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709 26 Feb 2001 Trad 100 Pipers Wi' a hundred pipers... 40
875 27 Aug 2001 Vincent Starrett 221B Here dwell together ... 14
636 14 Dec 2000 Edwin Arlington Robinson Aaron Stark Withal a meagre man ... 14
1196 13 Mar 2003 Spike Milligan The ABC 'Twas midnight in th... 32
358 03 Mar 2000 Percy French Abdul Abulbul Amir The sons of the Prop... 56
1007 25 Feb 2002 Henry F. Lyte Abide with me Abide with me; fast ... 32
153 20 Jul 1999 James Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem Abou Ben Adhem (may ... 18
504 02 Aug 2000 Li Po About Tu Fu I met Tu Fu on a mou... 8
726 16 Mar 2001 T. E. Hulme Above the Dock Above the quiet dock... 4
1619 10 Feb 2005 Dom Moraes Absences Smear out the last star. 32
387 01 Apr 2000 Les Murray An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow The word goes round ... 46
1373 16 Oct 2003 Robert Frost Acceptance When the spent sun t... 14
729 20 Mar 2001 Richard Hovey Accident in Art What painter has not... 14
1565 22 Nov 2004 Robert Frost Acquainted with the Night I have been one acqu... 14
1131 19 Dec 2002 Denise Levertov Adam's Complaint Some people, 16
1154 24 Jan 2003 Robert Burns Address to a Haggis Fair fa' your honest... 48
1192  9 Mar 2003 Edward Thomas Adlestrop Yes, I remember Adle... 16
413 01 May 2000 William Shakespeare Admired Miranda! Admired Miranda! 12
1195 12 Mar 2003 Richard Wilbur Advice to a Prophet When you come, as yo... 36
682 31 Jan 2001 Eunice de Souza Advice to Women Keep cats 12
1474  8 Mar 2004 Robert Burns Ae Fond Kiss Ae fond kiss, and th... 24
1669  7 Apr 2005 William Butler Yeats Aedh Laments the Loss of Love (or The Lover Mourns... 8
1480 16 Mar 2004 Virgil The Aeneid: I, 1-7 War tales and heroes... 14
1748  3 Aug 2005 Wendy Cope The Aerial The aerial on this r... 12
1651 14 Mar 2005 Sylvia Plath Aerialist Each night, this adr... 48
1458 13 Feb 2004 Don Marquis aesop revised by archy a wolf met a spring 98
791 25 May 2001 Lizette Woodworth Reese After Oh, the littles that... 11
1450  5 Feb 2004 W. H. Auden After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics If all a top physici... 48
335 09 Feb 2000 Dylan Thomas After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) After the funeral, m... 40
1558  9 Nov 2004 By Philip Larkin Afternoons Summer is fading 24
1526 29 Jun 2004 Robert Burns Afton Water Flow gently, sweet A... 24
1113 20 Nov 2002 Ernest Hemingway The Age Demanded The age demanded tha... 8
1354 20 Sep 2003 Omar Khayyam Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire Ah, Love! could thou... 4
356 01 Mar 2000 Edward Lear The Akond of Swat Who, or why, or whic... 88
534 01 Sep 2000 Charles Baudelaire The Albatross Often to pass the ti... 16
890 16 Sep 2001 Bob Dylan All Along The Watch-Tower "There must be some ... 12
1487 28 Mar 2004 Christopher Logue All Day Permanent Red (extract) To welcome Hector to... 37
1536 18 Aug 2004 e. e. cummings All in green went my love riding All in green went my... 35
650 29 Dec 2000 Vikram Seth All You who Sleep Tonight All you who sleep tonight 8
1162  1 Feb 2003 Robert A. Heinlein Almighty Ruler of the All Almighty ruler of the all 6
405 20 Apr 2000 Dylan Thomas Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) Altarwise by owl-lig... 56
1441 26 Jan 2004 W. B. Yeats Among School Children I 72
1389 17 Nov 2003 Ovid The Amores: Book 1, Poem #3 Fair's fair now, Ven... 26
1337 29 Aug 2003 Emily Dickinson Ample Make This Bed Ample make this bed. 8
397 12 Apr 2000 Adrian Mitchell Ancestors We had an island. 62
152 20 Jul 1999 R. S. Thomas The Ancients of the World The salmon lying in ... 12
1486 27 Mar 2004 Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have No Dominion And death shall have... 27
123 18 Jun 1999 Ezra Pound And the days are not full enough And the days are not... 4
1052 15 May 2002 Brian Patten Angel Wings In the morning I ope... 54
156 23 Jul 1999 Anon Angelica the Doorkeeper The falcon soars 6
359  4 Mar 2000 Thomas Buchanan Read The Angler But look! o'er the f... 21
1170 10 Feb 2003 Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee It was many and many... 41
503 01 Aug 2000 Donald Justice Anonymous Drawing A delicate young Neg... 24
1720 15 Jun 2005 Rolf Jacobsen Antenna-forest Up on the city's roo... 12
586 25 Oct 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Anvil England's on the anv... 12
867 15 Aug 2001 Cream Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) Twice upon a time in... 16
1260 24 May 2003 E. E. Cummings Anyone lived in a pretty how town anyone lived in a pr... 36
1763  9 Sep 2005 F. J. Bergmann An Apology Forgive me 11
76 29 Apr 1999 Don Marquis archy interviews a pharoh boss i went 137
1680 20 Apr 2005 Hugo von Hofmannsthal Ariadne auf Naxos There is a land wher... 36
129 25 Jun 1999 Sylvia Plath Ariel Stasis in darkness. 31
188 26 Aug 1999 Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica A poem should be pal... 24
1545 27 Sep 2004 Czeslaw Milosz Ars Poetica I have always aspire... 36
213 22 Sep 1999 William Carlos Williams The Artist Mr T. 27
756 17 Apr 2001 Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Side by side, their ... 42
1595 12 Jan 2005 Gerard Manley Hopkins As Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch... 14
1403 10 Dec 2003 W. H. Auden As the poets have mournfully sung As the poets have mo... 5
1621 12 Feb 2005 A. D. Hope As Well as They Can As well as it can, t... 12
1696 11 May 2005 Sir Walter Raleigh As You Came from the Holy Land As you came from the... 44
956  7 Dec 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Ashes of Life Love has gone and le... 12
1653 16 Mar 2005 Wallace Stevens Asides on the Oboe The prologues are ov... 41
1370 13 Oct 2003 A. S. Byatt Ask to Embla, XIII They say that women ... 8
823 29 Jun 2001 Piet Hein Astro-Gymnastics Do-it-yourself grook 17
573 12 Oct 2000 Alistair Campbell At a Fishing Settlement October, and a rain-... 20
1589  4 Jan 2005 Joseph Brodsky At a Lecture Since mistakes are i... 28
1622 13 Feb 2005 Tomas Transtromer At Funchal (Island of Madeira) On the beach there's... 26
1018 19 Mar 2002 Thomas Bailey Aldrich At Stratford-Upon-Avon Thus spake his dust ... 14
1417  2 Jan 2004 Rabindranath Tagore At the last watch Pity, in place of love, 60
732 23 Mar 2001 A. P. Herbert At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me Dear Madam, you have... 26
1057 24 May 2002 William Stafford Atavism 1 27
1768 21 Sep 2005 Wendy Cope An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse People tell you all ... 14
368 13 Mar 2000 William Blake Auguries of Innocence To see a World in a ... 132
895 21 Sep 2001 W.H.Auden August 1968 The Ogre does what o... 8
1292  1 Jul 2003 Robert Williams Wood The Auk and the Orchid We seldom meet, when... 14
1586 31 Dec 2004 Robert Burns Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaint... 28
674 22 Jan 2001 Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Aunt Jennifer's tige... 12
450  8 Jun 2000 R. L. Stevenson Auntie's Skirts Whenever Auntie move... 4
1384 12 Nov 2003 Rainer Maria Rilke Autumn Lord: it is time. Th... 12
1372 15 Oct 2003 Anne Ridler Autumn Day The raging colour of... 12
578 17 Oct 2000 Margurite Kingman Autumn Song The firelight glows, 9
538 05 Sep 2000 John Updike Back From Vacation "Back from vacation"... 14
1329 19 Aug 2003 David Ignatow The Bagel I stopped to pick up... 13
18 27 Feb 1999 Louis MacNeice Bagpipe Music It's no go the merry... 34
1002 18 Feb 2002 John Donne The Bait Come live with me, a... 28
947 22 Nov 2001 John Kendal Ballad of a Homeless Bat The man was going in... 52
67 19 Apr 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West Oh, East is East, an... 103
237 17 Oct 1999 W.B.Yeats The Ballad of Father Gilligan The old priest Peter... 48
1233 22 Apr 2003 Edwin Muir Ballad of Hector in Hades Yes, this is where I... 46
731 22 Mar 2001 Sir Henry Newbolt A Ballad of John Nicholson It fell in the year ... 80
303 28 Dec 1999 Anon The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard As it fell out on a ... 116
389 03 Apr 2000 James Joyce The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly Have you heard of on... 92
959 11 Dec 2001 Henry Carey The Ballad of Sally in our Alley Of all the Girls tha... 56
1386 14 Nov 2003 Peggy Seeger Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) In the town of Sprin... 25
607 15 Nov 2000 Phoebe Cary Ballad of the Canal We were crowded in t... 24
1147 17 Jan 2003 James Fenton The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah (An Old Persian Legend) 86
1165  4 Feb 2003 Raymond Calvert The Ballad Of William Bloat In a mean abode on t... 30
1171 12 Feb 2003 Edward E. Paramore Jr The Ballad of Yukon Jake Begging Robert W. Se... 125
900 27 Sep 2001 W. S. Gilbert Ballad: The Sorcerer's Song Oh! My name is John ... 77
556 25 Sep 2000 Francois Villon Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) Brothers that live w... 35
1335 27 Aug 2003 Roger McGough Balloon Fight 'This morning, the A... 23
446 05 Jun 2000 Jibanananda Das Banalata Sen For thousands of yea... 18
981  9 Jan 2002 Eric Bogle The Band Played Waltzing Matilda Now when I was a you... 64
1375 23 Oct 2003 Sarojini Naidu The Bangle Sellers Bangle sellers are w... 24
548 16 Sep 2000 Anonymous Barbara Allen In Scarlet town, whe... 44
1054 17 May 2002 William Ernest Henley Barmaid Though, if you ask h... 14
385 30 Mar 2000 Seigfreid Sassoon Base Details If I were fierce, an... 10
1649 12 Mar 2005 Franklin Pierce Adams Baseball's Sad Lexicon These are the saddes... 8
203 11 Sep 1999 Robert Southey The Battle of Blenheim It was a summer evening, 66
1656 20 Mar 2005 Patrick Barrington Battle Song There's havoc on the... 52
473 03 Jul 2000 Julia Ward Howe The Battle-Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen ... 31
77 29 Apr 1999 D. H. Lawrence Bavarian Gentians Not every man has ge... 22
748  9 Apr 2001 Faiz Ahmed Faiz Be Near Me You who demolish me,... 21
1326 16 Aug 2003 Michael Ondaatje Bearhug Griffin calls to com... 14
887 11 Sep 2001 Walt Whitman Beat! Beat! Drums! Beat! beat! drums! -... 23
810 14 Jun 2001 Adrian Mitchell Beatrix is Three At the top of the stairs 9
792 26 May 2001 Sheenagh Pugh The Beautiful Lie He was about four, I... 30
511 09 Aug 2000 William Butler Yeats Beautiful Lofty Things Beautiful lofty thin... 12
898 26 Sep 2001 Lewis Carroll Beautiful Soup Beautiful Soup, so r... 14
695 13 Feb 2001 John Masefield Beauty I have seen dawn and... 8
290 13 Dec 1999 R. L. Stevenson Bed in Summer In winter I get up a... 12
558 26 Sep 2000 Norman Rowland Gale Bees You voluble, 24
480 09 Jul 2000 W. N. Hodgson Before Action By all the glories o... 24
972 28 Dec 2001 Rupert Brooke The Beginning Some day I shall ris... 20
1243  2 May 2003 David Lee Behold And came forth like ... 11
1444 30 Jan 2004 Wendy Cope Being Boring If you ask me 'What'... 24
101 27 May 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The Bells Hear the sledges wit... 112
1701 17 May 2005 Ralph Hodgson The Bells of Heaven 'Twould ring the bel... 10
1293  2 Jul 2003 Edna St. Vincent Millay Beloved Dust And you as well must... 14
1232 21 Apr 2003 Sir Henry Newbolt The Best School of All It's good to see the... 49
149 16 Jul 1999 George Peele Bethsabe's Song Hot sun, cool fire, ... 10
1155 25 Jan 2003 A. S. J. Tessimond Betrayal If a man says half h... 10
1591  7 Jan 2005 Zachary Richard Big River Water's on the river... 31
797 31 May 2001 Lewis F. Richardson Big Whorls Have Little Whorls Big whorls have litt... 4
1005 22 Feb 2002 Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi They paved paradise 26
1112 19 Nov 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien Bilbo's Last Song Day is ended, dim my... 24
1272  9 Jun 2003 Robert Frost Birches When I see birches b... 59
164  1 Aug 1999 Pablo Neruda Bird It was passed from o... 25
1257 17 May 2003 Oswald Mtshali The Birth of Shaka His baby cry 25
1297  7 Jul 2003 Eiluned Lewis The Birthright We who were born 24
1048  7 May 2002 Sylvia Plath Black Rook in Rainy Weather On the stiff twig up... 41
934  7 Nov 2001 Seamus Heaney Blackberry-picking Late August, given h... 24
998 13 Feb 2002 Brian Patten A blade of grass You ask for a poem. 23
1055 21 May 2002 Jack Prelutsky Bleezer's Ice Cream I am Ebenezer Bleezer, 40
715  5 Mar 2001 Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel The blessed damozel ... 144
1179 20 Feb 2003 John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant It was six men of In... 55
1521 19 Jun 2004 Hamish Blair The Bloody Orkneys This bloody town's a... 32
200 09 Sep 1999 William Shakespeare Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks Blow, winds, and cra... 23
1708 26 May 2005 Bob Dylan Blowin' in the Wind How many roads must ... 24
1045  3 May 2002 Grace Nichols The Body Reclining I sing the body reclining 28
40 22 Mar 1999 Anon The Book of Job Can you hunt the pre... 62
902 30 Sep 2001 Rainer Maria Rilke The Book of Pilgrimage, II, 22 You are the future, 14
958 11 Dec 2001 Anon The Bookworm A moth, I thought, m... 8
365 10 Mar 2000 John Collins Bossidy Boston And this is good old... 4
1556  5 Nov 2004 Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now Rows and flows of an... 36
949 24 Nov 2001 Andrew Lang Brahma If the wild bowler t... 8
1250  9 May 2003 Tony Hoagland Brave World But what about the c... 38
1685 28 Apr 2005 Roger Waters The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range You have a natural t... 52
1689  3 May 2005 Robert Service The Bread-Knife Ballad A little child was s... 16
31 12 Mar 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, break, break Break, break, break, 16
1532 20 Jul 2004 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Breaking Up I fell out of love: ... 36
440 29 May 2000 J. R. R. Tolkien Bregalad's Lament O Orofarnë, Lassemis... 8
1175 16 Feb 2003 Mark Doty Broadway Under Grand Central'... 60
1795 14 Nov 2005 Jeremy Reed Broken Hearts There should be hear... 30
1477 12 Mar 2004 Vachel Lindsay The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken A little colt -- bro... 40
80  4 May 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Brook (excerpt) `O babbling brook,' ... 46
1222 11 Apr 2003 Sigerson Clifford Brother Mick The mountain frowned... 96
1481 17 Mar 2004 Giuseppe Ungaretti Brothers What regiment are yo... 10
483 11 Jul 2000 Walter de la Mare Brueghel's Winter Jagg'd mountain peak... 20
1022 26 Mar 2002 A. A. Milne Buckingham Palace They're changing gua... 30
1258 18 May 2003 Rick Fields Buddha And The Goddess Thus have I made up 114
379 24 Mar 2000 Rudyard Kipling The Buddha at Kamakura "And there is a Japa... 49
139  5 Jul 1999 E. E. Cummings Buffalo Bill's/ defunct Buffalo Bill's 11
115 10 Jun 1999 Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna Not a drum was heard... 32
563  1 Oct 2000 S. Thomas Ansell Butterfly Down the air 12
680 29 Jan 2001 Arun Kolatkar The Butterfly There is no story be... 13
1089  7 Sep 2002 John Thomas By Heart The years pass like ... 19
140  6 Jul 1999 Christina Rossetti By The Sea Why does the sea moa... 15
186 24 Aug 1999 Patrick MacGill By-the-Way These be the little ... 15
60 12 Apr 1999 William Butler Yeats Byzantium The unpurged images ... 40
1065 25 Jun 2002 Harry Edmund Martinson The Cable Ship We fished up the Atl... 14
1242  1 May 2003 Paul Durcan Cain and Abel My name is Cain MacC... 69
617 25 Nov 2000 Ho Xuan Huong The Cake That Drifts In Water My body is both whit... 4
408 24 Apr 2000 P. G. Wodehouse Caliban at Sunset I stood with a man 18
209 18 Sep 1999 Mary Robinson The Camp Tents, marquees, and... 48
925 27 Oct 2001 Lee Tzu Pheng Candlesong As my years burn down 10
866 14 Aug 2001 John Donne The Canonization For God's sake hold ... 45
369 14 Mar 2000 Bayard Taylor The Cantelope Side by side in the ... 20
1009 28 Feb 2002 Samuel Daniel Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night (Delia LIV) Care-charmer Sleep, ... 14
1013  8 Mar 2002 Louis Simpson Carentan O Carentan Trees in the old day... 56
74 26 Apr 1999 John Masefield Cargoes Quinquireme of Ninev... 15
1707 24 May 2005 Gaius Valerius Catullus Carmen XLVI Now spring is bringi... 11
1341  3 Sep 2003 James Hetfield Carpe Diem Baby Hit dirt 59
1262 26 May 2003 A. E. Housman The Carpenter's Son "Here the hangman st... 28
1000 15 Feb 2002 Felicia Hemans Casabianca The boy stod on the ... 36
999 14 Feb 2002 Elizabeth Bishop Casabianca Love's the boy stood... 10
90 15 May 1999 Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey At The Bat It looked extremely ... 52
1752 casualness of a shell" or "casual beauty of a shell It is said by the po... 24
662  9 Jan 2001 Jibanananda Das Cat Again and again thro... 16
1008 26 Feb 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien Cat The fat cat on the mat 27
577 16 Oct 2000 William Butler Yeats The Cat and the Moon The cat went here an... 28
1609 30 Jan 2005 Wislawa Szymborska Cat in an Empty Apartment Die—you can't do tha... 37
652 30 Dec 2000 Robert Southey The Cataract of Lodore "How does the water 121
1010  1 Mar 2002 A. S. J. Tessimond Cats Cats no less liquid ... 16
1470  3 Mar 2004 Su Shi Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake Listen not to the ra... 11
553 21 Sep 2000 Christopher Morley Caught in the Undertow Colin, worshipping s... 8
1143 13 Jan 2003 Andrew Motion Causa Belli They read good books... 4
464 22 Jun 2000 Sara Teasdale Central Park at Dusk Buildings above the ... 8
122 17 Jun 1999 Don Marquis certain maxims of archy many a man spanks his 125
965 19 Dec 2001 Steely Dan Chain Lightning Some turnout, a hund... 14
1706 23 May 2005 Oliver Wendell Holmes The Chambered Nautilus This is the ship of ... 35
939 11 Nov 2001 Thomas Hardy Channel Firing That night your grea... 36
560 28 Sep 2000 Dorothy Parker Chant for Dark Hours Some men, some men 24
976  1 Jan 2002 Ernest Hemingway Chapter Heading For we have thought ... 6
468 27 Jun 2000 Henry Reed Chard Whitlow (Mr. Eliot's Sunday ... 29
355 29 Feb 2000 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charge of the Light Brigade Half a league, half ... 55
458 17 Jun 2000 Emily Dickinson The Chariot Because I could not ... 20
921 23 Oct 2001 Steely Dan Charlie Freak Charlie Freak had bu... 20
1579 21 Dec 2004 Traditional The Cherry Tree Carol When Joseph was an o... 18
1193  9 Mar 2003 James Dickey Cherrylog Road Off Highway 106 108
5 15 Feb 1999 Carl Sandburg Chicago Hog Butcher for the ... 42
184 22 Aug 1999 Chief Sealth Chief Seattle's Reply How can you buy or s... 117
366 12 Mar 2000 Sylvia Plath Child Your clear eye is th... 12
837 14 Jul 2001 Czeslaw Milosz Child of Europe 1 100
663 11 Jan 2001 Robert Graves A Child's Nightmare Through long nursery... 40
1194 10 Mar 2003 Kahlil Gibran Children And a woman who held... 20
1396 24 Nov 2003 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children’s Hour Between the dark and... 40
514 13 Aug 2000 Rupert Brooke The Chilterns Your hands, my dear,... 40
857  5 Aug 2001 A. C. Swinburne Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' Before the beginning... 48
924 25 Oct 2001 Ambrose Bierce Christian I dreamed I stood up... 18
1369 12 Oct 2003 Bill Watterson Christmas Eve On the window panes ... 14
1413 29 Dec 2003 W. H. Auden Christmas Oratio Well, so that is tha... 53
1416  1 Jan 2004 Roald Dahl Cinderella I guess you think yo... 122
978  3 Jan 2002 Anne Sexton Cinderella You always read about it 109
1516  8 Jun 2004 Michael Ondaatje The Cinnamon Peeler If I were a cinnamon... 46
141 08 Jul 1999 Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea Lo! Death has reared... 53
566  4 Oct 2000 A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Clancy of the Overflow I had written him a ... 34
941 14 Nov 2001 Pablo Neruda Clenched Soul We have lost even th... 18
207 15 Sep 1999 Edmund Clerihew Bentley Clerihews The art of Biography 28
1322  9 Aug 2003 Erica Jong Climbing You I want to understand... 26
1758 25 Aug 2005 Dalia Ravikovitch Clockwork Doll I was a clockwork do... 14
1452  7 Feb 2004 William Blake The Clod and the Pebble Love seeketh not Its... 12
442 31 May 2000 Octavio Paz Coda Perhaps to love is t... 9
197  5 Sep 1999 Leo Marks A Code Poem For The French Resistance The life that I have... 9
1071 11 Jul 2002 John Agard Coffee In Heaven You'll be greeted 9
1248  7 May 2003 James Patrick Kinney The Cold Within Six humans trapped b... 32
361 06 Mar 2000 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Cologne In Kohln, a town of ... 10
1412 28 Dec 2003 A. E. Houseman The Colour of His Hair Oh who is that young... 16
995  9 Feb 2002 John Lennon Come Together Here come old flatto... 20
1465 25 Feb 2004 Ben Jonson Come, My Celia Come, my Celia, let ... 18
570  9 Oct 2000 William Shakespeare Come, Night; Come, Romeo Come, night; come, R... 9
1277 14 Jun 2003 A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Come-By-Chance As I pondered very w... 33
470 29 Jun 2000 Dora Sigerson Shorter The Comforters When I crept over th... 16
675 24 Jan 2001 Robert Burns Comin' Thro the Rye O, Jenny's a' weet, ... 17
455 14 Jun 2000 Sam Walter Foss The Coming War "There will be a war... 50
192 31 Aug 1999 Dorothy Parker Comment Oh, life is a glorio... 4
325 30 Jan 2000 Ogden Nash Common Cold Go hang yourself, yo... 40
1269  4 Jun 2003 Dionysius Cato The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) Libros lege. 18
1111 17 Nov 2002 Christopher Isherwood The Common Cormorant The common cormorant... 8
759 19 Apr 2001 William Wordsworth A Complaint There is a change--a... 18
462 20 Jun 2000 William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Earth has not anythi... 14
664 12 Jan 2001 Mervyn Peake Conceit I heard a winter tre... 4
963 17 Dec 2001 John Fuller Concerto for Double Bass He is a drunk leanin... 12
1003 20 Feb 2002 Sharon Olds The Connoisseuse of Slugs When I was a connois... 22
743  4 Apr 2001 Keith Reid Conquistador Conquistador -- your... 24
1074 16 Jul 2002 Rafael Jesús González The Consecration Of Coffee to Archbishop Oscar ... 30
917 18 Oct 2001 Robert Frost A Considerable Speck (Microscopic) 34
1044  1 May 2002 Spike Milligan Contagion Elephants are contagious! 12
444  2 Jun 2000 Noel Coward Contours Round - oblong - lik... 11
1267  2 Jun 2003 Wislawa Szymborska A Contribution to Statistics Out of a hundred people 49
305 30 Dec 1999 Rudyard Kipling The Conundrum of the Workshops When the flush of a ... 36
298 22 Dec 1999 Robert Graves The Cool Web Children are dumb to... 18
1613  4 Feb 2005 Sarojini Naidu The Coromandel Fishers Rise, brothers, rise... 18
1015 12 Mar 2002 Gerard Bacher Corsica (Before the Walk) 50
91 17 May 1999 A. A. Milne Cottleston Pie Cottleston Cottlesto... 12
461 20 Jun 2000 Thomas Lynch Couplets Two girls found dead... 22
1742 27 Jul 2005 Weldon Kees Covering Two Years This nothingness tha... 13
1634 25 Feb 2005 William Butler Yeats A Cradle Song The angels are stooping 12
1306 22 Oct 2003 Ted Hughes A Cranefly in September She is struggling th... 36
698 16 Feb 2001 Robert Service The Cremation of Sam McGee There are strange th... 82
950 24 Nov 2001 Emily Dickinson The cricket sang The cricket sang, 12
1399 27 Nov 2003 Gwen Harwood Critics Nightwatch Once more he tried, ... 48
1812 19 Jan 2006 A. D. Hope Crossing the Frontier Crossing the frontie... 42
205 13 Sep 1999 Carl Sandburg Crucible Hot gold runs a wind... 6
1710  1 Jun 2005 Anon Cuckoo Song Sumer is icumen in, 13
1687  1 May 2005 Traditional Curly-locks Curly-locks, Curly-l... 4
1519 16 Jun 2004 J. M. Synge The Curse Lord, confound that ... 8
404 19 Apr 2000 Sylvia Plath Daddy You do not do, you d... 80
63 15 Apr 1999 William Wordsworth Daffodils I wandered lonely as... 24
268 20 Nov 1999 Walt Whitman The Dalliance of the Eagles Skirting the river r... 10
657  5 Jan 2001 Stephen Dobyns The Dark and Turbulent Sea Sailboat, sailboat -... 37
977  2 Jan 2002 Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppi... 32
884  9 Sep 2001 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Day is Done The day is done, and... 44
722 12 Mar 2001 Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died It is 12:20 in New Y... 29
1355 21 Sep 2003 Alfredo Lepera The Day That You Love Me It caresses my dream, 46
100 26 May 1999 Philip Larkin Days What are days for? 10
746  7 Apr 2001 Isaac Rosenberg Dead Man's Dump The plunging limbers... 79
168 06 Aug 1999 Andrew Young A Dead Mole Strong-shouldered mole, 8
1212  1 Apr 2003 Barbara Kingsolver Deadline The night before war... 30
189 27 Aug 1999 bpNichol dear Captain Poetry dear Captain Poetry, 24
488 17 Jul 2000 U. A. Fanthorpe Dear Mr Lee Dear Mr Lee (Mr Smar... 50
672 20 Jan 2001 Thomas Hood Death It is not death, tha... 14
796 31 May 2001 John Donne Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) Death be not proud, ... 14
1133 21 Dec 2002 Allan Ginsberg Death News "Visit to W.C.W. cir... 39
1085  2 Sep 2002 Harry Guest Death of a Friendship I mourn, now that yo... 52
1151 21 Jan 2003 Bob Dylan The Death of Emmett Till 'Twas down in Missis... 31
707 24 Feb 2001 Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner From my mother's sle... 5
571 10 Oct 2000 A. D. Hope The Death Of The Bird For every bird there... 36
942 15 Nov 2001 James Shirley Death the Leveller The glories of our b... 24
735 27 Mar 2001 Ambrose Bierce Decalogue Thou shalt no God bu... 20
1359 28 Sep 2003 Salman Rushdie Dedication Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu 5
602 10 Nov 2000 Glyn Maxwell Deep Sorriness Atonement Song (for missed appointm... 42
249 31 Oct 1999 Elizabeth Jennings Delay The radiance of the ... 8
753 14 Apr 2001 Christian Morgenstern Delayed Action Korf invents some jo... 6
332  6 Feb 2000 Robert Herrick Delight In Disorder A sweet disorder in ... 14
1749  4 Aug 2005 G. K. Chesterton The Deluge Though giant rains p... 24
761 22 Apr 2001 Max Ehrmannn Desiderata Go placidly amid the... 31
227 07 Oct 1999 Bob Dylan Desolation Row They're selling post... 120
718  8 Mar 2001 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib The Assyrian came do... 24
1050 10 May 2002 John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1 The heavy mahogany d... 16
1448  3 Feb 2004 Yehuda Amichai The Diameter of the Bomb The diameter of the ... 16
899 25 Sep 2001 Jack Prelutsky The Diatonic Dittymunch The Diatonic Dittymu... 9
1755 11 Aug 2005 Angel Gonzalez Diatribe Against the Dead The dead are selfish 17
1185  1 Mar 2003 Traditional Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) Die Gedanken sind frei 32
1756 22 Aug 2005 David Budbill Dilemma I want to be 12
1081 27 Aug 2002 Paul Laurence Dunbar The Dilettante: A Modern Type He scribbles some in... 16
1028  2 Apr 2002 Patrick Barrington The Diplomatic Platypus I had a duck-billed ... 48
500 29 Jul 2000 Percy Bysshe shelley A Dirge Rough Wind, that moa... 8
926 28 Oct 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to... 16
1211 30 Mar 2003 Wilfred Owen Disabled He sat in a wheeled ... 46
1283 21 Jun 2003 William Stafford The Discovery of Daily Experience It is a whisper. Yo... 26
154 21 Jul 1999 Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock The houses are haunted 15
463 21 Jun 2000 A. A. Milne Disobedience James James 67
1665  3 Apr 2005 Anonymous The Distracted Centipede A centipede was happ... 6
771  2 May 2001 William Blake The Divine Image Cruelty has a Human ... 8
1792  9 Nov 2005 Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck First having read th... 94
38 19 Mar 1999 Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle int... 19
1705 21 May 2005 Mary Frye Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep Do not stand at my g... 16
1805  1 Jan 2006 A. P. Herbert The Doctor The doctor took my s... 51
1775  3 Oct 2005 W. H. Auden Doggerel by a Senior Citizen Our earth in 1969 56
1759 26 Aug 2005 Pam Ayres The Dolly on the Dustcart I'm the dolly on the... 48
1075 20 Jul 2002 Theodore Roethke Dolor I have known the ine... 13
1149 19 Jan 2003 Pablo Neruda Don't Go Far Off Don't go far off, no... 14
974 30 Dec 2001 Anonymous Donal Og It is late last nigh... 36
628  6 Dec 2000 Edward Lear The Dong with a Luminous Nose When awful darkness ... 103
1530 12 Jul 2004 G. K. Chesterton The Donkey When fishes flew and... 16
891 17 Sep 2001 Emily Dickinson A Doubt If It Be Us A doubt if it be Us 8
89 14 May 1999 Matthew Arnold Dover Beach The sea is calm to-night, 37
1049  9 May 2002 Roger Woddis Down With Fanatics! If I had my way with... 24
1247  6 May 2003 Shel Silverstein Dreadful Someone ate the baby. 24
1252 12 May 2003 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Dream I 215
1254 14 May 2003 Mei Yao Ch'en A Dream at Night In broad daylight I ... 11
1006 24 Feb 2002 Langston Hughes Dream Deferred What happens to a dr... 11
1654 17 Mar 2005 Piet Hein Dream Interpretation Simplified. 5
720 10 Mar 2001 Thomas Hood The Dream of Eugene Aram 'Twas in the prime o... 216
1276 13 Jun 2003 Robert Frost A Dream Pang I had withdrawn in f... 14
1368 25 Oct 2003 John Berryman Dream Song 14 Life, friends, is bo... 18
1716  9 Jun 2005 Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream Take this kiss upon ... 24
1253 13 May 2003 Thomas Lovell Beddoes Dream-Pedlary If there were dreams... 46
665 13 Jan 2001 Robert Herrick Dreams Here we are all, by ... 2
1473  6 Mar 2004 J. K. Stephen Drinking Song There are people, I ... 24
1443 29 Jan 2004 T. S. Eliot The Dry Salvages: Canto III I sometimes wonder i... 47
1362  1 Oct 2003 Louis MacNeice Dublin Grey brick upon brick, 63
132 28 Jun 1999 Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double, like ol... 28
96 22 May 1999 Thomas Hardy During Wind and Rain They sing their dear... 28
1244  3 May 2003 Rupert Brooke Dust When the white flame... 44
163 31 Jul 1999 Carl Sandburg Dust Here is dust remembe... 6
1753  8 Aug 2005 Thomas Hardy The Dynasts Yea, the coneys are ... 18
1197 13 Mar 2003 William Herbert Carruth Each in his own Tongue A fire-mist and a planet, 32
15 24 Feb 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle (a fragment) He clasps the crag w... 6
432 20 May 2000 John Hall Wheelock Earth "A planet doesn't ex... 4
567  5 Oct 2000 George Herbert Easter Wings Lord, Who createdst ... 20
1011  7 Mar 2002 William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916 I have met them at c... 80
676 25 Jan 2001 Mark Strand Eating Poetry Ink runs from the co... 18
1425 10 Jan 2004 John Ashbery The Ecclesiast "Worse than the sunf... 42
1664  1 Apr 2005 William Blake The Echoing Green The sun does arise, 30
656  4 Jan 2001 Anon Edward, Edward 'Why does your brand... 56
1418  3 Jan 2004 Gerald Jonas Electronically Yours Baud: the rate of sp... 12
751 12 Apr 2001 Guillevic Elegies He probably held too... 7
400 15 Apr 2000 Ambrose Bierce Elegy The cur foretells th... 4
1809  5 Jan 2006 Machine Head Elegy Elegies are to be sung 35
286  9 Dec 1999 Oliver Goldsmith An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Good people all, of ... 32
1560 11 Nov 2004 Sarah Binks Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) Oh calf, that gambol... 12
1091 10 Sep 2002 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The curfew tolls the... 129
490 19 Jul 2000 Tom Lehrer The Elements There's antimony, ar... 26
1181 22 Feb 2003 Carl Sandburg Elephants Are Different to Different People Wilson and Pilcer an... 20
1709 30 May 2005 Michael Ondaatje Elizabeth Catch, my Uncle Jack said 45
94 20 May 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet Little Miss Muffet d... 36
180 18 Aug 1999 Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream Call the roller of b... 16
841 18 Jul 2001 Jalaluddin Rumi Emptiness Consider the difference 65
1097  2 Oct 2002 A.A. Milne The End When I was One, 12
457 15 Jun 2000 Archibald MacLeish The End of the World Quite unexpectedly, ... 14
1361 30 Sep 2003 Anon English Monarchs Willie Willie Harry Stee 16
478 07 Jul 2000 Duncan Campbell Scott Enigma Some men are born to... 15
583 22 Oct 2000 Ezra Pound Envoi (1919) Go, dumb-born book, 26
856  4 Aug 2001 Martial Epigram You puff the poets o... 4
666 15 Jan 2001 Alexander Pope Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness I am his Highness' d... 2
486 14 Jul 2000 Dorothy Parker Epitaph for a Darling Lady All her hours were y... 12
1590  6 Jan 2005 Edna St. Vincent Millay Epitaph for the Race of Man: X The broken dike, the... 14
414 01 May 2000 Thomas Hardy Epitaph on a pessimist I'm Smith of Stoke a... 4
1038 20 Apr 2002 W. H. Auden Epitaph on a tyrant Perfection, of a kin... 6
669 17 Jan 2001 John Wilmot Epitaph on Charles II Here lies a great an... 4
1493  7 Apr 2004 Antipater of Sidon Erinna Though short her str... 8
920 21 Oct 2001 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Erl-King Who rides there so l... 32
568  6 Oct 2000 Dylan Thomas Especially when the October wind Especially when the ... 32
1523 22 Jun 2004 Piet Hein An Ethical Grook I see 12
1285 23 Jun 2003 W. S. Gilbert Etiquette The Ballyshannon fou... 88
604 12 Nov 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare Euclid alone has loo... 14
1367  9 Oct 2003 Sue Hubbard Eurydice I am not afraid as I... 33
1394 22 Nov 2003 Ruth Forman Even If You Grab A Piece of Time Conjure something glowing 12
1296  6 Jul 2003 Gulzar Evening Day abandons it 10
1459 18 Feb 2004 Kaniyan Punkunran Every Town a Home Town Every town our home town, 24
1030  6 Apr 2002 Siegfried Sassoon Everyone Sang Everyone suddenly bu... 10
938 12 Nov 2001 Cicely Herbert Everything Changes after Brecht, 'Alles... 11
550 19 Sep 2000 Langdon Smith Evolution When you were a tadp... 108
1693  8 May 2005 A. K. Ramanujan Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom Do not worry about D... 4
543 10 Sep 2000 John Betjeman Executive I am a young executi... 24
1601 21 Jan 2005 Henry King Exequy on his Wife Accept, thou shrine ... 120
1454  9 Feb 2004 Jacqueline Carey An Exile's Lament Beneath the golden balm 8
1587  1 Jan 2005 Rudyard Kipling The Explorer "There's no sense in... 74
1387 15 Nov 2003 Philip Larkin The Explosion On the day of the ex... 25
434 22 May 2000 A. K. Ramanujan Extended Family Yet like grandfather 47
1762  7 Sep 2005 Czeslaw Milosz Eyes My most honorable ey... 20
93 19 May 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien Eärendil was a mariner Eärendil was a mariner 124
1287 25 Jun 2003 J. H. Frere A Fable (In imitation of Dryden) 18
75 28 Apr 1999 Christopher Marlowe The face that launch'd a thousand ships Was this the face th... 20
1016 13 Mar 2002 Henry Lawson Faces in the Street They lie, the men wh... 91
1024 28 Mar 2002 Walter de la Mare Faint Music The meteor's arc of ... 8
640 18 Dec 2000 Marchette Gaylord Chute Fairies You can't see fairie... 8
919 20 Oct 2001 William Allingham The Fairies Up the airy mountain 56
1331 21 Aug 2003 Thomas Hood Faithless Sally Brown An old ballad. 69
494 24 Jul 2000 W.H. Auden The Fall of Rome The piers are pummel... 28
524 23 Aug 2000 Ezra Pound Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord O fan of white silk, 3
1129 15 Dec 2002 Agha Shahid Ali Farewell At a certain point I... 46
1191  7 Mar 2003 Charles Kingsley A Farewell I 10
932  3 Nov 2001 Richard Thompson Fast Food Big mac, small mac, ... 26
1647 10 Mar 2005 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fata Morgana O sweet illusions of song 24
477 06 Jul 2000 William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o' the sun Fear no more the hea... 24
138 05 Jul 1999 Dylan Thomas Fern Hill Now as I was young a... 54
1677 15 Apr 2005 Joni Mitchell The Fiddle and the Drum And so once again 35
1004 21 Feb 2002 Jane Kenyon Finding a Long Gray Hair I scrub the long flo... 7
1534  4 Aug 2004 Orhan Veli Fine Days These fine days have... 10
1434 19 Jan 2004 Rosemary Dobson A Fine Thing To be a scarecrow 27
779 12 May 2001 Robert Frost Fire and Ice Some say the world w... 9
338 12 Feb 2000 Joseph Campbell Fires The little fires tha... 12
34 15 Mar 1999 Edna St. Vincent Millay First Fig My candle burns at b... 4
1202 19 Mar 2003 David Ignatow A First on TV This is the twentiet... 4
1785 25 Oct 2005 Elizabeth Bishop The Fish I caught a tremendou... 76
1726 23 Jun 2005 Michigan Court of Appeals Fisher v. Lowe A wayward Chevy stru... 50
416  2 May 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Fitful Alternations of the Rain The fitful alternati... 4
708 25 Feb 2001 W. H. Auden Five Songs - II That night when joy began 12
105 31 May 1999 Edwin Brock Five Ways to Kill a Man There are many cumbe... 32
1086  4 Sep 2002 William Jay Smith The Floor and the Ceiling Winter and summer, w... 36
673 21 Jan 2001 Rabindranath Tagore The Flower-School When storm-clouds ru... 23
1332 23 Aug 2003 Rudyard Kipling The Flowers To our private taste... 75
97 23 May 1999 William Blake The Fly Little Fly 20
1801 28 Dec 2005 Ted Kooser Flying at Night Above us, stars. Ben... 8
282  4 Dec 1999 Carl Sandburg Fog The fog comes 6
1769 22 Sep 2005 Sankha Ghosh Foolish, not Social Returning home do yo... 11
296 20 Dec 1999 Constantine Cavafy Footsteps On an ebony bed decorated 19
598  6 Nov 2000 Countee Cullen For A Poet I have wrapped my dr... 8
1761 31 Aug 2005 William Logan For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead Lying on that blanke... 20
1497 15 Apr 2004 Countee Cullen For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty Not writ in water no... 4
765 26 Apr 2001 Laurence Binyon For The Fallen With proud thanksgiv... 28
1611  2 Feb 2005 David Wagoner For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls You say they were sl... 15
1295  4 Jul 2003 Robert Lowell For the Union Dead "Relinquunt Omnia Se... 69
58 10 Apr 1999 Dylan Thomas The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower The force that throu... 22
1325 15 Aug 2003 Miklos Radnoti Forced March You're crazy. You fa... 21
255  5 Nov 1999 Charles S. Calverley Forever "Forever": 'tis a si... 36
537 05 Sep 2000 Mark Defoe The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker (at a McDonald's somewhere in Appalachia) All day he crushed t... 25
1308 25 Jul 2003 Algernon Charles Swinburne A Forsaken Garden In a coign of the cl... 80
863 12 Aug 2001 Norman MacCaig Frogs Frogs sit more solid 16
1467 27 Feb 2004 Dorothy Parker From A Letter From Lesbia ... So, praise the g... 12
84  9 May 1999 R. L. Stevenson From a Railway Carriage Faster than fairies,... 16
381 27 Mar 2000 Mihail Eminescu From Among Hundreds of Masts From among hundreds ... 16
331  5 Feb 2000 Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man Heav'n from all crea... 35
1602 23 Jan 2005 George Gordon, Lord Byron From Beppo L. 27
1464 24 Feb 2004 Sir Walter Raleigh From Catullus V The sun may set and rise, 4
728 19 Mar 2001 W.H.Auden from The Dog Beneath The Skin Now through night's ... 23
1593  9 Jan 2005 Derek Walcott from The Estranging Sea 1 86
328  2 Feb 2000 Edmund Spenser from The Faerie Queen A gentle Knight was ... 45
1811 18 Jan 2006 Seamus Heaney From the Frontier of Writing The tightness and th... 24
1278 15 Jun 2003 Adam Lindsay Gordon From the Wreck "Turn out, boys!" --... 128
1607 28 Jan 2005 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight The frost performs i... 75
878 31 Aug 2001 Dorothy Parker Frustration If I had a shiny gun, 12
16 25 Feb 1999 William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five Full fathom five thy... 9
219 28 Sep 1999 William Shakespeare Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) Full many a glorious... 14
723 13 Mar 2001 Ted Hughes Full Moon and Little Frieda A cool small evening... 12
256 08 Nov 1999 W.H. Auden Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks,... 16
1765 13 Sep 2005 Emily Dickinson Further in Summer than the Birds Further in Summer th... 16
288 12 Dec 1999 Wilfred Owen Futility Move him into the sun-- 14
1439 24 Jan 2004 Federico García Lorca Gacela of the Dark Death I want to sleep the ... 23
1694  9 May 2005 Andrew Marvell The Garden How vainly men thems... 72
191 30 Aug 1999 Ezra Pound The Garden Like a skein of loos... 12
1231 20 Apr 2003 Rabindranath Tagore The Gardener (LXXXV) Who are you, reader,... 8
518 17 Aug 2000 James Elroy Flecker The Gates of Damascus Four great gates has... 76
1652 15 Mar 2005 Gwendolyn Brooks Gay Chaps at the Bar ...and guys I knew i... 20
1715  8 Jun 2005 Rabindranath Tagore Geetanjali Obstinate are the tr... 8
1794 11 Nov 2005 Siegfried Sassoon The General "Good-morning, good-... 7
983 17 Jan 2002 Stephen Vincent Benet The General Public "Ah, did you once se... 43
102 28 May 1999 Amy Lowell Generations You are like the stem 13
599  7 Nov 2000 Rita Dove Geometry I prove a theorem an... 9
306  1 Jan 2000 Alfred Kreymborg Geometry Never a mouse 25
581 20 Oct 2000 Charles Baudelaire Get Drunk! Always be drunk. 38
1160 30 Jan 2003 Ghalib Ghazal (Untitled) Even in prayer, we a... 12
1161 31 Jan 2003 John Drury Ghazal of the Lagoon Morning, on the prom... 12
533 31 Aug 2000 Carole Oles The Gift Thinking she was the gift 25
624  2 Dec 2000 Leonard Cohen Gift You tell me that silence 9
300 24 Dec 1999 Edwin Arlington Robinson The Gift of God - Blessed with a joy t... 48
994  8 Feb 2002 Robert Frost The Gift Outright The land was ours be... 16
517 16 Aug 2000 Ralph Hodgson The Gipsy Girl "Come, try your skil... 20
1371 14 Oct 2003 Mark Granier Girl in a Wheelchair Dancing to U2 in Lansdowne Stadium 1997 In a clearing near m... 6
1776  4 Oct 2005 Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali (excerpt) The song that I came... 10
1617  8 Feb 2005 Ralph Waldo Emerson Give All To Love Give all to love; 49
1496 14 Apr 2004 John Keats Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff Give me women, wine,... 6
185 23 Aug 1999 David O'Bruadair A Glass of Beer The lanky hank of a ... 12
275 27 Nov 1999 James Leigh Hunt The Glove and the Lions King Francis was a h... 24
333 07 Feb 2000 Anon Gnomic Stanzas Mountain snow, every... 52
1584 29 Dec 2004 John Hegley Go and play in the middle my Mum used to watch... 17
582 21 Oct 2000 Edmund Waller Go, Lovely Rose Go, lovely Rose- 20
1319  6 Aug 2003 Derek Walcott Goats and Monkeys '...even now, an old... 53
647 25 Dec 2000 Trad God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God rest ye merry ge... 63
606 14 Nov 2000 Gerard Manley Hopkins God's Grandeur The world is charged... 14
1357 24 Sep 2003 Hermann Hesse Going to Sleep Now that the day wea... 12
509 07 Aug 2000 James Elroy Flecker The Golden Road to Samarkand HASSAN 25
216 25 Sep 1999 Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn The Golf Links The golf links lie s... 4
755 16 Apr 2001 Norman MacCaig Gone Are The Days Impossible to call a... 20
1415 31 Dec 2003 Chris Rea Gone Fishing I'm going fishing 21
392 07 Apr 2000 R. S. Thomas Good The old man comes ou... 14
1537 26 Aug 2004 P. G. Wodehouse Good Gnus (A Vignette in Verse) 33
1505  5 May 2004 James Whitehead Good Linemen Live in a Closed World Good linemen live in... 14
1576 18 Dec 2004 Tukaram A Good Poem A good poem is like ... 6
1100  8 Oct 2002 Roger McGough A Good Poem I like a good poem 16
1168  7 Feb 2003 John Donne The Good-morrow I wonder by my troth... 21
968 22 Dec 2001 Robert Penn Warren Grackles, Goodbye Black of grackles gl... 20
1391 19 Nov 2003 Robert Morgan The Grain of Sound A banjo maker in the... 24
948 22 Nov 2001 Julia A. Moore Grand Rapids Cricket Club In Grand Rapids is a... 32
1750  5 Aug 2005 Carl Sandburg Grass Pile the bodies high... 11
341 15 Feb 2000 Emily Dickinson The Grass so little has to do - The Grass so little ... 20
986 20 Jan 2002 Marianne Moore A Grave Man looking into the sea, 52
346 21 Feb 2000 Paul Zimmer The Great Bird of Love I want to become a g... 22
569  8 Oct 2000 Henry Lawson The Great Grey Plain Out West, where the ... 64
208 17 Sep 1999 Samuel Foote The Great Panjandrum So she went into the... 17
283 06 Dec 1999 Gavin Ewart A Great Poem This is a great poem. 6
1124 10 Dec 2002 J. Milton Hayes The Green Eye of the Yellow God There's a one-eyed y... 44
241 22 Oct 1999 Robert A. Heinlein The Green Hills of Earth Let the sweet fresh ... 27
1027  1 Apr 2002 Anonymous Greensleeves A new Courtly Sonet,... 95
897 24 Sep 2001 Anon Grendel Then a powerful demo... 37
766 27 Apr 2001 Humbert Wolfe The Grey Squirrel Like a small grey 16
574 13 Oct 2000 T. S. Eliot Growltiger's Last Stand Growltiger was a Bra... 56
817 21 Jun 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Grown-up Was it for this I ut... 4
1616  7 Feb 2005 Julia Donaldson The Gruffalo A mouse took a strol... 98
181 19 Aug 1999 Arthur Conan Doyle The Guards Came Through Men of the Twenty-first 59
1127 13 Dec 2002 Rudyard Kipling Gunga Din You may talk o' gin ... 85
955  5 Dec 2001 T. S. Eliot Gus: The Theatre Cat Gus is the Cat at th... 55
313 16 Jan 2000 Ben Jonson Gypsy Songs The faery beam upon you, 20
1121  4 Dec 2002 Arthur Conan Doyle H.M.S. Foudroyant [Being an humble add... 50
593  1 Nov 2000 Robert Herrick The Hag The hag is astride 24
712  1 Mar 2001 Yosa Buson Haiku The seashore temple... 3
277 29 Nov 1999 Yosa Buson Haiku The winter river; 3
908  6 Oct 2001 Yosa Buson Haiku Departing spring 3
23 05 Mar 1999 Matsuo Basho Haiku old pond..... 3
56 09 Apr 1999 Matsuo Basho Haiku scent of plum blossoms 3
802  6 Jun 2001 Matsuo Basho Haiku Snowy morning-- 3
1646  9 Mar 2005 Michael P. Garofalo Haiku A frog floats 3
601  9 Nov 2000 E. V. Rieu Hall and Knight or 'z + b + x = y + ... 29
1207 25 Mar 2003 Spike Milligan Hamlet Said Hamlet to Ophelia, 4
1035 13 Apr 2002 Dylan Thomas The Hand That Signed The Paper The hand that signed... 16
1201 18 Mar 2003 Thomas Hardy Hap If but some vengeful... 14
1099  4 Oct 2002 Raymond Carver Happiness So early it's still ... 24
1051 11 May 2002 A. A. Milne Happiness John had 16
1774  1 Oct 2005 Bob Dylan A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Oh, where have you b... 57
143 10 Jul 1999 Rudyard Kipling Harp Song of the Dane Women What is a woman that... 24
42 24 Mar 1999 Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting I sit in the top of ... 24
142 09 Jul 1999 J. R. R. Tolkien He chanted a song of wizardry He chanted a song of... 32
456 15 Jun 2000 Sir Henry Newbolt He Fell Among Thieves 'Ye have robb'd,' sa... 48
597  5 Nov 2000 William Butler Yeats He wishes for the cloths of heaven Had I the heavens' e... 8
1549  8 Oct 2004 John Cooper Clarke Health Fanatic Around the block, ag... 43
383 28 Mar 2000 Maya Angelou The Health-Food Diner No sprouted wheat an... 25
1580 22 Dec 2004 Rupert Brooke Heaven Fish (fly-replete, i... 34
1658 22 Mar 2005 James Dickey The Heaven of Animals Here they are. The ... 39
449  7 Jun 2000 H. D Helen All Greece hates 18
689  7 Feb 2001 H. D Helen in Egypt This is the spread o... 30
1420  5 Jan 2004 Charles Bukowski Hemingway Never Did This I read that he lost ... 31
551 19 Sep 2000 Max Plowman Her Beauty I heard them say, "H... 10
380 25 Mar 2000 William Johnson Cory Heraclitus They told me, Heracl... 8
1227 16 Apr 2003 A. E. Housman Here Dead We Lie Here dead we lie 8
362 07 Mar 2000 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha's Departure By the shore of Gitc... 29
1440 25 Jan 2004 Francis Brett Young Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus Arthur is gone . . .... 48
276 28 Nov 1999 Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee High Flight Oh! I have slipped t... 14
13 22 Feb 1999 Alfred Noyes The Highwayman The wind was a torre... 103
1426 11 Jan 2004 Nissim Ezekiel The Hill This normative hill 56
1284 22 Jun 2003 Robert Frost A Hillside Thaw To think to know the... 35
846 23 Jul 2001 T. S. Eliot The Hippopotamus The broad-backed hip... 36
844 21 Jul 2001 Oliver Herford The Hippopotamus "Oh, say, what is th... 11
124 19 Jun 1999 Hillaire Belloc The Hippopotamus I shoot the Hippopotamus 4
848 25 Jul 2001 Ogden Nash The Hippopotamus Behold the hippopotamus! 8
1568 29 Nov 2004 A. D. Hope His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell Since you have world... 90
584 23 Oct 2000 Jorge Luis Borges History of the Night Throughout the cours... 27
65 17 Apr 1999 Robert Browning Home Thoughts From Abroad Oh, to be in England 20
1117 26 Nov 2002 Robert Browning Home-thoughts, from the Sea Nobly, nobly Cape Sa... 7
173 11 Aug 1999 Willie Dixon Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my ... 36
1122  7 Dec 2002 Edith Sodergran Hope I want to let go - 12
1382 10 Nov 2003 Emily Dickinson Hope Hope is the thing wi... 12
489 17 Jul 2000 Thomas Babbington Macaulay Horatius A Lay Made About the... 660
1378  2 Nov 2003 Edwin Muir The Horses Barely a twelvemonth... 53
1239 28 Apr 2003 Dr K. D. Beernink Hospital Haiku The new interns 24
1062 22 Jun 2002 Louis MacNeice House on a Cliff Indoors the tang of ... 12
872 23 Aug 2001 Edwin Arlington Robinson The House on the Hill They are all gone away, 19
1249  8 May 2003 Wallace Stevens The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet ... 16
273 24 Nov 1999 Guy Wetmore Carryl How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted A poet had a cat. 76
269 21 Nov 1999 Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? How do I love thee? ... 14
964 17 Dec 2001 Lewis Carroll How Doth the Little Crocodile How doth the little ... 8
293 18 Dec 1999 Allen Ginsberg Howl I saw the best minds... 64
637 16 Dec 2000 Thom Gunn The Hug It was your birthday... 22
345 18 Feb 2000 Charlotte Smith Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore Huge vapours brood a... 14
484 12 Jul 2000 William Carlos Williams Hunters in the Snow The over-all picture... 21
485 13 Jul 2000 Joseph Langland Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel Quail and rabbit hun... 49
1799 25 Dec 2005 St. Jean de Brébeuf The Huron Carol ’Twas in the moon of... 32
724 14 Mar 2001 Ben Jonson Hymn to Diana Queen and huntress, ... 18
1507 14 May 2004 John Clare I Am I am - yet what I am... 18
819 25 Jun 2001 Orhan Veli I am listening to Istanbul I am listening to Is... 38
171 09 Aug 1999 Anthony Raftery I am Raftery the poet I am Raftery the poet. 12
175 13 Aug 1999 Anon I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre I am Taliesin. I sin... 27
1310 27 Jul 2003 Simon Armitage I am Very Bothered I am very bothered w... 14
527 25 Aug 2000 Thomas Edward Brown I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May I bended unto me a b... 12
1436 21 Jan 2004 Emily Dickinson I Cannot Live with You I cannot live with you, 51
742  3 Apr 2001 Nazim Hikmet I Come and Stand at Every Door I come and stand at ... 20
877 30 Aug 2001 Tom Brown I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell I do not love thee, ... 4
1803 30 Dec 2005 Pablo Neruda I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You I do not love you ex... 14
871 23 Aug 2001 Emily Dickinson I felt a Funeral, in my Brain I felt a Funeral, in... 20
1577 19 Dec 2004 Patrick Barrington I Had a Hippopotamus I had a hippopotamus... 32
396 11 Apr 2000 Trumbull Stickney I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander I hear a river thro'... 3
246 27 Oct 1999 Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing I hear America singi... 15
1597 14 Jan 2005 Patrick Barrington I Met a Lady in the Wood I met a lady in the wood. 56
788 22 May 2001 John Updike I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name Though authors are a... 20
73 26 Apr 1999 Philip Larkin I Remember, I Remember Coming up England by... 36
508 06 Aug 2000 Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a... 16
596  4 Nov 2000 Simon Armitage I Say I Say I Say Anyone here had a go... 16
1042 23 Apr 2002 Walt Whitman I Sit and Look Out I sit and look out u... 19
1141 11 Jan 2003 Charlotte Mew I So Liked Spring I so liked Spring la... 9
1475  9 Mar 2004 George Santayana I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight I sought on earth a ... 14
1745 30 Jul 2005 Emily Dickinson I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed I taste a liquor nev... 16
822 28 Jun 2001 Margaret Walker I Want To Write I want to write 10
905  3 Oct 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay I will put Chaos into fourteen lines I will put Chaos int... 14
876 29 Aug 2001 Louis Alexander MacKay I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver I wish my tongue wer... 15
452 12 Jun 2000 José Martí I wish to leave the world I wish to leave the world 8
360 06 Mar 2000 John Whitworth I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea Fretting my heart as... 44
632 10 Dec 2000 Nikki Giovanni I Wrote A Good Omelet I wrote a good omele... 15
816 21 Jun 2001 Pablo Neruda I'm Explaining a Few Things You are going to ask... 78
711 28 Feb 2001 Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who are you? I'm Nobody! Who are you? 8
1540  7 Sep 2004 Nikki Giovanni I'm not Lonely i'm not lonely 22
927 29 Oct 2001 Bertolt Brecht I'm not saying anything against Alexander Timur, I hear, took ... 13
1339 31 Aug 2003 Robert Desnos I've Dreamed of You So Much I've dreamed of you ... 27
135  1 Jul 1999 W. S. Gilbert I've Got a Little List SONG--KO-KO with CHO... 43
145 12 Jul 1999 Anon Ice The wave, over the w... 3
622 30 Nov 2000 Wilfred Gibson The Ice-Cart Perched on my city o... 39
1349 15 Sep 2003 Bill Holm The Icelandic Language In this language, no... 24
372 17 Mar 2000 Anon Icham of Irlaunde Icham of Irlaunde 7
988 24 Jan 2002 Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order at Key West She sang beyond the ... 56
1380  5 Nov 2003 James Fenton The Ideal This is where I came... 12
962 14 Dec 2001 Rudyard Kipling The Idiot Boy He wandered down the... 8
271 23 Nov 1999 Rudyard Kipling If If you can keep your... 32
1132 20 Dec 2002 E. E. Cummings if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) if everything happen... 45
454 13 Jun 2000 e. e. cummings If I have made, my lady, intricate If I have made, my l... 15
1410 26 Dec 2003 Pablo Neruda If You Forget Me I want you to know 47
529 28 Aug 2000 Emily Dickinson If you were coming in the fall If you were coming i... 20
1472  5 Mar 2004 Robert Frost In A Disused Graveyard The living come with... 16
1347 12 Sep 2003 Emily Dickinson In a Library A precious, moulderi... 28
319 24 Jan 2000 Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro The apparition of th... 2
1184 28 Feb 2003 Denise Levertov In California During the Gulf War Among the blight-kil... 29
11 20 Feb 1999 John McCrae In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields t... 15
522 21 Aug 2000 Constantine Cavafy In Harbor A young man, twenty ... 12
1636 27 Feb 2005 e. e. cummings In Just- in Just- 24
50 02 Apr 1999 W.H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats He disappeared in th... 67
476  5 Jul 2000 Dylan Thomas In my craft or sullen art In my craft or sullen art 20
1142 12 Jan 2003 James Fenton In Paris with You Don’t talk to me of ... 30
1546 28 Sep 2004 Wislawa Szymborska In Praise of My Sister My sister doesn't wr... 26
1640  3 Mar 2005 William Morris In Prison Wearily, drearily, 18
836 13 Jul 2001 Stephen Spender In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic In railway halls, on... 15
1182 24 Feb 2003 Shel Silverstein In Search of Cinderella From dusk to dawn, 10
196  4 Sep 1999 Stephen Crane In the desert In the desert 10
800  4 Jun 2001 Miroslav Holub In the Microscope Here too are the dre... 10
1471  4 Mar 2004 Carlos Drummond de Andrade In the Middle of the Road In the middle of the... 10
1134 23 Dec 2002 James Stephens In the Poppy Field Mad Patsy said, he s... 24
794 29 May 2001 Li Po In the Quiet Night The floor before my ... 4
322 27 Jan 2000 Richard Wilbur In the Smoking Car The eyelids meet. He... 20
734 25 Mar 2001 Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room In Worcester, Massac... 99
429 17 May 2000 Thomas Hardy In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations' Only a man harrowing... 12
913 14 Oct 2001 W. H. Auden In Time of War, XII And the age ended, a... 14
613 21 Nov 2000 John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey Let me take this oth... 42
699 17 Feb 2001 Norman MacCaig Incident I look across the ta... 18
1304 20 Jul 2003 Countee Cullen Incident Once riding in old B... 12
778 11 May 2001 Robert Browning Incident of the French Camp You know, we French ... 40
399 14 Apr 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley The Indian Serenade I arise from dreams ... 24
745  6 Apr 2001 King Crimson Indiscipline I do remember one thing. 11
1098  3 Oct 2002 John Betjeman Indoor Games near Newbury In among the silver ... 58
1483 21 Mar 2004 Ronald Koertge An Infinite Number of Monkeys After all the Shakes... 15
317 19 Jan 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Inland People that build th... 16
1449  4 Feb 2004 Louis Simpson The Inner Part When they had won the war 12
811 14 Jun 2001 Edward Gorey The Insect God O what has become of... 56
232 11 Oct 1999 Wilfred Owen Insensibility I 65
64 16 Apr 1999 Peter Porter Instant Fish Instant Fish 4
1150 20 Jan 2003 John Ashbery The Instruction Manual As I sit looking out... 93
110  5 Jun 1999 D.H.Lawrence Intimates Don't you care for m... 11
1777  5 Oct 2005 Billy Collins Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem 16
1397 25 Nov 2003 Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem 16
1778  6 Oct 2005 A. D. Hope The Invaders Coming by night, fur... 24
3 11 Feb 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid This darksome burn, ... 16
221 30 Sep 1999 William Ernest Henley Invictus Out of the night tha... 16
738 29 Mar 2001 Oriah Mountain Dreamer The Invitation It doesn't interest ... 37
41 22 Mar 1999 Sir Henry Newbolt Ireland, Ireland Down thy valleys, Ir... 12
32 14 Mar 1999 William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall ... 16
176 14 Aug 1999 Hillaire Belloc Is there any reward? Is there any reward? 8
547 15 Sep 2000 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Isles of Greece The isles of Greece!... 96
829  6 Jul 2001 Emily Dickinson It dropped so low in my regard It dropped so low in... 8
1364  5 Oct 2003 Ruskin Bond It Isn't Time That's Passing Remember the long ag... 10
1650 13 Mar 2005 Emily Dickinson It was not death, for I stood up It was not death, fo... 24
1671  9 Apr 2005 Shel Silverstein It's Dark in Here I am writing these poems 10
1456 11 Feb 2004 Richard Brautigan It's raining in love I don't know what it is, 37
217 26 Sep 1999 Constantine Cavafy Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka 37
52  3 Apr 1999 Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky 'Twas brillig and th... 28
648 27 Dec 2000 Dave Goulder The January Man The January man he w... 35
198 06 Sep 1999 Peter Porter Japanese Jokes In his winged collar 33
418  4 May 2000 Stephen Foster Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair I dream of Jeanie wi... 24
103 28 May 1999 James Leigh Hunt Jenny Kissed Me Jenny kiss'd me when... 8
26 08 Mar 1999 William Blake Jerusalem And did those feet i... 16
1571  7 Dec 2004 Nissim Ezekiel Jewish Wedding in Bombay Her mother shed a te... 49
809 12 Jun 2001 Hilaire Belloc Jim There was a Boy whos... 54
1286 24 Jun 2003 John Hay Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle Wall, no! I can't te... 56
337 11 Feb 2000 Adrian Mitchell Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' A man plodding throu... 4
744  5 Apr 2001 Leonard Cohen Joan of Arc Now the flames they ... 32
19 01 Mar 1999 Robert Burns John Anderson My Jo John Anderson my jo,... 16
1500 19 Apr 2004 J. D. Salinger John Keats John Keats 4
918 20 Oct 2001 William Butler Yeats John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore A bloody and a sudde... 36
1541 14 Sep 2004 Gary Snyder John Muir on Mt. Ritter After scanning its f... 24
291 16 Dec 1999 T. S. Eliot The Journey of the Magi 'A cold coming we ha...