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1 09 Feb 1999 William Butler Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the ha... 24
2 10 Feb 1999 Walter De La Mare The Listeners 'Is there anybody th... 36
3 11 Feb 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid This darksome burn, ... 16
4 12 Feb 1999 J R R Tolkien The Road Goes Ever On The Road goes ever o... 8
5 15 Feb 1999 Carl Sandburg Chicago Hog Butcher for the ... 42
6 15 Feb 1999 Arthur O'Shaughnessy Ode We are the music-makers, 24
7 17 Feb 1999 Anon Scarborough Fair Are you going to Sca... 20
8 17 Feb 1999 Christina Rosetti Song When I am dead, my d... 16
9 19 Feb 1999 T. S. Eliot La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) Stand on the highest... 24
10 19 Feb 1999 Walter Savage Landor On His Seventy-fifth Birthday I strove with none, ... 4
11 20 Feb 1999 John McCrae In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields t... 15
12 22 Feb 1999 John Keats On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer Much have I travell'... 14
13 22 Feb 1999 Alfred Noyes The Highwayman The wind was a torre... 103
14 24 Feb 1999 Dylan Thomas Prologue This day winding down now 102
15 24 Feb 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle (a fragment) He clasps the crag w... 6
16 25 Feb 1999 William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five Full fathom five thy... 9
17 26 Feb 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Way Through the Woods They shut the road t... 25
18 27 Feb 1999 Louis MacNeice Bagpipe Music It's no go the merry... 34
19 01 Mar 1999 Robert Burns John Anderson My Jo John Anderson my jo,... 16
20  1 Mar 1999 Robert L. Stevenson Requiem Under the wide and s... 8
21 03 Mar 1999 William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium That is no country f... 32
22  3 Mar 1999 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias I met a traveller fr... 14
23 05 Mar 1999 Matsuo Basho Haiku old pond..... 3
24  5 Mar 1999 Arthur Guiterman On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness The tusks which clas... 8
25  7 Mar 1999 George Santayana The Poet's Testament I give back to the e... 20
26 08 Mar 1999 William Blake Jerusalem And did those feet i... 16
27  8 Mar 1999 John Masefield Sea Fever I must go down to th... 24
28 10 Mar 1999 Adrian Mitchell To Whom It May Concern I was run over by th... 39
29 10 Mar 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Sea and the Hills Who hath desired the... 28
30 12 Mar 1999 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a D... 55
31 12 Mar 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, break, break Break, break, break, 16
32 14 Mar 1999 William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall ... 16
33 15 Mar 1999 A. E. Housman A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI White in the moon th... 16
34 15 Mar 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay First Fig My candle burns at b... 4
35 17 Mar 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover I caught this mornin... 14
36 17 Mar 1999 Don Marquis the lesson of the moth i was talking to a moth 54
37 19 Mar 1999 Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns I 41
38 19 Mar 1999 Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle int... 19
39 20 Mar 1999 Alexander Pope The Riddle of the World Know then thyself, p... 17
40 22 Mar 1999 Anon The Book of Job Can you hunt the pre... 62
41 22 Mar 1999 Sir Henry Newbolt Ireland, Ireland Down thy valleys, Ir... 12
42 24 Mar 1999 Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting I sit in the top of ... 24
43 24 Mar 1999 Rudyard Kipling Tommy I went into a public... 40
44 26 Mar 1999 William Shakespeare My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) My mistress' eyes ar... 14
45 28 Mar 1999 Boris Pasternak Winter Night It snowed and snowed... 32
46 29 Mar 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien Lament for Boromir Through Rohan over f... 30
47 29 Mar 1999 Christina Rossetti Uphill Does the road wind u... 16
48 31 Mar 1999 William Shakespeare Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth O, pardon me, thou b... 22
49 31 Mar 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay The Unexplorer There was a road ran... 6
50 02 Apr 1999 W.H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats He disappeared in th... 67
51  2 Apr 1999 Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged i... 20
52  3 Apr 1999 Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky 'Twas brillig and th... 28
53 05 Apr 1999 Sylvia Plath Winter landscape, with rocks Water in the millrac... 15
54  5 Apr 1999 Walt Whitman When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer When I heard the lea... 10
55 07 Apr 1999 Robert Graves Welsh Incident 'But that was nothin... 51
56 09 Apr 1999 Matsuo Basho Haiku scent of plum blossoms 3
57  7 Apr 1999 E. E. Cummings pity this busy monster, manunkind pity this busy monst... 15
58 10 Apr 1999 Dylan Thomas The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower The force that throu... 22
59 10 Apr 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Spring and Fall, to a Young Child Margaret, are you gr... 15
60 12 Apr 1999 William Butler Yeats Byzantium The unpurged images ... 40
61 12 Apr 1999 Seamus Heaney Song A rowan like a lipst... 8
62 14 Apr 1999 George Gordon, Lord Byron So We'll Go No More a-Roving So we'll go no more ... 12
63 15 Apr 1999 William Wordsworth Daffodils I wandered lonely as... 24
64 16 Apr 1999 Peter Porter Instant Fish Instant Fish 4
65 17 Apr 1999 Robert Browning Home Thoughts From Abroad Oh, to be in England 20
66 19 Apr 1999 William Blake The Tyger Tyger! Tyger! Burnin... 24
67 19 Apr 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West Oh, East is East, an... 103
68 21 Apr 1999 W. H. Auden Musee des Beaux Arts About suffering they... 22
69 21 Apr 1999 Arthur Hugh Clough There is no god, the wicked sayeth "There is no God," t... 32
70 23 Apr 1999 Ezra Pound The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter While my hair was st... 29
71 24 Apr 1999 William Shakespeare Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) Shall I compare thee... 14
72 24 Apr 1999 Harivansh Rai Bachchan Madhushala (The Tavern) Seeking wine, the dr... 80
73 26 Apr 1999 Philip Larkin I Remember, I Remember Coming up England by... 36
74 26 Apr 1999 John Masefield Cargoes Quinquireme of Ninev... 15
75 28 Apr 1999 Christopher Marlowe The face that launch'd a thousand ships Was this the face th... 20
76 29 Apr 1999 Don Marquis archy interviews a pharoh boss i went 137
77 29 Apr 1999 D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians Not every man has ge... 22
78  2 May 1999 Hillaire Belloc The Pelagian Drinking Song Pelagius lived at Ka... 47
79  2 May 1999 William Butler Yeats Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland The old brown thorn-... 15
80  4 May 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Brook (excerpt) `O babbling brook,' ... 46
81  4 May 1999 Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose O my Luve's like a r... 16
82  5 May 1999 William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single i... 32
83  6 May 1999 William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends 8
84  9 May 1999 R. L. Stevenson From a Railway Carriage Faster than fairies,... 16
85 10 May 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Once upon a midnight... 108
86 11 May 1999 A. E. Housman When I Was One-and-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty 16
87 12 May 1999 Otomo No Yakamochi Two Tanka From outside my house, 10
88 13 May 1999 W.S. Gilbert The Major General's Song SONG--MAJOR-GENERAL 46
89 14 May 1999 Matthew Arnold Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night, 37
90 15 May 1999 Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey At The Bat It looked extremely ... 52
91 17 May 1999 A. A. Milne Cottleston Pie Cottleston Cottlesto... 12
92 18 May 1999 Emily Dickinson There's a certain Slant of light There's a certain Sl... 16
93 19 May 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien Eärendil was a mariner Eärendil was a mariner 124
94 20 May 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet d... 36
95 21 May 1999 Adrian Mitchell Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off Where are they now, ... 50
96 22 May 1999 Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain They sing their dear... 28
97 23 May 1999 William Blake The Fly Little Fly 20
98 24 May 1999 Ted Hughes The Thought Fox I imagine this midni... 24
99 25 May 1999 Charles Swinburne Nephelidia From the depth of th... 48
100 26 May 1999 Philip Larkin Days What are days for? 10
101 27 May 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The Bells Hear the sledges wit... 112
102 28 May 1999 Amy Lowell Generations You are like the stem 13
103 28 May 1999 James Leigh Hunt Jenny Kissed Me Jenny kiss'd me when... 8
104 30 May 1999 Robert Browning My Last Duchess That's my last Duche... 56
105 31 May 1999 Edwin Brock Five Ways to Kill a Man There are many cumbe... 32
106  1 Jun 1999 John Milton On His Blindness When I consider how ... 14
107 02 Jun 1999 T. S. Eliot Preludes I 14
108  2 Jun 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay The Penitent I had a little Sorrow, 24
109 04 Jun 1999 Anon The Viking Terror Bitter is the wind t... 4
110  5 Jun 1999 D.H.Lawrence Intimates Don't you care for m... 11
111  6 Jun 1999 Marge Piercy Why marry at all? Why mar what has gro... 36
112 07 Jun 1999 Bob Dylan Mr.Tambourine Man Hey, Mr. Tambourine ... 27
113  8 Jun 1999 Sara Teasdale Morning I went out on an Apr... 8
114 09 Jun 1999 Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner The Soul Cages A boy child lies loc... 44
115 10 Jun 1999 Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna Not a drum was heard... 32
116 11 Jun 1999 Leonard Cohen Suzanne Suzanne takes you do... 49
117 12 Jun 1999 William Ernest Henley The Rain and the Wind The rain and the win... 15
118 13 Jun 1999 Faiz Ahmed Faiz A Prison Evening Each star a rung, 26
119 14 Jun 1999 Paul Simon A Poem on the Underground Wall The last train is ne... 30
120 15 Jun 1999 Gelett Burgess The Purple Cow The Purple Cow's Pro... 7
121 16 Jun 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses It little profits th... 70
122 17 Jun 1999 Don Marquis certain maxims of archy many a man spanks his 125
123 18 Jun 1999 Ezra Pound And the days are not full enough And the days are not... 4
124 19 Jun 1999 Hillaire Belloc The Hippopotamus I shoot the Hippopotamus 4
125 19 Jun 1999 Sir Walter Scott Lochinvar O, young Lochinvar i... 48
126 21 Jun 1999 William Shakespeare Our revels now are ended Our revels now are e... 11
127 22 Jun 1999 John Milton On Shakespear What needs my Shakes... 16
128 24 Jun 1999 William Wordsworth London, 1802 Milton! thou shoulds... 14
129 25 Jun 1999 Sylvia Plath Ariel Stasis in darkness. 31
130 26 Jun 1999 Robert Browning The Lost Leader Just for a handful o... 32
131 27 Jun 1999 Craig Raine A Martian Sends A Postcard Home Caxtons are mechanic... 34
132 28 Jun 1999 Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like ol... 28
133 29 Jun 1999 Robert Browning Song, from Pippa Passes The year's at the spring, 8
134 30 Jun 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty Glory be to God for ... 11
135  1 Jul 1999 W. S. Gilbert I've Got a Little List SONG--KO-KO with CHO... 43
136 02 Jul 1999 Rainer Maria Rilke The Panther His vision, from the... 12
137  3 Jul 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven A raven sat upon a tree, 48
138 05 Jul 1999 Dylan Thomas Fern Hill Now as I was young a... 54
139  5 Jul 1999 E. E. Cummings Buffalo Bill's/ defunct Buffalo Bill's 11
140  6 Jul 1999 Christina Rossetti By The Sea Why does the sea moa... 15
141 08 Jul 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea Lo! Death has reared... 53
142 09 Jul 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien He chanted a song of wizardry He chanted a song of... 32
143 10 Jul 1999 Rudyard Kipling Harp Song of the Dane Women What is a woman that... 24
144 11 Jul 1999 Chidiock Tichborne On the Eve of His Execution My prime of youth is... 18
145 12 Jul 1999 Anon Ice The wave, over the w... 3
146 13 Jul 1999 Joyce Kilmer Trees I think that I shall... 12
147 14 Jul 1999 Edwin Morgan The Unspoken When the troopship w... 73
148 15 Jul 1999 Ambrose Bierce With a Book Words shouting, sing... 4
149 16 Jul 1999 George Peele Bethsabe's Song Hot sun, cool fire, ... 10
150 17 Jul 1999 Dorothy Parker Resume Razors pain you; 8
151 18 Jul 1999 Rudyard Kipling Recessional God of our fathers, ... 30
152 20 Jul 1999 R. S. Thomas The Ancients of the World The salmon lying in ... 12
153 20 Jul 1999 James Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem Abou Ben Adhem (may ... 18
154 21 Jul 1999 Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock The houses are haunted 15
155 22 Jul 1999 Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these ar... 16
156 23 Jul 1999 Anon Angelica the Doorkeeper The falcon soars 6
157 24 Jul 1999 Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captai... 24
158 25 Jul 1999 Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress Had we but world eno... 46
159 27 Jul 1999 Arthur Hugh Clough The Latest Decalogue Thou shalt have one ... 20
160 28 Jul 1999 William Butler Yeats The Realists Hope that you may un... 8
161 29 Jul 1999 W. S. Gilbert The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" 'TWAS on the shores ... 93
162 30 Jul 1999 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Awake! for Morning i... 28
163 31 Jul 1999 Carl Sandburg Dust Here is dust remembe... 6
164  1 Aug 1999 Pablo Neruda Bird It was passed from o... 25
165 02 Aug 1999 Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Owl and the Puss... 33
166 04 Aug 1999 Rudyard Kipling Night-Song in the Jungle Now Chil the Kite br... 8
167 05 Aug 1999 Anon Pangur Ban I and Pangur Ban my cat, 32
168 06 Aug 1999 Andrew Young A Dead Mole Strong-shouldered mole, 8
169  7 Aug 1999 Lord Byron She Walks in Beauty She walks in beauty ... 18
170  8 Aug 1999 Robert Frost The Need of Being Versed in Country Things The house had gone t... 24
171 09 Aug 1999 Anthony Raftery I am Raftery the poet I am Raftery the poet. 12
172 10 Aug 1999 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride Listen my children a... 130
173 11 Aug 1999 Willie Dixon Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my ... 36
174 12 Aug 1999 Emily Dickinson A Route of Evanescence A Route of Evanescence 8
175 13 Aug 1999 Anon I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre I am Taliesin. I sin... 27
176 14 Aug 1999 Hillaire Belloc Is there any reward? Is there any reward? 8
177 15 Aug 1999 Rabindranath Tagore Where The Mind is Without Fear Where the mind is wi... 11
178 17 Aug 1999 Philip Larkin Water If I were called in 13
179 17 Aug 1999 P.G. Wodehouse Missed The sun in the heave... 40
180 18 Aug 1999 Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream Call the roller of b... 16
181 19 Aug 1999 Arthur Conan Doyle The Guards Came Through Men of the Twenty-first 59
182 20 Aug 1999 John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci O, what can ail thee... 48
183 21 Aug 1999 William Makepeace Thackeray Sorrows of Werther Werther had a love f... 16
184 22 Aug 1999 Chief Sealth Chief Seattle's Reply How can you buy or s... 117
185 23 Aug 1999 David O'Bruadair A Glass of Beer The lanky hank of a ... 12
186 24 Aug 1999 Patrick MacGill By-the-Way These be the little ... 15
187 25 Aug 1999 R. S. Thomas Poetry for Supper 'Listen, now, verse ... 22
188 26 Aug 1999 Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica A poem should be pal... 24
189 27 Aug 1999 bpNichol dear Captain Poetry dear Captain Poetry, 24
190 28 Aug 1999 Nicanor Parra Young Poets Write as you will 8
191 30 Aug 1999 Ezra Pound The Garden Like a skein of loos... 12
192 31 Aug 1999 Dorothy Parker Comment Oh, life is a glorio... 4
193 01 Sep 1999 T. S. Eliot The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock S`io credesse che mi... 142
194  2 Sep 1999 George Starbuck Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line O for a muse of fire... 15
195 03 Sep 1999 Peter Schaeffer Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum You mysterious jongl... 20
196  4 Sep 1999 Stephen Crane In the desert In the desert 10
197  5 Sep 1999 Leo Marks A Code Poem For The French Resistance The life that I have... 9
198 06 Sep 1999 Peter Porter Japanese Jokes In his winged collar 33
199  7 Sep 1999 Thomas Campbell Lord Ullin's Daughter A Chieftain, to the ... 56
200 09 Sep 1999 William Shakespeare Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks Blow, winds, and cra... 23
201  8 Sep 1999 Denise Levertov To the Reader As you read, a white... 10
202 10 Sep 1999 William Empson Missing Dates Slowly the poison th... 19
203 11 Sep 1999 Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim It was a summer evening, 66
204 12 Sep 1999 Anon The Vision of a Giant who Migrated from Baja to Tiburon Island Slender whirlwinds c... 11
205 13 Sep 1999 Carl Sandburg Crucible Hot gold runs a wind... 6
206 14 Sep 1999 Prescott Hoard Sky Line A workman climbed a ... 6
207 15 Sep 1999 Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihews The art of Biography 28
208 17 Sep 1999 Samuel Foote The Great Panjandrum So she went into the... 17
209 18 Sep 1999 Mary Robinson The Camp Tents, marquees, and... 48
210 19 Sep 1999 Federico Garcia Lorca Romance Sonambulo Green, how I want yo... 86
211 20 Sep 1999 Adrian Mitchell The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry Back in the caveman ... 83
212 21 Sep 1999 Franklin P. Adams To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour Lady in the blue kim... 16
213 22 Sep 1999 William Carlos Williams The Artist Mr T. 27
214 23 Sep 1999 E.E. Cummings Where's Madge then, Where's Madge then, 17
215 24 Sep 1999 Edwin Morgan The Loch Ness Monster's Song Sssnnnwhuffffll? 14
216 25 Sep 1999 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn The Golf Links The golf links lie s... 4
217 26 Sep 1999 Constantine Cavafy Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka 37
218 27 Sep 1999 David Psalm 23 The Lord is my sheph... 11
219 28 Sep 1999 William Shakespeare Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) Full many a glorious... 14
220 30 Sep 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien Lament for Eorl the Young Where now the horse ... 8
221 30 Sep 1999 William Ernest Henley Invictus Out of the night tha... 16
222 01 Oct 1999 Peter Porter Your Attention Please The Polar DEW has ju... 62
223  2 Oct 1999 Sara Teasdale There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft... 12
224  3 Oct 1999 Wislawa Szymborska Under One Small Star My apologies to chan... 29
225 04 Oct 1999 Dylan Thomas Poem In October It was my thirtieth ... 70
226  5 Oct 1999 Hilaire Belloc October Look, how those stee... 14
227 07 Oct 1999 Bob Dylan Desolation Row They're selling post... 120
228  7 Oct 1999 G.K. Chesterton The Rolling English Road Before the Roman cam... 24
229 08 Oct 1999 William Shakespeare To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow To-morrow, and to-mo... 10
230  9 Oct 1999 Don Marquis pity the poor spiders i have just been reading 54
231 10 Oct 1999 Anna Akhmatova Requiem (excerpt) In the fearful years... 42
232 11 Oct 1999 Wilfred Owen Insensibility I 65
233 13 Oct 1999 William Empson Let It Go It is this deep blan... 6
234 14 Oct 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy Miniver Cheevy, chil... 32
235 15 Oct 1999 Carl Sandburg Pennsylvania I have been in Penns... 14
236 16 Oct 1999 Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memory My mind lets go a th... 10
237 17 Oct 1999 W.B.Yeats The Ballad of Father Gilligan The old priest Peter... 48
238 18 Oct 1999 W. J. Turner Romance When I was but thirt... 28
239 19 Oct 1999 Frank Dempster Sherman Witchery Out of the purple drifts, 12
240 21 Oct 1999 Edgar Fawcett Two Worlds A fiery young world,... 8
241 22 Oct 1999 Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth Let the sweet fresh ... 27
242 23 Oct 1999 Robert Browning The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Child's Story 320
243 24 Oct 1999 William Shakespeare When that I was and a little tiny boy When that I was and ... 20
244 26 Oct 1999 Allen Ginsberg A Supermarket in California What thoughts I have... 26
245 26 Oct 1999 Alfred Kreymborg Whitman After we've had 7
246 27 Oct 1999 Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing I hear America singi... 15
247 28 Oct 1999 W. S. Gilbert To Sit In Solemn Silence... To sit in solemn sil... 4
248 29 Oct 1999 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales 'omoi peplegmai kair... 41
249 31 Oct 1999 Elizabeth Jennings Delay The radiance of the ... 8
250 01 Nov 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson Walt Whitman The master-songs are... 21
251  2 Nov 1999 Thomas Hood No! No sun--no moon! 24
252 03 Nov 1999 Christian Morgenstern The Midnightmouse It midnights, not a ... 12
253  4 Nov 1999 Stephen Crane A Man Feared... (The Black Riders LVI) A man feared that he... 3
254 05 Nov 1999 Philip Larkin The North Ship I saw three ships go... 24
255  5 Nov 1999 Charles S. Calverley Forever "Forever": 'tis a si... 36
256 08 Nov 1999 W.H. Auden Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks,... 16
257  9 Nov 1999 J R R Tolkien Three Rings for the Elven Kings Three Rings for the ... 8
258 10 Nov 1999 T. S. Eliot Macavity: The Mystery Cat Macavity's a Mystery... 42
259 11 Nov 1999 Lord Dunsany Songs from an Evil Wood I. 67
260 12 Nov 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Moonrise I awoke in the Midsu... 10
261 13 Nov 1999 Robert E. Howard Recompense I have not heard lut... 24
262 14 Nov 1999 Emily Bronte No Coward Soul is Mine No coward soul is mine, 28
263 15 Nov 1999 Gavin Ewart Sonnet: Dolce stil novo That woman who to me... 14
264 16 Nov 1999 Stephen Crane There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII) There was a man who ... 8
265 17 Nov 1999 Lewis Carroll The Mad Gardener's Song He thought he saw an... 54
266 18 Nov 1999 Patrick O'Kelly The Litany for Doneraile Alas! how dismal is ... 62
267 19 Nov 1999 Theodore Roethke The Meadow Mouse 1 32
268 20 Nov 1999 Walt Whitman The Dalliance of the Eagles Skirting the river r... 10
269 21 Nov 1999 Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? How do I love thee? ... 14
270 22 Nov 1999 Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood It is Spring, moonle... 45
271 23 Nov 1999 Rudyard Kipling If If you can keep your... 32
272 25 Nov 1999 Walter de la Mare Napoleon 'What is the world, ... 7
273 24 Nov 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted A poet had a cat. 76
274 27 Nov 1999 William Carlos Williams This Is Just To Say I have eaten 12
275 27 Nov 1999 James Leigh Hunt The Glove and the Lions King Francis was a h... 24
276 28 Nov 1999 Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee High Flight Oh! I have slipped t... 14
277 29 Nov 1999 Yosa Buson Haiku The winter river; 3
278 30 Nov 1999 Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams 1 17
279 02 Dec 1999 John Milton L'Allegro Hence, loathed Melancholy 68
280  2 Dec 1999 Rupert Brooke The Soldier If I should die, thi... 14
281 03 Dec 1999 John Milton L'Allegro Straight mine eye ha... 83
282  4 Dec 1999 Carl Sandburg Fog The fog comes 6
283 06 Dec 1999 Gavin Ewart A Great Poem This is a great poem. 6
284  6 Dec 1999 Norman Rowland Gale 'MOST ANGLERS ARE VERY HUMANE'--Daily Paper The kind-hearted ang... 24
285 08 Dec 1999 Horace Smith On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below In Egypt's sandy sil... 14
286  9 Dec 1999 Oliver Goldsmith An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Good people all, of ... 32
287 10 Dec 1999 Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner Mad About You A stone's throw from... 45
288 12 Dec 1999 Wilfred Owen Futility Move him into the sun-- 14
289 13 Dec 1999 William Butler Yeats The Second Coming Turning and turning ... 22
290 13 Dec 1999 R. L. Stevenson Bed in Summer In winter I get up a... 12
291 16 Dec 1999 T. S. Eliot The Journey of the Magi 'A cold coming we ha... 43
292 16 Dec 1999 Robert Hunter Ripple If my words did glow... 26
293 18 Dec 1999 Allen Ginsberg Howl I saw the best minds... 64
294 18 Dec 1999 Hilaire Belloc Tarantella Do you remember an Inn, 40
295 19 Dec 1999 anon Unititled Quietly sitting, 3
296 20 Dec 1999 Constantine Cavafy Footsteps On an ebony bed decorated 19
297 21 Dec 1999 Edward Lear The Pobble Who Has No Toes The Pobble who has n... 48
298 22 Dec 1999 Robert Graves The Cool Web Children are dumb to... 18
299 23 Dec 1999 Richard Thompson Taking My Business Elsewhere If she's not here by... 24
300 24 Dec 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson The Gift of God - Blessed with a joy t... 48
301 25 Dec 1999 Ben Jonson The Noble Nature It is not growing li... 10
302 26 Dec 1999 William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To him who in the lo... 81
303 28 Dec 1999 Anon The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard As it fell out on a ... 116
304 29 Dec 1999 Edwin Morgan The Subway Piranhas Did anyone tell you 17
305 30 Dec 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Conundrum of the Workshops When the flush of a ... 36
306  1 Jan 2000 Alfred Kreymborg Geometry Never a mouse 25
307  2 Jan 2000 W.H.Auden Lay your sleeping head, my love Lay your sleeping he... 40
308  3 Jan 2000 Bhartrihari Untitled yasya asti vittam, ... 5
309  4 Jan 2000 William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go ... 12
310 13 Jan 2000 H. D Oread Whirl up, sea -- 6
311 14 Jan 2000 e. e. cummings Untitled "think of it: not so... 37
312 16 Jan 2000 William Shakespeare Where the bee sucks Where the bee sucks,... 7
313 16 Jan 2000 Ben Jonson Gypsy Songs The faery beam upon you, 20
314 17 Jan 2000 Anon The Sermon on the Mount Blessed are the poor... 10
315 19 Jan 2000 Hilaire Belloc Juliet How did the party go... 4
316 19 Jan 2000 John Keats Ode to a Nightingale My heart aches, and ... 80
317 19 Jan 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Inland People that build th... 16
318 21 Jan 2000 J R R Tolkien Tall ships and tall kings Tall ships and tall kings 6
319 24 Jan 2000 Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro The apparition of th... 2
320 25 Jan 2000 Ambrose Bierce Rimer The rimer quenches h... 6
321 26 Jan 2000 Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting It seemed that out o... 44
322 27 Jan 2000 Richard Wilbur In the Smoking Car The eyelids meet. He... 20
323 28 Jan 2000 Robert Francis Silent Poem backroad leafmold st... 12
324 29 Jan 2000 W. B. Yeats Three Movements Shakespearean fish s... 3
325 30 Jan 2000 Ogden Nash Common Cold Go hang yourself, yo... 40
326 31 Jan 2000 Anon The Seafarer May I for my own sel... 101
327  1 Feb 2000 Geoffrey Chaucer The Knight's Portrait A knyght ther was, a... 36
328  2 Feb 2000 Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queen A gentle Knight was ... 45
329 03 Feb 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind I 75
330 04 Feb 2000 John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass... 36
331  5 Feb 2000 Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man Heav'n from all crea... 35
332  6 Feb 2000 Robert Herrick Delight In Disorder A sweet disorder in ... 14
333 07 Feb 2000 Anon Gnomic Stanzas Mountain snow, every... 52
334  8 Feb 2000 Gelett Burgess Psycholophon (Supposed to Be Tran... 13
335 09 Feb 2000 Dylan Thomas After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) After the funeral, m... 40
336 10 Feb 2000 Robert Frost A Patch of Old Snow There's a patch of o... 8
337 11 Feb 2000 Adrian Mitchell Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' A man plodding throu... 4
338 12 Feb 2000 Joseph Campbell Fires The little fires tha... 12
339 14 Feb 2000 Leonard Cohen The Music Crept By Us I would like to remind 13
340 14 Feb 2000 Ben Jonson To Celia Drink to me, only, w... 16
341 15 Feb 2000 Emily Dickinson The Grass so little has to do - The Grass so little ... 20
342 16 Feb 2000 Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Oh, come with old Kh... 12
343 16 Feb 2000 William McGonagall The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Br... 59
344 18 Feb 2000 Anon The Navajo Night Way Ceremony In beauty ... 20
345 18 Feb 2000 Charlotte Smith Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore Huge vapours brood a... 14
346 21 Feb 2000 Paul Zimmer The Great Bird of Love I want to become a g... 22
347 21 Feb 2000 Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter The sun was shining ... 108
348 22 Feb 2000 Cid Corman Untitled Mountain 6
349 23 Feb 2000 Geoffrey Hill A Prayer to the Sun (in memory of Miguel... 19
350 24 Feb 2000 AE The Unknown God Far up the dim twili... 8
351 25 Feb 2000 William Empson The Teasers Not but they die, th... 16
352 26 Feb 2000 Robert Browning My Star All that I know 13
353 27 Feb 2000 Ogden Nash PG Wooster, Just as he Useter Bound to your bookse... 24
354 28 Feb 2000 T. S. Eliot The Waste Land (Part IV) IV. Death By Water 11
355 29 Feb 2000 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charge of the Light Brigade Half a league, half ... 55
356 01 Mar 2000 Edward Lear The Akond of Swat Who, or why, or whic... 88
357  2 Mar 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Last of the Light Brigade There were thirty mi... 36
358 03 Mar 2000 Percy French Abdul Abulbul Amir The sons of the Prop... 56
359  4 Mar 2000 Thomas Buchanan Read The Angler But look! o'er the f... 21
360 06 Mar 2000 John Whitworth I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea Fretting my heart as... 44
361 06 Mar 2000 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cologne In Kohln, a town of ... 10
362 07 Mar 2000 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha's Departure By the shore of Gitc... 29
363 08 Mar 2000 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) Let me not to the ma... 14
364 09 Mar 2000 Robert Browning The Patriot - An Old Story 37
365 10 Mar 2000 John Collins Bossidy Boston And this is good old... 4
366 12 Mar 2000 Sylvia Plath Child Your clear eye is th... 12
367 12 Mar 2000 Rabindranath Tagore Krishnakali In the village they ... 40
368 13 Mar 2000 William Blake Auguries of Innocence To see a World in a ... 132
369 14 Mar 2000 Bayard Taylor The Cantelope Side by side in the ... 20
370 15 Mar 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien Troll sat alone on his seat of stone Troll sat alone on h... 56
371 16 Mar 2000 W. H. Auden O What Is That Sound O what is that sound... 36
372 17 Mar 2000 Anon Icham of Irlaunde Icham of Irlaunde 7
373 18 Mar 2000 Wallace Stevens The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The time of year has... 20
374 19 Mar 2000 Alex Pascall Psalm Of the Valleys We dedicate, O Lord,... 21
375 20 Mar 2000 Samuel Daniel Look, Delia, How We 'Steem the Half-blown Rose (Delia XXXIX) Look, Delia, how we ... 14
376 21 Mar 2000 William Wordsworth She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the ... 12
377 22 Mar 2000 A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Loveliest of trees, ... 12
378 23 Mar 2000 Edward Lear There Was an Old Man with a Beard There was an Old Man... 4
379 24 Mar 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Buddha at Kamakura "And there is a Japa... 49
380 25 Mar 2000 William Johnson Cory Heraclitus They told me, Heracl... 8
381 27 Mar 2000 Mihail Eminescu From Among Hundreds of Masts From among hundreds ... 16
382 27 Mar 2000 A. K. Ramanujan A River In Madurai, 49
383 28 Mar 2000 Maya Angelou The Health-Food Diner No sprouted wheat an... 25
384 29 Mar 2000 John Donne Song Go and catch a falli... 27
385 30 Mar 2000 Seigfreid Sassoon Base Details If I were fierce, an... 10
386 31 Mar 2000 W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07/M/378 This... 30
387 01 Apr 2000 Les Murray An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow The word goes round ... 46
388 02 Apr 2000 Ogden Nash Kipling's Vermont The summer like a ra... 4
389 03 Apr 2000 James Joyce The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly Have you heard of on... 92
390  4 Apr 2000 Sarojini Naidu Palanquin Bearers Lightly, O lightly w... 12
391  6 Apr 2000 George Herbert The Pulley When God at first ma... 20
392 07 Apr 2000 R. S. Thomas Good The old man comes ou... 14
393  8 Apr 2000 Peter Schaeffer Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night I think 19
394 09 Apr 2000 Ernest Dowson Poem "Non Sum Qualis Eram... 25
395 10 Apr 2000 Henry Reed Naming of Parts "Vixi duellis nuper ... 32
396 11 Apr 2000 Trumbull Stickney I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander I hear a river thro'... 3
397 12 Apr 2000 Adrian Mitchell Ancestors We had an island. 62
398 13 Apr 2000 Robert Herrick The Night Piece, To Julia Her eyes the glow-wo... 20
399 14 Apr 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Indian Serenade I arise from dreams ... 24
400 15 Apr 2000 Ambrose Bierce Elegy The cur foretells th... 4
401 17 Apr 2000 Jorge Luis Borges To a Cat Mirrors are not more... 14
402 17 Apr 2000 Odgen Nash Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man It is common knowled... 35
403 18 Apr 2000 John Donne A Lame Beggar I am unable, yonder ... 2
404 19 Apr 2000 Sylvia Plath Daddy You do not do, you d... 80
405 20 Apr 2000 Dylan Thomas Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) Altarwise by owl-lig... 56
406 21 Apr 2000 Anna Wickham Song I will pluck from my... 16
407 22 Apr 2000 William Butler Yeats Solomon and the Witch And thus declared th... 45
408 24 Apr 2000 P. G. Wodehouse Caliban at Sunset I stood with a man 18
409 25 Apr 2000 Lewis Carroll Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur "How shall I be a poet? 108
410 26 Apr 2000 Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers 13
411 27 Apr 2000 William Wordsworth The Tables Turned Up! up! my Friend, a... 32
412 28 Apr 2000 Octavio Paz There is a motionless tree There is a motionles... 21
413 01 May 2000 William Shakespeare Admired Miranda! Admired Miranda! 12
414 01 May 2000 Thomas Hardy Epitaph on a pessimist I'm Smith of Stoke a... 4
415 01 May 2000 Sir Walter Scott The Truth of Woman Woman's faith, and w... 16
416  2 May 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Fitful Alternations of the Rain The fitful alternati... 4
417 03 May 2000 Ted Hughes Thistles Against the rubber t... 12
418  4 May 2000 Stephen Foster Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair I dream of Jeanie wi... 24
419 05 May 2000 Boris Pasternak March The sun is hotter th... 16
420 06 May 2000 John Davidson Thirty Bob a Week I couldn't touch a s... 96
421 08 May 2000 Stevie Smith The Jungle Husband Dearest Evelyn, I of... 15
422 11 May 2000 Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII: Love I don't love you as ... 14
423 11 May 2000 Anon The Song of Songs I am black, but come... 51
424 12 May 2000 Christian Morgenstern The Moonsheep The moonsheep stands... 12
425 12 May 2000 Robert Browning Memorabilia Ah, did you once see... 16
426 14 May 2000 Mary Oliver Wild Geese You do not have to b... 18
427 15 May 2000 W. H. Auden The Two You are the town and... 48
428 16 May 2000 Eve Merriam Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" take the leaf of a tree 17
429 17 May 2000 Thomas Hardy In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations' Only a man harrowing... 12
430 18 May 2000 Sara Teasdale Wild Asters In the spring I aske... 8
431 19 May 2000 Charlotte Mew Sea Love Tide be runnin' the ... 8
432 20 May 2000 John Hall Wheelock Earth "A planet doesn't ex... 4
433 21 May 2000 John Keats Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell Why did I laugh toni... 14
434 22 May 2000 A. K. Ramanujan Extended Family Yet like grandfather 47
435 23 May 2000 Leo Connellan Tell Her That I Fell Woke me retching and... 50
436 24 May 2000 William Butler Yeats When You Are Old When you are old and... 12
437 25 May 2000 Anonymous Sir Patrick Spens The King sits in Dun... 100
438 26 May 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe Not my Best Side I 60
439 28 May 2000 A.E. Housman A Shropshire Lad - XV Look not in my eyes,... 16
440 29 May 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien Bregalad's Lament O Orofarnë, Lassemis... 8
441 30 May 2000 William Wordsworth The Simplon Pass -Brook and road 20
442 31 May 2000 Octavio Paz Coda Perhaps to love is t... 9
443  2 Jun 2000 Tom Disch Poems I think that I shall... 26
444  2 Jun 2000 Noel Coward Contours Round - oblong - lik... 11
445 03 Jun 2000 Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider A noiseless patient ... 10
446 05 Jun 2000 Jibanananda Das Banalata Sen For thousands of yea... 18
447 06 Jun 2000 Hafiz My Sweet, Crushed Angel You have not danced ... 25
448  6 Jun 2000 William Cowper To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 Where hast thou floa... 27
449  7 Jun 2000 H. D Helen All Greece hates 18
450  8 Jun 2000 R. L. Stevenson Auntie's Skirts Whenever Auntie move... 4
451 09 Jun 2000 William Butler Yeats Leda and the Swan A sudden blow 16
452 12 Jun 2000 José Martí I wish to leave the world I wish to leave the world 8
453 12 Jun 2000 Mark Strand Keeping Things Whole In a field 17
454 13 Jun 2000 e. e. cummings If I have made, my lady, intricate If I have made, my l... 15
455 14 Jun 2000 Sam Walter Foss The Coming War "There will be a war... 50
456 15 Jun 2000 Sir Henry Newbolt He Fell Among Thieves 'Ye have robb'd,' sa... 48
457 15 Jun 2000 Archibald MacLeish The End of the World Quite unexpectedly, ... 14
458 17 Jun 2000 Emily Dickinson The Chariot Because I could not ... 20
459 18 Jun 2000 Wallace Stevens Two Figures in Dense Violet Light I had as lief be emb... 18
460 19 Jun 2000 Vikram Seth Round and Round After a long and wre... 18
461 20 Jun 2000 Thomas Lynch Couplets Two girls found dead... 22
462 20 Jun 2000 William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Earth has not anythi... 14
463 21 Jun 2000 A. A. Milne Disobedience James James 67
464 22 Jun 2000 Sara Teasdale Central Park at Dusk Buildings above the ... 8
465 23 Jun 2000 John Donne The Sun Rising Busy old fool, unrul... 30
466 25 Jun 2000 T. S. Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock. 78
467 26 Jun 2000 Robert Graves Like Snow She, then, like snow... 9
468 27 Jun 2000 Henry Reed Chard Whitlow (Mr. Eliot's Sunday ... 29
469 27 Jun 2000 Orhan Veli Towards Freedom 'Ere the day dawns, ... 16
470 29 Jun 2000 Dora Sigerson Shorter The Comforters When I crept over th... 16
471 30 Jun 2000 Ilam Peruvaluti This world lives This world lives 17
472 30 Jun 2000 Jalaluddin Rumi Spring Giddiness Today, like every ot... 25
473 03 Jul 2000 Julia Ward Howe The Battle-Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen ... 31
474 03 Jul 2000 Jane Kenyon Otherwise I got out of bed 26
475 04 Jul 2000 Jorge Luis Borges The Other Tiger A tiger comes to min... 47
476  5 Jul 2000 Dylan Thomas In my craft or sullen art In my craft or sullen art 20
477 06 Jul 2000 William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o' the sun Fear no more the hea... 24
478 07 Jul 2000 Duncan Campbell Scott Enigma Some men are born to... 15
479 08 Jul 2000 Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed "Had he and I but met 20
480 09 Jul 2000 W. N. Hodgson Before Action By all the glories o... 24
481 10 Jul 2000 Leonard Cohen Who By fire And who by fire, 27
482 10 Jul 2000 John Berryman Winter Landscape The three men coming... 25
483 11 Jul 2000 Walter de la Mare Brueghel's Winter Jagg'd mountain peak... 20
484 12 Jul 2000 William Carlos Williams Hunters in the Snow The over-all picture... 21
485 13 Jul 2000 Joseph Langland Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel Quail and rabbit hun... 49
486 14 Jul 2000 Dorothy Parker Epitaph for a Darling Lady All her hours were y... 12
487 15 Jul 2000 John William Burgon Petra Match me such marvel... 2
488 17 Jul 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe Dear Mr Lee Dear Mr Lee (Mr Smar... 50
489 17 Jul 2000 Thomas Babbington Macaulay Horatius A Lay Made About the... 660
490 19 Jul 2000 Tom Lehrer The Elements There's antimony, ar... 26
491 19 Jul 2000 W. H. Auden Roman Wall Blues Over the heather the... 14
492 21 Jul 2000 e. e. cummings Poem 42 n 15
493 22 Jul 2000 Rudyard Kipling A Pict Song Rome never looks whe... 33
494 24 Jul 2000 W.H. Auden The Fall of Rome The piers are pummel... 28
495 24 Jul 2000 Sir Walter Scott Marmion (A Tale of Flodden Field) 74
496 24 Jul 2000 Edgar A. Guest The Lay of the Troubled Golfer His eye was wild and... 24
497 26 Jul 2000 bpNichol Landscape: I (for thomas a. clark) 3
498 27 Jul 2000 Walt Whitman The World Below the Brine The world below the ... 19
499 28 Jul 2000 Thomas Ybarra Lay of Ancient Rome Oh, the Roman was a ... 32
500 29 Jul 2000 Percy Bysshe shelley A Dirge Rough Wind, that moa... 8
501 31 Jul 2000 Stanley Kunitz King of the River If the water were cl... 77
502 31 Jul 2000 Philip Larkin MCMXIV Those long uneven lines 32
503 01 Aug 2000 Donald Justice Anonymous Drawing A delicate young Neg... 24
504 02 Aug 2000 Li Po About Tu Fu I met Tu Fu on a mou... 8
505  3 Aug 2000 W.S. Gilbert The Story of Prince Agib Strike the concertin... 85
506 04 Aug 2000 Christopher Marlowe Lament for Zenocrate Black is the beauty ... 37
507 06 Aug 2000 James Dickey The Sheep-Child Farm boys wild to couple 62
508 06 Aug 2000 Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a... 16
509 07 Aug 2000 James Elroy Flecker The Golden Road to Samarkand HASSAN 25
510  8 Aug 2000 Lord Byron There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a pleasure ... 9
511 09 Aug 2000 William Butler Yeats Beautiful Lofty Things Beautiful lofty thin... 12
512 10 Aug 2000 Thomas Hood Silence There is a silence w... 14
513 11 Aug 2000 Jalaluddin Rumi The Tavern All day I think abou... 26
514 13 Aug 2000 Rupert Brooke The Chilterns Your hands, my dear,... 40
515 14 Aug 2000 Robert Graves The Persian Version Truth-loving Persian... 16
516 15 Aug 2000 Nissim Ezekiel The Patriot I am standing for pe... 46
517 16 Aug 2000 Ralph Hodgson The Gipsy Girl "Come, try your skil... 20
518 17 Aug 2000 James Elroy Flecker The Gates of Damascus Four great gates has... 76
519 19 Aug 2000 Thomas Hardy The Roman Road The Roman Road runs ... 15
520 19 Aug 2000 Adelaide Procter A Lost Chord Seated one day at th... 28
521 20 Aug 2000 Louis MacNeice The Suicide And this, ladies and... 19
522 21 Aug 2000 Constantine Cavafy In Harbor A young man, twenty ... 12
523 22 Aug 2000 Joyce Sutphen Naming the Stars This present tragedy... 14
524 23 Aug 2000 Ezra Pound Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord O fan of white silk, 3
525 23 Aug 2000 Conrad Aiken Morning Song of Senlin It is morning, Senli... 64
526 24 Aug 2000 Robert Browning A Toccata of Galuppi's Oh Galuppi, Baldassa... 45
527 25 Aug 2000 Thomas Edward Brown I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May I bended unto me a b... 12
528 27 Aug 2000 James Merrill A Renewal Having used every su... 8
529 28 Aug 2000 Emily Dickinson If you were coming in the fall If you were coming i... 20
530 28 Aug 2000 J. K. Stephen A Sonnet Two voices are there... 14
531 29 Aug 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle... 16
532 30 Aug 2000 T. S. Eliot Little Gidding Ash on an old man's ... 95
533 31 Aug 2000 Carole Oles The Gift Thinking she was the gift 25
534 01 Sep 2000 Charles Baudelaire The Albatross Often to pass the ti... 16
535 02 Sep 2000 Siegfried Sassoon The Working Party Three hours ago he b... 49
536 03 Sep 2000 Diana Bridge Lighter than a feather I 47
537 05 Sep 2000 Mark Defoe The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker (at a McDonald's somewhere in Appalachia) All day he crushed t... 25
538 05 Sep 2000 John Updike Back From Vacation "Back from vacation"... 14
539 06 Sep 2000 A. E. Housman Last Poems: XI Yonder see the morni... 10
540 07 Sep 2000 Gavin Ewart Office Friendships Eve is madly in love... 16
541 08 Sep 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly You feel adequate to... 38
542 09 Sep 2000 Ogden Nash Will Consider Situation There here are words... 34
543 10 Sep 2000 John Betjeman Executive I am a young executi... 24
544 12 Sep 2000 Philip Larkin Toads Why should I let the... 36
545 13 Sep 2000 Omar Khayyam The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ The Moving Finger wr... 4
546 14 Sep 2000 William Blake The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick! 8
547 15 Sep 2000 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Isles of Greece The isles of Greece!... 96
548 16 Sep 2000 Anonymous Barbara Allen In Scarlet town, whe... 44
549 17 Sep 2000 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy Trochee trips from l... 19
550 19 Sep 2000 Langdon Smith Evolution When you were a tadp... 108
551 19 Sep 2000 Max Plowman Her Beauty I heard them say, "H... 10
552 20 Sep 2000 Robert Creeley Morning dam's broke, 3
553 21 Sep 2000 Christopher Morley Caught in the Undertow Colin, worshipping s... 8
554 22 Sep 2000 R. S. Thomas Taliesin I have been all men ... 20
555 23 Sep 2000 John Masefield Trade Winds In the harbor, in th... 12
556 25 Sep 2000 Francois Villon Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) Brothers that live w... 35
557 25 Sep 2000 Andrei Voznesensky Parabolic Balad Among a parabola lif... 39
558 26 Sep 2000 Norman Rowland Gale Bees You voluble, 24
559 27 Sep 2000 George A. Strong The Modern Hiawatha He killed the noble ... 11
560 28 Sep 2000 Dorothy Parker Chant for Dark Hours Some men, some men 24
561 29 Sep 2000 Anon The Metre Columbian This is the metre Co... 10
562 30 Sep 2000 A. A. Milne The King's Breakfast The King asked 94
563  1 Oct 2000 S. Thomas Ansell Butterfly Down the air 12
564  2 Oct 2000 Robert Graves Warning to Children Children, if you dar... 37
565  3 Oct 2000 Thomas Campion Now Winter Nights Enlarge Now winter nights enlarge 24
566  4 Oct 2000 A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Clancy of the Overflow I had written him a ... 34
567  5 Oct 2000 George Herbert Easter Wings Lord, Who createdst ... 20
568  6 Oct 2000 Dylan Thomas Especially when the October wind Especially when the ... 32
569  8 Oct 2000 Henry Lawson The Great Grey Plain Out West, where the ... 64
570  9 Oct 2000 William Shakespeare Come, Night; Come, Romeo Come, night; come, R... 9
571 10 Oct 2000 A. D. Hope The Death Of The Bird For every bird there... 36
572 11 Oct 2000 Peter Porter Mort aux Chats There will be no mor... 36
573 12 Oct 2000 Alistair Campbell At a Fishing Settlement October, and a rain-... 20
574 13 Oct 2000 T. S. Eliot Growltiger's Last Stand Growltiger was a Bra... 56
575 14 Oct 2000 John Keats To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat Cat! who hast pass'd... 14
576 15 Oct 2000 A. A. Milne Tra-la-la, tra-la-la He had made up a lit... 12
577 16 Oct 2000 William Butler Yeats The Cat and the Moon The cat went here an... 28
578 17 Oct 2000 Margurite Kingman Autumn Song The firelight glows, 9
579 18 Oct 2000 Nissim Ezekiel The Professor Remember me? I am Pr... 36
580 19 Oct 2000 Emily Dickinson Split the Lark Split the Lark--and ... 8
581 20 Oct 2000 Charles Baudelaire Get Drunk! Always be drunk. 38
582 21 Oct 2000 Edmund Waller Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely Rose- 20
583 22 Oct 2000 Ezra Pound Envoi (1919) Go, dumb-born book, 26
584 23 Oct 2000 Jorge Luis Borges History of the Night Throughout the cours... 27
585 24 Oct 2000 R. T. Smith Split the Lark 'Split the lark, and... 35
586 25 Oct 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Anvil England's on the anv... 12
587 26 Oct 2000 Wendy Cope Strugnell's Rubaiyat 1 30
588 28 Oct 2000 A. E. Housman Terence, this is stupid stuff "Terence, this is st... 76
589 28 Oct 2000 Rupert Brooke Sonnet Reversed Hand trembling towar... 14
590 30 Oct 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet XLIII What lips my lips ha... 14
591 31 Oct 2000 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XIV If thou must love me... 14
592 31 Oct 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet: England in 1819 An old, mad, blind, ... 14
593  1 Nov 2000 Robert Herrick The Hag The hag is astride 24
594  2 Nov 2000 Harold Monro Overheard on a Salmarsh Nymph, nymph, what a... 20
595  3 Nov 2000 Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Last Man By heaven and hell, ... 13
596  4 Nov 2000 Simon Armitage I Say I Say I Say Anyone here had a go... 16
597  5 Nov 2000 William Butler Yeats He wishes for the cloths of heaven Had I the heavens' e... 8
598  6 Nov 2000 Countee Cullen For A Poet I have wrapped my dr... 8
599  7 Nov 2000 Rita Dove Geometry I prove a theorem an... 9
600  8 Nov 2000 Lewis Carroll The Mouse's Tale Fury said to a mouse, 32
601  9 Nov 2000 E. V. Rieu Hall and Knight or 'z + b + x = y + ... 29
602 10 Nov 2000 Glyn Maxwell Deep Sorriness Atonement Song (for missed appointm... 42
603 11 Nov 2000 Eunice deSouza Marriages Are Made My cousin Elena 21
604 12 Nov 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare Euclid alone has loo... 14
605 13 Nov 2000 Pablo Neruda Saddest Poem I can write the sadd... 33
606 14 Nov 2000 Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur The world is charged... 14
607 15 Nov 2000 Phoebe Cary Ballad of the Canal We were crowded in t... 24
608 16 Nov 2000 E. B. White The Spider's Web The spider, dropping... 12
609 17 Nov 2000 Stephen Vincent Benet Winged Man The moon, a sweeping... 37
610 19 Nov 2000 Louise Imogen Guiney The Lights of London The evenfall, so slo... 14
611 19 Nov 2000 William Shakespeare Winter When icicles hang by... 16
612 20 Nov 2000 Sylvia Plath Love Letter Not easy to state th... 36
613 21 Nov 2000 John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey Let me take this oth... 42
614 22 Nov 2000 Lawrence Ferlinghetti The pennycandystore beyond the El The pennycandystore ... 18
615 23 Nov 2000 Monty Python The Philosopher's Drinking Song Immanuel Kant was a ... 21
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
617 25 Nov 2000 Ho Xuan Huong The Cake That Drifts In Water My body is both whit... 4
618 27 Nov 2000 W. H. Auden The More Loving One Looking up at the st... 16
619 28 Nov 2000 e. e. cummings somewhere i have never travelled somewhere i have nev... 20
620 28 Nov 2000 Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird I 67
621 30 Nov 2000 R. S. Thomas Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man I 85
622 30 Nov 2000 Wilfred Gibson The Ice-Cart Perched on my city o... 39
623  1 Dec 2000 Adrian Mitchell Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody 1 PATRIOTIC 34
624  2 Dec 2000 Leonard Cohen Gift You tell me that silence 9
625  4 Dec 2000 Ogden Nash The Sniffle In spite of her sniffle 18
626  4 Dec 2000 Edmond Rostand Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose DE GUICHE: Will no o... 63
627  5 Dec 2000 Laurence Hope Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank The Desert is parche... 94
628  6 Dec 2000 Edward Lear The Dong with a Luminous Nose When awful darkness ... 103
629  7 Dec 2000 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Slave's Dream Beside the ungathere... 48
630  9 Dec 2000 T. S. Eliot To Walter de la Mare The children who exp... 33
631 10 Dec 2000 John Lennon Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam Mean Mister Mustard ... 24
632 10 Dec 2000 Nikki Giovanni I Wrote A Good Omelet I wrote a good omele... 15
633 11 Dec 2000 Horace Odes: Book 1, Verse 11 Stop these efforts t... 9
634 12 Dec 2000 Sir Charles Sedley Phyllis is my only joy Phyllis is my only joy, 18
635 14 Dec 2000 Robert Browning Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister GR-R-R--there go, my... 72
636 14 Dec 2000 Edwin Arlington Robinson Aaron Stark Withal a meagre man ... 14
637 16 Dec 2000 Thom Gunn The Hug It was your birthday... 22
638 16 Dec 2000 Dorothy Parker Song of Perfect Propriety Oh, I should like to... 32
639 18 Dec 2000 Elizabeth Bishop One Art The art of losing is... 19
640 18 Dec 2000 Marchette Gaylord Chute Fairies You can't see fairie... 8
641 19 Dec 2000 William Butler Yeats The Road at My Door An affable Irregular, 15
642 20 Dec 2000 Rina Singh The Poetics of Desire Throw away your pape... 27
643 21 Dec 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon There is an inn, a m... 65
644 22 Dec 2000 Amy Lowell Patterns I walk down the gard... 107
645 24 Dec 2000 Maya Angelou Old Folks laugh They have spent their 25
646 24 Dec 2000 Anon The North Wind Doth Blow The north wind doth blow, 8
647 25 Dec 2000 Trad God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God rest ye merry ge... 63
648 27 Dec 2000 Dave Goulder The January Man The January man he w... 35
649 28 Dec 2000 Michael Flanders A Song of the Weather January brings the snow 26
650 29 Dec 2000 Vikram Seth All You who Sleep Tonight All you who sleep tonight 8
651 30 Dec 2000 Muriel Rukeyser Myth Long afterward, Oedi... 12
652 30 Dec 2000 Robert Southey The Cataract of Lodore "How does the water 121
653 31 Dec 2000 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells Ring out, wild bells... 32
654  2 Jan 2001 Omar Khayyam Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai Think, in this batte... 4
655  3 Jan 2001 W. B. Yeats No Second Troy Why should I blame h... 12
656  4 Jan 2001 Anon Edward, Edward 'Why does your brand... 56
657  5 Jan 2001 Stephen Dobyns The Dark and Turbulent Sea Sailboat, sailboat -... 37
658  6 Jan 2001 Oscar Wilde Serenade The western wind is ... 40
659  7 Jan 2001 William Carlos Williams Poem As the cat 12
660  8 Jan 2001 Elizabeth Coatsworth On A Night of Snow Cat, if you go outdo... 14
661  9 Jan 2001 Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno For I will consider ... 88
662  9 Jan 2001 Jibanananda Das Cat Again and again thro... 16
663 11 Jan 2001 Robert Graves A Child's Nightmare Through long nursery... 40
664 12 Jan 2001 Mervyn Peake Conceit I heard a winter tre... 4
665 13 Jan 2001 Robert Herrick Dreams Here we are all, by ... 2
666 15 Jan 2001 Alexander Pope Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness I am his Highness' d... 2
667 16 Jan 2001 Ogden Nash Reflections on Ice-Breaking Candy 4
668 16 Jan 2001 Piet Hein On Problems Our choicest plans 8
669 17 Jan 2001 John Wilmot Epitaph on Charles II Here lies a great an... 4
670 18 Jan 2001 Henry David Thoreau What's the Railroad to Me? What's the railroad ... 7
671 19 Jan 2001 Ted Hughes Lineage In the beginning was... 21
672 20 Jan 2001 Thomas Hood Death It is not death, tha... 14
673 21 Jan 2001 Rabindranath Tagore The Flower-School When storm-clouds ru... 23
674 22 Jan 2001 Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Aunt Jennifer's tige... 12
675 24 Jan 2001 Robert Burns Comin' Thro the Rye O, Jenny's a' weet, ... 17
676 25 Jan 2001 Mark Strand Eating Poetry Ink runs from the co... 18
677 26 Jan 2001 W. H. Auden Villanelle Time will say nothin... 19
678 27 Jan 2001 Sylvia Plath Mirror I am silver and exac... 18
679 28 Jan 2001 Carl Sandburg Maybe Maybe he believes me... 8
680 29 Jan 2001 Arun Kolatkar The Butterfly There is no story be... 13
681 31 Jan 2001 Robert Frost The Secret Sits We dance round in a ... 2
682 31 Jan 2001 Eunice de Souza Advice to Women Keep cats 12
683  1 Feb 2001 Li Po To Tu Fu from Shantung You ask how I spend ... 8
684  2 Feb 2001 Hayden Carruth Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Scrambled eggs and w... 20
685  4 Feb 2001 James Elroy Flecker The Old Ships I have seen old ship... 31
686  4 Feb 2001 Joyce Maxner Nicholas Cricket Nicholas Cricket pla... 53
687  5 Feb 2001 Emily Dickinson Success is counted sweetest Success is counted s... 12
688  6 Feb 2001 Hillaire Belloc The Yak As a friend to the c... 15
689  7 Feb 2001 H. D Helen in Egypt This is the spread o... 30
690  8 Feb 2001 Stephen Crane Tell Brave Deeds of War "Tell brave deeds of... 5
691  9 Feb 2001 Billy Collins Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles It seems these poets... 35
692 11 Feb 2001 H. P. Lovecraft The Messenger The thing, he said, ... 14
693 12 Feb 2001 Wendy Cope Strugnell's Haiku (i) 12
694 13 Feb 2001 Wislawa Szymborska True Love True love. Is it normal 35
695 13 Feb 2001 John Masefield Beauty I have seen dawn and... 8
696 14 Feb 2001 John Keats Last Sonnet Bright Star, would I... 14
697 15 Feb 2001 Dorothy Parker A Well Worn Story In April, in April, 20
698 16 Feb 2001 Robert Service The Cremation of Sam McGee There are strange th... 82
699 17 Feb 2001 Norman MacCaig Incident I look across the ta... 18
700 18 Feb 2001 Rudyard Kipling Outsong in the Jungle [Baloo:] For the sak... 72
701 18 Feb 2001 Spike Milligan Teeth English Teeth, Engli... 12
702 20 Feb 2001 John Masefield Night Is On The Downland Night is on the down... 20
703 20 Feb 2001 A. E. Housman On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble On Wenlock Edge the ... 20
704 21 Feb 2001 Christopher Isherwood On His Queerness When I was young and... 17
705 22 Feb 2001 Willa Sibert Cather A Likeness Portrait Bust of an ... 49
706 23 Feb 2001 William Empson Villanelle It is the pain, it i... 19
707 24 Feb 2001 Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner From my mother's sle... 5
708 25 Feb 2001 W. H. Auden Five Songs - II That night when joy began 12
709 26 Feb 2001 Trad 100 Pipers Wi' a hundred pipers... 40
710 27 Feb 2001 Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht Three weeks gone and... 24
711 28 Feb 2001 Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who are you? I'm Nobody! Who are you? 8
712  1 Mar 2001 Yosa Buson Haiku The seashore temple... 3
713  2 Mar 2001 Carl Sandburg Last Answers I wrote a poem on th... 12
714  4 Mar 2001 Nissim Ezekiel Night of the Scorpion "I remember the nigh... 24
715  5 Mar 2001 Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel The blessed damozel ... 144
716  6 Mar 2001 Jenny Joseph Warning When I am an old wom... 22
717  7 Mar 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus It was the schooner ... 88
718  8 Mar 2001 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came do... 24
719  9 Mar 2001 Lady John Scott Loch Lomond By yon bonnie banks,... 18
720 10 Mar 2001 Thomas Hood The Dream of Eugene Aram 'Twas in the prime o... 216
721 11 Mar 2001 John Dryden Marriage a la mode Why should a foolish... 16
722 12 Mar 2001 Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died It is 12:20 in New Y... 29
723 13 Mar 2001 Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda A cool small evening... 12
724 14 Mar 2001 Ben Jonson Hymn to Diana Queen and huntress, ... 18
725 15 Mar 2001 Walter de la Mare Silver Slowly, silently, no... 14
726 16 Mar 2001 T. E. Hulme Above the Dock Above the quiet dock... 4
727 17 Mar 2001 Harold Monro Milk for the Cat When the tea is brou... 36
728 19 Mar 2001 W.H.Auden from The Dog Beneath The Skin Now through night's ... 23
729 20 Mar 2001 Richard Hovey Accident in Art What painter has not... 14
730 21 Mar 2001 Robert Frost Mending Wall Something there is t... 44
731 22 Mar 2001 Sir Henry Newbolt A Ballad of John Nicholson It fell in the year ... 80
732 23 Mar 2001 A. P. Herbert At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me Dear Madam, you have... 26
733 24 Mar 2001 Edgar Guest Story-Time "Tell us a story," c... 40
734 25 Mar 2001 Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room In Worcester, Massac... 99
735 27 Mar 2001 Ambrose Bierce Decalogue Thou shalt no God bu... 20
736 28 Mar 2001 J. R. R. Tolkien The World was Young, the Mountains Green The world was young,... 46
737 28 Mar 2001 William Allingham Writing A man who keeps a di... 6
738 29 Mar 2001 Oriah Mountain Dreamer The Invitation It doesn't interest ... 37
739 30 Mar 2001 Anon Song of Creation Then there was neith... 16
740 31 Mar 2001 W.H. Davies The Villain While joy gave cloud... 10
741  1 Apr 2001 Ian Anderson Reasons For Waiting What a sight for my eyes 19
742  3 Apr 2001 Nazim Hikmet I Come and Stand at Every Door I come and stand at ... 20
743  4 Apr 2001 Keith Reid Conquistador Conquistador -- your... 24
744  5 Apr 2001 Leonard Cohen Joan of Arc Now the flames they ... 32
745  6 Apr 2001 King Crimson Indiscipline I do remember one thing. 11
746  7 Apr 2001 Isaac Rosenberg Dead Man's Dump The plunging limbers... 79
747  8 Apr 2001 Randall Jarrell The Player Piano I ate pancakes one n... 35
748  9 Apr 2001 Faiz Ahmed Faiz Be Near Me You who demolish me,... 21
749 10 Apr 20