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# 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
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1581 23 Dec 2004 William Stafford A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don't know th... 20
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