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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
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