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