| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1630 | 21 Feb 2005 | Kurtis Lamkin | jump mama | pretty summer day | 53 |
| 784 | 18 May 2001 | Archibald Lampman | To a Millionaire | The world in gloom a... | 14 |
| 873 | 25 Aug 2001 | Archibald Lampman | Winter Evening | To-night the very ho... | 14 |
| 10 | 19 Feb 1999 | Walter Savage Landor | On His Seventy-fifth Birthday | I strove with none, ... | 4 |
| 949 | 24 Nov 2001 | Andrew Lang | Brahma | If the wild bowler t... | 8 |
| 485 | 13 Jul 2000 | Joseph Langland | Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel | Quail and rabbit hun... | 49 |
| 1490 | 2 Apr 2004 | Sidney Lanier | Souls And Rain-Drops | Light rain-drops fal... | 8 |
| 1594 | 10 Jan 2005 | Lao-Tzu | Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 | If you want to be a ... | 20 |
| 928 | 30 Oct 2001 | Ring Lardner | Quiescent, a Person Sits Heart and Soul | Quiescent a person s... | 4 |
| 1558 | 9 Nov 2004 | By Philip Larkin | Afternoons | Summer is fading | 24 |
| 1782 | 21 Oct 2005 | Philip Larkin | When First We Faced | When first we faced,... | 18 |
| 73 | 26 Apr 1999 | Philip Larkin | I Remember, I Remember | Coming up England by... | 36 |
| 178 | 17 Aug 1999 | Philip Larkin | Water | If I were called in | 13 |
| 1330 | 20 Aug 2003 | Philip Larkin | Money | Quarterly, is it, mo... | 16 |
| 544 | 12 Sep 2000 | Philip Larkin | Toads | Why should I let the... | 36 |
| 1070 | 3 Jul 2002 | Philip Larkin | Wires | The widest prairies ... | 8 |
| 502 | 31 Jul 2000 | Philip Larkin | MCMXIV | Those long uneven lines | 32 |
| 756 | 17 Apr 2001 | Philip Larkin | An Arundel Tomb | Side by side, their ... | 42 |
| 254 | 05 Nov 1999 | Philip Larkin | The North Ship | I saw three ships go... | 24 |
| 886 | 11 Sep 2001 | Philip Larkin | Maiden Name | Marrying left your m... | 21 |
| 1387 | 15 Nov 2003 | Philip Larkin | The Explosion | On the day of the ex... | 25 |
| 100 | 26 May 1999 | Philip Larkin | Days | What are days for? | 10 |
| 793 | 28 May 2001 | Philip Larkin | No Road | Since we agreed to l... | 18 |
| 1517 | 11 Jun 2004 | Dorianne Laux | The Shipfitter's Wife | I loved him most | 19 |
| 1810 | 7 Jan 2006 | D. H. Lawrence | True Love at Last | The handsome and sel... | 18 |
| 1282 | 20 Jun 2003 | D. H. Lawrence | Snake | A snake came to my w... | 77 |
| 77 | 29 Apr 1999 | D. H. Lawrence | Bavarian Gentians | Not every man has ge... | 22 |
| 569 | 8 Oct 2000 | Henry Lawson | The Great Grey Plain | Out West, where the ... | 64 |
| 1569 | 1 Dec 2004 | Henry Lawson | Past Carin’ | Now up and down the ... | 60 |
| 1016 | 13 Mar 2002 | Henry Lawson | Faces in the Street | They lie, the men wh... | 91 |
| 1312 | 29 Jul 2003 | Naomi Lazard | Ordinance on Arrival | Welcome to you | 22 |
| 789 | 23 May 2001 | Stephen Leacock | The Social Plan | I know a very tireso... | 30 |
| 297 | 21 Dec 1999 | Edward Lear | The Pobble Who Has No Toes | The Pobble who has n... | 48 |
| 356 | 01 Mar 2000 | Edward Lear | The Akond of Swat | Who, or why, or whic... | 88 |
| 628 | 6 Dec 2000 | Edward Lear | The Dong with a Luminous Nose | When awful darkness ... | 103 |
| 165 | 02 Aug 1999 | Edward Lear | The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | The Owl and the Puss... | 33 |
| 378 | 23 Mar 2000 | Edward Lear | There Was an Old Man with a Beard | There was an Old Man... | 4 |
| 1608 | 29 Jan 2005 | Francis Ledwidge | Lament for Thomas MacDonagh | He shall not hear th... | 12 |
| 1243 | 2 May 2003 | David Lee | Behold | And came forth like ... | 11 |
| 1245 | 4 May 2003 | Li-Young Lee | Persimmons | In sixth grade Mrs. ... | 85 |
| 1366 | 8 Oct 2003 | Tanith Lee | Untitled | A rose by any other name | 12 |
| 1539 | 3 Sep 2004 | Tom Lehrer | National Brotherhood Week | Oh, the white folks ... | 31 |
| 490 | 19 Jul 2000 | Tom Lehrer | The Elements | There's antimony, ar... | 26 |
| 1316 | 2 Aug 2003 | Tom Lehrer | Lobachevsky | Who made me the geni... | 71 |
| 1205 | 24 Mar 2003 | Stanislaw Lem | Love and Tensor Algebra | Come, let us hasten ... | 32 |
| 995 | 9 Feb 2002 | John Lennon | Come Together | Here come old flatto... | 20 |
| 631 | 10 Dec 2000 | John Lennon | Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam | Mean Mister Mustard ... | 24 |
| 1355 | 21 Sep 2003 | Alfredo Lepera | The Day That You Love Me | It caresses my dream, | 46 |
| 201 | 8 Sep 1999 | Denise Levertov | To the Reader | As you read, a white... | 10 |
| 1184 | 28 Feb 2003 | Denise Levertov | In California During the Gulf War | Among the blight-kil... | 29 |
| 1302 | 16 Jul 2003 | Denise Levertov | Opening Words | I believe the earth | 31 |
| 1131 | 19 Dec 2002 | Denise Levertov | Adam's Complaint | Some people, | 16 |
| 1025 | 28 Mar 2002 | Newman Levy | Thais | One time in Alexandr... | 52 |
| 1297 | 7 Jul 2003 | Eiluned Lewis | The Birthright | We who were born | 24 |
| 1069 | 30 Jun 2002 | Vachel Lindsay | The Leaden-Eyed | Let not young souls ... | 8 |
| 1264 | 30 May 2003 | Vachel Lindsay | The Santa Fe Trail | (A Humoresque) | 178 |
| 1477 | 12 Mar 2004 | Vachel Lindsay | The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken | A little colt -- bro... | 40 |
| 1553 | 2 Nov 2004 | Charles de Lint | The Puppet | The puppet thinks | 4 |
| 1761 | 31 Aug 2005 | William Logan | For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead | Lying on that blanke... | 20 |
| 1351 | 17 Sep 2003 | Christopher Logue | London Airport | Last night in London... | 6 |
| 1487 | 28 Mar 2004 | Christopher Logue | All Day Permanent Red (extract) | To welcome Hector to... | 37 |
| 835 | 12 Jul 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | There Was a Little Girl | There was a little girl, | 6 |
| 1670 | 8 Apr 2005 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Shawondasee | Shawondasee, fat and... | 73 |
| 717 | 7 Mar 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Wreck of the Hesperus | It was the schooner ... | 88 |
| 888 | 12 Sep 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A Psalm of Life | What the heart of th... | 37 |
| 1647 | 10 Mar 2005 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Fata Morgana | O sweet illusions of song | 24 |
| 884 | 9 Sep 2001 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Day is Done | The day is done, and... | 44 |
| 362 | 07 Mar 2000 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha's Departure | By the shore of Gitc... | 29 |
| 1166 | 5 Feb 2003 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | My Lost Youth | Often I think of the... | 90 |
| 172 | 10 Aug 1999 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Paul Revere's Ride | Listen my children a... | 130 |
| 1396 | 24 Nov 2003 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Children’s Hour | Between the dark and... | 40 |
| 629 | 7 Dec 2000 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The Slave's Dream | Beside the ungathere... | 48 |
| 210 | 19 Sep 1999 | Federico Garcia Lorca | Romance Sonambulo | Green, how I want yo... | 86 |
| 1439 | 24 Jan 2004 | Federico García Lorca | Gacela of the Dark Death | I want to sleep the ... | 23 |
| 1424 | 9 Jan 2004 | Pare Lorentz | The River | From as far West as ... | 302 |
| 692 | 11 Feb 2001 | H. P. Lovecraft | The Messenger | The thing, he said, ... | 14 |
| 102 | 28 May 1999 | Amy Lowell | Generations | You are like the stem | 13 |
| 644 | 22 Dec 2000 | Amy Lowell | Patterns | I walk down the gard... | 107 |
| 1309 | 26 Jul 2003 | Robert Lowell | Skunk Hour | For Elizabeth Bishop | 49 |
| 1295 | 4 Jul 2003 | Robert Lowell | For the Union Dead | "Relinquunt Omnia Se... | 69 |
| 1305 | 21 Jul 2003 | Thomas Lux | Poem in Thanks | Lord Whoever, thank ... | 14 |
| 1407 | 19 Dec 2003 | Thomas Lux | The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball | each day mowed | 30 |
| 461 | 20 Jun 2000 | Thomas Lynch | Couplets | Two girls found dead... | 22 |
| 1007 | 25 Feb 2002 | Henry F. Lyte | Abide with me | Abide with me; fast ... | 32 |
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