The Wondering Minstrels

Sorted on length, fragment 701 - 800
# Date Poet Title 1stLine Length

1050 10 May 2002 John Betjeman Devonshire Street W.1 The heavy mahogany d... 16

1397 25 Nov 2003 Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem 16

3 11 Feb 1999 Gerard Manley Hopkins Inversnaid This darksome burn, ... 16

775 8 May 2001 Herman Melville The Maldive Shark About the Shark, phl... 16

760 21 Apr 2001 Alexander Pushkin The Name What is my name to y... 16

439 28 May 2000 A.E. Housman A Shropshire Lad - XV Look not in my eyes,... 16

8 17 Feb 1999 Christina Rosetti Song When I am dead, my d... 16

662 9 Jan 2001 Jibanananda Das Cat Again and again thro... 16

853 31 Jul 2001 Sukumar Ray Stew Much A duck once met a po... 16

19 01 Mar 1999 Robert Burns John Anderson My Jo John Anderson my jo,... 16

1035 13 Apr 2002 Dylan Thomas The Hand That Signed The Paper The hand that signed... 16

758 18 Apr 2001 John Masefield Sea-Change "Goneys an' gullies ... 16

26 08 Mar 1999 William Blake Jerusalem And did those feet i... 16

1499 18 Apr 2004 Wendy Cope The Uncertainty of the Poet I am a poet. 16

1504 29 Apr 2004 Humbert Wolfe Requiem: The Soldier Down some cold field... 16

1676 14 Apr 2005 Andrew Motion Spring Wedding I took your news out... 16

1508 20 May 2004 W. H. Auden O Where Are You Going? "O where are you goi... 16

31 12 Mar 1999 Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, break, break Break, break, break, 16

32 14 Mar 1999 William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall ... 16

33 15 Mar 1999 A. E. Housman A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI White in the moon th... 16

1511 27 May 2004 Anna Akhmatova Lot's Wife And the just man tra... 16

766 27 Apr 2001 Humbert Wolfe The Grey Squirrel Like a small grey 16

425 12 May 2000 Robert Browning Memorabilia Ah, did you once see... 16

415 01 May 2000 Sir Walter Scott The Truth of Woman Woman's faith, and w... 16

1808 4 Jan 2006 Phil Ochs Power and Glory Come and take a walk... 16

1781 17 Oct 2005 Basavanna Vacana #105 A snake-charmer and ... 16

531 29 Aug 2000 Percy Bysshe Shelley Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle... 16

907 6 Oct 2001 Felix Jung Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad Today, I have decided 16

47 29 Mar 1999 Christina Rossetti Uphill Does the road wind u... 16

1689 3 May 2005 Robert Service The Bread-Knife Ballad A little child was s... 16

419 05 May 2000 Boris Pasternak March The sun is hotter th... 16

969 23 Dec 2001 Tony Harrison Long Distance II Though my mother was... 16

1051 11 May 2002 A. A. Milne Happiness John had 16

1530 12 Jul 2004 G. K. Chesterton The Donkey When fishes flew and... 16

1472 5 Mar 2004 Robert Frost In A Disused Graveyard The living come with... 16

1060 7 Jun 2002 Laura Riding The World and I This is not exactly ... 16

1457 12 Feb 2004 John Dressel Spring Song, Meirionydd A white combustion r... 16

1010 1 Mar 2002 A. S. J. Tessimond Cats Cats no less liquid ... 16

1538 27 Aug 2004 C.K. Williams Love: Beginnings They're at that stag... 16

863 12 Aug 2001 Norman MacCaig Frogs Frogs sit more solid 16

317 19 Jan 2000 Edna St. Vincent Millay Inland People that build th... 16

1448 3 Feb 2004 Yehuda Amichai The Diameter of the Bomb The diameter of the ... 16

828 4 Jul 2001 Robert L. Stevenson Where Go the Boats? Dark brown is the river, 16

1777 5 Oct 2005 Billy Collins Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem 16

1081 27 Aug 2002 Paul Laurence Dunbar The Dilettante: A Modern Type He scribbles some in... 16

931 2 Nov 2001 Sir Walter Scott Proud Maisie Proud Maisie is in t... 16

721 11 Mar 2001 John Dryden Marriage a la mode Why should a foolish... 16

1361 30 Sep 2003 Anon English Monarchs Willie Willie Harry Stee 16

81 4 May 1999 Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose O my Luve's like a r... 16

1131 19 Dec 2002 Denise Levertov Adam's Complaint Some people, 16

84 9 May 1999 R. L. Stevenson From a Railway Carriage Faster than fairies,... 16

1360 29 Sep 2003 Donald Monat Untitled Lying south of sweet... 16

86 11 May 1999 A. E. Housman When I Was One-and-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty 16

1431 16 Jan 2004 William Blake London I wander thro' each ... 16

1554 3 Nov 2004 Spike Milligan Look at all those monkeys Look at all those monkeys 16

1429 14 Jan 2004 Mary Youngquist Winter Reigns Shimmering, gleaming... 16

92 18 May 1999 Emily Dickinson There's a certain Slant of light There's a certain Sl... 16

805 8 Jun 2001 James Maxwell Rigid Body Sings Gin a body meet a body 16

867 15 Aug 2001 Cream Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) Twice upon a time in... 16

994 8 Feb 2002 Robert Frost The Gift Outright The land was ours be... 16

1087 5 Sep 2002 William Blake A Poison Tree I was angry with my ... 16

1705 21 May 2005 Mary Frye Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep Do not stand at my g... 16

1412 28 Dec 2003 A. E. Houseman The Colour of His Hair Oh who is that young... 16

952 27 Nov 2001 Drummond Allison Verity (In memory of Captai... 16

1578 20 Dec 2004 Edward Thomas The Owl Downhill I came, hun... 16

1100 8 Oct 2002 Roger McGough A Good Poem I like a good poem 16

534 01 Sep 2000 Charles Baudelaire The Albatross Often to pass the ti... 16

979 4 Jan 2002 Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the Young So Abram rose, and c... 16

1691 6 May 2005 Sir Walter Scott Patriotism Breathes there the m... 16

926 28 Oct 2001 Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to... 16

1598 15 Jan 2005 Hart Crane Voyages - I Above the fresh ruff... 16

127 22 Jun 1999 John Milton On Shakespear What needs my Shakes... 16

1330 20 Aug 2003 Philip Larkin Money Quarterly, is it, mo... 16

795 29 May 2001 Harold P. Furth The Perils of Modern Living Well up above the tr... 16

971 27 Dec 2001 Patrick Kavanagh Raglan Road On Raglan Road on an... 16

1327 17 Aug 2003 X. J. Kennedy What We Might Be, What We Are If you were a scoop ... 16

155 22 Jul 1999 Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these ar... 16

1612 3 Feb 2005 Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones We stood by a pond t... 16

1317 4 Aug 2003 Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cor... 16

540 07 Sep 2000 Gavin Ewart Office Friendships Eve is madly in love... 16

1765 13 Sep 2005 Emily Dickinson Further in Summer than the Birds Further in Summer th... 16

515 14 Aug 2000 Robert Graves The Persian Version Truth-loving Persian... 16

1314 31 Jul 2003 Becky Dennison Sakellariou Math Is Beautiful and So Are You If n is an even number 16

508 06 Aug 2000 Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing I saw in Louisiana a... 16

618 27 Nov 2000 W. H. Auden The More Loving One Looking up at the st... 16

739 30 Mar 2001 Anon Song of Creation Then there was neith... 16

180 18 Aug 1999 Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream Call the roller of b... 16

381 27 Mar 2000 Mihail Eminescu From Among Hundreds of Masts From among hundreds ... 16

183 21 Aug 1999 William Makepeace Thackeray Sorrows of Werther Werther had a love f... 16

611 19 Nov 2000 William Shakespeare Winter When icicles hang by... 16

340 14 Feb 2000 Ben Jonson To Celia Drink to me, only, w... 16

212 21 Sep 1999 Franklin P. Adams To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour Lady in the blue kim... 16

470 29 Jun 2000 Dora Sigerson Shorter The Comforters When I crept over th... 16

221 30 Sep 1999 William Ernest Henley Invictus Out of the night tha... 16

1745 30 Jul 2005 Emily Dickinson I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed I taste a liquor nev... 16

1188 4 Mar 2003 Padraic H. Pearse The Mother I do not grudge them... 16

469 27 Jun 2000 Orhan Veli Towards Freedom 'Ere the day dawns, ... 16

1660 28 Mar 2005 Arthur Hugh Clough Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth Say not the struggle... 16

1192 9 Mar 2003 Edward Thomas Adlestrop Yes, I remember Adle... 16

406 21 Apr 2000 Anna Wickham Song I will pluck from my... 16

1249 8 May 2003 Wallace Stevens The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet ... 16

596 4 Nov 2000 Simon Armitage I Say I Say I Say Anyone here had a go... 16

1757 23 Aug 2005 John Webster Vanitas Vanitatum All the flowers of t... 16

351 25 Feb 2000 William Empson The Teasers Not but they die, th... 16

451 09 Jun 2000 William Butler Yeats Leda and the Swan A sudden blow 16

256 08 Nov 1999 W.H. Auden Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks,... 16

675 24 Jan 2001 Robert Burns Comin' Thro the Rye O, Jenny's a' weet, ... 17

1755 11 Aug 2005 Angel Gonzalez Diatribe Against the Dead The dead are selfish 17

304 29 Dec 1999 Edwin Morgan The Subway Piranhas Did anyone tell you 17

1584 29 Dec 2004 John Hegley Go and play in the middle my Mum used to watch... 17

1592 8 Jan 2005 Edwin Morgan One Cigarette No smoke without you... 17

869 19 Aug 2001 Louis McKee Scrabble We used to pride our... 17

39 20 Mar 1999 Alexander Pope The Riddle of the World Know then thyself, p... 17

278 30 Nov 1999 Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams 1 17

1172 14 Feb 2003 Hugh MacDiarmid Scotland Small? Scotland small? Our ... 17

208 17 Sep 1999 Samuel Foote The Great Panjandrum So she went into the... 17

1780 14 Oct 2005 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Talk You're a brave man t... 17

1379 4 Nov 2003 Naomi Shihab Nye Rain A teacher asked Paul 17

214 23 Sep 1999 E.E. Cummings Where's Madge then, Where's Madge then, 17

471 30 Jun 2000 Ilam Peruvaluti This world lives This world lives 17

428 16 May 2000 Eve Merriam Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" take the leaf of a tree 17

704 21 Feb 2001 Christopher Isherwood On His Queerness When I was young and... 17

453 12 Jun 2000 Mark Strand Keeping Things Whole In a field 17

823 29 Jun 2001 Piet Hein Astro-Gymnastics Do-it-yourself grook 17

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Sorted on **length**, fragment 701 - 800
#	Date	Poet	Title	1stLine	Length
1050	10 May 2002	John Betjeman	Devonshire Street W.1	The heavy mahogany d...	16
1397	25 Nov 2003	Billy Collins	Introduction to Poetry	I ask them to take a poem	16
3	11 Feb 1999	Gerard Manley Hopkins	Inversnaid	This darksome burn, ...	16
775	8 May 2001	Herman Melville	The Maldive Shark	About the Shark, phl...	16
760	21 Apr 2001	Alexander Pushkin	The Name	What is my name to y...	16
439	28 May 2000	A.E. Housman	A Shropshire Lad - XV	Look not in my eyes,...	16
8	17 Feb 1999	Christina Rosetti	Song	When I am dead, my d...	16
662	9 Jan 2001	Jibanananda Das	Cat	Again and again thro...	16
853	31 Jul 2001	Sukumar Ray	Stew Much	A duck once met a po...	16
19	01 Mar 1999	Robert Burns	John Anderson My Jo	John Anderson my jo,...	16
1035	13 Apr 2002	Dylan Thomas	The Hand That Signed The Paper	The hand that signed...	16
758	18 Apr 2001	John Masefield	Sea-Change	"Goneys an' gullies ...	16
26	08 Mar 1999	William Blake	Jerusalem	And did those feet i...	16
1499	18 Apr 2004	Wendy Cope	The Uncertainty of the Poet	I am a poet.	16
1504	29 Apr 2004	Humbert Wolfe	Requiem: The Soldier	Down some cold field...	16
1676	14 Apr 2005	Andrew Motion	Spring Wedding	I took your news out...	16
1508	20 May 2004	W. H. Auden	O Where Are You Going?	"O where are you goi...	16
31	12 Mar 1999	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Break, break, break	Break, break, break,	16
32	14 Mar 1999	William Butler Yeats	An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	I know that I shall ...	16
33	15 Mar 1999	A. E. Housman	A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	White in the moon th...	16
1511	27 May 2004	Anna Akhmatova	Lot's Wife	And the just man tra...	16
766	27 Apr 2001	Humbert Wolfe	The Grey Squirrel	Like a small grey	16
425	12 May 2000	Robert Browning	Memorabilia	Ah, did you once see...	16
415	01 May 2000	Sir Walter Scott	The Truth of Woman	Woman's faith, and w...	16
1808	4 Jan 2006	Phil Ochs	Power and Glory	Come and take a walk...	16
1781	17 Oct 2005	Basavanna	Vacana #105	A snake-charmer and ...	16
531	29 Aug 2000	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Love's Philosophy	The fountains mingle...	16
907	6 Oct 2001	Felix Jung	Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad	Today, I have decided	16
47	29 Mar 1999	Christina Rossetti	Uphill	Does the road wind u...	16
1689	3 May 2005	Robert Service	The Bread-Knife Ballad	A little child was s...	16
419	05 May 2000	Boris Pasternak	March	The sun is hotter th...	16
969	23 Dec 2001	Tony Harrison	Long Distance II	Though my mother was...	16
1051	11 May 2002	A. A. Milne	Happiness	John had	16
1530	12 Jul 2004	G. K. Chesterton	The Donkey	When fishes flew and...	16
1472	5 Mar 2004	Robert Frost	In A Disused Graveyard	The living come with...	16
1060	7 Jun 2002	Laura Riding	The World and I	This is not exactly ...	16
1457	12 Feb 2004	John Dressel	Spring Song, Meirionydd	A white combustion r...	16
1010	1 Mar 2002	A. S. J. Tessimond	Cats	Cats no less liquid ...	16
1538	27 Aug 2004	C.K. Williams	Love: Beginnings	They're at that stag...	16
863	12 Aug 2001	Norman MacCaig	Frogs	Frogs sit more solid	16
317	19 Jan 2000	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Inland	People that build th...	16
1448	3 Feb 2004	Yehuda Amichai	The Diameter of the Bomb	The diameter of the ...	16
828	4 Jul 2001	Robert L. Stevenson	Where Go the Boats?	Dark brown is the river,	16
1777	5 Oct 2005	Billy Collins	Introduction To Poetry	I ask them to take a poem	16
1081	27 Aug 2002	Paul Laurence Dunbar	The Dilettante: A Modern Type	He scribbles some in...	16
931	2 Nov 2001	Sir Walter Scott	Proud Maisie	Proud Maisie is in t...	16
721	11 Mar 2001	John Dryden	Marriage a la mode	Why should a foolish...	16
1361	30 Sep 2003	Anon	English Monarchs	Willie Willie Harry Stee	16
81	4 May 1999	Robert Burns	A Red, Red Rose	O my Luve's like a r...	16
1131	19 Dec 2002	Denise Levertov	Adam's Complaint	Some people,	16
84	9 May 1999	R. L. Stevenson	From a Railway Carriage	Faster than fairies,...	16
1360	29 Sep 2003	Donald Monat	Untitled	Lying south of sweet...	16
86	11 May 1999	A. E. Housman	When I Was One-and-Twenty	When I was one-and-twenty	16
1431	16 Jan 2004	William Blake	London	I wander thro' each ...	16
1554	3 Nov 2004	Spike Milligan	Look at all those monkeys	Look at all those monkeys	16
1429	14 Jan 2004	Mary Youngquist	Winter Reigns	Shimmering, gleaming...	16
92	18 May 1999	Emily Dickinson	There's a certain Slant of light	There's a certain Sl...	16
805	8 Jun 2001	James Maxwell	Rigid Body Sings	Gin a body meet a body	16
867	15 Aug 2001	Cream	Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme)	Twice upon a time in...	16
994	8 Feb 2002	Robert Frost	The Gift Outright	The land was ours be...	16
1087	5 Sep 2002	William Blake	A Poison Tree	I was angry with my ...	16
1705	21 May 2005	Mary Frye	Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep	Do not stand at my g...	16
1412	28 Dec 2003	A. E. Houseman	The Colour of His Hair	Oh who is that young...	16
952	27 Nov 2001	Drummond Allison	Verity	(In memory of Captai...	16
1578	20 Dec 2004	Edward Thomas	The Owl	Downhill I came, hun...	16
1100	8 Oct 2002	Roger McGough	A Good Poem	I like a good poem	16
534	01 Sep 2000	Charles Baudelaire	The Albatross	Often to pass the ti...	16
979	4 Jan 2002	Wilfred Owen	The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	So Abram rose, and c...	16
1691	6 May 2005	Sir Walter Scott	Patriotism	Breathes there the m...	16
926	28 Oct 2001	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Dirge Without Music	I am not resigned to...	16
1598	15 Jan 2005	Hart Crane	Voyages - I	Above the fresh ruff...	16
127	22 Jun 1999	John Milton	On Shakespear	What needs my Shakes...	16
1330	20 Aug 2003	Philip Larkin	Money	Quarterly, is it, mo...	16
795	29 May 2001	Harold P. Furth	The Perils of Modern Living	Well up above the tr...	16
971	27 Dec 2001	Patrick Kavanagh	Raglan Road	On Raglan Road on an...	16
1327	17 Aug 2003	X. J. Kennedy	What We Might Be, What We Are	If you were a scoop ...	16
155	22 Jul 1999	Robert Frost	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Whose woods these ar...	16
1612	3 Feb 2005	Thomas Hardy	Neutral Tones	We stood by a pond t...	16
1317	4 Aug 2003	Edwin Arlington Robinson	Richard Cory	Whenever Richard Cor...	16
540	07 Sep 2000	Gavin Ewart	Office Friendships	Eve is madly in love...	16
1765	13 Sep 2005	Emily Dickinson	Further in Summer than the Birds	Further in Summer th...	16
515	14 Aug 2000	Robert Graves	The Persian Version	Truth-loving Persian...	16
1314	31 Jul 2003	Becky Dennison Sakellariou	Math Is Beautiful and So Are You	If n is an even number	16
508	06 Aug 2000	Walt Whitman	I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	I saw in Louisiana a...	16
618	27 Nov 2000	W. H. Auden	The More Loving One	Looking up at the st...	16
739	30 Mar 2001	Anon	Song of Creation	Then there was neith...	16
180	18 Aug 1999	Wallace Stevens	The Emperor of Ice-Cream	Call the roller of b...	16
381	27 Mar 2000	Mihail Eminescu	From Among Hundreds of Masts	From among hundreds ...	16
183	21 Aug 1999	William Makepeace Thackeray	Sorrows of Werther	Werther had a love f...	16
611	19 Nov 2000	William Shakespeare	Winter	When icicles hang by...	16
340	14 Feb 2000	Ben Jonson	To Celia	Drink to me, only, w...	16
212	21 Sep 1999	Franklin P. Adams	To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour	Lady in the blue kim...	16
470	29 Jun 2000	Dora Sigerson Shorter	The Comforters	When I crept over th...	16
221	30 Sep 1999	William Ernest Henley	Invictus	Out of the night tha...	16
1745	30 Jul 2005	Emily Dickinson	I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed	I taste a liquor nev...	16
1188	4 Mar 2003	Padraic H. Pearse	The Mother	I do not grudge them...	16
469	27 Jun 2000	Orhan Veli	Towards Freedom	'Ere the day dawns, ...	16
1660	28 Mar 2005	Arthur Hugh Clough	Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth	Say not the struggle...	16
1192	9 Mar 2003	Edward Thomas	Adlestrop	Yes, I remember Adle...	16
406	21 Apr 2000	Anna Wickham	Song	I will pluck from my...	16
1249	8 May 2003	Wallace Stevens	The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm	The house was quiet ...	16
596	4 Nov 2000	Simon Armitage	I Say I Say I Say	Anyone here had a go...	16
1757	23 Aug 2005	John Webster	Vanitas Vanitatum	All the flowers of t...	16
351	25 Feb 2000	William Empson	The Teasers	Not but they die, th...	16
451	09 Jun 2000	William Butler Yeats	Leda and the Swan	A sudden blow	16
256	08 Nov 1999	W.H. Auden	Funeral Blues	Stop all the clocks,...	16
675	24 Jan 2001	Robert Burns	Comin' Thro the Rye	O, Jenny's a' weet, ...	17
1755	11 Aug 2005	Angel Gonzalez	Diatribe Against the Dead	The dead are selfish	17
304	29 Dec 1999	Edwin Morgan	The Subway Piranhas	Did anyone tell you	17
1584	29 Dec 2004	John Hegley	Go and play in the middle	my Mum used to watch...	17
1592	8 Jan 2005	Edwin Morgan	One Cigarette	No smoke without you...	17
869	19 Aug 2001	Louis McKee	Scrabble	We used to pride our...	17
39	20 Mar 1999	Alexander Pope	The Riddle of the World	Know then thyself, p...	17
278	30 Nov 1999	Kenneth Koch	Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams	1	17
1172	14 Feb 2003	Hugh MacDiarmid	Scotland Small?	Scotland small? Our ...	17
208	17 Sep 1999	Samuel Foote	The Great Panjandrum	So she went into the...	17
1780	14 Oct 2005	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	Talk	You're a brave man t...	17
1379	4 Nov 2003	Naomi Shihab Nye	Rain	A teacher asked Paul	17
214	23 Sep 1999	E.E. Cummings	Where's Madge then,	Where's Madge then,	17
471	30 Jun 2000	Ilam Peruvaluti	This world lives	This world lives	17
428	16 May 2000	Eve Merriam	Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?"	take the leaf of a tree	17
704	21 Feb 2001	Christopher Isherwood	On His Queerness	When I was young and...	17
453	12 Jun 2000	Mark Strand	Keeping Things Whole	In a field	17
823	29 Jun 2001	Piet Hein	Astro-Gymnastics	Do-it-yourself grook	17

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