |
27 Aug 1999 |
bpNichol |
dear Captain Poetry |
dear Captain Poetry, |
24 |
| 732 |
23 Mar 2001 |
A. P. Herbert |
At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me |
Dear Madam, you have... |
26 |
| 488 |
17 Jul 2000 |
U. A. Fanthorpe |
Dear Mr Lee |
Dear Mr Lee (Mr Smar... |
50 |
| 421 |
08 May 2000 |
Stevie Smith |
The Jungle Husband |
Dearest Evelyn, I of... |
15 |
| 796 |
31 May 2001 |
John Donne |
Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) |
Death be not proud, ... |
14 |
| 503 |
01 Aug 2000 |
Donald Justice |
Anonymous Drawing |
A delicate young Neg... |
24 |
| 908 |
6 Oct 2001 |
Yosa Buson |
Haiku |
Departing spring |
3 |
| 627 |
5 Dec 2000 |
Laurence Hope |
Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank |
The Desert is parche... |
94 |
| 1448 |
3 Feb 2004 |
Yehuda Amichai |
The Diameter of the Bomb |
The diameter of the ... |
16 |
| 899 |
25 Sep 2001 |
Jack Prelutsky |
The Diatonic Dittymunch |
The Diatonic Dittymu... |
9 |
| 304 |
29 Dec 1999 |
Edwin Morgan |
The Subway Piranhas |
Did anyone tell you |
17 |
| 1185 |
1 Mar 2003 |
Traditional |
Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) |
Die Gedanken sind frei |
32 |
| 1609 |
30 Jan 2005 |
Wislawa Szymborska |
Cat in an Empty Apartment |
Die—you can't do tha... |
37 |
| 38 |
19 Mar 1999 |
Dylan Thomas |
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
Do not go gentle int... |
19 |
| 1705 |
21 May 2005 |
Mary Frye |
Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep |
Do not stand at my g... |
16 |
| 1693 |
8 May 2005 |
A. K. Ramanujan |
Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom |
Do not worry about D... |
4 |
| 294 |
18 Dec 1999 |
Hilaire Belloc |
Tarantella |
Do you remember an Inn, |
40 |
| 1610 |
1 Feb 2005 |
Sue Townsend |
Mrs. Thatcher |
Do you weep, Mrs Tha... |
10 |
| 823 |
29 Jun 2001 |
Piet Hein |
Astro-Gymnastics |
Do-it-yourself grook |
17 |
| 1805 |
1 Jan 2006 |
A. P. Herbert |
The Doctor |
The doctor took my s... |
51 |
| 1738 |
24 Jul 2005 |
Lisel Mueller |
Monet Refuses the Operation |
Doctor, you say that... |
46 |
| 47 |
29 Mar 1999 |
Christina Rossetti |
Uphill |
Does the road wind u... |
16 |
| 1149 |
19 Jan 2003 |
Pablo Neruda |
Don't Go Far Off |
Don't go far off, no... |
14 |
| 1334 |
26 Aug 2003 |
Jalaluddin Rumi |
Where Everything Is Music |
Don't worry about sa... |
23 |
| 110 |
5 Jun 1999 |
D.H.Lawrence |
Intimates |
Don't you care for m... |
11 |
| 1142 |
12 Jan 2003 |
James Fenton |
In Paris with You |
Don’t talk to me of ... |
30 |
| 891 |
17 Sep 2001 |
Emily Dickinson |
A Doubt If It Be Us |
A doubt if it be Us |
8 |
| 1504 |
29 Apr 2004 |
Humbert Wolfe |
Requiem: The Soldier |
Down some cold field... |
16 |
| 563 |
1 Oct 2000 |
S. Thomas Ansell |
Butterfly |
Down the air |
12 |
| 41 |
22 Mar 1999 |
Sir Henry Newbolt |
Ireland, Ireland |
Down thy valleys, Ir... |
12 |
| 1578 |
20 Dec 2004 |
Edward Thomas |
The Owl |
Downhill I came, hun... |
16 |
| 1023 |
26 Mar 2002 |
W. S. Gilbert |
The Soldiers of our Queen |
DRAGOONS |
71 |
| 340 |
14 Feb 2000 |
Ben Jonson |
To Celia |
Drink to me, only, w... |
16 |
| 1566 |
26 Nov 2004 |
Sam Hunt |
Maintrunk Country Roadsong |
Driving south and tr... |
30 |
| 1321 |
8 Aug 2003 |
Bret Harte |
Ramon |
Drunk and senseless ... |
67 |
| 853 |
31 Jul 2001 |
Sukumar Ray |
Stew Much |
A duck once met a po... |
16 |
| 967 |
20 Dec 2001 |
Eugene Field |
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod |
A Dutch Lullaby |
49 |
| 1043 |
27 Apr 2002 |
Marianne Moore |
The Steeple-Jack |
Dürer would have see... |
78 |
| 880 |
2 Sep 2001 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Sergeant's Weddin' |
'E was warned agin' ... |
56 |
| 1407 |
19 Dec 2003 |
Thomas Lux |
The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball |
each day mowed |
30 |
| 1651 |
14 Mar 2005 |
Sylvia Plath |
Aerialist |
Each night, this adr... |
48 |
| 118 |
13 Jun 1999 |
Faiz Ahmed Faiz |
A Prison Evening |
Each star a rung, |
26 |
| 462 |
20 Jun 2000 |
William Wordsworth |
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
Earth has not anythi... |
14 |
| 1809 |
5 Jan 2006 |
Machine Head |
Elegy |
Elegies are to be sung |
35 |
| 1044 |
1 May 2002 |
Spike Milligan |
Contagion |
Elephants are contagious! |
12 |
| 586 |
25 Oct 2000 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Anvil |
England's on the anv... |
12 |
| 701 |
18 Feb 2001 |
Spike Milligan |
Teeth |
English Teeth, Engli... |
12 |
| 1307 |
22 Jul 2003 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Song of the Little Hunter |
Ere Mor the Peacock ... |
24 |
| 469 |
27 Jun 2000 |
Orhan Veli |
Towards Freedom |
'Ere the day dawns, ... |
16 |
| 568 |
6 Oct 2000 |
Dylan Thomas |
Especially when the October wind |
Especially when the ... |
32 |
| 604 |
12 Nov 2000 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare |
Euclid alone has loo... |
14 |
| 540 |
07 Sep 2000 |
Gavin Ewart |
Office Friendships |
Eve is madly in love... |
16 |
| 1160 |
30 Jan 2003 |
Ghalib |
Ghazal (Untitled) |
Even in prayer, we a... |
12 |
| 1319 |
6 Aug 2003 |
Derek Walcott |
Goats and Monkeys |
'...even now, an old... |
53 |
| 610 |
19 Nov 2000 |
Louise Imogen Guiney |
The Lights of London |
The evenfall, so slo... |
14 |
| 1459 |
18 Feb 2004 |
Kaniyan Punkunran |
Every Town a Home Town |
Every town our home town, |
24 |
| 1030 |
6 Apr 2002 |
Siegfried Sassoon |
Everyone Sang |
Everyone suddenly bu... |
10 |
| 1343 |
5 Sep 2003 |
Donald Justice |
Poem to be read at 3 a.m. |
Excepting the diner |
18 |
| 1221 |
10 Apr 2003 |
Judith Wright |
Woman to Man |
The eyeless labourer... |
20 |
| 322 |
27 Jan 2000 |
Richard Wilbur |
In the Smoking Car |
The eyelids meet. He... |
20 |
| 93 |
19 May 1999 |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
Eärendil was a mariner |
Eärendil was a mariner |
124 |
| 313 |
16 Jan 2000 |
Ben Jonson |
Gypsy Songs |
The faery beam upon you, |
20 |
| 1154 |
24 Jan 2003 |
Robert Burns |
Address to a Haggis |
Fair fa' your honest... |
48 |
| 1389 |
17 Nov 2003 |
Ovid |
The Amores: Book 1, Poem #3 |
Fair's fair now, Ven... |
26 |
| 156 |
23 Jul 1999 |
Anon |
Angelica the Doorkeeper |
The falcon soars |
6 |
| 1217 |
6 Apr 2003 |
Su Tung-p'o |
On the Birth of his Son |
Families, when a chi... |
8 |
| 350 |
24 Feb 2000 |
AE |
The Unknown God |
Far up the dim twili... |
8 |
| 507 |
06 Aug 2000 |
James Dickey |
The Sheep-Child |
Farm boys wild to couple |
62 |
| 84 |
9 May 1999 |
R. L. Stevenson |
From a Railway Carriage |
Faster than fairies,... |
16 |
| 1008 |
26 Feb 2002 |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
Cat |
The fat cat on the mat |
27 |
| 1103 |
12 Oct 2002 |
Robert Browning |
Prospice |
Fear death? -- to fe... |
28 |
| 477 |
06 Jul 2000 |
William Shakespeare |
Fear no more the heat o' the sun |
Fear no more the hea... |
24 |
| 240 |
21 Oct 1999 |
Edgar Fawcett |
Two Worlds |
A fiery young world,... |
8 |
| 1197 |
13 Mar 2003 |
William Herbert Carruth |
Each in his own Tongue |
A fire-mist and a planet, |
32 |
| 578 |
17 Oct 2000 |
Margurite Kingman |
Autumn Song |
The firelight glows, |
9 |
| 1203 |
19 Mar 2003 |
Rabindranath Tagore |
Last Poems #13 |
The first day's sun |
11 |
| 1792 |
9 Nov 2005 |
Adrienne Rich |
Diving into the Wreck |
First having read th... |
94 |
| 961 |
14 Dec 2001 |
Agha Shahid Ali |
The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' |
First, grant me my s... |
33 |
| 1139 |
9 Jan 2003 |
Billy Collins |
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes |
First, her tippet ma... |
47 |
| 1667 |
5 Apr 2005 |
Ted Kooser |
Selecting A Reader |
First, I would have ... |
13 |
| 1580 |
22 Dec 2004 |
Rupert Brooke |
Heaven |
Fish (fly-replete, i... |
34 |
| 416 |
2 May 2000 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
The Fitful Alternations of the Rain |
The fitful alternati... |
4 |
| 879 |
31 Aug 2001 |
Ambrose Bierce |
The Mad Philosopher |
The flabby wine-skin... |
4 |
| 794 |
29 May 2001 |
Li Po |
In the Quiet Night |
The floor before my ... |
4 |
| 1526 |
29 Jun 2004 |
Robert Burns |
Afton Water |
Flow gently, sweet A... |
24 |
| 282 |
4 Dec 1999 |
Carl Sandburg |
Fog |
The fog comes |
6 |
| 1346 |
11 Sep 2003 |
David Huddle |
Ooly Pop a Cow |
for Bess and Molly |
31 |
| 1309 |
26 Jul 2003 |
Robert Lowell |
Skunk Hour |
For Elizabeth Bishop |
49 |
| 571 |
10 Oct 2000 |
A. D. Hope |
The Death Of The Bird |
For every bird there... |
36 |
| 866 |
14 Aug 2001 |
John Donne |
The Canonization |
For God's sake hold ... |
45 |
| 661 |
9 Jan 2001 |
Christopher Smart |
Jubilate Agno |
For I will consider ... |
88 |
| 602 |
10 Nov 2000 |
Glyn Maxwell |
Deep Sorriness Atonement Song |
(for missed appointm... |
42 |
| 1557 |
8 Nov 2004 |
Eric Bogle |
Now I'm Easy |
For nearly sixty yea... |
25 |
| 787 |
21 May 2001 |
E. J. Pratt |
Sea-Gulls |
For one carved insta... |
15 |
| 1478 |
13 Mar 2004 |
Mark Strand |
A Piece Of The Storm |
For Sharon Horvath |
13 |
| 1727 |
27 Jun 2005 |
R. S. Thomas |
To a Young Poet |
For the first twenty... |
24 |
| 497 |
26 Jul 2000 |
bpNichol |
Landscape: I |
(for thomas a. clark) |
3 |
| 446 |
05 Jun 2000 |
Jibanananda Das |
Banalata Sen |
For thousands of yea... |
18 |
| 976 |
1 Jan 2002 |
Ernest Hemingway |
Chapter Heading |
For we have thought ... |
6 |
| 58 |
10 Apr 1999 |
Dylan Thomas |
The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower |
The force that throu... |
22 |
| 255 |
5 Nov 1999 |
Charles S. Calverley |
Forever |
"Forever": 'tis a si... |
36 |
| 1763 |
9 Sep 2005 |
F. J. Bergmann |
An Apology |
Forgive me |
11 |
| 531 |
29 Aug 2000 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Love's Philosophy |
The fountains mingle... |
16 |
| 518 |
17 Aug 2000 |
James Elroy Flecker |
The Gates of Damascus |
Four great gates has... |
76 |
| 360 |
06 Mar 2000 |
John Whitworth |
I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea |
Fretting my heart as... |
44 |
| 1646 |
9 Mar 2005 |
Michael P. Garofalo |
Haiku |
A frog floats |
3 |
| 863 |
12 Aug 2001 |
Norman MacCaig |
Frogs |
Frogs sit more solid |
16 |
| 381 |
27 Mar 2000 |
Mihail Eminescu |
From Among Hundreds of Masts |
From among hundreds ... |
16 |
| 1424 |
9 Jan 2004 |
Pare Lorentz |
The River |
From as far West as ... |
302 |
| 1702 |
18 May 2005 |
Pablo Neruda |
Ode to the Lemon |
From blossoms |
54 |
| 803 |
6 Jun 2001 |
Catherine Faber |
The Word of God |
From desert cliff an... |
32 |
| 1182 |
24 Feb 2003 |
Shel Silverstein |
In Search of Cinderella |
From dusk to dawn, |
10 |
| 707 |
24 Feb 2001 |
Randall Jarrell |
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner |
From my mother's sle... |
5 |
| 1266 |
1 Jun 2003 |
Vikram Seth |
Research in Jiangsu Province |
From off this plasti... |
68 |
| 87 |
12 May 1999 |
Otomo No Yakamochi |
Two Tanka |
From outside my house, |
10 |
| 99 |
25 May 1999 |
Charles Swinburne |
Nephelidia |
From the depth of th... |
48 |
| 840 |
17 Jul 2001 |
Robert Graves |
The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection |
(from the Welsh) |
13 |
| 1607 |
28 Jan 2005 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Frost at Midnight |
The frost performs i... |
75 |
| 1455 |
10 Feb 2004 |
bpNichol |
The Queerness of it All |
frQg |
3 |
| 16 |
25 Feb 1999 |
William Shakespeare |
Full Fathom Five |
Full fathom five thy... |
9 |
| 219 |
28 Sep 1999 |
William Shakespeare |
Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) |
Full many a glorious... |
14 |
| 1765 |
13 Sep 2005 |
Emily Dickinson |
Further in Summer than the Birds |
Further in Summer th... |
16 |
| 600 |
8 Nov 2000 |
Lewis Carroll |
The Mouse's Tale |
Fury said to a mouse, |
32 |
| 328 |
2 Feb 2000 |
Edmund Spenser |
from The Faerie Queen |
A gentle Knight was ... |
45 |
| 804 |
8 Jun 2001 |
Kamala Das |
The Looking Glass |
Getting a man to lov... |
24 |
| 1218 |
7 Apr 2003 |
James Elroy Flecker |
Yasmin |
(A Ghazel) |
13 |
| 805 |
8 Jun 2001 |
James Maxwell |
Rigid Body Sings |
Gin a body meet a body |
16 |
| 1617 |
8 Feb 2005 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Give All To Love |
Give all to love; |
49 |
| 1788 |
29 Oct 2005 |
Anonymous |
Moses' Poem |
Give ear, O heavens,... |
142 |
| 1496 |
14 Apr 2004 |
John Keats |
Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff |
Give me women, wine,... |
6 |
| 780 |
14 May 2001 |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Vagabond |
Give to me the life ... |
32 |
| 942 |
15 Nov 2001 |
James Shirley |
Death the Leveller |
The glories of our b... |
24 |
| 134 |
30 Jun 1999 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Pied Beauty |
Glory be to God for ... |
11 |
| 384 |
29 Mar 2000 |
John Donne |
Song |
Go and catch a falli... |
27 |
| 325 |
30 Jan 2000 |
Ogden Nash |
Common Cold |
Go hang yourself, yo... |
40 |
| 761 |
22 Apr 2001 |
Max Ehrmannn |
Desiderata |
Go placidly amid the... |
31 |
| 1219 |
8 Apr 2003 |
Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Luke Havergal |
Go to the western ga... |
32 |
| 583 |
22 Oct 2000 |
Ezra Pound |
Envoi (1919) |
Go, dumb-born book, |
26 |
| 582 |
21 Oct 2000 |
Edmund Waller |
Go, Lovely Rose |
Go, lovely Rose- |
20 |
| 1289 |
27 Jun 2003 |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
The Lie |
Go, Soul, the body's... |
78 |
| 151 |
18 Jul 1999 |
Rudyard Kipling |
Recessional |
God of our fathers, ... |
30 |
| 647 |
25 Dec 2000 |
Trad |
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
God rest ye merry ge... |
63 |
| 216 |
25 Sep 1999 |
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn |
The Golf Links |
The golf links lie s... |
4 |
| 758 |
18 Apr 2001 |
John Masefield |
Sea-Change |
"Goneys an' gullies ... |
16 |
| 1505 |
5 May 2004 |
James Whitehead |
Good Linemen Live in a Closed World |
Good linemen live in... |
14 |
| 286 |
9 Dec 1999 |
Oliver Goldsmith |
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog |
Good people all, of ... |
32 |
| 1576 |
18 Dec 2004 |
Tukaram |
A Good Poem |
A good poem is like ... |
6 |
| 1794 |
11 Nov 2005 |
Siegfried Sassoon |
The General |
"Good-morning, good-... |
7 |
| 635 |
14 Dec 2000 |
Robert Browning |
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister |
GR-R-R--there go, my... |
72 |
| 341 |
15 Feb 2000 |
Emily Dickinson |
The Grass so little has to do - |
The Grass so little ... |
20 |
| 1737 |
23 Jul 2005 |
Robert Browning |
Meeting at Night |
The gray sea and the... |
12 |
| 749 |
10 Apr 2001 |
Li Po |
Parting |
Green mountains rise... |
8 |
| 210 |
19 Sep 1999 |
Federico Garcia Lorca |
Romance Sonambulo |
Green, how I want yo... |
86 |
| 1362 |
1 Oct 2003 |
Louis MacNeice |
Dublin |
Grey brick upon brick, |
63 |
| 1326 |
16 Aug 2003 |
Michael Ondaatje |
Bearhug |
Griffin calls to com... |
14 |
| 574 |
13 Oct 2000 |
T. S. Eliot |
Growltiger's Last Stand |
Growltiger was a Bra... |
56 |
| 955 |
5 Dec 2001 |
T. S. Eliot |
Gus: The Theatre Cat |
Gus is the Cat at th... |
55 |
| 173 |
11 Aug 1999 |
Willie Dixon |
Hoochie Coochie Man |
Gypsy woman told my ... |
36 |
| 479 |
08 Jul 2000 |
Thomas Hardy |
The Man He Killed |
"Had he and I but met |
20 |
| 597 |
5 Nov 2000 |
William Butler Yeats |
He wishes for the cloths of heaven |
Had I the heavens' e... |
8 |
| 158 |
25 Jul 1999 |
Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress |
Had we but world eno... |
46 |
| 593 |
1 Nov 2000 |
Robert Herrick |
The Hag |
The hag is astride |
24 |
| 1495 |
13 Apr 2004 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
To a Skylark |
Hail to thee, blithe... |
105 |
| 355 |
29 Feb 2000 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Charge of the Light Brigade |
Half a league, half ... |
55 |
| 1035 |
13 Apr 2002 |
Dylan Thomas |
The Hand That Signed The Paper |
The hand that signed... |
16 |
| 589 |
28 Oct 2000 |
Rupert Brooke |
Sonnet Reversed |
Hand trembling towar... |
14 |
| 1810 |
7 Jan 2006 |
D. H. Lawrence |
True Love at Last |
The handsome and sel... |
18 |
| 1365 |
7 Oct 2003 |
Horace |
Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man |
Happy the man, and h... |
8 |
| 509 |
07 Aug 2000 |
James Elroy Flecker |
The Golden Road to Samarkand |
HASSAN |
25 |
| 389 |
03 Apr 2000 |
James Joyce |
The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly |
Have you heard of on... |
92 |
| 953 |
1 Dec 2001 |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Parable of the Madman |
Have you not heard o... |
65 |
| 528 |
27 Aug 2000 |
James Merrill |
A Renewal |
Having used every su... |
8 |
| 142 |
09 Jul 1999 |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
He chanted a song of wizardry |
He chanted a song of... |
32 |
| 15 |
24 Feb 1999 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The Eagle (a fragment) |
He clasps the crag w... |
6 |
| 50 |
02 Apr 1999 |
W.H. Auden |
In Memory of W. B. Yeats |
He disappeared in th... |
67 |
| 576 |
15 Oct 2000 |
A. A. Milne |
Tra-la-la, tra-la-la |
He had made up a lit... |
12 |
| 963 |
17 Dec 2001 |
John Fuller |
Concerto for Double Bass |
He is a drunk leanin... |
12 |
| 559 |
27 Sep 2000 |
George A. Strong |
The Modern Hiawatha |
He killed the noble ... |
11 |
| 1176 |
18 Feb 2003 |
Les Murray |
Visitor |
He knocks at the door |
2 |
| 751 |
12 Apr 2001 |
Guillevic |
Elegies |
He probably held too... |
7 |
| 1211 |
30 Mar 2003 |
Wilfred Owen |
Disabled |
He sat in a wheeled ... |
46 |
| 1081 |
27 Aug 2002 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar |
The Dilettante: A Modern Type |
He scribbles some in... |
16 |
| 1608 |
29 Jan 2005 |
Francis Ledwidge |
Lament for Thomas MacDonagh |
He shall not hear th... |
12 |
| 265 |
17 Nov 1999 |
Lewis Carroll |
The Mad Gardener's Song |
He thought he saw an... |
54 |
| 962 |
14 Dec 2001 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Idiot Boy |
He wandered down the... |
8 |
| 792 |
26 May 2001 |
Sheenagh Pugh |
The Beautiful Lie |
He was about four, I... |
30 |
| 1063 |
23 Jun 2002 |
Stephen Dunn |
Named |
He'd spent his life ... |
27 |
| 785 |
25 May 2001 |
Paul Simon |
One Trick Pony |
He's a one trick pony |
29 |
| 1163 |
2 Feb 2003 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Song Of The Dead |
Hear now the Song of... |
73 |
| 101 |
27 May 1999 |
Edgar Allan Poe |
The Bells |
Hear the sledges wit... |
112 |
| 1423 |
8 Jan 2004 |
James Fenton |
Out of Danger |
Heart be kind and si... |
20 |
| 331 |
5 Feb 2000 |
Alexander Pope |
from An Essay on Man |
Heav'n from all crea... |
35 |
| 1050 |
10 May 2002 |
John Betjeman |
Devonshire Street W.1 |
The heavy mahogany d... |
16 |
| 279 |
02 Dec 1999 |
John Milton |
L'Allegro |
Hence, loathed Melancholy |
68 |
| 398 |
13 Apr 2000 |
Robert Herrick |
The Night Piece, To Julia |
Her eyes the glow-wo... |
20 |
| 1571 |
7 Dec 2004 |
Nissim Ezekiel |
Jewish Wedding in Bombay |
Her mother shed a te... |
49 |
| 1356 |
23 Sep 2003 |
Vikram Seth |
Qingdao: December |
Here by the sea this... |
24 |
| 1026 |
30 Mar 2002 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Prodigal Son |
Here come I to my ow... |
48 |
| 995 |
9 Feb 2002 |
John Lennon |
Come Together |
Here come old flatto... |
20 |
| 1535 |
17 Aug 2004 |
Robert Frost |
The Line-Gang |
Here come the line-g... |
13 |
| 1344 |
6 Sep 2003 |
Deborah Garrison |
Please Fire Me |
Here comes another a... |
24 |
| 1227 |
16 Apr 2003 |
A. E. Housman |
Here Dead We Lie |
Here dead we lie |
8 |
| 875 |
27 Aug 2001 |
Vincent Starrett |
221B |
Here dwell together ... |
14 |
| 163 |
31 Jul 1999 |
Carl Sandburg |
Dust |
Here is dust remembe... |
6 |
| 1414 |
30 Dec 2003 |
Rudyard Kipling |
The Old Issue |
"Here is nothing new... |
71 |
| 669 |
17 Jan 2001 |
John Wilmot |
Epitaph on Charles II |
Here lies a great an... |
4 |
| 1262 |
26 May 2003 |
A. E. Housman |
The Carpenter's Son |
"Here the hangman st... |
28 |
| 1658 |
22 Mar 2005 |
James Dickey |
The Heaven of Animals |
Here they are. The ... |
39 |
| 800 |
4 Jun 2001 |
Miroslav Holub |
In the Microscope |
Here too are the dre... |
10 |
| 665 |
13 Jan 2001 |
Robert Herrick |
Dreams |
Here we are all, by ... |
2 |
| 750 |
11 Apr 2001 |
Omar Khayyam |
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Here with a Loaf of ... |
8 |
| 1642 |
5 Mar 2005 |
Coventry Patmore |
Magna est Veritas |
Here, in this little Bay, |
10 |
| 112 |
07 Jun 1999 |
Bob Dylan |
Mr.Tambourine Man |
Hey, Mr. Tambourine ... |
27 |
| 1469 |
2 Mar 2004 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
Song for the Rainy Season |
Hidden, oh hidden |
60 |
| 944 |
17 Nov 2001 |
James Elroy Flecker |
Rioupéroux |
High and solemn moun... |
8 |
| 1563 |
15 Nov 2004 |
Paul Verlaine |
The Young Fools |
High-heels strugglin... |
12 |
| 1562 |
15 Nov 2004 |
Paul Verlaine |
The Young Fools |
High-heels strugglin... |
12 |
| 845 |
22 Jul 2001 |
Shel Silverstein |
Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich |
A hippo sandwich is ... |
12 |
| 1257 |
17 May 2003 |
Oswald Mtshali |
The Birth of Shaka |
His baby cry |
25 |
| 496 |
24 Jul 2000 |
Edgar A. Guest |
The Lay of the Troubled Golfer |
His eye was wild and... |
24 |
| 136 |
02 Jul 1999 |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
The Panther |
His vision, from the... |
12 |
| 1341 |
3 Sep 2003 |
James Hetfield |
Carpe Diem Baby |
Hit dirt |
59 |
| 5 |
15 Feb 1999 |
Carl Sandburg |
Chicago |
Hog Butcher for the ... |
42 |
| 1382 |
10 Nov 2003 |
Emily Dickinson |
Hope |
Hope is the thing wi... |
12 |
| 160 |
28 Jul 1999 |
William Butler Yeats |
The Realists |
Hope that you may un... |
8 |
| 205 |
13 Sep 1999 |
Carl Sandburg |
Crucible |
Hot gold runs a wind... |
6 |
| 149 |
16 Jul 1999 |
George Peele |
Bethsabe's Song |
Hot sun, cool fire, ... |
10 |
| 170 |
8 Aug 1999 |
Robert Frost |
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things |
The house had gone t... |
24 |
| 1249 |
8 May 2003 |
Wallace Stevens |
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm |
The house was quiet ... |
16 |
| 154 |
21 Jul 1999 |
Wallace Stevens |
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock |
The houses are haunted |
15 |
| 184 |
22 Aug 1999 |
Chief Sealth |
Chief Seattle's Reply |
How can you buy or s... |
117 |
| 315 |
19 Jan 2000 |
Hilaire Belloc |
Juliet |
How did the party go... |
4 |
| 269 |
21 Nov 1999 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
How do I love thee? |
How do I love thee? ... |
14 |
| 812 |
16 Jun 2001 |
Sharon Olds |
Sex Without Love |
How do they do it, t... |
24 |
| 652 |
30 Dec 2000 |
Robert Southey |
The Cataract of Lodore |
"How does the water |
121 |
| 964 |
17 Dec 2001 |
Lewis Carroll |
How Doth the Little Crocodile |
How doth the little ... |
8 |
| 1148 |
18 Jan 2003 |
Ruth Padel |
Misty |
How I love |
12 |
| 1101 |
9 Oct 2002 |
Hart Crane |
To Brooklyn Bridge |
How many dawns, chil... |
44 |
| 774 |
7 May 2001 |
Hayden Carruth |
Ray |
How many guys are si... |
36 |
| 1708 |
26 May 2005 |
Bob Dylan |
Blowin' in the Wind |
How many roads must ... |
24 |
| 409 |
25 Apr 2000 |
Lewis Carroll |
Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur |
"How shall I be a poet? |
108 |
| 990 |
28 Jan 2002 |
Langston Hughes |
Sea Calm |
How still, |
6 |
| 1694 |
9 May 2005 |
Andrew Marvell |
The Garden |
How vainly men thems... |
72 |
| 345 |
18 Feb 2000 |
Charlotte Smith |
Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore |
Huge vapours brood a... |
14 |
| 1264 |
30 May 2003 |
Vachel Lindsay |
The Santa Fe Trail |
(A Humoresque) |
178 |
| 1315 |
1 Aug 2003 |
Judith Saunders |
Mathematicians at Work |
hunker down on their... |
20 |
| 621 |
30 Nov 2000 |
R. S. Thomas |
Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man |
I |
85 |
| 1191 |
7 Mar 2003 |
Charles Kingsley |
A Farewell |
I |
10 |
| 232 |
11 Oct 1999 |
Wilfred Owen |
Insensibility |
I |
65 |
| 329 |
03 Feb 2000 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Ode to the West Wind |
I |
75 |
| 438 |
26 May 2000 |
U. A. Fanthorpe |
Not my Best Side |
I |
60 |
| 37 |
19 Mar 1999 |
Geoffrey Hill |
Mercian Hymns |
I |
41 |
| 1252 |
12 May 2003 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron |
The Dream |
I |
215 |
| 107 |
02 Jun 1999 |
T. S. Eliot |
Preludes |
I |
14 |
| 1588 |
2 Jan 2005 |
Wallace Stevens |
Six Significant Landscapes |
I |
62 |
| 859 |
8 Aug 2001 |
Wendy Cope |
Waste Land Limericks |
I |
30 |
| 536 |
03 Sep 2000 |
Diana Bridge |
Lighter than a feather |
I |
47 |
| 1600 |
19 Jan 2005 |
William Butler Yeats |
Two Songs Of A Fool |
I |
34 |
| 620 |
28 Nov 2000 |
Wallace Stevens |
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
I |
67 |
| 1363 |
2 Oct 2003 |
Margaret Atwood |
Tricks with Mirrors |
i |
71 |
| 1441 |
26 Jan 2004 |
W. B. Yeats |
Among School Children |
I |
72 |
| 1507 |
14 May 2004 |
John Clare |
I Am |
I am - yet what I am... |
18 |
| 1499 |
18 Apr 2004 |
Wendy Cope |
The Uncertainty of the Poet |
I am a poet. |
16 |
| 543 |
10 Sep 2000 |
John Betjeman |
Executive |
I am a young executi... |
24 |
| 423 |
11 May 2000 |
Anon |
The Song of Songs |
I am black, but come... |
51 |
| 1055 |
21 May 2002 |
Jack Prelutsky |
Bleezer's Ice Cream |
I am Ebenezer Bleezer, |
40 |
| 666 |
15 Jan 2001 |
Alexander Pope |
Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness |
I am his Highness' d... |
2 |
| 819 |
25 Jun 2001 |
Orhan Veli |
I am listening to Istanbul |
I am listening to Is... |
38 |
| 1367 |
9 Oct 2003 |
Sue Hubbard |
Eurydice |
I am not afraid as I... |
33 |
| 926 |
28 Oct 2001 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Dirge Without Music |
I am not resigned to... |
16 |
| 1039 |
21 Apr 2002 |
Louis MacNeice |
Prayer before Birth |
I am not yet born; O... |
39 |
| 171 |
09 Aug 1999 |
Anthony Raftery |
I am Raftery the poet |
I am Raftery the poet. |
12 |
| 678 |
27 Jan 2001 |
Sylvia Plath |
Mirror |
I am silver and exac... |
18 |
| 516 |
15 Aug 2000 |
Nissim Ezekiel |
The Patriot |
I am standing for pe... |
46 |
| 175 |
13 Aug 1999 |
Anon |
I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre |
I am Taliesin. I sin... |
27 |
| 403 |
18 Apr 2000 |
John Donne |
A Lame Beggar |
I am unable, yonder ... |
2 |
| 1310 |
27 Jul 2003 |
Simon Armitage |
I am Very Bothered |
I am very bothered w... |
14 |
| 1671 |
9 Apr 2005 |
Shel Silverstein |
It's Dark in Here |
I am writing these poems |
10 |
| 167 |
05 Aug 1999 |
Anon |
Pangur Ban |
I and Pangur Ban my cat, |
32 |
| 399 |
14 Apr 2000 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
The Indian Serenade |
I arise from dreams ... |
24 |
| 1777 |
5 Oct 2005 |
Billy Collins |
Introduction To Poetry |
I ask them to take a poem |
16 |
| 1397 |
25 Nov 2003 |
Billy Collins |
Introduction to Poetry |
I ask them to take a poem |
16 |
| 747 |
8 Apr 2001 |
Randall Jarrell |
The Player Piano |
I ate pancakes one n... |
35 |
| 260 |
12 Nov 1999 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Moonrise |
I awoke in the Midsu... |
10 |
| 1302 |
16 Jul 2003 |
Denise Levertov |
Opening Words |
I believe the earth |
31 |
| 527 |
25 Aug 2000 |
Thomas Edward Brown |
I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May |
I bended unto me a b... |
12 |
| 1226 |
15 Apr 2003 |
Oscar Wilde |
To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems |
I can write no state... |
12 |
| 605 |
13 Nov 2000 |
Pablo Neruda |
Saddest Poem |
I can write the sadd... |
33 |
| 1436 |
21 Jan 2004 |
Emily Dickinson |
I Cannot Live with You |
I cannot live with you, |
51 |
| 1785 |
25 Oct 2005 |
Elizabeth Bishop |
The Fish |
I caught a tremendou... |
76 |
| 35 |
17 Mar 1999 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The Windhover |
I caught this mornin... |
14 |
| 742 |
3 Apr 2001 |
Nazim Hikmet |
I Come and Stand at Every Door |
I come and stand at ... |
20 |
| 1631 |
22 Feb 2005 |
Carl Sandburg |
Offering and Rebuff |
I could love you |
14 |
| 420 |
06 May 2000 |
John Davidson |
Thirty Bob a Week |
I couldn't touch a s... |
96 |
| 1157 |
27 Jan 2003 |
Pablo Neruda |
Love Sonnet XI |
I crave your mouth, ... |
14 |
| 1188 |
4 Mar 2003 |
Padraic H. Pearse |
The Mother |
I do not grudge them... |
16 |
| 877 |
30 Aug 2001 |
Tom Brown |
I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell |
I do not love thee, ... |
4 |
| 1803 |
30 Dec 2005 |
Pablo Neruda |
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You |
I do not love you ex... |
14 |
| 745 |
6 Apr 2001 |
King Crimson |
Indiscipline |
I do remember one thing. |
11 |
| 1456 |
11 Feb 2004 |
Richard Brautigan |
It's raining in love |
I don't know what it is, |
37 |
| 1428 |
13 Jan 2004 |
Simon Goodway |
Octopusses |
I don't know what th... |
4 |
| 422 |
11 May 2000 |
Pablo Neruda |
Sonnet XVII: Love |
I don't love you as ... |
14 |
| 1353 |
19 Sep 2003 |
Steely Dan |
Things I miss the most |
I don't mind the quiet |
44 |
| 418 |
4 May 2000 |
Stephen Foster |
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair |
I dream of Jeanie wi... |
24 |
| 924 |
25 Oct 2001 |
Ambrose Bierce |
Christian |
I dreamed I stood up... |
18 |
| 1532 |
20 Jul 2004 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
Breaking Up |
I fell out of love: ... |
36 |
| 871 |
23 Aug 2001 |
Emily Dickinson |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
I felt a Funeral, in... |
20 |
| 1498 |
16 Apr 2004 |
Vladimir Nabokov |
On Discovering a Butterfly |
I found it and I nam... |
12 |
| 25 |
7 Mar 1999 |
George Santayana |
The Poet's Testament |
I give back to the e... |
20 |
| 1510 |
25 May 2004 |
Ogden Nash |
The Purist |
I give you now Profe... |
10 |
| 474 |
03 Jul 2000 |
Jane Kenyon |
Otherwise |
I got out of bed |
26 |
| 1663 |
31 Mar 2005 |
Queen Elizabeth I |
On Monsieur's Departure |
I grieve and dare no... |
18 |
| 1416 |
1 Jan 2004 |
Roald Dahl |
Cinderella |
I guess you think yo... |
122 |
| 1028 |
2 Apr 2002 |
Patrick Barrington |
The Diplomatic Platypus |
I had a duck-billed ... |
48 |
| 1577 |
19 Dec 2004 |
Patrick Barrington |
I Had a Hippopotamus |
I had a hippopotamus... |
32 |
| 108 |
2 Jun 1999 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
The Penitent |
I had a little Sorrow, |
24 |
| 459 |
18 Jun 2000 |
Wallace Stevens |
Two Figures in Dense Violet Light |
I had as lief be emb... |
18 |
| 1276 |
13 Jun 2003 |
Robert Frost |
A Dream Pang |
I had withdrawn in f... |
14 |
| 566 |
4 Oct 2000 |
A. B. "Banjo" Paterson |
Clancy of the Overflow |
I had written him a ... |
34 |
| 1545 |
27 Sep 2004 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
Ars Poetica |
I have always aspire... |
36 |
| 554 |
22 Sep 2000 |
R. S. Thomas |
Taliesin |
I have been all men ... |
20 |
| 235 |
15 Oct 1999 |
Carl Sandburg |
Pennsylvania |
I have been in Penns... |
14 |
| 1565 |
22 Nov 2004 |
Robert Frost |
Acquainted with the Night |
I have been one acqu... |
14 |
| 274 |
27 Nov 1999 |
William Carlos Williams |
This Is Just To Say |
I have eaten |
12 |
| 230 |
9 Oct 1999 |
Don Marquis |
pity the poor spiders |
i have just been reading |
54 |
| 1075 |
20 Jul 2002 |
Theodore Roethke |
Dolor |
I have known the ine... |
13 |
| 1011 |
7 Mar 2002 |
William Butler Yeats |
Easter, 1916 |
I have met them at c... |
80 |
| 261 |
13 Nov 1999 |
Robert E. Howard |
Recompense |
I have not heard lut... |
24 |
| 695 |
13 Feb 2001 |
John Masefield |
Beauty |
I have seen dawn and... |
8 |
| 1268 |
3 Jun 2003 |
Michael Flanders |
Twenty Tons of TNT |
I have seen it estimated |
40 |
| 685 |
4 Feb 2001 |
James Elroy Flecker |
The Old Ships |
I have seen old ship... |
31 |
| 598 |
6 Nov 2000 |
Countee Cullen |
For A Poet |
I have wrapped my dr... |
8 |
| 396 |
11 Apr 2000 |
Trumbull Stickney |
I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander |
I hear a river thro'... |
3 |
| 246 |
27 Oct 1999 |
Walt Whitman |
I Hear America Singing |
I hear America singi... |
15 |
| 664 |
12 Jan 2001 |
Mervyn Peake |
Conceit |
I heard a winter tre... |
4 |
| 551 |
19 Sep 2000 |
Max Plowman |
Her Beauty |
I heard them say, "H... |
10 |
| 98 |
24 May 1999 |
Ted Hughes |
The Thought Fox |
I imagine this midni... |
24 |
| 789 |
23 May 2001 |
Stephen Leacock |
The Social Plan |
I know a very tireso... |
30 |
| 1336 |
28 Aug 2003 |
Sir John Davies |
Of Human Knowledge |
I know my body's of ... |
12 |
| 32 |
14 Mar 1999 |
William Butler Yeats |
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
I know that I shall ... |
16 |
| 977 |
2 Jan 2002 |
Thomas Hardy |
The Darkling Thrush |
I leant upon a coppi... |
32 |
| 1100 |
8 Oct 2002 |
Roger McGough |
A Good Poem |
I like a good poem |
16 |
| 699 |
17 Feb 2001 |
Norman MacCaig |
Incident |
I look across the ta... |
18 |
| 1624 |
15 Feb 2005 |
Nikki Giovanni |
Resignation |
I love you |
79 |
| 1517 |
11 Jun 2004 |
Dorianne Laux |
The Shipfitter's Wife |
I loved him most |
19 |
| 1128 |
14 Dec 2002 |
Shel Silverstein |
Snowball |
I made myself a snowball |
8 |
| 1597 |
14 Jan 2005 |
Patrick Barrington |
I Met a Lady in the Wood |
I met a lady in the wood. |
56 |
| 1724 |
20 Jun 2005 |
Don Marquis |
warty bliggens the toad |
i met a toad |
54 |
| 22 |
3 Mar 1999 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Ozymandias |
I met a traveller fr... |
14 |
| 504 |
02 Aug 2000 |
Li Po |
About Tu Fu |
I met Tu Fu on a mou... |
8 |
| 1085 |
2 Sep 2002 |
Harry Guest |
Death of a Friendship |
I mourn, now that yo... |
52 |
| 27 |
8 Mar 1999 |
John Masefield |
Sea Fever |
I must go down to th... |
24 |
| 914 |
14 Oct 2001 |
Christopher Morley |
Tit for Tat |
I often pass a graci... |
8 |
| 599 |
7 Nov 2000 |
Rita Dove |
Geometry |
I prove a theorem an... |
9 |
| 1374 |
17 Oct 2003 |
Jaime 'Robbie' Robertson |
The Weight |
I pulled into Nazare... |
29 |
| 1420 |
5 Jan 2004 |
Charles Bukowski |
Hemingway Never Did This |
I read that he lost ... |
31 |
| 714 |
4 Mar 2001 |
Nissim Ezekiel |
Night of the Scorpion |
"I remember the nigh... |
24 |
| 1198 |
14 Mar 2003 |
Sara Teasdale |
The Tree of Song |
I sang my songs for ... |
12 |
| 826 |
3 Jul 2001 |
Li Po |
Self-Abandonment |
I sat drinking and d... |
4 |
| 834 |
11 Jul 2001 |
Carl Sandburg |
Soup |
I saw a famous man e... |
9 |
| 508 |
06 Aug 2000 |
Walt Whitman |
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing |
I saw in Louisiana a... |
16 |
| 293 |
18 Dec 1999 |
Allen Ginsberg |
Howl |
I saw the best minds... |
64 |
| 254 |
05 Nov 1999 |
Philip Larkin |
The North Ship |
I saw three ships go... |
24 |
| 1004 |
21 Feb 2002 |
Jane Kenyon |
Finding a Long Gray Hair |
I scrub the long flo... |
7 |
| 1523 |
22 Jun 2004 |
Piet Hein |
An Ethical Grook |
I see |
12 |
| 124 |
19 Jun 1999 |
Hillaire Belloc |
The Hippopotamus |
I shoot the Hippopotamus |
4 |
| 1045 |
3 May 2002 |
Grace Nichols |
The Body Reclining |
I sing the body reclining |
28 |
| 1042 |
23 Apr 2002 |
Walt Whitman |
I Sit and Look Out |
I sit and look out u... |
19 |
| 889 |
14 Sep 2001 |
W. H. Auden |
September 1, 1939 |
I sit in one of the dives |
99 |
| 42 |
24 Mar 1999 |
Ted Hughes |
Hawk Roosting |
I sit in the top of ... |
24 |
| 1141 |
11 Jan 2003 |
Charlotte Mew |
I So Liked Spring |
I so liked Spring la... |
9 |
| 1443 |
29 Jan 2004 |
T. S. Eliot |
The Dry Salvages: Canto III |
I sometimes wonder i... |
47 |
| 1475 |
9 Mar 2004 |
George Santayana |
I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight |
I sought on earth a ... |
14 |
| 1275 |
12 Jun 2003 |
Paul Dunbar |
The Wind and the Sea |
I stood by the shore... |
56 |
| 408 |
24 Apr 2000 |
P. G. Wodehouse |
Caliban at Sunset |
I stood with a man |
18 |
| 1329 |
19 Aug 2003 |
David Ignatow |
The Bagel |
I stopped to pick up... |
13 |
| 10 |
19 Feb 1999 |
Walter Savage Landor |
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday |
I strove with none, ... |
4 |
| 1745 |
30 Jul 2005 |
Emily Dickinson |
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed |
I taste a liquor nev... |
16 |
| 1797 |
18 Nov 2005 |
Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta |
Winter '84 |
I tell the corner st... |
20 |
| 393 |
8 Apr 2000 |
Peter Schaeffer |
Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night |
I think |
19 |
| 1040 |
21 Apr 2002 |
William Butler Yeats |
On Being Asked for a War Poem |
I think it better th... |
6 |
| 146 |
13 Jul 1999 |
Joyce Kilmer |
Trees |
I think that I shall... |
12 |
| 443 |
2 Jun 2000 |
Tom Disch |
Poems |
I think that I shall... |
26 |
| 1676 |
14 Apr 2005 |
Andrew Motion |
Spring Wedding |
I took your news out... |
16 |
| 912 |
13 Oct 2001 |
Theodore Roethke |
The Waking |
I wake to sleep, and... |
19 |
| 644 |
22 Dec 2000 |
Amy Lowell |
Patterns |
I walk down the gard... |
107 |
| 1431 |
16 Jan 2004 |
William Blake |
London |
I wander thro' each ... |
16 |
| 63 |
15 Apr 1999 |
William Wordsworth |
Daffodils |
I wandered lonely as... |
24 |
| 1756 |
22 Aug 2005 |
David Budbill |
Dilemma |
I want to be |
12 |
| 346 |
21 Feb 2000 |
Paul Zimmer |
The Great Bird of Love |
I want to become a g... |
22 |
| 1122 |
7 Dec 2002 |
Edith Sodergran |
Hope |
I want to let go - |
12 |
| 1439 |
24 Jan 2004 |
Federico García Lorca |
Gacela of the Dark Death |
I want to sleep the ... |
23 |
| 1322 |
9 Aug 2003 |
Erica Jong |
Climbing You |
I want to understand... |
26 |
| 822 |
28 Jun 2001 |
Margaret Walker |
I Want To Write |
I want to write |
10 |
| 1410 |
26 Dec 2003 |
Pablo Neruda |
If You Forget Me |
I want you to know |
47 |
| 1758 |
25 Aug 2005 |
Dalia Ravikovitch |
Clockwork Doll |
I was a clockwork do... |
14 |
| 1087 |
5 Sep 2002 |
William Blake |
A Poison Tree |
I was angry with my ... |
16 |
| 1732 |
11 Jul 2005 |
Czeslaw Milosz |
Nonadaptation |
I was not made to li... |
13 |
| 28 |
10 Mar 1999 |
Adrian Mitchell |
To Whom It May Concern |
I was run over by th... |
39 |
| 1291 |
30 Jun 2003 |
Len Roberts |
The List of Most Difficult Words |
I was still standing... |
32 |
| 36 |
17 Mar 1999 |
Don Marquis |
the lesson of the moth |
i was talking to a moth |
54 |
| 1729 |
3 Jul 2005 |
Stephen Dunn |
The Stories |
I was unfaithful to ... |
65 |
| 43 |
24 Mar 1999 |
Rudyard Kipling |
Tommy |
I went into a public... |
40 |
| 113 |
8 Jun 1999 |
Sara Teasdale |
Morning |
I went out on an Apr... |
8 |
| 1 |
09 Feb 1999 |
William Butler Yeats |
The Song of Wandering Aengus |
I went out to the ha... |
24 |
| 1225 |
14 Apr 2003 |
James Elroy Flecker |
To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence |
I who am dead a thou... |
24 |
| 309 |
4 Jan 2000 |
William Butler Yeats |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
I will arise and go ... |
12 |
| 1223 |
12 Apr 2003 |
Allen Ginsberg |
A Vow |
I will haunt these States |
37 |
| 406 |
21 Apr 2000 |
Anna Wickham |
Song |
I will pluck from my... |
16 |
| 1618 |
9 Feb 2005 |
John T. Wood |
Poem for Everyone |
I will present you |
34 |
| 905 |
3 Oct 2001 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
I will put Chaos into fourteen lines |
I will put Chaos int... |
14 |
| 1747 |
2 Aug 2005 |
Dorothy Parker |
Untitled |
I wish I could drink... |
4 |
| 876 |
29 Aug 2001 |
Louis Alexander MacKay |
I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver |
I wish my tongue wer... |
15 |
| 452 |
12 Jun 2000 |
José Martí |
I wish to leave the world |
I wish to leave the world |
8 |
| 1168 |
7 Feb 2003 |
John Donne |
The Good-morrow |
I wonder by my troth... |
21 |
| 830 |
6 Jul 2001 |
Wilfred Gibson |
The Question |
I wonder if the old ... |
12 |
| 339 |
14 Feb 2000 |
Leonard Cohen |
The Music Crept By Us |
I would like to remind |
13 |
| 1093 |
24 Sep 2002 |
Margaret Atwood |
Variations on the Word "Sleep" |
I would like to watc... |
30 |
| 632 |
10 Dec 2000 |
Nikki Giovanni |
I Wrote A Good Omelet |
I wrote a good omele... |
15 |
| 713 |
2 Mar 2001 |
Carl Sandburg |
Last Answers |
I wrote a poem on th... |
12 |
| 1415 |
31 Dec 2003 |
Chris Rea |
Gone Fishing |
I'm going fishing |
21 |
| 1695 |
10 May 2005 |
Judith Viorst |
Learning |
I'm learning to say ... |
12 |
| 711 |
28 Feb 2001 |
Emily Dickinson |
I'm Nobody! Who are you? |
I'm Nobody! Who are you? |
8 |
| 1540 |
7 Sep 2004 |
Nikki Giovanni |
I'm not Lonely |
i'm not lonely |
22 |
| 414 |
01 May 2000 |
Thomas Hardy |
Epitaph on a pessimist |
I'm Smith of Stoke a... |
4 |
| 1759 |
26 Aug 2005 |
Pam Ayres |
The Dolly on the Dustcart |
I'm the dolly on the... |
48 |
| 786 |
20 May 2001 |
Margaret Atwood |
Postcard |
I'm thinking of you.... |
42 |
| 1339 |
31 Aug 2003 |
Robert Desnos |
I've Dreamed of You So Much |
I've dreamed of you ... |
27 |
| 410 |
26 Apr 2000 |
Langston Hughes |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
I've known rivers |
13 |
| 1348 |
13 Sep 2003 |
Ogden Nash |
Polterguest, My Polterguest |
I've put Miss Hopper... |
36 |
| 813 |
16 Jun 2001 |
Thomas Hardy |
Weathers |
(I) |
20 |
| 693 |
12 Feb 2001 |
Wendy Cope |
Strugnell's Haiku |
(i) |
12 |
| 1169 |
9 Feb 2003 |
Marianne Moore |
Poetry |
I, too, dislike it: ... |
38 |
| 259 |
11 Nov 1999 |
Lord Dunsany |
Songs from an Evil Wood |
I. |
67 |
| 839 |
16 Jul 2001 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
A Musical Instrument |
I. |
49 |
| 372 |
17 Mar 2000 |
Anon |
Icham of Irlaunde |
Icham of Irlaunde |
7 |
| 1155 |
25 Jan 2003 |
A. S. J. Tessimond |
Betrayal |
If a man says half h... |
10 |
| 1450 |
5 Feb 2004 |
W. H. Auden |
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics |
If all a top physici... |
48 |
| 1001 |
16 Feb 2002 |
Sir Walter Raleigh |
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
If all the world and... |
24 |
| 1201 |
18 Mar 2003 |
Thomas Hardy |
Hap |
If but some vengeful... |
14 |
| 1132 |
20 Dec 2002 |
E. E. Cummings |
if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) |
if everything happen... |
45 |
| 878 |
31 Aug 2001 |
Dorothy Parker |
Frustration |
If I had a shiny gun, |
12 |
| 1049 |
9 May 2002 |
Roger Woddis |
Down With Fanatics! |
If I had my way with... |
24 |
| 454 |
13 Jun 2000 |
e. e. cummings |
If I have made, my lady, intricate |
If I have made, my l... |
15 |
| 280 |
2 Dec 1999 |
Rupert Brooke |
The Soldier |
If I should die, thi... |
14 |
| 1516 |
8 Jun 2004 |
Michael Ondaatje |
The Cinnamon Peeler |
If I were a cinnamon... |
46 |
| 178 |
17 Aug 1999 |
Philip Larkin |
Water |
If I were called in |
13 |
| 385 |
30 Mar 2000 |
Seigfreid Sassoon |
Base Details |
If I were fierce, an... |
10 |
| 1633 |
24 Feb 2005 |
Raymond Carver |
My Death |
If I'm lucky, I'll b... |
36 |
| 292 |
16 Dec 1999 |
Robert Hunter |
Ripple |
If my words did glow... |
26 |
| 1314 |
31 Jul 2003 |
Becky Dennison Sakellariou |
Math Is Beautiful and So Are You |
If n is an even number |
16 |
| 299 |
23 Dec 1999 |
Richard Thompson |
Taking My Business Elsewhere |
If she's not here by... |
24 |
| 501 |
31 Jul 2000 |
Stanley Kunitz |
King of the River |
If the water were cl... |
77 |
| 949 |
24 Nov 2001 |
Andrew Lang |
Brahma |
If the wild bowler t... |
8 |
| 1253 |
13 May 2003 |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
Dream-Pedlary |
If there were dreams... |
46 |
| 842 |
19 Jul 2001 |
Robert Southey |
To a Goose |
If thou didst feed o... |
14 |
| 591 |
31 Oct 2000 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Sonnet XIV |
If thou must love me... |
14 |
| 1444 |
30 Jan 2004 |
Wendy Cope |
Being Boring |
If you ask me 'What'... |
24 |
| 271 |
23 Nov 1999 |
Rudyard Kipling |
If |
If you can keep your... |
32 |
| 1581 |
23 Dec 2004 |
William Stafford |
A Ritual to Read to Each Other |
If you don't know th... |
20 |
| 1078 |
20 Aug 2002 |
Sara Teasdale |
Water Lilies |
If you have forgotte... |
8 |
| 1594 |
10 Jan 2005 |
Lao-Tzu |
Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 |
If you want to be a ... |
20 |
| 1327 |
17 Aug 2003 |
X. J. Kennedy |
What We Might Be, What We Are |
If you were a scoop ... |
16 |
| 529 |
28 Aug 2000 |
Emily Dickinson |
If you were coming in the fall |
If you were coming i... |
20 |
| 615 |
23 Nov 2000 |
Monty Python |
The Philosopher's Drinking Song |
Immanuel Kant was a ... |
21 |
| 1796 |
17 Nov 2005 |
Sappho |
Poem I |
Immortal Aphrodite o... |
28 |
| 755 |
16 Apr 2001 |
Norman MacCaig |
Gone Are The Days |
Impossible to call a... |
20 |
| 1371 |
14 Oct 2003 |
Mark Granier |
Girl in a Wheelchair Dancing to U2 in Lansdowne Stadium 1997 |
In a clearing near m... |
6 |
| 1308 |
25 Jul 2003 |
Algernon Charles Swinburne |
A Forsaken Garden |
In a coign of the cl... |
80 |
| 453 |
12 Jun 2000 |
Mark Strand |
Keeping Things Whole |
In a field |
17 |
| 1165 |
4 Feb 2003 |
Raymond Calvert |
The Ballad Of William Bloat |
In a mean abode on t... |
30 |
| 1098 |
3 Oct 2002 |
John Betjeman |
Indoor Games near Newbury |
In among the silver ... |
58 |
| 1377 |
1 Nov 2003 |
Jeffrey McDaniel |
The Quiet World |
In an effort to get ... |
20 |
| 697 |
15 Feb 2001 |
Dorothy Parker |
A Well Worn Story |
In April, in April, |
20 |
| 344 |
18 Feb 2000 |
Anon |
The Navajo Night Way Ceremony |
In beauty ... |
20 |
| 1254 |
14 May 2003 |
Mei Yao Ch'en |
A Dream at Night |
In broad daylight I ... |
11 |
| 1438 |
23 Jan 2004 |
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya |
Shaper Shaped |
In days gone by I us... |
32 |
| 285 |
08 Dec 1999 |
Horace Smith |
On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below |
In Egypt's sandy sil... |
14 |
| 11 |
20 Feb 1999 |
John McCrae |
In Flanders Fields |
In Flanders fields t... |
15 |
| 948 |
22 Nov 2001 |
Julia A. Moore |
Grand Rapids Cricket Club |
In Grand Rapids is a... |
32 |
| 1340 |
2 Sep 2003 |
Anonymous |
A Strike Among the Poets |
In his chamber, weak... |
32 |
| 198 |
06 Sep 1999 |
Peter Porter |
Japanese Jokes |
In his winged collar |
33 |
| 1466 |
26 Feb 2004 |
Thomas Campion |
My Sweetest Lesbia |
(in imitation of Cat... |
19 |
| 1287 |
25 Jun 2003 |
J. H. Frere |
A Fable |
(In imitation of Dryden) |
18 |
| 1636 |
27 Feb 2005 |
e. e. cummings |
In Just- |
in Just- |
24 |
| 361 |
06 Mar 2000 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Cologne |
In Kohln, a town of ... |
10 |
| 382 |
27 Mar 2000 |
A. K. Ramanujan |
A River |
In Madurai, |
49 |
| 894 |
21 Sep 2001 |
Adrian Mitchell |
Watch Your Step - I'm Drenched |
In Manchester there ... |
24 |
| 991 |
30 Jan 2002 |
Stephen Spender |
Seascape |
In memoriam M.A.S |
27 |
| 952 |
27 Nov 2001 |
Drummond Allison |
Verity |
(In memory of Captai... |
16 |
| 349 |
23 Feb 2000 |
Geoffrey Hill |
A Prayer to the Sun |
(in memory of Miguel... |
19 |
| 1068 |
27 Jun 2002 |
Charles S. Calverley |
Lovers and a Reflection |
In moss-prankt dells... |
58 |
| 476 |
5 Jul 2000 |
Dylan Thomas |
In my craft or sullen art |
In my craft or sullen art |
20 |
| 836 |
13 Jul 2001 |
Stephen Spender |
In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic |
In railway halls, on... |
15 |
| 548 |
16 Sep 2000 |
Anonymous |
Barbara Allen |
In Scarlet town, whe... |
44 |
| 1245 |
4 May 2003 |
Li-Young Lee |
Persimmons |
In sixth grade Mrs. ... |
85 |