| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | 17 Oct 1999 | W.B.Yeats | The Ballad of Father Gilligan | The old priest Peter... | 48 |
| 895 | 21 Sep 2001 | W.H.Auden | August 1968 | The Ogre does what o... | 8 |
| 307 | 2 Jan 2000 | W.H.Auden | Lay your sleeping head, my love | Lay your sleeping he... | 40 |
| 728 | 19 Mar 2001 | W.H.Auden | from The Dog Beneath The Skin | Now through night's ... | 23 |
| 1611 | 2 Feb 2005 | David Wagoner | For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls | You say they were sl... | 15 |
| 1682 | 22 Apr 2005 | Tom Waits | The Piano Has Been Drinking | The piano has been d... | 19 |
| 1041 | 25 Apr 2002 | Derek Walcott | The Schooner 'Flight' | 1. Adios, Carenage | 78 |
| 1319 | 6 Aug 2003 | Derek Walcott | Goats and Monkeys | '...even now, an old... | 53 |
| 1734 | 20 Jul 2005 | Derek Walcott | The Prodigal, 3.II | The tidal motion of ... | 41 |
| 993 | 7 Feb 2002 | Derek Walcott | Midsummer, Tobago | Broad sun-stoned beaches. | 11 |
| 1411 | 27 Dec 2003 | Derek Walcott | Pentecost | Better a jungle in t... | 20 |
| 1593 | 9 Jan 2005 | Derek Walcott | from The Estranging Sea | 1 | 86 |
| 822 | 28 Jun 2001 | Margaret Walker | I Want To Write | I want to write | 10 |
| 582 | 21 Oct 2000 | Edmund Waller | Go, Lovely Rose | Go, lovely Rose- | 20 |
| 968 | 22 Dec 2001 | Robert Penn Warren | Grackles, Goodbye | Black of grackles gl... | 20 |
| 1685 | 28 Apr 2005 | Roger Waters | The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range | You have a natural t... | 52 |
| 1369 | 12 Oct 2003 | Bill Watterson | Christmas Eve | On the window panes ... | 14 |
| 1408 | 20 Dec 2003 | Bill Watterson | My Mom and Dad | My mom and my dad ar... | 22 |
| 1757 | 23 Aug 2005 | John Webster | Vanitas Vanitatum | All the flowers of t... | 16 |
| 855 | 2 Aug 2001 | Wang Wei | Lady Xi | No present royal fav... | 4 |
| 1199 | 16 Mar 2003 | Myra Brooks Welch | The Touch Of The Master's Hand | 'Twas battered and s... | 40 |
| 930 | 2 Nov 2001 | Paul Weller | Town Called Malice | You'd better stop dr... | 25 |
| 432 | 20 May 2000 | John Hall Wheelock | Earth | "A planet doesn't ex... | 4 |
| 608 | 16 Nov 2000 | E. B. White | The Spider's Web | The spider, dropping... | 12 |
| 1505 | 5 May 2004 | James Whitehead | Good Linemen Live in a Closed World | Good linemen live in... | 14 |
| 984 | 18 Jan 2002 | Walt Whitman | On the Beach at Night | On the beach at night, | 36 |
| 157 | 24 Jul 1999 | Walt Whitman | O Captain! My Captain! | O Captain! my Captai... | 24 |
| 1764 | 12 Sep 2005 | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 | A child said, *What ... | 39 |
| 268 | 20 Nov 1999 | Walt Whitman | The Dalliance of the Eagles | Skirting the river r... | 10 |
| 508 | 06 Aug 2000 | Walt Whitman | I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing | I saw in Louisiana a... | 16 |
| 246 | 27 Oct 1999 | Walt Whitman | I Hear America Singing | I hear America singi... | 15 |
| 887 | 11 Sep 2001 | Walt Whitman | Beat! Beat! Drums! | Beat! beat! drums! -... | 23 |
| 54 | 5 Apr 1999 | Walt Whitman | When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer | When I heard the lea... | 10 |
| 498 | 27 Jul 2000 | Walt Whitman | The World Below the Brine | The world below the ... | 19 |
| 445 | 03 Jun 2000 | Walt Whitman | A Noiseless Patient Spider | A noiseless patient ... | 10 |
| 1042 | 23 Apr 2002 | Walt Whitman | I Sit and Look Out | I sit and look out u... | 19 |
| 1559 | 10 Nov 2004 | Walt Whitman | Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night | Vigil strange I kept... | 50 |
| 1119 | 28 Nov 2002 | John Greenleaf Whittier | The Pumpkin | Oh, greenly and fair... | 42 |
| 360 | 06 Mar 2000 | John Whitworth | I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea | Fretting my heart as... | 44 |
| 406 | 21 Apr 2000 | Anna Wickham | Song | I will pluck from my... | 16 |
| 1116 | 24 Nov 2002 | Richard Wilbur | Transit | A woman I have never... | 12 |
| 322 | 27 Jan 2000 | Richard Wilbur | In the Smoking Car | The eyelids meet. He... | 20 |
| 1256 | 16 May 2003 | Richard Wilbur | The Pardon | My dog lay dead five... | 24 |
| 1195 | 12 Mar 2003 | Richard Wilbur | Advice to a Prophet | When you come, as yo... | 36 |
| 911 | 10 Oct 2001 | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The Traveled Man | Sometimes I wish the... | 28 |
| 1226 | 15 Apr 2003 | Oscar Wilde | To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems | I can write no state... | 12 |
| 992 | 31 Jan 2002 | Oscar Wilde | Symphony in Yellow | An omnibus across th... | 12 |
| 658 | 6 Jan 2001 | Oscar Wilde | Serenade | The western wind is ... | 40 |
| 1538 | 27 Aug 2004 | C.K. Williams | Love: Beginnings | They're at that stag... | 16 |
| 1683 | 26 Apr 2005 | Dar Williams | The Ocean | When I went to your ... | 50 |
| 904 | 1 Oct 2001 | Miller Williams | The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina | Somewhere in everyon... | 39 |
| 1767 | 20 Sep 2005 | Tennessee Williams | My Little One | My little one whose ... | 12 |
| 484 | 12 Jul 2000 | William Carlos Williams | Hunters in the Snow | The over-all picture... | 21 |
| 1235 | 24 Apr 2003 | William Carlos Williams | Rose | The rose is obsolete | 42 |
| 1637 | 28 Feb 2005 | William Carlos Williams | Overture to a Dance of Locomotives | Men with picked voic... | 44 |
| 659 | 7 Jan 2001 | William Carlos Williams | Poem | As the cat | 12 |
| 213 | 22 Sep 1999 | William Carlos Williams | The Artist | Mr T. | 27 |
| 274 | 27 Nov 1999 | William Carlos Williams | This Is Just To Say | I have eaten | 12 |
| 83 | 6 May 1999 | William Carlos Williams | The Red Wheelbarrow | so much depends | 8 |
| 1058 | 31 May 2002 | John Wilmot | A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover | Ancient Person, for ... | 26 |
| 669 | 17 Jan 2001 | John Wilmot | Epitaph on Charles II | Here lies a great an... | 4 |
| 1049 | 9 May 2002 | Roger Woddis | Down With Fanatics! | If I had my way with... | 24 |
| 408 | 24 Apr 2000 | P. G. Wodehouse | Caliban at Sunset | I stood with a man | 18 |
| 1537 | 26 Aug 2004 | P. G. Wodehouse | Good Gnus | (A Vignette in Verse) | 33 |
| 179 | 17 Aug 1999 | P.G. Wodehouse | Missed | The sun in the heave... | 40 |
| 115 | 10 Jun 1999 | Charles Wolfe | The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna | Not a drum was heard... | 32 |
| 1504 | 29 Apr 2004 | Humbert Wolfe | Requiem: The Soldier | Down some cold field... | 16 |
| 766 | 27 Apr 2001 | Humbert Wolfe | The Grey Squirrel | Like a small grey | 16 |
| 1618 | 9 Feb 2005 | John T. Wood | Poem for Everyone | I will present you | 34 |
| 1292 | 1 Jul 2003 | Robert Williams Wood | The Auk and the Orchid | We seldom meet, when... | 14 |
| 411 | 27 Apr 2000 | William Wordsworth | The Tables Turned | Up! up! my Friend, a... | 32 |
| 128 | 24 Jun 1999 | William Wordsworth | London, 1802 | Milton! thou shoulds... | 14 |
| 63 | 15 Apr 1999 | William Wordsworth | Daffodils | I wandered lonely as... | 24 |
| 1338 | 30 Aug 2003 | William Wordsworth | The World is Too Much With Us | The World is too muc... | 14 |
| 462 | 20 Jun 2000 | William Wordsworth | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Earth has not anythi... | 14 |
| 441 | 30 May 2000 | William Wordsworth | The Simplon Pass | -Brook and road | 20 |
| 759 | 19 Apr 2001 | William Wordsworth | A Complaint | There is a change--a... | 18 |
| 376 | 21 Mar 2000 | William Wordsworth | She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | She dwelt among the ... | 12 |
| 82 | 5 May 1999 | William Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | Behold her, single i... | 32 |
| 1173 | 14 Feb 2003 | William Wordsworth | Splendour in the Grass | What though the radiance | 14 |
| 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 |
| 1221 | 10 Apr 2003 | Judith Wright | Woman to Man | The eyeless labourer... | 20 |
| 957 | 9 Dec 2001 | Thomas Wyatt | Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind | Whoso list to hunt, ... | 14 |
| 1625 | 16 Feb 2005 | Thomas Wyatt | The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea | My galley chargèd wi... | 14 |
| 862 | 10 Aug 2001 | Elinor Wylie | Pretty Words | Poets make pets of p... | 14 |
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