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1999 (305)

#1 · 8 Feb The Song of Wandering Aengus — William Butler Yeats
#2 · 9 Feb The Listeners — Walter de la Mare
#3 · 10 Feb Inversnaid — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#4 · 11 Feb The Road Goes Ever On — J R R Tolkien
#5 · 14 Feb Chicago — Carl Sandburg
#6 · 15 Feb Ode — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
#7 · 16 Feb Scarborough Fair — Anonymous
#8 · 17 Feb Song — Christina Rossetti
#9 · 18 Feb La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) — T S Eliot
#10 · 19 Feb On His Seventy-fifth Birthday — Walter Savage Landor
#11 · 20 Feb In Flanders Fields — John McCrae
#12 · 21 Feb On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer — John Keats
#13 · 22 Feb The Highwayman — Alfred Noyes
#14 · 23 Feb Prologue — Dylan Thomas
#15 · 24 Feb The Eagle (a fragment) — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#16 · 24 Feb Full Fathom Five — William Shakespeare
#17 · 26 Feb The Way Through the Woods — Rudyard Kipling
#18 · 27 Feb Bagpipe Music — Louis MacNeice
#19 · 28 Feb John Anderson My Jo — Robert Burns
#20 · 1 Mar Requiem — Robert Louis Stevenson
#21 · 2 Mar Sailing to Byzantium — William Butler Yeats
#22 · 3 Mar Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#23 · 4 Mar Haiku — Matsuo Basho
#24 · 5 Mar On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness — Arthur Guiterman
#25 · 6 Mar The Poet's Testament — George Santayana
#26 · 7 Mar Jerusalem — William Blake
#27 · 8 Mar Sea Fever — John Masefield
#28 · 9 Mar To Whom It May Concern — Adrian Mitchell
#29 · 10 Mar The Sea and the Hills — Rudyard Kipling
#30 · 11 Mar Kubla Khan — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#31 · 12 Mar Break, break, break — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#32 · 13 Mar An Irish Airman Foresees His Death — William Butler Yeats
#33 · 14 Mar A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI — A E Housman
#34 · 15 Mar First Fig — Edna St Vincent Millay
#35 · 16 Mar The Windhover — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#36 · 17 Mar the lesson of the moth — Don Marquis
#37 · 18 Mar Mercian Hymns — Geoffrey Hill
#38 · 19 Mar Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas
#39 · 20 Mar The Riddle of the World — Alexander Pope
#40 · 21 Mar The Book of Job — Anonymous
#41 · 22 Mar Ireland, Ireland — Sir Henry Newbolt
#42 · 23 Mar Hawk Roosting — Ted Hughes
#43 · 24 Mar Tommy — Rudyard Kipling
#44 · 26 Mar My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) — William Shakespeare
#45 · 27 Mar Winter Night — Boris Pasternak
#46 · 28 Mar Lament for Boromir — J R R Tolkien
#47 · 29 Mar Uphill — Christina Rossetti
#48 · 30 Mar Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth — William Shakespeare
#49 · 31 Mar The Unexplorer — Edna St Vincent Millay
#50 · 1 Apr In Memory of W. B. Yeats — W H Auden
#51 · 2 Apr The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost
#52 · 3 Apr Jabberwocky — Lewis Carroll
#53 · 4 Apr Winter landscape, with rocks — Sylvia Plath
#54 · 5 Apr When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer — Walt Whitman
#55 · 6 Apr Welsh Incident — Robert Graves
#56 · 8 Apr Haiku — Matsuo Basho
#57 · 7 Apr pity this busy monster, manunkind — e e cummings
#58 · 9 Apr The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower — Dylan Thomas
#59 · 10 Apr Spring and Fall, to a Young Child — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#60 · 11 Apr Byzantium — William Butler Yeats
#61 · 12 Apr Song — Seamus Heaney
#62 · 13 Apr So We'll Go No More a-Roving — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#63 · 14 Apr Daffodils — William Wordsworth
#64 · 15 Apr Instant Fish — Peter Porter
#65 · 16 Apr Home Thoughts From Abroad — Robert Browning
#66 · 18 Apr The Tyger — William Blake
#67 · 19 Apr The Ballad of East and West — Rudyard Kipling
#68 · 20 Apr Musee des Beaux Arts — W H Auden
#69 · 21 Apr There is no god, the wicked sayeth — Arthur Hugh Clough
#70 · 22 Apr The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter — Ezra Pound
#71 · 23 Apr Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) — William Shakespeare
#72 · 24 Apr Madhushala (The Tavern) — Harivansh Rai Bachchan
#73 · 25 Apr I Remember, I Remember — Philip Larkin
#74 · 26 Apr Cargoes — John Masefield
#75 · 27 Apr The face that launch'd a thousand ships — Christopher Marlowe
#76 · 28 Apr archy interviews a pharoh — Don Marquis
#77 · 29 Apr Bavarian Gentians — D H Lawrence
#78 · 1 May The Pelagian Drinking Song — Hilaire Belloc
#79 · 2 May Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland — William Butler Yeats
#80 · 3 May The Brook (excerpt) — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#81 · 4 May A Red, Red Rose — Robert Burns
#82 · 5 May The Solitary Reaper — William Wordsworth
#83 · 6 May The Red Wheelbarrow — William Carlos Williams
#84 · 8 May From a Railway Carriage — Robert Louis Stevenson
#85 · 9 May The Raven — Edgar Allan Poe
#86 · 10 May When I Was One-and-Twenty — A E Housman
#87 · 11 May Two Tanka — Otomo No Yakamochi
#88 · 12 May The Major General's Song — W S Gilbert
#89 · 13 May Dover Beach — Matthew Arnold
#90 · 14 May Casey At The Bat — Ernest Lawrence Thayer
#91 · 16 May Cottleston Pie — A A Milne
#92 · 17 May There's a certain Slant of light — Emily Dickinson
#93 · 18 May Eärendil was a mariner — J R R Tolkien
#94 · 19 May The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet — Guy Wetmore Carryl
#95 · 20 May Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off — Adrian Mitchell
#96 · 21 May During Wind and Rain — Thomas Hardy
#97 · 22 May The Fly — William Blake
#98 · 23 May The Thought Fox — Ted Hughes
#99 · 24 May Nephelidia — Algernon Charles Swinburne
#100 · 25 May Days — Philip Larkin
#101 · 26 May The Bells — Edgar Allan Poe
#102 · 27 May Generations — Amy Lowell
#103 · 28 May Jenny Kissed Me — James Leigh Hunt
#104 · 29 May My Last Duchess — Robert Browning
#105 · 30 May Five Ways to Kill a Man — Edwin Brock
#106 · 31 May On His Blindness — John Milton
#107 · 1 Jun Preludes — T S Eliot
#108 · 2 Jun The Penitent — Edna St Vincent Millay
#109 · 3 Jun The Viking Terror — Anonymous
#110 · 4 Jun Intimates — D H Lawrence
#111 · 5 Jun Why marry at all? — Marge Piercy
#112 · 6 Jun Mr.Tambourine Man — Bob Dylan
#113 · 7 Jun Morning — Sara Teasdale
#114 · 8 Jun The Soul Cages — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner
#115 · 9 Jun The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna — Charles Wolfe
#116 · 10 Jun Suzanne — Leonard Cohen
#117 · 11 Jun The Rain and the Wind — William Ernest Henley
#118 · 12 Jun A Prison Evening — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
#119 · 13 Jun A Poem on the Underground Wall — Paul Simon
#120 · 14 Jun The Purple Cow — Gelett Burgess
#121 · 15 Jun Ulysses — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#122 · 16 Jun certain maxims of archy — Don Marquis
#123 · 17 Jun And the days are not full enough — Ezra Pound
#124 · 18 Jun The Hippopotamus — Hilaire Belloc
#125 · 19 Jun Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott
#126 · 20 Jun Our revels now are ended — William Shakespeare
#127 · 21 Jun On Shakespear — John Milton
#128 · 23 Jun London, 1802 — William Wordsworth
#129 · 24 Jun Ariel — Sylvia Plath
#130 · 25 Jun The Lost Leader — Robert Browning
#131 · 26 Jun A Martian Sends A Postcard Home — Craig Raine
#132 · 27 Jun Dulce Et Decorum Est — Wilfred Owen
#133 · 28 Jun Song, from Pippa Passes — Robert Browning
#134 · 29 Jun Pied Beauty — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#135 · 30 Jun I've Got a Little List — W S Gilbert
#136 · 2 Jul The Panther — Rainer Maria Rilke
#137 · 2 Jul The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven — Guy Wetmore Carryl
#138 · 4 Jul Fern Hill — Dylan Thomas
#139 · 4 Jul Buffalo Bill's/ defunct — e e cummings
#140 · 5 Jul By The Sea — Christina Rossetti
#141 · 7 Jul The City in the Sea — Edgar Allan Poe
#142 · 8 Jul He chanted a song of wizardry — J R R Tolkien
#143 · 9 Jul Harp Song of the Dane Women — Rudyard Kipling
#144 · 10 Jul On the Eve of His Execution — Chidiock Tichborne
#145 · 11 Jul Ice — Anonymous
#146 · 12 Jul Trees — Joyce Kilmer
#147 · 13 Jul The Unspoken — Edwin Morgan
#148 · 14 Jul With a Book — Ambrose Bierce
#149 · 15 Jul Bethsabe's Song — George Peele
#150 · 16 Jul Resume — Dorothy Parker
#151 · 17 Jul Recessional — Rudyard Kipling
#152 · 19 Jul The Ancients of the World — R S Thomas
#153 · 19 Jul Abou Ben Adhem — James Leigh Hunt
#154 · 21 Jul Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock — Wallace Stevens
#155 · 21 Jul Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — Robert Frost
#156 · 22 Jul Angelica the Doorkeeper — Anonymous
#157 · 23 Jul O Captain! My Captain! — Walt Whitman
#158 · 24 Jul To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell
#159 · 26 Jul The Latest Decalogue — Arthur Hugh Clough
#160 · 27 Jul The Realists — William Butler Yeats
#161 · 28 Jul The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" — W S Gilbert
#162 · 29 Jul The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam
#163 · 30 Jul Dust — Carl Sandburg
#164 · 31 Jul Bird — Pablo Neruda
#165 · 1 Aug The Owl and the Pussy-Cat — Edward Lear
#166 · 4 Aug Night-Song in the Jungle — Rudyard Kipling
#167 · 4 Aug Pangur Ban — Anonymous
#168 · 5 Aug A Dead Mole — Andrew Young
#169 · 6 Aug She Walks in Beauty — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#170 · 7 Aug The Need of Being Versed in Country Things — Robert Frost
#171 · 8 Aug I am Raftery the poet — Anthony Raftery
#172 · 9 Aug Paul Revere's Ride — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#173 · 10 Aug Hoochie Coochie Man — Willie Dixon
#174 · 11 Aug A Route of Evanescence — Emily Dickinson
#175 · 12 Aug I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre — Anonymous
#176 · 13 Aug Is there any reward? — Hilaire Belloc
#177 · 14 Aug Where The Mind is Without Fear — Rabindranath Tagore
#178 · 16 Aug Water — Philip Larkin
#179 · 16 Aug Missed — P G Wodehouse
#180 · 18 Aug The Emperor of Ice-Cream — Wallace Stevens
#181 · 18 Aug The Guards Came Through — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#182 · 19 Aug La Belle Dame Sans Merci — John Keats
#183 · 20 Aug Sorrows of Werther — William Makepeace Thackeray
#184 · 21 Aug Chief Seattle's Reply — Chief Sealth (Seattle)
#185 · 22 Aug A Glass of Beer — David O'Bruadair
#186 · 23 Aug By-the-Way — Patrick MacGill
#187 · 25 Aug Poetry for Supper — R S Thomas
#188 · 25 Aug Ars Poetica — Archibald MacLeish
#189 · 26 Aug dear Captain Poetry — bpNichol
#190 · 27 Aug Young Poets — Nicanor Parra
#191 · 29 Aug The Garden — Ezra Pound
#192 · 30 Aug Comment — Dorothy Parker
#193 · 1 Sep The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock — T S Eliot
#194 · 1 Sep Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line — George Starbuck
#195 · 2 Sep Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum — Peter Schaeffer
#196 · 3 Sep In the desert — Stephen Crane
#197 · 4 Sep A Code Poem For The French Resistance — Leo Marks
#198 · 6 Sep Japanese Jokes — Peter Porter
#199 · 6 Sep Lord Ullin's Daughter — Thomas Campbell
#200 · 8 Sep Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks — William Shakespeare
#201 · 8 Sep To the Reader — Denise Levertov
#202 · 9 Sep Missing Dates — William Empson
#203 · 10 Sep The Battle of Blenheim — Robert Southey
#204 · 11 Sep The Vision of a Giant who Migrated from Baja to Tiburon Island — Anonymous
#205 · 12 Sep Crucible — Carl Sandburg
#206 · 13 Sep Sky Line — Prescott Hoard
#207 · 15 Sep Clerihews — Edmund Clerihew Bentley
#208 · 16 Sep The Great Panjandrum — Samuel Foote
#209 · 17 Sep The Camp — Mary Robinson
#210 · 19 Sep Romance Sonambulo — Federico García Lorca
#211 · 19 Sep The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry — Adrian Mitchell
#212 · 20 Sep To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour — Franklin P Adams
#213 · 22 Sep The Artist — William Carlos Williams
#214 · 22 Sep Where's Madge then, — e e cummings
#215 · 23 Sep The Loch Ness Monster's Song — Edwin Morgan
#216 · 25 Sep The Golf Links — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
#217 · 26 Sep Ithaka — Constantine Cavafy
#218 · 26 Sep Psalm 23 — David
#219 · 28 Sep Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) — William Shakespeare
#220 · 29 Sep Lament for Eorl the Young — J R R Tolkien
#221 · 29 Sep Invictus — William Ernest Henley
#222 · 30 Sep Your Attention Please — Peter Porter
#223 · 2 Oct There Will Come Soft Rains — Sara Teasdale
#224 · 3 Oct Under One Small Star — Wislawa Szymborska
#225 · 3 Oct Poem In October — Dylan Thomas
#226 · 5 Oct October — Hilaire Belloc
#227 · 6 Oct Desolation Row — Bob Dylan
#228 · 6 Oct The Rolling English Road — G K Chesterton
#229 · 7 Oct To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow — William Shakespeare
#230 · 9 Oct pity the poor spiders — Don Marquis
#231 · 10 Oct Requiem (excerpt) — Anna Akhmatova
#232 · 10 Oct Insensibility — Wilfred Owen
#233 · 12 Oct Let It Go — William Empson
#234 · 14 Oct Miniver Cheevy — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#235 · 14 Oct Pennsylvania — Carl Sandburg
#236 · 16 Oct Memory — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#237 · 17 Oct The Ballad of Father Gilligan — William Butler Yeats
#238 · 18 Oct Romance — W J Turner
#239 · 18 Oct Witchery — Frank Dempster Sherman
#240 · 20 Oct Two Worlds — Edgar Fawcett
#241 · 21 Oct The Green Hills of Earth — Robert A Heinlein
#242 · 23 Oct The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Robert Browning
#243 · 24 Oct When that I was and a little tiny boy — William Shakespeare
#244 · 25 Oct A Supermarket in California — Allen Ginsberg
#245 · 26 Oct Whitman — Alfred Kreymborg
#246 · 26 Oct I Hear America Singing — Walt Whitman
#247 · 28 Oct To Sit In Solemn Silence... — W S Gilbert
#248 · 28 Oct Sweeney Among the Nightingales — T S Eliot
#249 · 30 Oct Delay — Elizabeth Jennings
#250 · 31 Oct Walt Whitman — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#251 · 2 Nov No! — Thomas Hood
#252 · 2 Nov The Midnightmouse — Christian Morgenstern
#253 · 3 Nov A Man Feared... (The Black Riders LVI) — Stephen Crane
#254 · 4 Nov The North Ship — Philip Larkin
#255 · 5 Nov Forever — Charles S Calverley
#256 · 7 Nov Funeral Blues — W H Auden
#257 · 9 Nov Three Rings for the Elven Kings — J R R Tolkien
#258 · 9 Nov Macavity: The Mystery Cat — T S Eliot
#259 · 11 Nov Songs from an Evil Wood — Lord Dunsany
#260 · 11 Nov Moonrise — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#261 · 12 Nov Recompense — Robert E Howard
#262 · 13 Nov No Coward Soul is Mine — Emily Bronte
#263 · 14 Nov Sonnet: Dolce stil novo — Gavin Ewart
#264 · 16 Nov There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII) — Stephen Crane
#265 · 16 Nov The Mad Gardener's Song — Lewis Carroll
#266 · 18 Nov The Litany for Doneraile — Patrick O'Kelly
#267 · 18 Nov The Meadow Mouse — Theodore Roethke
#268 · 19 Nov The Dalliance of the Eagles — Walt Whitman
#269 · 20 Nov How do I love thee? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#270 · 21 Nov Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas
#271 · 23 Nov If — Rudyard Kipling
#272 · 23 Nov Napoleon — Walter de la Mare
#273 · 24 Nov How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted — Guy Wetmore Carryl
#274 · 25 Nov This Is Just To Say — William Carlos Williams
#275 · 26 Nov The Glove and the Lions — James Leigh Hunt
#276 · 28 Nov High Flight — Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
#277 · 28 Nov Haiku — Yosa Buson
#278 · 29 Nov Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams — Kenneth Koch
#279 · 1 Dec L'Allegro — John Milton
#280 · 2 Dec The Soldier — Rupert Brooke
#281 · 2 Dec L'Allegro — John Milton
#282 · 3 Dec Fog — Carl Sandburg
#283 · 5 Dec A Great Poem — Gavin Ewart
#284 · 6 Dec 'MOST ANGLERS ARE VERY HUMANE'--Daily Paper — Norman Rowland Gale
#285 · 7 Dec On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below — Horace Smith
#286 · 8 Dec An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog — Oliver Goldsmith
#287 · 9 Dec Mad About You — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner
#288 · 11 Dec Futility — Wilfred Owen
#289 · 12 Dec The Second Coming — William Butler Yeats
#290 · 13 Dec Bed in Summer — Robert Louis Stevenson
#291 · 14 Dec The Journey of the Magi — T S Eliot
#292 · 15 Dec Ripple — Robert Hunter
#293 · 16 Dec Howl — Allen Ginsberg
#294 · 17 Dec Tarantella — Hilaire Belloc
#295 · 18 Dec Untitled — Anonymous
#296 · 19 Dec Footsteps — Constantine Cavafy
#297 · 20 Dec The Pobble Who Has No Toes — Edward Lear
#298 · 21 Dec The Cool Web — Robert Graves
#299 · 22 Dec Taking My Business Elsewhere — Richard Thompson
#300 · 24 Dec The Gift of God - — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#301 · 25 Dec The Noble Nature — Ben Jonson
#302 · 26 Dec Thanatopsis — William Cullen Bryant
#303 · 27 Dec The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard — Anonymous
#304 · 29 Dec The Subway Piranhas — Edwin Morgan
#305 · 30 Dec The Conundrum of the Workshops — Rudyard Kipling

2000 (348)

#306 · 1 Jan Geometry — Alfred Kreymborg
#307 · 1 Jan Lay your sleeping head, my love — W H Auden
#308 · 3 Jan Untitled — Bhartrihari
#309 · 4 Jan The Lake Isle of Innisfree — William Butler Yeats
#310 · 12 Jan Oread — H D
#311 · 13 Jan Untitled — e e cummings
#312 · 14 Jan Where the bee sucks — William Shakespeare
#313 · 15 Jan Gypsy Songs — Ben Jonson
#314 · 16 Jan The Sermon on the Mount — Anonymous
#315 · 18 Jan Juliet — Hilaire Belloc
#316 · 18 Jan Ode to a Nightingale — John Keats
#317 · 19 Jan Inland — Edna St Vincent Millay
#318 · 21 Jan Tall ships and tall kings — J R R Tolkien
#319 · 23 Jan In a Station of the Metro — Ezra Pound
#320 · 24 Jan Rimer — Ambrose Bierce
#321 · 25 Jan Strange Meeting — Wilfred Owen
#322 · 26 Jan In the Smoking Car — Richard Wilbur
#323 · 27 Jan Silent Poem — Robert Francis
#324 · 28 Jan Three Movements — William Butler Yeats
#325 · 29 Jan Common Cold — Ogden Nash
#326 · 30 Jan The Seafarer — Anonymous
#327 · 31 Jan The Knight's Portrait — Geoffrey Chaucer
#328 · 1 Feb from The Faerie Queen — Edmund Spenser
#329 · 2 Feb Ode to the West Wind — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#330 · 3 Feb A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning — John Donne
#331 · 4 Feb from An Essay on Man — Alexander Pope
#332 · 5 Feb Delight In Disorder — Robert Herrick
#333 · 6 Feb Gnomic Stanzas — Anonymous
#334 · 7 Feb Psycholophon — Gelett Burgess
#335 · 8 Feb After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) — Dylan Thomas
#336 · 9 Feb A Patch of Old Snow — Robert Frost
#337 · 10 Feb Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' — Adrian Mitchell
#338 · 11 Feb Fires — Joseph Campbell
#339 · 13 Feb The Music Crept By Us — Leonard Cohen
#340 · 13 Feb To Celia — Ben Jonson
#341 · 14 Feb The Grass so little has to do - — Emily Dickinson
#342 · 15 Feb The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam
#343 · 16 Feb The Tay Bridge Disaster — William McGonagall
#344 · 17 Feb The Navajo Night Way Ceremony — Anonymous
#345 · 18 Feb Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore — Charlotte Smith
#346 · 20 Feb The Great Bird of Love — Paul Zimmer
#347 · 20 Feb The Walrus and the Carpenter — Lewis Carroll
#348 · 21 Feb Untitled — Cid Corman
#349 · 22 Feb A Prayer to the Sun — Geoffrey Hill
#350 · 23 Feb The Unknown God — AE
#351 · 24 Feb The Teasers — William Empson
#352 · 25 Feb My Star — Robert Browning
#353 · 27 Feb PG Wooster, Just as he Useter — Ogden Nash
#354 · 27 Feb The Waste Land (Part IV) — T S Eliot
#355 · 28 Feb Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#356 · 29 Feb The Akond of Swat — Edward Lear
#357 · 2 Mar The Last of the Light Brigade — Rudyard Kipling
#358 · 2 Mar Abdul Abulbul Amir — Percy French
#359 · 3 Mar The Angler — Thomas Buchanan Read
#360 · 5 Mar I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea — John Whitworth
#361 · 5 Mar Cologne — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#362 · 6 Mar Hiawatha's Departure — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#363 · 7 Mar Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) — William Shakespeare
#364 · 8 Mar The Patriot — Robert Browning
#365 · 9 Mar Boston — John Collins Bossidy
#366 · 10 Mar Child — Sylvia Plath
#367 · 11 Mar Krishnakali — Rabindranath Tagore
#368 · 12 Mar Auguries of Innocence — William Blake
#369 · 13 Mar The Cantelope — Bayard Taylor
#370 · 14 Mar Troll sat alone on his seat of stone — J R R Tolkien
#371 · 15 Mar O What Is That Sound — W H Auden
#372 · 16 Mar Icham of Irlaunde — Anonymous
#373 · 17 Mar The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad — Wallace Stevens
#374 · 18 Mar Psalm Of the Valleys — Alex Pascall
#375 · 19 Mar Look, Delia, How We 'Steem the Half-blown Rose (Delia XXXIX) — Samuel Daniel
#376 · 21 Mar She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways — William Wordsworth
#377 · 21 Mar Loveliest of trees, the cherry now — A E Housman
#378 · 23 Mar There Was an Old Man with a Beard — Edward Lear
#379 · 23 Mar The Buddha at Kamakura — Rudyard Kipling
#380 · 25 Mar Heraclitus — William Johnson Cory
#381 · 26 Mar From Among Hundreds of Masts — Mihail Eminescu
#382 · 26 Mar A River — A K Ramanujan
#383 · 27 Mar The Health-Food Diner — Maya Angelou
#384 · 28 Mar Song — John Donne
#385 · 29 Mar Base Details — Siegfried Sassoon
#386 · 30 Mar The Unknown Citizen — W H Auden
#387 · 31 Mar An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow — Les Murray
#388 · 1 Apr Kipling's Vermont — Ogden Nash
#389 · 2 Apr The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly — James Joyce
#390 · 3 Apr Palanquin Bearers — Sarojini Naidu
#391 · 5 Apr The Pulley — George Herbert
#392 · 6 Apr Good — R S Thomas
#393 · 8 Apr Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night — Peter Schaeffer
#394 · 8 Apr Poem — Ernest Dowson
#395 · 9 Apr Naming of Parts — Henry Reed
#396 · 10 Apr I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander — Trumbull Stickney
#397 · 12 Apr Ancestors — Adrian Mitchell
#398 · 12 Apr The Night Piece, To Julia — Robert Herrick
#399 · 13 Apr The Indian Serenade — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#400 · 14 Apr Elegy — Ambrose Bierce
#401 · 16 Apr To a Cat — Jorge Luis Borges
#402 · 16 Apr Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man — Ogden Nash
#403 · 18 Apr A Lame Beggar — John Donne
#404 · 18 Apr Daddy — Sylvia Plath
#405 · 20 Apr Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) — Dylan Thomas
#406 · 20 Apr Song — Anna Wickham
#407 · 21 Apr Solomon and the Witch — William Butler Yeats
#408 · 23 Apr Caliban at Sunset — P G Wodehouse
#409 · 24 Apr Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur — Lewis Carroll
#410 · 25 Apr The Negro Speaks of Rivers — Langston Hughes
#411 · 27 Apr The Tables Turned — William Wordsworth
#412 · 27 Apr There is a motionless tree — Octavio Paz
#413 · 30 Apr Admired Miranda! — William Shakespeare
#414 · 30 Apr Epitaph on a pessimist — Thomas Hardy
#415 · 30 Apr The Truth of Woman — Sir Walter Scott
#416 · 1 May The Fitful Alternations of the Rain — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#417 · 2 May Thistles — Ted Hughes
#418 · 4 May Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair — Stephen Foster
#419 · 4 May March — Boris Pasternak
#420 · 5 May Thirty Bob a Week — John Davidson
#421 · 7 May The Jungle Husband — Stevie Smith
#422 · 10 May Sonnet XVII: Love — Pablo Neruda
#423 · 10 May The Song of Songs — Anonymous
#424 · 11 May The Moonsheep — Christian Morgenstern
#425 · 11 May Memorabilia — Robert Browning
#426 · 13 May Wild Geese — Mary Oliver
#427 · 14 May The Two — W H Auden
#428 · 15 May Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" — Eve Merriam
#429 · 16 May In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations' — Thomas Hardy
#430 · 17 May Wild Asters — Sara Teasdale
#431 · 18 May Sea Love — Charlotte Mew
#432 · 19 May Earth — John Hall Wheelock
#433 · 20 May Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell — John Keats
#434 · 21 May Extended Family — A K Ramanujan
#435 · 23 May Tell Her That I Fell — Leo Connellan
#436 · 23 May When You Are Old — William Butler Yeats
#437 · 24 May Sir Patrick Spens — Anonymous
#438 · 25 May Not my Best Side — U A Fanthorpe
#439 · 27 May A Shropshire Lad - XV — A E Housman
#440 · 28 May Bregalad's Lament — J R R Tolkien
#441 · 29 May The Simplon Pass — William Wordsworth
#442 · 30 May Coda — Octavio Paz
#443 · 1 Jun Poems — Tom Disch
#444 · 1 Jun Contours — Noel Coward
#445 · 2 Jun A Noiseless Patient Spider — Walt Whitman
#446 · 4 Jun Banalata Sen — Jibanananda Das
#447 · 5 Jun My Sweet, Crushed Angel — Hafiz
#448 · 6 Jun To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 — William Cowper
#449 · 6 Jun Helen — H D
#450 · 7 Jun Auntie's Skirts — Robert Louis Stevenson
#451 · 8 Jun Leda and the Swan — William Butler Yeats
#452 · 11 Jun I wish to leave the world — José Martí
#453 · 11 Jun Keeping Things Whole — Mark Strand
#454 · 12 Jun If I have made, my lady, intricate — e e cummings
#455 · 13 Jun The Coming War — Sam Walter Foss
#456 · 14 Jun He Fell Among Thieves — Sir Henry Newbolt
#457 · 14 Jun The End of the World — Archibald MacLeish
#458 · 16 Jun The Chariot — Emily Dickinson
#459 · 17 Jun Two Figures in Dense Violet Light — Wallace Stevens
#460 · 18 Jun Round and Round — Vikram Seth
#461 · 19 Jun Couplets — Thomas Lynch
#462 · 20 Jun Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 — William Wordsworth
#463 · 20 Jun Disobedience — A A Milne
#464 · 21 Jun Central Park at Dusk — Sara Teasdale
#465 · 23 Jun The Sun Rising — John Donne
#466 · 24 Jun Rhapsody on a Windy Night — T S Eliot
#467 · 25 Jun Like Snow — Robert Graves
#468 · 26 Jun Chard Whitlow — Henry Reed
#469 · 26 Jun Towards Freedom — Orhan Veli
#470 · 28 Jun The Comforters — Dora Sigerson Shorter
#471 · 29 Jun This world lives — Ilam Peruvaluti
#472 · 29 Jun Spring Giddiness — Jalaluddin Rumi
#473 · 2 Jul The Battle-Hymn of the Republic — Julia Ward Howe
#474 · 2 Jul Otherwise — Jane Kenyon
#475 · 3 Jul The Other Tiger — Jorge Luis Borges
#476 · 4 Jul In my craft or sullen art — Dylan Thomas
#477 · 5 Jul Fear no more the heat o' the sun — William Shakespeare
#478 · 6 Jul Enigma — Duncan Campbell Scott
#479 · 7 Jul The Man He Killed — Thomas Hardy
#480 · 8 Jul Before Action — W N Hodgson
#481 · 9 Jul Who By fire — Leonard Cohen
#482 · 9 Jul Winter Landscape — John Berryman
#483 · 10 Jul Brueghel's Winter — Walter de la Mare
#484 · 11 Jul Hunters in the Snow — William Carlos Williams
#485 · 12 Jul Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel — Joseph Langland
#486 · 14 Jul Epitaph for a Darling Lady — Dorothy Parker
#487 · 14 Jul Petra — John William Burgon
#488 · 16 Jul Dear Mr Lee — U A Fanthorpe
#489 · 17 Jul Horatius — Thomas Babbington Macaulay
#490 · 18 Jul The Elements — Tom Lehrer
#491 · 19 Jul Roman Wall Blues — W H Auden
#492 · 20 Jul Poem 42 — e e cummings
#493 · 21 Jul A Pict Song — Rudyard Kipling
#494 · 23 Jul The Fall of Rome — W H Auden
#495 · 23 Jul Marmion — Sir Walter Scott
#496 · 24 Jul The Lay of the Troubled Golfer — Edgar Guest
#497 · 25 Jul Landscape: I — bpNichol
#498 · 26 Jul The World Below the Brine — Walt Whitman
#499 · 27 Jul Lay of Ancient Rome — Thomas Ybarra
#500 · 28 Jul A Dirge — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#501 · 30 Jul King of the River — Stanley Kunitz
#502 · 30 Jul MCMXIV — Philip Larkin
#503 · 31 Jul Anonymous Drawing — Donald Justice
#504 · 1 Aug About Tu Fu — Li Po
#505 · 2 Aug The Story of Prince Agib — W S Gilbert
#506 · 3 Aug Lament for Zenocrate — Christopher Marlowe
#507 · 5 Aug The Sheep-Child — James Dickey
#508 · 5 Aug I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing — Walt Whitman
#509 · 6 Aug The Golden Road to Samarkand — James Elroy Flecker
#510 · 8 Aug There is a pleasure in the pathless woods — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#511 · 8 Aug Beautiful Lofty Things — William Butler Yeats
#512 · 10 Aug Silence — Thomas Hood
#513 · 10 Aug The Tavern — Jalaluddin Rumi
#514 · 13 Aug The Chilterns — Rupert Brooke
#515 · 13 Aug The Persian Version — Robert Graves
#516 · 14 Aug The Patriot — Nissim Ezekiel
#517 · 15 Aug The Gipsy Girl — Ralph Hodgson
#518 · 16 Aug The Gates of Damascus — James Elroy Flecker
#519 · 18 Aug The Roman Road — Thomas Hardy
#520 · 19 Aug A Lost Chord — Adelaide Procter
#521 · 20 Aug The Suicide — Louis MacNeice
#522 · 20 Aug In Harbor — Constantine Cavafy
#523 · 21 Aug Naming the Stars — Joyce Sutphen
#524 · 22 Aug Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord — Ezra Pound
#525 · 22 Aug Morning Song of Senlin — Conrad Aiken
#526 · 23 Aug A Toccata of Galuppi's — Robert Browning
#527 · 25 Aug I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May — Tom Brown
#528 · 26 Aug A Renewal — James Merrill
#529 · 27 Aug If you were coming in the fall — Emily Dickinson
#530 · 27 Aug A Sonnet — J K Stephen
#531 · 28 Aug Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#532 · 29 Aug Little Gidding — T S Eliot
#533 · 30 Aug The Gift — Carole Oles
#534 · 31 Aug The Albatross — Charles Baudelaire
#535 · 1 Sep The Working Party — Siegfried Sassoon
#536 · 2 Sep Lighter than a feather — Diana Bridge
#537 · 4 Sep The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker (at a McDonald's somewhere in Appalachia) — Mark Defoe
#538 · 4 Sep Back From Vacation — John Updike
#539 · 5 Sep Last Poems: XI — A E Housman
#540 · 6 Sep Office Friendships — Gavin Ewart
#541 · 7 Sep You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly — U A Fanthorpe
#542 · 8 Sep Will Consider Situation — Ogden Nash
#543 · 9 Sep Executive — John Betjeman
#544 · 11 Sep Toads — Philip Larkin
#545 · 13 Sep The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ — Omar Khayyam
#546 · 13 Sep The Sick Rose — William Blake
#547 · 14 Sep The Isles of Greece — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#548 · 16 Sep Barbara Allen — Anonymous
#549 · 17 Sep Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#550 · 18 Sep Evolution — Langdon Smith
#551 · 19 Sep Her Beauty — Max Plowman
#552 · 19 Sep Morning — Robert Creeley
#553 · 21 Sep Caught in the Undertow — Christopher Morley
#554 · 21 Sep Taliesin — R S Thomas
#555 · 22 Sep Trade Winds — John Masefield
#556 · 24 Sep Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) — Francois Villon
#557 · 24 Sep Parabolic Balad — Andrei Voznesensky
#558 · 25 Sep Bees — Norman Rowland Gale
#559 · 26 Sep The Modern Hiawatha — George A Strong
#560 · 28 Sep Chant for Dark Hours — Dorothy Parker
#561 · 28 Sep The Metre Columbian — Anonymous
#562 · 30 Sep The King's Breakfast — A A Milne
#563 · 1 Oct Butterfly — S Thomas Ansell
#564 · 1 Oct Warning to Children — Robert Graves
#565 · 3 Oct Now Winter Nights Enlarge — Thomas Campion
#566 · 3 Oct Clancy of the Overflow — A B "Banjo" Paterson
#567 · 4 Oct Easter Wings — George Herbert
#568 · 5 Oct Especially when the October wind — Dylan Thomas
#569 · 7 Oct The Great Grey Plain — Henry Lawson
#570 · 8 Oct Come, Night; Come, Romeo — William Shakespeare
#571 · 9 Oct The Death Of The Bird — A D Hope
#572 · 10 Oct Mort aux Chats — Peter Porter
#573 · 11 Oct At a Fishing Settlement — Alistair Campbell
#574 · 12 Oct Growltiger's Last Stand — T S Eliot
#575 · 13 Oct To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat — John Keats
#576 · 14 Oct Tra-la-la, tra-la-la — A A Milne
#577 · 15 Oct The Cat and the Moon — William Butler Yeats
#578 · 16 Oct Autumn Song — Margurite Kingman
#579 · 17 Oct The Professor — Nissim Ezekiel
#580 · 19 Oct Split the Lark — Emily Dickinson
#581 · 19 Oct Get Drunk! — Charles Baudelaire
#582 · 20 Oct Go, Lovely Rose — Edmund Waller
#583 · 21 Oct Envoi (1919) — Ezra Pound
#584 · 22 Oct History of the Night — Jorge Luis Borges
#585 · 23 Oct Split the Lark — R T Smith
#586 · 24 Oct The Anvil — Rudyard Kipling
#587 · 25 Oct Strugnell's Rubaiyat — Wendy Cope
#588 · 27 Oct Terence, this is stupid stuff — A E Housman
#589 · 27 Oct Sonnet Reversed — Rupert Brooke
#590 · 29 Oct Sonnet XLIII — Edna St Vincent Millay
#591 · 30 Oct Sonnet XIV — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#592 · 30 Oct Sonnet: England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#593 · 31 Oct The Hag — Robert Herrick
#594 · 1 Nov Overheard on a Salmarsh — Harold Monro
#595 · 2 Nov The Last Man — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
#596 · 3 Nov I Say I Say I Say — Simon Armitage
#597 · 4 Nov He wishes for the cloths of heaven — William Butler Yeats
#598 · 5 Nov For A Poet — Countee Cullen
#599 · 6 Nov Geometry — Rita Dove
#600 · 7 Nov The Mouse's Tale — Lewis Carroll
#601 · 8 Nov Hall and Knight — E V Rieu
#602 · 9 Nov Deep Sorriness Atonement Song — Glyn Maxwell
#603 · 10 Nov Marriages Are Made — Eunice deSouza
#604 · 11 Nov Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare — Edna St Vincent Millay
#605 · 13 Nov Saddest Poem — Pablo Neruda
#606 · 13 Nov God's Grandeur — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#607 · 14 Nov Ballad of the Canal — Phoebe Cary
#608 · 15 Nov The Spider's Web — E B White
#609 · 16 Nov Winged Man — Stephen Vincent Benét
#610 · 18 Nov The Lights of London — Louise Imogen Guiney
#611 · 18 Nov Winter — William Shakespeare
#612 · 19 Nov Love Letter — Sylvia Plath
#613 · 20 Nov In Westminster Abbey — John Betjeman
#614 · 22 Nov The pennycandystore beyond the El — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#615 · 22 Nov The Philosopher's Drinking Song — Monty Python
#616 · 23 Nov Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota — James Wright
#617 · 24 Nov The Cake That Drifts In Water — Ho Xuan Huong
#618 · 25 Nov The More Loving One — W H Auden
#619 · 26 Nov somewhere i have never travelled — e e cummings
#620 · 27 Nov Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird — Wallace Stevens
#621 · 29 Nov Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man — R S Thomas
#622 · 29 Nov The Ice-Cart — Wilfred Gibson
#623 · 30 Nov Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody — Adrian Mitchell
#624 · 1 Dec Gift — Leonard Cohen
#625 · 3 Dec The Sniffle — Ogden Nash
#626 · 3 Dec Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose — Edmond Rostand
#627 · 4 Dec Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank — Laurence Hope
#628 · 5 Dec The Dong with a Luminous Nose — Edward Lear
#629 · 7 Dec The Slave's Dream — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#630 · 8 Dec To Walter de la Mare — T S Eliot
#631 · 9 Dec Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam — John Lennon
#632 · 9 Dec I Wrote A Good Omelet — Nikki Giovanni
#633 · 10 Dec Odes: Book 1, Verse 11 — Horace
#634 · 11 Dec Phyllis is my only joy — Sir Charles Sedley
#635 · 12 Dec Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister — Robert Browning
#636 · 13 Dec Aaron Stark — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#637 · 15 Dec The Hug — Thom Gunn
#638 · 15 Dec Song of Perfect Propriety — Dorothy Parker
#639 · 17 Dec One Art — Elizabeth Bishop
#640 · 17 Dec Fairies — Marchette Gaylord Chute
#641 · 18 Dec The Road at My Door — William Butler Yeats
#642 · 20 Dec The Poetics of Desire — Rina Singh
#643 · 20 Dec The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon — J R R Tolkien
#644 · 22 Dec Patterns — Amy Lowell
#645 · 23 Dec Old Folks laugh — Maya Angelou
#646 · 24 Dec The North Wind Doth Blow — Anonymous
#647 · 25 Dec God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen — Trad
#648 · 26 Dec The January Man — Dave Goulder
#649 · 27 Dec A Song of the Weather — Michael Flanders
#650 · 28 Dec All You who Sleep Tonight — Vikram Seth
#651 · 29 Dec Myth — Muriel Rukeyser
#652 · 30 Dec The Cataract of Lodore — Robert Southey
#653 · 31 Dec Ring Out, Wild Bells — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2001 (323)

#654 · 1 Jan Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai — Omar Khayyam
#655 · 2 Jan No Second Troy — William Butler Yeats
#656 · 3 Jan Edward, Edward — Anonymous
#657 · 4 Jan The Dark and Turbulent Sea — Stephen Dobyns
#658 · 5 Jan Serenade — Oscar Wilde
#659 · 6 Jan Poem — William Carlos Williams
#660 · 7 Jan On A Night of Snow — Elizabeth Coatsworth
#661 · 8 Jan Jubilate Agno — Christopher Smart
#662 · 9 Jan Cat — Jibanananda Das
#663 · 10 Jan A Child's Nightmare — Robert Graves
#664 · 11 Jan Conceit — Mervyn Peake
#665 · 12 Jan Dreams — Robert Herrick
#666 · 14 Jan Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness — Alexander Pope
#667 · 15 Jan Reflections on Ice-Breaking — Ogden Nash
#668 · 15 Jan On Problems — Piet Hein
#669 · 16 Jan Epitaph on Charles II — John Wilmot
#670 · 17 Jan What's the Railroad to Me? — Henry David Thoreau
#671 · 18 Jan Lineage — Ted Hughes
#672 · 19 Jan Death — Thomas Hood
#673 · 20 Jan The Flower-School — Rabindranath Tagore
#674 · 21 Jan Aunt Jennifer's Tigers — Adrienne Rich
#675 · 23 Jan Comin' Thro the Rye — Robert Burns
#676 · 25 Jan Eating Poetry — Mark Strand
#677 · 25 Jan Villanelle — W H Auden
#678 · 26 Jan Mirror — Sylvia Plath
#679 · 27 Jan Maybe — Carl Sandburg
#680 · 29 Jan The Butterfly — Arun Kolatkar
#681 · 30 Jan The Secret Sits — Robert Frost
#682 · 30 Jan Advice to Women — Eunice deSouza
#683 · 31 Jan To Tu Fu from Shantung — Li Po
#684 · 1 Feb Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey — Hayden Carruth
#685 · 2 Feb The Old Ships — James Elroy Flecker
#686 · 3 Feb Nicholas Cricket — Joyce Maxner
#687 · 4 Feb Success is counted sweetest — Emily Dickinson
#688 · 5 Feb The Yak — Hilaire Belloc
#689 · 6 Feb Helen in Egypt — H D
#690 · 7 Feb Tell Brave Deeds of War — Stephen Crane
#691 · 8 Feb Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles — Billy Collins
#692 · 9 Feb The Messenger — H P Lovecraft
#693 · 11 Feb Strugnell's Haiku — Wendy Cope
#694 · 12 Feb True Love — Wislawa Szymborska
#695 · 12 Feb Beauty — John Masefield
#696 · 13 Feb Last Sonnet — John Keats
#697 · 14 Feb A Well Worn Story — Dorothy Parker
#698 · 15 Feb The Cremation of Sam McGee — Robert Service
#699 · 16 Feb Incident — Norman MacCaig
#700 · 16 Feb Outsong in the Jungle — Rudyard Kipling
#701 · 17 Feb Teeth — Spike Milligan
#702 · 19 Feb Night Is On The Downland — John Masefield
#703 · 19 Feb On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble — A E Housman
#704 · 20 Feb On His Queerness — Christopher Isherwood
#705 · 22 Feb A Likeness — Willa Sibert Cather
#706 · 22 Feb Villanelle — William Empson
#707 · 23 Feb The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner — Randall Jarrell
#708 · 24 Feb Five Songs - II — W H Auden
#709 · 25 Feb 100 Pipers — Trad
#710 · 26 Feb Vergissmeinnicht — Keith Douglas
#711 · 28 Feb I'm Nobody! Who are you? — Emily Dickinson
#712 · 28 Feb Haiku — Yosa Buson
#713 · 1 Mar Last Answers — Carl Sandburg
#714 · 3 Mar Night of the Scorpion — Nissim Ezekiel
#715 · 5 Mar The Blessed Damozel — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#716 · 5 Mar Warning — Jenny Joseph
#717 · 6 Mar The Wreck of the Hesperus — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#718 · 7 Mar The Destruction of Sennacherib — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#719 · 8 Mar Loch Lomond — Lady John Scott
#720 · 9 Mar The Dream of Eugene Aram — Thomas Hood
#721 · 10 Mar Marriage a la mode — John Dryden
#722 · 11 Mar The Day Lady Died — Frank O'Hara
#723 · 12 Mar Full Moon and Little Frieda — Ted Hughes
#724 · 13 Mar Hymn to Diana — Ben Jonson
#725 · 15 Mar Silver — Walter de la Mare
#726 · 15 Mar Above the Dock — T E Hulme
#727 · 16 Mar Milk for the Cat — Harold Monro
#728 · 19 Mar from The Dog Beneath The Skin — W H Auden
#729 · 19 Mar Accident in Art — Richard Hovey
#730 · 20 Mar Mending Wall — Robert Frost
#731 · 22 Mar A Ballad of John Nicholson — Sir Henry Newbolt
#732 · 23 Mar At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me — A P Herbert
#733 · 24 Mar Story-Time — Edgar Guest
#734 · 24 Mar In the Waiting Room — Elizabeth Bishop
#735 · 26 Mar Decalogue — Ambrose Bierce
#736 · 27 Mar The World was Young, the Mountains Green — J R R Tolkien
#737 · 28 Mar Writing — William Allingham
#738 · 28 Mar The Invitation — Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#739 · 29 Mar Song of Creation — Anonymous
#740 · 30 Mar The Villain — W H Davies
#741 · 1 Apr Reasons For Waiting — Ian Anderson
#742 · 2 Apr I Come and Stand at Every Door — Nazim Hikmet
#743 · 3 Apr Conquistador — Keith Reid
#744 · 4 Apr Joan of Arc — Leonard Cohen
#745 · 5 Apr Indiscipline — King Crimson
#746 · 7 Apr Dead Man's Dump — Isaac Rosenberg
#747 · 7 Apr The Player Piano — Randall Jarrell
#748 · 8 Apr Be Near Me — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
#749 · 9 Apr Parting — Li Po
#750 · 10 Apr The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam
#751 · 11 Apr Elegies — Guillevic
#752 · 12 Apr Overheard In An Asylum — Alfred Kreymborg
#753 · 13 Apr Delayed Action — Christian Morgenstern
#754 · 15 Apr Protocols — Vikram Seth
#755 · 15 Apr Gone Are The Days — Norman MacCaig
#756 · 16 Apr An Arundel Tomb — Philip Larkin
#757 · 17 Apr The Sunlight on the Garden — Louis MacNeice
#758 · 17 Apr Sea-Change — John Masefield
#759 · 18 Apr A Complaint — William Wordsworth
#760 · 20 Apr The Name — Alexander Pushkin
#761 · 21 Apr Desiderata — Max Ehrmannn
#762 · 22 Apr Miranda — W H Auden
#763 · 23 Apr Love Without Hope — Robert Graves
#764 · 24 Apr A Subaltern's Love Song — John Betjeman
#765 · 25 Apr For The Fallen — Laurence Binyon
#766 · 26 Apr The Grey Squirrel — Humbert Wolfe
#767 · 27 Apr A Scroll Painting — Arthur Yap
#768 · 29 Apr Theology — Ted Hughes
#769 · 30 Apr what if a much of a which of a wind — e e cummings
#770 · 30 Apr A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever — John Keats
#771 · 1 May The Divine Image — William Blake
#772 · 5 May Sadness of Summer — Stéphane Mallarmé
#773 · 5 May Untitled — Bhartrihari
#774 · 6 May Ray — Hayden Carruth
#775 · 7 May The Maldive Shark — Herman Melville
#776 · 8 May To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough — Robert Burns
#777 · 9 May Upon Julia's Clothes — Robert Herrick
#778 · 10 May Incident of the French Camp — Robert Browning
#779 · 11 May Fire and Ice — Robert Frost
#780 · 13 May The Vagabond — Robert Louis Stevenson
#781 · 14 May The Law of the Yukon — Robert Service
#782 · 15 May National Identity — F R Scott
#783 · 16 May Northwest Passage — Stan Rogers
#784 · 17 May To a Millionaire — Archibald Lampman
#785 · 24 May One Trick Pony — Paul Simon
#786 · 20 May Postcard — Margaret Atwood
#787 · 20 May Sea-Gulls — E J Pratt
#788 · 21 May I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name — John Updike
#789 · 22 May The Social Plan — Stephen Leacock
#790 · 23 May Salutation — Ezra Pound
#791 · 25 May After — Lizette Woodworth Reese
#792 · 25 May The Beautiful Lie — Sheenagh Pugh
#793 · 27 May No Road — Philip Larkin
#794 · 28 May In the Quiet Night — Li Po
#795 · 29 May The Perils of Modern Living — Harold P Furth
#796 · 30 May Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) — John Donne
#797 · 31 May Big Whorls Have Little Whorls — Lewis F Richardson
#798 · 1 Jun V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick — John Updike
#799 · 2 Jun Mr Toad — Kenneth Grahame
#800 · 3 Jun In the Microscope — Miroslav Holub
#801 · 3 Jun A mosquito was heard to complain — Dr D D Perrin
#802 · 5 Jun Haiku — Matsuo Basho
#803 · 6 Jun The Word of God — Catherine Faber
#804 · 7 Jun The Looking Glass — Kamala Das
#805 · 8 Jun Rigid Body Sings — James Maxwell
#806 · 9 Jun Nearer, my God, to Thee — Sarah Flower Adams
#807 · 10 Jun Working Girls — Redgum
#808 · 11 Jun Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV) — William Shakespeare
#809 · 12 Jun Jim — Hilaire Belloc
#810 · 13 Jun Beatrix is Three — Adrian Mitchell
#811 · 13 Jun The Insect God — Edward Gorey
#812 · 15 Jun Sex Without Love — Sharon Olds
#813 · 16 Jun Weathers — Thomas Hardy
#814 · 18 Jun Parting at Morning — Robert Browning
#815 · 19 Jun Mulch — Peter Meinke
#816 · 20 Jun I'm Explaining a Few Things — Pablo Neruda
#817 · 20 Jun Grown-up — Edna St Vincent Millay
#818 · 22 Jun Television — Roald Dahl
#819 · 24 Jun I am listening to Istanbul — Orhan Veli
#820 · 25 Jun Love bade me welcome — George Herbert
#821 · 25 Jun The Mill — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#822 · 27 Jun I Want To Write — Margaret Walker
#823 · 28 Jun Astro-Gymnastics — Piet Hein
#824 · 29 Jun The Mysterious Naked Man — Alden Nowlan
#825 · 30 Jun Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#826 · 2 Jul Self-Abandonment — Li Po
#827 · 3 Jul Strawberries — Edwin Morgan
#828 · 3 Jul Where Go the Boats? — Robert Louis Stevenson
#829 · 5 Jul It dropped so low in my regard — Emily Dickinson
#830 · 6 Jul The Question — Wilfred Gibson
#831 · 7 Jul The Soldiers at Lauro — Spike Milligan
#832 · 9 Jul Love Minus Zero / No Limit — Bob Dylan
#833 · 9 Jul Washing the Dishes — Christopher Morley
#834 · 10 Jul Soup — Carl Sandburg
#835 · 11 Jul There Was a Little Girl — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#836 · 12 Jul In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic — Stephen Spender
#837 · 14 Jul Child of Europe — Czeslaw Milosz
#838 · 15 Jul They Say — Ben Okri
#839 · 16 Jul A Musical Instrument — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#840 · 16 Jul The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection — Robert Graves
#841 · 17 Jul Emptiness — Jalaluddin Rumi
#842 · 18 Jul To a Goose — Robert Southey
#843 · 19 Jul Love in a Bathtub — Sujata Bhatt
#844 · 20 Jul The Hippopotamus — Oliver Herford
#845 · 21 Jul Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich — Shel Silverstein
#846 · 22 Jul The Hippopotamus — T S Eliot
#847 · 23 Jul On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess — Rupert Brooke
#848 · 24 Jul The Hippopotamus — Ogden Nash
#849 · 26 Jul Sir Beelzebub — Edith Sitwell
#850 · 26 Jul No, I'll not take the half... — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#851 · 27 Jul The Skater — Charles G D Roberts
#852 · 29 Jul Mariana in the Moated Grange — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#853 · 30 Jul Stew Much — Sukumar Ray
#854 · 31 Jul Very Like a Whale — Ogden Nash
#855 · 1 Aug Lady Xi — Wang Wei
#856 · 3 Aug Epigram — Martial
#857 · 4 Aug Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' — Algernon Charles Swinburne
#858 · 4 Aug The Waste Land (Part V) — T S Eliot
#859 · 7 Aug Waste Land Limericks — Wendy Cope
#860 · 8 Aug Sonnet: Love Is Not All — Edna St Vincent Millay
#861 · 9 Aug Spanish Dancer — Rainer Maria Rilke
#862 · 10 Aug Pretty Words — Elinor Wylie
#863 · 11 Aug Frogs — Norman MacCaig
#864 · 11 Aug Snow — Louis MacNeice
#865 · 12 Aug Valentine — Carol Ann Duffy
#866 · 13 Aug The Canonization — John Donne
#867 · 14 Aug Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) — Cream
#868 · 15 Aug Partition — W H Auden
#869 · 18 Aug Scrabble — Louis McKee
#870 · 21 Aug No worst, there is none — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#871 · 22 Aug I felt a Funeral, in my Brain — Emily Dickinson
#872 · 22 Aug The House on the Hill — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#873 · 24 Aug Winter Evening — Archibald Lampman
#874 · 24 Aug Sometimes — Sheenagh Pugh
#875 · 27 Aug 221B — Vincent Starrett
#876 · 28 Aug I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver — Louis Alexander MacKay
#877 · 29 Aug I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell — Tom Brown
#878 · 30 Aug Frustration — Dorothy Parker
#879 · 30 Aug The Mad Philosopher — Ambrose Bierce
#880 · 1 Sep The Sergeant's Weddin' — Rudyard Kipling
#881 · 2 Sep The Moon and the Yew tree — Sylvia Plath
#882 · 3 Sep Wind — Ted Hughes
#883 · 6 Sep Personal Helicon — Seamus Heaney
#884 · 8 Sep The Day is Done — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#885 · 10 Sep Night Vision — Suzanne Vega
#886 · 10 Sep Maiden Name — Philip Larkin
#887 · 11 Sep Beat! Beat! Drums! — Walt Whitman
#888 · 12 Sep A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#889 · 13 Sep September 1, 1939 — W H Auden
#890 · 16 Sep All Along The Watch-Tower — Bob Dylan
#891 · 17 Sep A Doubt If It Be Us — Emily Dickinson
#892 · 18 Sep Stupid Pencil Maker — Shel Silverstein
#893 · 18 Sep Wash of Cold River — H D
#894 · 20 Sep Watch Your Step - I'm Drenched — Adrian Mitchell
#895 · 20 Sep August 1968 — W H Auden
#896 · 22 Sep The Kraken — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#897 · 23 Sep Grendel — Anonymous
#898 · 25 Sep Beautiful Soup — Lewis Carroll
#899 · 24 Sep The Diatonic Dittymunch — Jack Prelutsky
#900 · 26 Sep Ballad: The Sorcerer's Song — W S Gilbert
#901 · 27 Sep oh yes — Charles Bukowski
#902 · 29 Sep The Book of Pilgrimage, II, 22 — Rainer Maria Rilke
#903 · 29 Sep Leviathan — Anonymous
#904 · 1 Oct The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina — Miller Williams
#905 · 2 Oct I will put Chaos into fourteen lines — Edna St Vincent Millay
#906 · 3 Oct To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train — Frances Cornford
#907 · 5 Oct Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad — Felix Jung
#908 · 6 Oct Haiku — Yosa Buson
#909 · 7 Oct The Limerick Packs Laughs Anatomical — Anonymous
#910 · 8 Oct On the Grasshopper and the Cricket — John Keats
#911 · 10 Oct The Traveled Man — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#912 · 12 Oct The Waking — Theodore Roethke
#913 · 13 Oct In Time of War, XII — W H Auden
#914 · 13 Oct Tit for Tat — Christopher Morley
#915 · 15 Oct The Lovers — Phoebe Cary
#916 · 17 Oct Question and Answer in the Mountains — Li Po
#917 · 17 Oct A Considerable Speck — Robert Frost
#918 · 19 Oct John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore — William Butler Yeats
#919 · 19 Oct The Fairies — William Allingham
#920 · 21 Oct The Erl-King — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#921 · 22 Oct Charlie Freak — Steely Dan
#922 · 22 Oct What Father Knows — Edgar Guest
#923 · 24 Oct Leave-Taking — Algernon Charles Swinburne
#924 · 24 Oct Christian — Ambrose Bierce
#925 · 26 Oct Candlesong — Lee Tzu Pheng
#926 · 27 Oct Dirge Without Music — Edna St Vincent Millay
#927 · 28 Oct I'm not saying anything against Alexander — Bertolt Brecht
#928 · 29 Oct Quiescent, a Person Sits Heart and Soul — Ring Lardner
#929 · 31 Oct Synchronicity II — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner
#930 · 1 Nov Town Called Malice — Paul Weller
#931 · 2 Nov Proud Maisie — Sir Walter Scott
#932 · 2 Nov Fast Food — Richard Thompson
#933 · 5 Nov Mother's Little Helper — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
#934 · 6 Nov Blackberry-picking — Seamus Heaney
#935 · 6 Nov The Lobster Quadrille — Lewis Carroll
#936 · 9 Nov Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part (Idea: LXI) — Michael Drayton
#937 · 10 Nov The Look — Sara Teasdale
#938 · 11 Nov Everything Changes — Cicely Herbert
#939 · 11 Nov Channel Firing — Thomas Hardy
#940 · 12 Nov The Palace — Rudyard Kipling
#941 · 13 Nov Clenched Soul — Pablo Neruda
#942 · 14 Nov Death the Leveller — James Shirley
#943 · 16 Nov So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnets XXI) — William Shakespeare
#944 · 16 Nov Rioupéroux — James Elroy Flecker
#945 · 18 Nov O sweet spontaneous — e e cummings
#946 · 20 Nov Vitaï Lampada — Sir Henry Newbolt
#947 · 20 Nov Ballad of a Homeless Bat — John Kendall
#948 · 21 Nov Grand Rapids Cricket Club — Julia A Moore
#949 · 23 Nov Brahma — Andrew Lang
#950 · 23 Nov The cricket sang — Emily Dickinson
#951 · 25 Nov Wife Poem — Hayden Carruth
#952 · 26 Nov Verity — Drummond Allison
#953 · 30 Nov Parable of the Madman — Friedrich Nietzsche
#954 · 30 Nov Within You Without You — George Harrison
#955 · 4 Dec Gus: The Theatre Cat — T S Eliot
#956 · 6 Dec Ashes of Life — Edna St Vincent Millay
#957 · 8 Dec Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind — Thomas Wyatt
#958 · 10 Dec The Bookworm — Anonymous
#959 · 10 Dec The Ballad of Sally in our Alley — Henry Carey
#960 · 12 Dec The Prologue to 'Sweeney Todd' — Stephen Sondheim
#961 · 13 Dec The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' — Agha Shahid Ali
#962 · 13 Dec The Idiot Boy — Rudyard Kipling
#963 · 16 Dec Concerto for Double Bass — John Fuller
#964 · 16 Dec How Doth the Little Crocodile — Lewis Carroll
#965 · 18 Dec Chain Lightning — Steely Dan
#966 · 19 Dec Sit — Vikram Seth
#967 · 19 Dec Wynken, Blynken, and Nod — Eugene Field
#968 · 21 Dec Grackles, Goodbye — Robert Penn Warren
#969 · 23 Dec Long Distance II — Tony Harrison
#970 · 24 Dec The Kerry Christmas Carol — Sigerson Clifford
#971 · 26 Dec Raglan Road — Patrick Kavanagh
#972 · 27 Dec The Beginning — Rupert Brooke
#973 · 28 Dec Reveille — A E Housman
#974 · 29 Dec Donal Og — Anonymous
#975 · 30 Dec Those Winter Sundays — Robert Hayden
#976 · 31 Dec Chapter Heading — Ernest Hemingway

2002 (159)

#977 · 1 Jan The Darkling Thrush — Thomas Hardy
#978 · 2 Jan Cinderella — Anne Sexton
#979 · 3 Jan The Parable of the Old Man and the Young — Wilfred Owen
#980 · 6 Jan The March of the Dead — Robert Service
#981 · 9 Jan The Band Played Waltzing Matilda — Eric Bogle
#982 · 11 Jan What We Heard About the Japanese — Rachel Rose
#983 · 16 Jan The General Public — Stephen Vincent Benét
#984 · 17 Jan On the Beach at Night — Walt Whitman
#985 · 18 Jan Once by the Pacific — Robert Frost
#986 · 19 Jan A Grave — Marianne Moore
#987 · 21 Jan Prayer — Carol Ann Duffy
#988 · 23 Jan The Idea of Order at Key West — Wallace Stevens
#989 · 24 Jan The Lotos-Eaters — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#990 · 27 Jan Sea Calm — Langston Hughes
#991 · 29 Jan Seascape — Stephen Spender
#992 · 30 Jan Symphony in Yellow — Oscar Wilde
#993 · 6 Feb Midsummer, Tobago — Derek Walcott
#994 · 7 Feb The Gift Outright — Robert Frost
#995 · 8 Feb Come Together — John Lennon
#996 · 10 Feb The Little Boy and the Old Man — Shel Silverstein
#997 · 11 Feb The Passionate Shepherd to His Love — Christopher Marlowe
#998 · 12 Feb A blade of grass — Brian Patten
#999 · 13 Feb Casabianca — Elizabeth Bishop
#1000 · 14 Feb Casabianca — Felicia Hemans
#1001 · 15 Feb The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd — Sir Walter Raleigh
#1002 · 17 Feb The Bait — John Donne
#1003 · 19 Feb The Connoisseuse of Slugs — Sharon Olds
#1004 · 20 Feb Finding a Long Gray Hair — Jane Kenyon
#1005 · 21 Feb Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell
#1006 · 23 Feb Dream Deferred — Langston Hughes
#1007 · 24 Feb Abide with me — Henry F Lyte
#1008 · 25 Feb Cat — J R R Tolkien
#1009 · 27 Feb Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night (Delia LIV) — Samuel Daniel
#1010 · 28 Feb Cats — A S J Tessimond
#1011 · 6 Mar Easter, 1916 — William Butler Yeats
#1012 · 4 Mar Nothing Gold Can Stay — Robert Frost
#1013 · 7 Mar Carentan O Carentan — Louis Simpson
#1014 · 10 Mar A Sea Dirge — Lewis Carroll
#1015 · 11 Mar Corsica — Gerard Bacher
#1016 · 12 Mar Faces in the Street — Henry Lawson
#1017 · 13 Mar Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" — Franklin P Adams
#1018 · 18 Mar At Stratford-Upon-Avon — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#1019 · 19 Mar A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon — Elizabeth Jennings
#1020 · 22 Mar A Prayer For My Daughter — William Butler Yeats
#1021 · 23 Mar Matsushima — Matsuo Basho
#1022 · 25 Mar Buckingham Palace — A A Milne
#1023 · 25 Mar The Soldiers of our Queen — W S Gilbert
#1024 · 27 Mar Faint Music — Walter de la Mare
#1025 · 28 Mar Thais — Newman Levy
#1026 · 29 Mar The Prodigal Son — Rudyard Kipling
#1027 · 31 Mar Greensleeves — Anonymous
#1028 · 1 Apr The Diplomatic Platypus — Patrick Barrington
#1029 · 3 Apr Prayer (to the sun above the clouds) — Piet Hein
#1030 · 5 Apr Everyone Sang — Siegfried Sassoon
#1031 · 6 Apr Wild Strawberries — Robert Graves
#1032 · 8 Apr Words — Edward Thomas
#1033 · 8 Apr What the Bullet sang — Bret Harte
#1034 · 10 Apr Pigtail — Tadeusz Ròzewicz
#1035 · 12 Apr The Hand That Signed The Paper — Dylan Thomas
#1036 · 12 Apr Range Finding — Robert Frost
#1037 · 16 Apr The Last Laugh — Wilfred Owen
#1038 · 19 Apr Epitaph on a tyrant — W H Auden
#1039 · 20 Apr Prayer before Birth — Louis MacNeice
#1040 · 21 Apr On Being Asked for a War Poem — William Butler Yeats
#1041 · 24 Apr The Schooner 'Flight' — Derek Walcott
#1042 · 22 Apr I Sit and Look Out — Walt Whitman
#1043 · 26 Apr The Steeple-Jack — Marianne Moore
#1044 · 30 Apr Contagion — Spike Milligan
#1045 · 2 May The Body Reclining — Grace Nichols
#1046 · 3 May Sailing — Henrik Nordbrandt
#1047 · 4 May Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire — Rupert Brooke
#1048 · 6 May Black Rook in Rainy Weather — Sylvia Plath
#1049 · 8 May Down With Fanatics! — Roger Woddis
#1050 · 9 May Devonshire Street W.1 — John Betjeman
#1051 · 10 May Happiness — A A Milne
#1052 · 14 May Angel Wings — Brian Patten
#1053 · 15 May Tears of a Clown — William 'Smokey' Robinson
#1054 · 16 May Barmaid — William Ernest Henley
#1055 · 20 May Bleezer's Ice Cream — Jack Prelutsky
#1056 · 21 May Waiting for the Barbarians — Constantine Cavafy
#1057 · 23 May Atavism — William Stafford
#1058 · 30 May A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover — John Wilmot
#1059 · 2 Jun An Unusual Cat-Poem — Wendy Cope
#1060 · 6 Jun The World and I — Laura Riding
#1061 · 20 Jun Thomas Hood — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#1062 · 21 Jun House on a Cliff — Louis MacNeice
#1063 · 22 Jun Named — Stephen Dunn
#1064 · 23 Jun Travel — Edna St Vincent Millay
#1065 · 24 Jun The Cable Ship — Harry Edmund Martinson
#1066 · 25 Jun Let Evening Come — Jane Kenyon
#1067 · 26 Jun On A Wedding Anniversary — Dylan Thomas
#1068 · 27 Jun Lovers and a Reflection — Charles S Calverley
#1069 · 29 Jun The Leaden-Eyed — Vachel Lindsay
#1070 · 2 Jul Wires — Philip Larkin
#1071 · 10 Jul Coffee In Heaven — John Agard
#1072 · 11 Jul next to of course god america i — e e cummings
#1073 · 12 Jul The Red Cockatoo — Po Chü-i
#1074 · 15 Jul The Consecration Of Coffee — Rafael Jesús González
#1075 · 19 Jul Dolor — Theodore Roethke
#1076 · 21 Jul Meeting Poets — Eunice deSouza
#1077 · 15 Aug The Plea of the Simla Dancers — Rudyard Kipling
#1078 · 20 Aug Water Lilies — Sara Teasdale
#1079 · 21 Aug mehitabel and her kittens — Don Marquis
#1080 · 22 Aug The Lama — Ogden Nash
#1081 · 27 Aug The Dilettante: A Modern Type — Paul Laurence Dunbar
#1082 · 29 Aug Under Which Lyre — W H Auden
#1083 · 30 Aug Shakesperian Readings - 3 — Phoebe Cary
#1084 · 1 Sep Sometimes it Happens — Brian Patten
#1085 · 2 Sep Death of a Friendship — Harry Guest
#1086 · 4 Sep The Floor and the Ceiling — William Jay Smith
#1087 · 5 Sep A Poison Tree — William Blake
#1088 · 6 Sep The Two Friends — Norman MacCaig
#1089 · 7 Sep By Heart — John Thomas
#1090 · 9 Sep Unfortunate Coincidence — Dorothy Parker
#1091 · 10 Sep Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray
#1092 · 13 Sep What Love is Like — Piet Hein
#1093 · 23 Sep Variations on the Word "Sleep" — Margaret Atwood
#1094 · 24 Sep On the Nature of Love — Rabindranath Tagore
#1095 · 29 Sep Litany — Billy Collins
#1096 · 1 Oct On Turning Ten — Billy Collins
#1097 · 2 Oct The End — A A Milne
#1098 · 3 Oct Indoor Games near Newbury — John Betjeman
#1099 · 4 Oct Happiness — Raymond Carver
#1100 · 8 Oct A Good Poem — Roger McGough
#1101 · 9 Oct To Brooklyn Bridge — Hart Crane
#1102 · 10 Oct On a New Year's Eve — June Jordan
#1103 · 12 Oct Prospice — Robert Browning
#1104 · 13 Oct Untitled — Fernando Pessoa
#1105 · 19 Oct Sunrise Along Shore — Lucy Maud Montgomery
#1106 · 26 Oct Locksley Hall — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#1107 · 28 Oct Separation — W S Merwin
#1108 · 29 Oct Seven Laments for the War-Dead — Yehuda Amichai
#1109 · 30 Oct Porphyria's Lover — Robert Browning
#1110 · 16 Nov My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine) — Maj Gen WH Rupertus
#1111 · 17 Nov The Common Cormorant — Christopher Isherwood
#1112 · 18 Nov Bilbo's Last Song — J R R Tolkien
#1113 · 19 Nov The Age Demanded — Ernest Hemingway
#1114 · 20 Nov Sandinista Avioncitos — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#1115 · 21 Nov Shine, Perishing Republic — Robinson Jeffers
#1116 · 23 Nov Transit — Richard Wilbur
#1117 · 25 Nov Home-thoughts, from the Sea — Robert Browning
#1118 · 26 Nov Octopus — Arthur Clement Hilton
#1119 · 27 Nov The Pumpkin — John Greenleaf Whittier
#1120 · 2 Dec The Law Locks Up the Man or Woman — Anonymous
#1121 · 3 Dec H.M.S. Foudroyant — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#1122 · 6 Dec Hope — Edith Sodergran
#1123 · 8 Dec Untitled (Epitaph for Lord Castlereagh) — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#1124 · 10 Dec The Green Eye of the Yellow God — J Milton Hayes
#1125 · 11 Dec Waltzing Matilda — A B "Banjo" Paterson
#1126 · 12 Dec The Shooting of Dan McGrew — Robert Service
#1127 · 13 Dec Gunga Din — Rudyard Kipling
#1128 · 14 Dec Snowball — Shel Silverstein
#1129 · 15 Dec Farewell — Agha Shahid Ali
#1130 · 16 Dec Marginalia — Billy Collins
#1131 · 19 Dec Adam's Complaint — Denise Levertov
#1132 · 20 Dec if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) — e e cummings
#1133 · 21 Dec Death News — Allen Ginsberg
#1134 · 22 Dec In the Poppy Field — James Stephens
#1135 · 31 Dec Song at the Year's Turning — R S Thomas

2003 (280)

#1136 · 1 Jan Untitled — Issa
#1137 · 2 Jan The Smoking Frog — Robert Service
#1138 · 8 Jan Luthien Tinuviel — J R R Tolkien
#1139 · 9 Jan Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes — Billy Collins
#1140 · 9 Jan What One Approves, Another Scorns — Arthur Guiterman
#1141 · 11 Jan I So Liked Spring — Charlotte Mew
#1142 · 12 Jan In Paris with You — James Fenton
#1143 · 13 Jan Causa Belli — Andrew Motion
#1144 · 14 Jan The Stare's Nest by My Window — William Butler Yeats
#1145 · 15 Jan War Song of the Saracens — James Elroy Flecker
#1146 · 16 Jan The Young British Soldier — Rudyard Kipling
#1147 · 17 Jan The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah — James Fenton
#1148 · 18 Jan Misty — Ruth Padel
#1149 · 19 Jan Don't Go Far Off — Pablo Neruda
#1150 · 20 Jan The Instruction Manual — John Ashbery
#1151 · 21 Jan The Death of Emmett Till — Bob Dylan
#1152 · 22 Jan Lament for Sion — Lewys Glyn Cothi
#1153 · 23 Jan Meeting the British — Paul Muldoon
#1154 · 24 Jan Address to a Haggis — Robert Burns
#1155 · 25 Jan Betrayal — A S J Tessimond
#1156 · 26 Jan A Psychological Tip — Piet Hein
#1157 · 27 Jan Love Sonnet XI — Pablo Neruda
#1158 · 28 Jan Music — Stephen Vincent Benét
#1159 · 29 Jan A Night Abroad — Du Fu
#1160 · 30 Jan Ghazal (Untitled) — Ghalib
#1161 · 31 Jan Ghazal of the Lagoon — John Drury
#1162 · 1 Feb Almighty Ruler of the All — Robert A Heinlein
#1163 · 2 Feb The Song Of The Dead — Rudyard Kipling
#1164 · 3 Feb Summoned by Bells (excerpt) — John Betjeman
#1165 · 4 Feb The Ballad Of William Bloat — Raymond Calvert
#1166 · 5 Feb My Lost Youth — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#1167 · 6 Feb Wallace (extract) — Blind Harry
#1168 · 7 Feb The Good-morrow — John Donne
#1169 · 9 Feb Poetry — Marianne Moore
#1170 · 10 Feb Annabel Lee — Edgar Allan Poe
#1171 · 12 Feb The Ballad of Yukon Jake — Edward E Paramore Jr
#1172 · 13 Feb Scotland Small? — Hugh MacDiarmid
#1173 · 14 Feb Splendour in the Grass — William Wordsworth
#1174 · 15 Feb No One So Much As You — Edward Thomas
#1175 · 16 Feb Broadway — Mark Doty
#1176 · 17 Feb Visitor — Les Murray
#1177 · 18 Feb The Way I Am — Eminem
#1178 · 19 Feb Mmenson — Edward Kamau Braithwaite
#1179 · 20 Feb The Blind Men and the Elephant — John Godfrey Saxe
#1180 · 21 Feb Not Waving But Drowning — Stevie Smith
#1181 · 22 Feb Elephants Are Different to Different People — Carl Sandburg
#1182 · 24 Feb In Search of Cinderella — Shel Silverstein
#1183 · 25 Feb Out of the East — James Fenton
#1184 · 27 Feb In California During the Gulf War — Denise Levertov
#1185 · 1 Mar Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) — Traditional
#1186 · 2 Mar This is the Horror that, Night After Night — Gerald Gould
#1187 · 3 Mar Sadness in Spring — Anonymous
#1188 · 4 Mar The Mother — Padraic H Pearse
#1189 · 5 Mar Survivors — Siegfried Sassoon
#1190 · 6 Mar Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd — Mark Twain
#1191 · 7 Mar A Farewell — Charles Kingsley
#1192 · 8 Mar Adlestrop — Edward Thomas
#1193 · 9 Mar Cherrylog Road — James Dickey
#1194 · 10 Mar Children — Kahlil Gibran
#1195 · 11 Mar Advice to a Prophet — Richard Wilbur
#1196 · 12 Mar The ABC — Spike Milligan
#1197 · 13 Mar Each in his own Tongue — William Herbert Carruth
#1198 · 14 Mar The Tree of Song — Sara Teasdale
#1199 · 15 Mar The Touch Of The Master's Hand — Myra Brooks Welch
#1200 · 16 Mar A Man Said to the Universe — Stephen Crane
#1201 · 17 Mar Hap — Thomas Hardy
#1202 · 18 Mar A First on TV — David Ignatow
#1203 · 19 Mar Last Poems #13 — Rabindranath Tagore
#1204 · 20 Mar To Thine Own Self Be True — William Shakespeare
#1205 · 24 Mar Love and Tensor Algebra — Stanislaw Lem
#1206 · 24 Mar Margaritae Sorori — William Ernest Henley
#1207 · 25 Mar Hamlet — Spike Milligan
#1208 · 27 Mar Untitled — Yamabe no Akahito
#1209 · 27 Mar She Speaks of Death — Barbara Pescan
#1210 · 28 Mar What Do I Care? — Sara Teasdale
#1211 · 30 Mar Disabled — Wilfred Owen
#1212 · 31 Mar Deadline — Barbara Kingsolver
#1213 · 1 Apr Paradise Lost (excerpt) — John Milton
#1214 · 2 Apr On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam — Hayden Carruth
#1215 · 3 Apr Regime Change — Andrew Motion
#1216 · 4 Apr Sonnet — Billy Collins
#1217 · 6 Apr On the Birth of his Son — Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
#1218 · 7 Apr Yasmin — James Elroy Flecker
#1219 · 8 Apr Luke Havergal — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#1220 · 9 Apr The Village Schoolmaster — Oliver Goldsmith
#1221 · 10 Apr Woman to Man — Judith Wright
#1222 · 11 Apr Brother Mick — Sigerson Clifford
#1223 · 12 Apr A Vow — Allen Ginsberg
#1224 · 13 Apr The Wild Iris — Louise Glück
#1225 · 14 Apr To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence — James Elroy Flecker
#1226 · 15 Apr To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems — Oscar Wilde
#1227 · 16 Apr Here Dead We Lie — A E Housman
#1228 · 17 Apr Learn by Heart This Poem of Mine — George Faludy
#1229 · 18 Apr You Whose Name — Czeslaw Milosz
#1230 · 19 Apr Nude Descending a Staircase — X J Kennedy
#1231 · 20 Apr The Gardener (LXXXV) — Rabindranath Tagore
#1232 · 21 Apr The Best School of All — Sir Henry Newbolt
#1233 · 22 Apr Ballad of Hector in Hades — Edwin Muir
#1234 · 23 Apr Peonies — Mary Oliver
#1235 · 24 Apr Rose — William Carlos Williams
#1236 · 25 Apr Self-Improvement — Tony Hoagland
#1237 · 26 Apr No Images — William Waring Cuney
#1238 · 27 Apr This Will Not Win Him — Jalaluddin Rumi
#1239 · 28 Apr Hospital Haiku — Dr K D Beernink
#1240 · 29 Apr The Night has a Thousand Eyes — Francis William Bourdillon
#1241 · 30 Apr Stately as a Galleon — Joyce Grenfell
#1242 · 1 May Cain and Abel — Paul Durcan
#1243 · 2 May Behold — David Lee
#1244 · 3 May Dust — Rupert Brooke
#1245 · 4 May Persimmons — Li-Young Lee
#1246 · 5 May the lost baby poem — Lucille Clifton
#1247 · 6 May Dreadful — Shel Silverstein
#1248 · 7 May The Cold Within — James Patrick Kinney
#1249 · 8 May The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm — Wallace Stevens
#1250 · 9 May Brave World — Tony Hoagland
#1251 · 10 May The Rider at the Gate — John Masefield
#1252 · 12 May The Dream — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#1253 · 13 May Dream-Pedlary — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
#1254 · 14 May A Dream at Night — Mei Yao Ch'en
#1255 · 15 May What He Said — Cempulappeyanirar
#1256 · 16 May The Pardon — Richard Wilbur
#1257 · 17 May The Birth of Shaka — Oswald Mtshali
#1258 · 18 May Buddha And The Goddess — Rick Fields
#1259 · 19 May Untitled — Matsuo Basho
#1260 · 24 May Anyone lived in a pretty how town — e e cummings
#1261 · 25 May A Love Poem — Sivakami Velliangiri
#1262 · 26 May The Carpenter's Son — A E Housman
#1263 · 27 May Morning XXVII — Pablo Neruda
#1264 · 30 May The Santa Fe Trail — Vachel Lindsay
#1265 · 31 May A Woman Well Set Free! How Free I Am — Sumangalamata
#1266 · 1 Jun Research in Jiangsu Province — Vikram Seth
#1267 · 2 Jun A Contribution to Statistics — Wislawa Szymborska
#1268 · 3 Jun Twenty Tons of TNT — Michael Flanders
#1269 · 4 Jun The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) — Dionysius Cato
#1270 · 5 Jun To A Sad Daughter — Michael Ondaatje
#1271 · 7 Jun Poetry — Pablo Neruda
#1272 · 9 Jun Birches — Robert Frost
#1273 · 10 Jun Love among the Ruins — Robert Browning
#1274 · 11 Jun The Time I've Lost in Wooing — Thomas Moore
#1275 · 12 Jun The Wind and the Sea — Paul Lawrence Dunbar
#1276 · 13 Jun A Dream Pang — Robert Frost
#1277 · 14 Jun Come-By-Chance — A B "Banjo" Paterson
#1278 · 15 Jun From the Wreck — Adam Lindsay Gordon
#1279 · 16 Jun Untitled — Plato
#1280 · 17 Jun Lepanto — G K Chesterton
#1281 · 19 Jun Night Mail — W H Auden
#1282 · 20 Jun Snake — D H Lawrence
#1283 · 21 Jun The Discovery of Daily Experience — William Stafford
#1284 · 22 Jun A Hillside Thaw — Robert Frost
#1285 · 23 Jun Etiquette — W S Gilbert
#1286 · 24 Jun Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle — John Hay
#1287 · 25 Jun A Fable — J H Frere
#1288 · 26 Jun Let's be discreet — Amanda Townsend
#1289 · 27 Jun The Lie — Sir Walter Raleigh
#1290 · 28 Jun My Father's Love Letters — Yusef Komunyakaa
#1291 · 30 Jun The List of Most Difficult Words — Len Roberts
#1292 · 1 Jul The Auk and the Orchid — Robert Williams Wood
#1293 · 2 Jul Beloved Dust — Edna St Vincent Millay
#1294 · 3 Jul The reticent volcano keeps — Emily Dickinson
#1295 · 4 Jul For the Union Dead — Robert Lowell
#1296 · 6 Jul Evening — Gulzar
#1297 · 7 Jul The Birthright — Eiluned Lewis
#1298 · 8 Jul Miss Gee — W H Auden
#1299 · 9 Jul Of You — Norman MacCaig
#1300 · 10 Jul The Workman's Friend — Flann O'Brien
#1301 · 14 Jul Meeting Point — Louis MacNeice
#1302 · 16 Jul Opening Words — Denise Levertov
#1303 · 17 Jul Similarity — Piet Hein
#1304 · 20 Jul Incident — Countee Cullen
#1305 · 21 Jul Poem in Thanks — Thomas Lux
#1306 · 22 Oct A Cranefly in September — Ted Hughes
#1307 · 22 Jul The Song of the Little Hunter — Rudyard Kipling
#1308 · 25 Jul A Forsaken Garden — Algernon Charles Swinburne
#1309 · 26 Jul Skunk Hour — Robert Lowell
#1310 · 27 Jul I am Very Bothered — Simon Armitage
#1311 · 28 Jul Just a Smack at Auden — William Empson
#1312 · 29 Jul Ordinance on Arrival — Naomi Lazard
#1313 · 30 Jul Mathematical Problem — Bhaskaracharya
#1314 · 31 Jul Math Is Beautiful and So Are You — Becky Dennison Sakellariou
#1315 · 1 Aug Mathematicians at Work — Judith Saunders
#1316 · 2 Aug Lobachevsky — Tom Lehrer
#1317 · 4 Aug Richard Cory — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#1318 · 5 Aug The Wind — Vikram Seth
#1319 · 6 Aug Goats and Monkeys — Derek Walcott
#1320 · 7 Aug The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#1321 · 8 Aug Ramon — Bret Harte
#1322 · 9 Aug Climbing You — Erica Jong
#1323 · 12 Aug Strugnell's Sonnets (VI) — Wendy Cope
#1324 · 13 Aug The Telephone — Robert Frost
#1325 · 15 Aug Forced March — Miklos Radnoti
#1326 · 16 Aug Bearhug — Michael Ondaatje
#1327 · 17 Aug What We Might Be, What We Are — X J Kennedy
#1328 · 18 Aug You cannot put a fire out — Emily Dickinson
#1329 · 19 Aug The Bagel — David Ignatow
#1330 · 20 Aug Money — Philip Larkin
#1331 · 21 Aug Faithless Sally Brown — Thomas Hood
#1332 · 23 Aug The Flowers — Rudyard Kipling
#1333 · 24 Aug Tyre — Bayard Taylor
#1334 · 26 Aug Where Everything Is Music — Jalaluddin Rumi
#1335 · 27 Aug Balloon Fight — Roger McGough
#1336 · 28 Aug Of Human Knowledge — Sir John Davies
#1337 · 29 Aug Ample Make This Bed — Emily Dickinson
#1338 · 30 Aug The World is Too Much With Us — William Wordsworth
#1339 · 31 Aug I've Dreamed of You So Much — Robert Desnos
#1340 · 2 Sep A Strike Among the Poets — Anonymous
#1341 · 3 Sep Carpe Diem Baby — James Hetfield
#1342 · 4 Sep To Sleep — Statius
#1343 · 5 Sep Poem to be read at 3 a.m. — Donald Justice
#1344 · 6 Sep Please Fire Me — Deborah Garrison
#1345 · 9 Sep Remembrance — Emily Bronte
#1346 · 11 Sep Ooly Pop a Cow — David Huddle
#1347 · 12 Sep In a Library — Emily Dickinson
#1348 · 13 Sep Polterguest, My Polterguest — Ogden Nash
#1349 · 15 Sep The Icelandic Language — Bill Holm
#1350 · 16 Sep Things I Didn't Know I Loved — Nazim Hikmet
#1351 · 17 Sep London Airport — Christopher Logue
#1352 · 18 Sep The Sea — Barry Cornwall
#1353 · 19 Sep Things I miss the most — Steely Dan
#1354 · 20 Sep Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire — Omar Khayyam
#1355 · 21 Sep The Day That You Love Me — Alfredo Lepera
#1356 · 23 Sep Qingdao: December — Vikram Seth
#1357 · 24 Sep Going to Sleep — Hermann Hesse
#1358 · 25 Sep Someday Someone Will Bet That You Can't Name All Fifty States — Judith Viorst
#1359 · 28 Sep Dedication — Salman Rushdie
#1360 · 29 Sep Untitled — Donald Monat
#1361 · 30 Sep English Monarchs — Anonymous
#1362 · 1 Oct Dublin — Louis MacNeice
#1363 · 2 Oct Tricks with Mirrors — Margaret Atwood
#1364 · 5 Oct It Isn't Time That's Passing — Ruskin Bond
#1365 · 7 Oct Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man — Horace
#1366 · 8 Oct Untitled — Tanith Lee
#1367 · 9 Oct Eurydice — Sue Hubbard
#1368 · 25 Oct Dream Song 14 — John Berryman
#1369 · 12 Oct Christmas Eve — Bill Watterson
#1370 · 13 Oct Ask to Embla, XIII — A S Byatt
#1371 · 14 Oct Girl in a Wheelchair Dancing to U2 in Lansdowne Stadium 1997 — Mark Granier
#1372 · 15 Oct Autumn Day — Anne Ridler
#1373 · 16 Oct Acceptance — Robert Frost
#1374 · 17 Oct The Weight — Jaime 'Robbie' Robertson
#1375 · 23 Oct The Bangle Sellers — Sarojini Naidu
#1376 · 28 Oct When Death Comes — Mary Oliver
#1377 · 1 Nov The Quiet World — Jeffrey McDaniel
#1378 · 2 Nov The Horses — Edwin Muir
#1379 · 4 Nov Rain — Naomi Shihab Nye
#1380 · 5 Nov The Ideal — James Fenton
#1381 · 6 Nov The Paradigm — Nammalwar
#1382 · 10 Nov Hope — Emily Dickinson
#1383 · 11 Nov Untitled — Wendell Berry
#1384 · 12 Nov Autumn — Rainer Maria Rilke
#1385 · 13 Nov Miners — Wilfred Owen
#1386 · 14 Nov Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) — Peggy Seeger
#1387 · 15 Nov The Explosion — Philip Larkin
#1388 · 16 Nov Silent Noon (Sonnet XIX) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#1389 · 17 Nov The Amores: Book 1, Poem #3 — Ovid
#1390 · 18 Nov The Salutation — Thomas Traherne
#1391 · 19 Nov The Grain of Sound — Robert Morgan
#1392 · 20 Nov The Law the Lawyers Know About — H D C Pepler
#1393 · 21 Nov The Lawyers Know Too Much — Carl Sandburg
#1394 · 22 Nov Even If You Grab A Piece of Time — Ruth Forman
#1395 · 23 Nov The Man-Moth — Elizabeth Bishop
#1396 · 24 Nov The Children’s Hour — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#1397 · 25 Nov Introduction to Poetry — Billy Collins
#1398 · 26 Nov A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life — Yehuda Amichai
#1399 · 27 Nov Critics Nightwatch — Gwen Harwood
#1400 · 28 Nov The Sentence — Robert Creeley
#1401 · 7 Dec A Nostalgist's Map of America — Agha Shahid Ali
#1402 · 9 Dec Sun-corner — Tarjei Vesaas
#1403 · 10 Dec As the poets have mournfully sung — W H Auden
#1404 · 12 Dec An Old Sicilian Song — Dario Fo
#1405 · 16 Dec The Lamb — William Blake
#1406 · 17 Dec A Worker Reads History — Bertolt Brecht
#1407 · 19 Dec The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball — Thomas Lux
#1408 · 20 Dec My Mom and Dad — Bill Watterson
#1409 · 25 Dec River — Joni Mitchell
#1410 · 26 Dec If You Forget Me — Pablo Neruda
#1411 · 27 Dec Pentecost — Derek Walcott
#1412 · 28 Dec The Colour of His Hair — A E Housman
#1413 · 29 Dec Christmas Oratio — W H Auden
#1414 · 30 Dec The Old Issue — Rudyard Kipling
#1415 · 31 Dec Gone Fishing — Chris Rea

2004 (170)

#1416 · 1 Jan Cinderella — Roald Dahl
#1417 · 2 Jan At the last watch — Rabindranath Tagore
#1418 · 3 Jan Electronically Yours — Gerald Jonas
#1419 · 4 Jan Telnet Song — Guy L Steele, Jr
#1420 · 5 Jan Hemingway Never Did This — Charles Bukowski
#1421 · 6 Jan the trash can — Charles Bukowski
#1422 · 7 Jan My Library — Lucy Maud Montgomery
#1423 · 8 Jan Out of Danger — James Fenton
#1424 · 9 Jan The River — Pare Lorentz
#1425 · 10 Jan The Ecclesiast — John Ashbery
#1426 · 11 Jan The Hill — Nissim Ezekiel
#1427 · 12 Jan Out of Control — Neil Young
#1428 · 13 Jan Octopusses — Simon Goodway
#1429 · 14 Jan Winter Reigns — Mary Youngquist
#1430 · 15 Jan Not only the Eskimos — Lisel Mueller
#1431 · 16 Jan London — William Blake
#1432 · 17 Jan The Snow Man — Wallace Stevens
#1433 · 18 Jan Winter — Anonymous
#1434 · 19 Jan A Fine Thing — Rosemary Dobson
#1435 · 20 Jan Preacher, Don't Send Me — Maya Angelou
#1436 · 21 Jan I Cannot Live with You — Emily Dickinson
#1437 · 22 Jan My Father — Yehuda Amichai
#1438 · 23 Jan Shaper Shaped — Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
#1439 · 24 Jan Gacela of the Dark Death — Federico García Lorca
#1440 · 25 Jan Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus — Francis Brett Young
#1441 · 26 Jan Among School Children — William Butler Yeats
#1442 · 28 Jan Let Me Think — Faiz Ahmed Faiz
#1443 · 29 Jan The Dry Salvages: Canto III — T S Eliot
#1444 · 30 Jan Being Boring — Wendy Cope
#1445 · 31 Jan What Did You Do On Your Weekend In Vancouver? — Mark Granier
#1446 · 1 Feb The People of Spain Think Cervantes — Edmund Clerihew Bentley
#1447 · 2 Feb Take This Waltz — Leonard Cohen
#1448 · 3 Feb The Diameter of the Bomb — Yehuda Amichai
#1449 · 4 Feb The Inner Part — Louis Simpson
#1450 · 5 Feb After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics — W H Auden
#1451 · 6 Feb Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction, Joy — Rainer Maria Rilke
#1452 · 7 Feb The Clod and the Pebble — William Blake
#1453 · 8 Feb Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) — Vikram Seth
#1454 · 9 Feb An Exile's Lament — Jacqueline Carey
#1455 · 10 Feb The Queerness of it All — bpNichol
#1456 · 11 Feb It's raining in love — Richard Brautigan
#1457 · 12 Feb Spring Song, Meirionydd — John Dressel
#1458 · 13 Feb aesop revised by archy — Don Marquis
#1459 · 17 Feb Every Town a Home Town — Kaniyan Punkunran
#1460 · 19 Feb Love Song — Dorothy Parker
#1461 · 20 Feb Lucile: Part 1, Canto 2 — Owen Meredith
#1462 · 21 Feb Point of View — Shel Silverstein
#1463 · 23 Feb Song Five — Gaius Valerius Catullus
#1464 · 24 Feb From Catullus V — Sir Walter Raleigh
#1465 · 25 Feb Come, My Celia — Ben Jonson
#1466 · 26 Feb My Sweetest Lesbia — Thomas Campion
#1467 · 27 Feb From A Letter From Lesbia — Dorothy Parker
#1468 · 1 Mar Song Against Natural Selection — Edward Hirsch
#1469 · 2 Mar Song for the Rainy Season — Elizabeth Bishop
#1470 · 3 Mar Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake — Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
#1471 · 4 Mar In the Middle of the Road — Carlos Drummond de Andrade
#1472 · 5 Mar In A Disused Graveyard — Robert Frost
#1473 · 6 Mar Drinking Song — J K Stephen
#1474 · 8 Mar Ae Fond Kiss — Robert Burns
#1475 · 9 Mar I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight — George Santayana
#1476 · 11 Mar Then Wear the Gold Hat — Thomas Parke D'Invilliers
#1477 · 12 Mar The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken — Vachel Lindsay
#1478 · 13 Mar A Piece Of The Storm — Mark Strand
#1479 · 15 Mar Peace of Mind — Neil Young
#1480 · 16 Mar The Aeneid: I, 1-7 — Virgil
#1481 · 17 Mar Brothers — Giuseppe Ungaretti
#1482 · 18 Mar The Scholars — William Butler Yeats
#1483 · 21 Mar An Infinite Number of Monkeys — Ronald Koertge
#1484 · 24 Mar The Wombat — Ogden Nash
#1485 · 25 Mar Untitled — Anise
#1486 · 27 Mar And Death Shall Have No Dominion — Dylan Thomas
#1487 · 28 Mar All Day Permanent Red (extract) — Christopher Logue
#1488 · 29 Mar To Maeve — Mervyn Peake
#1489 · 30 Mar The Ruin — Dafydd ap Gwilym
#1490 · 2 Apr Souls And Rain-Drops — Sidney Lanier
#1491 · 5 Apr The Silver Swan — Orlando Gibbons
#1492 · 6 Apr No Swan So Fine — Marianne Moore
#1493 · 7 Apr Erinna — Antipater of Sidon
#1494 · 8 Apr To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us — Ben Jonson
#1495 · 13 Apr To a Skylark — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#1496 · 14 Apr Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff — John Keats
#1497 · 15 Apr For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty — Countee Cullen
#1498 · 16 Apr On Discovering a Butterfly — Vladimir Nabokov
#1499 · 18 Apr The Uncertainty of the Poet — Wendy Cope
#1500 · 19 Apr John Keats — J D Salinger
#1501 · 21 Apr The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd — William Shakespeare
#1502 · 23 Apr Law Like Love — W H Auden
#1503 · 26 Apr Shijo — Chong Chol
#1504 · 29 Apr Requiem: The Soldier — Humbert Wolfe
#1505 · 5 May Good Linemen Live in a Closed World — James Whitehead
#1506 · 10 May Rocket Show — James K Baxter
#1507 · 14 May I Am — John Clare
#1508 · 20 May O Where Are You Going? — W H Auden
#1509 · 21 May Ode to Joy — Friedrich Schiller
#1510 · 25 May The Purist — Ogden Nash
#1511 · 27 May Lot's Wife — Anna Akhmatova
#1512 · 27 May Seduction — Harry Graham
#1513 · 1 Jun Poetry Reading — D M Thomas
#1514 · 4 Jun When I was fair and young, and favour graced me — Queen Elizabeth I
#1515 · 7 Jun Villanelle for an Anniversary — Seamus Heaney
#1516 · 8 Jun The Cinnamon Peeler — Michael Ondaatje
#1517 · 11 Jun The Shipfitter's Wife — Dorianne Laux
#1518 · 14 Jun The World Is A Box — Sophie Hannah
#1519 · 16 Jun The Curse — J M Synge
#1520 · 18 Jun On Those that Hated the 'Playboy of the Western World', 1907 — William Butler Yeats
#1521 · 19 Jun The Bloody Orkneys — Hamish Blair
#1522 · 21 Jun Slough — John Betjeman
#1523 · 22 Jun An Ethical Grook — Piet Hein
#1524 · 24 Jun Sensation — Arthur Rimbaud
#1525 · 25 Jun Thief — Robert Graves
#1526 · 29 Jun Afton Water — Robert Burns
#1527 · 29 Jun The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — Gil Scott-Heron
#1528 · 8 Jul Sonnet -- To Science — Edgar Allan Poe
#1529 · 10 Jul Timid Frieda — Jacques Brel
#1530 · 12 Jul The Donkey — G K Chesterton
#1531 · 19 Jul Past One O'Clock — Vladimir Mayakovsky
#1532 · 20 Jul Breaking Up — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#1533 · 26 Jul The Sudden Light And The Trees — Stephen Dunn
#1534 · 4 Aug Fine Days — Orhan Veli
#1535 · 17 Aug The Line-Gang — Robert Frost
#1536 · 18 Aug All in green went my love riding — e e cummings
#1537 · 26 Aug Good Gnus — P G Wodehouse
#1538 · 27 Aug Love: Beginnings — C K Williams
#1539 · 3 Sep National Brotherhood Week — Tom Lehrer
#1540 · 7 Sep I'm not Lonely — Nikki Giovanni
#1541 · 14 Sep John Muir on Mt. Ritter — Gary Snyder
#1542 · 16 Sep Song of the Stygian Naiades — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
#1543 · 17 Sep Untitled - Haiku — Issa
#1544 · 22 Sep You are old, Father William — Lewis Carroll
#1545 · 27 Sep Ars Poetica — Czeslaw Milosz
#1546 · 28 Sep In Praise of My Sister — Wislawa Szymborska
#1547 · 30 Sep The Railway Children — Seamus Heaney
#1548 · 1 Oct Let the memorial hill remember — Yehuda Amichai
#1549 · 8 Oct Health Fanatic — John Cooper Clarke
#1550 · 28 Oct Wodwo — Ted Hughes
#1551 · 29 Oct My Love is Theosophist — Patrick Barrington
#1552 · 1 Nov My November Guest — Robert Frost
#1553 · 2 Nov The Puppet — Charles de Lint
#1554 · 3 Nov Look at all those monkeys — Spike Milligan
#1555 · 4 Nov On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes — Thomas Gray
#1556 · 5 Nov Both Sides Now — Joni Mitchell
#1557 · 8 Nov Now I'm Easy — Eric Bogle
#1558 · 9 Nov Afternoons — Philip Larkin
#1559 · 10 Nov Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night — Walt Whitman
#1560 · 11 Nov Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) — Sarah Binks
#1561 · 12 Nov People — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#1562 · 15 Nov The Young Fools — Paul Verlaine
#1563 · 16 Nov Visits to St. Elizabeth's — Elizabeth Bishop
#1564 · 22 Nov Acquainted with the Night — Robert Frost
#1565 · 26 Nov Maintrunk Country Roadsong — Sam Hunt
#1566 · 27 Nov Untitled — Vikram Seth
#1567 · 29 Nov His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell — A D Hope
#1568 · 1 Dec Past Carin’ — Henry Lawson
#1569 · 5 Dec Marriage — Gregory Corso
#1570 · 7 Dec Jewish Wedding in Bombay — Nissim Ezekiel
#1571 · 12 Dec Surprised by joy — William Wordsworth
#1572 · 15 Dec Said Hanrahan — John O'Brien
#1573 · 16 Dec Strugnell's Sonnets (iv) — Wendy Cope
#1574 · 17 Dec Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet LV) — William Shakespeare
#1575 · 18 Dec A Good Poem — Tukaram
#1576 · 19 Dec I Had a Hippopotamus — Patrick Barrington
#1577 · 20 Dec The Owl — Edward Thomas
#1578 · 21 Dec The Cherry Tree Carol — Traditional
#1579 · 22 Dec Heaven — Rupert Brooke
#1580 · 22 Dec A Ritual to Read to Each Other — William Stafford
#1581 · 27 Dec Little Tree — e e cummings
#1582 · 28 Dec The Photograph — Constantine Cavafy
#1583 · 29 Dec Go and play in the middle — John Hegley
#1584 · 30 Dec Vegan Delight — Benjamin Zephaniah
#1585 · 31 Dec Auld Lang Syne — Robert Burns

2005 (214)

#1586 · 1 Jan The Explorer — Rudyard Kipling
#1587 · 2 Jan Six Significant Landscapes — Wallace Stevens
#1588 · 4 Jan At a Lecture — Joseph Brodsky
#1589 · 5 Jan Epitaph for the Race of Man: X — Edna St Vincent Millay
#1590 · 7 Jan Big River — Zachary Richard
#1591 · 8 Jan One Cigarette — Edwin Morgan
#1592 · 9 Jan from The Estranging Sea — Derek Walcott
#1593 · 10 Jan Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 — Lao-Tzu
#1594 · 12 Jan As Kingfishers Catch Fire — Gerard Manley Hopkins
#1595 · 13 Jan Still Falls the Rain — Edith Sitwell
#1596 · 14 Jan I Met a Lady in the Wood — Patrick Barrington
#1597 · 15 Jan Voyages - I — Hart Crane
#1598 · 18 Jan To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only — Czeslaw Milosz
#1599 · 19 Jan Two Songs Of A Fool — William Butler Yeats
#1600 · 21 Jan Exequy on his Wife — Henry King
#1601 · 23 Jan From Beppo — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#1602 · 24 Jan Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint — John Milton
#1603 · 25 Jan Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats
#1604 · 26 Jan One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#1605 · 27 Jan The Masque of Anarchy (extract) — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#1606 · 28 Jan Frost at Midnight — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#1607 · 29 Jan Lament for Thomas MacDonagh — Francis Ledwidge
#1608 · 30 Jan Cat in an Empty Apartment — Wislawa Szymborska
#1609 · 1 Feb Mrs. Thatcher — Sue Townsend
#1610 · 2 Feb For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls — David Wagoner
#1611 · 3 Feb Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy
#1612 · 4 Feb The Coromandel Fishers — Sarojini Naidu
#1613 · 5 Feb Temporary Well Being — Kenneth Burke
#1614 · 6 Feb When I Was Three — Richard Edwards
#1615 · 7 Feb The Gruffalo — Julia Donaldson
#1616 · 8 Feb Give All To Love — Ralph Waldo Emerson
#1617 · 9 Feb Poem for Everyone — John T Wood
#1618 · 10 Feb Absences — Dom Moraes
#1619 · 11 Feb Second Honeymoon — Tony Scanlon
#1620 · 12 Feb As Well as They Can — A D Hope
#1621 · 13 Feb At Funchal (Island of Madeira) — Tomas Transtromer
#1622 · 14 Feb To The Supreme Being — Michelangelo Buonarroti
#1623 · 15 Feb Resignation — Nikki Giovanni
#1624 · 16 Feb The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea — Thomas Wyatt
#1625 · 17 Feb The Ram's Skull — Ann Drysdale
#1626 · 18 Feb We Real Cool — Gwendolyn Brooks
#1627 · 19 Feb Let Me Die a Youngman's Death — Roger McGough
#1628 · 20 Feb suppose — e e cummings
#1629 · 21 Feb jump mama — Kurtis Lamkin
#1630 · 21 Feb Offering and Rebuff — Carl Sandburg
#1631 · 23 Feb Middle-Age Enthusiasms — Thomas Hardy
#1632 · 24 Feb My Death — Raymond Carver
#1633 · 25 Feb A Cradle Song — William Butler Yeats
#1634 · 26 Feb A Minuet of Mozart's — Sara Teasdale
#1635 · 27 Feb In Just- — e e cummings
#1636 · 28 Feb Overture to a Dance of Locomotives — William Carlos Williams
#1637 · 1 Mar Theme for English B — Langston Hughes
#1638 · 2 Mar The Rover — Robert Service
#1639 · 2 Mar In Prison — William Morris
#1640 · 4 Mar You know, my Friends, how Long since in my House — Omar Khayyam
#1641 · 5 Mar Magna est Veritas — Coventry Patmore
#1642 · 6 Mar Untitled — Stephen King
#1643 · 7 Mar The Misanthrope — Moliere
#1644 · 8 Mar On Passing the New Menin Gate — Siegfried Sassoon
#1645 · 9 Mar Haiku — Michael P Garofalo
#1646 · 10 Mar Fata Morgana — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#1647 · 11 Mar Men at Forty — Donald Justice
#1648 · 12 Mar Baseball's Sad Lexicon — Franklin P Adams
#1649 · 13 Mar It was not death, for I stood up — Emily Dickinson
#1650 · 14 Mar Aerialist — Sylvia Plath
#1651 · 15 Mar Gay Chaps at the Bar — Gwendolyn Brooks
#1652 · 16 Mar Asides on the Oboe — Wallace Stevens
#1653 · 17 Mar Dream Interpretation — Piet Hein
#1654 · 19 Mar We Should Talk about This Problem — Hafiz
#1655 · 20 Mar Battle Song — Patrick Barrington
#1656 · 21 Mar The Rose of the World — William Butler Yeats
#1657 · 22 Mar The Heaven of Animals — James Dickey
#1658 · 23 Mar The Night Wind — Emily Bronte
#1659 · 28 Mar Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth — Arthur Hugh Clough
#1660 · 29 Mar Small Blue Thing — Suzanne Vega
#1661 · 30 Mar Mirror, Mirror — Spike Milligan
#1662 · 31 Mar On Monsieur's Departure — Queen Elizabeth I
#1663 · 1 Apr The Echoing Green — William Blake
#1664 · 3 Apr The Distracted Centipede — Anonymous
#1665 · 4 Apr The Rain — Robert Creeley
#1666 · 5 Apr Selecting A Reader — Ted Kooser
#1667 · 6 Apr Love Over Gold — Mark Knopfler
#1668 · 7 Apr Aedh Laments the Loss of Love — William Butler Yeats
#1669 · 8 Apr Shawondasee — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#1670 · 9 Apr It's Dark in Here — Shel Silverstein
#1671 · 10 Apr The Lion and Albert — Marriott Edgar
#1672 · 11 Apr The Tale of Custard the Dragon — Ogden Nash
#1673 · 12 Apr Ode On the Death of Pius the Twelfth — A D Hope
#1674 · 13 Apr The Lion For Real — Allen Ginsberg
#1675 · 14 Apr Spring Wedding — Andrew Motion
#1676 · 15 Apr The Fiddle and the Drum — Joni Mitchell
#1677 · 18 Apr Wisdom — Sara Teasdale
#1678 · 19 Apr Summer — Mary Oliver
#1679 · 20 Apr Ariadne auf Naxos — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
#1680 · 21 Apr If Gray Had Had to Write His Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River Instead of in That of Stoke Poges — Sir John Collings Squire
#1681 · 22 Apr The Piano Has Been Drinking — Tom Waits
#1682 · 26 Apr The Ocean — Dar Williams
#1683 · 27 Apr Portrait of a Lady — T S Eliot
#1684 · 28 Apr The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range — Roger Waters
#1685 · 30 Apr Quiquern (Chapter Heading) — Rudyard Kipling
#1686 · 1 May Curly-locks — Traditional
#1687 · 2 May Why so Pale and Wan? — John Suckling
#1688 · 3 May The Bread-Knife Ballad — Robert Service
#1689 · 5 May When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet XXIX) — William Shakespeare
#1690 · 6 May Patriotism — Sir Walter Scott
#1691 · 8 May You, Andrew Marvell — Archibald MacLeish
#1692 · 8 May Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom — A K Ramanujan
#1693 · 9 May The Garden — Andrew Marvell
#1694 · 10 May Learning — Judith Viorst
#1695 · 11 May As You Came from the Holy Land — Sir Walter Raleigh
#1696 · 12 May nobody loses all the time — e e cummings
#1697 · 13 May Tithonus — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#1698 · 14 May When I was Young and Ignorant — Patrick Barrington
#1699 · 16 May The Pilgrim — John Bunyan
#1700 · 17 May The Bells of Heaven — Ralph Hodgson
#1701 · 18 May Ode to the Lemon — Pablo Neruda
#1702 · 19 May Untitled — Samuel Beckett
#1703 · 20 May The Oblation — Algernon Charles Swinburne
#1704 · 21 May Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep — Mary Frye
#1705 · 23 May The Chambered Nautilus — Oliver Wendell Holmes
#1706 · 24 May Carmen XLVI — Gaius Valerius Catullus
#1707 · 26 May Blowin' in the Wind — Bob Dylan
#1708 · 30 May Elizabeth — Michael Ondaatje
#1709 · 1 Jun Cuckoo Song — Anonymous
#1710 · 2 Jun Madeira, M'Dear — Michael Flanders
#1711 · 4 Jun Rhymes (?) — Henry S Leigh
#1712 · 5 Jun In an Artist's Studio — Christina Rossetti
#1713 · 7 Jun The Old Woman — Joseph Campbell
#1714 · 8 Jun Geetanjali — Rabindranath Tagore
#1715 · 9 Jun A Dream Within a Dream — Edgar Allan Poe
#1716 · 10 Jun Untitled — Dag Hammarskjöld
#1717 · 11 Jun The Joys of the Road — Bliss Carman
#1718 · 14 Jun Prologue to "Rhymes to be Traded for Bread" — Vachel Lindsay
#1719 · 15 Jun Antenna-forest — Rolf Jacobsen
#1720 · 16 Jun The Song of Steel — Charles Buxton Going
#1721 · 17 Jun The Lost Mistress — Robert Browning
#1722 · 18 Jun Untitled — Piet Hein
#1723 · 20 Jun warty bliggens the toad — Don Marquis
#1724 · 22 Jun The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one — June Jordan
#1725 · 23 Jun Fisher v. Lowe — Michigan Court of Appeals
#1726 · 27 Jun To a Young Poet — R S Thomas
#1727 · 2 Jul When The Great Gray Ships Come In — Guy Wetmore Carryl
#1728 · 3 Jul The Stories — Stephen Dunn
#1729 · 5 Jul The Star-Spangled Banner — Francis Scott Key
#1730 · 6 Jul You're the Top — Cole Porter
#1731 · 11 Jul Nonadaptation — Czeslaw Milosz
#1732 · 17 Jul A Narrow Fellow in the Grass — Emily Dickinson
#1733 · 20 Jul The Prodigal, 3.II — Derek Walcott
#1734 · 21 Jul On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13) — Kahlil Gibran
#1735 · 22 Jul Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher — Nissim Ezekiel
#1736 · 23 Jul Meeting at Night — Robert Browning
#1737 · 24 Jul Monet Refuses the Operation — Lisel Mueller
#1738 · 25 Jul Mahi-Mahi — Mairead Byrne
#1739 · 26 Jul Three Songs of Shattering - I — Edna St Vincent Millay
#1740 · 27 Jul Covering Two Years — Weldon Kees
#1741 · 28 Jul To the Moon — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#1742 · 29 Jul A Pot Of Tea — Robert Service
#1743 · 30 Jul I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed — Emily Dickinson
#1744 · 2 Aug Untitled — Dorothy Parker
#1745 · 3 Aug The Aerial — Wendy Cope
#1746 · 4 Aug The Deluge — G K Chesterton
#1747 · 5 Aug Grass — Carl Sandburg
#1748 · 6 Aug The Perfume — A D Hope
#1749 · 8 Aug The Dynasts — Thomas Hardy
#1750 · 9 Aug On Giving — Kahlil Gibran
#1751 · 11 Aug Diatribe Against the Dead — Angel Gonzalez
#1752 · 22 Aug Dilemma — David Budbill
#1753 · 23 Aug Vanitas Vanitatum — John Webster
#1754 · 25 Aug Clockwork Doll — Dalia Ravikovitch
#1755 · 26 Aug The Dolly on the Dustcart — Pam Ayres
#1756 · 29 Aug Yellow Tulips — James Fenton
#1757 · 31 Aug For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead — William Logan
#1758 · 7 Sep Eyes — Czeslaw Milosz
#1759 · 9 Sep An Apology — F J Bergmann
#1760 · 12 Sep Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 — Walt Whitman
#1761 · 13 Sep Further in Summer than the Birds — Emily Dickinson
#1762 · 17 Sep Peace — Rupert Brooke
#1763 · 20 Sep My Little One — Tennessee Williams
#1764 · 21 Sep An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse — Wendy Cope
#1765 · 22 Sep Foolish, not Social — Sankha Ghosh
#1766 · 23 Sep Uncle and Auntie — John Hegley
#1767 · 24 Sep Sonnet II, from "To W.P." — George Santayana
#1768 · 26 Sep Threnody — Dorothy Parker
#1769 · 29 Sep The Old Astronomer — Sarah Williams
#1770 · 1 Oct A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall — Bob Dylan
#1771 · 3 Oct Doggerel by a Senior Citizen — W H Auden
#1772 · 4 Oct Gitanjali (excerpt) — Rabindranath Tagore
#1773 · 5 Oct Introduction To Poetry — Billy Collins
#1774 · 6 Oct The Invaders — A D Hope
#1775 · 12 Oct The Wasp — John Kendall
#1776 · 14 Oct Talk — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#1777 · 17 Oct Vacana #105 — Basavanna
#1778 · 21 Oct When First We Faced — Philip Larkin
#1779 · 24 Oct You — Carol Ann Duffy
#1780 · 25 Oct The Fish — Elizabeth Bishop
#1781 · 26 Oct To Autumn — John Keats
#1782 · 27 Oct A Place To Be — Nick Drake
#1783 · 29 Oct Moses' Poem — Anonymous
#1784 · 3 Nov Thinking of Russia — Harold Harwell (H H) Lewis
#1785 · 5 Nov Stray Birds — Rabindranath Tagore
#1786 · 8 Nov The Moon is Distant from the Sea — Emily Dickinson
#1787 · 9 Nov Diving into the Wreck — Adrienne Rich
#1788 · 10 Nov The Leader — Roger McGough
#1789 · 11 Nov The General — Siegfried Sassoon
#1790 · 14 Nov Broken Hearts — Jeremy Reed
#1791 · 17 Nov Poem I — Sappho
#1792 · 18 Nov Winter '84 — Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta
#1793 · 29 Nov An Ulster Twilight — Seamus Heaney
#1794 · 25 Dec The Huron Carol — St Jean de Brébeuf
#1795 · 27 Dec Tangmalangaloo — John O'Brien
#1796 · 28 Dec Flying at Night — Ted Kooser
#1797 · 29 Dec A Note — Wislawa Szymborska
#1798 · 30 Dec I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You — Pablo Neruda
#1799 · 31 Dec Sestina — Elizabeth Bishop

2006 (162)

#1800 · 1 Jan The Doctor — A P Herbert
#1801 · 2 Jan With God on our Side — Bob Dylan
#1802 · 3 Jan Let America be America Again — Langston Hughes
#1803 · 4 Jan Power and Glory — Phil Ochs
#1804 · 5 Jan Elegy — Machine Head
#1805 · 6 Jan True Love at Last — D H Lawrence
#1806 · 18 Jan From the Frontier of Writing — Seamus Heaney
#1807 · 19 Jan Crossing the Frontier — A D Hope
#1808 · 1 Mar Looking Out — Mitsuye Yamada
#1809 · 2 Mar In Memoriam A. H. H., Section 5 — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
#1810 · 3 Mar In a Bath Teashop — John Betjeman
#1811 · 5 Mar A Drinking Song — William Butler Yeats
#1812 · 6 Mar Please Remember To Wash Your Hands — Sandra Greaves
#1813 · 7 Mar Nothing to Fear — Kingsley Amis
#1814 · 8 Mar A Wandering Minstrel I — W S Gilbert
#1815 · 9 Mar Ancient one, I'm drunk with the voice — Eugenio Montale
#1816 · 10 Mar Shake and Shake the Ketchup Bottle — Richard Armour
#1817 · 11 Mar The Bell Buoy — Rudyard Kipling
#1818 · 12 Mar The Orange Tree — John Shaw Neilson
#1819 · 13 Mar The Winter Palace — Philip Larkin
#1820 · 14 Mar One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (Amoretti LXXV) — Edmund Spenser
#1821 · 15 Mar Well I Remember — Walter Savage Landor
#1822 · 16 Mar The Nightingale Near the House — Harold Monro
#1823 · 17 Mar Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye — Leonard Cohen
#1824 · 19 Mar When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be — John Keats
#1825 · 20 Mar The Hunter — Ogden Nash
#1826 · 21 Mar Planting a Sequoia — Dana Gioia
#1827 · 22 Mar An Ancient Gesture — Edna St Vincent Millay
#1828 · 24 Mar Silence — Marianne Moore
#1829 · 25 Mar Poet — Hugo Claus
#1830 · 26 Mar The Dentist — A P Herbert
#1831 · 27 Mar My Name — Mark Strand
#1832 · 28 Mar Even Such is Time — Sir Walter Raleigh
#1833 · 29 Mar Lying — Jane Hirshfield
#1834 · 30 Mar Verses Turned... — John Betjeman
#1835 · 31 Mar The Puffin and Nuffin — Robert Williams Wood
#1836 · 2 Apr Don't let that horse — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#1837 · 4 Apr Episode of Hands — Hart Crane
#1838 · 5 Apr A Green Crab's Shell — Mark Doty
#1839 · 6 Apr The Lowest Trees Have Tops — Edward Dyer
#1840 · 7 Apr The Seed Shop — Muriel Stuart
#1841 · 9 Apr Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms — Thomas Moore
#1842 · 10 Apr Hesperus — John Clare
#1843 · 11 Apr The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo — Phil Ochs
#1844 · 13 Apr A Barred Owl — Richard Wilbur
#1845 · 14 Apr The Composer — W H Auden
#1846 · 15 Apr Spring and all — William Carlos Williams
#1847 · 16 Apr Consolation for Tamar — A E Stallings
#1848 · 17 Apr In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself — Wislawa Szymborska
#1849 · 18 Apr Response — Mary Ursula Bethell
#1850 · 19 Apr Description — Shel Silverstein
#1851 · 20 Apr The Discovery of the Pacific — Thom Gunn
#1852 · 22 Apr Don Juan: Canto I (excerpt) — George Gordon, Lord Byron
#1853 · 24 Apr Thunder Road — Bruce Springsteen
#1854 · 25 Apr The Story We Know — Martha Collins
#1855 · 26 Apr The Ways We Touch — Miller Williams
#1856 · 27 Apr Night in Arizona — Sara Teasdale
#1857 · 30 Apr The Jolly Company — Rupert Brooke
#1858 · 1 May Beyond the Ash Rains — Agha Shahid Ali
#1859 · 2 May A Singular Metamorphosis — Howard Nemerov
#1860 · 3 May The Vigil-at-Arms — Louise Imogen Guiney
#1861 · 3 May Unclaimed — Vikram Seth
#1862 · 8 May Atavism — Laurence Hope
#1863 · 9 May Apartment in Leme — Elizabeth Bishop
#1864 · 11 May On the Porch — Michael Ondaatje
#1865 · 12 May Song of a Nightclub Proprietress — John Betjeman
#1866 · 17 May The Atavist — Robert Service
#1867 · 19 May Childhood — Frances Cornford
#1868 · 20 May The Talented Man — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
#1869 · 21 May Refugee Blues — W H Auden
#1870 · 22 May A Terrible Infant — Frederick Locker-Lampson
#1871 · 23 May Calling it Quits — Aimee Mann
#1872 · 24 May Song — Rupert Brooke
#1873 · 25 May All the World's a Stage — William Shakespeare
#1874 · 26 May Firelight — Edwin Arlington Robinson
#1875 · 31 May Harry Wilmans — Edgar Lee Masters
#1876 · 1 Jun The Weary Blues — Langston Hughes
#1877 · 5 Jun Oxford Canal — James Elroy Flecker
#1878 · 6 Jun Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin — Patrick Kavanagh
#1879 · 14 Jun Windows is Shutting Down — Clive James
#1880 · 19 Jun I remember to have wept with a sense of the unnecessary — William Empson
#1881 · 30 Jun Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis — Ogden Nash
#1882 · 3 Jul Hyacinths — Muslih-uh-Din Sa'di
#1883 · 5 Jul To Raja Rao — Czeslaw Milosz
#1884 · 7 Jul A Southern Girl — Samuel Minturn Peck
#1885 · 13 Jul Boy at the Window — Richard Wilbur
#1886 · 14 Jul What Any Lover Learns — Archibald MacLeish
#1887 · 17 Jul The Lord Chancellor's Song — W S Gilbert
#1888 · 18 Jul Who is in Charge of the Clattering Train? — Anonymous
#1889 · 19 Jul A Grievance — J K Stephen
#1890 · 21 Jul A Modest Wit — Selleck Osborn
#1891 · 27 Jul The Poems of our Climate — Wallace Stevens
#1892 · 28 Jul A Ballade of Suicide — G K Chesterton
#1893 · 30 Jul A Reminiscence of Cricket — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#1894 · 31 Jul Pagett, M.P. — Rudyard Kipling
#1895 · 1 Aug Rain in Summer — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#1896 · 1 Aug Mad Dogs and Englishmen — Noel Coward
#1897 · 3 Aug Borderland — Henry Lawson
#1898 · 6 Aug The Pub with No Beer — Gordon Parsons
#1899 · 9 Aug The World But Seems To Be — Fakhruddin 'Iraqi
#1900 · 10 Aug On The Hurry Of This Time — Henry Austin Dobson
#1901 · 10 Aug Against Sundials — Plautus
#1902 · 12 Aug The King — Rudyard Kipling
#1903 · 13 Aug Baccalaureate — Archibald MacLeish
#1904 · 14 Aug Before an Examination (Campus Sonnets: 1) — Stephen Vincent Benét
#1905 · 15 Aug A School Song — Rudyard Kipling
#1906 · 17 Aug Bright College Days — Tom Lehrer
#1907 · 19 Aug The Vulture and the Husbandman — Arthur Clement Hilton
#1908 · 21 Aug Myfanwy at Oxford — John Betjeman
#1909 · 22 Aug I'm Going To Say It Now — Phil Ochs
#1910 · 23 Aug Question — Rabindranath Tagore
#1911 · 25 Aug On Death, without Exaggeration — Wislawa Szymborska
#1912 · 26 Aug The Rainy Day — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#1913 · 27 Aug A Style of Loving — Vikram Seth
#1914 · 29 Aug Prohibition — Franklin P Adams
#1915 · 30 Aug Tobacco is a Dirty Weed — Graham Lee Hemminger
#1916 · 30 Aug Away With Rum — Theodore Bikel
#1917 · 31 Aug Sing a Song of Europe — Anonymous
#1918 · 1 Sep Everybody Knows — Leonard Cohen
#1919 · 2 Sep The Last Quadrille — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
#1920 · 3 Sep The Sonnet — William Wordsworth
#1921 · 4 Sep Tobacco Is Like Love — Tobias Hume
#1922 · 5 Sep The Betrothed — Rudyard Kipling
#1923 · 6 Sep The Bee Box — Lowell Parker
#1924 · 7 Sep Nice To Be Here — Ray Thomas
#1925 · 8 Sep I Asked No Other Thing — Emily Dickinson
#1926 · 9 Sep Tobacco's But an Indian Weed — Traditional
#1927 · 10 Sep Christ in the Universe — Alice Meynell
#1928 · 11 Sep The Workbox — Thomas Hardy
#1929 · 12 Sep September Twelfth, 2001 — X J Kennedy
#1930 · 13 Sep The Dover Bitch — Anthony Hecht
#1931 · 14 Sep Bonsai — Edith Tiempo
#1932 · 15 Sep Breakfast — Jacques Prevert
#1933 · 16 Sep Where Lesbians Come From — Jan Sellers
#1934 · 27 Sep Against Entropy — John M Ford
#1935 · 1 Oct The Armful — Robert Frost
#1936 · 1 Oct Untitled — Michael Leunig
#1937 · 17 Oct Mimi on the Beach — Jane Siberry
#1938 · 28 Nov Oh! Ever Thus, From Childhood's Hour — Thomas Moore
#1939 · 29 Nov The Wild Swans at Coole — William Butler Yeats
#1940 · 30 Nov Did I Miss Anything — Tom Wayman
#1941 · 1 Dec The Return — Ezra Pound
#1942 · 2 Dec A Daydream — Emily Bronte
#1943 · 3 Dec Dead Man's Chest — Robert Louis Stevenson
#1944 · 4 Dec Call Me by My True Names — Thich Nhat Hanh
#1945 · 5 Dec Simplify Me When I'm Dead — Keith Douglas
#1946 · 6 Dec I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden — Percy Bysshe Shelley
#1947 · 7 Dec Spring is like a perhaps hand — e e cummings
#1948 · 8 Dec The Grammar Lesson — Steve Kowit
#1949 · 9 Dec The Dove — Leonard Cohen
#1950 · 10 Dec A Deep-Sworn Vow — William Butler Yeats
#1951 · 11 Dec Impressions of a Pilot — Gary Claude Stoker
#1952 · 12 Dec A Newer Kingdom — Anonymous
#1953 · 13 Dec from Midsummer — Derek Walcott
#1954 · 14 Dec I Need Air — Alan Lerner
#1955 · 15 Dec The Swing — Robert Louis Stevenson
#1956 · 16 Dec l(a — e e cummings
#1957 · 17 Dec The Dead Wingman — Randall Jarrell
#1958 · 18 Dec The International Terminal — Les Murray
#1959 · 19 Dec Day Flight — Jack Davis
#1960 · 20 Dec The Day Flies Off Without Me — John Stammers
#1961 · 22 Dec Topography — Sharon Olds

2007 (8)

#1962 · 3 Jan The Year — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#1963 · 7 Jan Brown Penny — William Butler Yeats
#1964 · 9 Jan The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus — Ogden Nash
#1965 · 10 Jan To Virgins, to Make Much of Time — Robert Herrick
#1966 · 11 Jan Hello In There — John Prine
#1967 · 12 Jan A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida — Donald Justice
#1968 · 13 Jan The Old Fools — Philip Larkin
#1969 · 21 Jan The Word — Tony Hoagland