| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 489 | 17 Jul 2000 | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Horatius | A Lay Made About the... | 660 |
| 1088 | 6 Sep 2002 | Norman MacCaig | The Two Friends | The last word this o... | 12 |
| 755 | 16 Apr 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Gone Are The Days | Impossible to call a... | 20 |
| 699 | 17 Feb 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Incident | I look across the ta... | 18 |
| 1299 | 9 Jul 2003 | Norman MacCaig | Of You | When the little devi... | 19 |
| 863 | 12 Aug 2001 | Norman MacCaig | Frogs | Frogs sit more solid | 16 |
| 1172 | 14 Feb 2003 | Hugh MacDiarmid | Scotland Small? | Scotland small? Our ... | 17 |
| 186 | 24 Aug 1999 | Patrick MacGill | By-the-Way | These be the little ... | 15 |
| 876 | 29 Aug 2001 | Louis Alexander MacKay | I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver | I wish my tongue wer... | 15 |
| 457 | 15 Jun 2000 | Archibald MacLeish | The End of the World | Quite unexpectedly, ... | 14 |
| 188 | 26 Aug 1999 | Archibald MacLeish | Ars Poetica | A poem should be pal... | 24 |
| 1692 | 8 May 2005 | Archibald MacLeish | You, Andrew Marvell | And here face down b... | 36 |
| 1039 | 21 Apr 2002 | Louis MacNeice | Prayer before Birth | I am not yet born; O... | 39 |
| 1062 | 22 Jun 2002 | Louis MacNeice | House on a Cliff | Indoors the tang of ... | 12 |
| 521 | 20 Aug 2000 | Louis MacNeice | The Suicide | And this, ladies and... | 19 |
| 864 | 12 Aug 2001 | Louis MacNeice | Snow | The room was suddenl... | 12 |
| 757 | 17 Apr 2001 | Louis MacNeice | The Sunlight on the Garden | The sunlight on the ... | 24 |
| 1301 | 14 Jul 2003 | Louis MacNeice | Meeting Point | Time was away and so... | 40 |
| 18 | 27 Feb 1999 | Louis MacNeice | Bagpipe Music | It's no go the merry... | 34 |
| 1362 | 1 Oct 2003 | Louis MacNeice | Dublin | Grey brick upon brick, | 63 |
| 276 | 28 Nov 1999 | Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee | High Flight | Oh! I have slipped t... | 14 |
| 772 | 6 May 2001 | Stéphane Mallarmé | Sadness of Summer | Mingling a potion fo... | 14 |
| 483 | 11 Jul 2000 | Walter de la Mare | Brueghel's Winter | Jagg'd mountain peak... | 20 |
| 272 | 25 Nov 1999 | Walter de la Mare | Napoleon | 'What is the world, ... | 7 |
| 725 | 15 Mar 2001 | Walter de la Mare | Silver | Slowly, silently, no... | 14 |
| 1024 | 28 Mar 2002 | Walter de la Mare | Faint Music | The meteor's arc of ... | 8 |
| 2 | 10 Feb 1999 | Walter De La Mare | The Listeners | 'Is there anybody th... | 36 |
| 197 | 5 Sep 1999 | Leo Marks | A Code Poem For The French Resistance | The life that I have... | 9 |
| 997 | 12 Feb 2002 | Christopher Marlowe | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | Come live with me an... | 24 |
| 75 | 28 Apr 1999 | Christopher Marlowe | The face that launch'd a thousand ships | Was this the face th... | 20 |
| 506 | 04 Aug 2000 | Christopher Marlowe | Lament for Zenocrate | Black is the beauty ... | 37 |
| 230 | 9 Oct 1999 | Don Marquis | pity the poor spiders | i have just been reading | 54 |
| 1724 | 20 Jun 2005 | Don Marquis | warty bliggens the toad | i met a toad | 54 |
| 76 | 29 Apr 1999 | Don Marquis | archy interviews a pharoh | boss i went | 137 |
| 122 | 17 Jun 1999 | Don Marquis | certain maxims of archy | many a man spanks his | 125 |
| 36 | 17 Mar 1999 | Don Marquis | the lesson of the moth | i was talking to a moth | 54 |
| 1079 | 21 Aug 2002 | Don Marquis | mehitabel and her kittens | well boss | 129 |
| 1458 | 13 Feb 2004 | Don Marquis | aesop revised by archy | a wolf met a spring | 98 |
| 856 | 4 Aug 2001 | Martial | Epigram | You puff the poets o... | 4 |
| 1065 | 25 Jun 2002 | Harry Edmund Martinson | The Cable Ship | We fished up the Atl... | 14 |
| 452 | 12 Jun 2000 | José Martí | I wish to leave the world | I wish to leave the world | 8 |
| 1694 | 9 May 2005 | Andrew Marvell | The Garden | How vainly men thems... | 72 |
| 158 | 25 Jul 1999 | Andrew Marvell | To His Coy Mistress | Had we but world eno... | 46 |
| 758 | 18 Apr 2001 | John Masefield | Sea-Change | "Goneys an' gullies ... | 16 |
| 1251 | 10 May 2003 | John Masefield | The Rider at the Gate | A windy night was bl... | 54 |
| 695 | 13 Feb 2001 | John Masefield | Beauty | I have seen dawn and... | 8 |
| 27 | 8 Mar 1999 | John Masefield | Sea Fever | I must go down to th... | 24 |
| 702 | 20 Feb 2001 | John Masefield | Night Is On The Downland | Night is on the down... | 20 |
| 555 | 23 Sep 2000 | John Masefield | Trade Winds | In the harbor, in th... | 12 |
| 74 | 26 Apr 1999 | John Masefield | Cargoes | Quinquireme of Ninev... | 15 |
| 686 | 4 Feb 2001 | Joyce Maxner | Nicholas Cricket | Nicholas Cricket pla... | 53 |
| 602 | 10 Nov 2000 | Glyn Maxwell | Deep Sorriness Atonement Song | (for missed appointm... | 42 |
| 805 | 8 Jun 2001 | James Maxwell | Rigid Body Sings | Gin a body meet a body | 16 |
| 1531 | 19 Jul 2004 | Vladimir Mayakovsky | Past One O'Clock | Past one o'clock. Yo... | 12 |
| 11 | 20 Feb 1999 | John McCrae | In Flanders Fields | In Flanders fields t... | 15 |
| 1377 | 1 Nov 2003 | Jeffrey McDaniel | The Quiet World | In an effort to get ... | 20 |
| 343 | 16 Feb 2000 | William McGonagall | The Tay Bridge Disaster | Beautiful Railway Br... | 59 |
| 1628 | 19 Feb 2005 | Roger McGough | Let Me Die a Youngman's Death | Let me die a youngma... | 29 |
| 1100 | 8 Oct 2002 | Roger McGough | A Good Poem | I like a good poem | 16 |
| 1335 | 27 Aug 2003 | Roger McGough | Balloon Fight | 'This morning, the A... | 23 |
| 869 | 19 Aug 2001 | Louis McKee | Scrabble | We used to pride our... | 17 |
| 815 | 20 Jun 2001 | Peter Meinke | Mulch | There where the punk... | 31 |
| 775 | 8 May 2001 | Herman Melville | The Maldive Shark | About the Shark, phl... | 16 |
| 1461 | 20 Feb 2004 | Owen Meredith | Lucile: Part 1, Canto 2 | We may live without ... | 8 |
| 428 | 16 May 2000 | Eve Merriam | Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" | take the leaf of a tree | 17 |
| 528 | 27 Aug 2000 | James Merrill | A Renewal | Having used every su... | 8 |
| 1107 | 28 Oct 2002 | W.S. Merwin | Separation | Your absence has gon... | 3 |
| 1141 | 11 Jan 2003 | Charlotte Mew | I So Liked Spring | I so liked Spring la... | 9 |
| 431 | 19 May 2000 | Charlotte Mew | Sea Love | Tide be runnin' the ... | 8 |
| 590 | 30 Oct 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Sonnet XLIII | What lips my lips ha... | 14 |
| 905 | 3 Oct 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | I will put Chaos into fourteen lines | I will put Chaos int... | 14 |
| 49 | 31 Mar 1999 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | The Unexplorer | There was a road ran... | 6 |
| 34 | 15 Mar 1999 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | First Fig | My candle burns at b... | 4 |
| 1293 | 2 Jul 2003 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Beloved Dust | And you as well must... | 14 |
| 926 | 28 Oct 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Dirge Without Music | I am not resigned to... | 16 |
| 1590 | 6 Jan 2005 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Epitaph for the Race of Man: X | The broken dike, the... | 14 |
| 317 | 19 Jan 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Inland | People that build th... | 16 |
| 860 | 9 Aug 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Sonnet: Love Is Not All | Love is not all: It ... | 14 |
| 956 | 7 Dec 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Ashes of Life | Love has gone and le... | 12 |
| 108 | 2 Jun 1999 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | The Penitent | I had a little Sorrow, | 24 |
| 604 | 12 Nov 2000 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare | Euclid alone has loo... | 14 |
| 1064 | 24 Jun 2002 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Travel | The railroad track i... | 12 |
| 817 | 21 Jun 2001 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Grown-up | Was it for this I ut... | 4 |
| 1662 | 30 Mar 2005 | Spike Milligan | Mirror, Mirror | A young spring-tende... | 9 |
| 831 | 8 Jul 2001 | Spike Milligan | The Soldiers at Lauro | Young are our dead | 20 |
| 1207 | 25 Mar 2003 | Spike Milligan | Hamlet | Said Hamlet to Ophelia, | 4 |
| 1196 | 13 Mar 2003 | Spike Milligan | The ABC | 'Twas midnight in th... | 32 |
| 701 | 18 Feb 2001 | Spike Milligan | Teeth | English Teeth, Engli... | 12 |
| 1554 | 3 Nov 2004 | Spike Milligan | Look at all those monkeys | Look at all those monkeys | 16 |
| 1044 | 1 May 2002 | Spike Milligan | Contagion | Elephants are contagious! | 12 |
| 463 | 21 Jun 2000 | A. A. Milne | Disobedience | James James | 67 |
| 1022 | 26 Mar 2002 | A. A. Milne | Buckingham Palace | They're changing gua... | 30 |
| 1051 | 11 May 2002 | A. A. Milne | Happiness | John had | 16 |
| 562 | 30 Sep 2000 | A. A. Milne | The King's Breakfast | The King asked | 94 |
| 91 | 17 May 1999 | A. A. Milne | Cottleston Pie | Cottleston Cottlesto... | 12 |
| 576 | 15 Oct 2000 | A. A. Milne | Tra-la-la, tra-la-la | He had made up a lit... | 12 |
| 1097 | 2 Oct 2002 | A.A. Milne | The End | When I was One, | 12 |
| 837 | 14 Jul 2001 | Czeslaw Milosz | Child of Europe | 1 | 100 |
| 1229 | 18 Apr 2003 | Czelaw Milosz | You Whose Name | You whose name is ag... | 19 |
| 1762 | 7 Sep 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | Eyes | My most honorable ey... | 20 |
| 1545 | 27 Sep 2004 | Czeslaw Milosz | Ars Poetica | I have always aspire... | 36 |
| 1732 | 11 Jul 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | Nonadaptation | I was not made to li... | 13 |
| 1599 | 18 Jan 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only | My valiant helper, a... | 33 |
| 1213 | 2 Apr 2003 | John Milton | Paradise Lost (excerpt) | Who first seduced th... | 42 |
| 279 | 02 Dec 1999 | John Milton | L'Allegro | Hence, loathed Melancholy | 68 |
| 1603 | 24 Jan 2005 | John Milton | Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | Methought I saw my l... | 14 |
| 106 | 1 Jun 1999 | John Milton | On His Blindness | When I consider how ... | 14 |
| 281 | 03 Dec 1999 | John Milton | L'Allegro | Straight mine eye ha... | 83 |
| 127 | 22 Jun 1999 | John Milton | On Shakespear | What needs my Shakes... | 16 |
| 623 | 1 Dec 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody | 1 PATRIOTIC | 34 |
| 95 | 21 May 1999 | Adrian Mitchell | Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off | Where are they now, ... | 50 |
| 810 | 14 Jun 2001 | Adrian Mitchell | Beatrix is Three | At the top of the stairs | 9 |
| 28 | 10 Mar 1999 | Adrian Mitchell | To Whom It May Concern | I was run over by th... | 39 |
| 894 | 21 Sep 2001 | Adrian Mitchell | Watch Your Step - I'm Drenched | In Manchester there ... | 24 |
| 211 | 20 Sep 1999 | Adrian Mitchell | The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry | Back in the caveman ... | 83 |
| 337 | 11 Feb 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' | A man plodding throu... | 4 |
| 397 | 12 Apr 2000 | Adrian Mitchell | Ancestors | We had an island. | 62 |
| 1409 | 25 Dec 2003 | Joni Mitchell | River | It's coming on Christmas | 39 |
| 1556 | 5 Nov 2004 | Joni Mitchell | Both Sides Now | Rows and flows of an... | 36 |
| 1005 | 22 Feb 2002 | Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi | They paved paradise | 26 |
| 1677 | 15 Apr 2005 | Joni Mitchell | The Fiddle and the Drum | And so once again | 35 |
| 1644 | 7 Mar 2005 | Moliere | The Misanthrope | ORONTE | 25 |
| 1360 | 29 Sep 2003 | Donald Monat | Untitled | Lying south of sweet... | 16 |
| 594 | 2 Nov 2000 | Harold Monro | Overheard on a Salmarsh | Nymph, nymph, what a... | 20 |
| 727 | 17 Mar 2001 | Harold Monro | Milk for the Cat | When the tea is brou... | 36 |
| 1422 | 7 Jan 2004 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | My Library | It is small and dim ... | 24 |
| 1105 | 19 Oct 2002 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Sunrise Along Shore | Athwart the harbor l... | 32 |
| 948 | 22 Nov 2001 | Julia A. Moore | Grand Rapids Cricket Club | In Grand Rapids is a... | 32 |
| 1169 | 9 Feb 2003 | Marianne Moore | Poetry | I, too, dislike it: ... | 38 |
| 1043 | 27 Apr 2002 | Marianne Moore | The Steeple-Jack | Dürer would have see... | 78 |
| 986 | 20 Jan 2002 | Marianne Moore | A Grave | Man looking into the sea, | 52 |
| 1492 | 6 Apr 2004 | Marianne Moore | No Swan So Fine | "No water so still as the | 14 |
| 1274 | 11 Jun 2003 | Thomas Moore | The Time I've Lost in Wooing | The time I've lost i... | 30 |
| 1619 | 10 Feb 2005 | Dom Moraes | Absences | Smear out the last star. | 32 |
| 215 | 24 Sep 1999 | Edwin Morgan | The Loch Ness Monster's Song | Sssnnnwhuffffll? | 14 |
| 1592 | 8 Jan 2005 | Edwin Morgan | One Cigarette | No smoke without you... | 17 |
| 304 | 29 Dec 1999 | Edwin Morgan | The Subway Piranhas | Did anyone tell you | 17 |
| 147 | 14 Jul 1999 | Edwin Morgan | The Unspoken | When the troopship w... | 73 |
| 827 | 3 Jul 2001 | Edwin Morgan | Strawberries | There were never str... | 33 |
| 1391 | 19 Nov 2003 | Robert Morgan | The Grain of Sound | A banjo maker in the... | 24 |
| 252 | 03 Nov 1999 | Christian Morgenstern | The Midnightmouse | It midnights, not a ... | 12 |
| 424 | 12 May 2000 | Christian Morgenstern | The Moonsheep | The moonsheep stands... | 12 |
| 753 | 14 Apr 2001 | Christian Morgenstern | Delayed Action | Korf invents some jo... | 6 |
| 833 | 10 Jul 2001 | Christopher Morley | Washing the Dishes | When we on simple ra... | 20 |
| 914 | 14 Oct 2001 | Christopher Morley | Tit for Tat | I often pass a graci... | 8 |
| 553 | 21 Sep 2000 | Christopher Morley | Caught in the Undertow | Colin, worshipping s... | 8 |
| 1640 | 3 Mar 2005 | William Morris | In Prison | Wearily, drearily, | 18 |
| 1215 | 3 Apr 2003 | Andrew Motion | Regime Change | Advancing down the r... | 22 |
| 1676 | 14 Apr 2005 | Andrew Motion | Spring Wedding | I took your news out... | 16 |
| 1143 | 13 Jan 2003 | Andrew Motion | Causa Belli | They read good books... | 4 |
| 1257 | 17 May 2003 | Oswald Mtshali | The Birth of Shaka | His baby cry | 25 |
| 1738 | 24 Jul 2005 | Lisel Mueller | Monet Refuses the Operation | Doctor, you say that... | 46 |
| 1430 | 15 Jan 2004 | Lisel Mueller | Not only the Eskimos | Not only the Eskimos | 55 |
| 1378 | 2 Nov 2003 | Edwin Muir | The Horses | Barely a twelvemonth... | 53 |
| 1233 | 22 Apr 2003 | Edwin Muir | Ballad of Hector in Hades | Yes, this is where I... | 46 |
| 1153 | 23 Jan 2003 | Paul Muldoon | Meeting the British | We met the British i... | 18 |
| 1176 | 18 Feb 2003 | Les Murray | Visitor | He knocks at the door | 2 |
| 387 | 01 Apr 2000 | Les Murray | An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow | The word goes round ... | 46 |
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