| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1401 | 8 Dec 2003 | Agha Shahid Ali | A Nostalgist's Map of America | The trees were soon ... | 60 |
| 1402 | 9 Dec 2003 | Tarjei Vesaas | Sun-corner | At home there's a su... | 26 |
| 1403 | 10 Dec 2003 | W. H. Auden | As the poets have mournfully sung | As the poets have mo... | 5 |
| 1404 | 12 Dec 2003 | Dario Fo | An Old Sicilian Song | A woman crossing the... | 38 |
| 1405 | 16 Dec 2003 | William Blake | The Lamb | Little Lamb, who mad... | 20 |
| 1406 | 17 Dec 2003 | Bertolt Brecht | A Worker Reads History | Who built the seven ... | 27 |
| 1407 | 19 Dec 2003 | Thomas Lux | The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball | each day mowed | 30 |
| 1408 | 20 Dec 2003 | Bill Watterson | My Mom and Dad | My mom and my dad ar... | 22 |
| 1409 | 25 Dec 2003 | Joni Mitchell | River | It's coming on Christmas | 39 |
| 1410 | 26 Dec 2003 | Pablo Neruda | If You Forget Me | I want you to know | 47 |
| 1411 | 27 Dec 2003 | Derek Walcott | Pentecost | Better a jungle in t... | 20 |
| 1412 | 28 Dec 2003 | A. E. Houseman | The Colour of His Hair | Oh who is that young... | 16 |
| 1413 | 29 Dec 2003 | W. H. Auden | Christmas Oratio | Well, so that is tha... | 53 |
| 1414 | 30 Dec 2003 | Rudyard Kipling | The Old Issue | "Here is nothing new... | 71 |
| 1415 | 31 Dec 2003 | Chris Rea | Gone Fishing | I'm going fishing | 21 |
| 1416 | 1 Jan 2004 | Roald Dahl | Cinderella | I guess you think yo... | 122 |
| 1417 | 2 Jan 2004 | Rabindranath Tagore | At the last watch | Pity, in place of love, | 60 |
| 1418 | 3 Jan 2004 | Gerald Jonas | Electronically Yours | Baud: the rate of sp... | 12 |
| 1419 | 4 Jan 2004 | Guy L. Steele, Jr | Telnet Song | There is a program c... | 27 |
| 1420 | 5 Jan 2004 | Charles Bukowski | Hemingway Never Did This | I read that he lost ... | 31 |
| 1421 | 6 Jan 2004 | Charles Bukowski | the trash can | this is great, I jus... | 29 |
| 1422 | 7 Jan 2004 | Lucy Maud Montgomery | My Library | It is small and dim ... | 24 |
| 1423 | 8 Jan 2004 | James Fenton | Out of Danger | Heart be kind and si... | 20 |
| 1424 | 9 Jan 2004 | Pare Lorentz | The River | From as far West as ... | 302 |
| 1425 | 10 Jan 2004 | John Ashbery | The Ecclesiast | "Worse than the sunf... | 42 |
| 1426 | 11 Jan 2004 | Nissim Ezekiel | The Hill | This normative hill | 56 |
| 1427 | 12 Jan 2004 | Neil Young | Out of Control | Once, high on a hill... | 22 |
| 1428 | 13 Jan 2004 | Simon Goodway | Octopusses | I don't know what th... | 4 |
| 1429 | 14 Jan 2004 | Mary Youngquist | Winter Reigns | Shimmering, gleaming... | 16 |
| 1430 | 15 Jan 2004 | Lisel Mueller | Not only the Eskimos | Not only the Eskimos | 55 |
| 1431 | 16 Jan 2004 | William Blake | London | I wander thro' each ... | 16 |
| 1432 | 17 Jan 2004 | Wallace Stevens | The Snow Man | One must have a mind... | 15 |
| 1433 | 18 Jan 2004 | Anonymous | Winter | Wind piercing, hill ... | 30 |
| 1434 | 19 Jan 2004 | Rosemary Dobson | A Fine Thing | To be a scarecrow | 27 |
| 1435 | 20 Jan 2004 | Maya Angelou | Preacher, Don't Send Me | Preacher, don't send me | 32 |
| 1436 | 21 Jan 2004 | Emily Dickinson | I Cannot Live with You | I cannot live with you, | 51 |
| 1437 | 22 Jan 2004 | Yehuda Amichai | My Father | The memory of my fat... | 6 |
| 1438 | 23 Jan 2004 | Harindranath Chattopadhyaya | Shaper Shaped | In days gone by I us... | 32 |
| 1439 | 24 Jan 2004 | Federico García Lorca | Gacela of the Dark Death | I want to sleep the ... | 23 |
| 1440 | 25 Jan 2004 | Francis Brett Young | Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus | Arthur is gone . . .... | 48 |
| 1441 | 26 Jan 2004 | W. B. Yeats | Among School Children | I | 72 |
| 1442 | 28 Jan 2004 | Faiz Ahmed Faiz | Let Me Think | You ask me about tha... | 7 |
| 1443 | 29 Jan 2004 | T. S. Eliot | The Dry Salvages: Canto III | I sometimes wonder i... | 47 |
| 1444 | 30 Jan 2004 | Wendy Cope | Being Boring | If you ask me 'What'... | 24 |
| 1445 | 31 Jan 2004 | Mark Granier | What Did You Do On Your Weekend In Vancouver? | Walked with the traf... | 21 |
| 1446 | 1 Feb 2004 | E. Clerihew Bentley | The People of Spain Think Cervantes | The people of Spain ... | 4 |
| 1447 | 2 Feb 2004 | Leonard Cohen | Take This Waltz | Now in Vienna there'... | 53 |
| 1448 | 3 Feb 2004 | Yehuda Amichai | The Diameter of the Bomb | The diameter of the ... | 16 |
| 1449 | 4 Feb 2004 | Louis Simpson | The Inner Part | When they had won the war | 12 |
| 1450 | 5 Feb 2004 | W. H. Auden | After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics | If all a top physici... | 48 |
| 1451 | 6 Feb 2004 | Rainer Maria Rilke | Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction, Joy | Rose, oh pure contra... | 3 |
| 1452 | 7 Feb 2004 | William Blake | The Clod and the Pebble | Love seeketh not Its... | 12 |
| 1453 | 8 Feb 2004 | Vikram Seth | Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) | Why, asks a friend, ... | 14 |
| 1454 | 9 Feb 2004 | Jacqueline Carey | An Exile's Lament | Beneath the golden balm | 8 |
| 1455 | 10 Feb 2004 | bpNichol | The Queerness of it All | frQg | 3 |
| 1456 | 11 Feb 2004 | Richard Brautigan | It's raining in love | I don't know what it is, | 37 |
| 1457 | 12 Feb 2004 | John Dressel | Spring Song, Meirionydd | A white combustion r... | 16 |
| 1458 | 13 Feb 2004 | Don Marquis | aesop revised by archy | a wolf met a spring | 98 |
| 1459 | 18 Feb 2004 | Kaniyan Punkunran | Every Town a Home Town | Every town our home town, | 24 |
| 1460 | 19 Feb 2004 | Dorothy Parker | Love Song | My own dear love, he... | 24 |
| 1461 | 20 Feb 2004 | Owen Meredith | Lucile: Part 1, Canto 2 | We may live without ... | 8 |
| 1462 | 21 Feb 2004 | Shel Silverstein | Point of View | Thanksgiving dinner'... | 12 |
| 1463 | 23 Feb 2004 | Gaius Valerius Catullus | Song Five | Let us live, my Lesb... | 13 |
| 1464 | 24 Feb 2004 | Sir Walter Raleigh | From Catullus V | The sun may set and rise, | 4 |
| 1465 | 25 Feb 2004 | Ben Jonson | Come, My Celia | Come, my Celia, let ... | 18 |
| 1466 | 26 Feb 2004 | Thomas Campion | My Sweetest Lesbia | (in imitation of Cat... | 19 |
| 1467 | 27 Feb 2004 | Dorothy Parker | From A Letter From Lesbia | ... So, praise the g... | 12 |
| 1468 | 1 Mar 2004 | Edward Hirsch | Song Against Natural Selection | The weak survive! | 30 |
| 1469 | 2 Mar 2004 | Elizabeth Bishop | Song for the Rainy Season | Hidden, oh hidden | 60 |
| 1470 | 3 Mar 2004 | Su Shi | Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake | Listen not to the ra... | 11 |
| 1471 | 4 Mar 2004 | Carlos Drummond de Andrade | In the Middle of the Road | In the middle of the... | 10 |
| 1472 | 5 Mar 2004 | Robert Frost | In A Disused Graveyard | The living come with... | 16 |
| 1473 | 6 Mar 2004 | J. K. Stephen | Drinking Song | There are people, I ... | 24 |
| 1474 | 8 Mar 2004 | Robert Burns | Ae Fond Kiss | Ae fond kiss, and th... | 24 |
| 1475 | 9 Mar 2004 | George Santayana | I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight | I sought on earth a ... | 14 |
| 1476 | 11 Mar 2004 | Thomas Parke D'Invilliers | Then Wear the Gold Hat | Then wear the gold h... | 4 |
| 1477 | 12 Mar 2004 | Vachel Lindsay | The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken | A little colt -- bro... | 40 |
| 1478 | 13 Mar 2004 | Mark Strand | A Piece Of The Storm | For Sharon Horvath | 13 |
| 1479 | 15 Mar 2004 | Neil Young | Peace of Mind | You know it takes | 42 |
| 1480 | 16 Mar 2004 | Virgil | The Aeneid: I, 1-7 | War tales and heroes... | 14 |
| 1481 | 17 Mar 2004 | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Brothers | What regiment are yo... | 10 |
| 1482 | 18 Mar 2004 | William Butler Yeats | The Scholars | Bald heads, forgetfu... | 12 |
| 1483 | 21 Mar 2004 | Ronald Koertge | An Infinite Number of Monkeys | After all the Shakes... | 15 |
| 1484 | 24 Mar 2004 | Ogden Nash | The Wombat | The wombat lives acr... | 8 |
| 1485 | 25 Mar 2004 | Anise | Untitled | What scares them most is | 30 |
| 1486 | 27 Mar 2004 | Dylan Thomas | And Death Shall Have No Dominion | And death shall have... | 27 |
| 1487 | 28 Mar 2004 | Christopher Logue | All Day Permanent Red (extract) | To welcome Hector to... | 37 |
| 1488 | 29 Mar 2004 | Mervyn Peake | To Maeve | You walk unaware | 15 |
| 1489 | 30 Mar 2004 | Dafydd ap Gwilym | The Ruin | Nothing but a ruin now | 37 |
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