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