| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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