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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
1279 16 Jun 2003 Plato Untitled Star of my life, to ... 2
681 31 Jan 2001 Robert Frost The Secret Sits We dance round in a ... 2
1176 18 Feb 2003 Les Murray Visitor He knocks at the door 2
487 15 Jul 2000 John William Burgon Petra Match me such marvel... 2
1059  3 Jun 2002 Wendy Cope An Unusual Cat-Poem My cat is dead 2
665 13 Jan 2001 Robert Herrick Dreams Here we are all, by ... 2
319 24 Jan 2000 Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro The apparition of th... 2
403 18 Apr 2000 John Donne A Lame Beggar I am unable, yonder ... 2
277 29 Nov 1999 Yosa Buson Haiku The winter river; 3
1451  6 Feb 2004 Rainer Maria Rilke Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction, Joy Rose, oh pure contra... 3
552 20 Sep 2000 Robert Creeley Morning dam's broke, 3
1455 10 Feb 2004 bpNichol The Queerness of it All frQg 3
1259 19 May 2003 Matsuo Basho Untitled The summer grasses 3
1543 17 Sep 2004 Issa Untitled - Haiku After a long nap, 3
324 29 Jan 2000 W. B. Yeats Three Movements Shakespearean fish s... 3
497 26 Jul 2000 bpNichol Landscape: I (for thomas a. clark) 3
802  6 Jun 2001 Matsuo Basho Haiku Snowy morning-- 3
1021 24 Mar 2002 Matsuo Basho Matsushima O Matsushima! 3
253  4 Nov 1999 Stephen Crane A Man Feared... (The Black Riders LVI) A man feared that he... 3
145 12 Jul 1999 Anon Ice The wave, over the w... 3
712  1 Mar 2001 Yosa Buson Haiku The seashore temple... 3
23 05 Mar 1999 Matsuo Basho Haiku old pond..... 3
1643  6 Mar 2005 Stephen King Untitled Your hair is winter fire, 3
396 11 Apr 2000 Trumbull Stickney I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander I hear a river thro'... 3
56 09 Apr 1999 Matsuo Basho Haiku scent of plum blossoms 3
908  6 Oct 2001 Yosa Buson Haiku Departing spring 3
1107 28 Oct 2002 W.S. Merwin Separation Your absence has gon... 3
295 19 Dec 1999 anon Unititled Quietly sitting, 3
1646  9 Mar 2005 Michael P. Garofalo Haiku A frog floats 3
1136  1 Jan 2003 Issa Untitled What good luck! 3
524 23 Aug 2000 Ezra Pound Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord O fan of white silk, 3
123 18 Jun 1999 Ezra Pound And the days are not full enough And the days are not... 4
124 19 Jun 1999 Hillaire Belloc The Hippopotamus I shoot the Hippopotamus 4
1553  2 Nov 2004 Charles de Lint The Puppet The puppet thinks 4
247 28 Oct 1999 W. S. Gilbert To Sit In Solemn Silence... To sit in solemn sil... 4
337 11 Feb 2000 Adrian Mitchell Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' A man plodding throu... 4
1464 24 Feb 2004 Sir Walter Raleigh From Catullus V The sun may set and rise, 4
414 01 May 2000 Thomas Hardy Epitaph on a pessimist I'm Smith of Stoke a... 4
10 19 Feb 1999 Walter Savage Landor On His Seventy-fifth Birthday I strove with none, ... 4
400 15 Apr 2000 Ambrose Bierce Elegy The cur foretells th... 4
1202 19 Mar 2003 David Ignatow A First on TV This is the twentiet... 4
892 19 Sep 2001 Shel Silverstein Stupid Pencil Maker Some dummy built thi... 4
664 12 Jan 2001 Mervyn Peake Conceit I heard a winter tre... 4
1354 20 Sep 2003 Omar Khayyam Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire Ah, Love! could thou... 4
388 02 Apr 2000 Ogden Nash Kipling's Vermont The summer like a ra... 4
928 30 Oct 2001 Ring Lardner Quiescent, a Person Sits Heart and Soul Quiescent a person s... 4
669 17 Jan 2001 John Wilmot Epitaph on Charles II Here lies a great an... 4
726 16 Mar 2001 T. E. Hulme Above the Dock Above the quiet dock... 4
148 15 Jul 1999 Ambrose Bierce With a Book Words shouting, sing... 4
1207 25 Mar 2003 Spike Milligan Hamlet Said Hamlet to Ophelia, 4
1208 27 Mar 2003 Yamabe no Akahito Untitled The mists rise over 4
315 19 Jan 2000 Hilaire Belloc Juliet How did the party go... 4
1446  1 Feb 2004 E. Clerihew Bentley The People of Spain Think Cervantes The people of Spain ... 4
378 23 Mar 2000 Edward Lear There Was an Old Man with a Beard There was an Old Man... 4
192 31 Aug 1999 Dorothy Parker Comment Oh, life is a glorio... 4
763 24 Apr 2001 Robert Graves Love Without Hope Love without hope, a... 4
1615  6 Feb 2005 Richard Edwards When I Was Three When I was three, I ... 4
34 15 Mar 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay First Fig My candle burns at b... 4
617 25 Nov 2000 Ho Xuan Huong The Cake That Drifts In Water My body is both whit... 4
365 10 Mar 2000 John Collins Bossidy Boston And this is good old... 4
1605 26 Jan 2005 Percy Bysshe Shelley One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold One sung of thee who... 4
1092 13 Sep 2002 Piet Hein What Love is Like Love is like 4
667 16 Jan 2001 Ogden Nash Reflections on Ice-Breaking Candy 4
1512 28 May 2004 Harry Graham Seduction Weep not for little ... 4
877 30 Aug 2001 Tom Brown I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell I do not love thee, ... 4
1500 19 Apr 2004 J. D. Salinger John Keats John Keats 4
545 13 Sep 2000 Omar Khayyam The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ The Moving Finger wr... 4
1497 15 Apr 2004 Countee Cullen For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty Not writ in water no... 4
1747  2 Aug 2005 Dorothy Parker Untitled I wish I could drink... 4
64 16 Apr 1999 Peter Porter Instant Fish Instant Fish 4
856  4 Aug 2001 Martial Epigram You puff the poets o... 4
1740 25 Jul 2005 Mairead Byrne Mahi-Mahi Caught. 4
855  2 Aug 2001 Wang Wei Lady Xi No present royal fav... 4
654  2 Jan 2001 Omar Khayyam Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai Think, in this batte... 4
826  3 Jul 2001 Li Po Self-Abandonment I sat drinking and d... 4
817 21 Jun 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Grown-up Was it for this I ut... 4
450  8 Jun 2000 R. L. Stevenson Auntie's Skirts Whenever Auntie move... 4
814 19 Jun 2001 Robert Browning Parting at Morning Round the cape of a ... 4
916 18 Oct 2001 Li Po Question and Answer in the Mountains They ask me why I li... 4
1120  3 Dec 2002 Anonymous The Law Locks Up the Man or Woman The law locks up the... 4
1123  8 Dec 2002 George Gordon Noel Untitled (Epitaph for Lord Castlereagh) Posterity will ne'er... 4
216 25 Sep 1999 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn The Golf Links The golf links lie s... 4
432 20 May 2000 John Hall Wheelock Earth "A planet doesn't ex... 4
1693  8 May 2005 A. K. Ramanujan Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom Do not worry about D... 4
1687  1 May 2005 Traditional Curly-locks Curly-locks, Curly-l... 4
109 04 Jun 1999 Anon The Viking Terror Bitter is the wind t... 4
1428 13 Jan 2004 Simon Goodway Octopusses I don't know what th... 4
879 31 Aug 2001 Ambrose Bierce The Mad Philosopher The flabby wine-skin... 4
1143 13 Jan 2003 Andrew Motion Causa Belli They read good books... 4
1476 11 Mar 2004 Thomas Parke D'Invilliers Then Wear the Gold Hat Then wear the gold h... 4
797 31 May 2001 Lewis F. Richardson Big Whorls Have Little Whorls Big whorls have litt... 4
794 29 May 2001 Li Po In the Quiet Night The floor before my ... 4
416  2 May 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Fitful Alternations of the Rain The fitful alternati... 4
690  8 Feb 2001 Stephen Crane Tell Brave Deeds of War "Tell brave deeds of... 5
1303 17 Jul 2003 Piet Hein Similarity Commutative Law 5
1359 28 Sep 2003 Salman Rushdie Dedication Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu 5
909  8 Oct 2001 Anonymous The Limerick Packs Laughs Anatomical The limerick packs l... 5
707 24 Feb 2001 Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner From my mother's sle... 5
1200 17 Mar 2003 Stephen Crane A Man Said to the Universe A man said to the un... 5
308  3 Jan 2000 Bhartrihari Untitled yasya asti vittam, ... 5
1790  5 Nov 2005 Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds Stray birds of summe... 5
1403 10 Dec 2003 W. H. Auden As the poets have mournfully sung As the poets have mo... 5
1654 17 Mar 2005 Piet Hein Dream Interpretation Simplified. 5
801  4 Jun 2001 Dr. D. D. Perrin A mosquito was heard to complain A mosquito was heard... 5
348 22 Feb 2000 Cid Corman Untitled Mountain 6
233 13 Oct 1999 William Empson Let It Go It is this deep blan... 6
737 28 Mar 2001 William Allingham Writing A man who keeps a di... 6
1351 17 Sep 2003 Christopher Logue London Airport Last night in London... 6
1576 18 Dec 2004 Tukaram A Good Poem A good poem is like ... 6
15 24 Feb 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle (a fragment) He clasps the crag w... 6
320 25 Jan 2000 Ambrose Bierce Rimer The rimer quenches h... 6
318 21 Jan 2000 J R R Tolkien Tall ships and tall kings Tall ships and tall kings 6
1029  4 Apr 2002 Piet Hein Prayer (to the sun above the clouds) Sun that givest all ... 6
990 28 Jan 2002 Langston Hughes Sea Calm How still, 6
976  1 Jan 2002 Ernest Hemingway Chapter Heading For we have thought ... 6
1371 14 Oct 2003 Mark Granier Girl in a Wheelchair Dancing to U2 in Lansdowne Stadium 1997 In a clearing near m... 6
1520 18 Jun 2004 William Butler Yeats On Those that Hated the 'Playboy of the Western World', 1907 Once, when midnight ... 6
310 13 Jan 2000 H. D Oread Whirl up, sea -- 6
1743 28 Jul 2005 Percy Bysshe Shelley To the Moon Art thou pale for we... 6
282  4 Dec 1999 Carl Sandburg Fog The fog comes 6
206 14 Sep 1999 Prescott Hoard Sky Line A workman climbed a ... 6
205 13 Sep 1999 Carl Sandburg Crucible Hot gold runs a wind... 6
777 10 May 2001 Robert Herrick Upon Julia's Clothes Whenas in silks my J... 6
1038 20 Apr 2002 W. H. Auden Epitaph on a tyrant Perfection, of a kin... 6
773  6 May 2001 Bhartrihari Untitled She who is always in... 6
1503 26 Apr 2004 Chong Chol Shijo The rise and fall of... 6
1437 22 Jan 2004 Yehuda Amichai My Father The memory of my fat... 6
1090  9 Sep 2002 Dorothy Parker Unfortunate Coincidence By the time you swea... 6
49 31 Mar 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay The Unexplorer There was a road ran... 6
1496 14 Apr 2004 John Keats Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff Give me women, wine,... 6
835 12 Jul 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There Was a Little Girl There was a little girl, 6
1040 21 Apr 2002 William Butler Yeats On Being Asked for a War Poem I think it better th... 6
1491  5 Apr 2004 Orlando Gibbons The Silver Swan The silver swan, who... 6
156 23 Jul 1999 Anon Angelica the Doorkeeper The falcon soars 6
283 06 Dec 1999 Gavin Ewart A Great Poem This is a great poem. 6
1162  1 Feb 2003 Robert A. Heinlein Almighty Ruler of the All Almighty ruler of the all 6
753 14 Apr 2001 Christian Morgenstern Delayed Action Korf invents some jo... 6
1665  3 Apr 2005 Anonymous The Distracted Centipede A centipede was happ... 6
163 31 Jul 1999 Carl Sandburg Dust Here is dust remembe... 6
1004 21 Feb 2002 Jane Kenyon Finding a Long Gray Hair I scrub the long flo... 7
670 18 Jan 2001 Henry David Thoreau What's the Railroad to Me? What's the railroad ... 7
1794 11 Nov 2005 Siegfried Sassoon The General "Good-morning, good-... 7
751 12 Apr 2001 Guillevic Elegies He probably held too... 7
1117 26 Nov 2002 Robert Browning Home-thoughts, from the Sea Nobly, nobly Cape Sa... 7
120 15 Jun 1999 Gelett Burgess The Purple Cow The Purple Cow's Pro... 7
245 26 Oct 1999 Alfred Kreymborg Whitman After we've had 7
372 17 Mar 2000 Anon Icham of Irlaunde Icham of Irlaunde 7
1442 28 Jan 2004 Faiz Ahmed Faiz Let Me Think You ask me about tha... 7
1255 15 May 2003 Cempulappeyanirar What He Said What could my mother be 7
272 25 Nov 1999 Walter de la Mare Napoleon 'What is the world, ... 7
312 16 Jan 2000 William Shakespeare Where the bee sucks Where the bee sucks,... 7
500 29 Jul 2000 Percy Bysshe shelley A Dirge Rough Wind, that moa... 8
1024 28 Mar 2002 Walter de la Mare Faint Music The meteor's arc of ... 8
4 12 Feb 1999 J R R Tolkien The Road Goes Ever On The Road goes ever o... 8
750 11 Apr 2001 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Here with a Loaf of ... 8
504 02 Aug 2000 Li Po About Tu Fu I met Tu Fu on a mou... 8
1012  5 Mar 2002 Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green... 8
914 14 Oct 2001 Christopher Morley Tit for Tat I often pass a graci... 8
754 16 Apr 2001 Vikram Seth Protocols What can I say to yo... 8
1240 29 Apr 2003 Francis William Bourdillon The Night has a Thousand Eyes The night has a thou... 8
1231 20 Apr 2003 Rabindranath Tagore The Gardener (LXXXV) Who are you, reader,... 8
1227 16 Apr 2003 A. E. Housman Here Dead We Lie Here dead we lie 8
1217  6 Apr 2003 Su Tung-p'o On the Birth of his Son Families, when a chi... 8
1210 29 Mar 2003 Sara Teasdale What Do I Care? What do I care, in t... 8
380 25 Mar 2000 William Johnson Cory Heraclitus They told me, Heracl... 8
771  2 May 2001 William Blake The Divine Image Cruelty has a Human ... 8
20  1 Mar 1999 Robert L. Stevenson Requiem Under the wide and s... 8
1159 29 Jan 2003 Du Fu A Night Abroad A light wind is ripp... 8
1156 26 Jan 2003 Piet Hein A Psychological Tip Whenever you're call... 8
24  5 Mar 1999 Arthur Guiterman On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness The tusks which clas... 8
906  4 Oct 2001 Frances Cornford To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train O why do you walk th... 8
895 21 Sep 2001 W.H.Auden August 1968 The Ogre does what o... 8
1801 28 Dec 2005 Ted Kooser Flying at Night Above us, stars. Ben... 8
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
528 27 Aug 2000 James Merrill A Renewal Having used every su... 8
1140 10 Jan 2003 Arthur Guiterman What One Approves, Another Scorns What one approves, 8
966 20 Dec 2001 Vikram Seth Sit Sit, drink your coff... 8
1128 14 Dec 2002 Shel Silverstein Snowball I made myself a snowball 8
440 29 May 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien Bregalad's Lament O Orofarnë, Lassemis... 8
1113 20 Nov 2002 Ernest Hemingway The Age Demanded The age demanded tha... 8
452 12 Jun 2000 José Martí I wish to leave the world I wish to leave the world 8
1111 17 Nov 2002 Christopher Isherwood The Common Cormorant The common cormorant... 8
464 22 Jun 2000 Sara Teasdale Central Park at Dusk Buildings above the ... 8
1080 22 Aug 2002 Ogden Nash The Lama The one-l lama, 8
829  6 Jul 2001 Emily Dickinson It dropped so low in my regard It dropped so low in... 8
1078 20 Aug 2002 Sara Teasdale Water Lilies If you have forgotte... 8
1073 12 Jul 2002 Po Chü-i The Red Cockatoo Sent as a present fr... 8
1070  3 Jul 2002 Philip Larkin Wires The widest prairies ... 8
546 14 Sep 2000 William Blake The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick! 8
1069 30 Jun 2002 Vachel Lindsay The Leaden-Eyed Let not young souls ... 8
61 12 Apr 1999 Seamus Heaney Song A rowan like a lipst... 8
848 25 Jul 2001 Ogden Nash The Hippopotamus Behold the hippopotamus! 8
553 21 Sep 2000 Christopher Morley Caught in the Undertow Colin, worshipping s... 8
83  6 May 1999 William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends 8
1715  8 Jun 2005 Rabindranath Tagore Geetanjali Obstinate are the tr... 8
580 19 Oct 2000 Emily Dickinson Split the Lark Split the Lark--and ... 8
103 28 May 1999 James Leigh Hunt Jenny Kissed Me Jenny kiss'd me when... 8
1678 18 Apr 2005 Sara Teasdale Wisdom When I have ceased t... 8
113  8 Jun 1999 Sara Teasdale Morning I went out on an Apr... 8
964 17 Dec 2001 Lewis Carroll How Doth the Little Crocodile How doth the little ... 8
962 14 Dec 2001 Rudyard Kipling The Idiot Boy He wandered down the... 8
1669  7 Apr 2005 William Butler Yeats Aedh Laments the Loss of Love (or The Lover Mourns... 8
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
1649 12 Mar 2005 Franklin Pierce Adams Baseball's Sad Lexicon These are the saddes... 8
133 29 Jun 1999 Robert Browning Song, from Pippa Passes The year's at the spring, 8
958 11 Dec 2001 Anon The Bookworm A moth, I thought, m... 8
1635 26 Feb 2005 Sara Teasdale A Minuet of Mozart's Across the dimly lig... 8
150 17 Jul 1999 Dorothy Parker Resume Razors pain you; 8
160 28 Jul 1999 William Butler Yeats The Realists Hope that you may un... 8
166 04 Aug 1999 Rudyard Kipling Night-Song in the Jungle Now Chil the Kite br... 8
168 06 Aug 1999 Andrew Young A Dead Mole Strong-shouldered mole, 8
174 12 Aug 1999 Emily Dickinson A Route of Evanescence A Route of Evanescence 8
176 14 Aug 1999 Hillaire Belloc Is there any reward? Is there any reward? 8
949 24 Nov 2001 Andrew Lang Brahma If the wild bowler t... 8
1524 24 Jun 2004 Arthur Rimbaud Sensation Through blue summer ... 8
190 28 Aug 1999 Nicanor Parra Young Poets Write as you will 8
640 18 Dec 2000 Marchette Gaylord Chute Fairies You can't see fairie... 8
1519 16 Jun 2004 J. M. Synge The Curse Lord, confound that ... 8
1518 14 Jun 2004 Sophie Hannah The World Is A Box My heart is a box of... 8
646 24 Dec 2000 Anon The North Wind Doth Blow The north wind doth blow, 8
650 29 Dec 2000 Vikram Seth All You who Sleep Tonight All you who sleep tonight 8
1493  7 Apr 2004 Antipater of Sidon Erinna Though short her str... 8
220 30 Sep 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien Lament for Eorl the Young Where now the horse ... 8
944 17 Nov 2001 James Elroy Flecker Rioupéroux High and solemn moun... 8
1490  2 Apr 2004 Sidney Lanier Souls And Rain-Drops Light rain-drops fal... 8
1484 24 Mar 2004 Ogden Nash The Wombat The wombat lives acr... 8
668 16 Jan 2001 Piet Hein On Problems Our choicest plans 8
240 21 Oct 1999 Edgar Fawcett Two Worlds A fiery young world,... 8
249 31 Oct 1999 Elizabeth Jennings Delay The radiance of the ... 8
679 28 Jan 2001 Carl Sandburg Maybe Maybe he believes me... 8
683  1 Feb 2001 Li Po To Tu Fu from Shantung You ask how I spend ... 8
257  9 Nov 1999 J R R Tolkien Three Rings for the Elven Kings Three Rings for the ... 8
1461 20 Feb 2004 Owen Meredith Lucile: Part 1, Canto 2 We may live without ... 8
264 16 Nov 1999 Stephen Crane There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII) There was a man who ... 8
1454  9 Feb 2004 Jacqueline Carey An Exile's Lament Beneath the golden balm 8
937 10 Nov 2001 Sara Teasdale The Look Strephon kissed me i... 8
695 13 Feb 2001 John Masefield Beauty I have seen dawn and... 8
1400 28 Nov 2003 Robert Creeley The Sentence There is that in love 8
711 28 Feb 2001 Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who are you? I'm Nobody! Who are you? 8
1370 13 Oct 2003 A. S. Byatt Ask to Embla, XIII They say that women ... 8
1365  7 Oct 2003 Horace Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man Happy the man, and h... 8
891 17 Sep 2001 Emily Dickinson A Doubt If It Be Us A doubt if it be Us 8
1337 29 Aug 2003 Emily Dickinson Ample Make This Bed Ample make this bed. 8
1328 18 Aug 2003 Emily Dickinson You cannot put a fire out You cannot put a fir... 8
1318  5 Aug 2003 Vikram Seth The Wind The bay is thick wit... 8
1313 30 Jul 2003 Bhaskaracharya Mathematical Problem Whilst making love a... 8
336 10 Feb 2000 Robert Frost A Patch of Old Snow There's a patch of o... 8
350 24 Feb 2000 AE The Unknown God Far up the dim twili... 8
749 10 Apr 2001 Li Po Parting Green mountains rise... 8
899 25 Sep 2001 Jack Prelutsky The Diatonic Dittymunch The Diatonic Dittymu... 9
810 14 Jun 2001 Adrian Mitchell Beatrix is Three At the top of the stairs 9
633 11 Dec 2000 Horace Odes: Book 1, Verse 11 Stop these efforts t... 9
510  8 Aug 2000 Lord Byron There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a pleasure ... 9
442 31 May 2000 Octavio Paz Coda Perhaps to love is t... 9
16 25 Feb 1999 William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five Full fathom five thy... 9
1141 11 Jan 2003 Charlotte Mew I So Liked Spring I so liked Spring la... 9
624  2 Dec 2000 Leonard Cohen Gift You tell me that silence 9
197  5 Sep 1999 Leo Marks A Code Poem For The French Resistance The life that I have... 9
599  7 Nov 2000 Rita Dove Geometry I prove a theorem an... 9
1662 30 Mar 2005 Spike Milligan Mirror, Mirror A young spring-tende... 9
779 12 May 2001 Robert Frost Fire and Ice Some say the world w... 9
1071 11 Jul 2002 John Agard Coffee In Heaven You'll be greeted 9
834 11 Jul 2001 Carl Sandburg Soup I saw a famous man e... 9
1076 22 Jul 2002 Eunice de Souza Meeting Poets Meeting poets I am d... 9
467 26 Jun 2000 Robert Graves Like Snow She, then, like snow... 9
570  9 Oct 2000 William Shakespeare Come, Night; Come, Romeo Come, night; come, R... 9
578 17 Oct 2000 Margurite Kingman Autumn Song The firelight glows, 9
1261 25 May 2003 Sivakami Velliangiri A Love Poem Y o U 9
100 26 May 1999 Philip Larkin Days What are days for? 10
1471  4 Mar 2004 Carlos Drummond de Andrade In the Middle of the Road In the middle of the... 10
1610  1 Feb 2005 Sue Townsend Mrs. Thatcher Do you weep, Mrs Tha... 10
999 14 Feb 2002 Elizabeth Bishop Casabianca Love's the boy stood... 10
996 11 Feb 2002 Shel Silverstein The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy,... 10
822 28 Jun 2001 Margaret Walker I Want To Write I want to write 10
361 06 Mar 2000 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cologne In Kohln, a town of ... 10
901 28 Sep 2001 Charles Bukowski oh yes there are worse thin... 10
87 12 May 1999 Otomo No Yakamochi Two Tanka From outside my house, 10
1083 30 Aug 2002 Phoebe Cary Shakesperian Readings - 3 My father had a daug... 10
843 20 Jul 2001 Sujata Bhatt Love in a Bathtub Years later we'll re... 10
1614  5 Feb 2005 Kenneth Burke Temporary Well Being The pond is plenteous 10
561 29 Sep 2000 Anon The Metre Columbian This is the metre Co... 10
1030  6 Apr 2002 Siegfried Sassoon Everyone Sang Everyone suddenly bu... 10
1776  4 Oct 2005 Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali (excerpt) The song that I came... 10
551 19 Sep 2000 Max Plowman Her Beauty I heard them say, "H... 10
1627 18 Feb 2005 Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool THE POOL PLAYERS. 10
539 06 Sep 2000 A. E. Housman Last Poems: XI Yonder see the morni... 10
1481 17 Mar 2004 Giuseppe Ungaretti Brothers What regiment are yo... 10
149 16 Jul 1999 George Peele Bethsabe's Song Hot sun, cool fire, ... 10
54  5 Apr 1999 Walt Whitman When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer When I heard the lea... 10
385 30 Mar 2000 Seigfreid Sassoon Base Details If I were fierce, an... 10
1642  5 Mar 2005 Coventry Patmore Magna est Veritas Here, in this little Bay, 10
1191  7 Mar 2003 Charles Kingsley A Farewell I 10
1189  6 Mar 2003 Siegfried Sassoon Survivors No doubt they'll soo... 10
740 31 Mar 2001 W.H. Davies The Villain While joy gave cloud... 10
1182 24 Feb 2003 Shel Silverstein In Search of Cinderella From dusk to dawn, 10
1296  6 Jul 2003 Gulzar Evening Day abandons it 10
301 25 Dec 1999 Ben Jonson The Noble Nature It is not growing li... 10
790 24 May 2001 Ezra Pound Salutation O generation of the ... 10
201  8 Sep 1999 Denise Levertov To the Reader As you read, a white... 10
260 12 Nov 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Moonrise I awoke in the Midsu... 10
236 16 Oct 1999 Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memory My mind lets go a th... 10
1265 31 May 2003 Sumangalamata A Woman Well Set Free! How Free I Am A woman well set fre... 10
1364  5 Oct 2003 Ruskin Bond It Isn't Time That's Passing Remember the long ag... 10
1510 25 May 2004 Ogden Nash The Purist I give you now Profe... 10
229 08 Oct 1999 William Shakespeare To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow To-morrow, and to-mo... 10
1155 25 Jan 2003 A. S. J. Tessimond Betrayal If a man says half h... 10
196  4 Sep 1999 Stephen Crane In the desert In the desert 10
268 20 Nov 1999 Walt Whitman The Dalliance of the Eagles Skirting the river r... 10
314 17 Jan 2000 Anon The Sermon on the Mount Blessed are the poor... 10
1671  9 Apr 2005 Shel Silverstein It's Dark in Here I am writing these poems 10
800  4 Jun 2001 Miroslav Holub In the Microscope Here too are the dre... 10
1701 17 May 2005 Ralph Hodgson The Bells of Heaven 'Twould ring the bel... 10
925 27 Oct 2001 Lee Tzu Pheng Candlesong As my years burn down 10
445 03 Jun 2000 Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider A noiseless patient ... 10
1534  4 Aug 2004 Orhan Veli Fine Days These fine days have... 10
1006 24 Feb 2002 Langston Hughes Dream Deferred What happens to a dr... 11
139  5 Jul 1999 E. E. Cummings Buffalo Bill's/ defunct Buffalo Bill's 11
218 27 Sep 1999 David Psalm 23 The Lord is my sheph... 11
993  7 Feb 2002 Derek Walcott Midsummer, Tobago Broad sun-stoned beaches. 11
354 28 Feb 2000 T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (Part IV) IV. Death By Water 11
110  5 Jun 1999 D.H.Lawrence Intimates Don't you care for m... 11
1525 25 Jun 2004 Robert Graves Thief To the galleys, thie... 11
938 12 Nov 2001 Cicely Herbert Everything Changes after Brecht, 'Alles... 11
126 21 Jun 1999 William Shakespeare Our revels now are ended Our revels now are e... 11
791 25 May 2001 Lizette Woodworth Reese After Oh, the littles that... 11
1254 14 May 2003 Mei Yao Ch'en A Dream at Night In broad daylight I ... 11
1769 22 Sep 2005 Sankha Ghosh Foolish, not Social Returning home do yo... 11
134 30 Jun 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty Glory be to God for ... 11
1763  9 Sep 2005 F. J. Bergmann An Apology Forgive me 11
204 12 Sep 1999 Anon The Vision of a Giant who Migrated from Baja to Tiburon Island Slender whirlwinds c... 11
844 21 Jul 2001 Oliver Herford The Hippopotamus "Oh, say, what is th... 11
1750  5 Aug 2005 Carl Sandburg Grass Pile the bodies high... 11
1392 20 Nov 2003 H.D.C. Pepler The Law the Lawyers Know About The law the lawyers ... 11
1203 19 Mar 2003 Rabindranath Tagore Last Poems #13 The first day's sun 11
745  6 Apr 2001 King Crimson Indiscipline I do remember one thing. 11
1187  3 Mar 2003 Anonymous Sadness in Spring Maytime, loveliest s... 11
1470  3 Mar 2004 Su Shi Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake Listen not to the ra... 11
1243  2 May 2003 David Lee Behold And came forth like ... 11
1707 24 May 2005 Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmen XLVI Now spring is bringi... 11
177 15 Aug 1999 Rabindranath Tagore Where The Mind is Without Fear Where the mind is wi... 11
444  2 Jun 2000 Noel Coward Contours Round - oblong - lik... 11
559 27 Sep 2000 George A. Strong The Modern Hiawatha He killed the noble ... 11
767 28 Apr 2001 Arthur Yap A Scroll Painting the mountains are ha... 11
992 31 Jan 2002 Oscar Wilde Symphony in Yellow An omnibus across th... 12
874 25 Aug 2001 Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes Sometimes things don... 12
522 21 Aug 2000 Constantine Cavafy In Harbor A young man, twenty ... 12
527 25 Aug 2000 Thomas Edward Brown I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May I bended unto me a b... 12
1791  8 Nov 2005 Emily Dickinson The Moon is Distant from the Sea The moon is distant ... 12
41 22 Mar 1999 Sir Henry Newbolt Ireland, Ireland Down thy valleys, Ir... 12
1787 27 Oct 2005 Nick Drake A Place To Be When I was younger, ... 12
1767 20 Sep 2005 Tennessee Williams My Little One My little one whose ... 12
1756 22 Aug 2005 David Budbill Dilemma I want to be 12
1748  3 Aug 2005 Wendy Cope The Aerial The aerial on this r... 12
62 14 Apr 1999 George Gordon, Lord Byron So We'll Go No More a-Roving So we'll go no more ... 12
1384 12 Nov 2003 Rainer Maria Rilke Autumn Lord: it is time. Th... 12
1382 10 Nov 2003 Emily Dickinson Hope Hope is the thing wi... 12
1380  5 Nov 2003 James Fenton The Ideal This is where I came... 12
1372 15 Oct 2003 Anne Ridler Autumn Day The raging colour of... 12
1366  8 Oct 2003 Tanith Lee Untitled A rose by any other name 12
1462 21 Feb 2004 Shel Silverstein Point of View Thanksgiving dinner'... 12
309  4 Jan 2000 William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go ... 12
723 13 Mar 2001 Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda A cool small evening... 12
191 30 Aug 1999 Ezra Pound The Garden Like a skein of loos... 12
1523 22 Jun 2004 Piet Hein An Ethical Grook I see 12
687  5 Feb 2001 Emily Dickinson Success is counted sweetest Success is counted s... 12
185 23 Aug 1999 David O'Bruadair A Glass of Beer The lanky hank of a ... 12
1531 19 Jul 2004 Vladimir Mayakovsky Past One O'Clock Past one o'clock. Yo... 12
1357 24 Sep 2003 Hermann Hesse Going to Sleep Now that the day wea... 12
323 28 Jan 2000 Robert Francis Silent Poem backroad leafmold st... 12
1467 27 Feb 2004 Dorothy Parker From A Letter From Lesbia ... So, praise the g... 12
1336 28 Aug 2003 Sir John Davies Of Human Knowledge I know my body's of ... 12
674 22 Jan 2001 Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Aunt Jennifer's tige... 12
1304 20 Jul 2003 Countee Cullen Incident Once riding in old B... 12
682 31 Jan 2001 Eunice de Souza Advice to Women Keep cats 12
1548  1 Oct 2004 Yehuda Amichai Let the memorial hill remember Let the memorial hil... 12
338 12 Feb 2000 Joseph Campbell Fires The little fires tha... 12
1560 11 Nov 2004 Sarah Binks Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) Oh calf, that gambol... 12
342 16 Feb 2000 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Oh, come with old Kh... 12
1294  3 Jul 2003 Emily Dickinson The reticent volcano keeps The reticent volcano... 12
171 09 Aug 1999 Anthony Raftery I am Raftery the poet I am Raftery the poet. 12
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
693 12 Feb 2001 Wendy Cope Strugnell's Haiku (i) 12
1608 29 Jan 2005 Francis Ledwidge Lament for Thomas MacDonagh He shall not hear th... 12
1452  7 Feb 2004 William Blake The Clod and the Pebble Love seeketh not Its... 12
239 19 Oct 1999 Frank Dempster Sherman Witchery Out of the purple drifts, 12
1237 26 Apr 2003 William Waring Cuney No Images She does not know 12
366 12 Mar 2000 Sylvia Plath Child Your clear eye is th... 12
252 03 Nov 1999 Christian Morgenstern The Midnightmouse It midnights, not a ... 12
1230 19 Apr 2003 X. J. Kennedy Nude Descending a Staircase Toe upon toe, a snow... 12
152 20 Jul 1999 R. S. Thomas The Ancients of the World The salmon lying in ... 12
1161 31 Jan 2003 John Drury Ghazal of the Lagoon Morning, on the prom... 12
1160 30 Jan 2003 Ghalib Ghazal (Untitled) Even in prayer, we a... 12
950 24 Nov 2001 Emily Dickinson The cricket sang The cricket sang, 12
413 01 May 2000 William Shakespeare Admired Miranda! Admired Miranda! 12
390  4 Apr 2000 Sarojini Naidu Palanquin Bearers Lightly, O lightly w... 12
417 03 May 2000 Ted Hughes Thistles Against the rubber t... 12
701 18 Feb 2001 Spike Milligan Teeth English Teeth, Engli... 12
608 16 Nov 2000 E. B. White The Spider's Web The spider, dropping... 12
1148 18 Jan 2003 Ruth Padel Misty How I love 12
424 12 May 2000 Christian Morgenstern The Moonsheep The moonsheep stands... 12
963 17 Dec 2001 John Fuller Concerto for Double Bass He is a drunk leanin... 12
586 25 Oct 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Anvil England's on the anv... 12
429 17 May 2000 Thomas Hardy In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations' Only a man harrowing... 12
1482 18 Mar 2004 William Butler Yeats The Scholars Bald heads, forgetfu... 12
223  2 Oct 1999 Sara Teasdale There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft... 12
1695 10 May 2005 Judith Viorst Learning I'm learning to say ... 12
377 22 Mar 2000 A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Loveliest of trees, ... 12
659  7 Jan 2001 William Carlos Williams Poem As the cat 12
436 24 May 2000 William Butler Yeats When You Are Old When you are old and... 12
1198 14 Mar 2003 Sara Teasdale The Tree of Song I sang my songs for ... 12
956  7 Dec 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Ashes of Life Love has gone and le... 12
1418  3 Jan 2004 Gerald Jonas Electronically Yours Baud: the rate of sp... 12
1122  7 Dec 2002 Edith Sodergran Hope I want to let go - 12
376 21 Mar 2000 William Wordsworth She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the ... 12
768 30 Apr 2001 Ted Hughes Theology "No, the serpent did not 12
1449  4 Feb 2004 Louis Simpson The Inner Part When they had won the war 12
1116 24 Nov 2002 Richard Wilbur Transit A woman I have never... 12
890 16 Sep 2001 Bob Dylan All Along The Watch-Tower "There must be some ... 12
655  3 Jan 2001 W. B. Yeats No Second Troy Why should I blame h... 12
1634 25 Feb 2005 William Butler Yeats A Cradle Song The angels are stooping 12
651 30 Dec 2000 Muriel Rukeyser Myth Long afterward, Oedi... 12
576 15 Oct 2000 A. A. Milne Tra-la-la, tra-la-la He had made up a lit... 12
878 31 Aug 2001 Dorothy Parker Frustration If I had a shiny gun, 12
1104 13 Oct 2002 Fernando Pessoa Untitled What grieves me is not 12
1097  2 Oct 2002 A.A. Milne The End When I was One, 12
91 17 May 1999 A. A. Milne Cottleston Pie Cottleston Cottlesto... 12
136 02 Jul 1999 Rainer Maria Rilke The Panther His vision, from the... 12
1714  7 Jun 2005 Joseph Campbell The Old Woman As a white candle 12
1088  6 Sep 2002 Norman MacCaig The Two Friends The last word this o... 12
1621 12 Feb 2005 A. D. Hope As Well as They Can As well as it can, t... 12
290 13 Dec 1999 R. L. Stevenson Bed in Summer In winter I get up a... 12
146 13 Jul 1999 Joyce Kilmer Trees I think that I shall... 12
708 25 Feb 2001 W. H. Auden Five Songs - II That night when joy began 12
1394 22 Nov 2003 Ruth Forman Even If You Grab A Piece of Time Conjure something glowing 12
830  6 Jul 2001 Wilfred Gibson The Question I wonder if the old ... 12
1226 15 Apr 2003 Oscar Wilde To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems I can write no state... 12
1717 10 Jun 2005 Dag Hammarskjöld Untitled The mine-detector 12
274 27 Nov 1999 William Carlos Williams This Is Just To Say I have eaten 12
1498 16 Apr 2004 Vladimir Nabokov On Discovering a Butterfly I found it and I nam... 12
1067 27 Jun 2002 Dylan Thomas On A Wedding Anniversary The sky is torn across 12
1720 15 Jun 2005 Rolf Jacobsen Antenna-forest Up on the city's roo... 12
845 22 Jul 2001 Shel Silverstein Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich A hippo sandwich is ... 12
1064 24 Jun 2002 Edna St. Vincent Millay Travel The railroad track i... 12
486 14 Jul 2000 Dorothy Parker Epitaph for a Darling Lady All her hours were y... 12
563  1 Oct 2000 S. Thomas Ansell Butterfly Down the air 12
1062 22 Jun 2002 Louis MacNeice House on a Cliff Indoors the tang of ... 12
713  2 Mar 2001 Carl Sandburg Last Answers I wrote a poem on th... 12
850 27 Jul 2001 Yevgeny Yevtushenko No, I'll not take the half... No, I'll not take th... 12
1044  1 May 2002 Spike Milligan Contagion Elephants are contagious! 12
1737 23 Jul 2005 Robert Browning Meeting at Night The gray sea and the... 12
1180 22 Feb 2003 Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning Nobody heard him, th... 12
864 12 Aug 2001 Louis MacNeice Snow The room was suddenl... 12
555 23 Sep 2000 John Masefield Trade Winds In the harbor, in th... 12
511 09 Aug 2000 William Butler Yeats Beautiful Lofty Things Beautiful lofty thin... 12
410 26 Apr 2000 Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers 13
680 29 Jan 2001 Arun Kolatkar The Butterfly There is no story be... 13
1547 30 Sep 2004 Seamus Heaney The Railway Children When we climbed the ... 13
840 17 Jul 2001 Robert Graves The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection (from the Welsh) 13
1710  1 Jun 2005 Anon Cuckoo Song Sumer is icumen in, 13
770  1 May 2001 John Keats A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever A thing of beauty is... 13
1535 17 Aug 2004 Robert Frost The Line-Gang Here come the line-g... 13
1754  9 Aug 2005 Khalil Gibran On Giving There are those who ... 13
1329 19 Aug 2003 David Ignatow The Bagel I stopped to pick up... 13
1667  5 Apr 2005 Ted Kooser Selecting A Reader First, I would have ... 13
102 28 May 1999 Amy Lowell Generations You are like the stem 13
339 14 Feb 2000 Leonard Cohen The Music Crept By Us I would like to remind 13
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
334  8 Feb 2000 Gelett Burgess Psycholophon (Supposed to Be Tran... 13
1732 11 Jul 2005 Czeslaw Milosz Nonadaptation I was not made to li... 13
595  3 Nov 2000 Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Last Man By heaven and hell, ... 13
178 17 Aug 1999 Philip Larkin Water If I were called in 13
927 29 Oct 2001 Bertolt Brecht I'm not saying anything against Alexander Timur, I hear, took ... 13
1218  7 Apr 2003 James Elroy Flecker Yasmin (A Ghazel) 13
1075 20 Jul 2002 Theodore Roethke Dolor I have known the ine... 13
352 26 Feb 2000 Robert Browning My Star All that I know 13
1478 13 Mar 2004 Mark Strand A Piece Of The Storm For Sharon Horvath 13
1742 27 Jul 2005 Weldon Kees Covering Two Years This nothingness tha... 13
1463 23 Feb 2004 Gaius Valerius Catullus Song Five Let us live, my Lesb... 13
491 19 Jul 2000 W. H. Auden Roman Wall Blues Over the heather the... 14
1492  6 Apr 2004 Marianne Moore No Swan So Fine "No water so still as the 14
1505  5 May 2004 James Whitehead Good Linemen Live in a Closed World Good linemen live in... 14
1528  8 Jul 2004 Edgar Allan Poe Sonnet -- To Science Science! true daught... 14
1565 22 Nov 2004 Robert Frost Acquainted with the Night I have been one acqu... 14
1567 27 Nov 2004 Vikram Seth Untitled Dark night, and sile... 14
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
1583 28 Dec 2004 Constantine P. Cavafy The Photograph In this obscene phot... 14
12 22 Feb 1999 John Keats On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer Much have I travell'... 14
1590  6 Jan 2005 Edna St. Vincent Millay Epitaph for the Race of Man: X The broken dike, the... 14
1595 12 Jan 2005 Gerard Manley Hopkins As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch... 14
1603 24 Jan 2005 John Milton Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint Methought I saw my l... 14
363 08 Mar 2000 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) Let me not to the ma... 14
1620 11 Feb 2005 Tony Scanlon Second Honeymoon The blue that startl... 14
1623 14 Feb 2005 Michelangelo Buonarroti To The Supreme Being The prayers I make w... 14
22  3 Mar 1999 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias I met a traveller fr... 14
1625 16 Feb 2005 Thomas Wyatt The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea My galley chargèd wi... 14
1631 22 Feb 2005 Carl Sandburg Offering and Rebuff I could love you 14
512 10 Aug 2000 Thomas Hood Silence There is a silence w... 14
1645  8 Mar 2005 Siegfried Sassoon On Passing the New Menin Gate Who will remember, p... 14
1655 19 Mar 2005 Hafiz We Should Talk about This Problem There is a Beautiful... 14
1690  5 May 2005 William Shakespeare When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet XXIX) When in disgrace wit... 14
375 20 Mar 2000 Samuel Daniel Look, Delia, How We 'Steem the Half-blown Rose (Delia XXXIX) Look, Delia, how we ... 14
1758 25 Aug 2005 Dalia Ravikovitch Clockwork Doll I was a clockwork do... 14
1768 21 Sep 2005 Wendy Cope An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse People tell you all ... 14
35 17 Mar 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover I caught this mornin... 14
1783 24 Oct 2005 Carol Ann Duffy You Uninvited, the thoug... 14
1784 24 Oct 2005 Carol Ann Duffy You Uninvited, the thoug... 14
1803 30 Dec 2005 Pablo Neruda I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You I do not love you ex... 14
523 22 Aug 2000 Joyce Sutphen Naming the Stars This present tragedy... 14
530 28 Aug 2000 J. K. Stephen A Sonnet Two voices are there... 14
538 05 Sep 2000 John Updike Back From Vacation "Back from vacation"... 14
215 24 Sep 1999 Edwin Morgan The Loch Ness Monster's Song Sssnnnwhuffffll? 14
44 26 Mar 1999 William Shakespeare My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) My mistress' eyes ar... 14
575 14 Oct 2000 John Keats To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat Cat! who hast pass'd... 14
219 28 Sep 1999 William Shakespeare Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) Full many a glorious... 14
392 07 Apr 2000 R. S. Thomas Good The old man comes ou... 14
589 28 Oct 2000 Rupert Brooke Sonnet Reversed Hand trembling towar... 14
590 30 Oct 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet XLIII What lips my lips ha... 14
591 31 Oct 2000 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XIV If thou must love me... 14
226  5 Oct 1999 Hilaire Belloc October Look, how those stee... 14
592 31 Oct 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet: England in 1819 An old, mad, blind, ... 14
604 12 Nov 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare Euclid alone has loo... 14
606 14 Nov 2000 Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur The world is charged... 14
401 17 Apr 2000 Jorge Luis Borges To a Cat Mirrors are not more... 14
610 19 Nov 2000 Louise Imogen Guiney The Lights of London The evenfall, so slo... 14
636 14 Dec 2000 Edwin Arlington Robinson Aaron Stark Withal a meagre man ... 14
235 15 Oct 1999 Carl Sandburg Pennsylvania I have been in Penns... 14
660  8 Jan 2001 Elizabeth Coatsworth On A Night of Snow Cat, if you go outdo... 14
672 20 Jan 2001 Thomas Hood Death It is not death, tha... 14
692 11 Feb 2001 H. P. Lovecraft The Messenger The thing, he said, ... 14
696 14 Feb 2001 John Keats Last Sonnet Bright Star, would I... 14
725 15 Mar 2001 Walter de la Mare Silver Slowly, silently, no... 14
729 20 Mar 2001 Richard Hovey Accident in Art What painter has not... 14
71 24 Apr 1999 William Shakespeare Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) Shall I compare thee... 14
772  6 May 2001 Stéphane Mallarmé Sadness of Summer Mingling a potion fo... 14
784 18 May 2001 Archibald Lampman To a Millionaire The world in gloom a... 14
796 31 May 2001 John Donne Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) Death be not proud, ... 14
808 12 Jun 2001 William Shakespeare Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV) Not from the stars d... 14
825  1 Jul 2001 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White Now sleeps the crims... 14
842 19 Jul 2001 Robert Southey To a Goose If thou didst feed o... 14
422 11 May 2000 Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII: Love I don't love you as ... 14
860  9 Aug 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet: Love Is Not All Love is not all: It ... 14
862 10 Aug 2001 Elinor Wylie Pretty Words Poets make pets of p... 14
870 21 Aug 2001 Gerard Manley Hopkins No worst, there is none "No worst, there is ... 14
873 25 Aug 2001 Archibald Lampman Winter Evening To-night the very ho... 14
263 15 Nov 1999 Gavin Ewart Sonnet: Dolce stil novo That woman who to me... 14
875 27 Aug 2001 Vincent Starrett 221B Here dwell together ... 14
433 21 May 2000 John Keats Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell Why did I laugh toni... 14
898 26 Sep 2001 Lewis Carroll Beautiful Soup Beautiful Soup, so r... 14
269 21 Nov 1999 Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? How do I love thee? ... 14
902 30 Sep 2001 Rainer Maria Rilke The Book of Pilgrimage, II, 22 You are the future, 14
905  3 Oct 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay I will put Chaos into fourteen lines I will put Chaos int... 14
910  9 Oct 2001 John Keats On the Grasshopper and the Cricket The poetry of earth ... 14
913 14 Oct 2001 W. H. Auden In Time of War, XII And the age ended, a... 14
276 28 Nov 1999 Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee High Flight Oh! I have slipped t... 14
936 10 Nov 2001 Michael Drayton Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part (Idea: LXI) Since there's no hel... 14
943 17 Nov 2001 William Shakespeare So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnets XXI) So is it not with me... 14
280  2 Dec 1999 Rupert Brooke The Soldier If I should die, thi... 14
957  9 Dec 2001 Thomas Wyatt Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind Whoso list to hunt, ... 14
965 19 Dec 2001 Steely Dan Chain Lightning Some turnout, a hund... 14
285 08 Dec 1999 Horace Smith On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below In Egypt's sandy sil... 14
975 31 Dec 2001 Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my fathe... 14
106  1 Jun 1999 John Milton On His Blindness When I consider how ... 14
107 02 Jun 1999 T. S. Eliot Preludes I 14
985 19 Jan 2002 Robert Frost Once by the Pacific The shattered water ... 14
288 12 Dec 1999 Wilfred Owen Futility Move him into the sun-- 14
987 22 Jan 2002 Carol Ann Duffy Prayer Some days, although ... 14
1009 28 Feb 2002 Samuel Daniel Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night (Delia LIV) Care-charmer Sleep, ... 14
1018 19 Mar 2002 Thomas Bailey Aldrich At Stratford-Upon-Avon Thus spake his dust ... 14
1036 13 Apr 2002 Robert Frost Range Finding The battle rent a co... 14
1047  5 May 2002 Rupert Brooke Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire Oh! Death will find ... 14
457 15 Jun 2000 Archibald MacLeish The End of the World Quite unexpectedly, ... 14
1054 17 May 2002 William Ernest Henley Barmaid Though, if you ask h... 14
1061 21 Jun 2002 Edwin Arlington Robinson Thomas Hood The man who cloaked ... 14
1065 25 Jun 2002 Harry Edmund Martinson The Cable Ship We fished up the Atl... 14
1072 12 Jul 2002 e. e. cummings next to of course god america i "next to of course g... 14
462 20 Jun 2000 William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Earth has not anythi... 14
128 24 Jun 1999 William Wordsworth London, 1802 Milton! thou shoulds... 14
1094 25 Sep 2002 Rabrindranath Tagore On the Nature of Love The night is black a... 14
1114 21 Nov 2002 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sandinista Avioncitos The little airplanes... 14
1149 19 Jan 2003 Pablo Neruda Don't Go Far Off Don't go far off, no... 14
1157 27 Jan 2003 Pablo Neruda Love Sonnet XI I crave your mouth, ... 14
1173 14 Feb 2003 William Wordsworth Splendour in the Grass What though the radiance 14
1186  2 Mar 2003 Gerald Gould This is the Horror that, Night After Night This is the horror t... 14
1201 18 Mar 2003 Thomas Hardy Hap If but some vengeful... 14
1216  5 Apr 2003 Billy Collins Sonnet All we need is fourt... 14
1263 27 May 2003 Pablo Neruda Morning XXVII Naked, you are simpl... 14
1276 13 Jun 2003 Robert Frost A Dream Pang I had withdrawn in f... 14
1292  1 Jul 2003 Robert Williams Wood The Auk and the Orchid We seldom meet, when... 14
1293  2 Jul 2003 Edna St. Vincent Millay Beloved Dust And you as well must... 14
1305 21 Jul 2003 Thomas Lux Poem in Thanks Lord Whoever, thank ... 14
1310 27 Jul 2003 Simon Armitage I am Very Bothered I am very bothered w... 14
1323 12 Aug 2003 Wendy Cope Strugnell's Sonnets (VI) Let me not to the ma... 14
1326 16 Aug 2003 Michael Ondaatje Bearhug Griffin calls to com... 14
1338 30 Aug 2003 William Wordsworth The World is Too Much With Us The World is too muc... 14
1369 12 Oct 2003 Bill Watterson Christmas Eve On the window panes ... 14
332  6 Feb 2000 Robert Herrick Delight In Disorder A sweet disorder in ... 14
1373 16 Oct 2003 Robert Frost Acceptance When the spent sun t... 14
1381  6 Nov 2003 Nammalwar The Paradigm We here and that man... 14
1388 16 Nov 2003 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Silent Noon (Sonnet XIX) Your hands lie open ... 14
1453  8 Feb 2004 Vikram Seth Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) Why, asks a friend, ... 14
1475  9 Mar 2004 George Santayana I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight I sought on earth a ... 14
1480 16 Mar 2004 Virgil The Aeneid: I, 1-7 War tales and heroes... 14
345 18 Feb 2000 Charlotte Smith Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore Huge vapours brood a... 14
421 08 May 2000 Stevie Smith The Jungle Husband Dearest Evelyn, I of... 15
641 19 Dec 2000 William Butler Yeats The Road at My Door An affable Irregular, 15
478 07 Jul 2000 Duncan Campbell Scott Enigma Some men are born to... 15
787 21 May 2001 E. J. Pratt Sea-Gulls For one carved insta... 15
117 12 Jun 1999 William Ernest Henley The Rain and the Wind The rain and the win... 15
53 05 Apr 1999 Sylvia Plath Winter landscape, with rocks Water in the millrac... 15
1611  2 Feb 2005 David Wagoner For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls You say they were sl... 15
1483 21 Mar 2004 Ronald Koertge An Infinite Number of Monkeys After all the Shakes... 15
11 20 Feb 1999 John McCrae In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields t... 15
57  7 Apr 1999 E. E. Cummings pity this busy monster, manunkind pity this busy monst... 15
1688  2 May 2005 John Suckling Why so Pale and Wan? Why so pale and wan,... 15
1037 17 Apr 2002 Wilfred Owen The Last Laugh 'O Jesus Christ! I'... 15
1488 29 Mar 2004 Mervyn Peake To Maeve You walk unaware 15
59 10 Apr 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Spring and Fall, to a Young Child Margaret, are you gr... 15
454 13 Jun 2000 e. e. cummings If I have made, my lady, intricate If I have made, my l... 15
1178 20 Feb 2003 Edward Kamau Braithwaite Mmenson Summon now the kings... 15
246 27 Oct 1999 Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing I hear America singi... 15
632 10 Dec 2000 Nikki Giovanni I Wrote A Good Omelet I wrote a good omele... 15
194  2 Sep 1999 George Starbuck Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line O for a muse of fire... 15
1164  3 Feb 2003 John Betjeman Summoned by Bells (excerpt) Walking from school ... 15
492 21 Jul 2000 e. e. cummings Poem 42 n 15
1657 21 Mar 2005 William Butler Yeats The Rose of the World Who dreamed that bea... 15
154 21 Jul 1999 Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock The houses are haunted 15
186 24 Aug 1999 Patrick MacGill By-the-Way These be the little ... 15
74 26 Apr 1999 John Masefield Cargoes Quinquireme of Ninev... 15
896 23 Sep 2001 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Kraken Below the thunders o... 15
519 19 Aug 2000 Thomas Hardy The Roman Road The Roman Road runs ... 15
876 29 Aug 2001 Louis Alexander MacKay I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver I wish my tongue wer... 15
140  6 Jul 1999 Christina Rossetti By The Sea Why does the sea moa... 15
1432 17 Jan 2004 Wallace Stevens The Snow Man One must have a mind... 15
79  2 May 1999 William Butler Yeats Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland The old brown thorn-... 15
836 13 Jul 2001 Stephen Spender In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic In railway halls, on... 15
688  6 Feb 2001 Hillaire Belloc The Yak As a friend to the c... 15
1050 10 May 2002 John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1 The heavy mahogany d... 16
1397 25 Nov 2003 Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem 16
3 11 Feb 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid This darksome burn, ... 16
775  8 May 2001 Herman Melville The Maldive Shark About the Shark, phl... 16
760 21 Apr 2001 Alexander Pushkin The Name What is my name to y... 16
439 28 May 2000 A.E. Housman A Shropshire Lad - XV Look not in my eyes,... 16
8 17 Feb 1999 Christina Rosetti Song When I am dead, my d... 16
662  9 Jan 2001 Jibanananda Das Cat Again and again thro... 16
853 31 Jul 2001 Sukumar Ray Stew Much A duck once met a po... 16
19 01 Mar 1999 Robert Burns John Anderson My Jo John Anderson my jo,... 16
1035 13 Apr 2002 Dylan Thomas The Hand That Signed The Paper The hand that signed... 16
758 18 Apr 2001 John Masefield Sea-Change "Goneys an' gullies ... 16
26 08 Mar 1999 William Blake Jerusalem And did those feet i... 16
1499 18 Apr 2004 Wendy Cope The Uncertainty of the Poet I am a poet. 16
1504 29 Apr 2004 Humbert Wolfe Requiem: The Soldier Down some cold field... 16
1676 14 Apr 2005 Andrew Motion Spring Wedding I took your news out... 16
1508 20 May 2004 W. H. Auden O Where Are You Going? "O where are you goi... 16
31 12 Mar 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, break, break Break, break, break, 16
32 14 Mar 1999 William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall ... 16
33 15 Mar 1999 A. E. Housman A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI White in the moon th... 16
1511 27 May 2004 Anna Akhmatova Lot's Wife And the just man tra... 16
766 27 Apr 2001 Humbert Wolfe The Grey Squirrel Like a small grey 16
425 12 May 2000 Robert Browning Memorabilia Ah, did you once see... 16
415 01 May 2000 Sir Walter Scott The Truth of Woman Woman's faith, and w... 16
1808  4 Jan 2006 Phil Ochs Power and Glory Come and take a walk... 16
1781 17 Oct 2005 Basavanna Vacana #105 A snake-charmer and ... 16
531 29 Aug 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle... 16
907  6 Oct 2001 Felix Jung Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad Today, I have decided 16
47 29 Mar 1999 Christina Rossetti Uphill Does the road wind u... 16
1689  3 May 2005 Robert Service The Bread-Knife Ballad A little child was s... 16
419 05 May 2000 Boris Pasternak March The sun is hotter th... 16
969 23 Dec 2001 Tony Harrison Long Distance II Though my mother was... 16
1051 11 May 2002 A. A. Milne Happiness John had 16
1530 12 Jul 2004 G. K. Chesterton The Donkey When fishes flew and... 16
1472  5 Mar 2004 Robert Frost In A Disused Graveyard The living come with... 16
1060  7 Jun 2002 Laura Riding The World and I This is not exactly ... 16
1457 12 Feb 2004 John Dressel Spring Song, Meirionydd A white combustion r... 16
1010  1 Mar 2002 A. S. J. Tessimond Cats Cats no less liquid ... 16
1538 27 Aug 2004 C.K. Williams Love: Beginnings They're at that stag... 16
863 12 Aug 2001 Norman MacCaig Frogs Frogs sit more solid 16
317 19 Jan 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Inland People that build th... 16
1448  3 Feb 2004 Yehuda Amichai The Diameter of the Bomb The diameter of the ... 16
828  4 Jul 2001 Robert L. Stevenson Where Go the Boats? Dark brown is the river, 16
1777  5 Oct 2005 Billy Collins Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem 16
1081 27 Aug 2002 Paul Laurence Dunbar The Dilettante: A Modern Type He scribbles some in... 16
931  2 Nov 2001 Sir Walter Scott Proud Maisie Proud Maisie is in t... 16
721 11 Mar 2001 John Dryden Marriage a la mode Why should a foolish... 16
1361 30 Sep 2003 Anon English Monarchs Willie Willie Harry Stee 16
81  4 May 1999 Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose O my Luve's like a r... 16
1131 19 Dec 2002 Denise Levertov Adam's Complaint Some people, 16
84  9 May 1999 R. L. Stevenson From a Railway Carriage Faster than fairies,... 16
1360 29 Sep 2003 Donald Monat Untitled Lying south of sweet... 16
86 11 May 1999 A. E. Housman When I Was One-and-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty 16
1431 16 Jan 2004 William Blake London I wander thro' each ... 16
1554  3 Nov 2004 Spike Milligan Look at all those monkeys Look at all those monkeys 16
1429 14 Jan 2004 Mary Youngquist Winter Reigns Shimmering, gleaming... 16
92 18 May 1999 Emily Dickinson There's a certain Slant of light There's a certain Sl... 16
805  8 Jun 2001 James Maxwell Rigid Body Sings Gin a body meet a body 16
867 15 Aug 2001 Cream Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) Twice upon a time in... 16
994  8 Feb 2002 Robert Frost The Gift Outright The land was ours be... 16
1087  5 Sep 2002 William Blake A Poison Tree I was angry with my ... 16
1705 21 May 2005 Mary Frye Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep Do not stand at my g... 16
1412 28 Dec 2003 A. E. Houseman The Colour of His Hair Oh who is that young... 16
952 27 Nov 2001 Drummond Allison Verity (In memory of Captai... 16
1578 20 Dec 2004 Edward Thomas The Owl Downhill I came, hun... 16
1100  8 Oct 2002 Roger McGough A Good Poem I like a good poem 16
534 01 Sep 2000 Charles Baudelaire The Albatross Often to pass the ti... 16
979  4 Jan 2002 Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the Young So Abram rose, and c... 16
1691  6 May 2005 Sir Walter Scott Patriotism Breathes there the m... 16
926 28 Oct 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to... 16
1598 15 Jan 2005 Hart Crane Voyages - I Above the fresh ruff... 16
127 22 Jun 1999 John Milton On Shakespear What needs my Shakes... 16
1330 20 Aug 2003 Philip Larkin Money Quarterly, is it, mo... 16
795 29 May 2001 Harold P. Furth The Perils of Modern Living Well up above the tr... 16
971 27 Dec 2001 Patrick Kavanagh Raglan Road On Raglan Road on an... 16
1327 17 Aug 2003 X. J. Kennedy What We Might Be, What We Are If you were a scoop ... 16
155 22 Jul 1999 Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these ar... 16
1612  3 Feb 2005 Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones We stood by a pond t... 16
1317  4 Aug 2003 Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cor... 16
540 07 Sep 2000 Gavin Ewart Office Friendships Eve is madly in love... 16
1765 13 Sep 2005 Emily Dickinson Further in Summer than the Birds Further in Summer th... 16
515 14 Aug 2000 Robert Graves The Persian Version Truth-loving Persian... 16
1314 31 Jul 2003 Becky Dennison Sakellariou Math Is Beautiful and So Are You If n is an even number 16
508 06 Aug 2000 Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a... 16
618 27 Nov 2000 W. H. Auden The More Loving One Looking up at the st... 16
739 30 Mar 2001 Anon Song of Creation Then there was neith... 16
180 18 Aug 1999 Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream Call the roller of b... 16
381 27 Mar 2000 Mihail Eminescu From Among Hundreds of Masts From among hundreds ... 16
183 21 Aug 1999 William Makepeace Thackeray Sorrows of Werther Werther had a love f... 16
611 19 Nov 2000 William Shakespeare Winter When icicles hang by... 16
340 14 Feb 2000 Ben Jonson To Celia Drink to me, only, w... 16
212 21 Sep 1999 Franklin P. Adams To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour Lady in the blue kim... 16
470 29 Jun 2000 Dora Sigerson Shorter The Comforters When I crept over th... 16
221 30 Sep 1999 William Ernest Henley Invictus Out of the night tha... 16
1745 30 Jul 2005 Emily Dickinson I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed I taste a liquor nev... 16
1188  4 Mar 2003 Padraic H. Pearse The Mother I do not grudge them... 16
469 27 Jun 2000 Orhan Veli Towards Freedom 'Ere the day dawns, ... 16
1660 28 Mar 2005 Arthur Hugh Clough Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth Say not the struggle... 16
1192  9 Mar 2003 Edward Thomas Adlestrop Yes, I remember Adle... 16
406 21 Apr 2000 Anna Wickham Song I will pluck from my... 16
1249  8 May 2003 Wallace Stevens The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet ... 16
596  4 Nov 2000 Simon Armitage I Say I Say I Say Anyone here had a go... 16
1757 23 Aug 2005 John Webster Vanitas Vanitatum All the flowers of t... 16
351 25 Feb 2000 William Empson The Teasers Not but they die, th... 16
451 09 Jun 2000 William Butler Yeats Leda and the Swan A sudden blow 16
256 08 Nov 1999 W.H. Auden Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks,... 16
675 24 Jan 2001 Robert Burns Comin' Thro the Rye O, Jenny's a' weet, ... 17
1755 11 Aug 2005 Angel Gonzalez Diatribe Against the Dead The dead are selfish 17
304 29 Dec 1999 Edwin Morgan The Subway Piranhas Did anyone tell you 17
1584 29 Dec 2004 John Hegley Go and play in the middle my Mum used to watch... 17
1592  8 Jan 2005 Edwin Morgan One Cigarette No smoke without you... 17
869 19 Aug 2001 Louis McKee Scrabble We used to pride our... 17
39 20 Mar 1999 Alexander Pope The Riddle of the World Know then thyself, p... 17
278 30 Nov 1999 Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams 1 17
1172 14 Feb 2003 Hugh MacDiarmid Scotland Small? Scotland small? Our ... 17
208 17 Sep 1999 Samuel Foote The Great Panjandrum So she went into the... 17
1780 14 Oct 2005 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Talk You're a brave man t... 17
1379  4 Nov 2003 Naomi Shihab Nye Rain A teacher asked Paul 17
214 23 Sep 1999 E.E. Cummings Where's Madge then, Where's Madge then, 17
471 30 Jun 2000 Ilam Peruvaluti This world lives This world lives 17
428 16 May 2000 Eve Merriam Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" take the leaf of a tree 17
704 21 Feb 2001 Christopher Isherwood On His Queerness When I was young and... 17
453 12 Jun 2000 Mark Strand Keeping Things Whole In a field 17
823 29 Jun 2001 Piet Hein Astro-Gymnastics Do-it-yourself grook 17
153 20 Jul 1999 James Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem Abou Ben Adhem (may ... 18
1782 21 Oct 2005 Philip Larkin When First We Faced When first we faced,... 18
1507 14 May 2004 John Clare I Am I am - yet what I am... 18
1663 31 Mar 2005 Queen Elizabeth I On Monsieur's Departure I grieve and dare no... 18
460 19 Jun 2000 Vikram Seth Round and Round After a long and wre... 18
459 18 Jun 2000 Wallace Stevens Two Figures in Dense Violet Light I had as lief be emb... 18
924 25 Oct 2001 Ambrose Bierce Christian I dreamed I stood up... 18
1753  8 Aug 2005 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts Yea, the coneys are ... 18
634 12 Dec 2000 Sir Charles Sedley Phyllis is my only joy Phyllis is my only joy, 18
861 10 Aug 2001 Rainer Maria Rilke Spanish Dancer As on all its sides ... 18
408 24 Apr 2000 P. G. Wodehouse Caliban at Sunset I stood with a man 18
719  9 Mar 2001 Lady John Scott Loch Lomond By yon bonnie banks,... 18
941 14 Nov 2001 Pablo Neruda Clenched Soul We have lost even th... 18
1368 25 Oct 2003 John Berryman Dream Song 14 Life, friends, is bo... 18
724 14 Mar 2001 Ben Jonson Hymn to Diana Queen and huntress, ... 18
1135  1 Jan 2003 R. S. Thomas Song at the Year's Turning Shelley dreamed it. ... 18
625  4 Dec 2000 Ogden Nash The Sniffle In spite of her sniffle 18
1579 21 Dec 2004 Traditional The Cherry Tree Carol When Joseph was an o... 18
144 11 Jul 1999 Chidiock Tichborne On the Eve of His Execution My prime of youth is... 18
820 26 Jun 2001 George Herbert Love bade me welcome Love bade me welcome... 18
1153 23 Jan 2003 Paul Muldoon Meeting the British We met the British i... 18
169  7 Aug 1999 Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty She walks in beauty ... 18
449  7 Jun 2000 H. D Helen All Greece hates 18
935  7 Nov 2001 Lewis Carroll The Lobster Quadrille "Will you walk a lit... 18
446 05 Jun 2000 Jibanananda Das Banalata Sen For thousands of yea... 18
1209 28 Mar 2003 Barbara Pescan She Speaks of Death Oblivion, she said 18
759 19 Apr 2001 William Wordsworth A Complaint There is a change--a... 18
426 14 May 2000 Mary Oliver Wild Geese You do not have to b... 18
1810  7 Jan 2006 D. H. Lawrence True Love at Last The handsome and sel... 18
614 22 Nov 2000 Lawrence Ferlinghetti The pennycandystore beyond the El The pennycandystore ... 18
1287 25 Jun 2003 J. H. Frere A Fable (In imitation of Dryden) 18
1343  5 Sep 2003 Donald Justice Poem to be read at 3 a.m. Excepting the diner 18
298 22 Dec 1999 Robert Graves The Cool Web Children are dumb to... 18
1613  4 Feb 2005 Sarojini Naidu The Coromandel Fishers Rise, brothers, rise... 18
1704 20 May 2005 Algernon Charles Swinburne The Oblation Ask nothing more of ... 18
1269  4 Jun 2003 Dionysius Cato The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) Libros lege. 18
676 25 Jan 2001 Mark Strand Eating Poetry Ink runs from the co... 18
678 27 Jan 2001 Sylvia Plath Mirror I am silver and exac... 18
1465 25 Feb 2004 Ben Jonson Come, My Celia Come, my Celia, let ... 18
849 27 Jul 2001 Edith Sitwell Sir Beelzebub When 18
1066 26 Jun 2002 Jane Kenyon Let Evening Come Let the light of lat... 18
793 28 May 2001 Philip Larkin No Road Since we agreed to l... 18
1640  3 Mar 2005 William Morris In Prison Wearily, drearily, 18
838 15 Jul 2001 Ben Okri They Say They say 18
699 17 Feb 2001 Norman MacCaig Incident I look across the ta... 18
1773 29 Sep 2005 We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. [Links] 18
1042 23 Apr 2002 Walt Whitman I Sit and Look Out I sit and look out u... 19
38 19 Mar 1999 Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle int... 19
1515  7 Jun 2004 Seamus Heaney Villanelle for an Anniversary A spirit moved. John... 19
1517 11 Jun 2004 Dorianne Laux The Shipfitter's Wife I loved him most 19
639 18 Dec 2000 Elizabeth Bishop One Art The art of losing is... 19
912 13 Oct 2001 Theodore Roethke The Waking I wake to sleep, and... 19
349 23 Feb 2000 Geoffrey Hill A Prayer to the Sun (in memory of Miguel... 19
549 17 Sep 2000 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy Trochee trips from l... 19
1299  9 Jul 2003 Norman MacCaig Of You When the little devi... 19
1324 13 Aug 2003 Robert Frost The Telephone "When I was just as ... 19
521 20 Aug 2000 Louis MacNeice The Suicide And this, ladies and... 19
1229 18 Apr 2003 Czelaw Milosz You Whose Name You whose name is ag... 19
393  8 Apr 2000 Peter Schaeffer Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night I think 19
1703 19 May 2005 Samuel Beckett Untitled My way is in the san... 19
202 10 Sep 1999 William Empson Missing Dates Slowly the poison th... 19
1288 26 Jun 2003 Amanda Townsend Let's be discreet Tell me 19
677 26 Jan 2001 W. H. Auden Villanelle Time will say nothin... 19
741  1 Apr 2001 Ian Anderson Reasons For Waiting What a sight for my eyes 19
296 20 Dec 1999 Constantine Cavafy Footsteps On an ebony bed decorated 19
1466 26 Feb 2004 Thomas Campion My Sweetest Lesbia (in imitation of Cat... 19
1089  7 Sep 2002 John Thomas By Heart The years pass like ... 19
1770 23 Sep 2005 John Hegley Uncle and Auntie my auntie gave me a ... 19
872 23 Aug 2001 Edwin Arlington Robinson The House on the Hill They are all gone away, 19
762 23 Apr 2001 W. H. Auden Miranda My dear one is mine ... 19
1682 22 Apr 2005 Tom Waits The Piano Has Been Drinking The piano has been d... 19
498 27 Jul 2000 Walt Whitman The World Below the Brine The world below the ... 19
1145 15 Jan 2003 James Elroy Flecker War Song of the Saracens We are they who come... 19
706 23 Feb 2001 William Empson Villanelle It is the pain, it i... 19
313 16 Jan 2000 Ben Jonson Gypsy Songs The faery beam upon you, 20
322 27 Jan 2000 Richard Wilbur In the Smoking Car The eyelids meet. He... 20
1762  7 Sep 2005 Czeslaw Milosz Eyes My most honorable ey... 20
1761 31 Aug 2005 William Logan For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead Lying on that blanke... 20
341 15 Feb 2000 Emily Dickinson The Grass so little has to do - The Grass so little ... 20
344 18 Feb 2000 Anon The Navajo Night Way Ceremony In beauty ... 20
554 22 Sep 2000 R. S. Thomas Taliesin I have been all men ... 20
369 14 Mar 2000 Bayard Taylor The Cantelope Side by side in the ... 20
1736 22 Jul 2005 Nissim Ezekiel Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher To force the pace an... 20
373 18 Mar 2000 Wallace Stevens The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The time of year has... 20
1722 17 Jun 2005 Robert Browning The Lost Mistress All's over, then: do... 20
567  5 Oct 2000 George Herbert Easter Wings Lord, Who createdst ... 20
391  6 Apr 2000 George Herbert The Pulley When God at first ma... 20
573 12 Oct 2000 Alistair Campbell At a Fishing Settlement October, and a rain-... 20
398 13 Apr 2000 Robert Herrick The Night Piece, To Julia Her eyes the glow-wo... 20
582 21 Oct 2000 Edmund Waller Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely Rose- 20
1679 19 Apr 2005 Mary Oliver Summer Leaving the house, 20
441 30 May 2000 William Wordsworth The Simplon Pass -Brook and road 20
594  2 Nov 2000 Harold Monro Overheard on a Salmarsh Nymph, nymph, what a... 20
458 17 Jun 2000 Emily Dickinson The Chariot Because I could not ... 20
1652 15 Mar 2005 Gwendolyn Brooks Gay Chaps at the Bar ...and guys I knew i... 20
476  5 Jul 2000 Dylan Thomas In my craft or sullen art In my craft or sullen art 20
479 08 Jul 2000 Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed "Had he and I but met 20
483 11 Jul 2000 Walter de la Mare Brueghel's Winter Jagg'd mountain peak... 20
1648 11 Mar 2005 Donald Justice Men at Forty Men at forty 20
517 16 Aug 2000 Ralph Hodgson The Gipsy Girl "Come, try your skil... 20
619 28 Nov 2000 e. e. cummings somewhere i have never travelled somewhere i have nev... 20
972 28 Dec 2001 Rupert Brooke The Beginning Some day I shall ris... 20
883  7 Sep 2001 Seamus Heaney Personal Helicon As a child, they cou... 20
1594 10 Jan 2005 Lao-Tzu Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 If you want to be a ... 20
1581 23 Dec 2004 William Stafford A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don't know th... 20
1561 12 Nov 2004 Yevgeny Yevtushenko People No people are uninte... 20
871 23 Aug 2001 Emily Dickinson I felt a Funeral, in my Brain I felt a Funeral, in... 20
995  9 Feb 2002 John Lennon Come Together Here come old flatto... 20
1552  1 Nov 2004 Robert Frost My November Guest My Sorrow, when she'... 20
885 11 Sep 2001 Suzanne Vega Night Vision By day give thanks, ... 20
1514  4 Jun 2004 Queen Elizabeth I When I was fair and young, and favour graced me When I was fair and ... 20
7 17 Feb 1999 Anon Scarborough Fair Are you going to Sca... 20
25  7 Mar 1999 George Santayana The Poet's Testament I give back to the e... 20
1115 22 Nov 2002 Robinson Jeffers Shine, Perishing Republic While this America s... 20
813 16 Jun 2001 Thomas Hardy Weathers (I) 20
51  2 Apr 1999 Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged i... 20
1377  1 Nov 2003 Jeffrey McDaniel The Quiet World In an effort to get ... 20
65 17 Apr 1999 Robert Browning Home Thoughts From Abroad Oh, to be in England 20
1221 10 Apr 2003 Judith Wright Woman to Man The eyeless labourer... 20
1125 11 Dec 2002 A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Waltzing Matilda Oh! there once was a... 20
75 28 Apr 1999 Christopher Marlowe The face that launch'd a thousand ships Was this the face th... 20
921 23 Oct 2001 Steely Dan Charlie Freak Charlie Freak had bu... 20
684  2 Feb 2001 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Scrambled eggs and w... 20
97 23 May 1999 William Blake The Fly Little Fly 20
799  3 Jun 2001 Kenneth Grahame Mr Toad The world has held g... 20
1144 14 Jan 2003 W. B. Yeats The Stare's Nest by My Window The bees build in th... 20
697 15 Feb 2001 Dorothy Parker A Well Worn Story In April, in April, 20
798  2 Jun 2001 John Updike V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick V.B. Wigglesworth wa... 20
788 22 May 2001 John Updike I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name Though authors are a... 20
735 27 Mar 2001 Ambrose Bierce Decalogue Thou shalt no God bu... 20
159 27 Jul 1999 Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue Thou shalt have one ... 20
833 10 Jul 2001 Christopher Morley Washing the Dishes When we on simple ra... 20
702 20 Feb 2001 John Masefield Night Is On The Downland Night is on the down... 20
831  8 Jul 2001 Spike Milligan The Soldiers at Lauro Young are our dead 20
1315  1 Aug 2003 Judith Saunders Mathematicians at Work hunker down on their... 20
1167  6 Feb 2003 Blind Harry Wallace (extract) Of our ancestors, br... 20
1300 10 Jul 2003 Flann O'Brien The Workman's Friend When things go wrong... 20
195 03 Sep 1999 Peter Schaeffer Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum You mysterious jongl... 20
742  3 Apr 2001 Nazim Hikmet I Come and Stand at Every Door I come and stand at ... 20
703 20 Feb 2001 A. E. Housman On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble On Wenlock Edge the ... 20
1181 22 Feb 2003 Carl Sandburg Elephants Are Different to Different People Wilson and Pilcer an... 20
1423  8 Jan 2004 James Fenton Out of Danger Heart be kind and si... 20
782 16 May 2001 F.R. Scott National Identity The Canadian Centena... 20
1194 10 Mar 2003 Kahlil Gibran Children And a woman who held... 20
243 24 Oct 1999 William Shakespeare When that I was and a little tiny boy When that I was and ... 20
1246  5 May 2003 Lucille Clifton the lost baby poem the time i dropped y... 20
755 16 Apr 2001 Norman MacCaig Gone Are The Days Impossible to call a... 20
1797 18 Nov 2005 Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta Winter '84 I tell the corner st... 20
1411 27 Dec 2003 Derek Walcott Pentecost Better a jungle in t... 20
529 28 Aug 2000 Emily Dickinson If you were coming in the fall If you were coming i... 20
1405 16 Dec 2003 William Blake The Lamb Little Lamb, who mad... 20
968 22 Dec 2001 Robert Penn Warren Grackles, Goodbye Black of grackles gl... 20
374 19 Mar 2000 Alex Pascall Psalm Of the Valleys We dedicate, O Lord,... 21
748  9 Apr 2001 Faiz Ahmed Faiz Be Near Me You who demolish me,... 21
250 01 Nov 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson Walt Whitman The master-songs are... 21
359  4 Mar 2000 Thomas Buchanan Read The Angler But look! o'er the f... 21
886 11 Sep 2001 Philip Larkin Maiden Name Marrying left your m... 21
603 11 Nov 2000 Eunice deSouza Marriages Are Made My cousin Elena 21
412 28 Apr 2000 Octavio Paz There is a motionless tree There is a motionles... 21
1325 15 Aug 2003 Miklos Radnoti Forced March You're crazy. You fa... 21
484 12 Jul 2000 William Carlos Williams Hunters in the Snow The over-all picture... 21
1445 31 Jan 2004 Mark Granier What Did You Do On Your Weekend In Vancouver? Walked with the traf... 21
1681 21 Apr 2005 There is an end to even the worst career! -— Sir John Collings... 21
615 23 Nov 2000 Monty Python The Philosopher's Drinking Song Immanuel Kant was a ... 21
671 19 Jan 2001 Ted Hughes Lineage In the beginning was... 21
1034 11 Apr 2002 Tadeusz Ròzewicz Pigtail When all the women i... 21
1415 31 Dec 2003 Chris Rea Gone Fishing I'm going fishing 21
1017 14 Mar 2002 Franklin P. Adams Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" ("Sir: For the first... 21
1168  7 Feb 2003 John Donne The Good-morrow I wonder by my troth... 21
1312 29 Jul 2003 Naomi Lazard Ordinance on Arrival Welcome to you 22
1802 29 Dec 2005 by Wislawa Szymborska A Note Life is the only way 22
1668  6 Apr 2005 Mark Knopfler Love Over Gold You walk out on the ... 22
1215  3 Apr 2003 Andrew Motion Regime Change Advancing down the r... 22
1427 12 Jan 2004 Neil Young Out of Control Once, high on a hill... 22
461 20 Jun 2000 Thomas Lynch Couplets Two girls found dead... 22
1408 20 Dec 2003 Bill Watterson My Mom and Dad My mom and my dad ar... 22
1003 20 Feb 2002 Sharon Olds The Connoisseuse of Slugs When I was a connois... 22
77 29 Apr 1999 D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians Not every man has ge... 22
346 21 Feb 2000 Paul Zimmer The Great Bird of Love I want to become a g... 22
1540  7 Sep 2004 Nikki Giovanni I'm not Lonely i'm not lonely 22
68 21 Apr 1999 W. H. Auden Musee des Beaux Arts About suffering they... 22
58 10 Apr 1999 Dylan Thomas The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower The force that throu... 22
637 16 Dec 2000 Thom Gunn The Hug It was your birthday... 22
187 25 Aug 1999 R. S. Thomas Poetry for Supper 'Listen, now, verse ... 22
716  6 Mar 2001 Jenny Joseph Warning When I am an old wom... 22
48 31 Mar 1999 William Shakespeare Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth O, pardon me, thou b... 22
1501 21 Apr 2004 William Shakespeare The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd The quality of mercy... 22
1046  4 May 2002 Henrik Nordbrandt Sailing After having loved w... 22
289 13 Dec 1999 William Butler Yeats The Second Coming Turning and turning ... 22
1224 13 Apr 2003 Louise Glück The Wild Iris At the end of my suf... 23
200 09 Sep 1999 William Shakespeare Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks Blow, winds, and cra... 23
1335 27 Aug 2003 Roger McGough Balloon Fight 'This morning, the A... 23
998 13 Feb 2002 Brian Patten A blade of grass You ask for a poem. 23
887 11 Sep 2001 Walt Whitman Beat! Beat! Drums! Beat! beat! drums! -... 23
728 19 Mar 2001 W.H.Auden from The Dog Beneath The Skin Now through night's ... 23
1334 26 Aug 2003 Jalaluddin Rumi Where Everything Is Music Don't worry about sa... 23
1110 17 Nov 2002 Maj Gen WH Rupertus My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine) This is my rifle. 23
673 21 Jan 2001 Rabindranath Tagore The Flower-School When storm-clouds ru... 23
1383 11 Nov 2003 Wendell Berry Untitled To my granddaughters... 23
1206 25 Mar 2003 William Ernest Henley Margaritae Sorori A late lark twitters... 23
1439 24 Jan 2004 Federico García Lorca Gacela of the Dark Death I want to sleep the ... 23
752 13 Apr 2001 Alfred Kreymborg Overheard In An Asylum And here we have ano... 23
865 13 Aug 2001 Carol Ann Duffy Valentine Not a red rose or a ... 23
1001 16 Feb 2002 Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd If all the world and... 24
189 27 Aug 1999 bpNichol dear Captain Poetry dear Captain Poetry, 24
607 15 Nov 2000 Phoebe Cary Ballad of the Canal We were crowded in t... 24
188 26 Aug 1999 Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica A poem should be pal... 24
1636 27 Feb 2005 e. e. cummings In Just- in Just- 24
496 24 Jul 2000 Edgar A. Guest The Lay of the Troubled Golfer His eye was wild and... 24
1297  7 Jul 2003 Eiluned Lewis The Birthright We who were born 24
631 10 Dec 2000 John Lennon Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam Mean Mister Mustard ... 24
882  4 Sep 2001 Ted Hughes Wind This house has been ... 24
503 01 Aug 2000 Donald Justice Anonymous Drawing A delicate young Neg... 24
1307 22 Jul 2003 Rudyard Kipling The Song of the Little Hunter Ere Mor the Peacock ... 24
170  8 Aug 1999 Robert Frost The Need of Being Versed in Country Things The house had gone t... 24
812 16 Jun 2001 Sharon Olds Sex Without Love How do they do it, t... 24
157 24 Jul 1999 Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captai... 24
1708 26 May 2005 Bob Dylan Blowin' in the Wind How many roads must ... 24
143 10 Jul 1999 Rudyard Kipling Harp Song of the Dane Women What is a woman that... 24
1749  4 Aug 2005 G. K. Chesterton The Deluge Though giant rains p... 24
894 21 Sep 2001 Adrian Mitchell Watch Your Step - I'm Drenched In Manchester there ... 24
399 14 Apr 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Indian Serenade I arise from dreams ... 24
973 29 Dec 2001 A. E. Housman Reveille Wake: the silver dus... 24
1752 casualness of a shell" or "casual beauty of a shell It is said by the po... 24
543 10 Sep 2000 John Betjeman Executive I am a young executi... 24
1031  7 Apr 2002 Robert Graves Wild Strawberries Strawberries that in... 24
1342  4 Sep 2003 Statius To Sleep What is the charge, ... 24
108  2 Jun 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay The Penitent I had a little Sorrow, 24
353 27 Feb 2000 Ogden Nash PG Wooster, Just as he Useter Bound to your bookse... 24
1344  6 Sep 2003 Deborah Garrison Please Fire Me Here comes another a... 24
1349 15 Sep 2003 Bill Holm The Icelandic Language In this language, no... 24
954  1 Dec 2001 George Harrison Within You Without You We were talking - ab... 24
804  8 Jun 2001 Kamala Das The Looking Glass Getting a man to lov... 24
951 26 Nov 2001 Hayden Carruth Wife Poem And it's clear at la... 24
98 24 May 1999 Ted Hughes The Thought Fox I imagine this midni... 24
1558  9 Nov 2004 By Philip Larkin Afternoons Summer is fading 24
1727 27 Jun 2005 R. S. Thomas To a Young Poet For the first twenty... 24
27  8 Mar 1999 John Masefield Sea Fever I must go down to th... 24
1033  9 Apr 2002 Bret Harte What the Bullet sang O Joy of creation, 24
1356 23 Sep 2003 Vikram Seth Qingdao: December Here by the sea this... 24
1375 23 Oct 2003 Sarojini Naidu The Bangle Sellers Bangle sellers are w... 24
997 12 Feb 2002 Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Come live with me an... 24
1391 19 Nov 2003 Robert Morgan The Grain of Sound A banjo maker in the... 24
9 19 Feb 1999 T. S. Eliot La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) Stand on the highest... 24
63 15 Apr 1999 William Wordsworth Daffodils I wandered lonely as... 24
6 15 Feb 1999 Arthur O'Shaughnessy Ode We are the music-makers, 24
477 06 Jul 2000 William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o' the sun Fear no more the hea... 24
710 27 Feb 2001 Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht Three weeks gone and... 24
946 21 Nov 2001 Sir Henry Newbolt Vitaï Lampada There's a breathless... 24
42 24 Mar 1999 Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting I sit in the top of ... 24
1474  8 Mar 2004 Robert Burns Ae Fond Kiss Ae fond kiss, and th... 24
1473  6 Mar 2004 J. K. Stephen Drinking Song There are people, I ... 24
1049  9 May 2002 Roger Woddis Down With Fanatics! If I had my way with... 24
1 09 Feb 1999 William Butler Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the ha... 24
418  4 May 2000 Stephen Foster Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair I dream of Jeanie wi... 24
299 23 Dec 1999 Richard Thompson Taking My Business Elsewhere If she's not here by... 24
1526 29 Jun 2004 Robert Burns Afton Water Flow gently, sweet A... 24
480 09 Jul 2000 W. N. Hodgson Before Action By all the glories o... 24
284  6 Dec 1999 Norman Rowland Gale 'MOST ANGLERS ARE VERY HUMANE'--Daily Paper The kind-hearted ang... 24
1811 18 Jan 2006 Seamus Heaney From the Frontier of Writing The tightness and th... 24
275 27 Nov 1999 James Leigh Hunt The Glove and the Lions King Francis was a h... 24
769  1 May 2001 e. e. cummings what if a much of a which of a wind what if a much of a ... 24
66 19 Apr 1999 William Blake The Tyger Tyger! Tyger! Burnin... 24
1134 23 Dec 2002 James Stephens In the Poppy Field Mad Patsy said, he s... 24
1460 19 Feb 2004 Dorothy Parker Love Song My own dear love, he... 24
1459 18 Feb 2004 Kaniyan Punkunran Every Town a Home Town Every town our home town, 24
593  1 Nov 2000 Robert Herrick The Hag The hag is astride 24
757 17 Apr 2001 Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the ... 24
558 26 Sep 2000 Norman Rowland Gale Bees You voluble, 24
261 13 Nov 1999 Robert E. Howard Recompense I have not heard lut... 24
1239 28 Apr 2003 Dr K. D. Beernink Hospital Haiku The new interns 24
942 15 Nov 2001 James Shirley Death the Leveller The glories of our b... 24
565  3 Oct 2000 Thomas Campion Now Winter Nights Enlarge Now winter nights enlarge 24
1444 30 Jan 2004 Wendy Cope Being Boring If you ask me 'What'... 24
1772 26 Sep 2005 Dorothy Parker Threnody Lilacs blossom just ... 24
254 05 Nov 1999 Philip Larkin The North Ship I saw three ships go... 24
251  2 Nov 1999 Thomas Hood No! No sun--no moon! 24
1541 14 Sep 2004 Gary Snyder John Muir on Mt. Ritter After scanning its f... 24
1247  6 May 2003 Shel Silverstein Dreadful Someone ate the baby. 24
560 28 Sep 2000 Dorothy Parker Chant for Dark Hours Some men, some men 24
1733 18 Jul 2005 Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in the Grass A narrow Fellow in t... 24
718  8 Mar 2001 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came do... 24
1112 19 Nov 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien Bilbo's Last Song Day is ended, dim my... 24
714  4 Mar 2001 Nissim Ezekiel Night of the Scorpion "I remember the nigh... 24
1666  4 Apr 2005 Robert Creeley The Rain All night the sound had 24
1256 16 May 2003 Richard Wilbur The Pardon My dog lay dead five... 24
1422  7 Jan 2004 Lucy Maud Montgomery My Library It is small and dim ... 24
821 26 Jun 2001 Edwin Arlington Robinson The Mill The miller's wife ha... 24
228  7 Oct 1999 G.K. Chesterton The Rolling English Road Before the Roman cam... 24
1190  6 Mar 2003 Mark Twain Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd And did young Stephe... 24
1647 10 Mar 2005 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fata Morgana O sweet illusions of song 24
743  4 Apr 2001 Keith Reid Conquistador Conquistador -- your... 24
934  7 Nov 2001 Seamus Heaney Blackberry-picking Late August, given h... 24
1099  4 Oct 2002 Raymond Carver Happiness So early it's still ... 24
1716  9 Jun 2005 Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream Take this kiss upon ... 24
1778  6 Oct 2005 A. D. Hope The Invaders Coming by night, fur... 24
1225 14 Apr 2003 James Elroy Flecker To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence I who am dead a thou... 24
1650 13 Mar 2005 Emily Dickinson It was not death, for I stood up It was not death, fo... 24
940 13 Nov 2001 Rudyard Kipling The Palace When I was a King an... 25
383 28 Mar 2000 Maya Angelou The Health-Food Diner No sprouted wheat an... 25
1557  8 Nov 2004 Eric Bogle Now I'm Easy For nearly sixty yea... 25
1084  1 Sep 2002 Brian Patten Sometimes it Happens And sometimes it hap... 25
868 16 Aug 2001 W. H. Auden Partition Unbiased at least he... 25
537 05 Sep 2000 Mark Defoe The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker (at a McDonald's somewhere in Appalachia) All day he crushed t... 25
1358 25 Sep 2003 Judith Viorst Someday Someone Will Bet That You Can't Name All Fifty States California, Mississippi 25
1386 14 Nov 2003 Peggy Seeger Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) In the town of Sprin... 25
306  1 Jan 2000 Alfred Kreymborg Geometry Never a mouse 25
1257 17 May 2003 Oswald Mtshali The Birth of Shaka His baby cry 25
17 26 Feb 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Way Through the Woods They shut the road t... 25
533 31 Aug 2000 Carole Oles The Gift Thinking she was the gift 25
447 06 Jun 2000 Hafiz My Sweet, Crushed Angel You have not danced ... 25
1387 15 Nov 2003 Philip Larkin The Explosion On the day of the ex... 25
482 10 Jul 2000 John Berryman Winter Landscape The three men coming... 25
394 09 Apr 2000 Ernest Dowson Poem "Non Sum Qualis Eram... 25
930  2 Nov 2001 Paul Weller Town Called Malice You'd better stop dr... 25
472 30 Jun 2000 Jalaluddin Rumi Spring Giddiness Today, like every ot... 25
1644  7 Mar 2005 Moliere The Misanthrope ORONTE 25
1632 23 Feb 2005 Thomas Hardy Middle-Age Enthusiasms To M. H. 25
509 07 Aug 2000 James Elroy Flecker The Golden Road to Samarkand HASSAN 25
164  1 Aug 1999 Pablo Neruda Bird It was passed from o... 25
645 24 Dec 2000 Maya Angelou Old Folks laugh They have spent their 25
1283 21 Jun 2003 William Stafford The Discovery of Daily Experience It is a whisper. Yo... 26
244 26 Oct 1999 Allen Ginsberg A Supermarket in California What thoughts I have... 26
1322  9 Aug 2003 Erica Jong Climbing You I want to understand... 26
732 23 Mar 2001 A. P. Herbert At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me Dear Madam, you have... 26
1389 17 Nov 2003 Ovid The Amores: Book 1, Poem #3 Fair's fair now, Ven... 26
1402  9 Dec 2003 Tarjei Vesaas Sun-corner At home there's a su... 26
649 28 Dec 2000 Michael Flanders A Song of the Weather January brings the snow 26
1546 28 Sep 2004 Wislawa Szymborska In Praise of My Sister My sister doesn't wr... 26
1622 13 Feb 2005 Tomas Transtromer At Funchal (Island of Madeira) On the beach there's... 26
1629 20 Feb 2005 E. E. Cummings suppose suppose 26
583 22 Oct 2000 Ezra Pound Envoi (1919) Go, dumb-born book, 26
1744 29 Jul 2005 Robert Service A Pot Of Tea You make it in your ... 26
1760 29 Aug 2005 James Fenton Yellow Tulips Looking into the vas... 26
292 16 Dec 1999 Robert Hunter Ripple If my words did glow... 26
443  2 Jun 2000 Tom Disch Poems I think that I shall... 26
474 03 Jul 2000 Jane Kenyon Otherwise I got out of bed 26
490 19 Jul 2000 Tom Lehrer The Elements There's antimony, ar... 26
513 11 Aug 2000 Jalaluddin Rumi The Tavern All day I think abou... 26
1005 22 Feb 2002 Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi They paved paradise 26
1058 31 May 2002 John Wilmot A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover Ancient Person, for ... 26
783 17 May 2001 Stan Rogers Northwest Passage Chorus 26
118 13 Jun 1999 Faiz Ahmed Faiz A Prison Evening Each star a rung, 26
1220  9 Apr 2003 Oliver Goldsmith The Village Schoolmaster Beside yon stragglin... 26
932  3 Nov 2001 Richard Thompson Fast Food Big mac, small mac, ... 26
642 20 Dec 2000 Rina Singh The Poetics of Desire Throw away your pape... 27
384 29 Mar 2000 John Donne Song Go and catch a falli... 27
1214  3 Apr 2003 Hayden Carruth On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact 27
213 22 Sep 1999 William Carlos Williams The Artist Mr T. 27
1602 23 Jan 2005 George Gordon, Lord Byron From Beppo L. 27
1434 19 Jan 2004 Rosemary Dobson A Fine Thing To be a scarecrow 27
1486 27 Mar 2004 Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have No Dominion And death shall have... 27
584 23 Oct 2000 Jorge Luis Borges History of the Night Throughout the cours... 27
1406 17 Dec 2003 Bertolt Brecht A Worker Reads History Who built the seven ... 27
1393 21 Nov 2003 Carl Sandburg The Lawyers Know Too Much The lawyers, Bob, kn... 27
1008 26 Feb 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien Cat The fat cat on the mat 27
175 13 Aug 1999 Anon I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre I am Taliesin. I sin... 27
893 19 Sep 2001 H. D Wash of Cold River Wash of cold river 27
1057 24 May 2002 William Stafford Atavism 1 27
481 10 Jul 2000 Leonard Cohen Who By fire And who by fire, 27
241 22 Oct 1999 Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth Let the sweet fresh ... 27
1158 28 Jan 2003 Stephen Vincent Benét Music My friend went to th... 27
1063 23 Jun 2002 Stephen Dunn Named He'd spent his life ... 27
991 30 Jan 2002 Stephen Spender Seascape In memoriam M.A.S 27
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
945 19 Nov 2001 E. E. Cummings O sweet spontaneous O sweet spontaneous 27
1419  4 Jan 2004 Guy L. Steele, Jr Telnet Song There is a program c... 27
1339 31 Aug 2003 Robert Desnos I've Dreamed of You So Much I've dreamed of you ... 27
112 07 Jun 1999 Bob Dylan Mr.Tambourine Man Hey, Mr. Tambourine ... 27
1376 28 Oct 2003 Mary Oliver When Death Comes When death comes 28
162 30 Jul 1999 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Awake! for Morning i... 28
1796 17 Nov 2005 Sappho Poem I Immortal Aphrodite o... 28
520 19 Aug 2000 Adelaide Procter A Lost Chord Seated one day at th... 28
29 10 Mar 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Sea and the Hills Who hath desired the... 28
765 26 Apr 2001 Laurence Binyon For The Fallen With proud thanksgiv... 28
207 15 Sep 1999 Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihews The art of Biography 28
1045  3 May 2002 Grace Nichols The Body Reclining I sing the body reclining 28
851 28 Jul 2001 Charles G. D. Roberts The Skater My glad feet shod wi... 28
1262 26 May 2003 A. E. Housman The Carpenter's Son "Here the hangman st... 28
577 16 Oct 2000 William Butler Yeats The Cat and the Moon The cat went here an... 28
52  3 Apr 1999 Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky 'Twas brillig and th... 28
238 18 Oct 1999 W. J. Turner Romance When I was but thirt... 28
1103 12 Oct 2002 Robert Browning Prospice Fear death? -- to fe... 28
262 14 Nov 1999 Emily Bronte No Coward Soul is Mine No coward soul is mine, 28
970 25 Dec 2001 Sigerson Clifford The Kerry Christmas Carol Brush the floor and ... 28
494 24 Jul 2000 W.H. Auden The Fall of Rome The piers are pummel... 28
881  2 Sep 2001 Sylvia Plath The Moon and the Yew tree "This is the light o... 28
1347 12 Sep 2003 Emily Dickinson In a Library A precious, moulderi... 28
1550 28 Oct 2004 Ted Hughes Wodwo What am I? Nosing he... 28
911 10 Oct 2001 Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Traveled Man Sometimes I wish the... 28
1589  4 Jan 2005 Joseph Brodsky At a Lecture Since mistakes are i... 28
1586 31 Dec 2004 Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaint... 28
1582 27 Dec 2004 E. E. Cummings Little Tree little tree 28
982 11 Jan 2002 Rachel Rose What We Heard About the Japanese We heard they would ... 28
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1002 18 Feb 2002 John Donne The Bait Come live with me, a... 28
1204 21 Mar 2003 William Shakespeare To Thine Own Self Be True Yet here, Laertes! A... 28
1661 29 Mar 2005 Suzanne Vega Small Blue Thing Today I am 28
132 28 Jun 1999 Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like ol... 28
824 30 Jun 2001 Alden Nowlan The Mysterious Naked Man A mysterious naked m... 28
1374 17 Oct 2003 Jaime 'Robbie' Robertson The Weight I pulled into Nazare... 29
1421  6 Jan 2004 Charles Bukowski the trash can this is great, I jus... 29
847 24 Jul 2001 Rupert Brooke On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess Song of a tribe of t... 29
722 12 Mar 2001 Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died It is 12:20 in New Y... 29
468 27 Jun 2000 Henry Reed Chard Whitlow (Mr. Eliot's Sunday ... 29
1628 19 Feb 2005 Roger McGough Let Me Die a Youngman's Death Let me die a youngma... 29
601  9 Nov 2000 E. V. Rieu Hall and Knight or 'z + b + x = y + ... 29
224  3 Oct 1999 Wislawa Szymborska Under One Small Star My apologies to chan... 29
1398 26 Nov 2003 Yehuda Amichai A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life A man doesn't have t... 29
785 25 May 2001 Paul Simon One Trick Pony He's a one trick pony 29
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1184 28 Feb 2003 Denise Levertov In California During the Gulf War Among the blight-kil... 29
362 07 Mar 2000 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha's Departure By the shore of Gitc... 29
1566 26 Nov 2004 Sam Hunt Maintrunk Country Roadsong Driving south and tr... 30
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1468  1 Mar 2004 Edward Hirsch Song Against Natural Selection The weak survive! 30
1142 12 Jan 2003 James Fenton In Paris with You Don’t talk to me of ... 30
1407 19 Dec 2003 Thomas Lux The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball each day mowed 30
1165  4 Feb 2003 Raymond Calvert The Ballad Of William Bloat In a mean abode on t... 30
1795 14 Nov 2005 Jeremy Reed Broken Hearts There should be hear... 30
119 14 Jun 1999 Paul Simon A Poem on the Underground Wall The last train is ne... 30
1019 20 Mar 2002 Elizabeth Jennings A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon Nature teaches us ou... 30
1433 18 Jan 2004 Anonymous Winter Wind piercing, hill ... 30
1274 11 Jun 2003 Thomas Moore The Time I've Lost in Wooing The time I've lost i... 30
1485 25 Mar 2004 Anise Untitled What scares them most is 30
151 18 Jul 1999 Rudyard Kipling Recessional God of our fathers, ... 30
1800 27 Dec 2005 John O'Brien Tangmalangaloo The bishop sat in lo... 30
929  1 Nov 2001 Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner Synchronicity II Another suburban fam... 30
1093 24 Sep 2002 Margaret Atwood Variations on the Word "Sleep" I would like to watc... 30
859  8 Aug 2001 Wendy Cope Waste Land Limericks I 30
1022 26 Mar 2002 A. A. Milne Buckingham Palace They're changing gua... 30
465 23 Jun 2000 John Donne The Sun Rising Busy old fool, unrul... 30
1664  1 Apr 2005 William Blake The Echoing Green The sun does arise, 30
1212  1 Apr 2003 Barbara Kingsolver Deadline The night before war... 30
1074 16 Jul 2002 Rafael Jesús González The Consecration Of Coffee to Archbishop Oscar ... 30
386 31 Mar 2000 W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07/M/378 This... 30
689  7 Feb 2001 H. D Helen in Egypt This is the spread o... 30
792 26 May 2001 Sheenagh Pugh The Beautiful Lie He was about four, I... 30
789 23 May 2001 Stephen Leacock The Social Plan I know a very tireso... 30
587 26 Oct 2000 Wendy Cope Strugnell's Rubaiyat 1 30
1302 16 Jul 2003 Denise Levertov Opening Words I believe the earth 31
1420  5 Jan 2004 Charles Bukowski Hemingway Never Did This I read that he lost ... 31
761 22 Apr 2001 Max Ehrmannn Desiderata Go placidly amid the... 31
685  4 Feb 2001 James Elroy Flecker The Old Ships I have seen old ship... 31
1346 11 Sep 2003 David Huddle Ooly Pop a Cow for Bess and Molly 31
129 25 Jun 1999 Sylvia Plath Ariel Stasis in darkness. 31
1591  7 Jan 2005 Zachary Richard Big River Water's on the river... 31
1539  3 Sep 2004 Tom Lehrer National Brotherhood Week Oh, the white folks ... 31
473 03 Jul 2000 Julia Ward Howe The Battle-Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen ... 31
815 20 Jun 2001 Peter Meinke Mulch There where the punk... 31
933  6 Nov 2001 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Mother's Little Helper What a drag it is ge... 31
1151 21 Jan 2003 Bob Dylan The Death of Emmett Till 'Twas down in Missis... 31
1544 22 Sep 2004 Lewis Carroll You are old, Father William "You are old, father... 32
1096  1 Oct 2002 Billy Collins On Turning Ten The whole idea of it... 32
105 31 May 1999 Edwin Brock Five Ways to Kill a Man There are many cumbe... 32
115 10 Jun 1999 Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna Not a drum was heard... 32
1007 25 Feb 2002 Henry F. Lyte Abide with me Abide with me; fast ... 32
130 26 Jun 1999 Robert Browning The Lost Leader Just for a handful o... 32
142 09 Jul 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien He chanted a song of wizardry He chanted a song of... 32
167 05 Aug 1999 Anon Pangur Ban I and Pangur Ban my cat, 32
638 16 Dec 2000 Dorothy Parker Song of Perfect Propriety Oh, I should like to... 32
1435 20 Jan 2004 Maya Angelou Preacher, Don't Send Me Preacher, don't send me 32
1521 19 Jun 2004 Hamish Blair The Bloody Orkneys This bloody town's a... 32
1438 23 Jan 2004 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya Shaper Shaped In days gone by I us... 32
832 10 Jul 2001 Bob Dylan Love Minus Zero / No Limit My love she speaks l... 32
234 14 Oct 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy Miniver Cheevy, chil... 32
653 31 Dec 2000 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells Ring out, wild bells... 32
267 19 Nov 1999 Theodore Roethke The Meadow Mouse 1 32
948 22 Nov 2001 Julia A. Moore Grand Rapids Cricket Club In Grand Rapids is a... 32
271 23 Nov 1999 Rudyard Kipling If If you can keep your... 32
1248  7 May 2003 James Patrick Kinney The Cold Within Six humans trapped b... 32
1197 13 Mar 2003 William Herbert Carruth Each in his own Tongue A fire-mist and a planet, 32
1196 13 Mar 2003 Spike Milligan The ABC 'Twas midnight in th... 32
286  9 Dec 1999 Oliver Goldsmith An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Good people all, of ... 32
780 14 May 2001 Robert Louis Stevenson The Vagabond Give to me the life ... 32
1219  8 Apr 2003 Edwin Arlington Robinson Luke Havergal Go to the western ga... 32
744  5 Apr 2001 Leonard Cohen Joan of Arc Now the flames they ... 32
1799 25 Dec 2005 St. Jean de Brébeuf The Huron Carol ’Twas in the moon of... 32
1205 24 Mar 2003 Stanislaw Lem Love and Tensor Algebra Come, let us hasten ... 32
1185  1 Mar 2003 Traditional Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) Die Gedanken sind frei 32
1291 30 Jun 2003 Len Roberts The List of Most Difficult Words I was still standing... 32
1728  2 Jul 2005 Guy Wetmore Carryl When The Great Gray Ships Come In To eastward ringing,... 32
568  6 Oct 2000 Dylan Thomas Especially when the October wind Especially when the ... 32
395 10 Apr 2000 Henry Reed Naming of Parts "Vixi duellis nuper ... 32
1699 14 May 2005 Patrick Barrington When I was Young and Ignorant When I was young and... 32
411 27 Apr 2000 William Wordsworth The Tables Turned Up! up! my Friend, a... 32
600  8 Nov 2000 Lewis Carroll The Mouse's Tale Fury said to a mouse, 32
1340  2 Sep 2003 Anonymous A Strike Among the Poets In his chamber, weak... 32
1345  9 Sep 2003 Emily Bronte Remembrance Cold in the earth an... 32
803  6 Jun 2001 Catherine Faber The Word of God From desert cliff an... 32
499 28 Jul 2000 Thomas Ybarra Lay of Ancient Rome Oh, the Roman was a ... 32
502 31 Jul 2000 Philip Larkin MCMXIV Those long uneven lines 32
1619 10 Feb 2005 Dom Moraes Absences Smear out the last star. 32
1577 19 Dec 2004 Patrick Barrington I Had a Hippopotamus I had a hippopotamus... 32
977  2 Jan 2002 Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppi... 32
21 03 Mar 1999 William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium That is no country f... 32
1105 19 Oct 2002 Lucy Maud Montgomery Sunrise Along Shore Athwart the harbor l... 32
45 28 Mar 1999 Boris Pasternak Winter Night It snowed and snowed... 32
69 21 Apr 1999 Arthur Hugh Clough There is no god, the wicked sayeth "There is no God," t... 32
920 21 Oct 2001 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Erl-King Who rides there so l... 32
82  5 May 1999 William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single i... 32
630  9 Dec 2000 T. S. Eliot To Walter de la Mare The children who exp... 33
198 06 Sep 1999 Peter Porter Japanese Jokes In his winged collar 33
605 13 Nov 2000 Pablo Neruda Saddest Poem I can write the sadd... 33
827  3 Jul 2001 Edwin Morgan Strawberries There were never str... 33
165 02 Aug 1999 Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Owl and the Puss... 33
1537 26 Aug 2004 P. G. Wodehouse Good Gnus (A Vignette in Verse) 33
1786 26 Oct 2005 John Keats To Autumn Season of mists and ... 33
1095 30 Sep 2002 Billy Collins Litany You are the bread an... 33
1277 14 Jun 2003 A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Come-By-Chance As I pondered very w... 33
1599 18 Jan 2005 Czeslaw Milosz To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only My valiant helper, a... 33
1367  9 Oct 2003 Sue Hubbard Eurydice I am not afraid as I... 33
961 14 Dec 2001 Agha Shahid Ali The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' First, grant me my s... 33
915 16 Oct 2001 Phoebe Cary The Lovers Sally Salter, she wa... 33
1639  2 Mar 2005 Robert Service The Rover Oh, how good it is to be 33
493 22 Jul 2000 Rudyard Kipling A Pict Song Rome never looks whe... 33
1385 13 Nov 2003 Wilfred Owen Miners There was a whisperi... 34
1580 22 Dec 2004 Rupert Brooke Heaven Fish (fly-replete, i... 34
131 27 Jun 1999 Craig Raine A Martian Sends A Postcard Home Caxtons are mechanic... 34
623  1 Dec 2000 Adrian Mitchell Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody 1 PATRIOTIC 34
566  4 Oct 2000 A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Clancy of the Overflow I had written him a ... 34
1618  9 Feb 2005 John T. Wood Poem for Everyone I will present you 34
806  9 Jun 2001 Sarah Flower Adams Nearer, my God, to Thee Nearer, my God, to Thee, 34
1506 10 May 2004 James K. Baxter Rocket Show As warm north rain b... 34
18 27 Feb 1999 Louis MacNeice Bagpipe Music It's no go the merry... 34
917 18 Oct 2001 Robert Frost A Considerable Speck (Microscopic) 34
1600 19 Jan 2005 William Butler Yeats Two Songs Of A Fool I 34
542 09 Sep 2000 Ogden Nash Will Consider Situation There here are words... 34
1284 22 Jun 2003 Robert Frost A Hillside Thaw To think to know the... 35
648 27 Dec 2000 Dave Goulder The January Man The January man he w... 35
747  8 Apr 2001 Randall Jarrell The Player Piano I ate pancakes one n... 35
1056 22 May 2002 Constantine Cavafy Waiting for the Barbarians What are we waiting ... 35
1706 23 May 2005 Oliver Wendell Holmes The Chambered Nautilus This is the ship of ... 35
556 25 Sep 2000 Francois Villon Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) Brothers that live w... 35
331  5 Feb 2000 Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man Heav'n from all crea... 35
1809  5 Jan 2006 Machine Head Elegy Elegies are to be sung 35
402 17 Apr 2000 Odgen Nash Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man It is common knowled... 35
1536 18 Aug 2004 e. e. cummings All in green went my love riding All in green went my... 35
691  9 Feb 2001 Billy Collins Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles It seems these poets... 35
1677 15 Apr 2005 Joni Mitchell The Fiddle and the Drum And so once again 35
1596 13 Jan 2005 Edith Sitwell Still Falls the Rain The Raids, 1940. Nig... 35
585 24 Oct 2000 R. T. Smith Split the Lark 'Split the lark, and... 35
694 13 Feb 2001 Wislawa Szymborska True Love True love. Is it normal 35
357  2 Mar 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Last of the Light Brigade There were thirty mi... 36
1195 12 Mar 2003 Richard Wilbur Advice to a Prophet When you come, as yo... 36
918 20 Oct 2001 William Butler Yeats John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore A bloody and a sudde... 36
1290 28 Jun 2003 Yusef Komunyakaa My Father's Love Letters On Fridays he'd open... 36
371 16 Mar 2000 W. H. Auden O What Is That Sound O what is that sound... 36
544 12 Sep 2000 Philip Larkin Toads Why should I let the... 36
94 20 May 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet d... 36
1730  5 Jul 2005 Francis Scott Key The Star-Spangled Banner Oh, say can you see,... 36
846 23 Jul 2001 T. S. Eliot The Hippopotamus The broad-backed hip... 36
1234 23 Apr 2003 Mary Oliver Peonies This morning the gre... 36
255  5 Nov 1999 Charles S. Calverley Forever "Forever": 'tis a si... 36
571 10 Oct 2000 A. D. Hope The Death Of The Bird For every bird there... 36
1306 22 Oct 2003 Ted Hughes A Cranefly in September She is struggling th... 36
572 11 Oct 2000 Peter Porter Mort aux Chats There will be no mor... 36
1260 24 May 2003 E. E. Cummings Anyone lived in a pretty how town anyone lived in a pr... 36
1509 21 May 2004 Friedrich Schiller Ode to Joy Joy, thou beauteous ... 36
579 18 Oct 2000 Nissim Ezekiel The Professor Remember me? I am Pr... 36
1798 29 Nov 2005 Seamus Heaney An Ulster Twilight The bare bulb, a sca... 36
1692  8 May 2005 Archibald MacLeish You, Andrew Marvell And here face down b... 36
1532 20 Jul 2004 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Breaking Up I fell out of love: ... 36
305 30 Dec 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Conundrum of the Workshops When the flush of a ... 36
1000 15 Feb 2002 Felicia Hemans Casabianca The boy stod on the ... 36
1348 13 Sep 2003 Ogden Nash Polterguest, My Polterguest I've put Miss Hopper... 36
73 26 Apr 1999 Philip Larkin I Remember, I Remember Coming up England by... 36
1352 18 Sep 2003 Barry Cornwall The Sea The sea! the sea! th... 36
1556  5 Nov 2004 Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now Rows and flows of an... 36
173 11 Aug 1999 Willie Dixon Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my ... 36
327  1 Feb 2000 Geoffrey Chaucer The Knight's Portrait A knyght ther was, a... 36
727 17 Mar 2001 Harold Monro Milk for the Cat When the tea is brou... 36
612 20 Nov 2000 Sylvia Plath Love Letter Not easy to state th... 36
1633 24 Feb 2005 Raymond Carver My Death If I'm lucky, I'll b... 36
774  7 May 2001 Hayden Carruth Ray How many guys are si... 36
939 11 Nov 2001 Thomas Hardy Channel Firing That night your grea... 36
1533 26 Jul 2004 Stephen Dunn The Sudden Light And The Trees My neighbor was a bi... 36
330 04 Feb 2000 John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass... 36
1659 23 Mar 2005 Emily Bronte The Night Wind In summer's mellow m... 36
1086  4 Sep 2002 William Jay Smith The Floor and the Ceiling Winter and summer, w... 36
1542 16 Sep 2004 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Song of the Stygian Naiades Proserpine may pull ... 36
984 18 Jan 2002 Walt Whitman On the Beach at Night On the beach at night, 36
974 30 Dec 2001 Anonymous Donal Og It is late last nigh... 36
111  6 Jun 1999 Marge Piercy Why marry at all? Why mar what has gro... 36
1390 18 Nov 2003 Thomas Traherne The Salutation These little Limbs, 36
2 10 Feb 1999 Walter De La Mare The Listeners 'Is there anybody th... 36
1680 20 Apr 2005 Hugo von Hofmannsthal Ariadne auf Naxos There is a land wher... 36
1545 27 Sep 2004 Czeslaw Milosz Ars Poetica I have always aspire... 36
364 09 Mar 2000 Robert Browning The Patriot - An Old Story 37
1489 30 Mar 2004 Dafydd ap Gwilym The Ruin Nothing but a ruin now 37
1735 21 Jul 2005 Kahlil Gibran On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13) Then a lawyer said, ... 37
564  2 Oct 2000 Robert Graves Warning to Children Children, if you dar... 37
888 12 Sep 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life What the heart of th... 37
89 14 May 1999 Matthew Arnold Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night, 37
1487 28 Mar 2004 Christopher Logue All Day Permanent Red (extract) To welcome Hector to... 37
217 26 Sep 1999 Constantine Cavafy Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka 37
1223 12 Apr 2003 Allen Ginsberg A Vow I will haunt these States 37
738 29 Mar 2001 Oriah Mountain Dreamer The Invitation It doesn't interest ... 37
657  5 Jan 2001 Stephen Dobyns The Dark and Turbulent Sea Sailboat, sailboat -... 37
1609 30 Jan 2005 Wislawa Szymborska Cat in an Empty Apartment Die—you can't do tha... 37
311 14 Jan 2000 e. e. cummings Untitled "think of it: not so... 37
506 04 Aug 2000 Christopher Marlowe Lament for Zenocrate Black is the beauty ... 37
897 24 Sep 2001 Anon Grendel Then a powerful demo... 37
1456 11 Feb 2004 Richard Brautigan It's raining in love I don't know what it is, 37
609 17 Nov 2000 Stephen Vincent Benet Winged Man The moon, a sweeping... 37
819 25 Jun 2001 Orhan Veli I am listening to Istanbul I am listening to Is... 38
1404 12 Dec 2003 Dario Fo An Old Sicilian Song A woman crossing the... 38
1053 16 May 2002 William 'Smokey' Robinson Tears of a Clown Now if there's a smi... 38
1250  9 May 2003 Tony Hoagland Brave World But what about the c... 38
1697 12 May 2005 E. E. Cummings nobody loses all the time nobody loses all the time 38
581 20 Oct 2000 Charles Baudelaire Get Drunk! Always be drunk. 38
541 08 Sep 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly You feel adequate to... 38
1169  9 Feb 2003 Marianne Moore Poetry I, too, dislike it: ... 38
858  5 Aug 2001 T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (Part V) V. What the Thunder Said 39
1409 25 Dec 2003 Joni Mitchell River It's coming on Christmas 39
904  1 Oct 2001 Miller Williams The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina Somewhere in everyon... 39
28 10 Mar 1999 Adrian Mitchell To Whom It May Concern I was run over by th... 39
622 30 Nov 2000 Wilfred Gibson The Ice-Cart Perched on my city o... 39
1039 21 Apr 2002 Louis MacNeice Prayer before Birth I am not yet born; O... 39
1658 22 Mar 2005 James Dickey The Heaven of Animals Here they are. The ... 39
1133 21 Dec 2002 Allan Ginsberg Death News "Visit to W.C.W. cir... 39
557 25 Sep 2000 Andrei Voznesensky Parabolic Balad Among a parabola lif... 39
1764 12 Sep 2005 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 A child said, *What ... 39
1241 30 Apr 2003 Joyce Grenfell Stately as a Galleon My neighbour, Mrs Fa... 39
1301 14 Jul 2003 Louis MacNeice Meeting Point Time was away and so... 40
1199 16 Mar 2003 Myra Brooks Welch The Touch Of The Master's Hand 'Twas battered and s... 40
778 11 May 2001 Robert Browning Incident of the French Camp You know, we French ... 40
1055 21 May 2002 Jack Prelutsky Bleezer's Ice Cream I am Ebenezer Bleezer, 40
1477 12 Mar 2004 Vachel Lindsay The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken A little colt -- bro... 40
663 11 Jan 2001 Robert Graves A Child's Nightmare Through long nursery... 40
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922 23 Oct 2001 Edgar Guest What Father Knows My father knows the ... 40
1396 24 Nov 2003 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children’s Hour Between the dark and... 40
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658  6 Jan 2001 Oscar Wilde Serenade The western wind is ... 40
733 24 Mar 2001 Edgar Guest Story-Time "Tell us a story," c... 40
1268  3 Jun 2003 Michael Flanders Twenty Tons of TNT I have seen it estimated 40
294 18 Dec 1999 Hilaire Belloc Tarantella Do you remember an Inn, 40
307  2 Jan 2000 W.H.Auden Lay your sleeping head, my love Lay your sleeping he... 40
179 17 Aug 1999 P.G. Wodehouse Missed The sun in the heave... 40
325 30 Jan 2000 Ogden Nash Common Cold Go hang yourself, yo... 40
1522 21 Jun 2004 John Betjeman Slough Come, friendly bombs... 40
335 09 Feb 2000 Dylan Thomas After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) After the funeral, m... 40
514 13 Aug 2000 Rupert Brooke The Chilterns Your hands, my dear,... 40
709 26 Feb 2001 Trad 100 Pipers Wi' a hundred pipers... 40
367 12 Mar 2000 Rabindranath Tagore Krishnakali In the village they ... 40
1174 16 Feb 2003 Edward Thomas No One So Much As You No one so much as you 40
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248 29 Oct 1999 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales 'omoi peplegmai kair... 41
1653 16 Mar 2005 Wallace Stevens Asides on the Oboe The prologues are ov... 41
1118 27 Nov 2002 Arthur Clement Hilton Octopus Strange beauty, eigh... 41
37 19 Mar 1999 Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns I 41
1638  1 Mar 2005 Langston Hughes Theme for English B The instructor said, 41
1734 20 Jul 2005 Derek Walcott The Prodigal, 3.II The tidal motion of ... 41
1048  7 May 2002 Sylvia Plath Black Rook in Rainy Weather On the stiff twig up... 41
1170 10 Feb 2003 Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee It was many and many... 41
5 15 Feb 1999 Carl Sandburg Chicago Hog Butcher for the ... 42
1235 24 Apr 2003 William Carlos Williams Rose The rose is obsolete 42
786 20 May 2001 Margaret Atwood Postcard I'm thinking of you.... 42
1425 10 Jan 2004 John Ashbery The Ecclesiast "Worse than the sunf... 42
1479 15 Mar 2004 Neil Young Peace of Mind You know it takes 42
1333 24 Aug 2003 Bayard Taylor Tyre The wild and windy m... 42
1213  2 Apr 2003 John Milton Paradise Lost (excerpt) Who first seduced th... 42
602 10 Nov 2000 Glyn Maxwell Deep Sorriness Atonement Song (for missed appointm... 42
613 21 Nov 2000 John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey Let me take this oth... 42
807 10 Jun 2001 Redgum Working Girls She said she came fr... 42
1555  4 Nov 2004 Thomas Gray On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 'Twas on a lofty vas... 42
923 25 Oct 2001 A. C. Swinburne Leave-Taking Let us go hence, my ... 42
231 10 Oct 1999 Anna Akhmatova Requiem (excerpt) In the fearful years... 42
1119 28 Nov 2002 John Greenleaf Whittier The Pumpkin Oh, greenly and fair... 42
258 10 Nov 1999 T. S. Eliot Macavity: The Mystery Cat Macavity's a Mystery... 42
1812 19 Jan 2006 A. D. Hope Crossing the Frontier Crossing the frontie... 42
903 30 Sep 2001 Anon Leviathan Can you draw out Lev... 42
756 17 Apr 2001 Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Side by side, their ... 42
291 16 Dec 1999 T. S. Eliot The Journey of the Magi 'A cold coming we ha... 43
1549  8 Oct 2004 John Cooper Clarke Health Fanatic Around the block, ag... 43
983 17 Jan 2002 Stephen Vincent Benet The General Public "Ah, did you once se... 43
135  1 Jul 1999 W. S. Gilbert I've Got a Little List SONG--KO-KO with CHO... 43
1101  9 Oct 2002 Hart Crane To Brooklyn Bridge How many dawns, chil... 44
1244  3 May 2003 Rupert Brooke Dust When the white flame... 44
884  9 Sep 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day is Done The day is done, and... 44
1696 11 May 2005 Sir Walter Raleigh As You Came from the Holy Land As you came from the... 44
764 25 Apr 2001 John Betjeman A Subaltern's Love Song Miss J. Hunter Dunn,... 44
548 16 Sep 2000 Anonymous Barbara Allen In Scarlet town, whe... 44
1124 10 Dec 2002 J. Milton Hayes The Green Eye of the Yellow God There's a one-eyed y... 44
360 06 Mar 2000 John Whitworth I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea Fretting my heart as... 44
321 26 Jan 2000 Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting It seemed that out o... 44
1637 28 Feb 2005 William Carlos Williams Overture to a Dance of Locomotives Men with picked voic... 44
730 21 Mar 2001 Robert Frost Mending Wall Something there is t... 44
114 09 Jun 1999 Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner The Soul Cages A boy child lies loc... 44
1353 19 Sep 2003 Steely Dan Things I miss the most I don't mind the quiet 44
1709 30 May 2005 Michael Ondaatje Elizabeth Catch, my Uncle Jack said 45
866 14 Aug 2001 John Donne The Canonization For God's sake hold ... 45
270 22 Nov 1999 Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood It is Spring, moonle... 45
407 22 Apr 2000 William Butler Yeats Solomon and the Witch And thus declared th... 45
526 24 Aug 2000 Robert Browning A Toccata of Galuppi's Oh Galuppi, Baldassa... 45
287 10 Dec 1999 Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner Mad About You A stone's throw from... 45
854  1 Aug 2001 Ogden Nash Very Like a Whale One thing that liter... 45
328  2 Feb 2000 Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queen A gentle Knight was ... 45
1132 20 Dec 2002 E. E. Cummings if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) if everything happen... 45
736 28 Mar 2001 J. R. R. Tolkien The World was Young, the Mountains Green The world was young,... 46
158 25 Jul 1999 Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress Had we but world eno... 46
1355 21 Sep 2003 Alfredo Lepera The Day That You Love Me It caresses my dream, 46
1233 22 Apr 2003 Edwin Muir Ballad of Hector in Hades Yes, this is where I... 46
1129 15 Dec 2002 Agha Shahid Ali Farewell At a certain point I... 46
1271  7 Jun 2003 Pablo Neruda Poetry And it was at that a... 46
1516  8 Jun 2004 Michael Ondaatje The Cinnamon Peeler If I were a cinnamon... 46
1211 30 Mar 2003 Wilfred Owen Disabled He sat in a wheeled ... 46
1253 13 May 2003 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Dream-Pedlary If there were dreams... 46
1738 24 Jul 2005 Lisel Mueller Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say that... 46
80  4 May 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Brook (excerpt) `O babbling brook,' ... 46
387 01 Apr 2000 Les Murray An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow The word goes round ... 46
88 13 May 1999 W.S. Gilbert The Major General's Song SONG--MAJOR-GENERAL 46
516 15 Aug 2000 Nissim Ezekiel The Patriot I am standing for pe... 46
1139  9 Jan 2003 Billy Collins Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes First, her tippet ma... 47
78  2 May 1999 Hillaire Belloc The Pelagian Drinking Song Pelagius lived at Ka... 47
475 04 Jul 2000 Jorge Luis Borges The Other Tiger A tiger comes to min... 47
1443 29 Jan 2004 T. S. Eliot The Dry Salvages: Canto III I sometimes wonder i... 47
434 22 May 2000 A. K. Ramanujan Extended Family Yet like grandfather 47
1410 26 Dec 2003 Pablo Neruda If You Forget Me I want you to know 47
536 03 Sep 2000 Diana Bridge Lighter than a feather I 47
980  6 Jan 2002 Robert Service The March of the Dead The cruel war was ov... 48
237 17 Oct 1999 W.B.Yeats The Ballad of Father Gilligan The old priest Peter... 48
1651 14 Mar 2005 Sylvia Plath Aerialist Each night, this adr... 48
209 18 Sep 1999 Mary Robinson The Camp Tents, marquees, and... 48
297 21 Dec 1999 Edward Lear The Pobble Who Has No Toes The Pobble who has n... 48
857  5 Aug 2001 A. C. Swinburne Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' Before the beginning... 48
1028  2 Apr 2002 Patrick Barrington The Diplomatic Platypus I had a duck-billed ... 48
300 24 Dec 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson The Gift of God - Blessed with a joy t... 48
1026 30 Mar 2002 Rudyard Kipling The Prodigal Son Here come I to my ow... 48
776  9 May 2001 Robert Burns To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough Wee, sleekit, cowrin... 48
182 20 Aug 1999 John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci O, what can ail thee... 48
1154 24 Jan 2003 Robert Burns Address to a Haggis Fair fa' your honest... 48
456 15 Jun 2000 Sir Henry Newbolt He Fell Among Thieves 'Ye have robb'd,' sa... 48
1450  5 Feb 2004 W. H. Auden After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics If all a top physici... 48
1440 25 Jan 2004 Francis Brett Young Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus Arthur is gone . . .... 48
125 19 Jun 1999 Sir Walter Scott Lochinvar O, young Lochinvar i... 48
137  3 Jul 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven A raven sat upon a tree, 48
427 15 May 2000 W. H. Auden The Two You are the town and... 48
1759 26 Aug 2005 Pam Ayres The Dolly on the Dustcart I'm the dolly on the... 48
1751  6 Aug 2005 A.D. Hope The Perfume "... marked males of... 48
1137  3 Jan 2003 Robert Service The Smoking Frog Three men I saw besi... 48
99 25 May 1999 Charles Swinburne Nephelidia From the depth of th... 48
1014 11 Mar 2002 Lewis Carroll A Sea Dirge There are certain th... 48
1399 27 Nov 2003 Gwen Harwood Critics Nightwatch Once more he tried, ... 48
1585 30 Dec 2004 Benjamin Zephaniah Vegan Delight Ackees, chapatties 48
629  7 Dec 2000 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Slave's Dream Beside the ungathere... 48
1267  2 Jun 2003 Wislawa Szymborska A Contribution to Statistics Out of a hundred people 49
485 13 Jul 2000 Joseph Langland Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel Quail and rabbit hun... 49
535 02 Sep 2000 Siegfried Sassoon The Working Party Three hours ago he b... 49
1238 27 Apr 2003 Jalaluddin Rumi This Will Not Win Him Reason says, 49
1232 21 Apr 2003 Sir Henry Newbolt The Best School of All It's good to see the... 49
705 22 Feb 2001 Willa Sibert Cather A Likeness Portrait Bust of an ... 49
967 20 Dec 2001 Eugene Field Wynken, Blynken, and Nod A Dutch Lullaby 49
379 24 Mar 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Buddha at Kamakura "And there is a Japa... 49
382 27 Mar 2000 A. K. Ramanujan A River In Madurai, 49
1309 26 Jul 2003 Robert Lowell Skunk Hour For Elizabeth Bishop 49
839 16 Jul 2001 Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument I. 49
1617  8 Feb 2005 Ralph Waldo Emerson Give All To Love Give all to love; 49
1395 23 Nov 2003 Elizabeth Bishop The Man-Moth Man-Moth: Newspaper ... 49
116 11 Jun 1999 Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne takes you do... 49
1571  7 Dec 2004 Nissim Ezekiel Jewish Wedding in Bombay Her mother shed a te... 49
1015 12 Mar 2002 Gerard Bacher Corsica (Before the Walk) 50
1559 10 Nov 2004 Walt Whitman Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Vigil strange I kept... 50
1121  4 Dec 2002 Arthur Conan Doyle H.M.S. Foudroyant [Being an humble add... 50
95 21 May 1999 Adrian Mitchell Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off Where are they now, ... 50
1604 25 Jan 2005 John Keats Odeon a Grecian Urn Thou still unravish'... 50
488 17 Jul 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe Dear Mr Lee Dear Mr Lee (Mr Smar... 50
455 14 Jun 2000 Sam Walter Foss The Coming War "There will be a war... 50
435 23 May 2000 Leo Connellan Tell Her That I Fell Woke me retching and... 50
1683 26 Apr 2005 Dar Williams The Ocean When I went to your ... 50
1726 23 Jun 2005 Michigan Court of Appeals Fisher v. Lowe A wayward Chevy stru... 50
55 07 Apr 1999 Robert Graves Welsh Incident 'But that was nothin... 51
423 11 May 2000 Anon The Song of Songs I am black, but come... 51
1805  1 Jan 2006 A. P. Herbert The Doctor The doctor took my s... 51
1436 21 Jan 2004 Emily Dickinson I Cannot Live with You I cannot live with you, 51
1025 28 Mar 2002 Newman Levy Thais One time in Alexandr... 52
1685 28 Apr 2005 Roger Waters The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range You have a natural t... 52
947 22 Nov 2001 John Kendal Ballad of a Homeless Bat The man was going in... 52
1085  2 Sep 2002 Harry Guest Death of a Friendship I mourn, now that yo... 52
333 07 Feb 2000 Anon Gnomic Stanzas Mountain snow, every... 52
1152 22 Jan 2003 Lewys Glyn Cothi Lament for Sion One son was my darli... 52
1656 20 Mar 2005 Patrick Barrington Battle Song There's havoc on the... 52
90 15 May 1999 Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey At The Bat It looked extremely ... 52
986 20 Jan 2002 Marianne Moore A Grave Man looking into the sea, 52
1630 21 Feb 2005 Kurtis Lamkin jump mama pretty summer day 53
1319  6 Aug 2003 Derek Walcott Goats and Monkeys '...even now, an old... 53
141 08 Jul 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea Lo! Death has reared... 53
686  4 Feb 2001 Joyce Maxner Nicholas Cricket Nicholas Cricket pla... 53
1378  2 Nov 2003 Edwin Muir The Horses Barely a twelvemonth... 53
1413 29 Dec 2003 W. H. Auden Christmas Oratio Well, so that is tha... 53
1447  2 Feb 2004 Leonard Cohen Take This Waltz Now in Vienna there'... 53
138 05 Jul 1999 Dylan Thomas Fern Hill Now as I was young a... 54
1052 15 May 2002 Brian Patten Angel Wings In the morning I ope... 54
36 17 Mar 1999 Don Marquis the lesson of the moth i was talking to a moth 54
1251 10 May 2003 John Masefield The Rider at the Gate A windy night was bl... 54
265 17 Nov 1999 Lewis Carroll The Mad Gardener's Song He thought he saw an... 54
809 12 Jun 2001 Hilaire Belloc Jim There was a Boy whos... 54
1724 20 Jun 2005 Don Marquis warty bliggens the toad i met a toad 54
1702 18 May 2005 Pablo Neruda Ode to the Lemon From blossoms 54
1281 19 Jun 2003 W. H. Auden Night Mail This is the Night Ma... 54
1711  2 Jun 2005 Michael Flanders Madeira, M'Dear She was young, she w... 54
230  9 Oct 1999 Don Marquis pity the poor spiders i have just been reading 54
1430 15 Jan 2004 Lisel Mueller Not only the Eskimos Not only the Eskimos 55
30 12 Mar 1999 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a D... 55
1179 20 Feb 2003 John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant It was six men of In... 55
955  5 Dec 2001 T. S. Eliot Gus: The Theatre Cat Gus is the Cat at th... 55
960 13 Dec 2001 Stephen Sondheim The Prologue to 'Sweeney Todd' [A Man:] 55
355 29 Feb 2000 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charge of the Light Brigade Half a league, half ... 55
656  4 Jan 2001 Anon Edward, Edward 'Why does your brand... 56
1275 12 Jun 2003 Paul Dunbar The Wind and the Sea I stood by the shore... 56
358 03 Mar 2000 Percy French Abdul Abulbul Amir The sons of the Prop... 56
1641  4 Mar 2005 Omar Khayyam You know, my Friends, how Long since in my House You know, my Friends... 56
1286 24 Jun 2003 John Hay Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle Wall, no! I can't te... 56
574 13 Oct 2000 T. S. Eliot Growltiger's Last Stand Growltiger was a Bra... 56
104 30 May 1999 Robert Browning My Last Duchess That's my last Duche... 56
1426 11 Jan 2004 Nissim Ezekiel The Hill This normative hill 56
1551 29 Oct 2004 Patrick Barrington My Love is Theosophist My love is a Theosophist 56
1013  8 Mar 2002 Louis Simpson Carentan O Carentan Trees in the old day... 56
370 15 Mar 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien Troll sat alone on his seat of stone Troll sat alone on h... 56
880  2 Sep 2001 Rudyard Kipling The Sergeant's Weddin' 'E was warned agin' ... 56
199  7 Sep 1999 Thomas Campbell Lord Ullin's Daughter A Chieftain, to the ... 56
405 20 Apr 2000 Dylan Thomas Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) Altarwise by owl-lig... 56
1673 11 Apr 2005 Ogden Nash The Tale of Custard the Dragon Belinda lived in a l... 56
1236 25 Apr 2003 Tony Hoagland Self-Improvement Just before she flew... 56
988 24 Jan 2002 Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order at Key West She sang beyond the ... 56
1513  1 Jun 2004 D. M. Thomas Poetry Reading Almost too diffident... 56
1597 14 Jan 2005 Patrick Barrington I Met a Lady in the Wood I met a lady in the wood. 56
1775  3 Oct 2005 W. H. Auden Doggerel by a Senior Citizen Our earth in 1969 56
959 11 Dec 2001 Henry Carey The Ballad of Sally in our Alley Of all the Girls tha... 56
1077 15 Aug 2002 Rudyard Kipling The Plea of the Simla Dancers Too late, alas! the song 56
919 20 Oct 2001 William Allingham The Fairies Up the airy mountain 56
811 14 Jun 2001 Edward Gorey The Insect God O what has become of... 56
1774  1 Oct 2005 Bob Dylan A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Oh, where have you b... 57
1626 17 Feb 2005 Ann Drysdale The Ram's Skull There it sits on the... 57
1068 27 Jun 2002 Charles S. Calverley Lovers and a Reflection In moss-prankt dells... 58
1098  3 Oct 2002 John Betjeman Indoor Games near Newbury In among the silver ... 58
1675 13 Apr 2005 Allen Ginsberg The Lion For Real 'Soyez muette pour m... 58
1341  3 Sep 2003 James Hetfield Carpe Diem Baby Hit dirt 59
181 19 Aug 1999 Arthur Conan Doyle The Guards Came Through Men of the Twenty-first 59
343 16 Feb 2000 William McGonagall The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Br... 59
1032  9 Apr 2002 Edward Thomas Words Out of us all 59
1272  9 Jun 2003 Robert Frost Birches When I see birches b... 59
1417  2 Jan 2004 Rabindranath Tagore At the last watch Pity, in place of love, 60
1469  2 Mar 2004 Elizabeth Bishop Song for the Rainy Season Hidden, oh hidden 60
1175 16 Feb 2003 Mark Doty Broadway Under Grand Central'... 60
1569  1 Dec 2004 Henry Lawson Past Carin’ Now up and down the ... 60
438 26 May 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe Not my Best Side I 60
1401  8 Dec 2003 Agha Shahid Ali A Nostalgist's Map of America The trees were soon ... 60
1502 23 Apr 2004 W. H. Auden Law Like Love Law, say the gardene... 60
1109 30 Oct 2002 Robert Browning Porphyria's Lover The rain set early i... 60
1527 30 Jun 2004 Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised You will not be able... 60
40 22 Mar 1999 Anon The Book of Job Can you hunt the pre... 62
222 01 Oct 1999 Peter Porter Your Attention Please The Polar DEW has ju... 62
507 06 Aug 2000 James Dickey The Sheep-Child Farm boys wild to couple 62
1588  2 Jan 2005 Wallace Stevens Six Significant Landscapes I 62
266 18 Nov 1999 Patrick O'Kelly The Litany for Doneraile Alas! how dismal is ... 62
397 12 Apr 2000 Adrian Mitchell Ancestors We had an island. 62
626  4 Dec 2000 Edmond Rostand Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose DE GUICHE: Will no o... 63
1362  1 Oct 2003 Louis MacNeice Dublin Grey brick upon brick, 63
647 25 Dec 2000 Trad God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God rest ye merry ge... 63
981  9 Jan 2002 Eric Bogle The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Now when I was a you... 64
293 18 Dec 1999 Allen Ginsberg Howl I saw the best minds... 64
1130 16 Dec 2002 Billy Collins Marginalia Sometimes the notes ... 64
1779 12 Oct 2005 John Kendall The Wasp Of those uncertain c... 64
525 23 Aug 2000 Conrad Aiken Morning Song of Senlin It is morning, Senli... 64
569  8 Oct 2000 Henry Lawson The Great Grey Plain Out West, where the ... 64
643 21 Dec 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon There is an inn, a m... 65
1729  3 Jul 2005 Stephen Dunn The Stories I was unfaithful to ... 65
232 11 Oct 1999 Wilfred Owen Insensibility I 65
953  1 Dec 2001 Friedrich Nietzsche Parable of the Madman Have you not heard o... 65
841 18 Jul 2001 Jalaluddin Rumi Emptiness Consider the difference 65
203 11 Sep 1999 Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim It was a summer evening, 66
259 11 Nov 1999 Lord Dunsany Songs from an Evil Wood I. 67
1321  8 Aug 2003 Bret Harte Ramon Drunk and senseless ... 67
50 02 Apr 1999 W.H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats He disappeared in th... 67
463 21 Jun 2000 A. A. Milne Disobedience James James 67
620 28 Nov 2000 Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird I 67
1804 31 Dec 2005 Sestina September rain falls... 68
1266  1 Jun 2003 Vikram Seth Research in Jiangsu Province From off this plasti... 68
279 02 Dec 1999 John Milton L'Allegro Hence, loathed Melancholy 68
1242  1 May 2003 Paul Durcan Cain and Abel My name is Cain MacC... 69
1331 21 Aug 2003 Thomas Hood Faithless Sally Brown An old ballad. 69
1295  4 Jul 2003 Robert Lowell For the Union Dead "Relinquunt Omnia Se... 69
1529 10 Jul 2004 Jacques Brel Timid Frieda Timid Frieda 70
121 16 Jun 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses It little profits th... 70
225 04 Oct 1999 Dylan Thomas Poem In October It was my thirtieth ... 70
1363  2 Oct 2003 Margaret Atwood Tricks with Mirrors i 71
1414 30 Dec 2003 Rudyard Kipling The Old Issue "Here is nothing new... 71
1146 16 Jan 2003 Rudyard Kipling The Young British Soldier When the 'arf-made r... 71
1316  2 Aug 2003 Tom Lehrer Lobachevsky Who made me the geni... 71
1126 12 Dec 2002 Robert W. Service The Shooting of Dan McGrew A bunch of the boys ... 71
1023 26 Mar 2002 W. S. Gilbert The Soldiers of our Queen DRAGOONS 71
1228 17 Apr 2003 George Faludy Learn by Heart This Poem of Mine Learn by heart this ... 71
1694  9 May 2005 Andrew Marvell The Garden How vainly men thems... 72
1672 10 Apr 2005 Marriott Edgar The Lion and Albert There's a famous sea... 72
635 14 Dec 2000 Robert Browning Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister GR-R-R--there go, my... 72
1806  2 Jan 2006 Bob Dylan With God on our Side Oh my name it is nothin' 72
700 18 Feb 2001 Rudyard Kipling Outsong in the Jungle [Baloo:] For the sak... 72
1138  8 Jan 2003 J R R Tolkien Luthien Tinuviel "The leaves were lon... 72
1441 26 Jan 2004 W. B. Yeats Among School Children I 72
1163  2 Feb 2003 Rudyard Kipling The Song Of The Dead Hear now the Song of... 73
147 14 Jul 1999 Edwin Morgan The Unspoken When the troopship w... 73
1670  8 Apr 2005 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Shawondasee Shawondasee, fat and... 73
1587  1 Jan 2005 Rudyard Kipling The Explorer "There's no sense in... 74
781 15 May 2001 Robert Service The Law of the Yukon This is the law of t... 74
495 24 Jul 2000 Sir Walter Scott Marmion (A Tale of Flodden Field) 74
329 03 Feb 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind I 75
1607 28 Jan 2005 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight The frost performs i... 75
1698 13 May 2005 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tithonus The woods decay, the... 75
1332 23 Aug 2003 Rudyard Kipling The Flowers To our private taste... 75
1785 25 Oct 2005 Elizabeth Bishop The Fish I caught a tremendou... 76
518 17 Aug 2000 James Elroy Flecker The Gates of Damascus Four great gates has... 76
588 28 Oct 2000 A. E. Housman Terence, this is stupid stuff "Terence, this is st... 76
273 24 Nov 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted A poet had a cat. 76
501 31 Jul 2000 Stanley Kunitz King of the River If the water were cl... 77
1282 20 Jun 2003 D. H. Lawrence Snake A snake came to my w... 77
900 27 Sep 2001 W. S. Gilbert Ballad: The Sorcerer's Song Oh! My name is John ... 77
466 25 Jun 2000 T. S. Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock. 78
1564 16 Nov 2004 Elizabeth Bishop Visits to St. Elizabeth's This is the house of... 78
816 21 Jun 2001 Pablo Neruda I'm Explaining a Few Things You are going to ask... 78
1289 27 Jun 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh The Lie Go, Soul, the body's... 78
1041 25 Apr 2002 Derek Walcott The Schooner 'Flight' 1. Adios, Carenage 78
1043 27 Apr 2002 Marianne Moore The Steeple-Jack Dürer would have see... 78
1624 15 Feb 2005 Nikki Giovanni Resignation I love you 79
746  7 Apr 2001 Isaac Rosenberg Dead Man's Dump The plunging limbers... 79
1011  7 Mar 2002 William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916 I have met them at c... 80
1020 23 Mar 2002 William Butler Yeats A Prayer For My Daughter Once more the storm ... 80
316 19 Jan 2000 John Keats Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and ... 80
404 19 Apr 2000 Sylvia Plath Daddy You do not do, you d... 80
1308 25 Jul 2003 Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken Garden In a coign of the cl... 80
731 22 Mar 2001 Sir Henry Newbolt A Ballad of John Nicholson It fell in the year ... 80
72 24 Apr 1999 Harivansh Rai Bachchan Madhushala (The Tavern) Seeking wine, the dr... 80
302 26 Dec 1999 William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To him who in the lo... 81
698 16 Feb 2001 Robert Service The Cremation of Sam McGee There are strange th... 82
281 03 Dec 1999 John Milton L'Allegro Straight mine eye ha... 83
211 20 Sep 1999 Adrian Mitchell The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry Back in the caveman ... 83
852 30 Jul 2001 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mariana in the Moated Grange With blackest moss t... 84
1273 10 Jun 2003 Robert Browning Love among the Ruins Where the quiet-colo... 84
1573 15 Dec 2004 John O'Brien Said Hanrahan "We'll all be rooned... 84
1674 12 Apr 2005 A. D. Hope Ode On the Death of Pius the Twelfth To every season its ... 84
1270  5 Jun 2003 Michael Ondaatje To A Sad Daughter All night long the h... 85
1127 13 Dec 2002 Rudyard Kipling Gunga Din You may talk o' gin ... 85
505  3 Aug 2000 W.S. Gilbert The Story of Prince Agib Strike the concertin... 85
621 30 Nov 2000 R. S. Thomas Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man I 85
1245  4 May 2003 Li-Young Lee Persimmons In sixth grade Mrs. ... 85
1807  3 Jan 2006 Langston Hughes Let America be America Again Let America be Ameri... 86
210 19 Sep 1999 Federico Garcia Lorca Romance Sonambulo Green, how I want yo... 86
1147 17 Jan 2003 James Fenton The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah (An Old Persian Legend) 86
1593  9 Jan 2005 Derek Walcott from The Estranging Sea 1 86
661  9 Jan 2001 Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno For I will consider ... 88
1725 22 Jun 2005 June Jordan The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one well I wanted to bra... 88
356 01 Mar 2000 Edward Lear The Akond of Swat Who, or why, or whic... 88
1285 23 Jun 2003 W. S. Gilbert Etiquette The Ballyshannon fou... 88
717  7 Mar 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus It was the schooner ... 88
1166  5 Feb 2003 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My Lost Youth Often I think of the... 90
1568 29 Nov 2004 A. D. Hope His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell Since you have world... 90
1016 13 Mar 2002 Henry Lawson Faces in the Street They lie, the men wh... 91
389 03 Apr 2000 James Joyce The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly Have you heard of on... 92
818 23 Jun 2001 Roald Dahl Television The most important t... 93
161 29 Jul 1999 W. S. Gilbert The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" 'TWAS on the shores ... 93
1150 20 Jan 2003 John Ashbery The Instruction Manual As I sit looking out... 93
627  5 Dec 2000 Laurence Hope Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank The Desert is parche... 94
562 30 Sep 2000 A. A. Milne The King's Breakfast The King asked 94
1792  9 Nov 2005 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck First having read th... 94
1027  1 Apr 2002 Anonymous Greensleeves A new Courtly Sonet,... 95
1731  6 Jul 2005 Cole Porter You're the Top You're the top! 95
532 30 Aug 2000 T. S. Eliot Little Gidding Ash on an old man's ... 95
1222 11 Apr 2003 Sigerson Clifford Brother Mick The mountain frowned... 96
547 15 Sep 2000 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Isles of Greece The isles of Greece!... 96
420 06 May 2000 John Davidson Thirty Bob a Week I couldn't touch a s... 96
1458 13 Feb 2004 Don Marquis aesop revised by archy a wolf met a spring 98
1616  7 Feb 2005 Julia Donaldson The Gruffalo A mouse took a strol... 98
734 25 Mar 2001 Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room In Worcester, Massac... 99
889 14 Sep 2001 W. H. Auden September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives 99
1298  8 Jul 2003 W. H. Auden Miss Gee Let me tell you a li... 100
437 25 May 2000 Anonymous Sir Patrick Spens The King sits in Dun... 100
837 14 Jul 2001 Czeslaw Milosz Child of Europe 1 100
326 31 Jan 2000 Anon The Seafarer May I for my own sel... 101
14 24 Feb 1999 Dylan Thomas Prologue This day winding down now 102
628  6 Dec 2000 Edward Lear The Dong with a Luminous Nose When awful darkness ... 103
13 22 Feb 1999 Alfred Noyes The Highwayman The wind was a torre... 103
67 19 Apr 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West Oh, East is East, an... 103
1495 13 Apr 2004 Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe... 105
644 22 Dec 2000 Amy Lowell Patterns I walk down the gard... 107
550 19 Sep 2000 Langdon Smith Evolution When you were a tadp... 108
1193  9 Mar 2003 James Dickey Cherrylog Road Off Highway 106 108
347 21 Feb 2000 Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter The sun was shining ... 108
85 10 May 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Once upon a midnight... 108
409 25 Apr 2000 Lewis Carroll Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur "How shall I be a poet? 108
978  3 Jan 2002 Anne Sexton Cinderella You always read about it 109
1570  6 Dec 2004 Gregory Corso Marriage Should I get married... 111
101 27 May 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The Bells Hear the sledges wit... 112
1258 18 May 2003 Rick Fields Buddha And The Goddess Thus have I made up 114
303 28 Dec 1999 Anon The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard As it fell out on a ... 116
184 22 Aug 1999 Chief Sealth Chief Seattle's Reply How can you buy or s... 117
1320  7 Aug 2003 Alfred Tennyson The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet At Flores in the Azo... 119
227 07 Oct 1999 Bob Dylan Desolation Row They're selling post... 120
1601 21 Jan 2005 Henry King Exequy on his Wife Accept, thou shrine ... 120
652 30 Dec 2000 Robert Southey The Cataract of Lodore "How does the water 121
1350 16 Sep 2003 Nazim Hikmet Things I Didn't Know I Loved it's 1962 March 28th 122
1416  1 Jan 2004 Roald Dahl Cinderella I guess you think yo... 122
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