| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 09 Feb 1999 | William Butler Yeats | The Song of Wandering Aengus | I went out to the ha... | 24 |
| 2 | 10 Feb 1999 | Walter De La Mare | The Listeners | 'Is there anybody th... | 36 |
| 3 | 11 Feb 1999 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Inversnaid | This darksome burn, ... | 16 |
| 4 | 12 Feb 1999 | J R R Tolkien | The Road Goes Ever On | The Road goes ever o... | 8 |
| 5 | 15 Feb 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Chicago | Hog Butcher for the ... | 42 |
| 6 | 15 Feb 1999 | Arthur O'Shaughnessy | Ode | We are the music-makers, | 24 |
| 7 | 17 Feb 1999 | Anon | Scarborough Fair | Are you going to Sca... | 20 |
| 8 | 17 Feb 1999 | Christina Rosetti | Song | When I am dead, my d... | 16 |
| 9 | 19 Feb 1999 | T. S. Eliot | La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) | Stand on the highest... | 24 |
| 10 | 19 Feb 1999 | Walter Savage Landor | On His Seventy-fifth Birthday | I strove with none, ... | 4 |
| 11 | 20 Feb 1999 | John McCrae | In Flanders Fields | In Flanders fields t... | 15 |
| 12 | 22 Feb 1999 | John Keats | On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer | Much have I travell'... | 14 |
| 13 | 22 Feb 1999 | Alfred Noyes | The Highwayman | The wind was a torre... | 103 |
| 14 | 24 Feb 1999 | Dylan Thomas | Prologue | This day winding down now | 102 |
| 15 | 24 Feb 1999 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Eagle (a fragment) | He clasps the crag w... | 6 |
| 16 | 25 Feb 1999 | William Shakespeare | Full Fathom Five | Full fathom five thy... | 9 |
| 17 | 26 Feb 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | The Way Through the Woods | They shut the road t... | 25 |
| 18 | 27 Feb 1999 | Louis MacNeice | Bagpipe Music | It's no go the merry... | 34 |
| 19 | 01 Mar 1999 | Robert Burns | John Anderson My Jo | John Anderson my jo,... | 16 |
| 20 | 1 Mar 1999 | Robert L. Stevenson | Requiem | Under the wide and s... | 8 |
| 21 | 03 Mar 1999 | William Butler Yeats | Sailing to Byzantium | That is no country f... | 32 |
| 22 | 3 Mar 1999 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ozymandias | I met a traveller fr... | 14 |
| 23 | 05 Mar 1999 | Matsuo Basho | Haiku | old pond..... | 3 |
| 24 | 5 Mar 1999 | Arthur Guiterman | On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness | The tusks which clas... | 8 |
| 25 | 7 Mar 1999 | George Santayana | The Poet's Testament | I give back to the e... | 20 |
| 26 | 08 Mar 1999 | William Blake | Jerusalem | And did those feet i... | 16 |
| 27 | 8 Mar 1999 | John Masefield | Sea Fever | I must go down to th... | 24 |
| 28 | 10 Mar 1999 | Adrian Mitchell | To Whom It May Concern | I was run over by th... | 39 |
| 29 | 10 Mar 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | The Sea and the Hills | Who hath desired the... | 28 |
| 30 | 12 Mar 1999 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kubla Khan | (or, a Vision in a D... | 55 |
| 31 | 12 Mar 1999 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Break, break, break | Break, break, break, | 16 |
| 32 | 14 Mar 1999 | William Butler Yeats | An Irish Airman Foresees His Death | I know that I shall ... | 16 |
| 33 | 15 Mar 1999 | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI | White in the moon th... | 16 |
| 34 | 15 Mar 1999 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | First Fig | My candle burns at b... | 4 |
| 35 | 17 Mar 1999 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | The Windhover | I caught this mornin... | 14 |
| 36 | 17 Mar 1999 | Don Marquis | the lesson of the moth | i was talking to a moth | 54 |
| 37 | 19 Mar 1999 | Geoffrey Hill | Mercian Hymns | I | 41 |
| 38 | 19 Mar 1999 | Dylan Thomas | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | Do not go gentle int... | 19 |
| 39 | 20 Mar 1999 | Alexander Pope | The Riddle of the World | Know then thyself, p... | 17 |
| 40 | 22 Mar 1999 | Anon | The Book of Job | Can you hunt the pre... | 62 |
| 41 | 22 Mar 1999 | Sir Henry Newbolt | Ireland, Ireland | Down thy valleys, Ir... | 12 |
| 42 | 24 Mar 1999 | Ted Hughes | Hawk Roosting | I sit in the top of ... | 24 |
| 43 | 24 Mar 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | Tommy | I went into a public... | 40 |
| 44 | 26 Mar 1999 | William Shakespeare | My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) | My mistress' eyes ar... | 14 |
| 45 | 28 Mar 1999 | Boris Pasternak | Winter Night | It snowed and snowed... | 32 |
| 46 | 29 Mar 1999 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Lament for Boromir | Through Rohan over f... | 30 |
| 47 | 29 Mar 1999 | Christina Rossetti | Uphill | Does the road wind u... | 16 |
| 48 | 31 Mar 1999 | William Shakespeare | Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth | O, pardon me, thou b... | 22 |
| 49 | 31 Mar 1999 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | The Unexplorer | There was a road ran... | 6 |
| 50 | 02 Apr 1999 | W.H. Auden | In Memory of W. B. Yeats | He disappeared in th... | 67 |
| 51 | 2 Apr 1999 | Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken | Two roads diverged i... | 20 |
| 52 | 3 Apr 1999 | Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky | 'Twas brillig and th... | 28 |
| 53 | 05 Apr 1999 | Sylvia Plath | Winter landscape, with rocks | Water in the millrac... | 15 |
| 54 | 5 Apr 1999 | Walt Whitman | When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer | When I heard the lea... | 10 |
| 55 | 07 Apr 1999 | Robert Graves | Welsh Incident | 'But that was nothin... | 51 |
| 56 | 09 Apr 1999 | Matsuo Basho | Haiku | scent of plum blossoms | 3 |
| 57 | 7 Apr 1999 | E. E. Cummings | pity this busy monster, manunkind | pity this busy monst... | 15 |
| 58 | 10 Apr 1999 | Dylan Thomas | The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower | The force that throu... | 22 |
| 59 | 10 Apr 1999 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Spring and Fall, to a Young Child | Margaret, are you gr... | 15 |
| 60 | 12 Apr 1999 | William Butler Yeats | Byzantium | The unpurged images ... | 40 |
| 61 | 12 Apr 1999 | Seamus Heaney | Song | A rowan like a lipst... | 8 |
| 62 | 14 Apr 1999 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | So We'll Go No More a-Roving | So we'll go no more ... | 12 |
| 63 | 15 Apr 1999 | William Wordsworth | Daffodils | I wandered lonely as... | 24 |
| 64 | 16 Apr 1999 | Peter Porter | Instant Fish | Instant Fish | 4 |
| 65 | 17 Apr 1999 | Robert Browning | Home Thoughts From Abroad | Oh, to be in England | 20 |
| 66 | 19 Apr 1999 | William Blake | The Tyger | Tyger! Tyger! Burnin... | 24 |
| 67 | 19 Apr 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | The Ballad of East and West | Oh, East is East, an... | 103 |
| 68 | 21 Apr 1999 | W. H. Auden | Musee des Beaux Arts | About suffering they... | 22 |
| 69 | 21 Apr 1999 | Arthur Hugh Clough | There is no god, the wicked sayeth | "There is no God," t... | 32 |
| 70 | 23 Apr 1999 | Ezra Pound | The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | While my hair was st... | 29 |
| 71 | 24 Apr 1999 | William Shakespeare | Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) | Shall I compare thee... | 14 |
| 72 | 24 Apr 1999 | Harivansh Rai Bachchan | Madhushala (The Tavern) | Seeking wine, the dr... | 80 |
| 73 | 26 Apr 1999 | Philip Larkin | I Remember, I Remember | Coming up England by... | 36 |
| 74 | 26 Apr 1999 | John Masefield | Cargoes | Quinquireme of Ninev... | 15 |
| 75 | 28 Apr 1999 | Christopher Marlowe | The face that launch'd a thousand ships | Was this the face th... | 20 |
| 76 | 29 Apr 1999 | Don Marquis | archy interviews a pharoh | boss i went | 137 |
| 77 | 29 Apr 1999 | D. H. Lawrence | Bavarian Gentians | Not every man has ge... | 22 |
| 78 | 2 May 1999 | Hillaire Belloc | The Pelagian Drinking Song | Pelagius lived at Ka... | 47 |
| 79 | 2 May 1999 | William Butler Yeats | Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland | The old brown thorn-... | 15 |
| 80 | 4 May 1999 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Brook (excerpt) | `O babbling brook,' ... | 46 |
| 81 | 4 May 1999 | Robert Burns | A Red, Red Rose | O my Luve's like a r... | 16 |
| 82 | 5 May 1999 | William Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | Behold her, single i... | 32 |
| 83 | 6 May 1999 | William Carlos Williams | The Red Wheelbarrow | so much depends | 8 |
| 84 | 9 May 1999 | R. L. Stevenson | From a Railway Carriage | Faster than fairies,... | 16 |
| 85 | 10 May 1999 | Edgar Allan Poe | The Raven | Once upon a midnight... | 108 |
| 86 | 11 May 1999 | A. E. Housman | When I Was One-and-Twenty | When I was one-and-twenty | 16 |
| 87 | 12 May 1999 | Otomo No Yakamochi | Two Tanka | From outside my house, | 10 |
| 88 | 13 May 1999 | W.S. Gilbert | The Major General's Song | SONG--MAJOR-GENERAL | 46 |
| 89 | 14 May 1999 | Matthew Arnold | Dover Beach | The sea is calm to-night, | 37 |
| 90 | 15 May 1999 | Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Casey At The Bat | It looked extremely ... | 52 |
| 91 | 17 May 1999 | A. A. Milne | Cottleston Pie | Cottleston Cottlesto... | 12 |
| 92 | 18 May 1999 | Emily Dickinson | There's a certain Slant of light | There's a certain Sl... | 16 |
| 93 | 19 May 1999 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Eärendil was a mariner | Eärendil was a mariner | 124 |
| 94 | 20 May 1999 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet | Little Miss Muffet d... | 36 |
| 95 | 21 May 1999 | Adrian Mitchell | Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off | Where are they now, ... | 50 |
| 96 | 22 May 1999 | Thomas Hardy | During Wind and Rain | They sing their dear... | 28 |
| 97 | 23 May 1999 | William Blake | The Fly | Little Fly | 20 |
| 98 | 24 May 1999 | Ted Hughes | The Thought Fox | I imagine this midni... | 24 |
| 99 | 25 May 1999 | Charles Swinburne | Nephelidia | From the depth of th... | 48 |
| 100 | 26 May 1999 | Philip Larkin | Days | What are days for? | 10 |
| 101 | 27 May 1999 | Edgar Allan Poe | The Bells | Hear the sledges wit... | 112 |
| 102 | 28 May 1999 | Amy Lowell | Generations | You are like the stem | 13 |
| 103 | 28 May 1999 | James Leigh Hunt | Jenny Kissed Me | Jenny kiss'd me when... | 8 |
| 104 | 30 May 1999 | Robert Browning | My Last Duchess | That's my last Duche... | 56 |
| 105 | 31 May 1999 | Edwin Brock | Five Ways to Kill a Man | There are many cumbe... | 32 |
| 106 | 1 Jun 1999 | John Milton | On His Blindness | When I consider how ... | 14 |
| 107 | 02 Jun 1999 | T. S. Eliot | Preludes | I | 14 |
| 108 | 2 Jun 1999 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | The Penitent | I had a little Sorrow, | 24 |
| 109 | 04 Jun 1999 | Anon | The Viking Terror | Bitter is the wind t... | 4 |
| 110 | 5 Jun 1999 | D.H.Lawrence | Intimates | Don't you care for m... | 11 |
| 111 | 6 Jun 1999 | Marge Piercy | Why marry at all? | Why mar what has gro... | 36 |
| 112 | 07 Jun 1999 | Bob Dylan | Mr.Tambourine Man | Hey, Mr. Tambourine ... | 27 |
| 113 | 8 Jun 1999 | Sara Teasdale | Morning | I went out on an Apr... | 8 |
| 114 | 09 Jun 1999 | Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner | The Soul Cages | A boy child lies loc... | 44 |
| 115 | 10 Jun 1999 | Charles Wolfe | The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna | Not a drum was heard... | 32 |
| 116 | 11 Jun 1999 | Leonard Cohen | Suzanne | Suzanne takes you do... | 49 |
| 117 | 12 Jun 1999 | William Ernest Henley | The Rain and the Wind | The rain and the win... | 15 |
| 118 | 13 Jun 1999 | Faiz Ahmed Faiz | A Prison Evening | Each star a rung, | 26 |
| 119 | 14 Jun 1999 | Paul Simon | A Poem on the Underground Wall | The last train is ne... | 30 |
| 120 | 15 Jun 1999 | Gelett Burgess | The Purple Cow | The Purple Cow's Pro... | 7 |
| 121 | 16 Jun 1999 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ulysses | It little profits th... | 70 |
| 122 | 17 Jun 1999 | Don Marquis | certain maxims of archy | many a man spanks his | 125 |
| 123 | 18 Jun 1999 | Ezra Pound | And the days are not full enough | And the days are not... | 4 |
| 124 | 19 Jun 1999 | Hillaire Belloc | The Hippopotamus | I shoot the Hippopotamus | 4 |
| 125 | 19 Jun 1999 | Sir Walter Scott | Lochinvar | O, young Lochinvar i... | 48 |
| 126 | 21 Jun 1999 | William Shakespeare | Our revels now are ended | Our revels now are e... | 11 |
| 127 | 22 Jun 1999 | John Milton | On Shakespear | What needs my Shakes... | 16 |
| 128 | 24 Jun 1999 | William Wordsworth | London, 1802 | Milton! thou shoulds... | 14 |
| 129 | 25 Jun 1999 | Sylvia Plath | Ariel | Stasis in darkness. | 31 |
| 130 | 26 Jun 1999 | Robert Browning | The Lost Leader | Just for a handful o... | 32 |
| 131 | 27 Jun 1999 | Craig Raine | A Martian Sends A Postcard Home | Caxtons are mechanic... | 34 |
| 132 | 28 Jun 1999 | Wilfred Owen | Dulce Et Decorum Est | Bent double, like ol... | 28 |
| 133 | 29 Jun 1999 | Robert Browning | Song, from Pippa Passes | The year's at the spring, | 8 |
| 134 | 30 Jun 1999 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Pied Beauty | Glory be to God for ... | 11 |
| 135 | 1 Jul 1999 | W. S. Gilbert | I've Got a Little List | SONG--KO-KO with CHO... | 43 |
| 136 | 02 Jul 1999 | Rainer Maria Rilke | The Panther | His vision, from the... | 12 |
| 137 | 3 Jul 1999 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven | A raven sat upon a tree, | 48 |
| 138 | 05 Jul 1999 | Dylan Thomas | Fern Hill | Now as I was young a... | 54 |
| 139 | 5 Jul 1999 | E. E. Cummings | Buffalo Bill's/ defunct | Buffalo Bill's | 11 |
| 140 | 6 Jul 1999 | Christina Rossetti | By The Sea | Why does the sea moa... | 15 |
| 141 | 08 Jul 1999 | Edgar Allan Poe | The City in the Sea | Lo! Death has reared... | 53 |
| 142 | 09 Jul 1999 | J. R. R. Tolkien | He chanted a song of wizardry | He chanted a song of... | 32 |
| 143 | 10 Jul 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | Harp Song of the Dane Women | What is a woman that... | 24 |
| 144 | 11 Jul 1999 | Chidiock Tichborne | On the Eve of His Execution | My prime of youth is... | 18 |
| 145 | 12 Jul 1999 | Anon | Ice | The wave, over the w... | 3 |
| 146 | 13 Jul 1999 | Joyce Kilmer | Trees | I think that I shall... | 12 |
| 147 | 14 Jul 1999 | Edwin Morgan | The Unspoken | When the troopship w... | 73 |
| 148 | 15 Jul 1999 | Ambrose Bierce | With a Book | Words shouting, sing... | 4 |
| 149 | 16 Jul 1999 | George Peele | Bethsabe's Song | Hot sun, cool fire, ... | 10 |
| 150 | 17 Jul 1999 | Dorothy Parker | Resume | Razors pain you; | 8 |
| 151 | 18 Jul 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | Recessional | God of our fathers, ... | 30 |
| 152 | 20 Jul 1999 | R. S. Thomas | The Ancients of the World | The salmon lying in ... | 12 |
| 153 | 20 Jul 1999 | James Leigh Hunt | Abou Ben Adhem | Abou Ben Adhem (may ... | 18 |
| 154 | 21 Jul 1999 | Wallace Stevens | Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | The houses are haunted | 15 |
| 155 | 22 Jul 1999 | Robert Frost | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Whose woods these ar... | 16 |
| 156 | 23 Jul 1999 | Anon | Angelica the Doorkeeper | The falcon soars | 6 |
| 157 | 24 Jul 1999 | Walt Whitman | O Captain! My Captain! | O Captain! my Captai... | 24 |
| 158 | 25 Jul 1999 | Andrew Marvell | To His Coy Mistress | Had we but world eno... | 46 |
| 159 | 27 Jul 1999 | Arthur Hugh Clough | The Latest Decalogue | Thou shalt have one ... | 20 |
| 160 | 28 Jul 1999 | William Butler Yeats | The Realists | Hope that you may un... | 8 |
| 161 | 29 Jul 1999 | W. S. Gilbert | The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" | 'TWAS on the shores ... | 93 |
| 162 | 30 Jul 1999 | Omar Khayyam | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Awake! for Morning i... | 28 |
| 163 | 31 Jul 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Dust | Here is dust remembe... | 6 |
| 164 | 1 Aug 1999 | Pablo Neruda | Bird | It was passed from o... | 25 |
| 165 | 02 Aug 1999 | Edward Lear | The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | The Owl and the Puss... | 33 |
| 166 | 04 Aug 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | Night-Song in the Jungle | Now Chil the Kite br... | 8 |
| 167 | 05 Aug 1999 | Anon | Pangur Ban | I and Pangur Ban my cat, | 32 |
| 168 | 06 Aug 1999 | Andrew Young | A Dead Mole | Strong-shouldered mole, | 8 |
| 169 | 7 Aug 1999 | Lord Byron | She Walks in Beauty | She walks in beauty ... | 18 |
| 170 | 8 Aug 1999 | Robert Frost | The Need of Being Versed in Country Things | The house had gone t... | 24 |
| 171 | 09 Aug 1999 | Anthony Raftery | I am Raftery the poet | I am Raftery the poet. | 12 |
| 172 | 10 Aug 1999 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Paul Revere's Ride | Listen my children a... | 130 |
| 173 | 11 Aug 1999 | Willie Dixon | Hoochie Coochie Man | Gypsy woman told my ... | 36 |
| 174 | 12 Aug 1999 | Emily Dickinson | A Route of Evanescence | A Route of Evanescence | 8 |
| 175 | 13 Aug 1999 | Anon | I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre | I am Taliesin. I sin... | 27 |
| 176 | 14 Aug 1999 | Hillaire Belloc | Is there any reward? | Is there any reward? | 8 |
| 177 | 15 Aug 1999 | Rabindranath Tagore | Where The Mind is Without Fear | Where the mind is wi... | 11 |
| 178 | 17 Aug 1999 | Philip Larkin | Water | If I were called in | 13 |
| 179 | 17 Aug 1999 | P.G. Wodehouse | Missed | The sun in the heave... | 40 |
| 180 | 18 Aug 1999 | Wallace Stevens | The Emperor of Ice-Cream | Call the roller of b... | 16 |
| 181 | 19 Aug 1999 | Arthur Conan Doyle | The Guards Came Through | Men of the Twenty-first | 59 |
| 182 | 20 Aug 1999 | John Keats | La Belle Dame Sans Merci | O, what can ail thee... | 48 |
| 183 | 21 Aug 1999 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Sorrows of Werther | Werther had a love f... | 16 |
| 184 | 22 Aug 1999 | Chief Sealth | Chief Seattle's Reply | How can you buy or s... | 117 |
| 185 | 23 Aug 1999 | David O'Bruadair | A Glass of Beer | The lanky hank of a ... | 12 |
| 186 | 24 Aug 1999 | Patrick MacGill | By-the-Way | These be the little ... | 15 |
| 187 | 25 Aug 1999 | R. S. Thomas | Poetry for Supper | 'Listen, now, verse ... | 22 |
| 188 | 26 Aug 1999 | Archibald MacLeish | Ars Poetica | A poem should be pal... | 24 |
| 189 | 27 Aug 1999 | bpNichol | dear Captain Poetry | dear Captain Poetry, | 24 |
| 190 | 28 Aug 1999 | Nicanor Parra | Young Poets | Write as you will | 8 |
| 191 | 30 Aug 1999 | Ezra Pound | The Garden | Like a skein of loos... | 12 |
| 192 | 31 Aug 1999 | Dorothy Parker | Comment | Oh, life is a glorio... | 4 |
| 193 | 01 Sep 1999 | T. S. Eliot | The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock | S`io credesse che mi... | 142 |
| 194 | 2 Sep 1999 | George Starbuck | Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line | O for a muse of fire... | 15 |
| 195 | 03 Sep 1999 | Peter Schaeffer | Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum | You mysterious jongl... | 20 |
| 196 | 4 Sep 1999 | Stephen Crane | In the desert | In the desert | 10 |
| 197 | 5 Sep 1999 | Leo Marks | A Code Poem For The French Resistance | The life that I have... | 9 |
| 198 | 06 Sep 1999 | Peter Porter | Japanese Jokes | In his winged collar | 33 |
| 199 | 7 Sep 1999 | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | A Chieftain, to the ... | 56 |
| 200 | 09 Sep 1999 | William Shakespeare | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks | Blow, winds, and cra... | 23 |
| 201 | 8 Sep 1999 | Denise Levertov | To the Reader | As you read, a white... | 10 |
| 202 | 10 Sep 1999 | William Empson | Missing Dates | Slowly the poison th... | 19 |
| 203 | 11 Sep 1999 | Robert Southey | The Battle of Blenheim | It was a summer evening, | 66 |
| 204 | 12 Sep 1999 | Anon | The Vision of a Giant who Migrated from Baja to Tiburon Island | Slender whirlwinds c... | 11 |
| 205 | 13 Sep 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Crucible | Hot gold runs a wind... | 6 |
| 206 | 14 Sep 1999 | Prescott Hoard | Sky Line | A workman climbed a ... | 6 |
| 207 | 15 Sep 1999 | Edmund Clerihew Bentley | Clerihews | The art of Biography | 28 |
| 208 | 17 Sep 1999 | Samuel Foote | The Great Panjandrum | So she went into the... | 17 |
| 209 | 18 Sep 1999 | Mary Robinson | The Camp | Tents, marquees, and... | 48 |
| 210 | 19 Sep 1999 | Federico Garcia Lorca | Romance Sonambulo | Green, how I want yo... | 86 |
| 211 | 20 Sep 1999 | Adrian Mitchell | The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry | Back in the caveman ... | 83 |
| 212 | 21 Sep 1999 | Franklin P. Adams | To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour | Lady in the blue kim... | 16 |
| 213 | 22 Sep 1999 | William Carlos Williams | The Artist | Mr T. | 27 |
| 214 | 23 Sep 1999 | E.E. Cummings | Where's Madge then, | Where's Madge then, | 17 |
| 215 | 24 Sep 1999 | Edwin Morgan | The Loch Ness Monster's Song | Sssnnnwhuffffll? | 14 |
| 216 | 25 Sep 1999 | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn | The Golf Links | The golf links lie s... | 4 |
| 217 | 26 Sep 1999 | Constantine Cavafy | Ithaka | As you set out for Ithaka | 37 |
| 218 | 27 Sep 1999 | David | Psalm 23 | The Lord is my sheph... | 11 |
| 219 | 28 Sep 1999 | William Shakespeare | Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) | Full many a glorious... | 14 |
| 220 | 30 Sep 1999 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Lament for Eorl the Young | Where now the horse ... | 8 |
| 221 | 30 Sep 1999 | William Ernest Henley | Invictus | Out of the night tha... | 16 |
| 222 | 01 Oct 1999 | Peter Porter | Your Attention Please | The Polar DEW has ju... | 62 |
| 223 | 2 Oct 1999 | Sara Teasdale | There Will Come Soft Rains | There will come soft... | 12 |
| 224 | 3 Oct 1999 | Wislawa Szymborska | Under One Small Star | My apologies to chan... | 29 |
| 225 | 04 Oct 1999 | Dylan Thomas | Poem In October | It was my thirtieth ... | 70 |
| 226 | 5 Oct 1999 | Hilaire Belloc | October | Look, how those stee... | 14 |
| 227 | 07 Oct 1999 | Bob Dylan | Desolation Row | They're selling post... | 120 |
| 228 | 7 Oct 1999 | G.K. Chesterton | The Rolling English Road | Before the Roman cam... | 24 |
| 229 | 08 Oct 1999 | William Shakespeare | To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow | To-morrow, and to-mo... | 10 |
| 230 | 9 Oct 1999 | Don Marquis | pity the poor spiders | i have just been reading | 54 |
| 231 | 10 Oct 1999 | Anna Akhmatova | Requiem (excerpt) | In the fearful years... | 42 |
| 232 | 11 Oct 1999 | Wilfred Owen | Insensibility | I | 65 |
| 233 | 13 Oct 1999 | William Empson | Let It Go | It is this deep blan... | 6 |
| 234 | 14 Oct 1999 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Miniver Cheevy | Miniver Cheevy, chil... | 32 |
| 235 | 15 Oct 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Pennsylvania | I have been in Penns... | 14 |
| 236 | 16 Oct 1999 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Memory | My mind lets go a th... | 10 |
| 237 | 17 Oct 1999 | W.B.Yeats | The Ballad of Father Gilligan | The old priest Peter... | 48 |
| 238 | 18 Oct 1999 | W. J. Turner | Romance | When I was but thirt... | 28 |
| 239 | 19 Oct 1999 | Frank Dempster Sherman | Witchery | Out of the purple drifts, | 12 |
| 240 | 21 Oct 1999 | Edgar Fawcett | Two Worlds | A fiery young world,... | 8 |
| 241 | 22 Oct 1999 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Green Hills of Earth | Let the sweet fresh ... | 27 |
| 242 | 23 Oct 1999 | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | A Child's Story | 320 |
| 243 | 24 Oct 1999 | William Shakespeare | When that I was and a little tiny boy | When that I was and ... | 20 |
| 244 | 26 Oct 1999 | Allen Ginsberg | A Supermarket in California | What thoughts I have... | 26 |
| 245 | 26 Oct 1999 | Alfred Kreymborg | Whitman | After we've had | 7 |
| 246 | 27 Oct 1999 | Walt Whitman | I Hear America Singing | I hear America singi... | 15 |
| 247 | 28 Oct 1999 | W. S. Gilbert | To Sit In Solemn Silence... | To sit in solemn sil... | 4 |
| 248 | 29 Oct 1999 | T. S. Eliot | Sweeney Among the Nightingales | 'omoi peplegmai kair... | 41 |
| 249 | 31 Oct 1999 | Elizabeth Jennings | Delay | The radiance of the ... | 8 |
| 250 | 01 Nov 1999 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Walt Whitman | The master-songs are... | 21 |
| 251 | 2 Nov 1999 | Thomas Hood | No! | No sun--no moon! | 24 |
| 252 | 03 Nov 1999 | Christian Morgenstern | The Midnightmouse | It midnights, not a ... | 12 |
| 253 | 4 Nov 1999 | Stephen Crane | A Man Feared... (The Black Riders LVI) | A man feared that he... | 3 |
| 254 | 05 Nov 1999 | Philip Larkin | The North Ship | I saw three ships go... | 24 |
| 255 | 5 Nov 1999 | Charles S. Calverley | Forever | "Forever": 'tis a si... | 36 |
| 256 | 08 Nov 1999 | W.H. Auden | Funeral Blues | Stop all the clocks,... | 16 |
| 257 | 9 Nov 1999 | J R R Tolkien | Three Rings for the Elven Kings | Three Rings for the ... | 8 |
| 258 | 10 Nov 1999 | T. S. Eliot | Macavity: The Mystery Cat | Macavity's a Mystery... | 42 |
| 259 | 11 Nov 1999 | Lord Dunsany | Songs from an Evil Wood | I. | 67 |
| 260 | 12 Nov 1999 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Moonrise | I awoke in the Midsu... | 10 |
| 261 | 13 Nov 1999 | Robert E. Howard | Recompense | I have not heard lut... | 24 |
| 262 | 14 Nov 1999 | Emily Bronte | No Coward Soul is Mine | No coward soul is mine, | 28 |
| 263 | 15 Nov 1999 | Gavin Ewart | Sonnet: Dolce stil novo | That woman who to me... | 14 |
| 264 | 16 Nov 1999 | Stephen Crane | There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII) | There was a man who ... | 8 |
| 265 | 17 Nov 1999 | Lewis Carroll | The Mad Gardener's Song | He thought he saw an... | 54 |
| 266 | 18 Nov 1999 | Patrick O'Kelly | The Litany for Doneraile | Alas! how dismal is ... | 62 |
| 267 | 19 Nov 1999 | Theodore Roethke | The Meadow Mouse | 1 | 32 |
| 268 | 20 Nov 1999 | Walt Whitman | The Dalliance of the Eagles | Skirting the river r... | 10 |
| 269 | 21 Nov 1999 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | How do I love thee? | How do I love thee? ... | 14 |
| 270 | 22 Nov 1999 | Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood | It is Spring, moonle... | 45 |
| 271 | 23 Nov 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | If | If you can keep your... | 32 |
| 272 | 25 Nov 1999 | Walter de la Mare | Napoleon | 'What is the world, ... | 7 |
| 273 | 24 Nov 1999 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted | A poet had a cat. | 76 |
| 274 | 27 Nov 1999 | William Carlos Williams | This Is Just To Say | I have eaten | 12 |
| 275 | 27 Nov 1999 | James Leigh Hunt | The Glove and the Lions | King Francis was a h... | 24 |
| 276 | 28 Nov 1999 | Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee | High Flight | Oh! I have slipped t... | 14 |
| 277 | 29 Nov 1999 | Yosa Buson | Haiku | The winter river; | 3 |
| 278 | 30 Nov 1999 | Kenneth Koch | Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams | 1 | 17 |
| 279 | 02 Dec 1999 | John Milton | L'Allegro | Hence, loathed Melancholy | 68 |
| 280 | 2 Dec 1999 | Rupert Brooke | The Soldier | If I should die, thi... | 14 |
| 281 | 03 Dec 1999 | John Milton | L'Allegro | Straight mine eye ha... | 83 |
| 282 | 4 Dec 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Fog | The fog comes | 6 |
| 283 | 06 Dec 1999 | Gavin Ewart | A Great Poem | This is a great poem. | 6 |
| 284 | 6 Dec 1999 | Norman Rowland Gale | 'MOST ANGLERS ARE VERY HUMANE'--Daily Paper | The kind-hearted ang... | 24 |
| 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 |
| 286 | 9 Dec 1999 | Oliver Goldsmith | An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | Good people all, of ... | 32 |
| 287 | 10 Dec 1999 | Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner | Mad About You | A stone's throw from... | 45 |
| 288 | 12 Dec 1999 | Wilfred Owen | Futility | Move him into the sun-- | 14 |
| 289 | 13 Dec 1999 | William Butler Yeats | The Second Coming | Turning and turning ... | 22 |
| 290 | 13 Dec 1999 | R. L. Stevenson | Bed in Summer | In winter I get up a... | 12 |
| 291 | 16 Dec 1999 | T. S. Eliot | The Journey of the Magi | 'A cold coming we ha... | 43 |
| 292 | 16 Dec 1999 | Robert Hunter | Ripple | If my words did glow... | 26 |
| 293 | 18 Dec 1999 | Allen Ginsberg | Howl | I saw the best minds... | 64 |
| 294 | 18 Dec 1999 | Hilaire Belloc | Tarantella | Do you remember an Inn, | 40 |
| 295 | 19 Dec 1999 | anon | Unititled | Quietly sitting, | 3 |
| 296 | 20 Dec 1999 | Constantine Cavafy | Footsteps | On an ebony bed decorated | 19 |
| 297 | 21 Dec 1999 | Edward Lear | The Pobble Who Has No Toes | The Pobble who has n... | 48 |
| 298 | 22 Dec 1999 | Robert Graves | The Cool Web | Children are dumb to... | 18 |
| 299 | 23 Dec 1999 | Richard Thompson | Taking My Business Elsewhere | If she's not here by... | 24 |
| 300 | 24 Dec 1999 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | The Gift of God - | Blessed with a joy t... | 48 |
| 301 | 25 Dec 1999 | Ben Jonson | The Noble Nature | It is not growing li... | 10 |
| 302 | 26 Dec 1999 | William Cullen Bryant | Thanatopsis | To him who in the lo... | 81 |
| 303 | 28 Dec 1999 | Anon | The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard | As it fell out on a ... | 116 |
| 304 | 29 Dec 1999 | Edwin Morgan | The Subway Piranhas | Did anyone tell you | 17 |
| 305 | 30 Dec 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | The Conundrum of the Workshops | When the flush of a ... | 36 |
| 306 | 1 Jan 2000 | Alfred Kreymborg | Geometry | Never a mouse | 25 |
| 307 | 2 Jan 2000 | W.H.Auden | Lay your sleeping head, my love | Lay your sleeping he... | 40 |
| 308 | 3 Jan 2000 | Bhartrihari | Untitled | yasya asti vittam, ... | 5 |
| 309 | 4 Jan 2000 | William Butler Yeats | The Lake Isle of Innisfree | I will arise and go ... | 12 |
| 310 | 13 Jan 2000 | H. D | Oread | Whirl up, sea -- | 6 |
| 311 | 14 Jan 2000 | e. e. cummings | Untitled | "think of it: not so... | 37 |
| 312 | 16 Jan 2000 | William Shakespeare | Where the bee sucks | Where the bee sucks,... | 7 |
| 313 | 16 Jan 2000 | Ben Jonson | Gypsy Songs | The faery beam upon you, | 20 |
| 314 | 17 Jan 2000 | Anon | The Sermon on the Mount | Blessed are the poor... | 10 |
| 315 | 19 Jan 2000 | Hilaire Belloc | Juliet | How did the party go... | 4 |
| 316 | 19 Jan 2000 | John Keats | Ode to a Nightingale | My heart aches, and ... | 80 |
| 317 | 19 Jan 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Inland | People that build th... | 16 |
| 318 | 21 Jan 2000 | J R R Tolkien | Tall ships and tall kings | Tall ships and tall kings | 6 |
| 319 | 24 Jan 2000 | Ezra Pound | In a Station of the Metro | The apparition of th... | 2 |
| 320 | 25 Jan 2000 | Ambrose Bierce | Rimer | The rimer quenches h... | 6 |
| 321 | 26 Jan 2000 | Wilfred Owen | Strange Meeting | It seemed that out o... | 44 |
| 322 | 27 Jan 2000 | Richard Wilbur | In the Smoking Car | The eyelids meet. He... | 20 |
| 323 | 28 Jan 2000 | Robert Francis | Silent Poem | backroad leafmold st... | 12 |
| 324 | 29 Jan 2000 | W. B. Yeats | Three Movements | Shakespearean fish s... | 3 |
| 325 | 30 Jan 2000 | Ogden Nash | Common Cold | Go hang yourself, yo... | 40 |
| 326 | 31 Jan 2000 | Anon | The Seafarer | May I for my own sel... | 101 |
| 327 | 1 Feb 2000 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Portrait | A knyght ther was, a... | 36 |
| 328 | 2 Feb 2000 | Edmund Spenser | from The Faerie Queen | A gentle Knight was ... | 45 |
| 329 | 03 Feb 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | I | 75 |
| 330 | 04 Feb 2000 | John Donne | A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | As virtuous men pass... | 36 |
| 331 | 5 Feb 2000 | Alexander Pope | from An Essay on Man | Heav'n from all crea... | 35 |
| 332 | 6 Feb 2000 | Robert Herrick | Delight In Disorder | A sweet disorder in ... | 14 |
| 333 | 07 Feb 2000 | Anon | Gnomic Stanzas | Mountain snow, every... | 52 |
| 334 | 8 Feb 2000 | Gelett Burgess | Psycholophon | (Supposed to Be Tran... | 13 |
| 335 | 09 Feb 2000 | Dylan Thomas | After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) | After the funeral, m... | 40 |
| 336 | 10 Feb 2000 | Robert Frost | A Patch of Old Snow | There's a patch of o... | 8 |
| 337 | 11 Feb 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' | A man plodding throu... | 4 |
| 338 | 12 Feb 2000 | Joseph Campbell | Fires | The little fires tha... | 12 |
| 339 | 14 Feb 2000 | Leonard Cohen | The Music Crept By Us | I would like to remind | 13 |
| 340 | 14 Feb 2000 | Ben Jonson | To Celia | Drink to me, only, w... | 16 |
| 341 | 15 Feb 2000 | Emily Dickinson | The Grass so little has to do - | The Grass so little ... | 20 |
| 342 | 16 Feb 2000 | Omar Khayyam | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Oh, come with old Kh... | 12 |
| 343 | 16 Feb 2000 | William McGonagall | The Tay Bridge Disaster | Beautiful Railway Br... | 59 |
| 344 | 18 Feb 2000 | Anon | The Navajo Night Way Ceremony | In beauty ... | 20 |
| 345 | 18 Feb 2000 | Charlotte Smith | Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore | Huge vapours brood a... | 14 |
| 346 | 21 Feb 2000 | Paul Zimmer | The Great Bird of Love | I want to become a g... | 22 |
| 347 | 21 Feb 2000 | Lewis Carroll | The Walrus and the Carpenter | The sun was shining ... | 108 |
| 348 | 22 Feb 2000 | Cid Corman | Untitled | Mountain | 6 |
| 349 | 23 Feb 2000 | Geoffrey Hill | A Prayer to the Sun | (in memory of Miguel... | 19 |
| 350 | 24 Feb 2000 | AE | The Unknown God | Far up the dim twili... | 8 |
| 351 | 25 Feb 2000 | William Empson | The Teasers | Not but they die, th... | 16 |
| 352 | 26 Feb 2000 | Robert Browning | My Star | All that I know | 13 |
| 353 | 27 Feb 2000 | Ogden Nash | PG Wooster, Just as he Useter | Bound to your bookse... | 24 |
| 354 | 28 Feb 2000 | T. S. Eliot | The Waste Land (Part IV) | IV. Death By Water | 11 |
| 355 | 29 Feb 2000 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Charge of the Light Brigade | Half a league, half ... | 55 |
| 356 | 01 Mar 2000 | Edward Lear | The Akond of Swat | Who, or why, or whic... | 88 |
| 357 | 2 Mar 2000 | Rudyard Kipling | The Last of the Light Brigade | There were thirty mi... | 36 |
| 358 | 03 Mar 2000 | Percy French | Abdul Abulbul Amir | The sons of the Prop... | 56 |
| 359 | 4 Mar 2000 | Thomas Buchanan Read | The Angler | But look! o'er the f... | 21 |
| 360 | 06 Mar 2000 | John Whitworth | I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea | Fretting my heart as... | 44 |
| 361 | 06 Mar 2000 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Cologne | In Kohln, a town of ... | 10 |
| 362 | 07 Mar 2000 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha's Departure | By the shore of Gitc... | 29 |
| 363 | 08 Mar 2000 | William Shakespeare | Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) | Let me not to the ma... | 14 |
| 364 | 09 Mar 2000 | Robert Browning | The Patriot | - An Old Story | 37 |
| 365 | 10 Mar 2000 | John Collins Bossidy | Boston | And this is good old... | 4 |
| 366 | 12 Mar 2000 | Sylvia Plath | Child | Your clear eye is th... | 12 |
| 367 | 12 Mar 2000 | Rabindranath Tagore | Krishnakali | In the village they ... | 40 |
| 368 | 13 Mar 2000 | William Blake | Auguries of Innocence | To see a World in a ... | 132 |
| 369 | 14 Mar 2000 | Bayard Taylor | The Cantelope | Side by side in the ... | 20 |
| 370 | 15 Mar 2000 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Troll sat alone on his seat of stone | Troll sat alone on h... | 56 |
| 371 | 16 Mar 2000 | W. H. Auden | O What Is That Sound | O what is that sound... | 36 |
| 372 | 17 Mar 2000 | Anon | Icham of Irlaunde | Icham of Irlaunde | 7 |
| 373 | 18 Mar 2000 | Wallace Stevens | The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad | The time of year has... | 20 |
| 374 | 19 Mar 2000 | Alex Pascall | Psalm Of the Valleys | We dedicate, O Lord,... | 21 |
| 375 | 20 Mar 2000 | Samuel Daniel | Look, Delia, How We 'Steem the Half-blown Rose (Delia XXXIX) | Look, Delia, how we ... | 14 |
| 376 | 21 Mar 2000 | William Wordsworth | She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | She dwelt among the ... | 12 |
| 377 | 22 Mar 2000 | A. E. Housman | Loveliest of trees, the cherry now | Loveliest of trees, ... | 12 |
| 378 | 23 Mar 2000 | Edward Lear | There Was an Old Man with a Beard | There was an Old Man... | 4 |
| 379 | 24 Mar 2000 | Rudyard Kipling | The Buddha at Kamakura | "And there is a Japa... | 49 |
| 380 | 25 Mar 2000 | William Johnson Cory | Heraclitus | They told me, Heracl... | 8 |
| 381 | 27 Mar 2000 | Mihail Eminescu | From Among Hundreds of Masts | From among hundreds ... | 16 |
| 382 | 27 Mar 2000 | A. K. Ramanujan | A River | In Madurai, | 49 |
| 383 | 28 Mar 2000 | Maya Angelou | The Health-Food Diner | No sprouted wheat an... | 25 |
| 384 | 29 Mar 2000 | John Donne | Song | Go and catch a falli... | 27 |
| 385 | 30 Mar 2000 | Seigfreid Sassoon | Base Details | If I were fierce, an... | 10 |
| 386 | 31 Mar 2000 | W. H. Auden | The Unknown Citizen | (To JS/07/M/378 This... | 30 |
| 387 | 01 Apr 2000 | Les Murray | An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow | The word goes round ... | 46 |
| 388 | 02 Apr 2000 | Ogden Nash | Kipling's Vermont | The summer like a ra... | 4 |
| 389 | 03 Apr 2000 | James Joyce | The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly | Have you heard of on... | 92 |
| 390 | 4 Apr 2000 | Sarojini Naidu | Palanquin Bearers | Lightly, O lightly w... | 12 |
| 391 | 6 Apr 2000 | George Herbert | The Pulley | When God at first ma... | 20 |
| 392 | 07 Apr 2000 | R. S. Thomas | Good | The old man comes ou... | 14 |
| 393 | 8 Apr 2000 | Peter Schaeffer | Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night | I think | 19 |
| 394 | 09 Apr 2000 | Ernest Dowson | Poem | "Non Sum Qualis Eram... | 25 |
| 395 | 10 Apr 2000 | Henry Reed | Naming of Parts | "Vixi duellis nuper ... | 32 |
| 396 | 11 Apr 2000 | Trumbull Stickney | I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander | I hear a river thro'... | 3 |
| 397 | 12 Apr 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Ancestors | We had an island. | 62 |
| 398 | 13 Apr 2000 | Robert Herrick | The Night Piece, To Julia | Her eyes the glow-wo... | 20 |
| 399 | 14 Apr 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Indian Serenade | I arise from dreams ... | 24 |
| 400 | 15 Apr 2000 | Ambrose Bierce | Elegy | The cur foretells th... | 4 |
| 401 | 17 Apr 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | To a Cat | Mirrors are not more... | 14 |
| 402 | 17 Apr 2000 | Odgen Nash | Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man | It is common knowled... | 35 |
| 403 | 18 Apr 2000 | John Donne | A Lame Beggar | I am unable, yonder ... | 2 |
| 404 | 19 Apr 2000 | Sylvia Plath | Daddy | You do not do, you d... | 80 |
| 405 | 20 Apr 2000 | Dylan Thomas | Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) | Altarwise by owl-lig... | 56 |
| 406 | 21 Apr 2000 | Anna Wickham | Song | I will pluck from my... | 16 |
| 407 | 22 Apr 2000 | William Butler Yeats | Solomon and the Witch | And thus declared th... | 45 |
| 408 | 24 Apr 2000 | P. G. Wodehouse | Caliban at Sunset | I stood with a man | 18 |
| 409 | 25 Apr 2000 | Lewis Carroll | Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur | "How shall I be a poet? | 108 |
| 410 | 26 Apr 2000 | Langston Hughes | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | I've known rivers | 13 |
| 411 | 27 Apr 2000 | William Wordsworth | The Tables Turned | Up! up! my Friend, a... | 32 |
| 412 | 28 Apr 2000 | Octavio Paz | There is a motionless tree | There is a motionles... | 21 |
| 413 | 01 May 2000 | William Shakespeare | Admired Miranda! | Admired Miranda! | 12 |
| 414 | 01 May 2000 | Thomas Hardy | Epitaph on a pessimist | I'm Smith of Stoke a... | 4 |
| 415 | 01 May 2000 | Sir Walter Scott | The Truth of Woman | Woman's faith, and w... | 16 |
| 416 | 2 May 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Fitful Alternations of the Rain | The fitful alternati... | 4 |
| 417 | 03 May 2000 | Ted Hughes | Thistles | Against the rubber t... | 12 |
| 418 | 4 May 2000 | Stephen Foster | Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair | I dream of Jeanie wi... | 24 |
| 419 | 05 May 2000 | Boris Pasternak | March | The sun is hotter th... | 16 |
| 420 | 06 May 2000 | John Davidson | Thirty Bob a Week | I couldn't touch a s... | 96 |
| 421 | 08 May 2000 | Stevie Smith | The Jungle Husband | Dearest Evelyn, I of... | 15 |
| 422 | 11 May 2000 | Pablo Neruda | Sonnet XVII: Love | I don't love you as ... | 14 |
| 423 | 11 May 2000 | Anon | The Song of Songs | I am black, but come... | 51 |
| 424 | 12 May 2000 | Christian Morgenstern | The Moonsheep | The moonsheep stands... | 12 |
| 425 | 12 May 2000 | Robert Browning | Memorabilia | Ah, did you once see... | 16 |
| 426 | 14 May 2000 | Mary Oliver | Wild Geese | You do not have to b... | 18 |
| 427 | 15 May 2000 | W. H. Auden | The Two | You are the town and... | 48 |
| 428 | 16 May 2000 | Eve Merriam | Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" | take the leaf of a tree | 17 |
| 429 | 17 May 2000 | Thomas Hardy | In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations' | Only a man harrowing... | 12 |
| 430 | 18 May 2000 | Sara Teasdale | Wild Asters | In the spring I aske... | 8 |
| 431 | 19 May 2000 | Charlotte Mew | Sea Love | Tide be runnin' the ... | 8 |
| 432 | 20 May 2000 | John Hall Wheelock | Earth | "A planet doesn't ex... | 4 |
| 433 | 21 May 2000 | John Keats | Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell | Why did I laugh toni... | 14 |
| 434 | 22 May 2000 | A. K. Ramanujan | Extended Family | Yet like grandfather | 47 |
| 435 | 23 May 2000 | Leo Connellan | Tell Her That I Fell | Woke me retching and... | 50 |
| 436 | 24 May 2000 | William Butler Yeats | When You Are Old | When you are old and... | 12 |
| 437 | 25 May 2000 | Anonymous | Sir Patrick Spens | The King sits in Dun... | 100 |
| 438 | 26 May 2000 | U. A. Fanthorpe | Not my Best Side | I | 60 |
| 439 | 28 May 2000 | A.E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad - XV | Look not in my eyes,... | 16 |
| 440 | 29 May 2000 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Bregalad's Lament | O Orofarnë, Lassemis... | 8 |
| 441 | 30 May 2000 | William Wordsworth | The Simplon Pass | -Brook and road | 20 |
| 442 | 31 May 2000 | Octavio Paz | Coda | Perhaps to love is t... | 9 |
| 443 | 2 Jun 2000 | Tom Disch | Poems | I think that I shall... | 26 |
| 444 | 2 Jun 2000 | Noel Coward | Contours | Round - oblong - lik... | 11 |
| 445 | 03 Jun 2000 | Walt Whitman | A Noiseless Patient Spider | A noiseless patient ... | 10 |
| 446 | 05 Jun 2000 | Jibanananda Das | Banalata Sen | For thousands of yea... | 18 |
| 447 | 06 Jun 2000 | Hafiz | My Sweet, Crushed Angel | You have not danced ... | 25 |
| 448 | 6 Jun 2000 | William Cowper | To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 | Where hast thou floa... | 27 |
| 449 | 7 Jun 2000 | H. D | Helen | All Greece hates | 18 |
| 450 | 8 Jun 2000 | R. L. Stevenson | Auntie's Skirts | Whenever Auntie move... | 4 |
| 451 | 09 Jun 2000 | William Butler Yeats | Leda and the Swan | A sudden blow | 16 |
| 452 | 12 Jun 2000 | José Martí | I wish to leave the world | I wish to leave the world | 8 |
| 453 | 12 Jun 2000 | Mark Strand | Keeping Things Whole | In a field | 17 |
| 454 | 13 Jun 2000 | e. e. cummings | If I have made, my lady, intricate | If I have made, my l... | 15 |
| 455 | 14 Jun 2000 | Sam Walter Foss | The Coming War | "There will be a war... | 50 |
| 456 | 15 Jun 2000 | Sir Henry Newbolt | He Fell Among Thieves | 'Ye have robb'd,' sa... | 48 |
| 457 | 15 Jun 2000 | Archibald MacLeish | The End of the World | Quite unexpectedly, ... | 14 |
| 458 | 17 Jun 2000 | Emily Dickinson | The Chariot | Because I could not ... | 20 |
| 459 | 18 Jun 2000 | Wallace Stevens | Two Figures in Dense Violet Light | I had as lief be emb... | 18 |
| 460 | 19 Jun 2000 | Vikram Seth | Round and Round | After a long and wre... | 18 |
| 461 | 20 Jun 2000 | Thomas Lynch | Couplets | Two girls found dead... | 22 |
| 462 | 20 Jun 2000 | William Wordsworth | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Earth has not anythi... | 14 |
| 463 | 21 Jun 2000 | A. A. Milne | Disobedience | James James | 67 |
| 464 | 22 Jun 2000 | Sara Teasdale | Central Park at Dusk | Buildings above the ... | 8 |
| 465 | 23 Jun 2000 | John Donne | The Sun Rising | Busy old fool, unrul... | 30 |
| 466 | 25 Jun 2000 | T. S. Eliot | Rhapsody on a Windy Night | Twelve o'clock. | 78 |
| 467 | 26 Jun 2000 | Robert Graves | Like Snow | She, then, like snow... | 9 |
| 468 | 27 Jun 2000 | Henry Reed | Chard Whitlow | (Mr. Eliot's Sunday ... | 29 |
| 469 | 27 Jun 2000 | Orhan Veli | Towards Freedom | 'Ere the day dawns, ... | 16 |
| 470 | 29 Jun 2000 | Dora Sigerson Shorter | The Comforters | When I crept over th... | 16 |
| 471 | 30 Jun 2000 | Ilam Peruvaluti | This world lives | This world lives | 17 |
| 472 | 30 Jun 2000 | Jalaluddin Rumi | Spring Giddiness | Today, like every ot... | 25 |
| 473 | 03 Jul 2000 | Julia Ward Howe | The Battle-Hymn of the Republic | Mine eyes have seen ... | 31 |
| 474 | 03 Jul 2000 | Jane Kenyon | Otherwise | I got out of bed | 26 |
| 475 | 04 Jul 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | The Other Tiger | A tiger comes to min... | 47 |
| 476 | 5 Jul 2000 | Dylan Thomas | In my craft or sullen art | In my craft or sullen art | 20 |
| 477 | 06 Jul 2000 | William Shakespeare | Fear no more the heat o' the sun | Fear no more the hea... | 24 |
| 478 | 07 Jul 2000 | Duncan Campbell Scott | Enigma | Some men are born to... | 15 |
| 479 | 08 Jul 2000 | Thomas Hardy | The Man He Killed | "Had he and I but met | 20 |
| 480 | 09 Jul 2000 | W. N. Hodgson | Before Action | By all the glories o... | 24 |
| 481 | 10 Jul 2000 | Leonard Cohen | Who By fire | And who by fire, | 27 |
| 482 | 10 Jul 2000 | John Berryman | Winter Landscape | The three men coming... | 25 |
| 483 | 11 Jul 2000 | Walter de la Mare | Brueghel's Winter | Jagg'd mountain peak... | 20 |
| 484 | 12 Jul 2000 | William Carlos Williams | Hunters in the Snow | The over-all picture... | 21 |
| 485 | 13 Jul 2000 | Joseph Langland | Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel | Quail and rabbit hun... | 49 |
| 486 | 14 Jul 2000 | Dorothy Parker | Epitaph for a Darling Lady | All her hours were y... | 12 |
| 487 | 15 Jul 2000 | John William Burgon | Petra | Match me such marvel... | 2 |
| 488 | 17 Jul 2000 | U. A. Fanthorpe | Dear Mr Lee | Dear Mr Lee (Mr Smar... | 50 |
| 489 | 17 Jul 2000 | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Horatius | A Lay Made About the... | 660 |
| 490 | 19 Jul 2000 | Tom Lehrer | The Elements | There's antimony, ar... | 26 |
| 491 | 19 Jul 2000 | W. H. Auden | Roman Wall Blues | Over the heather the... | 14 |
| 492 | 21 Jul 2000 | e. e. cummings | Poem 42 | n | 15 |
| 493 | 22 Jul 2000 | Rudyard Kipling | A Pict Song | Rome never looks whe... | 33 |
| 494 | 24 Jul 2000 | W.H. Auden | The Fall of Rome | The piers are pummel... | 28 |
| 495 | 24 Jul 2000 | Sir Walter Scott | Marmion | (A Tale of Flodden Field) | 74 |
| 496 | 24 Jul 2000 | Edgar A. Guest | The Lay of the Troubled Golfer | His eye was wild and... | 24 |
| 497 | 26 Jul 2000 | bpNichol | Landscape: I | (for thomas a. clark) | 3 |
| 498 | 27 Jul 2000 | Walt Whitman | The World Below the Brine | The world below the ... | 19 |
| 499 | 28 Jul 2000 | Thomas Ybarra | Lay of Ancient Rome | Oh, the Roman was a ... | 32 |
| 500 | 29 Jul 2000 | Percy Bysshe shelley | A Dirge | Rough Wind, that moa... | 8 |
| 501 | 31 Jul 2000 | Stanley Kunitz | King of the River | If the water were cl... | 77 |
| 502 | 31 Jul 2000 | Philip Larkin | MCMXIV | Those long uneven lines | 32 |
| 503 | 01 Aug 2000 | Donald Justice | Anonymous Drawing | A delicate young Neg... | 24 |
| 504 | 02 Aug 2000 | Li Po | About Tu Fu | I met Tu Fu on a mou... | 8 |
| 505 | 3 Aug 2000 | W.S. Gilbert | The Story of Prince Agib | Strike the concertin... | 85 |
| 506 | 04 Aug 2000 | Christopher Marlowe | Lament for Zenocrate | Black is the beauty ... | 37 |
| 507 | 06 Aug 2000 | James Dickey | The Sheep-Child | Farm boys wild to couple | 62 |
| 508 | 06 Aug 2000 | Walt Whitman | I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | I saw in Louisiana a... | 16 |
| 509 | 07 Aug 2000 | James Elroy Flecker | The Golden Road to Samarkand | HASSAN | 25 |
| 510 | 8 Aug 2000 | Lord Byron | There is a pleasure in the pathless woods | There is a pleasure ... | 9 |
| 511 | 09 Aug 2000 | William Butler Yeats | Beautiful Lofty Things | Beautiful lofty thin... | 12 |
| 512 | 10 Aug 2000 | Thomas Hood | Silence | There is a silence w... | 14 |
| 513 | 11 Aug 2000 | Jalaluddin Rumi | The Tavern | All day I think abou... | 26 |
| 514 | 13 Aug 2000 | Rupert Brooke | The Chilterns | Your hands, my dear,... | 40 |
| 515 | 14 Aug 2000 | Robert Graves | The Persian Version | Truth-loving Persian... | 16 |
| 516 | 15 Aug 2000 | Nissim Ezekiel | The Patriot | I am standing for pe... | 46 |
| 517 | 16 Aug 2000 | Ralph Hodgson | The Gipsy Girl | "Come, try your skil... | 20 |
| 518 | 17 Aug 2000 | James Elroy Flecker | The Gates of Damascus | Four great gates has... | 76 |
| 519 | 19 Aug 2000 | Thomas Hardy | The Roman Road | The Roman Road runs ... | 15 |
| 520 | 19 Aug 2000 | Adelaide Procter | A Lost Chord | Seated one day at th... | 28 |
| 521 | 20 Aug 2000 | Louis MacNeice | The Suicide | And this, ladies and... | 19 |
| 522 | 21 Aug 2000 | Constantine Cavafy | In Harbor | A young man, twenty ... | 12 |
| 523 | 22 Aug 2000 | Joyce Sutphen | Naming the Stars | This present tragedy... | 14 |
| 524 | 23 Aug 2000 | Ezra Pound | Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord | O fan of white silk, | 3 |
| 525 | 23 Aug 2000 | Conrad Aiken | Morning Song of Senlin | It is morning, Senli... | 64 |
| 526 | 24 Aug 2000 | Robert Browning | A Toccata of Galuppi's | Oh Galuppi, Baldassa... | 45 |
| 527 | 25 Aug 2000 | Thomas Edward Brown | I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May | I bended unto me a b... | 12 |
| 528 | 27 Aug 2000 | James Merrill | A Renewal | Having used every su... | 8 |
| 529 | 28 Aug 2000 | Emily Dickinson | If you were coming in the fall | If you were coming i... | 20 |
| 530 | 28 Aug 2000 | J. K. Stephen | A Sonnet | Two voices are there... | 14 |
| 531 | 29 Aug 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Love's Philosophy | The fountains mingle... | 16 |
| 532 | 30 Aug 2000 | T. S. Eliot | Little Gidding | Ash on an old man's ... | 95 |
| 533 | 31 Aug 2000 | Carole Oles | The Gift | Thinking she was the gift | 25 |
| 534 | 01 Sep 2000 | Charles Baudelaire | The Albatross | Often to pass the ti... | 16 |
| 535 | 02 Sep 2000 | Siegfried Sassoon | The Working Party | Three hours ago he b... | 49 |
| 536 | 03 Sep 2000 | Diana Bridge | Lighter than a feather | I | 47 |
| 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 |
| 538 | 05 Sep 2000 | John Updike | Back From Vacation | "Back from vacation"... | 14 |
| 539 | 06 Sep 2000 | A. E. Housman | Last Poems: XI | Yonder see the morni... | 10 |
| 540 | 07 Sep 2000 | Gavin Ewart | Office Friendships | Eve is madly in love... | 16 |
| 541 | 08 Sep 2000 | U. A. Fanthorpe | You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly | You feel adequate to... | 38 |
| 542 | 09 Sep 2000 | Ogden Nash | Will Consider Situation | There here are words... | 34 |
| 543 | 10 Sep 2000 | John Betjeman | Executive | I am a young executi... | 24 |
| 544 | 12 Sep 2000 | Philip Larkin | Toads | Why should I let the... | 36 |
| 545 | 13 Sep 2000 | Omar Khayyam | The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ | The Moving Finger wr... | 4 |
| 546 | 14 Sep 2000 | William Blake | The Sick Rose | O Rose, thou art sick! | 8 |
| 547 | 15 Sep 2000 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Isles of Greece | The isles of Greece!... | 96 |
| 548 | 16 Sep 2000 | Anonymous | Barbara Allen | In Scarlet town, whe... | 44 |
| 549 | 17 Sep 2000 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy | Trochee trips from l... | 19 |
| 550 | 19 Sep 2000 | Langdon Smith | Evolution | When you were a tadp... | 108 |
| 551 | 19 Sep 2000 | Max Plowman | Her Beauty | I heard them say, "H... | 10 |
| 552 | 20 Sep 2000 | Robert Creeley | Morning | dam's broke, | 3 |
| 553 | 21 Sep 2000 | Christopher Morley | Caught in the Undertow | Colin, worshipping s... | 8 |
| 554 | 22 Sep 2000 | R. S. Thomas | Taliesin | I have been all men ... | 20 |
| 555 | 23 Sep 2000 | John Masefield | Trade Winds | In the harbor, in th... | 12 |
| 556 | 25 Sep 2000 | Francois Villon | Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) | Brothers that live w... | 35 |
| 557 | 25 Sep 2000 | Andrei Voznesensky | Parabolic Balad | Among a parabola lif... | 39 |
| 558 | 26 Sep 2000 | Norman Rowland Gale | Bees | You voluble, | 24 |
| 559 | 27 Sep 2000 | George A. Strong | The Modern Hiawatha | He killed the noble ... | 11 |
| 560 | 28 Sep 2000 | Dorothy Parker | Chant for Dark Hours | Some men, some men | 24 |
| 561 | 29 Sep 2000 | Anon | The Metre Columbian | This is the metre Co... | 10 |
| 562 | 30 Sep 2000 | A. A. Milne | The King's Breakfast | The King asked | 94 |
| 563 | 1 Oct 2000 | S. Thomas Ansell | Butterfly | Down the air | 12 |
| 564 | 2 Oct 2000 | Robert Graves | Warning to Children | Children, if you dar... | 37 |
| 565 | 3 Oct 2000 | Thomas Campion | Now Winter Nights Enlarge | Now winter nights enlarge | 24 |
| 566 | 4 Oct 2000 | A. B. "Banjo" Paterson | Clancy of the Overflow | I had written him a ... | 34 |
| 567 | 5 Oct 2000 | George Herbert | Easter Wings | Lord, Who createdst ... | 20 |
| 568 | 6 Oct 2000 | Dylan Thomas | Especially when the October wind | Especially when the ... | 32 |
| 569 | 8 Oct 2000 | Henry Lawson | The Great Grey Plain | Out West, where the ... | 64 |
| 570 | 9 Oct 2000 | William Shakespeare | Come, Night; Come, Romeo | Come, night; come, R... | 9 |
| 571 | 10 Oct 2000 | A. D. Hope | The Death Of The Bird | For every bird there... | 36 |
| 572 | 11 Oct 2000 | Peter Porter | Mort aux Chats | There will be no mor... | 36 |
| 573 | 12 Oct 2000 | Alistair Campbell | At a Fishing Settlement | October, and a rain-... | 20 |
| 574 | 13 Oct 2000 | T. S. Eliot | Growltiger's Last Stand | Growltiger was a Bra... | 56 |
| 575 | 14 Oct 2000 | John Keats | To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat | Cat! who hast pass'd... | 14 |
| 576 | 15 Oct 2000 | A. A. Milne | Tra-la-la, tra-la-la | He had made up a lit... | 12 |
| 577 | 16 Oct 2000 | William Butler Yeats | The Cat and the Moon | The cat went here an... | 28 |
| 578 | 17 Oct 2000 | Margurite Kingman | Autumn Song | The firelight glows, | 9 |
| 579 | 18 Oct 2000 | Nissim Ezekiel | The Professor | Remember me? I am Pr... | 36 |
| 580 | 19 Oct 2000 | Emily Dickinson | Split the Lark | Split the Lark--and ... | 8 |
| 581 | 20 Oct 2000 | Charles Baudelaire | Get Drunk! | Always be drunk. | 38 |
| 582 | 21 Oct 2000 | Edmund Waller | Go, Lovely Rose | Go, lovely Rose- | 20 |
| 583 | 22 Oct 2000 | Ezra Pound | Envoi (1919) | Go, dumb-born book, | 26 |
| 584 | 23 Oct 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | History of the Night | Throughout the cours... | 27 |
| 585 | 24 Oct 2000 | R. T. Smith | Split the Lark | 'Split the lark, and... | 35 |
| 586 | 25 Oct 2000 | Rudyard Kipling | The Anvil | England's on the anv... | 12 |
| 587 | 26 Oct 2000 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Rubaiyat | 1 | 30 |
| 588 | 28 Oct 2000 | A. E. Housman | Terence, this is stupid stuff | "Terence, this is st... | 76 |
| 589 | 28 Oct 2000 | Rupert Brooke | Sonnet Reversed | Hand trembling towar... | 14 |
| 590 | 30 Oct 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Sonnet XLIII | What lips my lips ha... | 14 |
| 591 | 31 Oct 2000 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnet XIV | If thou must love me... | 14 |
| 592 | 31 Oct 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sonnet: England in 1819 | An old, mad, blind, ... | 14 |
| 593 | 1 Nov 2000 | Robert Herrick | The Hag | The hag is astride | 24 |
| 594 | 2 Nov 2000 | Harold Monro | Overheard on a Salmarsh | Nymph, nymph, what a... | 20 |
| 595 | 3 Nov 2000 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | The Last Man | By heaven and hell, ... | 13 |
| 596 | 4 Nov 2000 | Simon Armitage | I Say I Say I Say | Anyone here had a go... | 16 |
| 597 | 5 Nov 2000 | William Butler Yeats | He wishes for the cloths of heaven | Had I the heavens' e... | 8 |
| 598 | 6 Nov 2000 | Countee Cullen | For A Poet | I have wrapped my dr... | 8 |
| 599 | 7 Nov 2000 | Rita Dove | Geometry | I prove a theorem an... | 9 |
| 600 | 8 Nov 2000 | Lewis Carroll | The Mouse's Tale | Fury said to a mouse, | 32 |
| 601 | 9 Nov 2000 | E. V. Rieu | Hall and Knight | or 'z + b + x = y + ... | 29 |
| 602 | 10 Nov 2000 | Glyn Maxwell | Deep Sorriness Atonement Song | (for missed appointm... | 42 |
| 603 | 11 Nov 2000 | Eunice deSouza | Marriages Are Made | My cousin Elena | 21 |
| 604 | 12 Nov 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare | Euclid alone has loo... | 14 |
| 605 | 13 Nov 2000 | Pablo Neruda | Saddest Poem | I can write the sadd... | 33 |
| 606 | 14 Nov 2000 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | God's Grandeur | The world is charged... | 14 |
| 607 | 15 Nov 2000 | Phoebe Cary | Ballad of the Canal | We were crowded in t... | 24 |
| 608 | 16 Nov 2000 | E. B. White | The Spider's Web | The spider, dropping... | 12 |
| 609 | 17 Nov 2000 | Stephen Vincent Benet | Winged Man | The moon, a sweeping... | 37 |
| 610 | 19 Nov 2000 | Louise Imogen Guiney | The Lights of London | The evenfall, so slo... | 14 |
| 611 | 19 Nov 2000 | William Shakespeare | Winter | When icicles hang by... | 16 |
| 612 | 20 Nov 2000 | Sylvia Plath | Love Letter | Not easy to state th... | 36 |
| 613 | 21 Nov 2000 | John Betjeman | In Westminster Abbey | Let me take this oth... | 42 |
| 614 | 22 Nov 2000 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | The pennycandystore beyond the El | The pennycandystore ... | 18 |
| 615 | 23 Nov 2000 | Monty Python | The Philosopher's Drinking Song | Immanuel Kant was a ... | 21 |
| 616 | 24 Nov 2000 | James Wright | Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota | Over my head, I see ... | 13 |
| 617 | 25 Nov 2000 | Ho Xuan Huong | The Cake That Drifts In Water | My body is both whit... | 4 |
| 618 | 27 Nov 2000 | W. H. Auden | The More Loving One | Looking up at the st... | 16 |
| 619 | 28 Nov 2000 | e. e. cummings | somewhere i have never travelled | somewhere i have nev... | 20 |
| 620 | 28 Nov 2000 | Wallace Stevens | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | I | 67 |
| 621 | 30 Nov 2000 | R. S. Thomas | Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man | I | 85 |
| 622 | 30 Nov 2000 | Wilfred Gibson | The Ice-Cart | Perched on my city o... | 39 |
| 623 | 1 Dec 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody | 1 PATRIOTIC | 34 |
| 624 | 2 Dec 2000 | Leonard Cohen | Gift | You tell me that silence | 9 |
| 625 | 4 Dec 2000 | Ogden Nash | The Sniffle | In spite of her sniffle | 18 |
| 626 | 4 Dec 2000 | Edmond Rostand | Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose | DE GUICHE: Will no o... | 63 |
| 627 | 5 Dec 2000 | Laurence Hope | Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank | The Desert is parche... | 94 |
| 628 | 6 Dec 2000 | Edward Lear | The Dong with a Luminous Nose | When awful darkness ... | 103 |
| 629 | 7 Dec 2000 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Slave's Dream | Beside the ungathere... | 48 |
| 630 | 9 Dec 2000 | T. S. Eliot | To Walter de la Mare | The children who exp... | 33 |
| 631 | 10 Dec 2000 | John Lennon | Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam | Mean Mister Mustard ... | 24 |
| 632 | 10 Dec 2000 | Nikki Giovanni | I Wrote A Good Omelet | I wrote a good omele... | 15 |
| 633 | 11 Dec 2000 | Horace | Odes: Book 1, Verse 11 | Stop these efforts t... | 9 |
| 634 | 12 Dec 2000 | Sir Charles Sedley | Phyllis is my only joy | Phyllis is my only joy, | 18 |
| 635 | 14 Dec 2000 | Robert Browning | Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | GR-R-R--there go, my... | 72 |
| 636 | 14 Dec 2000 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Aaron Stark | Withal a meagre man ... | 14 |
| 637 | 16 Dec 2000 | Thom Gunn | The Hug | It was your birthday... | 22 |
| 638 | 16 Dec 2000 | Dorothy Parker | Song of Perfect Propriety | Oh, I should like to... | 32 |
| 639 | 18 Dec 2000 | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | The art of losing is... | 19 |
| 640 | 18 Dec 2000 | Marchette Gaylord Chute | Fairies | You can't see fairie... | 8 |
| 641 | 19 Dec 2000 | William Butler Yeats | The Road at My Door | An affable Irregular, | 15 |
| 642 | 20 Dec 2000 | Rina Singh | The Poetics of Desire | Throw away your pape... | 27 |
| 643 | 21 Dec 2000 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon | There is an inn, a m... | 65 |
| 644 | 22 Dec 2000 | Amy Lowell | Patterns | I walk down the gard... | 107 |
| 645 | 24 Dec 2000 | Maya Angelou | Old Folks laugh | They have spent their | 25 |
| 646 | 24 Dec 2000 | Anon | The North Wind Doth Blow | The north wind doth blow, | 8 |
| 647 | 25 Dec 2000 | Trad | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | God rest ye merry ge... | 63 |
| 648 | 27 Dec 2000 | Dave Goulder | The January Man | The January man he w... | 35 |
| 649 | 28 Dec 2000 | Michael Flanders | A Song of the Weather | January brings the snow | 26 |
| 650 | 29 Dec 2000 | Vikram Seth | All You who Sleep Tonight | All you who sleep tonight | 8 |
| 651 | 30 Dec 2000 | Muriel Rukeyser | Myth | Long afterward, Oedi... | 12 |
| 652 | 30 Dec 2000 | Robert Southey | The Cataract of Lodore | "How does the water | 121 |
| 653 | 31 Dec 2000 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ring Out, Wild Bells | Ring out, wild bells... | 32 |
| 654 | 2 Jan 2001 | Omar Khayyam | Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai | Think, in this batte... | 4 |
| 655 | 3 Jan 2001 | W. B. Yeats | No Second Troy | Why should I blame h... | 12 |
| 656 | 4 Jan 2001 | Anon | Edward, Edward | 'Why does your brand... | 56 |
| 657 | 5 Jan 2001 | Stephen Dobyns | The Dark and Turbulent Sea | Sailboat, sailboat -... | 37 |
| 658 | 6 Jan 2001 | Oscar Wilde | Serenade | The western wind is ... | 40 |
| 659 | 7 Jan 2001 | William Carlos Williams | Poem | As the cat | 12 |
| 660 | 8 Jan 2001 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | On A Night of Snow | Cat, if you go outdo... | 14 |
| 661 | 9 Jan 2001 | Christopher Smart | Jubilate Agno | For I will consider ... | 88 |
| 662 | 9 Jan 2001 | Jibanananda Das | Cat | Again and again thro... | 16 |
| 663 | 11 Jan 2001 | Robert Graves | A Child's Nightmare | Through long nursery... | 40 |
| 664 | 12 Jan 2001 | Mervyn Peake | Conceit | I heard a winter tre... | 4 |
| 665 | 13 Jan 2001 | Robert Herrick | Dreams | Here we are all, by ... | 2 |
| 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 |
| 667 | 16 Jan 2001 | Ogden Nash | Reflections on Ice-Breaking | Candy | 4 |
| 668 | 16 Jan 2001 | Piet Hein | On Problems | Our choicest plans | 8 |
| 669 | 17 Jan 2001 | John Wilmot | Epitaph on Charles II | Here lies a great an... | 4 |
| 670 | 18 Jan 2001 | Henry David Thoreau | What's the Railroad to Me? | What's the railroad ... | 7 |
| 671 | 19 Jan 2001 | Ted Hughes | Lineage | In the beginning was... | 21 |
| 672 | 20 Jan 2001 | Thomas Hood | Death | It is not death, tha... | 14 |
| 673 | 21 Jan 2001 | Rabindranath Tagore | The Flower-School | When storm-clouds ru... | 23 |
| 674 | 22 Jan 2001 | Adrienne Rich | Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | Aunt Jennifer's tige... | 12 |
| 675 | 24 Jan 2001 | Robert Burns | Comin' Thro the Rye | O, Jenny's a' weet, ... | 17 |
| 676 | 25 Jan 2001 | Mark Strand | Eating Poetry | Ink runs from the co... | 18 |
| 677 | 26 Jan 2001 | W. H. Auden | Villanelle | Time will say nothin... | 19 |
| 678 | 27 Jan 2001 | Sylvia Plath | Mirror | I am silver and exac... | 18 |
| 679 | 28 Jan 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Maybe | Maybe he believes me... | 8 |
| 680 | 29 Jan 2001 | Arun Kolatkar | The Butterfly | There is no story be... | 13 |
| 681 | 31 Jan 2001 | Robert Frost | The Secret Sits | We dance round in a ... | 2 |
| 682 | 31 Jan 2001 | Eunice de Souza | Advice to Women | Keep cats | 12 |
| 683 | 1 Feb 2001 | Li Po | To Tu Fu from Shantung | You ask how I spend ... | 8 |
| 684 | 2 Feb 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey | Scrambled eggs and w... | 20 |
| 685 | 4 Feb 2001 | James Elroy Flecker | The Old Ships | I have seen old ship... | 31 |
| 686 | 4 Feb 2001 | Joyce Maxner | Nicholas Cricket | Nicholas Cricket pla... | 53 |
| 687 | 5 Feb 2001 | Emily Dickinson | Success is counted sweetest | Success is counted s... | 12 |
| 688 | 6 Feb 2001 | Hillaire Belloc | The Yak | As a friend to the c... | 15 |
| 689 | 7 Feb 2001 | H. D | Helen in Egypt | This is the spread o... | 30 |
| 690 | 8 Feb 2001 | Stephen Crane | Tell Brave Deeds of War | "Tell brave deeds of... | 5 |
| 691 | 9 Feb 2001 | Billy Collins | Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles | It seems these poets... | 35 |
| 692 | 11 Feb 2001 | H. P. Lovecraft | The Messenger | The thing, he said, ... | 14 |
| 693 | 12 Feb 2001 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Haiku | (i) | 12 |
| 694 | 13 Feb 2001 | Wislawa Szymborska | True Love | True love. Is it normal | 35 |
| 695 | 13 Feb 2001 | John Masefield | Beauty | I have seen dawn and... | 8 |
| 696 | 14 Feb 2001 | John Keats | Last Sonnet | Bright Star, would I... | 14 |
| 697 | 15 Feb 2001 | Dorothy Parker | A Well Worn Story | In April, in April, | 20 |
| 698 | 16 Feb 2001 | Robert Service | The Cremation of Sam McGee | There are strange th... | 82 |
| 699 | 17 Feb 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Incident | I look across the ta... | 18 |
| 700 | 18 Feb 2001 | Rudyard Kipling | Outsong in the Jungle | [Baloo:] For the sak... | 72 |
| 701 | 18 Feb 2001 | Spike Milligan | Teeth | English Teeth, Engli... | 12 |
| 702 | 20 Feb 2001 | John Masefield | Night Is On The Downland | Night is on the down... | 20 |
| 703 | 20 Feb 2001 | A. E. Housman | On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble | On Wenlock Edge the ... | 20 |
| 704 | 21 Feb 2001 | Christopher Isherwood | On His Queerness | When I was young and... | 17 |
| 705 | 22 Feb 2001 | Willa Sibert Cather | A Likeness | Portrait Bust of an ... | 49 |
| 706 | 23 Feb 2001 | William Empson | Villanelle | It is the pain, it i... | 19 |
| 707 | 24 Feb 2001 | Randall Jarrell | The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | From my mother's sle... | 5 |
| 708 | 25 Feb 2001 | W. H. Auden | Five Songs - II | That night when joy began | 12 |
| 709 | 26 Feb 2001 | Trad | 100 Pipers | Wi' a hundred pipers... | 40 |
| 710 | 27 Feb 2001 | Keith Douglas | Vergissmeinnicht | Three weeks gone and... | 24 |
| 711 | 28 Feb 2001 | Emily Dickinson | I'm Nobody! Who are you? | I'm Nobody! Who are you? | 8 |
| 712 | 1 Mar 2001 | Yosa Buson | Haiku | The seashore temple... | 3 |
| 713 | 2 Mar 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Last Answers | I wrote a poem on th... | 12 |
| 714 | 4 Mar 2001 | Nissim Ezekiel | Night of the Scorpion | "I remember the nigh... | 24 |
| 715 | 5 Mar 2001 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Blessed Damozel | The blessed damozel ... | 144 |
| 716 | 6 Mar 2001 | Jenny Joseph | Warning | When I am an old wom... | 22 |
| 717 | 7 Mar 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Wreck of the Hesperus | It was the schooner ... | 88 |
| 718 | 8 Mar 2001 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | The Assyrian came do... | 24 |
| 719 | 9 Mar 2001 | Lady John Scott | Loch Lomond | By yon bonnie banks,... | 18 |
| 720 | 10 Mar 2001 | Thomas Hood | The Dream of Eugene Aram | 'Twas in the prime o... | 216 |
| 721 | 11 Mar 2001 | John Dryden | Marriage a la mode | Why should a foolish... | 16 |
| 722 | 12 Mar 2001 | Frank O'Hara | The Day Lady Died | It is 12:20 in New Y... | 29 |
| 723 | 13 Mar 2001 | Ted Hughes | Full Moon and Little Frieda | A cool small evening... | 12 |
| 724 | 14 Mar 2001 | Ben Jonson | Hymn to Diana | Queen and huntress, ... | 18 |
| 725 | 15 Mar 2001 | Walter de la Mare | Silver | Slowly, silently, no... | 14 |
| 726 | 16 Mar 2001 | T. E. Hulme | Above the Dock | Above the quiet dock... | 4 |
| 727 | 17 Mar 2001 | Harold Monro | Milk for the Cat | When the tea is brou... | 36 |
| 728 | 19 Mar 2001 | W.H.Auden | from The Dog Beneath The Skin | Now through night's ... | 23 |
| 729 | 20 Mar 2001 | Richard Hovey | Accident in Art | What painter has not... | 14 |
| 730 | 21 Mar 2001 | Robert Frost | Mending Wall | Something there is t... | 44 |
| 731 | 22 Mar 2001 | Sir Henry Newbolt | A Ballad of John Nicholson | It fell in the year ... | 80 |
| 732 | 23 Mar 2001 | A. P. Herbert | At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me | Dear Madam, you have... | 26 |
| 733 | 24 Mar 2001 | Edgar Guest | Story-Time | "Tell us a story," c... | 40 |
| 734 | 25 Mar 2001 | Elizabeth Bishop | In the Waiting Room | In Worcester, Massac... | 99 |
| 735 | 27 Mar 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | Decalogue | Thou shalt no God bu... | 20 |
| 736 | 28 Mar 2001 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The World was Young, the Mountains Green | The world was young,... | 46 |
| 737 | 28 Mar 2001 | William Allingham | Writing | A man who keeps a di... | 6 |
| 738 | 29 Mar 2001 | Oriah Mountain Dreamer | The Invitation | It doesn't interest ... | 37 |
| 739 | 30 Mar 2001 | Anon | Song of Creation | Then there was neith... | 16 |
| 740 | 31 Mar 2001 | W.H. Davies | The Villain | While joy gave cloud... | 10 |
| 741 | 1 Apr 2001 | Ian Anderson | Reasons For Waiting | What a sight for my eyes | 19 |
| 742 | 3 Apr 2001 | Nazim Hikmet | I Come and Stand at Every Door | I come and stand at ... | 20 |
| 743 | 4 Apr 2001 | Keith Reid | Conquistador | Conquistador -- your... | 24 |
| 744 | 5 Apr 2001 | Leonard Cohen | Joan of Arc | Now the flames they ... | 32 |
| 745 | 6 Apr 2001 | King Crimson | Indiscipline | I do remember one thing. | 11 |
| 746 | 7 Apr 2001 | Isaac Rosenberg | Dead Man's Dump | The plunging limbers... | 79 |
| 747 | 8 Apr 2001 | Randall Jarrell | The Player Piano | I ate pancakes one n... | 35 |
| 748 | 9 Apr 2001 | Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Be Near Me | You who demolish me,... | 21 |
| 749 | 10 Apr 2001 | Li Po | Parting | Green mountains rise... | 8 |
| 750 | 11 Apr 2001 | Omar Khayyam | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Here with a Loaf of ... | 8 |
| 751 | 12 Apr 2001 | Guillevic | Elegies | He probably held too... | 7 |
| 752 | 13 Apr 2001 | Alfred Kreymborg | Overheard In An Asylum | And here we have ano... | 23 |
| 753 | 14 Apr 2001 | Christian Morgenstern | Delayed Action | Korf invents some jo... | 6 |
| 754 | 16 Apr 2001 | Vikram Seth | Protocols | What can I say to yo... | 8 |
| 755 | 16 Apr 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Gone Are The Days | Impossible to call a... | 20 |
| 756 | 17 Apr 2001 | Philip Larkin | An Arundel Tomb | Side by side, their ... | 42 |
| 757 | 17 Apr 2001 | Louis MacNeice | The Sunlight on the Garden | The sunlight on the ... | 24 |
| 758 | 18 Apr 2001 | John Masefield | Sea-Change | "Goneys an' gullies ... | 16 |
| 759 | 19 Apr 2001 | William Wordsworth | A Complaint | There is a change--a... | 18 |
| 760 | 21 Apr 2001 | Alexander Pushkin | The Name | What is my name to y... | 16 |
| 761 | 22 Apr 2001 | Max Ehrmannn | Desiderata | Go placidly amid the... | 31 |
| 762 | 23 Apr 2001 | W. H. Auden | Miranda | My dear one is mine ... | 19 |
| 763 | 24 Apr 2001 | Robert Graves | Love Without Hope | Love without hope, a... | 4 |
| 764 | 25 Apr 2001 | John Betjeman | A Subaltern's Love Song | Miss J. Hunter Dunn,... | 44 |
| 765 | 26 Apr 2001 | Laurence Binyon | For The Fallen | With proud thanksgiv... | 28 |
| 766 | 27 Apr 2001 | Humbert Wolfe | The Grey Squirrel | Like a small grey | 16 |
| 767 | 28 Apr 2001 | Arthur Yap | A Scroll Painting | the mountains are ha... | 11 |
| 768 | 30 Apr 2001 | Ted Hughes | Theology | "No, the serpent did not | 12 |
| 769 | 1 May 2001 | e. e. cummings | what if a much of a which of a wind | what if a much of a ... | 24 |
| 770 | 1 May 2001 | John Keats | A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever | A thing of beauty is... | 13 |
| 771 | 2 May 2001 | William Blake | The Divine Image | Cruelty has a Human ... | 8 |
| 772 | 6 May 2001 | Stéphane Mallarmé | Sadness of Summer | Mingling a potion fo... | 14 |
| 773 | 6 May 2001 | Bhartrihari | Untitled | She who is always in... | 6 |
| 774 | 7 May 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Ray | How many guys are si... | 36 |
| 775 | 8 May 2001 | Herman Melville | The Maldive Shark | About the Shark, phl... | 16 |
| 776 | 9 May 2001 | Robert Burns | To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough | Wee, sleekit, cowrin... | 48 |
| 777 | 10 May 2001 | Robert Herrick | Upon Julia's Clothes | Whenas in silks my J... | 6 |
| 778 | 11 May 2001 | Robert Browning | Incident of the French Camp | You know, we French ... | 40 |
| 779 | 12 May 2001 | Robert Frost | Fire and Ice | Some say the world w... | 9 |
| 780 | 14 May 2001 | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Vagabond | Give to me the life ... | 32 |
| 781 | 15 May 2001 | Robert Service | The Law of the Yukon | This is the law of t... | 74 |
| 782 | 16 May 2001 | F.R. Scott | National Identity | The Canadian Centena... | 20 |
| 783 | 17 May 2001 | Stan Rogers | Northwest Passage | Chorus | 26 |
| 784 | 18 May 2001 | Archibald Lampman | To a Millionaire | The world in gloom a... | 14 |
| 785 | 25 May 2001 | Paul Simon | One Trick Pony | He's a one trick pony | 29 |
| 786 | 20 May 2001 | Margaret Atwood | Postcard | I'm thinking of you.... | 42 |
| 787 | 21 May 2001 | E. J. Pratt | Sea-Gulls | For one carved insta... | 15 |
| 788 | 22 May 2001 | John Updike | I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name | Though authors are a... | 20 |
| 789 | 23 May 2001 | Stephen Leacock | The Social Plan | I know a very tireso... | 30 |
| 790 | 24 May 2001 | Ezra Pound | Salutation | O generation of the ... | 10 |
| 791 | 25 May 2001 | Lizette Woodworth Reese | After | Oh, the littles that... | 11 |
| 792 | 26 May 2001 | Sheenagh Pugh | The Beautiful Lie | He was about four, I... | 30 |
| 793 | 28 May 2001 | Philip Larkin | No Road | Since we agreed to l... | 18 |
| 794 | 29 May 2001 | Li Po | In the Quiet Night | The floor before my ... | 4 |
| 795 | 29 May 2001 | Harold P. Furth | The Perils of Modern Living | Well up above the tr... | 16 |
| 796 | 31 May 2001 | John Donne | Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) | Death be not proud, ... | 14 |
| 797 | 31 May 2001 | Lewis F. Richardson | Big Whorls Have Little Whorls | Big whorls have litt... | 4 |
| 798 | 2 Jun 2001 | John Updike | V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick | V.B. Wigglesworth wa... | 20 |
| 799 | 3 Jun 2001 | Kenneth Grahame | Mr Toad | The world has held g... | 20 |
| 800 | 4 Jun 2001 | Miroslav Holub | In the Microscope | Here too are the dre... | 10 |
| 801 | 4 Jun 2001 | Dr. D. D. Perrin | A mosquito was heard to complain | A mosquito was heard... | 5 |
| 802 | 6 Jun 2001 | Matsuo Basho | Haiku | Snowy morning-- | 3 |
| 803 | 6 Jun 2001 | Catherine Faber | The Word of God | From desert cliff an... | 32 |
| 804 | 8 Jun 2001 | Kamala Das | The Looking Glass | Getting a man to lov... | 24 |
| 805 | 8 Jun 2001 | James Maxwell | Rigid Body Sings | Gin a body meet a body | 16 |
| 806 | 9 Jun 2001 | Sarah Flower Adams | Nearer, my God, to Thee | Nearer, my God, to Thee, | 34 |
| 807 | 10 Jun 2001 | Redgum | Working Girls | She said she came fr... | 42 |
| 808 | 12 Jun 2001 | William Shakespeare | Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV) | Not from the stars d... | 14 |
| 809 | 12 Jun 2001 | Hilaire Belloc | Jim | There was a Boy whos... | 54 |
| 810 | 14 Jun 2001 | Adrian Mitchell | Beatrix is Three | At the top of the stairs | 9 |
| 811 | 14 Jun 2001 | Edward Gorey | The Insect God | O what has become of... | 56 |
| 812 | 16 Jun 2001 | Sharon Olds | Sex Without Love | How do they do it, t... | 24 |
| 813 | 16 Jun 2001 | Thomas Hardy | Weathers | (I) | 20 |
| 814 | 19 Jun 2001 | Robert Browning | Parting at Morning | Round the cape of a ... | 4 |
| 815 | 20 Jun 2001 | Peter Meinke | Mulch | There where the punk... | 31 |
| 816 | 21 Jun 2001 | Pablo Neruda | I'm Explaining a Few Things | You are going to ask... | 78 |
| 817 | 21 Jun 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Grown-up | Was it for this I ut... | 4 |
| 818 | 23 Jun 2001 | Roald Dahl | Television | The most important t... | 93 |
| 819 | 25 Jun 2001 | Orhan Veli | I am listening to Istanbul | I am listening to Is... | 38 |
| 820 | 26 Jun 2001 | George Herbert | Love bade me welcome | Love bade me welcome... | 18 |
| 821 | 26 Jun 2001 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | The Mill | The miller's wife ha... | 24 |
| 822 | 28 Jun 2001 | Margaret Walker | I Want To Write | I want to write | 10 |
| 823 | 29 Jun 2001 | Piet Hein | Astro-Gymnastics | Do-it-yourself grook | 17 |
| 824 | 30 Jun 2001 | Alden Nowlan | The Mysterious Naked Man | A mysterious naked m... | 28 |
| 825 | 1 Jul 2001 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White | Now sleeps the crims... | 14 |
| 826 | 3 Jul 2001 | Li Po | Self-Abandonment | I sat drinking and d... | 4 |
| 827 | 3 Jul 2001 | Edwin Morgan | Strawberries | There were never str... | 33 |
| 828 | 4 Jul 2001 | Robert L. Stevenson | Where Go the Boats? | Dark brown is the river, | 16 |
| 829 | 6 Jul 2001 | Emily Dickinson | It dropped so low in my regard | It dropped so low in... | 8 |
| 830 | 6 Jul 2001 | Wilfred Gibson | The Question | I wonder if the old ... | 12 |
| 831 | 8 Jul 2001 | Spike Milligan | The Soldiers at Lauro | Young are our dead | 20 |
| 832 | 10 Jul 2001 | Bob Dylan | Love Minus Zero / No Limit | My love she speaks l... | 32 |
| 833 | 10 Jul 2001 | Christopher Morley | Washing the Dishes | When we on simple ra... | 20 |
| 834 | 11 Jul 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Soup | I saw a famous man e... | 9 |
| 835 | 12 Jul 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | There Was a Little Girl | There was a little girl, | 6 |
| 836 | 13 Jul 2001 | Stephen Spender | In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic | In railway halls, on... | 15 |
| 837 | 14 Jul 2001 | Czeslaw Milosz | Child of Europe | 1 | 100 |
| 838 | 15 Jul 2001 | Ben Okri | They Say | They say | 18 |
| 839 | 16 Jul 2001 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | A Musical Instrument | I. | 49 |
| 840 | 17 Jul 2001 | Robert Graves | The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection | (from the Welsh) | 13 |
| 841 | 18 Jul 2001 | Jalaluddin Rumi | Emptiness | Consider the difference | 65 |
| 842 | 19 Jul 2001 | Robert Southey | To a Goose | If thou didst feed o... | 14 |
| 843 | 20 Jul 2001 | Sujata Bhatt | Love in a Bathtub | Years later we'll re... | 10 |
| 844 | 21 Jul 2001 | Oliver Herford | The Hippopotamus | "Oh, say, what is th... | 11 |
| 845 | 22 Jul 2001 | Shel Silverstein | Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich | A hippo sandwich is ... | 12 |
| 846 | 23 Jul 2001 | T. S. Eliot | The Hippopotamus | The broad-backed hip... | 36 |
| 847 | 24 Jul 2001 | Rupert Brooke | On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess | Song of a tribe of t... | 29 |
| 848 | 25 Jul 2001 | Ogden Nash | The Hippopotamus | Behold the hippopotamus! | 8 |
| 849 | 27 Jul 2001 | Edith Sitwell | Sir Beelzebub | When | 18 |
| 850 | 27 Jul 2001 | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | No, I'll not take the half... | No, I'll not take th... | 12 |
| 851 | 28 Jul 2001 | Charles G. D. Roberts | The Skater | My glad feet shod wi... | 28 |
| 852 | 30 Jul 2001 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Mariana in the Moated Grange | With blackest moss t... | 84 |
| 853 | 31 Jul 2001 | Sukumar Ray | Stew Much | A duck once met a po... | 16 |
| 854 | 1 Aug 2001 | Ogden Nash | Very Like a Whale | One thing that liter... | 45 |
| 855 | 2 Aug 2001 | Wang Wei | Lady Xi | No present royal fav... | 4 |
| 856 | 4 Aug 2001 | Martial | Epigram | You puff the poets o... | 4 |
| 857 | 5 Aug 2001 | A. C. Swinburne | Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' | Before the beginning... | 48 |
| 858 | 5 Aug 2001 | T. S. Eliot | The Waste Land (Part V) | V. What the Thunder Said | 39 |
| 859 | 8 Aug 2001 | Wendy Cope | Waste Land Limericks | I | 30 |
| 860 | 9 Aug 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Sonnet: Love Is Not All | Love is not all: It ... | 14 |
| 861 | 10 Aug 2001 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Spanish Dancer | As on all its sides ... | 18 |
| 862 | 10 Aug 2001 | Elinor Wylie | Pretty Words | Poets make pets of p... | 14 |
| 863 | 12 Aug 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Frogs | Frogs sit more solid | 16 |
| 864 | 12 Aug 2001 | Louis MacNeice | Snow | The room was suddenl... | 12 |
| 865 | 13 Aug 2001 | Carol Ann Duffy | Valentine | Not a red rose or a ... | 23 |
| 866 | 14 Aug 2001 | John Donne | The Canonization | For God's sake hold ... | 45 |
| 867 | 15 Aug 2001 | Cream | Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) | Twice upon a time in... | 16 |
| 868 | 16 Aug 2001 | W. H. Auden | Partition | Unbiased at least he... | 25 |
| 869 | 19 Aug 2001 | Louis McKee | Scrabble | We used to pride our... | 17 |
| 870 | 21 Aug 2001 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | No worst, there is none | "No worst, there is ... | 14 |
| 871 | 23 Aug 2001 | Emily Dickinson | I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | I felt a Funeral, in... | 20 |
| 872 | 23 Aug 2001 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | The House on the Hill | They are all gone away, | 19 |
| 873 | 25 Aug 2001 | Archibald Lampman | Winter Evening | To-night the very ho... | 14 |
| 874 | 25 Aug 2001 | Sheenagh Pugh | Sometimes | Sometimes things don... | 12 |
| 875 | 27 Aug 2001 | Vincent Starrett | 221B | Here dwell together ... | 14 |
| 876 | 29 Aug 2001 | Louis Alexander MacKay | I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver | I wish my tongue wer... | 15 |
| 877 | 30 Aug 2001 | Tom Brown | I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell | I do not love thee, ... | 4 |
| 878 | 31 Aug 2001 | Dorothy Parker | Frustration | If I had a shiny gun, | 12 |
| 879 | 31 Aug 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | The Mad Philosopher | The flabby wine-skin... | 4 |
| 880 | 2 Sep 2001 | Rudyard Kipling | The Sergeant's Weddin' | 'E was warned agin' ... | 56 |
| 881 | 2 Sep 2001 | Sylvia Plath | The Moon and the Yew tree | "This is the light o... | 28 |
| 882 | 4 Sep 2001 | Ted Hughes | Wind | This house has been ... | 24 |
| 883 | 7 Sep 2001 | Seamus Heaney | Personal Helicon | As a child, they cou... | 20 |
| 884 | 9 Sep 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Day is Done | The day is done, and... | 44 |
| 885 | 11 Sep 2001 | Suzanne Vega | Night Vision | By day give thanks, ... | 20 |
| 886 | 11 Sep 2001 | Philip Larkin | Maiden Name | Marrying left your m... | 21 |
| 887 | 11 Sep 2001 | Walt Whitman | Beat! Beat! Drums! | Beat! beat! drums! -... | 23 |
| 888 | 12 Sep 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A Psalm of Life | What the heart of th... | 37 |
| 889 | 14 Sep 2001 | W. H. Auden | September 1, 1939 | I sit in one of the dives | 99 |
| 890 | 16 Sep 2001 | Bob Dylan | All Along The Watch-Tower | "There must be some ... | 12 |
| 891 | 17 Sep 2001 | Emily Dickinson | A Doubt If It Be Us | A doubt if it be Us | 8 |
| 892 | 19 Sep 2001 | Shel Silverstein | Stupid Pencil Maker | Some dummy built thi... | 4 |
| 893 | 19 Sep 2001 | H. D | Wash of Cold River | Wash of cold river | 27 |
| 894 | 21 Sep 2001 | Adrian Mitchell | Watch Your Step - I'm Drenched | In Manchester there ... | 24 |
| 895 | 21 Sep 2001 | W.H.Auden | August 1968 | The Ogre does what o... | 8 |
| 896 | 23 Sep 2001 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Kraken | Below the thunders o... | 15 |
| 897 | 24 Sep 2001 | Anon | Grendel | Then a powerful demo... | 37 |
| 898 | 26 Sep 2001 | Lewis Carroll | Beautiful Soup | Beautiful Soup, so r... | 14 |
| 899 | 25 Sep 2001 | Jack Prelutsky | The Diatonic Dittymunch | The Diatonic Dittymu... | 9 |
| 900 | 27 Sep 2001 | W. S. Gilbert | Ballad: The Sorcerer's Song | Oh! My name is John ... | 77 |
| 901 | 28 Sep 2001 | Charles Bukowski | oh yes | there are worse thin... | 10 |
| 902 | 30 Sep 2001 | Rainer Maria Rilke | The Book of Pilgrimage, II, 22 | You are the future, | 14 |
| 903 | 30 Sep 2001 | Anon | Leviathan | Can you draw out Lev... | 42 |
| 904 | 1 Oct 2001 | Miller Williams | The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina | Somewhere in everyon... | 39 |
| 905 | 3 Oct 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | I will put Chaos into fourteen lines | I will put Chaos int... | 14 |
| 906 | 4 Oct 2001 | Frances Cornford | To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train | O why do you walk th... | 8 |
| 907 | 6 Oct 2001 | Felix Jung | Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad | Today, I have decided | 16 |
| 908 | 6 Oct 2001 | Yosa Buson | Haiku | Departing spring | 3 |
| 909 | 8 Oct 2001 | Anonymous | The Limerick Packs Laughs Anatomical | The limerick packs l... | 5 |
| 910 | 9 Oct 2001 | John Keats | On the Grasshopper and the Cricket | The poetry of earth ... | 14 |
| 911 | 10 Oct 2001 | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The Traveled Man | Sometimes I wish the... | 28 |
| 912 | 13 Oct 2001 | Theodore Roethke | The Waking | I wake to sleep, and... | 19 |
| 913 | 14 Oct 2001 | W. H. Auden | In Time of War, XII | And the age ended, a... | 14 |
| 914 | 14 Oct 2001 | Christopher Morley | Tit for Tat | I often pass a graci... | 8 |
| 915 | 16 Oct 2001 | Phoebe Cary | The Lovers | Sally Salter, she wa... | 33 |
| 916 | 18 Oct 2001 | Li Po | Question and Answer in the Mountains | They ask me why I li... | 4 |
| 917 | 18 Oct 2001 | Robert Frost | A Considerable Speck | (Microscopic) | 34 |
| 918 | 20 Oct 2001 | William Butler Yeats | John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore | A bloody and a sudde... | 36 |
| 919 | 20 Oct 2001 | William Allingham | The Fairies | Up the airy mountain | 56 |
| 920 | 21 Oct 2001 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Erl-King | Who rides there so l... | 32 |
| 921 | 23 Oct 2001 | Steely Dan | Charlie Freak | Charlie Freak had bu... | 20 |
| 922 | 23 Oct 2001 | Edgar Guest | What Father Knows | My father knows the ... | 40 |
| 923 | 25 Oct 2001 | A. C. Swinburne | Leave-Taking | Let us go hence, my ... | 42 |
| 924 | 25 Oct 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | Christian | I dreamed I stood up... | 18 |
| 925 | 27 Oct 2001 | Lee Tzu Pheng | Candlesong | As my years burn down | 10 |
| 926 | 28 Oct 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Dirge Without Music | I am not resigned to... | 16 |
| 927 | 29 Oct 2001 | Bertolt Brecht | I'm not saying anything against Alexander | Timur, I hear, took ... | 13 |
| 928 | 30 Oct 2001 | Ring Lardner | Quiescent, a Person Sits Heart and Soul | Quiescent a person s... | 4 |
| 929 | 1 Nov 2001 | Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner | Synchronicity II | Another suburban fam... | 30 |
| 930 | 2 Nov 2001 | Paul Weller | Town Called Malice | You'd better stop dr... | 25 |
| 931 | 2 Nov 2001 | Sir Walter Scott | Proud Maisie | Proud Maisie is in t... | 16 |
| 932 | 3 Nov 2001 | Richard Thompson | Fast Food | Big mac, small mac, ... | 26 |
| 933 | 6 Nov 2001 | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards | Mother's Little Helper | What a drag it is ge... | 31 |
| 934 | 7 Nov 2001 | Seamus Heaney | Blackberry-picking | Late August, given h... | 24 |
| 935 | 7 Nov 2001 | Lewis Carroll | The Lobster Quadrille | "Will you walk a lit... | 18 |
| 936 | 10 Nov 2001 | Michael Drayton | Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part (Idea: LXI) | Since there's no hel... | 14 |
| 937 | 10 Nov 2001 | Sara Teasdale | The Look | Strephon kissed me i... | 8 |
| 938 | 12 Nov 2001 | Cicely Herbert | Everything Changes | after Brecht, 'Alles... | 11 |
| 939 | 11 Nov 2001 | Thomas Hardy | Channel Firing | That night your grea... | 36 |
| 940 | 13 Nov 2001 | Rudyard Kipling | The Palace | When I was a King an... | 25 |
| 941 | 14 Nov 2001 | Pablo Neruda | Clenched Soul | We have lost even th... | 18 |
| 942 | 15 Nov 2001 | James Shirley | Death the Leveller | The glories of our b... | 24 |
| 943 | 17 Nov 2001 | William Shakespeare | So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnets XXI) | So is it not with me... | 14 |
| 944 | 17 Nov 2001 | James Elroy Flecker | Rioupéroux | High and solemn moun... | 8 |
| 945 | 19 Nov 2001 | E. E. Cummings | O sweet spontaneous | O sweet spontaneous | 27 |
| 946 | 21 Nov 2001 | Sir Henry Newbolt | Vitaï Lampada | There's a breathless... | 24 |
| 947 | 22 Nov 2001 | John Kendal | Ballad of a Homeless Bat | The man was going in... | 52 |
| 948 | 22 Nov 2001 | Julia A. Moore | Grand Rapids Cricket Club | In Grand Rapids is a... | 32 |
| 949 | 24 Nov 2001 | Andrew Lang | Brahma | If the wild bowler t... | 8 |
| 950 | 24 Nov 2001 | Emily Dickinson | The cricket sang | The cricket sang, | 12 |
| 951 | 26 Nov 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Wife Poem | And it's clear at la... | 24 |
| 952 | 27 Nov 2001 | Drummond Allison | Verity | (In memory of Captai... | 16 |
| 953 | 1 Dec 2001 | Friedrich Nietzsche | Parable of the Madman | Have you not heard o... | 65 |
| 954 | 1 Dec 2001 | George Harrison | Within You Without You | We were talking - ab... | 24 |
| 955 | 5 Dec 2001 | T. S. Eliot | Gus: The Theatre Cat | Gus is the Cat at th... | 55 |
| 956 | 7 Dec 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Ashes of Life | Love has gone and le... | 12 |
| 957 | 9 Dec 2001 | Thomas Wyatt | Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind | Whoso list to hunt, ... | 14 |
| 958 | 11 Dec 2001 | Anon | The Bookworm | A moth, I thought, m... | 8 |
| 959 | 11 Dec 2001 | Henry Carey | The Ballad of Sally in our Alley | Of all the Girls tha... | 56 |
| 960 | 13 Dec 2001 | Stephen Sondheim | The Prologue to 'Sweeney Todd' | [A Man:] | 55 |
| 961 | 14 Dec 2001 | Agha Shahid Ali | The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' | First, grant me my s... | 33 |
| 962 | 14 Dec 2001 | Rudyard Kipling | The Idiot Boy | He wandered down the... | 8 |
| 963 | 17 Dec 2001 | John Fuller | Concerto for Double Bass | He is a drunk leanin... | 12 |
| 964 | 17 Dec 2001 | Lewis Carroll | How Doth the Little Crocodile | How doth the little ... | 8 |
| 965 | 19 Dec 2001 | Steely Dan | Chain Lightning | Some turnout, a hund... | 14 |
| 966 | 20 Dec 2001 | Vikram Seth | Sit | Sit, drink your coff... | 8 |
| 967 | 20 Dec 2001 | Eugene Field | Wynken, Blynken, and Nod | A Dutch Lullaby | 49 |
| 968 | 22 Dec 2001 | Robert Penn Warren | Grackles, Goodbye | Black of grackles gl... | 20 |
| 969 | 23 Dec 2001 | Tony Harrison | Long Distance II | Though my mother was... | 16 |
| 970 | 25 Dec 2001 | Sigerson Clifford | The Kerry Christmas Carol | Brush the floor and ... | 28 |
| 971 | 27 Dec 2001 | Patrick Kavanagh | Raglan Road | On Raglan Road on an... | 16 |
| 972 | 28 Dec 2001 | Rupert Brooke | The Beginning | Some day I shall ris... | 20 |
| 973 | 29 Dec 2001 | A. E. Housman | Reveille | Wake: the silver dus... | 24 |
| 974 | 30 Dec 2001 | Anonymous | Donal Og | It is late last nigh... | 36 |
| 975 | 31 Dec 2001 | Robert Hayden | Those Winter Sundays | Sundays too my fathe... | 14 |
| 976 | 1 Jan 2002 | Ernest Hemingway | Chapter Heading | For we have thought ... | 6 |
| 977 | 2 Jan 2002 | Thomas Hardy | The Darkling Thrush | I leant upon a coppi... | 32 |
| 978 | 3 Jan 2002 | Anne Sexton | Cinderella | You always read about it | 109 |
| 979 | 4 Jan 2002 | Wilfred Owen | The Parable of the Old Man and the Young | So Abram rose, and c... | 16 |
| 980 | 6 Jan 2002 | Robert Service | The March of the Dead | The cruel war was ov... | 48 |
| 981 | 9 Jan 2002 | Eric Bogle | The Band Played Waltzing Matilda | Now when I was a you... | 64 |
| 982 | 11 Jan 2002 | Rachel Rose | What We Heard About the Japanese | We heard they would ... | 28 |
| 983 | 17 Jan 2002 | Stephen Vincent Benet | The General Public | "Ah, did you once se... | 43 |
| 984 | 18 Jan 2002 | Walt Whitman | On the Beach at Night | On the beach at night, | 36 |
| 985 | 19 Jan 2002 | Robert Frost | Once by the Pacific | The shattered water ... | 14 |
| 986 | 20 Jan 2002 | Marianne Moore | A Grave | Man looking into the sea, | 52 |
| 987 | 22 Jan 2002 | Carol Ann Duffy | Prayer | Some days, although ... | 14 |
| 988 | 24 Jan 2002 | Wallace Stevens | The Idea of Order at Key West | She sang beyond the ... | 56 |
| 989 | 25 Jan 2002 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Lotos-Eaters | "Courage!" he said, ... | 182 |
| 990 | 28 Jan 2002 | Langston Hughes | Sea Calm | How still, | 6 |
| 991 | 30 Jan 2002 | Stephen Spender | Seascape | In memoriam M.A.S | 27 |
| 992 | 31 Jan 2002 | Oscar Wilde | Symphony in Yellow | An omnibus across th... | 12 |
| 993 | 7 Feb 2002 | Derek Walcott | Midsummer, Tobago | Broad sun-stoned beaches. | 11 |
| 994 | 8 Feb 2002 | Robert Frost | The Gift Outright | The land was ours be... | 16 |
| 995 | 9 Feb 2002 | John Lennon | Come Together | Here come old flatto... | 20 |
| 996 | 11 Feb 2002 | Shel Silverstein | The Little Boy and the Old Man | Said the little boy,... | 10 |
| 997 | 12 Feb 2002 | Christopher Marlowe | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | Come live with me an... | 24 |
| 998 | 13 Feb 2002 | Brian Patten | A blade of grass | You ask for a poem. | 23 |
| 999 | 14 Feb 2002 | Elizabeth Bishop | Casabianca | Love's the boy stood... | 10 |
| 1000 | 15 Feb 2002 | Felicia Hemans | Casabianca | The boy stod on the ... | 36 |
| 1001 | 16 Feb 2002 | Sir Walter Raleigh | The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | If all the world and... | 24 |
| 1002 | 18 Feb 2002 | John Donne | The Bait | Come live with me, a... | 28 |
| 1003 | 20 Feb 2002 | Sharon Olds | The Connoisseuse of Slugs | When I was a connois... | 22 |
| 1004 | 21 Feb 2002 | Jane Kenyon | Finding a Long Gray Hair | I scrub the long flo... | 7 |
| 1005 | 22 Feb 2002 | Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi | They paved paradise | 26 |
| 1006 | 24 Feb 2002 | Langston Hughes | Dream Deferred | What happens to a dr... | 11 |
| 1007 | 25 Feb 2002 | Henry F. Lyte | Abide with me | Abide with me; fast ... | 32 |
| 1008 | 26 Feb 2002 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Cat | The fat cat on the mat | 27 |
| 1009 | 28 Feb 2002 | Samuel Daniel | Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night (Delia LIV) | Care-charmer Sleep, ... | 14 |
| 1010 | 1 Mar 2002 | A. S. J. Tessimond | Cats | Cats no less liquid ... | 16 |
| 1011 | 7 Mar 2002 | William Butler Yeats | Easter, 1916 | I have met them at c... | 80 |
| 1012 | 5 Mar 2002 | Robert Frost | Nothing Gold Can Stay | Nature's first green... | 8 |
| 1013 | 8 Mar 2002 | Louis Simpson | Carentan O Carentan | Trees in the old day... | 56 |
| 1014 | 11 Mar 2002 | Lewis Carroll | A Sea Dirge | There are certain th... | 48 |
| 1015 | 12 Mar 2002 | Gerard Bacher | Corsica | (Before the Walk) | 50 |
| 1016 | 13 Mar 2002 | Henry Lawson | Faces in the Street | They lie, the men wh... | 91 |
| 1017 | 14 Mar 2002 | Franklin P. Adams | Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" | ("Sir: For the first... | 21 |
| 1018 | 19 Mar 2002 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | At Stratford-Upon-Avon | Thus spake his dust ... | 14 |
| 1019 | 20 Mar 2002 | Elizabeth Jennings | A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon | Nature teaches us ou... | 30 |
| 1020 | 23 Mar 2002 | William Butler Yeats | A Prayer For My Daughter | Once more the storm ... | 80 |
| 1021 | 24 Mar 2002 | Matsuo Basho | Matsushima | O Matsushima! | 3 |
| 1022 | 26 Mar 2002 | A. A. Milne | Buckingham Palace | They're changing gua... | 30 |
| 1023 | 26 Mar 2002 | W. S. Gilbert | The Soldiers of our Queen | DRAGOONS | 71 |
| 1024 | 28 Mar 2002 | Walter de la Mare | Faint Music | The meteor's arc of ... | 8 |
| 1025 | 28 Mar 2002 | Newman Levy | Thais | One time in Alexandr... | 52 |
| 1026 | 30 Mar 2002 | Rudyard Kipling | The Prodigal Son | Here come I to my ow... | 48 |
| 1027 | 1 Apr 2002 | Anonymous | Greensleeves | A new Courtly Sonet,... | 95 |
| 1028 | 2 Apr 2002 | Patrick Barrington | The Diplomatic Platypus | I had a duck-billed ... | 48 |
| 1029 | 4 Apr 2002 | Piet Hein | Prayer (to the sun above the clouds) | Sun that givest all ... | 6 |
| 1030 | 6 Apr 2002 | Siegfried Sassoon | Everyone Sang | Everyone suddenly bu... | 10 |
| 1031 | 7 Apr 2002 | Robert Graves | Wild Strawberries | Strawberries that in... | 24 |
| 1032 | 9 Apr 2002 | Edward Thomas | Words | Out of us all | 59 |
| 1033 | 9 Apr 2002 | Bret Harte | What the Bullet sang | O Joy of creation, | 24 |
| 1034 | 11 Apr 2002 | Tadeusz Ròzewicz | Pigtail | When all the women i... | 21 |
| 1035 | 13 Apr 2002 | Dylan Thomas | The Hand That Signed The Paper | The hand that signed... | 16 |
| 1036 | 13 Apr 2002 | Robert Frost | Range Finding | The battle rent a co... | 14 |
| 1037 | 17 Apr 2002 | Wilfred Owen | The Last Laugh | 'O Jesus Christ! I'... | 15 |
| 1038 | 20 Apr 2002 | W. H. Auden | Epitaph on a tyrant | Perfection, of a kin... | 6 |
| 1039 | 21 Apr 2002 | Louis MacNeice | Prayer before Birth | I am not yet born; O... | 39 |
| 1040 | 21 Apr 2002 | William Butler Yeats | On Being Asked for a War Poem | I think it better th... | 6 |
| 1041 | 25 Apr 2002 | Derek Walcott | The Schooner 'Flight' | 1. Adios, Carenage | 78 |
| 1042 | 23 Apr 2002 | Walt Whitman | I Sit and Look Out | I sit and look out u... | 19 |
| 1043 | 27 Apr 2002 | Marianne Moore | The Steeple-Jack | Dürer would have see... | 78 |
| 1044 | 1 May 2002 | Spike Milligan | Contagion | Elephants are contagious! | 12 |
| 1045 | 3 May 2002 | Grace Nichols | The Body Reclining | I sing the body reclining | 28 |
| 1046 | 4 May 2002 | Henrik Nordbrandt | Sailing | After having loved w... | 22 |
| 1047 | 5 May 2002 | Rupert Brooke | Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire | Oh! Death will find ... | 14 |
| 1048 | 7 May 2002 | Sylvia Plath | Black Rook in Rainy Weather | On the stiff twig up... | 41 |
| 1049 | 9 May 2002 | Roger Woddis | Down With Fanatics! | If I had my way with... | 24 |
| 1050 | 10 May 2002 | John Betjeman | Devonshire Street W.1 | The heavy mahogany d... | 16 |
| 1051 | 11 May 2002 | A. A. Milne | Happiness | John had | 16 |
| 1052 | 15 May 2002 | Brian Patten | Angel Wings | In the morning I ope... | 54 |
| 1053 | 16 May 2002 | William 'Smokey' Robinson | Tears of a Clown | Now if there's a smi... | 38 |
| 1054 | 17 May 2002 | William Ernest Henley | Barmaid | Though, if you ask h... | 14 |
| 1055 | 21 May 2002 | Jack Prelutsky | Bleezer's Ice Cream | I am Ebenezer Bleezer, | 40 |
| 1056 | 22 May 2002 | Constantine Cavafy | Waiting for the Barbarians | What are we waiting ... | 35 |
| 1057 | 24 May 2002 | William Stafford | Atavism | 1 | 27 |
| 1058 | 31 May 2002 | John Wilmot | A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover | Ancient Person, for ... | 26 |
| 1059 | 3 Jun 2002 | Wendy Cope | An Unusual Cat-Poem | My cat is dead | 2 |
| 1060 | 7 Jun 2002 | Laura Riding | The World and I | This is not exactly ... | 16 |
| 1061 | 21 Jun 2002 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Thomas Hood | The man who cloaked ... | 14 |
| 1062 | 22 Jun 2002 | Louis MacNeice | House on a Cliff | Indoors the tang of ... | 12 |
| 1063 | 23 Jun 2002 | Stephen Dunn | Named | He'd spent his life ... | 27 |
| 1064 | 24 Jun 2002 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Travel | The railroad track i... | 12 |
| 1065 | 25 Jun 2002 | Harry Edmund Martinson | The Cable Ship | We fished up the Atl... | 14 |
| 1066 | 26 Jun 2002 | Jane Kenyon | Let Evening Come | Let the light of lat... | 18 |
| 1067 | 27 Jun 2002 | Dylan Thomas | On A Wedding Anniversary | The sky is torn across | 12 |
| 1068 | 27 Jun 2002 | Charles S. Calverley | Lovers and a Reflection | In moss-prankt dells... | 58 |
| 1069 | 30 Jun 2002 | Vachel Lindsay | The Leaden-Eyed | Let not young souls ... | 8 |
| 1070 | 3 Jul 2002 | Philip Larkin | Wires | The widest prairies ... | 8 |
| 1071 | 11 Jul 2002 | John Agard | Coffee In Heaven | You'll be greeted | 9 |
| 1072 | 12 Jul 2002 | e. e. cummings | next to of course god america i | "next to of course g... | 14 |
| 1073 | 12 Jul 2002 | Po Chü-i | The Red Cockatoo | Sent as a present fr... | 8 |
| 1074 | 16 Jul 2002 | Rafael Jesús González | The Consecration Of Coffee | to Archbishop Oscar ... | 30 |
| 1075 | 20 Jul 2002 | Theodore Roethke | Dolor | I have known the ine... | 13 |
| 1076 | 22 Jul 2002 | Eunice de Souza | Meeting Poets | Meeting poets I am d... | 9 |
| 1077 | 15 Aug 2002 | Rudyard Kipling | The Plea of the Simla Dancers | Too late, alas! the song | 56 |
| 1078 | 20 Aug 2002 | Sara Teasdale | Water Lilies | If you have forgotte... | 8 |
| 1079 | 21 Aug 2002 | Don Marquis | mehitabel and her kittens | well boss | 129 |
| 1080 | 22 Aug 2002 | Ogden Nash | The Lama | The one-l lama, | 8 |
| 1081 | 27 Aug 2002 | Paul Laurence Dunbar | The Dilettante: A Modern Type | He scribbles some in... | 16 |
| 1082 | 29 Aug 2002 | W. H. Auden | Under Which Lyre | A Reactionary Tract ... | 175 |
| 1083 | 30 Aug 2002 | Phoebe Cary | Shakesperian Readings - 3 | My father had a daug... | 10 |
| 1084 | 1 Sep 2002 | Brian Patten | Sometimes it Happens | And sometimes it hap... | 25 |
| 1085 | 2 Sep 2002 | Harry Guest | Death of a Friendship | I mourn, now that yo... | 52 |
| 1086 | 4 Sep 2002 | William Jay Smith | The Floor and the Ceiling | Winter and summer, w... | 36 |
| 1087 | 5 Sep 2002 | William Blake | A Poison Tree | I was angry with my ... | 16 |
| 1088 | 6 Sep 2002 | Norman MacCaig | The Two Friends | The last word this o... | 12 |
| 1089 | 7 Sep 2002 | John Thomas | By Heart | The years pass like ... | 19 |
| 1090 | 9 Sep 2002 | Dorothy Parker | Unfortunate Coincidence | By the time you swea... | 6 |
| 1091 | 10 Sep 2002 | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | The curfew tolls the... | 129 |
| 1092 | 13 Sep 2002 | Piet Hein | What Love is Like | Love is like | 4 |
| 1093 | 24 Sep 2002 | Margaret Atwood | Variations on the Word "Sleep" | I would like to watc... | 30 |
| 1094 | 25 Sep 2002 | Rabrindranath Tagore | On the Nature of Love | The night is black a... | 14 |
| 1095 | 30 Sep 2002 | Billy Collins | Litany | You are the bread an... | 33 |
| 1096 | 1 Oct 2002 | Billy Collins | On Turning Ten | The whole idea of it... | 32 |
| 1097 | 2 Oct 2002 | A.A. Milne | The End | When I was One, | 12 |
| 1098 | 3 Oct 2002 | John Betjeman | Indoor Games near Newbury | In among the silver ... | 58 |
| 1099 | 4 Oct 2002 | Raymond Carver | Happiness | So early it's still ... | 24 |
| 1100 | 8 Oct 2002 | Roger McGough | A Good Poem | I like a good poem | 16 |
| 1101 | 9 Oct 2002 | Hart Crane | To Brooklyn Bridge | How many dawns, chil... | 44 |
| 1102 | 10 Oct 2002 | June Jordan | On a New Year's Eve | Infinity doesn't int... | 126 |
| 1103 | 12 Oct 2002 | Robert Browning | Prospice | Fear death? -- to fe... | 28 |
| 1104 | 13 Oct 2002 | Fernando Pessoa | Untitled | What grieves me is not | 12 |
| 1105 | 19 Oct 2002 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Sunrise Along Shore | Athwart the harbor l... | 32 |
| 1106 | 26 Oct 2002 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Comrades, leave me h... | 194 |
| 1107 | 28 Oct 2002 | W.S. Merwin | Separation | Your absence has gon... | 3 |
| 1108 | 29 Oct 2002 | Yehuda Amichai | Seven Laments for the War-Dead | 1 | 130 |
| 1109 | 30 Oct 2002 | Robert Browning | Porphyria's Lover | The rain set early i... | 60 |
| 1110 | 17 Nov 2002 | Maj Gen WH Rupertus | My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine) | This is my rifle. | 23 |
| 1111 | 17 Nov 2002 | Christopher Isherwood | The Common Cormorant | The common cormorant... | 8 |
| 1112 | 19 Nov 2002 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Bilbo's Last Song | Day is ended, dim my... | 24 |
| 1113 | 20 Nov 2002 | Ernest Hemingway | The Age Demanded | The age demanded tha... | 8 |
| 1114 | 21 Nov 2002 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Sandinista Avioncitos | The little airplanes... | 14 |
| 1115 | 22 Nov 2002 | Robinson Jeffers | Shine, Perishing Republic | While this America s... | 20 |
| 1116 | 24 Nov 2002 | Richard Wilbur | Transit | A woman I have never... | 12 |
| 1117 | 26 Nov 2002 | Robert Browning | Home-thoughts, from the Sea | Nobly, nobly Cape Sa... | 7 |
| 1118 | 27 Nov 2002 | Arthur Clement Hilton | Octopus | Strange beauty, eigh... | 41 |
| 1119 | 28 Nov 2002 | John Greenleaf Whittier | The Pumpkin | Oh, greenly and fair... | 42 |
| 1120 | 3 Dec 2002 | Anonymous | The Law Locks Up the Man or Woman | The law locks up the... | 4 |
| 1121 | 4 Dec 2002 | Arthur Conan Doyle | H.M.S. Foudroyant | [Being an humble add... | 50 |
| 1122 | 7 Dec 2002 | Edith Sodergran | Hope | I want to let go - | 12 |
| 1123 | 8 Dec 2002 | George Gordon Noel | Untitled (Epitaph for Lord Castlereagh) | Posterity will ne'er... | 4 |
| 1124 | 10 Dec 2002 | J. Milton Hayes | The Green Eye of the Yellow God | There's a one-eyed y... | 44 |
| 1125 | 11 Dec 2002 | A. B. "Banjo" Paterson | Waltzing Matilda | Oh! there once was a... | 20 |
| 1126 | 12 Dec 2002 | Robert W. Service | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | A bunch of the boys ... | 71 |
| 1127 | 13 Dec 2002 | Rudyard Kipling | Gunga Din | You may talk o' gin ... | 85 |
| 1128 | 14 Dec 2002 | Shel Silverstein | Snowball | I made myself a snowball | 8 |
| 1129 | 15 Dec 2002 | Agha Shahid Ali | Farewell | At a certain point I... | 46 |
| 1130 | 16 Dec 2002 | Billy Collins | Marginalia | Sometimes the notes ... | 64 |
| 1131 | 19 Dec 2002 | Denise Levertov | Adam's Complaint | Some people, | 16 |
| 1132 | 20 Dec 2002 | E. E. Cummings | if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) | if everything happen... | 45 |
| 1133 | 21 Dec 2002 | Allan Ginsberg | Death News | "Visit to W.C.W. cir... | 39 |
| 1134 | 23 Dec 2002 | James Stephens | In the Poppy Field | Mad Patsy said, he s... | 24 |
| 1135 | 1 Jan 2003 | R. S. Thomas | Song at the Year's Turning | Shelley dreamed it. ... | 18 |
| 1136 | 1 Jan 2003 | Issa | Untitled | What good luck! | 3 |
| 1137 | 3 Jan 2003 | Robert Service | The Smoking Frog | Three men I saw besi... | 48 |
| 1138 | 8 Jan 2003 | J R R Tolkien | Luthien Tinuviel | "The leaves were lon... | 72 |
| 1139 | 9 Jan 2003 | Billy Collins | Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | First, her tippet ma... | 47 |
| 1140 | 10 Jan 2003 | Arthur Guiterman | What One Approves, Another Scorns | What one approves, | 8 |
| 1141 | 11 Jan 2003 | Charlotte Mew | I So Liked Spring | I so liked Spring la... | 9 |
| 1142 | 12 Jan 2003 | James Fenton | In Paris with You | Don’t talk to me of ... | 30 |
| 1143 | 13 Jan 2003 | Andrew Motion | Causa Belli | They read good books... | 4 |
| 1144 | 14 Jan 2003 | W. B. Yeats | The Stare's Nest by My Window | The bees build in th... | 20 |
| 1145 | 15 Jan 2003 | James Elroy Flecker | War Song of the Saracens | We are they who come... | 19 |
| 1146 | 16 Jan 2003 | Rudyard Kipling | The Young British Soldier | When the 'arf-made r... | 71 |
| 1147 | 17 Jan 2003 | James Fenton | The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah | (An Old Persian Legend) | 86 |
| 1148 | 18 Jan 2003 | Ruth Padel | Misty | How I love | 12 |
| 1149 | 19 Jan 2003 | Pablo Neruda | Don't Go Far Off | Don't go far off, no... | 14 |
| 1150 | 20 Jan 2003 | John Ashbery | The Instruction Manual | As I sit looking out... | 93 |
| 1151 | 21 Jan 2003 | Bob Dylan | The Death of Emmett Till | 'Twas down in Missis... | 31 |
| 1152 | 22 Jan 2003 | Lewys Glyn Cothi | Lament for Sion | One son was my darli... | 52 |
| 1153 | 23 Jan 2003 | Paul Muldoon | Meeting the British | We met the British i... | 18 |
| 1154 | 24 Jan 2003 | Robert Burns | Address to a Haggis | Fair fa' your honest... | 48 |
| 1155 | 25 Jan 2003 | A. S. J. Tessimond | Betrayal | If a man says half h... | 10 |
| 1156 | 26 Jan 2003 | Piet Hein | A Psychological Tip | Whenever you're call... | 8 |
| 1157 | 27 Jan 2003 | Pablo Neruda | Love Sonnet XI | I crave your mouth, ... | 14 |
| 1158 | 28 Jan 2003 | Stephen Vincent Benét | Music | My friend went to th... | 27 |
| 1159 | 29 Jan 2003 | Du Fu | A Night Abroad | A light wind is ripp... | 8 |
| 1160 | 30 Jan 2003 | Ghalib | Ghazal (Untitled) | Even in prayer, we a... | 12 |
| 1161 | 31 Jan 2003 | John Drury | Ghazal of the Lagoon | Morning, on the prom... | 12 |
| 1162 | 1 Feb 2003 | Robert A. Heinlein | Almighty Ruler of the All | Almighty ruler of the all | 6 |
| 1163 | 2 Feb 2003 | Rudyard Kipling | The Song Of The Dead | Hear now the Song of... | 73 |
| 1164 | 3 Feb 2003 | John Betjeman | Summoned by Bells (excerpt) | Walking from school ... | 15 |
| 1165 | 4 Feb 2003 | Raymond Calvert | The Ballad Of William Bloat | In a mean abode on t... | 30 |
| 1166 | 5 Feb 2003 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | My Lost Youth | Often I think of the... | 90 |
| 1167 | 6 Feb 2003 | Blind Harry | Wallace (extract) | Of our ancestors, br... | 20 |
| 1168 | 7 Feb 2003 | John Donne | The Good-morrow | I wonder by my troth... | 21 |
| 1169 | 9 Feb 2003 | Marianne Moore | Poetry | I, too, dislike it: ... | 38 |
| 1170 | 10 Feb 2003 | Edgar Allan Poe | Annabel Lee | It was many and many... | 41 |
| 1171 | 12 Feb 2003 | Edward E. Paramore Jr | The Ballad of Yukon Jake | Begging Robert W. Se... | 125 |
| 1172 | 14 Feb 2003 | Hugh MacDiarmid | Scotland Small? | Scotland small? Our ... | 17 |
| 1173 | 14 Feb 2003 | William Wordsworth | Splendour in the Grass | What though the radiance | 14 |
| 1174 | 16 Feb 2003 | Edward Thomas | No One So Much As You | No one so much as you | 40 |
| 1175 | 16 Feb 2003 | Mark Doty | Broadway | Under Grand Central'... | 60 |
| 1176 | 18 Feb 2003 | Les Murray | Visitor | He knocks at the door | 2 |
| 1177 | 18 Feb 2003 | Eminem | The Way I Am | This song is for anyone | 151 |
| 1178 | 20 Feb 2003 | Edward Kamau Braithwaite | Mmenson | Summon now the kings... | 15 |
| 1179 | 20 Feb 2003 | John Godfrey Saxe | The Blind Men and the Elephant | It was six men of In... | 55 |
| 1180 | 22 Feb 2003 | Stevie Smith | Not Waving But Drowning | Nobody heard him, th... | 12 |
| 1181 | 22 Feb 2003 | Carl Sandburg | Elephants Are Different to Different People | Wilson and Pilcer an... | 20 |
| 1182 | 24 Feb 2003 | Shel Silverstein | In Search of Cinderella | From dusk to dawn, | 10 |
| 1183 | 25 Feb 2003 | James Fenton | Out of the East | Out of the South cam... | 174 |
| 1184 | 28 Feb 2003 | Denise Levertov | In California During the Gulf War | Among the blight-kil... | 29 |
| 1185 | 1 Mar 2003 | Traditional | Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) | Die Gedanken sind frei | 32 |
| 1186 | 2 Mar 2003 | Gerald Gould | This is the Horror that, Night After Night | This is the horror t... | 14 |
| 1187 | 3 Mar 2003 | Anonymous | Sadness in Spring | Maytime, loveliest s... | 11 |
| 1188 | 4 Mar 2003 | Padraic H. Pearse | The Mother | I do not grudge them... | 16 |
| 1189 | 6 Mar 2003 | Siegfried Sassoon | Survivors | No doubt they'll soo... | 10 |
| 1190 | 6 Mar 2003 | Mark Twain | Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd | And did young Stephe... | 24 |
| 1191 | 7 Mar 2003 | Charles Kingsley | A Farewell | I | 10 |
| 1192 | 9 Mar 2003 | Edward Thomas | Adlestrop | Yes, I remember Adle... | 16 |
| 1193 | 9 Mar 2003 | James Dickey | Cherrylog Road | Off Highway 106 | 108 |
| 1194 | 10 Mar 2003 | Kahlil Gibran | Children | And a woman who held... | 20 |
| 1195 | 12 Mar 2003 | Richard Wilbur | Advice to a Prophet | When you come, as yo... | 36 |
| 1196 | 13 Mar 2003 | Spike Milligan | The ABC | 'Twas midnight in th... | 32 |
| 1197 | 13 Mar 2003 | William Herbert Carruth | Each in his own Tongue | A fire-mist and a planet, | 32 |
| 1198 | 14 Mar 2003 | Sara Teasdale | The Tree of Song | I sang my songs for ... | 12 |
| 1199 | 16 Mar 2003 | Myra Brooks Welch | The Touch Of The Master's Hand | 'Twas battered and s... | 40 |
| 1200 | 17 Mar 2003 | Stephen Crane | A Man Said to the Universe | A man said to the un... | 5 |
| 1201 | 18 Mar 2003 | Thomas Hardy | Hap | If but some vengeful... | 14 |
| 1202 | 19 Mar 2003 | David Ignatow | A First on TV | This is the twentiet... | 4 |
| 1203 | 19 Mar 2003 | Rabindranath Tagore | Last Poems #13 | The first day's sun | 11 |
| 1204 | 21 Mar 2003 | William Shakespeare | To Thine Own Self Be True | Yet here, Laertes! A... | 28 |
| 1205 | 24 Mar 2003 | Stanislaw Lem | Love and Tensor Algebra | Come, let us hasten ... | 32 |
| 1206 | 25 Mar 2003 | William Ernest Henley | Margaritae Sorori | A late lark twitters... | 23 |
| 1207 | 25 Mar 2003 | Spike Milligan | Hamlet | Said Hamlet to Ophelia, | 4 |
| 1208 | 27 Mar 2003 | Yamabe no Akahito | Untitled | The mists rise over | 4 |
| 1209 | 28 Mar 2003 | Barbara Pescan | She Speaks of Death | Oblivion, she said | 18 |
| 1210 | 29 Mar 2003 | Sara Teasdale | What Do I Care? | What do I care, in t... | 8 |
| 1211 | 30 Mar 2003 | Wilfred Owen | Disabled | He sat in a wheeled ... | 46 |
| 1212 | 1 Apr 2003 | Barbara Kingsolver | Deadline | The night before war... | 30 |
| 1213 | 2 Apr 2003 | John Milton | Paradise Lost (excerpt) | Who first seduced th... | 42 |
| 1214 | 3 Apr 2003 | Hayden Carruth | On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam | Well I have and in fact | 27 |
| 1215 | 3 Apr 2003 | Andrew Motion | Regime Change | Advancing down the r... | 22 |
| 1216 | 5 Apr 2003 | Billy Collins | Sonnet | All we need is fourt... | 14 |
| 1217 | 6 Apr 2003 | Su Tung-p'o | On the Birth of his Son | Families, when a chi... | 8 |
| 1218 | 7 Apr 2003 | James Elroy Flecker | Yasmin | (A Ghazel) | 13 |
| 1219 | 8 Apr 2003 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Luke Havergal | Go to the western ga... | 32 |
| 1220 | 9 Apr 2003 | Oliver Goldsmith | The Village Schoolmaster | Beside yon stragglin... | 26 |
| 1221 | 10 Apr 2003 | Judith Wright | Woman to Man | The eyeless labourer... | 20 |
| 1222 | 11 Apr 2003 | Sigerson Clifford | Brother Mick | The mountain frowned... | 96 |
| 1223 | 12 Apr 2003 | Allen Ginsberg | A Vow | I will haunt these States | 37 |
| 1224 | 13 Apr 2003 | Louise Glück | The Wild Iris | At the end of my suf... | 23 |
| 1225 | 14 Apr 2003 | James Elroy Flecker | To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence | I who am dead a thou... | 24 |
| 1226 | 15 Apr 2003 | Oscar Wilde | To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems | I can write no state... | 12 |
| 1227 | 16 Apr 2003 | A. E. Housman | Here Dead We Lie | Here dead we lie | 8 |
| 1228 | 17 Apr 2003 | George Faludy | Learn by Heart This Poem of Mine | Learn by heart this ... | 71 |
| 1229 | 18 Apr 2003 | Czelaw Milosz | You Whose Name | You whose name is ag... | 19 |
| 1230 | 19 Apr 2003 | X. J. Kennedy | Nude Descending a Staircase | Toe upon toe, a snow... | 12 |
| 1231 | 20 Apr 2003 | Rabindranath Tagore | The Gardener (LXXXV) | Who are you, reader,... | 8 |
| 1232 | 21 Apr 2003 | Sir Henry Newbolt | The Best School of All | It's good to see the... | 49 |
| 1233 | 22 Apr 2003 | Edwin Muir | Ballad of Hector in Hades | Yes, this is where I... | 46 |
| 1234 | 23 Apr 2003 | Mary Oliver | Peonies | This morning the gre... | 36 |
| 1235 | 24 Apr 2003 | William Carlos Williams | Rose | The rose is obsolete | 42 |
| 1236 | 25 Apr 2003 | Tony Hoagland | Self-Improvement | Just before she flew... | 56 |
| 1237 | 26 Apr 2003 | William Waring Cuney | No Images | She does not know | 12 |
| 1238 | 27 Apr 2003 | Jalaluddin Rumi | This Will Not Win Him | Reason says, | 49 |
| 1239 | 28 Apr 2003 | Dr K. D. Beernink | Hospital Haiku | The new interns | 24 |
| 1240 | 29 Apr 2003 | Francis William Bourdillon | The Night has a Thousand Eyes | The night has a thou... | 8 |
| 1241 | 30 Apr 2003 | Joyce Grenfell | Stately as a Galleon | My neighbour, Mrs Fa... | 39 |
| 1242 | 1 May 2003 | Paul Durcan | Cain and Abel | My name is Cain MacC... | 69 |
| 1243 | 2 May 2003 | David Lee | Behold | And came forth like ... | 11 |
| 1244 | 3 May 2003 | Rupert Brooke | Dust | When the white flame... | 44 |
| 1245 | 4 May 2003 | Li-Young Lee | Persimmons | In sixth grade Mrs. ... | 85 |
| 1246 | 5 May 2003 | Lucille Clifton | the lost baby poem | the time i dropped y... | 20 |
| 1247 | 6 May 2003 | Shel Silverstein | Dreadful | Someone ate the baby. | 24 |
| 1248 | 7 May 2003 | James Patrick Kinney | The Cold Within | Six humans trapped b... | 32 |
| 1249 | 8 May 2003 | Wallace Stevens | The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm | The house was quiet ... | 16 |
| 1250 | 9 May 2003 | Tony Hoagland | Brave World | But what about the c... | 38 |
| 1251 | 10 May 2003 | John Masefield | The Rider at the Gate | A windy night was bl... | 54 |
| 1252 | 12 May 2003 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Dream | I | 215 |
| 1253 | 13 May 2003 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Dream-Pedlary | If there were dreams... | 46 |
| 1254 | 14 May 2003 | Mei Yao Ch'en | A Dream at Night | In broad daylight I ... | 11 |
| 1255 | 15 May 2003 | Cempulappeyanirar | What He Said | What could my mother be | 7 |
| 1256 | 16 May 2003 | Richard Wilbur | The Pardon | My dog lay dead five... | 24 |
| 1257 | 17 May 2003 | Oswald Mtshali | The Birth of Shaka | His baby cry | 25 |
| 1258 | 18 May 2003 | Rick Fields | Buddha And The Goddess | Thus have I made up | 114 |
| 1259 | 19 May 2003 | Matsuo Basho | Untitled | The summer grasses | 3 |
| 1260 | 24 May 2003 | E. E. Cummings | Anyone lived in a pretty how town | anyone lived in a pr... | 36 |
| 1261 | 25 May 2003 | Sivakami Velliangiri | A Love Poem | Y o U | 9 |
| 1262 | 26 May 2003 | A. E. Housman | The Carpenter's Son | "Here the hangman st... | 28 |
| 1263 | 27 May 2003 | Pablo Neruda | Morning XXVII | Naked, you are simpl... | 14 |
| 1264 | 30 May 2003 | Vachel Lindsay | The Santa Fe Trail | (A Humoresque) | 178 |
| 1265 | 31 May 2003 | Sumangalamata | A Woman Well Set Free! How Free I Am | A woman well set fre... | 10 |
| 1266 | 1 Jun 2003 | Vikram Seth | Research in Jiangsu Province | From off this plasti... | 68 |
| 1267 | 2 Jun 2003 | Wislawa Szymborska | A Contribution to Statistics | Out of a hundred people | 49 |
| 1268 | 3 Jun 2003 | Michael Flanders | Twenty Tons of TNT | I have seen it estimated | 40 |
| 1269 | 4 Jun 2003 | Dionysius Cato | The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) | Libros lege. | 18 |
| 1270 | 5 Jun 2003 | Michael Ondaatje | To A Sad Daughter | All night long the h... | 85 |
| 1271 | 7 Jun 2003 | Pablo Neruda | Poetry | And it was at that a... | 46 |
| 1272 | 9 Jun 2003 | Robert Frost | Birches | When I see birches b... | 59 |
| 1273 | 10 Jun 2003 | Robert Browning | Love among the Ruins | Where the quiet-colo... | 84 |
| 1274 | 11 Jun 2003 | Thomas Moore | The Time I've Lost in Wooing | The time I've lost i... | 30 |
| 1275 | 12 Jun 2003 | Paul Dunbar | The Wind and the Sea | I stood by the shore... | 56 |
| 1276 | 13 Jun 2003 | Robert Frost | A Dream Pang | I had withdrawn in f... | 14 |
| 1277 | 14 Jun 2003 | A. B. "Banjo" Paterson | Come-By-Chance | As I pondered very w... | 33 |
| 1278 | 15 Jun 2003 | Adam Lindsay Gordon | From the Wreck | "Turn out, boys!" --... | 128 |
| 1279 | 16 Jun 2003 | Plato | Untitled | Star of my life, to ... | 2 |
| 1280 | 17 Jun 2003 | G. K. Chesterton | Lepanto | White founts falling... | 143 |
| 1281 | 19 Jun 2003 | W. H. Auden | Night Mail | This is the Night Ma... | 54 |
| 1282 | 20 Jun 2003 | D. H. Lawrence | Snake | A snake came to my w... | 77 |
| 1283 | 21 Jun 2003 | William Stafford | The Discovery of Daily Experience | It is a whisper. Yo... | 26 |
| 1284 | 22 Jun 2003 | Robert Frost | A Hillside Thaw | To think to know the... | 35 |
| 1285 | 23 Jun 2003 | W. S. Gilbert | Etiquette | The Ballyshannon fou... | 88 |
| 1286 | 24 Jun 2003 | John Hay | Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle | Wall, no! I can't te... | 56 |
| 1287 | 25 Jun 2003 | J. H. Frere | A Fable | (In imitation of Dryden) | 18 |
| 1288 | 26 Jun 2003 | Amanda Townsend | Let's be discreet | Tell me | 19 |
| 1289 | 27 Jun 2003 | Sir Walter Raleigh | The Lie | Go, Soul, the body's... | 78 |
| 1290 | 28 Jun 2003 | Yusef Komunyakaa | My Father's Love Letters | On Fridays he'd open... | 36 |
| 1291 | 30 Jun 2003 | Len Roberts | The List of Most Difficult Words | I was still standing... | 32 |
| 1292 | 1 Jul 2003 | Robert Williams Wood | The Auk and the Orchid | We seldom meet, when... | 14 |
| 1293 | 2 Jul 2003 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Beloved Dust | And you as well must... | 14 |
| 1294 | 3 Jul 2003 | Emily Dickinson | The reticent volcano keeps | The reticent volcano... | 12 |
| 1295 | 4 Jul 2003 | Robert Lowell | For the Union Dead | "Relinquunt Omnia Se... | 69 |
| 1296 | 6 Jul 2003 | Gulzar | Evening | Day abandons it | 10 |
| 1297 | 7 Jul 2003 | Eiluned Lewis | The Birthright | We who were born | 24 |
| 1298 | 8 Jul 2003 | W. H. Auden | Miss Gee | Let me tell you a li... | 100 |
| 1299 | 9 Jul 2003 | Norman MacCaig | Of You | When the little devi... | 19 |
| 1300 | 10 Jul 2003 | Flann O'Brien | The Workman's Friend | When things go wrong... | 20 |
| 1301 | 14 Jul 2003 | Louis MacNeice | Meeting Point | Time was away and so... | 40 |
| 1302 | 16 Jul 2003 | Denise Levertov | Opening Words | I believe the earth | 31 |
| 1303 | 17 Jul 2003 | Piet Hein | Similarity | Commutative Law | 5 |
| 1304 | 20 Jul 2003 | Countee Cullen | Incident | Once riding in old B... | 12 |
| 1305 | 21 Jul 2003 | Thomas Lux | Poem in Thanks | Lord Whoever, thank ... | 14 |
| 1306 | 22 Oct 2003 | Ted Hughes | A Cranefly in September | She is struggling th... | 36 |
| 1307 | 22 Jul 2003 | Rudyard Kipling | The Song of the Little Hunter | Ere Mor the Peacock ... | 24 |
| 1308 | 25 Jul 2003 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | A Forsaken Garden | In a coign of the cl... | 80 |
| 1309 | 26 Jul 2003 | Robert Lowell | Skunk Hour | For Elizabeth Bishop | 49 |
| 1310 | 27 Jul 2003 | Simon Armitage | I am Very Bothered | I am very bothered w... | 14 |
| 1311 | 28 Jul 2003 | William Empson | Just a Smack at Auden | Waiting for the end,... | 41 |
| 1312 | 29 Jul 2003 | Naomi Lazard | Ordinance on Arrival | Welcome to you | 22 |
| 1313 | 30 Jul 2003 | Bhaskaracharya | Mathematical Problem | Whilst making love a... | 8 |
| 1314 | 31 Jul 2003 | Becky Dennison Sakellariou | Math Is Beautiful and So Are You | If n is an even number | 16 |
| 1315 | 1 Aug 2003 | Judith Saunders | Mathematicians at Work | hunker down on their... | 20 |
| 1316 | 2 Aug 2003 | Tom Lehrer | Lobachevsky | Who made me the geni... | 71 |
| 1317 | 4 Aug 2003 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Richard Cory | Whenever Richard Cor... | 16 |
| 1318 | 5 Aug 2003 | Vikram Seth | The Wind | The bay is thick wit... | 8 |
| 1319 | 6 Aug 2003 | Derek Walcott | Goats and Monkeys | '...even now, an old... | 53 |
| 1320 | 7 Aug 2003 | Alfred Tennyson | The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet | At Flores in the Azo... | 119 |
| 1321 | 8 Aug 2003 | Bret Harte | Ramon | Drunk and senseless ... | 67 |
| 1322 | 9 Aug 2003 | Erica Jong | Climbing You | I want to understand... | 26 |
| 1323 | 12 Aug 2003 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Sonnets (VI) | Let me not to the ma... | 14 |
| 1324 | 13 Aug 2003 | Robert Frost | The Telephone | "When I was just as ... | 19 |
| 1325 | 15 Aug 2003 | Miklos Radnoti | Forced March | You're crazy. You fa... | 21 |
| 1326 | 16 Aug 2003 | Michael Ondaatje | Bearhug | Griffin calls to com... | 14 |
| 1327 | 17 Aug 2003 | X. J. Kennedy | What We Might Be, What We Are | If you were a scoop ... | 16 |
| 1328 | 18 Aug 2003 | Emily Dickinson | You cannot put a fire out | You cannot put a fir... | 8 |
| 1329 | 19 Aug 2003 | David Ignatow | The Bagel | I stopped to pick up... | 13 |
| 1330 | 20 Aug 2003 | Philip Larkin | Money | Quarterly, is it, mo... | 16 |
| 1331 | 21 Aug 2003 | Thomas Hood | Faithless Sally Brown | An old ballad. | 69 |
| 1332 | 23 Aug 2003 | Rudyard Kipling | The Flowers | To our private taste... | 75 |
| 1333 | 24 Aug 2003 | Bayard Taylor | Tyre | The wild and windy m... | 42 |
| 1334 | 26 Aug 2003 | Jalaluddin Rumi | Where Everything Is Music | Don't worry about sa... | 23 |
| 1335 | 27 Aug 2003 | Roger McGough | Balloon Fight | 'This morning, the A... | 23 |
| 1336 | 28 Aug 2003 | Sir John Davies | Of Human Knowledge | I know my body's of ... | 12 |
| 1337 | 29 Aug 2003 | Emily Dickinson | Ample Make This Bed | Ample make this bed. | 8 |
| 1338 | 30 Aug 2003 | William Wordsworth | The World is Too Much With Us | The World is too muc... | 14 |
| 1339 | 31 Aug 2003 | Robert Desnos | I've Dreamed of You So Much | I've dreamed of you ... | 27 |
| 1340 | 2 Sep 2003 | Anonymous | A Strike Among the Poets | In his chamber, weak... | 32 |
| 1341 | 3 Sep 2003 | James Hetfield | Carpe Diem Baby | Hit dirt | 59 |
| 1342 | 4 Sep 2003 | Statius | To Sleep | What is the charge, ... | 24 |
| 1343 | 5 Sep 2003 | Donald Justice | Poem to be read at 3 a.m. | Excepting the diner | 18 |
| 1344 | 6 Sep 2003 | Deborah Garrison | Please Fire Me | Here comes another a... | 24 |
| 1345 | 9 Sep 2003 | Emily Bronte | Remembrance | Cold in the earth an... | 32 |
| 1346 | 11 Sep 2003 | David Huddle | Ooly Pop a Cow | for Bess and Molly | 31 |
| 1347 | 12 Sep 2003 | Emily Dickinson | In a Library | A precious, moulderi... | 28 |
| 1348 | 13 Sep 2003 | Ogden Nash | Polterguest, My Polterguest | I've put Miss Hopper... | 36 |
| 1349 | 15 Sep 2003 | Bill Holm | The Icelandic Language | In this language, no... | 24 |
| 1350 | 16 Sep 2003 | Nazim Hikmet | Things I Didn't Know I Loved | it's 1962 March 28th | 122 |
| 1351 | 17 Sep 2003 | Christopher Logue | London Airport | Last night in London... | 6 |
| 1352 | 18 Sep 2003 | Barry Cornwall | The Sea | The sea! the sea! th... | 36 |
| 1353 | 19 Sep 2003 | Steely Dan | Things I miss the most | I don't mind the quiet | 44 |
| 1354 | 20 Sep 2003 | Omar Khayyam | Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire | Ah, Love! could thou... | 4 |
| 1355 | 21 Sep 2003 | Alfredo Lepera | The Day That You Love Me | It caresses my dream, | 46 |
| 1356 | 23 Sep 2003 | Vikram Seth | Qingdao: December | Here by the sea this... | 24 |
| 1357 | 24 Sep 2003 | Hermann Hesse | Going to Sleep | Now that the day wea... | 12 |
| 1358 | 25 Sep 2003 | Judith Viorst | Someday Someone Will Bet That You Can't Name All Fifty States | California, Mississippi | 25 |
| 1359 | 28 Sep 2003 | Salman Rushdie | Dedication | Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu | 5 |
| 1360 | 29 Sep 2003 | Donald Monat | Untitled | Lying south of sweet... | 16 |
| 1361 | 30 Sep 2003 | Anon | English Monarchs | Willie Willie Harry Stee | 16 |
| 1362 | 1 Oct 2003 | Louis MacNeice | Dublin | Grey brick upon brick, | 63 |
| 1363 | 2 Oct 2003 | Margaret Atwood | Tricks with Mirrors | i | 71 |
| 1364 | 5 Oct 2003 | Ruskin Bond | It Isn't Time That's Passing | Remember the long ag... | 10 |
| 1365 | 7 Oct 2003 | Horace | Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man | Happy the man, and h... | 8 |
| 1366 | 8 Oct 2003 | Tanith Lee | Untitled | A rose by any other name | 12 |
| 1367 | 9 Oct 2003 | Sue Hubbard | Eurydice | I am not afraid as I... | 33 |
| 1368 | 25 Oct 2003 | John Berryman | Dream Song 14 | Life, friends, is bo... | 18 |
| 1369 | 12 Oct 2003 | Bill Watterson | Christmas Eve | On the window panes ... | 14 |
| 1370 | 13 Oct 2003 | A. S. Byatt | Ask to Embla, XIII | They say that women ... | 8 |
| 1371 | 14 Oct 2003 | Mark Granier | Girl in a Wheelchair Dancing to U2 in Lansdowne Stadium 1997 | In a clearing near m... | 6 |
| 1372 | 15 Oct 2003 | Anne Ridler | Autumn Day | The raging colour of... | 12 |
| 1373 | 16 Oct 2003 | Robert Frost | Acceptance | When the spent sun t... | 14 |
| 1374 | 17 Oct 2003 | Jaime 'Robbie' Robertson | The Weight | I pulled into Nazare... | 29 |
| 1375 | 23 Oct 2003 | Sarojini Naidu | The Bangle Sellers | Bangle sellers are w... | 24 |
| 1376 | 28 Oct 2003 | Mary Oliver | When Death Comes | When death comes | 28 |
| 1377 | 1 Nov 2003 | Jeffrey McDaniel | The Quiet World | In an effort to get ... | 20 |
| 1378 | 2 Nov 2003 | Edwin Muir | The Horses | Barely a twelvemonth... | 53 |
| 1379 | 4 Nov 2003 | Naomi Shihab Nye | Rain | A teacher asked Paul | 17 |
| 1380 | 5 Nov 2003 | James Fenton | The Ideal | This is where I came... | 12 |
| 1381 | 6 Nov 2003 | Nammalwar | The Paradigm | We here and that man... | 14 |
| 1382 | 10 Nov 2003 | Emily Dickinson | Hope | Hope is the thing wi... | 12 |
| 1383 | 11 Nov 2003 | Wendell Berry | Untitled | To my granddaughters... | 23 |
| 1384 | 12 Nov 2003 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Autumn | Lord: it is time. Th... | 12 |
| 1385 | 13 Nov 2003 | Wilfred Owen | Miners | There was a whisperi... | 34 |
| 1386 | 14 Nov 2003 | Peggy Seeger | Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) | In the town of Sprin... | 25 |
| 1387 | 15 Nov 2003 | Philip Larkin | The Explosion | On the day of the ex... | 25 |
| 1388 | 16 Nov 2003 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Silent Noon (Sonnet XIX) | Your hands lie open ... | 14 |
| 1389 | 17 Nov 2003 | Ovid | The Amores: Book 1, Poem #3 | Fair's fair now, Ven... | 26 |
| 1390 | 18 Nov 2003 | Thomas Traherne | The Salutation | These little Limbs, | 36 |
| 1391 | 19 Nov 2003 | Robert Morgan | The Grain of Sound | A banjo maker in the... | 24 |
| 1392 | 20 Nov 2003 | H.D.C. Pepler | The Law the Lawyers Know About | The law the lawyers ... | 11 |
| 1393 | 21 Nov 2003 | Carl Sandburg | The Lawyers Know Too Much | The lawyers, Bob, kn... | 27 |
| 1394 | 22 Nov 2003 | Ruth Forman | Even If You Grab A Piece of Time | Conjure something glowing | 12 |
| 1395 | 23 Nov 2003 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Man-Moth | Man-Moth: Newspaper ... | 49 |
| 1396 | 24 Nov 2003 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Children’s Hour | Between the dark and... | 40 |
| 1397 | 25 Nov 2003 | Billy Collins | Introduction to Poetry | I ask them to take a poem | 16 |
| 1398 | 26 Nov 2003 | Yehuda Amichai | A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life | A man doesn't have t... | 29 |
| 1399 | 27 Nov 2003 | Gwen Harwood | Critics Nightwatch | Once more he tried, ... | 48 |
| 1400 | 28 Nov 2003 | Robert Creeley | The Sentence | There is that in love | 8 |
| 1401 | 8 Dec 2003 | Agha Shahid Ali | A Nostalgist's Map of America | The trees were soon ... | 60 |
| 1402 | 9 Dec 2003 | Tarjei Vesaas | Sun-corner | At home there's a su... | 26 |
| 1403 | 10 Dec 2003 | W. H. Auden | As the poets have mournfully sung | As the poets have mo... | 5 |
| 1404 | 12 Dec 2003 | Dario Fo | An Old Sicilian Song | A woman crossing the... | 38 |
| 1405 | 16 Dec 2003 | William Blake | The Lamb | Little Lamb, who mad... | 20 |
| 1406 | 17 Dec 2003 | Bertolt Brecht | A Worker Reads History | Who built the seven ... | 27 |
| 1407 | 19 Dec 2003 | Thomas Lux | The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball | each day mowed | 30 |
| 1408 | 20 Dec 2003 | Bill Watterson | My Mom and Dad | My mom and my dad ar... | 22 |
| 1409 | 25 Dec 2003 | Joni Mitchell | River | It's coming on Christmas | 39 |
| 1410 | 26 Dec 2003 | Pablo Neruda | If You Forget Me | I want you to know | 47 |
| 1411 | 27 Dec 2003 | Derek Walcott | Pentecost | Better a jungle in t... | 20 |
| 1412 | 28 Dec 2003 | A. E. Houseman | The Colour of His Hair | Oh who is that young... | 16 |
| 1413 | 29 Dec 2003 | W. H. Auden | Christmas Oratio | Well, so that is tha... | 53 |
| 1414 | 30 Dec 2003 | Rudyard Kipling | The Old Issue | "Here is nothing new... | 71 |
| 1415 | 31 Dec 2003 | Chris Rea | Gone Fishing | I'm going fishing | 21 |
| 1416 | 1 Jan 2004 | Roald Dahl | Cinderella | I guess you think yo... | 122 |
| 1417 | 2 Jan 2004 | Rabindranath Tagore | At the last watch | Pity, in place of love, | 60 |
| 1418 | 3 Jan 2004 | Gerald Jonas | Electronically Yours | Baud: the rate of sp... | 12 |
| 1419 | 4 Jan 2004 | Guy L. Steele, Jr | Telnet Song | There is a program c... | 27 |
| 1420 | 5 Jan 2004 | Charles Bukowski | Hemingway Never Did This | I read that he lost ... | 31 |
| 1421 | 6 Jan 2004 | Charles Bukowski | the trash can | this is great, I jus... | 29 |
| 1422 | 7 Jan 2004 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | My Library | It is small and dim ... | 24 |
| 1423 | 8 Jan 2004 | James Fenton | Out of Danger | Heart be kind and si... | 20 |
| 1424 | 9 Jan 2004 | Pare Lorentz | The River | From as far West as ... | 302 |
| 1425 | 10 Jan 2004 | John Ashbery | The Ecclesiast | "Worse than the sunf... | 42 |
| 1426 | 11 Jan 2004 | Nissim Ezekiel | The Hill | This normative hill | 56 |
| 1427 | 12 Jan 2004 | Neil Young | Out of Control | Once, high on a hill... | 22 |
| 1428 | 13 Jan 2004 | Simon Goodway | Octopusses | I don't know what th... | 4 |
| 1429 | 14 Jan 2004 | Mary Youngquist | Winter Reigns | Shimmering, gleaming... | 16 |
| 1430 | 15 Jan 2004 | Lisel Mueller | Not only the Eskimos | Not only the Eskimos | 55 |
| 1431 | 16 Jan 2004 | William Blake | London | I wander thro' each ... | 16 |
| 1432 | 17 Jan 2004 | Wallace Stevens | The Snow Man | One must have a mind... | 15 |
| 1433 | 18 Jan 2004 | Anonymous | Winter | Wind piercing, hill ... | 30 |
| 1434 | 19 Jan 2004 | Rosemary Dobson | A Fine Thing | To be a scarecrow | 27 |
| 1435 | 20 Jan 2004 | Maya Angelou | Preacher, Don't Send Me | Preacher, don't send me | 32 |
| 1436 | 21 Jan 2004 | Emily Dickinson | I Cannot Live with You | I cannot live with you, | 51 |
| 1437 | 22 Jan 2004 | Yehuda Amichai | My Father | The memory of my fat... | 6 |
| 1438 | 23 Jan 2004 | Harindranath Chattopadhyaya | Shaper Shaped | In days gone by I us... | 32 |
| 1439 | 24 Jan 2004 | Federico García Lorca | Gacela of the Dark Death | I want to sleep the ... | 23 |
| 1440 | 25 Jan 2004 | Francis Brett Young | Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus | Arthur is gone . . .... | 48 |
| 1441 | 26 Jan 2004 | W. B. Yeats | Among School Children | I | 72 |
| 1442 | 28 Jan 2004 | Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Let Me Think | You ask me about tha... | 7 |
| 1443 | 29 Jan 2004 | T. S. Eliot | The Dry Salvages: Canto III | I sometimes wonder i... | 47 |
| 1444 | 30 Jan 2004 | Wendy Cope | Being Boring | If you ask me 'What'... | 24 |
| 1445 | 31 Jan 2004 | Mark Granier | What Did You Do On Your Weekend In Vancouver? | Walked with the traf... | 21 |
| 1446 | 1 Feb 2004 | E. Clerihew Bentley | The People of Spain Think Cervantes | The people of Spain ... | 4 |
| 1447 | 2 Feb 2004 | Leonard Cohen | Take This Waltz | Now in Vienna there'... | 53 |
| 1448 | 3 Feb 2004 | Yehuda Amichai | The Diameter of the Bomb | The diameter of the ... | 16 |
| 1449 | 4 Feb 2004 | Louis Simpson | The Inner Part | When they had won the war | 12 |
| 1450 | 5 Feb 2004 | W. H. Auden | After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics | If all a top physici... | 48 |
| 1451 | 6 Feb 2004 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction, Joy | Rose, oh pure contra... | 3 |
| 1452 | 7 Feb 2004 | William Blake | The Clod and the Pebble | Love seeketh not Its... | 12 |
| 1453 | 8 Feb 2004 | Vikram Seth | Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) | Why, asks a friend, ... | 14 |
| 1454 | 9 Feb 2004 | Jacqueline Carey | An Exile's Lament | Beneath the golden balm | 8 |
| 1455 | 10 Feb 2004 | bpNichol | The Queerness of it All | frQg | 3 |
| 1456 | 11 Feb 2004 | Richard Brautigan | It's raining in love | I don't know what it is, | 37 |
| 1457 | 12 Feb 2004 | John Dressel | Spring Song, Meirionydd | A white combustion r... | 16 |
| 1458 | 13 Feb 2004 | Don Marquis | aesop revised by archy | a wolf met a spring | 98 |
| 1459 | 18 Feb 2004 | Kaniyan Punkunran | Every Town a Home Town | Every town our home town, | 24 |
| 1460 | 19 Feb 2004 | Dorothy Parker | Love Song | My own dear love, he... | 24 |
| 1461 | 20 Feb 2004 | Owen Meredith | Lucile: Part 1, Canto 2 | We may live without ... | 8 |
| 1462 | 21 Feb 2004 | Shel Silverstein | Point of View | Thanksgiving dinner'... | 12 |
| 1463 | 23 Feb 2004 | Gaius Valerius Catullus | Song Five | Let us live, my Lesb... | 13 |
| 1464 | 24 Feb 2004 | Sir Walter Raleigh | From Catullus V | The sun may set and rise, | 4 |
| 1465 | 25 Feb 2004 | Ben Jonson | Come, My Celia | Come, my Celia, let ... | 18 |
| 1466 | 26 Feb 2004 | Thomas Campion | My Sweetest Lesbia | (in imitation of Cat... | 19 |
| 1467 | 27 Feb 2004 | Dorothy Parker | From A Letter From Lesbia | ... So, praise the g... | 12 |
| 1468 | 1 Mar 2004 | Edward Hirsch | Song Against Natural Selection | The weak survive! | 30 |
| 1469 | 2 Mar 2004 | Elizabeth Bishop | Song for the Rainy Season | Hidden, oh hidden | 60 |
| 1470 | 3 Mar 2004 | Su Shi | Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake | Listen not to the ra... | 11 |
| 1471 | 4 Mar 2004 | Carlos Drummond de Andrade | In the Middle of the Road | In the middle of the... | 10 |
| 1472 | 5 Mar 2004 | Robert Frost | In A Disused Graveyard | The living come with... | 16 |
| 1473 | 6 Mar 2004 | J. K. Stephen | Drinking Song | There are people, I ... | 24 |
| 1474 | 8 Mar 2004 | Robert Burns | Ae Fond Kiss | Ae fond kiss, and th... | 24 |
| 1475 | 9 Mar 2004 | George Santayana | I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight | I sought on earth a ... | 14 |
| 1476 | 11 Mar 2004 | Thomas Parke D'Invilliers | Then Wear the Gold Hat | Then wear the gold h... | 4 |
| 1477 | 12 Mar 2004 | Vachel Lindsay | The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken | A little colt -- bro... | 40 |
| 1478 | 13 Mar 2004 | Mark Strand | A Piece Of The Storm | For Sharon Horvath | 13 |
| 1479 | 15 Mar 2004 | Neil Young | Peace of Mind | You know it takes | 42 |
| 1480 | 16 Mar 2004 | Virgil | The Aeneid: I, 1-7 | War tales and heroes... | 14 |
| 1481 | 17 Mar 2004 | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Brothers | What regiment are yo... | 10 |
| 1482 | 18 Mar 2004 | William Butler Yeats | The Scholars | Bald heads, forgetfu... | 12 |
| 1483 | 21 Mar 2004 | Ronald Koertge | An Infinite Number of Monkeys | After all the Shakes... | 15 |
| 1484 | 24 Mar 2004 | Ogden Nash | The Wombat | The wombat lives acr... | 8 |
| 1485 | 25 Mar 2004 | Anise | Untitled | What scares them most is | 30 |
| 1486 | 27 Mar 2004 | Dylan Thomas | And Death Shall Have No Dominion | And death shall have... | 27 |
| 1487 | 28 Mar 2004 | Christopher Logue | All Day Permanent Red (extract) | To welcome Hector to... | 37 |
| 1488 | 29 Mar 2004 | Mervyn Peake | To Maeve | You walk unaware | 15 |
| 1489 | 30 Mar 2004 | Dafydd ap Gwilym | The Ruin | Nothing but a ruin now | 37 |
| 1490 | 2 Apr 2004 | Sidney Lanier | Souls And Rain-Drops | Light rain-drops fal... | 8 |
| 1491 | 5 Apr 2004 | Orlando Gibbons | The Silver Swan | The silver swan, who... | 6 |
| 1492 | 6 Apr 2004 | Marianne Moore | No Swan So Fine | "No water so still as the | 14 |
| 1493 | 7 Apr 2004 | Antipater of Sidon | Erinna | Though short her str... | 8 |
| 1495 | 13 Apr 2004 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | To a Skylark | Hail to thee, blithe... | 105 |
| 1496 | 14 Apr 2004 | John Keats | Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff | Give me women, wine,... | 6 |
| 1497 | 15 Apr 2004 | Countee Cullen | For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty | Not writ in water no... | 4 |
| 1498 | 16 Apr 2004 | Vladimir Nabokov | On Discovering a Butterfly | I found it and I nam... | 12 |
| 1499 | 18 Apr 2004 | Wendy Cope | The Uncertainty of the Poet | I am a poet. | 16 |
| 1500 | 19 Apr 2004 | J. D. Salinger | John Keats | John Keats | 4 |
| 1501 | 21 Apr 2004 | William Shakespeare | The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd | The quality of mercy... | 22 |
| 1502 | 23 Apr 2004 | W. H. Auden | Law Like Love | Law, say the gardene... | 60 |
| 1503 | 26 Apr 2004 | Chong Chol | Shijo | The rise and fall of... | 6 |
| 1504 | 29 Apr 2004 | Humbert Wolfe | Requiem: The Soldier | Down some cold field... | 16 |
| 1505 | 5 May 2004 | James Whitehead | Good Linemen Live in a Closed World | Good linemen live in... | 14 |
| 1506 | 10 May 2004 | James K. Baxter | Rocket Show | As warm north rain b... | 34 |
| 1507 | 14 May 2004 | John Clare | I Am | I am - yet what I am... | 18 |
| 1508 | 20 May 2004 | W. H. Auden | O Where Are You Going? | "O where are you goi... | 16 |
| 1509 | 21 May 2004 | Friedrich Schiller | Ode to Joy | Joy, thou beauteous ... | 36 |
| 1510 | 25 May 2004 | Ogden Nash | The Purist | I give you now Profe... | 10 |
| 1511 | 27 May 2004 | Anna Akhmatova | Lot's Wife | And the just man tra... | 16 |
| 1512 | 28 May 2004 | Harry Graham | Seduction | Weep not for little ... | 4 |
| 1513 | 1 Jun 2004 | D. M. Thomas | Poetry Reading | Almost too diffident... | 56 |
| 1514 | 4 Jun 2004 | Queen Elizabeth I | When I was fair and young, and favour graced me | When I was fair and ... | 20 |
| 1515 | 7 Jun 2004 | Seamus Heaney | Villanelle for an Anniversary | A spirit moved. John... | 19 |
| 1516 | 8 Jun 2004 | Michael Ondaatje | The Cinnamon Peeler | If I were a cinnamon... | 46 |
| 1517 | 11 Jun 2004 | Dorianne Laux | The Shipfitter's Wife | I loved him most | 19 |
| 1518 | 14 Jun 2004 | Sophie Hannah | The World Is A Box | My heart is a box of... | 8 |
| 1519 | 16 Jun 2004 | J. M. Synge | The Curse | Lord, confound that ... | 8 |
| 1520 | 18 Jun 2004 | William Butler Yeats | On Those that Hated the 'Playboy of the Western World', 1907 | Once, when midnight ... | 6 |
| 1521 | 19 Jun 2004 | Hamish Blair | The Bloody Orkneys | This bloody town's a... | 32 |
| 1522 | 21 Jun 2004 | John Betjeman | Slough | Come, friendly bombs... | 40 |
| 1523 | 22 Jun 2004 | Piet Hein | An Ethical Grook | I see | 12 |
| 1524 | 24 Jun 2004 | Arthur Rimbaud | Sensation | Through blue summer ... | 8 |
| 1525 | 25 Jun 2004 | Robert Graves | Thief | To the galleys, thie... | 11 |
| 1526 | 29 Jun 2004 | Robert Burns | Afton Water | Flow gently, sweet A... | 24 |
| 1527 | 30 Jun 2004 | Gil Scott-Heron | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | You will not be able... | 60 |
| 1528 | 8 Jul 2004 | Edgar Allan Poe | Sonnet -- To Science | Science! true daught... | 14 |
| 1529 | 10 Jul 2004 | Jacques Brel | Timid Frieda | Timid Frieda | 70 |
| 1530 | 12 Jul 2004 | G. K. Chesterton | The Donkey | When fishes flew and... | 16 |
| 1531 | 19 Jul 2004 | Vladimir Mayakovsky | Past One O'Clock | Past one o'clock. Yo... | 12 |
| 1532 | 20 Jul 2004 | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Breaking Up | I fell out of love: ... | 36 |
| 1533 | 26 Jul 2004 | Stephen Dunn | The Sudden Light And The Trees | My neighbor was a bi... | 36 |
| 1534 | 4 Aug 2004 | Orhan Veli | Fine Days | These fine days have... | 10 |
| 1535 | 17 Aug 2004 | Robert Frost | The Line-Gang | Here come the line-g... | 13 |
| 1536 | 18 Aug 2004 | e. e. cummings | All in green went my love riding | All in green went my... | 35 |
| 1537 | 26 Aug 2004 | P. G. Wodehouse | Good Gnus | (A Vignette in Verse) | 33 |
| 1538 | 27 Aug 2004 | C.K. Williams | Love: Beginnings | They're at that stag... | 16 |
| 1539 | 3 Sep 2004 | Tom Lehrer | National Brotherhood Week | Oh, the white folks ... | 31 |
| 1540 | 7 Sep 2004 | Nikki Giovanni | I'm not Lonely | i'm not lonely | 22 |
| 1541 | 14 Sep 2004 | Gary Snyder | John Muir on Mt. Ritter | After scanning its f... | 24 |
| 1542 | 16 Sep 2004 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Song of the Stygian Naiades | Proserpine may pull ... | 36 |
| 1543 | 17 Sep 2004 | Issa | Untitled - Haiku | After a long nap, | 3 |
| 1544 | 22 Sep 2004 | Lewis Carroll | You are old, Father William | "You are old, father... | 32 |
| 1545 | 27 Sep 2004 | Czeslaw Milosz | Ars Poetica | I have always aspire... | 36 |
| 1546 | 28 Sep 2004 | Wislawa Szymborska | In Praise of My Sister | My sister doesn't wr... | 26 |
| 1547 | 30 Sep 2004 | Seamus Heaney | The Railway Children | When we climbed the ... | 13 |
| 1548 | 1 Oct 2004 | Yehuda Amichai | Let the memorial hill remember | Let the memorial hil... | 12 |
| 1549 | 8 Oct 2004 | John Cooper Clarke | Health Fanatic | Around the block, ag... | 43 |
| 1550 | 28 Oct 2004 | Ted Hughes | Wodwo | What am I? Nosing he... | 28 |
| 1551 | 29 Oct 2004 | Patrick Barrington | My Love is Theosophist | My love is a Theosophist | 56 |
| 1552 | 1 Nov 2004 | Robert Frost | My November Guest | My Sorrow, when she'... | 20 |
| 1553 | 2 Nov 2004 | Charles de Lint | The Puppet | The puppet thinks | 4 |
| 1554 | 3 Nov 2004 | Spike Milligan | Look at all those monkeys | Look at all those monkeys | 16 |
| 1555 | 4 Nov 2004 | Thomas Gray | On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes | 'Twas on a lofty vas... | 42 |
| 1556 | 5 Nov 2004 | Joni Mitchell | Both Sides Now | Rows and flows of an... | 36 |
| 1557 | 8 Nov 2004 | Eric Bogle | Now I'm Easy | For nearly sixty yea... | 25 |
| 1558 | 9 Nov 2004 | By Philip Larkin | Afternoons | Summer is fading | 24 |
| 1559 | 10 Nov 2004 | Walt Whitman | Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night | Vigil strange I kept... | 50 |
| 1560 | 11 Nov 2004 | Sarah Binks | Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) | Oh calf, that gambol... | 12 |
| 1561 | 12 Nov 2004 | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | People | No people are uninte... | 20 |
| 1562 | 15 Nov 2004 | Paul Verlaine | The Young Fools | High-heels strugglin... | 12 |
| 1563 | 15 Nov 2004 | Paul Verlaine | The Young Fools | High-heels strugglin... | 12 |
| 1564 | 16 Nov 2004 | Elizabeth Bishop | Visits to St. Elizabeth's | This is the house of... | 78 |
| 1565 | 22 Nov 2004 | Robert Frost | Acquainted with the Night | I have been one acqu... | 14 |
| 1566 | 26 Nov 2004 | Sam Hunt | Maintrunk Country Roadsong | Driving south and tr... | 30 |
| 1567 | 27 Nov 2004 | Vikram Seth | Untitled | Dark night, and sile... | 14 |
| 1568 | 29 Nov 2004 | A. D. Hope | His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell | Since you have world... | 90 |
| 1569 | 1 Dec 2004 | Henry Lawson | Past Carin’ | Now up and down the ... | 60 |
| 1570 | 6 Dec 2004 | Gregory Corso | Marriage | Should I get married... | 111 |
| 1571 | 7 Dec 2004 | Nissim Ezekiel | Jewish Wedding in Bombay | Her mother shed a te... | 49 |
| 1573 | 15 Dec 2004 | John O'Brien | Said Hanrahan | "We'll all be rooned... | 84 |
| 1574 | 16 Dec 2004 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Sonnets (iv) | Not only marble, but... | 14 |
| 1575 | 17 Dec 2004 | William Shakespeare | Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet LV) | Not marble, nor the ... | 14 |
| 1576 | 18 Dec 2004 | Tukaram | A Good Poem | A good poem is like ... | 6 |
| 1577 | 19 Dec 2004 | Patrick Barrington | I Had a Hippopotamus | I had a hippopotamus... | 32 |
| 1578 | 20 Dec 2004 | Edward Thomas | The Owl | Downhill I came, hun... | 16 |
| 1579 | 21 Dec 2004 | Traditional | The Cherry Tree Carol | When Joseph was an o... | 18 |
| 1580 | 22 Dec 2004 | Rupert Brooke | Heaven | Fish (fly-replete, i... | 34 |
| 1581 | 23 Dec 2004 | William Stafford | A Ritual to Read to Each Other | If you don't know th... | 20 |
| 1582 | 27 Dec 2004 | E. E. Cummings | Little Tree | little tree | 28 |
| 1583 | 28 Dec 2004 | Constantine P. Cavafy | The Photograph | In this obscene phot... | 14 |
| 1584 | 29 Dec 2004 | John Hegley | Go and play in the middle | my Mum used to watch... | 17 |
| 1585 | 30 Dec 2004 | Benjamin Zephaniah | Vegan Delight | Ackees, chapatties | 48 |
| 1586 | 31 Dec 2004 | Robert Burns | Auld Lang Syne | Should auld acquaint... | 28 |
| 1587 | 1 Jan 2005 | Rudyard Kipling | The Explorer | "There's no sense in... | 74 |
| 1588 | 2 Jan 2005 | Wallace Stevens | Six Significant Landscapes | I | 62 |
| 1589 | 4 Jan 2005 | Joseph Brodsky | At a Lecture | Since mistakes are i... | 28 |
| 1590 | 6 Jan 2005 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Epitaph for the Race of Man: X | The broken dike, the... | 14 |
| 1591 | 7 Jan 2005 | Zachary Richard | Big River | Water's on the river... | 31 |
| 1592 | 8 Jan 2005 | Edwin Morgan | One Cigarette | No smoke without you... | 17 |
| 1593 | 9 Jan 2005 | Derek Walcott | from The Estranging Sea | 1 | 86 |
| 1594 | 10 Jan 2005 | Lao-Tzu | Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 | If you want to be a ... | 20 |
| 1595 | 12 Jan 2005 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | As Kingfishers Catch Fire | As kingfishers catch... | 14 |
| 1596 | 13 Jan 2005 | Edith Sitwell | Still Falls the Rain | The Raids, 1940. Nig... | 35 |
| 1597 | 14 Jan 2005 | Patrick Barrington | I Met a Lady in the Wood | I met a lady in the wood. | 56 |
| 1598 | 15 Jan 2005 | Hart Crane | Voyages - I | Above the fresh ruff... | 16 |
| 1599 | 18 Jan 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only | My valiant helper, a... | 33 |
| 1600 | 19 Jan 2005 | William Butler Yeats | Two Songs Of A Fool | I | 34 |
| 1601 | 21 Jan 2005 | Henry King | Exequy on his Wife | Accept, thou shrine ... | 120 |
| 1602 | 23 Jan 2005 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | From Beppo | L. | 27 |
| 1603 | 24 Jan 2005 | John Milton | Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | Methought I saw my l... | 14 |
| 1604 | 25 Jan 2005 | John Keats | Odeon a Grecian Urn | Thou still unravish'... | 50 |
| 1605 | 26 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold | One sung of thee who... | 4 |
| 1606 | 27 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Masque of Anarchy (extract) | XXXVII. | 284 |
| 1607 | 28 Jan 2005 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Frost at Midnight | The frost performs i... | 75 |
| 1608 | 29 Jan 2005 | Francis Ledwidge | Lament for Thomas MacDonagh | He shall not hear th... | 12 |
| 1609 | 30 Jan 2005 | Wislawa Szymborska | Cat in an Empty Apartment | Die—you can't do tha... | 37 |
| 1610 | 1 Feb 2005 | Sue Townsend | Mrs. Thatcher | Do you weep, Mrs Tha... | 10 |
| 1611 | 2 Feb 2005 | David Wagoner | For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls | You say they were sl... | 15 |
| 1612 | 3 Feb 2005 | Thomas Hardy | Neutral Tones | We stood by a pond t... | 16 |
| 1613 | 4 Feb 2005 | Sarojini Naidu | The Coromandel Fishers | Rise, brothers, rise... | 18 |
| 1614 | 5 Feb 2005 | Kenneth Burke | Temporary Well Being | The pond is plenteous | 10 |
| 1615 | 6 Feb 2005 | Richard Edwards | When I Was Three | When I was three, I ... | 4 |
| 1616 | 7 Feb 2005 | Julia Donaldson | The Gruffalo | A mouse took a strol... | 98 |
| 1617 | 8 Feb 2005 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Give All To Love | Give all to love; | 49 |
| 1618 | 9 Feb 2005 | John T. Wood | Poem for Everyone | I will present you | 34 |
| 1619 | 10 Feb 2005 | Dom Moraes | Absences | Smear out the last star. | 32 |
| 1620 | 11 Feb 2005 | Tony Scanlon | Second Honeymoon | The blue that startl... | 14 |
| 1621 | 12 Feb 2005 | A. D. Hope | As Well as They Can | As well as it can, t... | 12 |
| 1622 | 13 Feb 2005 | Tomas Transtromer | At Funchal (Island of Madeira) | On the beach there's... | 26 |
| 1623 | 14 Feb 2005 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | To The Supreme Being | The prayers I make w... | 14 |
| 1624 | 15 Feb 2005 | Nikki Giovanni | Resignation | I love you | 79 |
| 1625 | 16 Feb 2005 | Thomas Wyatt | The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea | My galley chargèd wi... | 14 |
| 1626 | 17 Feb 2005 | Ann Drysdale | The Ram's Skull | There it sits on the... | 57 |
| 1627 | 18 Feb 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool | THE POOL PLAYERS. | 10 |
| 1628 | 19 Feb 2005 | Roger McGough | Let Me Die a Youngman's Death | Let me die a youngma... | 29 |
| 1629 | 20 Feb 2005 | E. E. Cummings | suppose | suppose | 26 |
| 1630 | 21 Feb 2005 | Kurtis Lamkin | jump mama | pretty summer day | 53 |
| 1631 | 22 Feb 2005 | Carl Sandburg | Offering and Rebuff | I could love you | 14 |
| 1632 | 23 Feb 2005 | Thomas Hardy | Middle-Age Enthusiasms | To M. H. | 25 |
| 1633 | 24 Feb 2005 | Raymond Carver | My Death | If I'm lucky, I'll b... | 36 |
| 1634 | 25 Feb 2005 | William Butler Yeats | A Cradle Song | The angels are stooping | 12 |
| 1635 | 26 Feb 2005 | Sara Teasdale | A Minuet of Mozart's | Across the dimly lig... | 8 |
| 1636 | 27 Feb 2005 | e. e. cummings | In Just- | in Just- | 24 |
| 1637 | 28 Feb 2005 | William Carlos Williams | Overture to a Dance of Locomotives | Men with picked voic... | 44 |
| 1638 | 1 Mar 2005 | Langston Hughes | Theme for English B | The instructor said, | 41 |
| 1639 | 2 Mar 2005 | Robert Service | The Rover | Oh, how good it is to be | 33 |
| 1640 | 3 Mar 2005 | William Morris | In Prison | Wearily, drearily, | 18 |
| 1641 | 4 Mar 2005 | Omar Khayyam | You know, my Friends, how Long since in my House | You know, my Friends... | 56 |
| 1642 | 5 Mar 2005 | Coventry Patmore | Magna est Veritas | Here, in this little Bay, | 10 |
| 1643 | 6 Mar 2005 | Stephen King | Untitled | Your hair is winter fire, | 3 |
| 1644 | 7 Mar 2005 | Moliere | The Misanthrope | ORONTE | 25 |
| 1645 | 8 Mar 2005 | Siegfried Sassoon | On Passing the New Menin Gate | Who will remember, p... | 14 |
| 1646 | 9 Mar 2005 | Michael P. Garofalo | Haiku | A frog floats | 3 |
| 1647 | 10 Mar 2005 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Fata Morgana | O sweet illusions of song | 24 |
| 1648 | 11 Mar 2005 | Donald Justice | Men at Forty | Men at forty | 20 |
| 1649 | 12 Mar 2005 | Franklin Pierce Adams | Baseball's Sad Lexicon | These are the saddes... | 8 |
| 1650 | 13 Mar 2005 | Emily Dickinson | It was not death, for I stood up | It was not death, fo... | 24 |
| 1651 | 14 Mar 2005 | Sylvia Plath | Aerialist | Each night, this adr... | 48 |
| 1652 | 15 Mar 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Gay Chaps at the Bar | ...and guys I knew i... | 20 |
| 1653 | 16 Mar 2005 | Wallace Stevens | Asides on the Oboe | The prologues are ov... | 41 |
| 1654 | 17 Mar 2005 | Piet Hein | Dream Interpretation | Simplified. | 5 |
| 1655 | 19 Mar 2005 | Hafiz | We Should Talk about This Problem | There is a Beautiful... | 14 |
| 1656 | 20 Mar 2005 | Patrick Barrington | Battle Song | There's havoc on the... | 52 |
| 1657 | 21 Mar 2005 | William Butler Yeats | The Rose of the World | Who dreamed that bea... | 15 |
| 1658 | 22 Mar 2005 | James Dickey | The Heaven of Animals | Here they are. The ... | 39 |
| 1659 | 23 Mar 2005 | Emily Bronte | The Night Wind | In summer's mellow m... | 36 |
| 1660 | 28 Mar 2005 | Arthur Hugh Clough | Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth | Say not the struggle... | 16 |
| 1661 | 29 Mar 2005 | Suzanne Vega | Small Blue Thing | Today I am | 28 |
| 1662 | 30 Mar 2005 | Spike Milligan | Mirror, Mirror | A young spring-tende... | 9 |
| 1663 | 31 Mar 2005 | Queen Elizabeth I | On Monsieur's Departure | I grieve and dare no... | 18 |
| 1664 | 1 Apr 2005 | William Blake | The Echoing Green | The sun does arise, | 30 |
| 1665 | 3 Apr 2005 | Anonymous | The Distracted Centipede | A centipede was happ... | 6 |
| 1666 | 4 Apr 2005 | Robert Creeley | The Rain | All night the sound had | 24 |
| 1667 | 5 Apr 2005 | Ted Kooser | Selecting A Reader | First, I would have ... | 13 |
| 1668 | 6 Apr 2005 | Mark Knopfler | Love Over Gold | You walk out on the ... | 22 |
| 1669 | 7 Apr 2005 | William Butler Yeats | Aedh Laments the Loss of Love | (or The Lover Mourns... | 8 |
| 1670 | 8 Apr 2005 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Shawondasee | Shawondasee, fat and... | 73 |
| 1671 | 9 Apr 2005 | Shel Silverstein | It's Dark in Here | I am writing these poems | 10 |
| 1672 | 10 Apr 2005 | Marriott Edgar | The Lion and Albert | There's a famous sea... | 72 |
| 1673 | 11 Apr 2005 | Ogden Nash | The Tale of Custard the Dragon | Belinda lived in a l... | 56 |
| 1674 | 12 Apr 2005 | A. D. Hope | Ode On the Death of Pius the Twelfth | To every season its ... | 84 |
| 1675 | 13 Apr 2005 | Allen Ginsberg | The Lion For Real | 'Soyez muette pour m... | 58 |
| 1676 | 14 Apr 2005 | Andrew Motion | Spring Wedding | I took your news out... | 16 |
| 1677 | 15 Apr 2005 | Joni Mitchell | The Fiddle and the Drum | And so once again | 35 |
| 1678 | 18 Apr 2005 | Sara Teasdale | Wisdom | When I have ceased t... | 8 |
| 1679 | 19 Apr 2005 | Mary Oliver | Summer | Leaving the house, | 20 |
| 1680 | 20 Apr 2005 | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Ariadne auf Naxos | There is a land wher... | 36 |
| 1681 | 21 Apr 2005 | There is an end to even the worst career! | -— Sir John Collings... | 21 | |
| 1682 | 22 Apr 2005 | Tom Waits | The Piano Has Been Drinking | The piano has been d... | 19 |
| 1683 | 26 Apr 2005 | Dar Williams | The Ocean | When I went to your ... | 50 |
| 1684 | 27 Apr 2005 | T. S. Eliot | Portrait of a Lady | Thou hast committed -- | 131 |
| 1685 | 28 Apr 2005 | Roger Waters | The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range | You have a natural t... | 52 |
| 1687 | 1 May 2005 | Traditional | Curly-locks | Curly-locks, Curly-l... | 4 |
| 1688 | 2 May 2005 | John Suckling | Why so Pale and Wan? | Why so pale and wan,... | 15 |
| 1689 | 3 May 2005 | Robert Service | The Bread-Knife Ballad | A little child was s... | 16 |
| 1690 | 5 May 2005 | William Shakespeare | When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet XXIX) | When in disgrace wit... | 14 |
| 1691 | 6 May 2005 | Sir Walter Scott | Patriotism | Breathes there the m... | 16 |
| 1692 | 8 May 2005 | Archibald MacLeish | You, Andrew Marvell | And here face down b... | 36 |
| 1693 | 8 May 2005 | A. K. Ramanujan | Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom | Do not worry about D... | 4 |
| 1694 | 9 May 2005 | Andrew Marvell | The Garden | How vainly men thems... | 72 |
| 1695 | 10 May 2005 | Judith Viorst | Learning | I'm learning to say ... | 12 |
| 1696 | 11 May 2005 | Sir Walter Raleigh | As You Came from the Holy Land | As you came from the... | 44 |
| 1697 | 12 May 2005 | E. E. Cummings | nobody loses all the time | nobody loses all the time | 38 |
| 1698 | 13 May 2005 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Tithonus | The woods decay, the... | 75 |
| 1699 | 14 May 2005 | Patrick Barrington | When I was Young and Ignorant | When I was young and... | 32 |
| 1701 | 17 May 2005 | Ralph Hodgson | The Bells of Heaven | 'Twould ring the bel... | 10 |
| 1702 | 18 May 2005 | Pablo Neruda | Ode to the Lemon | From blossoms | 54 |
| 1703 | 19 May 2005 | Samuel Beckett | Untitled | My way is in the san... | 19 |
| 1704 | 20 May 2005 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The Oblation | Ask nothing more of ... | 18 |
| 1705 | 21 May 2005 | Mary Frye | Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep | Do not stand at my g... | 16 |
| 1706 | 23 May 2005 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Chambered Nautilus | This is the ship of ... | 35 |
| 1707 | 24 May 2005 | Gaius Valerius Catullus | Carmen XLVI | Now spring is bringi... | 11 |
| 1708 | 26 May 2005 | Bob Dylan | Blowin' in the Wind | How many roads must ... | 24 |
| 1709 | 30 May 2005 | Michael Ondaatje | Elizabeth | Catch, my Uncle Jack said | 45 |
| 1710 | 1 Jun 2005 | Anon | Cuckoo Song | Sumer is icumen in, | 13 |
| 1711 | 2 Jun 2005 | Michael Flanders | Madeira, M'Dear | She was young, she w... | 54 |
| 1714 | 7 Jun 2005 | Joseph Campbell | The Old Woman | As a white candle | 12 |
| 1715 | 8 Jun 2005 | Rabindranath Tagore | Geetanjali | Obstinate are the tr... | 8 |
| 1716 | 9 Jun 2005 | Edgar Allan Poe | A Dream Within a Dream | Take this kiss upon ... | 24 |
| 1717 | 10 Jun 2005 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Untitled | The mine-detector | 12 |
| 1720 | 15 Jun 2005 | Rolf Jacobsen | Antenna-forest | Up on the city's roo... | 12 |
| 1722 | 17 Jun 2005 | Robert Browning | The Lost Mistress | All's over, then: do... | 20 |
| 1724 | 20 Jun 2005 | Don Marquis | warty bliggens the toad | i met a toad | 54 |
| 1725 | 22 Jun 2005 | June Jordan | The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one | well I wanted to bra... | 88 |
| 1726 | 23 Jun 2005 | Michigan Court of Appeals | Fisher v. Lowe | A wayward Chevy stru... | 50 |
| 1727 | 27 Jun 2005 | R. S. Thomas | To a Young Poet | For the first twenty... | 24 |
| 1728 | 2 Jul 2005 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | When The Great Gray Ships Come In | To eastward ringing,... | 32 |
| 1729 | 3 Jul 2005 | Stephen Dunn | The Stories | I was unfaithful to ... | 65 |
| 1730 | 5 Jul 2005 | Francis Scott Key | The Star-Spangled Banner | Oh, say can you see,... | 36 |
| 1731 | 6 Jul 2005 | Cole Porter | You're the Top | You're the top! | 95 |
| 1732 | 11 Jul 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | Nonadaptation | I was not made to li... | 13 |
| 1733 | 18 Jul 2005 | Emily Dickinson | A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | A narrow Fellow in t... | 24 |
| 1734 | 20 Jul 2005 | Derek Walcott | The Prodigal, 3.II | The tidal motion of ... | 41 |
| 1735 | 21 Jul 2005 | Kahlil Gibran | On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13) | Then a lawyer said, ... | 37 |
| 1736 | 22 Jul 2005 | Nissim Ezekiel | Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher | To force the pace an... | 20 |
| 1737 | 23 Jul 2005 | Robert Browning | Meeting at Night | The gray sea and the... | 12 |
| 1738 | 24 Jul 2005 | Lisel Mueller | Monet Refuses the Operation | Doctor, you say that... | 46 |
| 1740 | 25 Jul 2005 | Mairead Byrne | Mahi-Mahi | Caught. | 4 |
| 1742 | 27 Jul 2005 | Weldon Kees | Covering Two Years | This nothingness tha... | 13 |
| 1743 | 28 Jul 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | To the Moon | Art thou pale for we... | 6 |
| 1744 | 29 Jul 2005 | Robert Service | A Pot Of Tea | You make it in your ... | 26 |
| 1745 | 30 Jul 2005 | Emily Dickinson | I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed | I taste a liquor nev... | 16 |
| 1747 | 2 Aug 2005 | Dorothy Parker | Untitled | I wish I could drink... | 4 |
| 1748 | 3 Aug 2005 | Wendy Cope | The Aerial | The aerial on this r... | 12 |
| 1749 | 4 Aug 2005 | G. K. Chesterton | The Deluge | Though giant rains p... | 24 |
| 1750 | 5 Aug 2005 | Carl Sandburg | Grass | Pile the bodies high... | 11 |
| 1751 | 6 Aug 2005 | A.D. Hope | The Perfume | "... marked males of... | 48 |
| 1752 | casualness of a shell" or "casual beauty of a shell | It is said by the po... | 24 | ||
| 1753 | 8 Aug 2005 | Thomas Hardy | The Dynasts | Yea, the coneys are ... | 18 |
| 1754 | 9 Aug 2005 | Khalil Gibran | On Giving | There are those who ... | 13 |
| 1755 | 11 Aug 2005 | Angel Gonzalez | Diatribe Against the Dead | The dead are selfish | 17 |
| 1756 | 22 Aug 2005 | David Budbill | Dilemma | I want to be | 12 |
| 1757 | 23 Aug 2005 | John Webster | Vanitas Vanitatum | All the flowers of t... | 16 |
| 1758 | 25 Aug 2005 | Dalia Ravikovitch | Clockwork Doll | I was a clockwork do... | 14 |
| 1759 | 26 Aug 2005 | Pam Ayres | The Dolly on the Dustcart | I'm the dolly on the... | 48 |
| 1760 | 29 Aug 2005 | James Fenton | Yellow Tulips | Looking into the vas... | 26 |
| 1761 | 31 Aug 2005 | William Logan | For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead | Lying on that blanke... | 20 |
| 1762 | 7 Sep 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | Eyes | My most honorable ey... | 20 |
| 1763 | 9 Sep 2005 | F. J. Bergmann | An Apology | Forgive me | 11 |
| 1764 | 12 Sep 2005 | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 | A child said, *What ... | 39 |
| 1765 | 13 Sep 2005 | Emily Dickinson | Further in Summer than the Birds | Further in Summer th... | 16 |
| 1767 | 20 Sep 2005 | Tennessee Williams | My Little One | My little one whose ... | 12 |
| 1768 | 21 Sep 2005 | Wendy Cope | An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse | People tell you all ... | 14 |
| 1769 | 22 Sep 2005 | Sankha Ghosh | Foolish, not Social | Returning home do yo... | 11 |
| 1770 | 23 Sep 2005 | John Hegley | Uncle and Auntie | my auntie gave me a ... | 19 |
| 1772 | 26 Sep 2005 | Dorothy Parker | Threnody | Lilacs blossom just ... | 24 |
| 1773 | 29 Sep 2005 | We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. | [Links] | 18 | |
| 1774 | 1 Oct 2005 | Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall | Oh, where have you b... | 57 |
| 1775 | 3 Oct 2005 | W. H. Auden | Doggerel by a Senior Citizen | Our earth in 1969 | 56 |
| 1776 | 4 Oct 2005 | Rabindranath Tagore | Gitanjali (excerpt) | The song that I came... | 10 |
| 1777 | 5 Oct 2005 | Billy Collins | Introduction To Poetry | I ask them to take a poem | 16 |
| 1778 | 6 Oct 2005 | A. D. Hope | The Invaders | Coming by night, fur... | 24 |
| 1779 | 12 Oct 2005 | John Kendall | The Wasp | Of those uncertain c... | 64 |
| 1780 | 14 Oct 2005 | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Talk | You're a brave man t... | 17 |
| 1781 | 17 Oct 2005 | Basavanna | Vacana #105 | A snake-charmer and ... | 16 |
| 1782 | 21 Oct 2005 | Philip Larkin | When First We Faced | When first we faced,... | 18 |
| 1783 | 24 Oct 2005 | Carol Ann Duffy | You | Uninvited, the thoug... | 14 |
| 1784 | 24 Oct 2005 | Carol Ann Duffy | You | Uninvited, the thoug... | 14 |
| 1785 | 25 Oct 2005 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish | I caught a tremendou... | 76 |
| 1786 | 26 Oct 2005 | John Keats | To Autumn | Season of mists and ... | 33 |
| 1787 | 27 Oct 2005 | Nick Drake | A Place To Be | When I was younger, ... | 12 |
| 1788 | 29 Oct 2005 | Anonymous | Moses' Poem | Give ear, O heavens,... | 142 |
| 1790 | 5 Nov 2005 | Rabindranath Tagore | Stray Birds | Stray birds of summe... | 5 |
| 1791 | 8 Nov 2005 | Emily Dickinson | The Moon is Distant from the Sea | The moon is distant ... | 12 |
| 1792 | 9 Nov 2005 | Adrienne Rich | Diving into the Wreck | First having read th... | 94 |
| 1794 | 11 Nov 2005 | Siegfried Sassoon | The General | "Good-morning, good-... | 7 |
| 1795 | 14 Nov 2005 | Jeremy Reed | Broken Hearts | There should be hear... | 30 |
| 1796 | 17 Nov 2005 | Sappho | Poem I | Immortal Aphrodite o... | 28 |
| 1797 | 18 Nov 2005 | Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta | Winter '84 | I tell the corner st... | 20 |
| 1798 | 29 Nov 2005 | Seamus Heaney | An Ulster Twilight | The bare bulb, a sca... | 36 |
| 1799 | 25 Dec 2005 | St. Jean de Brébeuf | The Huron Carol | ’Twas in the moon of... | 32 |
| 1800 | 27 Dec 2005 | John O'Brien | Tangmalangaloo | The bishop sat in lo... | 30 |
| 1801 | 28 Dec 2005 | Ted Kooser | Flying at Night | Above us, stars. Ben... | 8 |
| 1802 | 29 Dec 2005 | by Wislawa Szymborska | A Note | Life is the only way | 22 |
| 1803 | 30 Dec 2005 | Pablo Neruda | I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You | I do not love you ex... | 14 |
| 1804 | 31 Dec 2005 | Sestina | September rain falls... | 68 | |
| 1805 | 1 Jan 2006 | A. P. Herbert | The Doctor | The doctor took my s... | 51 |
| 1806 | 2 Jan 2006 | Bob Dylan | With God on our Side | Oh my name it is nothin' | 72 |
| 1807 | 3 Jan 2006 | Langston Hughes | Let America be America Again | Let America be Ameri... | 86 |
| 1808 | 4 Jan 2006 | Phil Ochs | Power and Glory | Come and take a walk... | 16 |
| 1809 | 5 Jan 2006 | Machine Head | Elegy | Elegies are to be sung | 35 |
| 1810 | 7 Jan 2006 | D. H. Lawrence | True Love at Last | The handsome and sel... | 18 |
| 1811 | 18 Jan 2006 | Seamus Heaney | From the Frontier of Writing | The tightness and th... | 24 |
| 1812 | 19 Jan 2006 | A. D. Hope | Crossing the Frontier | Crossing the frontie... | 42 |
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