| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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