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