| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 313 | 16 Jan 2000 | Ben Jonson | Gypsy Songs | The faery beam upon you, | 20 |
| 322 | 27 Jan 2000 | Richard Wilbur | In the Smoking Car | The eyelids meet. He... | 20 |
| 1762 | 7 Sep 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | Eyes | My most honorable ey... | 20 |
| 1761 | 31 Aug 2005 | William Logan | For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead | Lying on that blanke... | 20 |
| 341 | 15 Feb 2000 | Emily Dickinson | The Grass so little has to do - | The Grass so little ... | 20 |
| 344 | 18 Feb 2000 | Anon | The Navajo Night Way Ceremony | In beauty ... | 20 |
| 554 | 22 Sep 2000 | R. S. Thomas | Taliesin | I have been all men ... | 20 |
| 369 | 14 Mar 2000 | Bayard Taylor | The Cantelope | Side by side in the ... | 20 |
| 1736 | 22 Jul 2005 | Nissim Ezekiel | Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher | To force the pace an... | 20 |
| 373 | 18 Mar 2000 | Wallace Stevens | The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad | The time of year has... | 20 |
| 1722 | 17 Jun 2005 | Robert Browning | The Lost Mistress | All's over, then: do... | 20 |
| 567 | 5 Oct 2000 | George Herbert | Easter Wings | Lord, Who createdst ... | 20 |
| 391 | 6 Apr 2000 | George Herbert | The Pulley | When God at first ma... | 20 |
| 573 | 12 Oct 2000 | Alistair Campbell | At a Fishing Settlement | October, and a rain-... | 20 |
| 398 | 13 Apr 2000 | Robert Herrick | The Night Piece, To Julia | Her eyes the glow-wo... | 20 |
| 582 | 21 Oct 2000 | Edmund Waller | Go, Lovely Rose | Go, lovely Rose- | 20 |
| 1679 | 19 Apr 2005 | Mary Oliver | Summer | Leaving the house, | 20 |
| 441 | 30 May 2000 | William Wordsworth | The Simplon Pass | -Brook and road | 20 |
| 594 | 2 Nov 2000 | Harold Monro | Overheard on a Salmarsh | Nymph, nymph, what a... | 20 |
| 458 | 17 Jun 2000 | Emily Dickinson | The Chariot | Because I could not ... | 20 |
| 1652 | 15 Mar 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Gay Chaps at the Bar | ...and guys I knew i... | 20 |
| 476 | 5 Jul 2000 | Dylan Thomas | In my craft or sullen art | In my craft or sullen art | 20 |
| 479 | 08 Jul 2000 | Thomas Hardy | The Man He Killed | "Had he and I but met | 20 |
| 483 | 11 Jul 2000 | Walter de la Mare | Brueghel's Winter | Jagg'd mountain peak... | 20 |
| 1648 | 11 Mar 2005 | Donald Justice | Men at Forty | Men at forty | 20 |
| 517 | 16 Aug 2000 | Ralph Hodgson | The Gipsy Girl | "Come, try your skil... | 20 |
| 619 | 28 Nov 2000 | e. e. cummings | somewhere i have never travelled | somewhere i have nev... | 20 |
| 972 | 28 Dec 2001 | Rupert Brooke | The Beginning | Some day I shall ris... | 20 |
| 883 | 7 Sep 2001 | Seamus Heaney | Personal Helicon | As a child, they cou... | 20 |
| 1594 | 10 Jan 2005 | Lao-Tzu | Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 | If you want to be a ... | 20 |
| 1581 | 23 Dec 2004 | William Stafford | A Ritual to Read to Each Other | If you don't know th... | 20 |
| 1561 | 12 Nov 2004 | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | People | No people are uninte... | 20 |
| 871 | 23 Aug 2001 | Emily Dickinson | I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | I felt a Funeral, in... | 20 |
| 995 | 9 Feb 2002 | John Lennon | Come Together | Here come old flatto... | 20 |
| 1552 | 1 Nov 2004 | Robert Frost | My November Guest | My Sorrow, when she'... | 20 |
| 885 | 11 Sep 2001 | Suzanne Vega | Night Vision | By day give thanks, ... | 20 |
| 1514 | 4 Jun 2004 | Queen Elizabeth I | When I was fair and young, and favour graced me | When I was fair and ... | 20 |
| 7 | 17 Feb 1999 | Anon | Scarborough Fair | Are you going to Sca... | 20 |
| 25 | 7 Mar 1999 | George Santayana | The Poet's Testament | I give back to the e... | 20 |
| 1115 | 22 Nov 2002 | Robinson Jeffers | Shine, Perishing Republic | While this America s... | 20 |
| 813 | 16 Jun 2001 | Thomas Hardy | Weathers | (I) | 20 |
| 51 | 2 Apr 1999 | Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken | Two roads diverged i... | 20 |
| 1377 | 1 Nov 2003 | Jeffrey McDaniel | The Quiet World | In an effort to get ... | 20 |
| 65 | 17 Apr 1999 | Robert Browning | Home Thoughts From Abroad | Oh, to be in England | 20 |
| 1221 | 10 Apr 2003 | Judith Wright | Woman to Man | The eyeless labourer... | 20 |
| 1125 | 11 Dec 2002 | A. B. "Banjo" Paterson | Waltzing Matilda | Oh! there once was a... | 20 |
| 75 | 28 Apr 1999 | Christopher Marlowe | The face that launch'd a thousand ships | Was this the face th... | 20 |
| 921 | 23 Oct 2001 | Steely Dan | Charlie Freak | Charlie Freak had bu... | 20 |
| 684 | 2 Feb 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey | Scrambled eggs and w... | 20 |
| 97 | 23 May 1999 | William Blake | The Fly | Little Fly | 20 |
| 799 | 3 Jun 2001 | Kenneth Grahame | Mr Toad | The world has held g... | 20 |
| 1144 | 14 Jan 2003 | W. B. Yeats | The Stare's Nest by My Window | The bees build in th... | 20 |
| 697 | 15 Feb 2001 | Dorothy Parker | A Well Worn Story | In April, in April, | 20 |
| 798 | 2 Jun 2001 | John Updike | V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick | V.B. Wigglesworth wa... | 20 |
| 788 | 22 May 2001 | John Updike | I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name | Though authors are a... | 20 |
| 735 | 27 Mar 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | Decalogue | Thou shalt no God bu... | 20 |
| 159 | 27 Jul 1999 | Arthur Hugh Clough | The Latest Decalogue | Thou shalt have one ... | 20 |
| 833 | 10 Jul 2001 | Christopher Morley | Washing the Dishes | When we on simple ra... | 20 |
| 702 | 20 Feb 2001 | John Masefield | Night Is On The Downland | Night is on the down... | 20 |
| 831 | 8 Jul 2001 | Spike Milligan | The Soldiers at Lauro | Young are our dead | 20 |
| 1315 | 1 Aug 2003 | Judith Saunders | Mathematicians at Work | hunker down on their... | 20 |
| 1167 | 6 Feb 2003 | Blind Harry | Wallace (extract) | Of our ancestors, br... | 20 |
| 1300 | 10 Jul 2003 | Flann O'Brien | The Workman's Friend | When things go wrong... | 20 |
| 195 | 03 Sep 1999 | Peter Schaeffer | Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum | You mysterious jongl... | 20 |
| 742 | 3 Apr 2001 | Nazim Hikmet | I Come and Stand at Every Door | I come and stand at ... | 20 |
| 703 | 20 Feb 2001 | A. E. Housman | On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble | On Wenlock Edge the ... | 20 |
| 1181 | 22 Feb 2003 | Carl Sandburg | Elephants Are Different to Different People | Wilson and Pilcer an... | 20 |
| 1423 | 8 Jan 2004 | James Fenton | Out of Danger | Heart be kind and si... | 20 |
| 782 | 16 May 2001 | F.R. Scott | National Identity | The Canadian Centena... | 20 |
| 1194 | 10 Mar 2003 | Kahlil Gibran | Children | And a woman who held... | 20 |
| 243 | 24 Oct 1999 | William Shakespeare | When that I was and a little tiny boy | When that I was and ... | 20 |
| 1246 | 5 May 2003 | Lucille Clifton | the lost baby poem | the time i dropped y... | 20 |
| 755 | 16 Apr 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Gone Are The Days | Impossible to call a... | 20 |
| 1797 | 18 Nov 2005 | Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta | Winter '84 | I tell the corner st... | 20 |
| 1411 | 27 Dec 2003 | Derek Walcott | Pentecost | Better a jungle in t... | 20 |
| 529 | 28 Aug 2000 | Emily Dickinson | If you were coming in the fall | If you were coming i... | 20 |
| 1405 | 16 Dec 2003 | William Blake | The Lamb | Little Lamb, who mad... | 20 |
| 968 | 22 Dec 2001 | Robert Penn Warren | Grackles, Goodbye | Black of grackles gl... | 20 |
| 374 | 19 Mar 2000 | Alex Pascall | Psalm Of the Valleys | We dedicate, O Lord,... | 21 |
| 748 | 9 Apr 2001 | Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Be Near Me | You who demolish me,... | 21 |
| 250 | 01 Nov 1999 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Walt Whitman | The master-songs are... | 21 |
| 359 | 4 Mar 2000 | Thomas Buchanan Read | The Angler | But look! o'er the f... | 21 |
| 886 | 11 Sep 2001 | Philip Larkin | Maiden Name | Marrying left your m... | 21 |
| 603 | 11 Nov 2000 | Eunice deSouza | Marriages Are Made | My cousin Elena | 21 |
| 412 | 28 Apr 2000 | Octavio Paz | There is a motionless tree | There is a motionles... | 21 |
| 1325 | 15 Aug 2003 | Miklos Radnoti | Forced March | You're crazy. You fa... | 21 |
| 484 | 12 Jul 2000 | William Carlos Williams | Hunters in the Snow | The over-all picture... | 21 |
| 1445 | 31 Jan 2004 | Mark Granier | What Did You Do On Your Weekend In Vancouver? | Walked with the traf... | 21 |
| 1681 | 21 Apr 2005 | There is an end to even the worst career! | -— Sir John Collings... | 21 | |
| 615 | 23 Nov 2000 | Monty Python | The Philosopher's Drinking Song | Immanuel Kant was a ... | 21 |
| 671 | 19 Jan 2001 | Ted Hughes | Lineage | In the beginning was... | 21 |
| 1034 | 11 Apr 2002 | Tadeusz Ròzewicz | Pigtail | When all the women i... | 21 |
| 1415 | 31 Dec 2003 | Chris Rea | Gone Fishing | I'm going fishing | 21 |
| 1017 | 14 Mar 2002 | Franklin P. Adams | Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" | ("Sir: For the first... | 21 |
| 1168 | 7 Feb 2003 | John Donne | The Good-morrow | I wonder by my troth... | 21 |
| 1312 | 29 Jul 2003 | Naomi Lazard | Ordinance on Arrival | Welcome to you | 22 |
| 1802 | 29 Dec 2005 | by Wislawa Szymborska | A Note | Life is the only way | 22 |
| 1668 | 6 Apr 2005 | Mark Knopfler | Love Over Gold | You walk out on the ... | 22 |
| 1215 | 3 Apr 2003 | Andrew Motion | Regime Change | Advancing down the r... | 22 |
| 1427 | 12 Jan 2004 | Neil Young | Out of Control | Once, high on a hill... | 22 |
| 461 | 20 Jun 2000 | Thomas Lynch | Couplets | Two girls found dead... | 22 |
| 1408 | 20 Dec 2003 | Bill Watterson | My Mom and Dad | My mom and my dad ar... | 22 |
| 1003 | 20 Feb 2002 | Sharon Olds | The Connoisseuse of Slugs | When I was a connois... | 22 |
| 77 | 29 Apr 1999 | D. H. Lawrence | Bavarian Gentians | Not every man has ge... | 22 |
| 346 | 21 Feb 2000 | Paul Zimmer | The Great Bird of Love | I want to become a g... | 22 |
| 1540 | 7 Sep 2004 | Nikki Giovanni | I'm not Lonely | i'm not lonely | 22 |
| 68 | 21 Apr 1999 | W. H. Auden | Musee des Beaux Arts | About suffering they... | 22 |
| 58 | 10 Apr 1999 | Dylan Thomas | The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower | The force that throu... | 22 |
| 637 | 16 Dec 2000 | Thom Gunn | The Hug | It was your birthday... | 22 |
| 187 | 25 Aug 1999 | R. S. Thomas | Poetry for Supper | 'Listen, now, verse ... | 22 |
| 716 | 6 Mar 2001 | Jenny Joseph | Warning | When I am an old wom... | 22 |
| 48 | 31 Mar 1999 | William Shakespeare | Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth | O, pardon me, thou b... | 22 |
| 1501 | 21 Apr 2004 | William Shakespeare | The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd | The quality of mercy... | 22 |
| 1046 | 4 May 2002 | Henrik Nordbrandt | Sailing | After having loved w... | 22 |
| 289 | 13 Dec 1999 | William Butler Yeats | The Second Coming | Turning and turning ... | 22 |
| 1224 | 13 Apr 2003 | Louise Glück | The Wild Iris | At the end of my suf... | 23 |
| 200 | 09 Sep 1999 | William Shakespeare | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks | Blow, winds, and cra... | 23 |
| 1335 | 27 Aug 2003 | Roger McGough | Balloon Fight | 'This morning, the A... | 23 |
| 998 | 13 Feb 2002 | Brian Patten | A blade of grass | You ask for a poem. | 23 |
| 887 | 11 Sep 2001 | Walt Whitman | Beat! Beat! Drums! | Beat! beat! drums! -... | 23 |
| 728 | 19 Mar 2001 | W.H.Auden | from The Dog Beneath The Skin | Now through night's ... | 23 |
| 1334 | 26 Aug 2003 | Jalaluddin Rumi | Where Everything Is Music | Don't worry about sa... | 23 |
| 1110 | 17 Nov 2002 | Maj Gen WH Rupertus | My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine) | This is my rifle. | 23 |
| 673 | 21 Jan 2001 | Rabindranath Tagore | The Flower-School | When storm-clouds ru... | 23 |
| 1383 | 11 Nov 2003 | Wendell Berry | Untitled | To my granddaughters... | 23 |
| 1206 | 25 Mar 2003 | William Ernest Henley | Margaritae Sorori | A late lark twitters... | 23 |
| 1439 | 24 Jan 2004 | Federico García Lorca | Gacela of the Dark Death | I want to sleep the ... | 23 |
| 752 | 13 Apr 2001 | Alfred Kreymborg | Overheard In An Asylum | And here we have ano... | 23 |
| 865 | 13 Aug 2001 | Carol Ann Duffy | Valentine | Not a red rose or a ... | 23 |
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