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