| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 43 | 24 Mar 1999 | Rudyard Kipling | Tommy | I went into a public... | 40 |
| 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 |
| 60 | 12 Apr 1999 | William Butler Yeats | Byzantium | The unpurged images ... | 40 |
| 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 |
| 1311 | 28 Jul 2003 | William Empson | Just a Smack at Auden | Waiting for the end,... | 41 |
| 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 |
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