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