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