The Wondering Minstrels

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# Date Poet Title 1stLine Length

798 2 Jun 2001 John Updike V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick V.B. Wigglesworth wa... 20

799 3 Jun 2001 Kenneth Grahame Mr Toad The world has held g... 20

800 4 Jun 2001 Miroslav Holub In the Microscope Here too are the dre... 10

801 4 Jun 2001 Dr. D. D. Perrin A mosquito was heard to complain A mosquito was heard... 5

802 6 Jun 2001 Matsuo Basho Haiku Snowy morning-- 3

803 6 Jun 2001 Catherine Faber The Word of God From desert cliff an... 32

804 8 Jun 2001 Kamala Das The Looking Glass Getting a man to lov... 24

805 8 Jun 2001 James Maxwell Rigid Body Sings Gin a body meet a body 16

806 9 Jun 2001 Sarah Flower Adams Nearer, my God, to Thee Nearer, my God, to Thee, 34

807 10 Jun 2001 Redgum Working Girls She said she came fr... 42

808 12 Jun 2001 William Shakespeare Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV) Not from the stars d... 14

809 12 Jun 2001 Hilaire Belloc Jim There was a Boy whos... 54

810 14 Jun 2001 Adrian Mitchell Beatrix is Three At the top of the stairs 9

811 14 Jun 2001 Edward Gorey The Insect God O what has become of... 56

812 16 Jun 2001 Sharon Olds Sex Without Love How do they do it, t... 24

813 16 Jun 2001 Thomas Hardy Weathers (I) 20

814 19 Jun 2001 Robert Browning Parting at Morning Round the cape of a ... 4

815 20 Jun 2001 Peter Meinke Mulch There where the punk... 31

816 21 Jun 2001 Pablo Neruda I'm Explaining a Few Things You are going to ask... 78

817 21 Jun 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Grown-up Was it for this I ut... 4

818 23 Jun 2001 Roald Dahl Television The most important t... 93

819 25 Jun 2001 Orhan Veli I am listening to Istanbul I am listening to Is... 38

820 26 Jun 2001 George Herbert Love bade me welcome Love bade me welcome... 18

821 26 Jun 2001 Edwin Arlington Robinson The Mill The miller's wife ha... 24

822 28 Jun 2001 Margaret Walker I Want To Write I want to write 10

823 29 Jun 2001 Piet Hein Astro-Gymnastics Do-it-yourself grook 17

824 30 Jun 2001 Alden Nowlan The Mysterious Naked Man A mysterious naked m... 28

825 1 Jul 2001 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White Now sleeps the crims... 14

826 3 Jul 2001 Li Po Self-Abandonment I sat drinking and d... 4

827 3 Jul 2001 Edwin Morgan Strawberries There were never str... 33

828 4 Jul 2001 Robert L. Stevenson Where Go the Boats? Dark brown is the river, 16

829 6 Jul 2001 Emily Dickinson It dropped so low in my regard It dropped so low in... 8

830 6 Jul 2001 Wilfred Gibson The Question I wonder if the old ... 12

831 8 Jul 2001 Spike Milligan The Soldiers at Lauro Young are our dead 20

832 10 Jul 2001 Bob Dylan Love Minus Zero / No Limit My love she speaks l... 32

833 10 Jul 2001 Christopher Morley Washing the Dishes When we on simple ra... 20

834 11 Jul 2001 Carl Sandburg Soup I saw a famous man e... 9

835 12 Jul 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There Was a Little Girl There was a little girl, 6

836 13 Jul 2001 Stephen Spender In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic In railway halls, on... 15

837 14 Jul 2001 Czeslaw Milosz Child of Europe 1 100

838 15 Jul 2001 Ben Okri They Say They say 18

839 16 Jul 2001 Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument I. 49

840 17 Jul 2001 Robert Graves The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection (from the Welsh) 13

841 18 Jul 2001 Jalaluddin Rumi Emptiness Consider the difference 65

842 19 Jul 2001 Robert Southey To a Goose If thou didst feed o... 14

843 20 Jul 2001 Sujata Bhatt Love in a Bathtub Years later we'll re... 10

844 21 Jul 2001 Oliver Herford The Hippopotamus "Oh, say, what is th... 11

845 22 Jul 2001 Shel Silverstein Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich A hippo sandwich is ... 12

846 23 Jul 2001 T. S. Eliot The Hippopotamus The broad-backed hip... 36

847 24 Jul 2001 Rupert Brooke On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess Song of a tribe of t... 29

848 25 Jul 2001 Ogden Nash The Hippopotamus Behold the hippopotamus! 8

849 27 Jul 2001 Edith Sitwell Sir Beelzebub When 18

850 27 Jul 2001 Yevgeny Yevtushenko No, I'll not take the half... No, I'll not take th... 12

851 28 Jul 2001 Charles G. D. Roberts The Skater My glad feet shod wi... 28

852 30 Jul 2001 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mariana in the Moated Grange With blackest moss t... 84

853 31 Jul 2001 Sukumar Ray Stew Much A duck once met a po... 16

854 1 Aug 2001 Ogden Nash Very Like a Whale One thing that liter... 45

855 2 Aug 2001 Wang Wei Lady Xi No present royal fav... 4

856 4 Aug 2001 Martial Epigram You puff the poets o... 4

857 5 Aug 2001 A. C. Swinburne Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' Before the beginning... 48

858 5 Aug 2001 T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (Part V) V. What the Thunder Said 39

859 8 Aug 2001 Wendy Cope Waste Land Limericks I 30

860 9 Aug 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet: Love Is Not All Love is not all: It ... 14

861 10 Aug 2001 Rainer Maria Rilke Spanish Dancer As on all its sides ... 18

862 10 Aug 2001 Elinor Wylie Pretty Words Poets make pets of p... 14

863 12 Aug 2001 Norman MacCaig Frogs Frogs sit more solid 16

864 12 Aug 2001 Louis MacNeice Snow The room was suddenl... 12

865 13 Aug 2001 Carol Ann Duffy Valentine Not a red rose or a ... 23

866 14 Aug 2001 John Donne The Canonization For God's sake hold ... 45

867 15 Aug 2001 Cream Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) Twice upon a time in... 16

868 16 Aug 2001 W. H. Auden Partition Unbiased at least he... 25

869 19 Aug 2001 Louis McKee Scrabble We used to pride our... 17

870 21 Aug 2001 Gerard Manley Hopkins No worst, there is none "No worst, there is ... 14

871 23 Aug 2001 Emily Dickinson I felt a Funeral, in my Brain I felt a Funeral, in... 20

872 23 Aug 2001 Edwin Arlington Robinson The House on the Hill They are all gone away, 19

873 25 Aug 2001 Archibald Lampman Winter Evening To-night the very ho... 14

874 25 Aug 2001 Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes Sometimes things don... 12

875 27 Aug 2001 Vincent Starrett 221B Here dwell together ... 14

876 29 Aug 2001 Louis Alexander MacKay I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver I wish my tongue wer... 15

877 30 Aug 2001 Tom Brown I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell I do not love thee, ... 4

878 31 Aug 2001 Dorothy Parker Frustration If I had a shiny gun, 12

879 31 Aug 2001 Ambrose Bierce The Mad Philosopher The flabby wine-skin... 4

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Sorted on **date**, fragment 801 - 900
#	Date	Poet	Title	1stLine	Length
798	2 Jun 2001	John Updike	V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick	V.B. Wigglesworth wa...	20
799	3 Jun 2001	Kenneth Grahame	Mr Toad	The world has held g...	20
800	4 Jun 2001	Miroslav Holub	In the Microscope	Here too are the dre...	10
801	4 Jun 2001	Dr. D. D. Perrin	A mosquito was heard to complain	A mosquito was heard...	5
802	6 Jun 2001	Matsuo Basho	Haiku	Snowy morning--	3
803	6 Jun 2001	Catherine Faber	The Word of God	From desert cliff an...	32
804	8 Jun 2001	Kamala Das	The Looking Glass	Getting a man to lov...	24
805	8 Jun 2001	James Maxwell	Rigid Body Sings	Gin a body meet a body	16
806	9 Jun 2001	Sarah Flower Adams	Nearer, my God, to Thee	Nearer, my God, to Thee,	34
807	10 Jun 2001	Redgum	Working Girls	She said she came fr...	42
808	12 Jun 2001	William Shakespeare	Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV)	Not from the stars d...	14
809	12 Jun 2001	Hilaire Belloc	Jim	There was a Boy whos...	54
810	14 Jun 2001	Adrian Mitchell	Beatrix is Three	At the top of the stairs	9
811	14 Jun 2001	Edward Gorey	The Insect God	O what has become of...	56
812	16 Jun 2001	Sharon Olds	Sex Without Love	How do they do it, t...	24
813	16 Jun 2001	Thomas Hardy	Weathers	(I)	20
814	19 Jun 2001	Robert Browning	Parting at Morning	Round the cape of a ...	4
815	20 Jun 2001	Peter Meinke	Mulch	There where the punk...	31
816	21 Jun 2001	Pablo Neruda	I'm Explaining a Few Things	You are going to ask...	78
817	21 Jun 2001	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Grown-up	Was it for this I ut...	4
818	23 Jun 2001	Roald Dahl	Television	The most important t...	93
819	25 Jun 2001	Orhan Veli	I am listening to Istanbul	I am listening to Is...	38
820	26 Jun 2001	George Herbert	Love bade me welcome	Love bade me welcome...	18
821	26 Jun 2001	Edwin Arlington Robinson	The Mill	The miller's wife ha...	24
822	28 Jun 2001	Margaret Walker	I Want To Write	I want to write	10
823	29 Jun 2001	Piet Hein	Astro-Gymnastics	Do-it-yourself grook	17
824	30 Jun 2001	Alden Nowlan	The Mysterious Naked Man	A mysterious naked m...	28
825	1 Jul 2001	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White	Now sleeps the crims...	14
826	3 Jul 2001	Li Po	Self-Abandonment	I sat drinking and d...	4
827	3 Jul 2001	Edwin Morgan	Strawberries	There were never str...	33
828	4 Jul 2001	Robert L. Stevenson	Where Go the Boats?	Dark brown is the river,	16
829	6 Jul 2001	Emily Dickinson	It dropped so low in my regard	It dropped so low in...	8
830	6 Jul 2001	Wilfred Gibson	The Question	I wonder if the old ...	12
831	8 Jul 2001	Spike Milligan	The Soldiers at Lauro	Young are our dead	20
832	10 Jul 2001	Bob Dylan	Love Minus Zero / No Limit	My love she speaks l...	32
833	10 Jul 2001	Christopher Morley	Washing the Dishes	When we on simple ra...	20
834	11 Jul 2001	Carl Sandburg	Soup	I saw a famous man e...	9
835	12 Jul 2001	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	There Was a Little Girl	There was a little girl,	6
836	13 Jul 2001	Stephen Spender	In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic	In railway halls, on...	15
837	14 Jul 2001	Czeslaw Milosz	Child of Europe	1	100
838	15 Jul 2001	Ben Okri	They Say	They say	18
839	16 Jul 2001	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	A Musical Instrument	I.	49
840	17 Jul 2001	Robert Graves	The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection	(from the Welsh)	13
841	18 Jul 2001	Jalaluddin Rumi	Emptiness	Consider the difference	65
842	19 Jul 2001	Robert Southey	To a Goose	If thou didst feed o...	14
843	20 Jul 2001	Sujata Bhatt	Love in a Bathtub	Years later we'll re...	10
844	21 Jul 2001	Oliver Herford	The Hippopotamus	"Oh, say, what is th...	11
845	22 Jul 2001	Shel Silverstein	Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich	A hippo sandwich is ...	12
846	23 Jul 2001	T. S. Eliot	The Hippopotamus	The broad-backed hip...	36
847	24 Jul 2001	Rupert Brooke	On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess	Song of a tribe of t...	29
848	25 Jul 2001	Ogden Nash	The Hippopotamus	Behold the hippopotamus!	8
849	27 Jul 2001	Edith Sitwell	Sir Beelzebub	When	18
850	27 Jul 2001	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	No, I'll not take the half...	No, I'll not take th...	12
851	28 Jul 2001	Charles G. D. Roberts	The Skater	My glad feet shod wi...	28
852	30 Jul 2001	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Mariana in the Moated Grange	With blackest moss t...	84
853	31 Jul 2001	Sukumar Ray	Stew Much	A duck once met a po...	16
854	1 Aug 2001	Ogden Nash	Very Like a Whale	One thing that liter...	45
855	2 Aug 2001	Wang Wei	Lady Xi	No present royal fav...	4
856	4 Aug 2001	Martial	Epigram	You puff the poets o...	4
857	5 Aug 2001	A. C. Swinburne	Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon'	Before the beginning...	48
858	5 Aug 2001	T. S. Eliot	The Waste Land (Part V)	V. What the Thunder Said	39
859	8 Aug 2001	Wendy Cope	Waste Land Limericks	I	30
860	9 Aug 2001	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Sonnet: Love Is Not All	Love is not all: It ...	14
861	10 Aug 2001	Rainer Maria Rilke	Spanish Dancer	As on all its sides ...	18
862	10 Aug 2001	Elinor Wylie	Pretty Words	Poets make pets of p...	14
863	12 Aug 2001	Norman MacCaig	Frogs	Frogs sit more solid	16
864	12 Aug 2001	Louis MacNeice	Snow	The room was suddenl...	12
865	13 Aug 2001	Carol Ann Duffy	Valentine	Not a red rose or a ...	23
866	14 Aug 2001	John Donne	The Canonization	For God's sake hold ...	45
867	15 Aug 2001	Cream	Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme)	Twice upon a time in...	16
868	16 Aug 2001	W. H. Auden	Partition	Unbiased at least he...	25
869	19 Aug 2001	Louis McKee	Scrabble	We used to pride our...	17
870	21 Aug 2001	Gerard Manley Hopkins	No worst, there is none	"No worst, there is ...	14
871	23 Aug 2001	Emily Dickinson	I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	I felt a Funeral, in...	20
872	23 Aug 2001	Edwin Arlington Robinson	The House on the Hill	They are all gone away,	19
873	25 Aug 2001	Archibald Lampman	Winter Evening	To-night the very ho...	14
874	25 Aug 2001	Sheenagh Pugh	Sometimes	Sometimes things don...	12
875	27 Aug 2001	Vincent Starrett	221B	Here dwell together ...	14
876	29 Aug 2001	Louis Alexander MacKay	I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver	I wish my tongue wer...	15
877	30 Aug 2001	Tom Brown	I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell	I do not love thee, ...	4
878	31 Aug 2001	Dorothy Parker	Frustration	If I had a shiny gun,	12
879	31 Aug 2001	Ambrose Bierce	The Mad Philosopher	The flabby wine-skin...	4

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