| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 593 | 1 Nov 2000 | Robert Herrick | The Hag | The hag is astride | 24 |
| 594 | 2 Nov 2000 | Harold Monro | Overheard on a Salmarsh | Nymph, nymph, what a... | 20 |
| 595 | 3 Nov 2000 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | The Last Man | By heaven and hell, ... | 13 |
| 596 | 4 Nov 2000 | Simon Armitage | I Say I Say I Say | Anyone here had a go... | 16 |
| 597 | 5 Nov 2000 | William Butler Yeats | He wishes for the cloths of heaven | Had I the heavens' e... | 8 |
| 598 | 6 Nov 2000 | Countee Cullen | For A Poet | I have wrapped my dr... | 8 |
| 599 | 7 Nov 2000 | Rita Dove | Geometry | I prove a theorem an... | 9 |
| 600 | 8 Nov 2000 | Lewis Carroll | The Mouse's Tale | Fury said to a mouse, | 32 |
| 601 | 9 Nov 2000 | E. V. Rieu | Hall and Knight | or 'z + b + x = y + ... | 29 |
| 602 | 10 Nov 2000 | Glyn Maxwell | Deep Sorriness Atonement Song | (for missed appointm... | 42 |
| 603 | 11 Nov 2000 | Eunice deSouza | Marriages Are Made | My cousin Elena | 21 |
| 604 | 12 Nov 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare | Euclid alone has loo... | 14 |
| 605 | 13 Nov 2000 | Pablo Neruda | Saddest Poem | I can write the sadd... | 33 |
| 606 | 14 Nov 2000 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | God's Grandeur | The world is charged... | 14 |
| 607 | 15 Nov 2000 | Phoebe Cary | Ballad of the Canal | We were crowded in t... | 24 |
| 608 | 16 Nov 2000 | E. B. White | The Spider's Web | The spider, dropping... | 12 |
| 609 | 17 Nov 2000 | Stephen Vincent Benet | Winged Man | The moon, a sweeping... | 37 |
| 610 | 19 Nov 2000 | Louise Imogen Guiney | The Lights of London | The evenfall, so slo... | 14 |
| 611 | 19 Nov 2000 | William Shakespeare | Winter | When icicles hang by... | 16 |
| 612 | 20 Nov 2000 | Sylvia Plath | Love Letter | Not easy to state th... | 36 |
| 613 | 21 Nov 2000 | John Betjeman | In Westminster Abbey | Let me take this oth... | 42 |
| 614 | 22 Nov 2000 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | The pennycandystore beyond the El | The pennycandystore ... | 18 |
| 615 | 23 Nov 2000 | Monty Python | The Philosopher's Drinking Song | Immanuel Kant was a ... | 21 |
| 616 | 24 Nov 2000 | James Wright | Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota | Over my head, I see ... | 13 |
| 617 | 25 Nov 2000 | Ho Xuan Huong | The Cake That Drifts In Water | My body is both whit... | 4 |
| 618 | 27 Nov 2000 | W. H. Auden | The More Loving One | Looking up at the st... | 16 |
| 619 | 28 Nov 2000 | e. e. cummings | somewhere i have never travelled | somewhere i have nev... | 20 |
| 620 | 28 Nov 2000 | Wallace Stevens | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | I | 67 |
| 621 | 30 Nov 2000 | R. S. Thomas | Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man | I | 85 |
| 622 | 30 Nov 2000 | Wilfred Gibson | The Ice-Cart | Perched on my city o... | 39 |
| 623 | 1 Dec 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody | 1 PATRIOTIC | 34 |
| 624 | 2 Dec 2000 | Leonard Cohen | Gift | You tell me that silence | 9 |
| 625 | 4 Dec 2000 | Ogden Nash | The Sniffle | In spite of her sniffle | 18 |
| 626 | 4 Dec 2000 | Edmond Rostand | Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose | DE GUICHE: Will no o... | 63 |
| 627 | 5 Dec 2000 | Laurence Hope | Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank | The Desert is parche... | 94 |
| 628 | 6 Dec 2000 | Edward Lear | The Dong with a Luminous Nose | When awful darkness ... | 103 |
| 629 | 7 Dec 2000 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Slave's Dream | Beside the ungathere... | 48 |
| 630 | 9 Dec 2000 | T. S. Eliot | To Walter de la Mare | The children who exp... | 33 |
| 631 | 10 Dec 2000 | John Lennon | Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam | Mean Mister Mustard ... | 24 |
| 632 | 10 Dec 2000 | Nikki Giovanni | I Wrote A Good Omelet | I wrote a good omele... | 15 |
| 633 | 11 Dec 2000 | Horace | Odes: Book 1, Verse 11 | Stop these efforts t... | 9 |
| 634 | 12 Dec 2000 | Sir Charles Sedley | Phyllis is my only joy | Phyllis is my only joy, | 18 |
| 635 | 14 Dec 2000 | Robert Browning | Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | GR-R-R--there go, my... | 72 |
| 636 | 14 Dec 2000 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Aaron Stark | Withal a meagre man ... | 14 |
| 637 | 16 Dec 2000 | Thom Gunn | The Hug | It was your birthday... | 22 |
| 638 | 16 Dec 2000 | Dorothy Parker | Song of Perfect Propriety | Oh, I should like to... | 32 |
| 639 | 18 Dec 2000 | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | The art of losing is... | 19 |
| 640 | 18 Dec 2000 | Marchette Gaylord Chute | Fairies | You can't see fairie... | 8 |
| 641 | 19 Dec 2000 | William Butler Yeats | The Road at My Door | An affable Irregular, | 15 |
| 642 | 20 Dec 2000 | Rina Singh | The Poetics of Desire | Throw away your pape... | 27 |
| 643 | 21 Dec 2000 | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon | There is an inn, a m... | 65 |
| 644 | 22 Dec 2000 | Amy Lowell | Patterns | I walk down the gard... | 107 |
| 645 | 24 Dec 2000 | Maya Angelou | Old Folks laugh | They have spent their | 25 |
| 646 | 24 Dec 2000 | Anon | The North Wind Doth Blow | The north wind doth blow, | 8 |
| 647 | 25 Dec 2000 | Trad | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | God rest ye merry ge... | 63 |
| 648 | 27 Dec 2000 | Dave Goulder | The January Man | The January man he w... | 35 |
| 649 | 28 Dec 2000 | Michael Flanders | A Song of the Weather | January brings the snow | 26 |
| 650 | 29 Dec 2000 | Vikram Seth | All You who Sleep Tonight | All you who sleep tonight | 8 |
| 651 | 30 Dec 2000 | Muriel Rukeyser | Myth | Long afterward, Oedi... | 12 |
| 652 | 30 Dec 2000 | Robert Southey | The Cataract of Lodore | "How does the water | 121 |
| 653 | 31 Dec 2000 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ring Out, Wild Bells | Ring out, wild bells... | 32 |
| 654 | 2 Jan 2001 | Omar Khayyam | Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai | Think, in this batte... | 4 |
| 655 | 3 Jan 2001 | W. B. Yeats | No Second Troy | Why should I blame h... | 12 |
| 656 | 4 Jan 2001 | Anon | Edward, Edward | 'Why does your brand... | 56 |
| 657 | 5 Jan 2001 | Stephen Dobyns | The Dark and Turbulent Sea | Sailboat, sailboat -... | 37 |
| 658 | 6 Jan 2001 | Oscar Wilde | Serenade | The western wind is ... | 40 |
| 659 | 7 Jan 2001 | William Carlos Williams | Poem | As the cat | 12 |
| 660 | 8 Jan 2001 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | On A Night of Snow | Cat, if you go outdo... | 14 |
| 661 | 9 Jan 2001 | Christopher Smart | Jubilate Agno | For I will consider ... | 88 |
| 662 | 9 Jan 2001 | Jibanananda Das | Cat | Again and again thro... | 16 |
| 663 | 11 Jan 2001 | Robert Graves | A Child's Nightmare | Through long nursery... | 40 |
| 664 | 12 Jan 2001 | Mervyn Peake | Conceit | I heard a winter tre... | 4 |
| 665 | 13 Jan 2001 | Robert Herrick | Dreams | Here we are all, by ... | 2 |
| 666 | 15 Jan 2001 | Alexander Pope | Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness | I am his Highness' d... | 2 |
| 667 | 16 Jan 2001 | Ogden Nash | Reflections on Ice-Breaking | Candy | 4 |
| 668 | 16 Jan 2001 | Piet Hein | On Problems | Our choicest plans | 8 |
| 669 | 17 Jan 2001 | John Wilmot | Epitaph on Charles II | Here lies a great an... | 4 |
| 670 | 18 Jan 2001 | Henry David Thoreau | What's the Railroad to Me? | What's the railroad ... | 7 |
| 671 | 19 Jan 2001 | Ted Hughes | Lineage | In the beginning was... | 21 |
| 672 | 20 Jan 2001 | Thomas Hood | Death | It is not death, tha... | 14 |
| 673 | 21 Jan 2001 | Rabindranath Tagore | The Flower-School | When storm-clouds ru... | 23 |
| 674 | 22 Jan 2001 | Adrienne Rich | Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | Aunt Jennifer's tige... | 12 |
| 675 | 24 Jan 2001 | Robert Burns | Comin' Thro the Rye | O, Jenny's a' weet, ... | 17 |
| 676 | 25 Jan 2001 | Mark Strand | Eating Poetry | Ink runs from the co... | 18 |
| 677 | 26 Jan 2001 | W. H. Auden | Villanelle | Time will say nothin... | 19 |
| 678 | 27 Jan 2001 | Sylvia Plath | Mirror | I am silver and exac... | 18 |
| 679 | 28 Jan 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Maybe | Maybe he believes me... | 8 |
| 680 | 29 Jan 2001 | Arun Kolatkar | The Butterfly | There is no story be... | 13 |
| 681 | 31 Jan 2001 | Robert Frost | The Secret Sits | We dance round in a ... | 2 |
| 682 | 31 Jan 2001 | Eunice de Souza | Advice to Women | Keep cats | 12 |
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