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