| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 93 | 19 May 1999 | J. R. R. Tolkien | Eärendil was a mariner | Eärendil was a mariner | 124 |
| 122 | 17 Jun 1999 | Don Marquis | certain maxims of archy | many a man spanks his | 125 |
| 1171 | 12 Feb 2003 | Edward E. Paramore Jr | The Ballad of Yukon Jake | Begging Robert W. Se... | 125 |
| 1102 | 10 Oct 2002 | June Jordan | On a New Year's Eve | Infinity doesn't int... | 126 |
| 1278 | 15 Jun 2003 | Adam Lindsay Gordon | From the Wreck | "Turn out, boys!" --... | 128 |
| 1079 | 21 Aug 2002 | Don Marquis | mehitabel and her kittens | well boss | 129 |
| 1091 | 10 Sep 2002 | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | The curfew tolls the... | 129 |
| 1108 | 29 Oct 2002 | Yehuda Amichai | Seven Laments for the War-Dead | 1 | 130 |
| 172 | 10 Aug 1999 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Paul Revere's Ride | Listen my children a... | 130 |
| 1684 | 27 Apr 2005 | T. S. Eliot | Portrait of a Lady | Thou hast committed -- | 131 |
| 368 | 13 Mar 2000 | William Blake | Auguries of Innocence | To see a World in a ... | 132 |
| 76 | 29 Apr 1999 | Don Marquis | archy interviews a pharoh | boss i went | 137 |
| 193 | 01 Sep 1999 | T. S. Eliot | The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock | S`io credesse che mi... | 142 |
| 1788 | 29 Oct 2005 | Anonymous | Moses' Poem | Give ear, O heavens,... | 142 |
| 1280 | 17 Jun 2003 | G. K. Chesterton | Lepanto | White founts falling... | 143 |
| 715 | 5 Mar 2001 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Blessed Damozel | The blessed damozel ... | 144 |
| 1177 | 18 Feb 2003 | Eminem | The Way I Am | This song is for anyone | 151 |
| 1183 | 25 Feb 2003 | James Fenton | Out of the East | Out of the South cam... | 174 |
| 1082 | 29 Aug 2002 | W. H. Auden | Under Which Lyre | A Reactionary Tract ... | 175 |
| 1264 | 30 May 2003 | Vachel Lindsay | The Santa Fe Trail | (A Humoresque) | 178 |
| 989 | 25 Jan 2002 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Lotos-Eaters | "Courage!" he said, ... | 182 |
| 1106 | 26 Oct 2002 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Locksley Hall | Comrades, leave me h... | 194 |
| 1252 | 12 May 2003 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Dream | I | 215 |
| 720 | 10 Mar 2001 | Thomas Hood | The Dream of Eugene Aram | 'Twas in the prime o... | 216 |
| 1606 | 27 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Masque of Anarchy (extract) | XXXVII. | 284 |
| 1424 | 9 Jan 2004 | Pare Lorentz | The River | From as far West as ... | 302 |
| 242 | 23 Oct 1999 | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | A Child's Story | 320 |
| 489 | 17 Jul 2000 | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Horatius | A Lay Made About the... | 660 |
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