| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 24 Apr 1999 | Harivansh Rai Bachchan | Madhushala (The Tavern) | Seeking wine, the dr... | 80 |
| 1015 | 12 Mar 2002 | Gerard Bacher | Corsica | (Before the Walk) | 50 |
| 1028 | 2 Apr 2002 | Patrick Barrington | The Diplomatic Platypus | I had a duck-billed ... | 48 |
| 1597 | 14 Jan 2005 | Patrick Barrington | I Met a Lady in the Wood | I met a lady in the wood. | 56 |
| 1699 | 14 May 2005 | Patrick Barrington | When I was Young and Ignorant | When I was young and... | 32 |
| 1577 | 19 Dec 2004 | Patrick Barrington | I Had a Hippopotamus | I had a hippopotamus... | 32 |
| 1551 | 29 Oct 2004 | Patrick Barrington | My Love is Theosophist | My love is a Theosophist | 56 |
| 1656 | 20 Mar 2005 | Patrick Barrington | Battle Song | There's havoc on the... | 52 |
| 1781 | 17 Oct 2005 | Basavanna | Vacana #105 | A snake-charmer and ... | 16 |
| 1259 | 19 May 2003 | Matsuo Basho | Untitled | The summer grasses | 3 |
| 56 | 09 Apr 1999 | Matsuo Basho | Haiku | scent of plum blossoms | 3 |
| 1021 | 24 Mar 2002 | Matsuo Basho | Matsushima | O Matsushima! | 3 |
| 802 | 6 Jun 2001 | Matsuo Basho | Haiku | Snowy morning-- | 3 |
| 23 | 05 Mar 1999 | Matsuo Basho | Haiku | old pond..... | 3 |
| 534 | 01 Sep 2000 | Charles Baudelaire | The Albatross | Often to pass the ti... | 16 |
| 581 | 20 Oct 2000 | Charles Baudelaire | Get Drunk! | Always be drunk. | 38 |
| 1506 | 10 May 2004 | James K. Baxter | Rocket Show | As warm north rain b... | 34 |
| 1703 | 19 May 2005 | Samuel Beckett | Untitled | My way is in the san... | 19 |
| 1542 | 16 Sep 2004 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Song of the Stygian Naiades | Proserpine may pull ... | 36 |
| 1253 | 13 May 2003 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Dream-Pedlary | If there were dreams... | 46 |
| 595 | 3 Nov 2000 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | The Last Man | By heaven and hell, ... | 13 |
| 1239 | 28 Apr 2003 | Dr K. D. Beernink | Hospital Haiku | The new interns | 24 |
| 226 | 5 Oct 1999 | Hilaire Belloc | October | Look, how those stee... | 14 |
| 315 | 19 Jan 2000 | Hilaire Belloc | Juliet | How did the party go... | 4 |
| 294 | 18 Dec 1999 | Hilaire Belloc | Tarantella | Do you remember an Inn, | 40 |
| 809 | 12 Jun 2001 | Hilaire Belloc | Jim | There was a Boy whos... | 54 |
| 688 | 6 Feb 2001 | Hillaire Belloc | The Yak | As a friend to the c... | 15 |
| 176 | 14 Aug 1999 | Hillaire Belloc | Is there any reward? | Is there any reward? | 8 |
| 78 | 2 May 1999 | Hillaire Belloc | The Pelagian Drinking Song | Pelagius lived at Ka... | 47 |
| 124 | 19 Jun 1999 | Hillaire Belloc | The Hippopotamus | I shoot the Hippopotamus | 4 |
| 983 | 17 Jan 2002 | Stephen Vincent Benet | The General Public | "Ah, did you once se... | 43 |
| 609 | 17 Nov 2000 | Stephen Vincent Benet | Winged Man | The moon, a sweeping... | 37 |
| 1446 | 1 Feb 2004 | E. Clerihew Bentley | The People of Spain Think Cervantes | The people of Spain ... | 4 |
| 207 | 15 Sep 1999 | Edmund Clerihew Bentley | Clerihews | The art of Biography | 28 |
| 1158 | 28 Jan 2003 | Stephen Vincent Benét | Music | My friend went to th... | 27 |
| 1763 | 9 Sep 2005 | F. J. Bergmann | An Apology | Forgive me | 11 |
| 1383 | 11 Nov 2003 | Wendell Berry | Untitled | To my granddaughters... | 23 |
| 482 | 10 Jul 2000 | John Berryman | Winter Landscape | The three men coming... | 25 |
| 1368 | 25 Oct 2003 | John Berryman | Dream Song 14 | Life, friends, is bo... | 18 |
| 1164 | 3 Feb 2003 | John Betjeman | Summoned by Bells (excerpt) | Walking from school ... | 15 |
| 613 | 21 Nov 2000 | John Betjeman | In Westminster Abbey | Let me take this oth... | 42 |
| 1050 | 10 May 2002 | John Betjeman | Devonshire Street W.1 | The heavy mahogany d... | 16 |
| 1522 | 21 Jun 2004 | John Betjeman | Slough | Come, friendly bombs... | 40 |
| 1098 | 3 Oct 2002 | John Betjeman | Indoor Games near Newbury | In among the silver ... | 58 |
| 764 | 25 Apr 2001 | John Betjeman | A Subaltern's Love Song | Miss J. Hunter Dunn,... | 44 |
| 543 | 10 Sep 2000 | John Betjeman | Executive | I am a young executi... | 24 |
| 1797 | 18 Nov 2005 | Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta | Winter '84 | I tell the corner st... | 20 |
| 773 | 6 May 2001 | Bhartrihari | Untitled | She who is always in... | 6 |
| 308 | 3 Jan 2000 | Bhartrihari | Untitled | yasya asti vittam, ... | 5 |
| 1313 | 30 Jul 2003 | Bhaskaracharya | Mathematical Problem | Whilst making love a... | 8 |
| 843 | 20 Jul 2001 | Sujata Bhatt | Love in a Bathtub | Years later we'll re... | 10 |
| 400 | 15 Apr 2000 | Ambrose Bierce | Elegy | The cur foretells th... | 4 |
| 735 | 27 Mar 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | Decalogue | Thou shalt no God bu... | 20 |
| 924 | 25 Oct 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | Christian | I dreamed I stood up... | 18 |
| 320 | 25 Jan 2000 | Ambrose Bierce | Rimer | The rimer quenches h... | 6 |
| 148 | 15 Jul 1999 | Ambrose Bierce | With a Book | Words shouting, sing... | 4 |
| 879 | 31 Aug 2001 | Ambrose Bierce | The Mad Philosopher | The flabby wine-skin... | 4 |
| 1560 | 11 Nov 2004 | Sarah Binks | Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) | Oh calf, that gambol... | 12 |
| 765 | 26 Apr 2001 | Laurence Binyon | For The Fallen | With proud thanksgiv... | 28 |
| 639 | 18 Dec 2000 | Elizabeth Bishop | One Art | The art of losing is... | 19 |
| 1469 | 2 Mar 2004 | Elizabeth Bishop | Song for the Rainy Season | Hidden, oh hidden | 60 |
| 734 | 25 Mar 2001 | Elizabeth Bishop | In the Waiting Room | In Worcester, Massac... | 99 |
| 1785 | 25 Oct 2005 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish | I caught a tremendou... | 76 |
| 1395 | 23 Nov 2003 | Elizabeth Bishop | The Man-Moth | Man-Moth: Newspaper ... | 49 |
| 999 | 14 Feb 2002 | Elizabeth Bishop | Casabianca | Love's the boy stood... | 10 |
| 1564 | 16 Nov 2004 | Elizabeth Bishop | Visits to St. Elizabeth's | This is the house of... | 78 |
| 1521 | 19 Jun 2004 | Hamish Blair | The Bloody Orkneys | This bloody town's a... | 32 |
| 368 | 13 Mar 2000 | William Blake | Auguries of Innocence | To see a World in a ... | 132 |
| 1664 | 1 Apr 2005 | William Blake | The Echoing Green | The sun does arise, | 30 |
| 1452 | 7 Feb 2004 | William Blake | The Clod and the Pebble | Love seeketh not Its... | 12 |
| 1405 | 16 Dec 2003 | William Blake | The Lamb | Little Lamb, who mad... | 20 |
| 26 | 08 Mar 1999 | William Blake | Jerusalem | And did those feet i... | 16 |
| 97 | 23 May 1999 | William Blake | The Fly | Little Fly | 20 |
| 771 | 2 May 2001 | William Blake | The Divine Image | Cruelty has a Human ... | 8 |
| 546 | 14 Sep 2000 | William Blake | The Sick Rose | O Rose, thou art sick! | 8 |
| 1431 | 16 Jan 2004 | William Blake | London | I wander thro' each ... | 16 |
| 66 | 19 Apr 1999 | William Blake | The Tyger | Tyger! Tyger! Burnin... | 24 |
| 1087 | 5 Sep 2002 | William Blake | A Poison Tree | I was angry with my ... | 16 |
| 981 | 9 Jan 2002 | Eric Bogle | The Band Played Waltzing Matilda | Now when I was a you... | 64 |
| 1557 | 8 Nov 2004 | Eric Bogle | Now I'm Easy | For nearly sixty yea... | 25 |
| 1364 | 5 Oct 2003 | Ruskin Bond | It Isn't Time That's Passing | Remember the long ag... | 10 |
| 475 | 04 Jul 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | The Other Tiger | A tiger comes to min... | 47 |
| 584 | 23 Oct 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | History of the Night | Throughout the cours... | 27 |
| 401 | 17 Apr 2000 | Jorge Luis Borges | To a Cat | Mirrors are not more... | 14 |
| 365 | 10 Mar 2000 | John Collins Bossidy | Boston | And this is good old... | 4 |
| 1240 | 29 Apr 2003 | Francis William Bourdillon | The Night has a Thousand Eyes | The night has a thou... | 8 |
| 189 | 27 Aug 1999 | bpNichol | dear Captain Poetry | dear Captain Poetry, | 24 |
| 497 | 26 Jul 2000 | bpNichol | Landscape: I | (for thomas a. clark) | 3 |
| 1455 | 10 Feb 2004 | bpNichol | The Queerness of it All | frQg | 3 |
| 1178 | 20 Feb 2003 | Edward Kamau Braithwaite | Mmenson | Summon now the kings... | 15 |
| 1456 | 11 Feb 2004 | Richard Brautigan | It's raining in love | I don't know what it is, | 37 |
| 927 | 29 Oct 2001 | Bertolt Brecht | I'm not saying anything against Alexander | Timur, I hear, took ... | 13 |
| 1406 | 17 Dec 2003 | Bertolt Brecht | A Worker Reads History | Who built the seven ... | 27 |
| 1529 | 10 Jul 2004 | Jacques Brel | Timid Frieda | Timid Frieda | 70 |
| 536 | 03 Sep 2000 | Diana Bridge | Lighter than a feather | I | 47 |
| 105 | 31 May 1999 | Edwin Brock | Five Ways to Kill a Man | There are many cumbe... | 32 |
| 1589 | 4 Jan 2005 | Joseph Brodsky | At a Lecture | Since mistakes are i... | 28 |
| 1345 | 9 Sep 2003 | Emily Bronte | Remembrance | Cold in the earth an... | 32 |
| 262 | 14 Nov 1999 | Emily Bronte | No Coward Soul is Mine | No coward soul is mine, | 28 |
| 1659 | 23 Mar 2005 | Emily Bronte | The Night Wind | In summer's mellow m... | 36 |
| 589 | 28 Oct 2000 | Rupert Brooke | Sonnet Reversed | Hand trembling towar... | 14 |
| 1047 | 5 May 2002 | Rupert Brooke | Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire | Oh! Death will find ... | 14 |
| 847 | 24 Jul 2001 | Rupert Brooke | On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess | Song of a tribe of t... | 29 |
| 280 | 2 Dec 1999 | Rupert Brooke | The Soldier | If I should die, thi... | 14 |
| 972 | 28 Dec 2001 | Rupert Brooke | The Beginning | Some day I shall ris... | 20 |
| 1244 | 3 May 2003 | Rupert Brooke | Dust | When the white flame... | 44 |
| 1580 | 22 Dec 2004 | Rupert Brooke | Heaven | Fish (fly-replete, i... | 34 |
| 514 | 13 Aug 2000 | Rupert Brooke | The Chilterns | Your hands, my dear,... | 40 |
| 1652 | 15 Mar 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Gay Chaps at the Bar | ...and guys I knew i... | 20 |
| 1627 | 18 Feb 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool | THE POOL PLAYERS. | 10 |
| 527 | 25 Aug 2000 | Thomas Edward Brown | I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May | I bended unto me a b... | 12 |
| 877 | 30 Aug 2001 | Tom Brown | I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell | I do not love thee, ... | 4 |
| 591 | 31 Oct 2000 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnet XIV | If thou must love me... | 14 |
| 269 | 21 Nov 1999 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | How do I love thee? | How do I love thee? ... | 14 |
| 839 | 16 Jul 2001 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | A Musical Instrument | I. | 49 |
| 133 | 29 Jun 1999 | Robert Browning | Song, from Pippa Passes | The year's at the spring, | 8 |
| 1722 | 17 Jun 2005 | Robert Browning | The Lost Mistress | All's over, then: do... | 20 |
| 130 | 26 Jun 1999 | Robert Browning | The Lost Leader | Just for a handful o... | 32 |
| 814 | 19 Jun 2001 | Robert Browning | Parting at Morning | Round the cape of a ... | 4 |
| 635 | 14 Dec 2000 | Robert Browning | Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | GR-R-R--there go, my... | 72 |
| 1737 | 23 Jul 2005 | Robert Browning | Meeting at Night | The gray sea and the... | 12 |
| 242 | 23 Oct 1999 | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | A Child's Story | 320 |
| 104 | 30 May 1999 | Robert Browning | My Last Duchess | That's my last Duche... | 56 |
| 526 | 24 Aug 2000 | Robert Browning | A Toccata of Galuppi's | Oh Galuppi, Baldassa... | 45 |
| 352 | 26 Feb 2000 | Robert Browning | My Star | All that I know | 13 |
| 364 | 09 Mar 2000 | Robert Browning | The Patriot | - An Old Story | 37 |
| 65 | 17 Apr 1999 | Robert Browning | Home Thoughts From Abroad | Oh, to be in England | 20 |
| 778 | 11 May 2001 | Robert Browning | Incident of the French Camp | You know, we French ... | 40 |
| 425 | 12 May 2000 | Robert Browning | Memorabilia | Ah, did you once see... | 16 |
| 1273 | 10 Jun 2003 | Robert Browning | Love among the Ruins | Where the quiet-colo... | 84 |
| 1103 | 12 Oct 2002 | Robert Browning | Prospice | Fear death? -- to fe... | 28 |
| 1117 | 26 Nov 2002 | Robert Browning | Home-thoughts, from the Sea | Nobly, nobly Cape Sa... | 7 |
| 1109 | 30 Oct 2002 | Robert Browning | Porphyria's Lover | The rain set early i... | 60 |
| 302 | 26 Dec 1999 | William Cullen Bryant | Thanatopsis | To him who in the lo... | 81 |
| 1799 | 25 Dec 2005 | St. Jean de Brébeuf | The Huron Carol | ’Twas in the moon of... | 32 |
| 1756 | 22 Aug 2005 | David Budbill | Dilemma | I want to be | 12 |
| 901 | 28 Sep 2001 | Charles Bukowski | oh yes | there are worse thin... | 10 |
| 1421 | 6 Jan 2004 | Charles Bukowski | the trash can | this is great, I jus... | 29 |
| 1420 | 5 Jan 2004 | Charles Bukowski | Hemingway Never Did This | I read that he lost ... | 31 |
| 1623 | 14 Feb 2005 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | To The Supreme Being | The prayers I make w... | 14 |
| 334 | 8 Feb 2000 | Gelett Burgess | Psycholophon | (Supposed to Be Tran... | 13 |
| 120 | 15 Jun 1999 | Gelett Burgess | The Purple Cow | The Purple Cow's Pro... | 7 |
| 487 | 15 Jul 2000 | John William Burgon | Petra | Match me such marvel... | 2 |
| 1614 | 5 Feb 2005 | Kenneth Burke | Temporary Well Being | The pond is plenteous | 10 |
| 1526 | 29 Jun 2004 | Robert Burns | Afton Water | Flow gently, sweet A... | 24 |
| 675 | 24 Jan 2001 | Robert Burns | Comin' Thro the Rye | O, Jenny's a' weet, ... | 17 |
| 81 | 4 May 1999 | Robert Burns | A Red, Red Rose | O my Luve's like a r... | 16 |
| 1474 | 8 Mar 2004 | Robert Burns | Ae Fond Kiss | Ae fond kiss, and th... | 24 |
| 1586 | 31 Dec 2004 | Robert Burns | Auld Lang Syne | Should auld acquaint... | 28 |
| 1154 | 24 Jan 2003 | Robert Burns | Address to a Haggis | Fair fa' your honest... | 48 |
| 776 | 9 May 2001 | Robert Burns | To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough | Wee, sleekit, cowrin... | 48 |
| 19 | 01 Mar 1999 | Robert Burns | John Anderson My Jo | John Anderson my jo,... | 16 |
| 277 | 29 Nov 1999 | Yosa Buson | Haiku | The winter river; | 3 |
| 712 | 1 Mar 2001 | Yosa Buson | Haiku | The seashore temple... | 3 |
| 908 | 6 Oct 2001 | Yosa Buson | Haiku | Departing spring | 3 |
| 1370 | 13 Oct 2003 | A. S. Byatt | Ask to Embla, XIII | They say that women ... | 8 |
| 1740 | 25 Jul 2005 | Mairead Byrne | Mahi-Mahi | Caught. | 4 |
| 718 | 8 Mar 2001 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | The Assyrian came do... | 24 |
| 1252 | 12 May 2003 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Dream | I | 215 |
| 1602 | 23 Jan 2005 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | From Beppo | L. | 27 |
| 547 | 15 Sep 2000 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Isles of Greece | The isles of Greece!... | 96 |
| 62 | 14 Apr 1999 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | So We'll Go No More a-Roving | So we'll go no more ... | 12 |
| 510 | 8 Aug 2000 | Lord Byron | There is a pleasure in the pathless woods | There is a pleasure ... | 9 |
| 169 | 7 Aug 1999 | Lord Byron | She Walks in Beauty | She walks in beauty ... | 18 |
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