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