| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1314 | 31 Jul 2003 | Becky Dennison Sakellariou | Math Is Beautiful and So Are You | If n is an even number | 16 |
| 1500 | 19 Apr 2004 | J. D. Salinger | John Keats | John Keats | 4 |
| 5 | 15 Feb 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Chicago | Hog Butcher for the ... | 42 |
| 834 | 11 Jul 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Soup | I saw a famous man e... | 9 |
| 679 | 28 Jan 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Maybe | Maybe he believes me... | 8 |
| 1750 | 5 Aug 2005 | Carl Sandburg | Grass | Pile the bodies high... | 11 |
| 235 | 15 Oct 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Pennsylvania | I have been in Penns... | 14 |
| 205 | 13 Sep 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Crucible | Hot gold runs a wind... | 6 |
| 713 | 2 Mar 2001 | Carl Sandburg | Last Answers | I wrote a poem on th... | 12 |
| 282 | 4 Dec 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Fog | The fog comes | 6 |
| 1393 | 21 Nov 2003 | Carl Sandburg | The Lawyers Know Too Much | The lawyers, Bob, kn... | 27 |
| 1631 | 22 Feb 2005 | Carl Sandburg | Offering and Rebuff | I could love you | 14 |
| 1181 | 22 Feb 2003 | Carl Sandburg | Elephants Are Different to Different People | Wilson and Pilcer an... | 20 |
| 163 | 31 Jul 1999 | Carl Sandburg | Dust | Here is dust remembe... | 6 |
| 25 | 7 Mar 1999 | George Santayana | The Poet's Testament | I give back to the e... | 20 |
| 1475 | 9 Mar 2004 | George Santayana | I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight | I sought on earth a ... | 14 |
| 1796 | 17 Nov 2005 | Sappho | Poem I | Immortal Aphrodite o... | 28 |
| 385 | 30 Mar 2000 | Seigfreid Sassoon | Base Details | If I were fierce, an... | 10 |
| 1030 | 6 Apr 2002 | Siegfried Sassoon | Everyone Sang | Everyone suddenly bu... | 10 |
| 1794 | 11 Nov 2005 | Siegfried Sassoon | The General | "Good-morning, good-... | 7 |
| 1189 | 6 Mar 2003 | Siegfried Sassoon | Survivors | No doubt they'll soo... | 10 |
| 1645 | 8 Mar 2005 | Siegfried Sassoon | On Passing the New Menin Gate | Who will remember, p... | 14 |
| 535 | 02 Sep 2000 | Siegfried Sassoon | The Working Party | Three hours ago he b... | 49 |
| 1315 | 1 Aug 2003 | Judith Saunders | Mathematicians at Work | hunker down on their... | 20 |
| 1179 | 20 Feb 2003 | John Godfrey Saxe | The Blind Men and the Elephant | It was six men of In... | 55 |
| 1620 | 11 Feb 2005 | Tony Scanlon | Second Honeymoon | The blue that startl... | 14 |
| 195 | 03 Sep 1999 | Peter Schaeffer | Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum | You mysterious jongl... | 20 |
| 393 | 8 Apr 2000 | Peter Schaeffer | Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night | I think | 19 |
| 1509 | 21 May 2004 | Friedrich Schiller | Ode to Joy | Joy, thou beauteous ... | 36 |
| 478 | 07 Jul 2000 | Duncan Campbell Scott | Enigma | Some men are born to... | 15 |
| 782 | 16 May 2001 | F.R. Scott | National Identity | The Canadian Centena... | 20 |
| 719 | 9 Mar 2001 | Lady John Scott | Loch Lomond | By yon bonnie banks,... | 18 |
| 495 | 24 Jul 2000 | Sir Walter Scott | Marmion | (A Tale of Flodden Field) | 74 |
| 1691 | 6 May 2005 | Sir Walter Scott | Patriotism | Breathes there the m... | 16 |
| 931 | 2 Nov 2001 | Sir Walter Scott | Proud Maisie | Proud Maisie is in t... | 16 |
| 415 | 01 May 2000 | Sir Walter Scott | The Truth of Woman | Woman's faith, and w... | 16 |
| 125 | 19 Jun 1999 | Sir Walter Scott | Lochinvar | O, young Lochinvar i... | 48 |
| 1527 | 30 Jun 2004 | Gil Scott-Heron | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | You will not be able... | 60 |
| 184 | 22 Aug 1999 | Chief Sealth | Chief Seattle's Reply | How can you buy or s... | 117 |
| 634 | 12 Dec 2000 | Sir Charles Sedley | Phyllis is my only joy | Phyllis is my only joy, | 18 |
| 1386 | 14 Nov 2003 | Peggy Seeger | Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) | In the town of Sprin... | 25 |
| 1137 | 3 Jan 2003 | Robert Service | The Smoking Frog | Three men I saw besi... | 48 |
| 1689 | 3 May 2005 | Robert Service | The Bread-Knife Ballad | A little child was s... | 16 |
| 1744 | 29 Jul 2005 | Robert Service | A Pot Of Tea | You make it in your ... | 26 |
| 698 | 16 Feb 2001 | Robert Service | The Cremation of Sam McGee | There are strange th... | 82 |
| 1639 | 2 Mar 2005 | Robert Service | The Rover | Oh, how good it is to be | 33 |
| 781 | 15 May 2001 | Robert Service | The Law of the Yukon | This is the law of t... | 74 |
| 980 | 6 Jan 2002 | Robert Service | The March of the Dead | The cruel war was ov... | 48 |
| 1126 | 12 Dec 2002 | Robert W. Service | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | A bunch of the boys ... | 71 |
| 1266 | 1 Jun 2003 | Vikram Seth | Research in Jiangsu Province | From off this plasti... | 68 |
| 1356 | 23 Sep 2003 | Vikram Seth | Qingdao: December | Here by the sea this... | 24 |
| 1318 | 5 Aug 2003 | Vikram Seth | The Wind | The bay is thick wit... | 8 |
| 460 | 19 Jun 2000 | Vikram Seth | Round and Round | After a long and wre... | 18 |
| 650 | 29 Dec 2000 | Vikram Seth | All You who Sleep Tonight | All you who sleep tonight | 8 |
| 754 | 16 Apr 2001 | Vikram Seth | Protocols | What can I say to yo... | 8 |
| 1453 | 8 Feb 2004 | Vikram Seth | Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) | Why, asks a friend, ... | 14 |
| 1567 | 27 Nov 2004 | Vikram Seth | Untitled | Dark night, and sile... | 14 |
| 966 | 20 Dec 2001 | Vikram Seth | Sit | Sit, drink your coff... | 8 |
| 978 | 3 Jan 2002 | Anne Sexton | Cinderella | You always read about it | 109 |
| 477 | 06 Jul 2000 | William Shakespeare | Fear no more the heat o' the sun | Fear no more the hea... | 24 |
| 943 | 17 Nov 2001 | William Shakespeare | So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnets XXI) | So is it not with me... | 14 |
| 312 | 16 Jan 2000 | William Shakespeare | Where the bee sucks | Where the bee sucks,... | 7 |
| 363 | 08 Mar 2000 | William Shakespeare | Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) | Let me not to the ma... | 14 |
| 16 | 25 Feb 1999 | William Shakespeare | Full Fathom Five | Full fathom five thy... | 9 |
| 808 | 12 Jun 2001 | William Shakespeare | Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV) | Not from the stars d... | 14 |
| 229 | 08 Oct 1999 | William Shakespeare | To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow | To-morrow, and to-mo... | 10 |
| 200 | 09 Sep 1999 | William Shakespeare | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks | Blow, winds, and cra... | 23 |
| 611 | 19 Nov 2000 | William Shakespeare | Winter | When icicles hang by... | 16 |
| 48 | 31 Mar 1999 | William Shakespeare | Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth | O, pardon me, thou b... | 22 |
| 570 | 9 Oct 2000 | William Shakespeare | Come, Night; Come, Romeo | Come, night; come, R... | 9 |
| 243 | 24 Oct 1999 | William Shakespeare | When that I was and a little tiny boy | When that I was and ... | 20 |
| 1501 | 21 Apr 2004 | William Shakespeare | The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd | The quality of mercy... | 22 |
| 1690 | 5 May 2005 | William Shakespeare | When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet XXIX) | When in disgrace wit... | 14 |
| 219 | 28 Sep 1999 | William Shakespeare | Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) | Full many a glorious... | 14 |
| 71 | 24 Apr 1999 | William Shakespeare | Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) | Shall I compare thee... | 14 |
| 1204 | 21 Mar 2003 | William Shakespeare | To Thine Own Self Be True | Yet here, Laertes! A... | 28 |
| 44 | 26 Mar 1999 | William Shakespeare | My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) | My mistress' eyes ar... | 14 |
| 413 | 01 May 2000 | William Shakespeare | Admired Miranda! | Admired Miranda! | 12 |
| 1575 | 17 Dec 2004 | William Shakespeare | Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet LV) | Not marble, nor the ... | 14 |
| 126 | 21 Jun 1999 | William Shakespeare | Our revels now are ended | Our revels now are e... | 11 |
| 22 | 3 Mar 1999 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ozymandias | I met a traveller fr... | 14 |
| 592 | 31 Oct 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sonnet: England in 1819 | An old, mad, blind, ... | 14 |
| 531 | 29 Aug 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Love's Philosophy | The fountains mingle... | 16 |
| 399 | 14 Apr 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Indian Serenade | I arise from dreams ... | 24 |
| 500 | 29 Jul 2000 | Percy Bysshe shelley | A Dirge | Rough Wind, that moa... | 8 |
| 1605 | 26 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold | One sung of thee who... | 4 |
| 1606 | 27 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Masque of Anarchy (extract) | XXXVII. | 284 |
| 416 | 2 May 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Fitful Alternations of the Rain | The fitful alternati... | 4 |
| 1743 | 28 Jul 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | To the Moon | Art thou pale for we... | 6 |
| 329 | 03 Feb 2000 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | I | 75 |
| 1495 | 13 Apr 2004 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | To a Skylark | Hail to thee, blithe... | 105 |
| 239 | 19 Oct 1999 | Frank Dempster Sherman | Witchery | Out of the purple drifts, | 12 |
| 1470 | 3 Mar 2004 | Su Shi | Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake | Listen not to the ra... | 11 |
| 942 | 15 Nov 2001 | James Shirley | Death the Leveller | The glories of our b... | 24 |
| 470 | 29 Jun 2000 | Dora Sigerson Shorter | The Comforters | When I crept over th... | 16 |
| 1493 | 7 Apr 2004 | Antipater of Sidon | Erinna | Though short her str... | 8 |
| 1462 | 21 Feb 2004 | Shel Silverstein | Point of View | Thanksgiving dinner'... | 12 |
| 1182 | 24 Feb 2003 | Shel Silverstein | In Search of Cinderella | From dusk to dawn, | 10 |
| 1247 | 6 May 2003 | Shel Silverstein | Dreadful | Someone ate the baby. | 24 |
| 892 | 19 Sep 2001 | Shel Silverstein | Stupid Pencil Maker | Some dummy built thi... | 4 |
| 845 | 22 Jul 2001 | Shel Silverstein | Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich | A hippo sandwich is ... | 12 |
| 996 | 11 Feb 2002 | Shel Silverstein | The Little Boy and the Old Man | Said the little boy,... | 10 |
| 1128 | 14 Dec 2002 | Shel Silverstein | Snowball | I made myself a snowball | 8 |
| 1671 | 9 Apr 2005 | Shel Silverstein | It's Dark in Here | I am writing these poems | 10 |
| 119 | 14 Jun 1999 | Paul Simon | A Poem on the Underground Wall | The last train is ne... | 30 |
| 785 | 25 May 2001 | Paul Simon | One Trick Pony | He's a one trick pony | 29 |
| 1449 | 4 Feb 2004 | Louis Simpson | The Inner Part | When they had won the war | 12 |
| 1013 | 8 Mar 2002 | Louis Simpson | Carentan O Carentan | Trees in the old day... | 56 |
| 642 | 20 Dec 2000 | Rina Singh | The Poetics of Desire | Throw away your pape... | 27 |
| 849 | 27 Jul 2001 | Edith Sitwell | Sir Beelzebub | When | 18 |
| 1596 | 13 Jan 2005 | Edith Sitwell | Still Falls the Rain | The Raids, 1940. Nig... | 35 |
| 661 | 9 Jan 2001 | Christopher Smart | Jubilate Agno | For I will consider ... | 88 |
| 345 | 18 Feb 2000 | Charlotte Smith | Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore | Huge vapours brood a... | 14 |
| 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 |
| 550 | 19 Sep 2000 | Langdon Smith | Evolution | When you were a tadp... | 108 |
| 585 | 24 Oct 2000 | R. T. Smith | Split the Lark | 'Split the lark, and... | 35 |
| 421 | 08 May 2000 | Stevie Smith | The Jungle Husband | Dearest Evelyn, I of... | 15 |
| 1180 | 22 Feb 2003 | Stevie Smith | Not Waving But Drowning | Nobody heard him, th... | 12 |
| 1086 | 4 Sep 2002 | William Jay Smith | The Floor and the Ceiling | Winter and summer, w... | 36 |
| 1541 | 14 Sep 2004 | Gary Snyder | John Muir on Mt. Ritter | After scanning its f... | 24 |
| 1122 | 7 Dec 2002 | Edith Sodergran | Hope | I want to let go - | 12 |
| 960 | 13 Dec 2001 | Stephen Sondheim | The Prologue to 'Sweeney Todd' | [A Man:] | 55 |
| 842 | 19 Jul 2001 | Robert Southey | To a Goose | If thou didst feed o... | 14 |
| 203 | 11 Sep 1999 | Robert Southey | The Battle of Blenheim | It was a summer evening, | 66 |
| 652 | 30 Dec 2000 | Robert Southey | The Cataract of Lodore | "How does the water | 121 |
| 1076 | 22 Jul 2002 | Eunice de Souza | Meeting Poets | Meeting poets I am d... | 9 |
| 682 | 31 Jan 2001 | Eunice de Souza | Advice to Women | Keep cats | 12 |
| 836 | 13 Jul 2001 | Stephen Spender | In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic | In railway halls, on... | 15 |
| 991 | 30 Jan 2002 | Stephen Spender | Seascape | In memoriam M.A.S | 27 |
| 328 | 2 Feb 2000 | Edmund Spenser | from The Faerie Queen | A gentle Knight was ... | 45 |
| 1057 | 24 May 2002 | William Stafford | Atavism | 1 | 27 |
| 1283 | 21 Jun 2003 | William Stafford | The Discovery of Daily Experience | It is a whisper. Yo... | 26 |
| 1581 | 23 Dec 2004 | William Stafford | A Ritual to Read to Each Other | If you don't know th... | 20 |
| 194 | 2 Sep 1999 | George Starbuck | Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line | O for a muse of fire... | 15 |
| 875 | 27 Aug 2001 | Vincent Starrett | 221B | Here dwell together ... | 14 |
| 1342 | 4 Sep 2003 | Statius | To Sleep | What is the charge, ... | 24 |
| 530 | 28 Aug 2000 | J. K. Stephen | A Sonnet | Two voices are there... | 14 |
| 1473 | 6 Mar 2004 | J. K. Stephen | Drinking Song | There are people, I ... | 24 |
| 1134 | 23 Dec 2002 | James Stephens | In the Poppy Field | Mad Patsy said, he s... | 24 |
| 180 | 18 Aug 1999 | Wallace Stevens | The Emperor of Ice-Cream | Call the roller of b... | 16 |
| 620 | 28 Nov 2000 | Wallace Stevens | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | I | 67 |
| 1653 | 16 Mar 2005 | Wallace Stevens | Asides on the Oboe | The prologues are ov... | 41 |
| 1588 | 2 Jan 2005 | Wallace Stevens | Six Significant Landscapes | I | 62 |
| 373 | 18 Mar 2000 | Wallace Stevens | The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad | The time of year has... | 20 |
| 459 | 18 Jun 2000 | Wallace Stevens | Two Figures in Dense Violet Light | I had as lief be emb... | 18 |
| 1432 | 17 Jan 2004 | Wallace Stevens | The Snow Man | One must have a mind... | 15 |
| 1249 | 8 May 2003 | Wallace Stevens | The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm | The house was quiet ... | 16 |
| 154 | 21 Jul 1999 | Wallace Stevens | Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | The houses are haunted | 15 |
| 988 | 24 Jan 2002 | Wallace Stevens | The Idea of Order at Key West | She sang beyond the ... | 56 |
| 290 | 13 Dec 1999 | R. L. Stevenson | Bed in Summer | In winter I get up a... | 12 |
| 84 | 9 May 1999 | R. L. Stevenson | From a Railway Carriage | Faster than fairies,... | 16 |
| 450 | 8 Jun 2000 | R. L. Stevenson | Auntie's Skirts | Whenever Auntie move... | 4 |
| 20 | 1 Mar 1999 | Robert L. Stevenson | Requiem | Under the wide and s... | 8 |
| 828 | 4 Jul 2001 | Robert L. Stevenson | Where Go the Boats? | Dark brown is the river, | 16 |
| 780 | 14 May 2001 | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Vagabond | Give to me the life ... | 32 |
| 396 | 11 Apr 2000 | Trumbull Stickney | I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander | I hear a river thro'... | 3 |
| 1478 | 13 Mar 2004 | Mark Strand | A Piece Of The Storm | For Sharon Horvath | 13 |
| 676 | 25 Jan 2001 | Mark Strand | Eating Poetry | Ink runs from the co... | 18 |
| 453 | 12 Jun 2000 | Mark Strand | Keeping Things Whole | In a field | 17 |
| 559 | 27 Sep 2000 | George A. Strong | The Modern Hiawatha | He killed the noble ... | 11 |
| 1688 | 2 May 2005 | John Suckling | Why so Pale and Wan? | Why so pale and wan,... | 15 |
| 1265 | 31 May 2003 | Sumangalamata | A Woman Well Set Free! How Free I Am | A woman well set fre... | 10 |
| 114 | 09 Jun 1999 | Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner | The Soul Cages | A boy child lies loc... | 44 |
| 287 | 10 Dec 1999 | Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner | Mad About You | A stone's throw from... | 45 |
| 929 | 1 Nov 2001 | Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner | Synchronicity II | Another suburban fam... | 30 |
| 523 | 22 Aug 2000 | Joyce Sutphen | Naming the Stars | This present tragedy... | 14 |
| 923 | 25 Oct 2001 | A. C. Swinburne | Leave-Taking | Let us go hence, my ... | 42 |
| 857 | 5 Aug 2001 | A. C. Swinburne | Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' | Before the beginning... | 48 |
| 1308 | 25 Jul 2003 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | A Forsaken Garden | In a coign of the cl... | 80 |
| 1704 | 20 May 2005 | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The Oblation | Ask nothing more of ... | 18 |
| 99 | 25 May 1999 | Charles Swinburne | Nephelidia | From the depth of th... | 48 |
| 1519 | 16 Jun 2004 | J. M. Synge | The Curse | Lord, confound that ... | 8 |
| 1802 | 29 Dec 2005 | by Wislawa Szymborska | A Note | Life is the only way | 22 |
| 694 | 13 Feb 2001 | Wislawa Szymborska | True Love | True love. Is it normal | 35 |
| 224 | 3 Oct 1999 | Wislawa Szymborska | Under One Small Star | My apologies to chan... | 29 |
| 1546 | 28 Sep 2004 | Wislawa Szymborska | In Praise of My Sister | My sister doesn't wr... | 26 |
| 1609 | 30 Jan 2005 | Wislawa Szymborska | Cat in an Empty Apartment | Die—you can't do tha... | 37 |
| 1267 | 2 Jun 2003 | Wislawa Szymborska | A Contribution to Statistics | Out of a hundred people | 49 |
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