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