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