| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1068 | 27 Jun 2002 | Charles S. Calverley | Lovers and a Reflection | In moss-prankt dells... | 58 |
| 255 | 5 Nov 1999 | Charles S. Calverley | Forever | "Forever": 'tis a si... | 36 |
| 1165 | 4 Feb 2003 | Raymond Calvert | The Ballad Of William Bloat | In a mean abode on t... | 30 |
| 573 | 12 Oct 2000 | Alistair Campbell | At a Fishing Settlement | October, and a rain-... | 20 |
| 1714 | 7 Jun 2005 | Joseph Campbell | The Old Woman | As a white candle | 12 |
| 338 | 12 Feb 2000 | Joseph Campbell | Fires | The little fires tha... | 12 |
| 199 | 7 Sep 1999 | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | A Chieftain, to the ... | 56 |
| 565 | 3 Oct 2000 | Thomas Campion | Now Winter Nights Enlarge | Now winter nights enlarge | 24 |
| 1466 | 26 Feb 2004 | Thomas Campion | My Sweetest Lesbia | (in imitation of Cat... | 19 |
| 959 | 11 Dec 2001 | Henry Carey | The Ballad of Sally in our Alley | Of all the Girls tha... | 56 |
| 1454 | 9 Feb 2004 | Jacqueline Carey | An Exile's Lament | Beneath the golden balm | 8 |
| 1544 | 22 Sep 2004 | Lewis Carroll | You are old, Father William | "You are old, father... | 32 |
| 1014 | 11 Mar 2002 | Lewis Carroll | A Sea Dirge | There are certain th... | 48 |
| 347 | 21 Feb 2000 | Lewis Carroll | The Walrus and the Carpenter | The sun was shining ... | 108 |
| 898 | 26 Sep 2001 | Lewis Carroll | Beautiful Soup | Beautiful Soup, so r... | 14 |
| 600 | 8 Nov 2000 | Lewis Carroll | The Mouse's Tale | Fury said to a mouse, | 32 |
| 964 | 17 Dec 2001 | Lewis Carroll | How Doth the Little Crocodile | How doth the little ... | 8 |
| 935 | 7 Nov 2001 | Lewis Carroll | The Lobster Quadrille | "Will you walk a lit... | 18 |
| 52 | 3 Apr 1999 | Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky | 'Twas brillig and th... | 28 |
| 265 | 17 Nov 1999 | Lewis Carroll | The Mad Gardener's Song | He thought he saw an... | 54 |
| 409 | 25 Apr 2000 | Lewis Carroll | Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur | "How shall I be a poet? | 108 |
| 951 | 26 Nov 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Wife Poem | And it's clear at la... | 24 |
| 684 | 2 Feb 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey | Scrambled eggs and w... | 20 |
| 1214 | 3 Apr 2003 | Hayden Carruth | On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam | Well I have and in fact | 27 |
| 774 | 7 May 2001 | Hayden Carruth | Ray | How many guys are si... | 36 |
| 1197 | 13 Mar 2003 | William Herbert Carruth | Each in his own Tongue | A fire-mist and a planet, | 32 |
| 273 | 24 Nov 1999 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted | A poet had a cat. | 76 |
| 1728 | 2 Jul 2005 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | When The Great Gray Ships Come In | To eastward ringing,... | 32 |
| 94 | 20 May 1999 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet | Little Miss Muffet d... | 36 |
| 137 | 3 Jul 1999 | Guy Wetmore Carryl | The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven | A raven sat upon a tree, | 48 |
| 1099 | 4 Oct 2002 | Raymond Carver | Happiness | So early it's still ... | 24 |
| 1633 | 24 Feb 2005 | Raymond Carver | My Death | If I'm lucky, I'll b... | 36 |
| 915 | 16 Oct 2001 | Phoebe Cary | The Lovers | Sally Salter, she wa... | 33 |
| 1083 | 30 Aug 2002 | Phoebe Cary | Shakesperian Readings - 3 | My father had a daug... | 10 |
| 607 | 15 Nov 2000 | Phoebe Cary | Ballad of the Canal | We were crowded in t... | 24 |
| 705 | 22 Feb 2001 | Willa Sibert Cather | A Likeness | Portrait Bust of an ... | 49 |
| 1269 | 4 Jun 2003 | Dionysius Cato | The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) | Libros lege. | 18 |
| 1707 | 24 May 2005 | Gaius Valerius Catullus | Carmen XLVI | Now spring is bringi... | 11 |
| 1463 | 23 Feb 2004 | Gaius Valerius Catullus | Song Five | Let us live, my Lesb... | 13 |
| 296 | 20 Dec 1999 | Constantine Cavafy | Footsteps | On an ebony bed decorated | 19 |
| 522 | 21 Aug 2000 | Constantine Cavafy | In Harbor | A young man, twenty ... | 12 |
| 1056 | 22 May 2002 | Constantine Cavafy | Waiting for the Barbarians | What are we waiting ... | 35 |
| 217 | 26 Sep 1999 | Constantine Cavafy | Ithaka | As you set out for Ithaka | 37 |
| 1583 | 28 Dec 2004 | Constantine P. Cavafy | The Photograph | In this obscene phot... | 14 |
| 1255 | 15 May 2003 | Cempulappeyanirar | What He Said | What could my mother be | 7 |
| 1254 | 14 May 2003 | Mei Yao Ch'en | A Dream at Night | In broad daylight I ... | 11 |
| 1438 | 23 Jan 2004 | Harindranath Chattopadhyaya | Shaper Shaped | In days gone by I us... | 32 |
| 327 | 1 Feb 2000 | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Knight's Portrait | A knyght ther was, a... | 36 |
| 1280 | 17 Jun 2003 | G. K. Chesterton | Lepanto | White founts falling... | 143 |
| 1530 | 12 Jul 2004 | G. K. Chesterton | The Donkey | When fishes flew and... | 16 |
| 1749 | 4 Aug 2005 | G. K. Chesterton | The Deluge | Though giant rains p... | 24 |
| 228 | 7 Oct 1999 | G.K. Chesterton | The Rolling English Road | Before the Roman cam... | 24 |
| 1503 | 26 Apr 2004 | Chong Chol | Shijo | The rise and fall of... | 6 |
| 640 | 18 Dec 2000 | Marchette Gaylord Chute | Fairies | You can't see fairie... | 8 |
| 1073 | 12 Jul 2002 | Po Chü-i | The Red Cockatoo | Sent as a present fr... | 8 |
| 1507 | 14 May 2004 | John Clare | I Am | I am - yet what I am... | 18 |
| 1549 | 8 Oct 2004 | John Cooper Clarke | Health Fanatic | Around the block, ag... | 43 |
| 216 | 25 Sep 1999 | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn | The Golf Links | The golf links lie s... | 4 |
| 970 | 25 Dec 2001 | Sigerson Clifford | The Kerry Christmas Carol | Brush the floor and ... | 28 |
| 1222 | 11 Apr 2003 | Sigerson Clifford | Brother Mick | The mountain frowned... | 96 |
| 1246 | 5 May 2003 | Lucille Clifton | the lost baby poem | the time i dropped y... | 20 |
| 159 | 27 Jul 1999 | Arthur Hugh Clough | The Latest Decalogue | Thou shalt have one ... | 20 |
| 69 | 21 Apr 1999 | Arthur Hugh Clough | There is no god, the wicked sayeth | "There is no God," t... | 32 |
| 1660 | 28 Mar 2005 | Arthur Hugh Clough | Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth | Say not the struggle... | 16 |
| 660 | 8 Jan 2001 | Elizabeth Coatsworth | On A Night of Snow | Cat, if you go outdo... | 14 |
| 481 | 10 Jul 2000 | Leonard Cohen | Who By fire | And who by fire, | 27 |
| 1447 | 2 Feb 2004 | Leonard Cohen | Take This Waltz | Now in Vienna there'... | 53 |
| 624 | 2 Dec 2000 | Leonard Cohen | Gift | You tell me that silence | 9 |
| 744 | 5 Apr 2001 | Leonard Cohen | Joan of Arc | Now the flames they ... | 32 |
| 339 | 14 Feb 2000 | Leonard Cohen | The Music Crept By Us | I would like to remind | 13 |
| 116 | 11 Jun 1999 | Leonard Cohen | Suzanne | Suzanne takes you do... | 49 |
| 549 | 17 Sep 2000 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy | Trochee trips from l... | 19 |
| 1607 | 28 Jan 2005 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Frost at Midnight | The frost performs i... | 75 |
| 361 | 06 Mar 2000 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Cologne | In Kohln, a town of ... | 10 |
| 30 | 12 Mar 1999 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kubla Khan | (or, a Vision in a D... | 55 |
| 1397 | 25 Nov 2003 | Billy Collins | Introduction to Poetry | I ask them to take a poem | 16 |
| 1216 | 5 Apr 2003 | Billy Collins | Sonnet | All we need is fourt... | 14 |
| 1777 | 5 Oct 2005 | Billy Collins | Introduction To Poetry | I ask them to take a poem | 16 |
| 691 | 9 Feb 2001 | Billy Collins | Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles | It seems these poets... | 35 |
| 1130 | 16 Dec 2002 | Billy Collins | Marginalia | Sometimes the notes ... | 64 |
| 1095 | 30 Sep 2002 | Billy Collins | Litany | You are the bread an... | 33 |
| 1139 | 9 Jan 2003 | Billy Collins | Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | First, her tippet ma... | 47 |
| 1096 | 1 Oct 2002 | Billy Collins | On Turning Ten | The whole idea of it... | 32 |
| 435 | 23 May 2000 | Leo Connellan | Tell Her That I Fell | Woke me retching and... | 50 |
| 1059 | 3 Jun 2002 | Wendy Cope | An Unusual Cat-Poem | My cat is dead | 2 |
| 1768 | 21 Sep 2005 | Wendy Cope | An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse | People tell you all ... | 14 |
| 1748 | 3 Aug 2005 | Wendy Cope | The Aerial | The aerial on this r... | 12 |
| 1574 | 16 Dec 2004 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Sonnets (iv) | Not only marble, but... | 14 |
| 859 | 8 Aug 2001 | Wendy Cope | Waste Land Limericks | I | 30 |
| 1499 | 18 Apr 2004 | Wendy Cope | The Uncertainty of the Poet | I am a poet. | 16 |
| 1444 | 30 Jan 2004 | Wendy Cope | Being Boring | If you ask me 'What'... | 24 |
| 1323 | 12 Aug 2003 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Sonnets (VI) | Let me not to the ma... | 14 |
| 587 | 26 Oct 2000 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Rubaiyat | 1 | 30 |
| 693 | 12 Feb 2001 | Wendy Cope | Strugnell's Haiku | (i) | 12 |
| 348 | 22 Feb 2000 | Cid Corman | Untitled | Mountain | 6 |
| 906 | 4 Oct 2001 | Frances Cornford | To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train | O why do you walk th... | 8 |
| 1352 | 18 Sep 2003 | Barry Cornwall | The Sea | The sea! the sea! th... | 36 |
| 1570 | 6 Dec 2004 | Gregory Corso | Marriage | Should I get married... | 111 |
| 380 | 25 Mar 2000 | William Johnson Cory | Heraclitus | They told me, Heracl... | 8 |
| 1152 | 22 Jan 2003 | Lewys Glyn Cothi | Lament for Sion | One son was my darli... | 52 |
| 444 | 2 Jun 2000 | Noel Coward | Contours | Round - oblong - lik... | 11 |
| 448 | 6 Jun 2000 | William Cowper | To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 | Where hast thou floa... | 27 |
| 1598 | 15 Jan 2005 | Hart Crane | Voyages - I | Above the fresh ruff... | 16 |
| 1101 | 9 Oct 2002 | Hart Crane | To Brooklyn Bridge | How many dawns, chil... | 44 |
| 253 | 4 Nov 1999 | Stephen Crane | A Man Feared... (The Black Riders LVI) | A man feared that he... | 3 |
| 690 | 8 Feb 2001 | Stephen Crane | Tell Brave Deeds of War | "Tell brave deeds of... | 5 |
| 264 | 16 Nov 1999 | Stephen Crane | There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII) | There was a man who ... | 8 |
| 1200 | 17 Mar 2003 | Stephen Crane | A Man Said to the Universe | A man said to the un... | 5 |
| 196 | 4 Sep 1999 | Stephen Crane | In the desert | In the desert | 10 |
| 867 | 15 Aug 2001 | Cream | Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) | Twice upon a time in... | 16 |
| 1666 | 4 Apr 2005 | Robert Creeley | The Rain | All night the sound had | 24 |
| 1400 | 28 Nov 2003 | Robert Creeley | The Sentence | There is that in love | 8 |
| 552 | 20 Sep 2000 | Robert Creeley | Morning | dam's broke, | 3 |
| 745 | 6 Apr 2001 | King Crimson | Indiscipline | I do remember one thing. | 11 |
| 1497 | 15 Apr 2004 | Countee Cullen | For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty | Not writ in water no... | 4 |
| 1304 | 20 Jul 2003 | Countee Cullen | Incident | Once riding in old B... | 12 |
| 598 | 6 Nov 2000 | Countee Cullen | For A Poet | I have wrapped my dr... | 8 |
| 769 | 1 May 2001 | e. e. cummings | what if a much of a which of a wind | what if a much of a ... | 24 |
| 57 | 7 Apr 1999 | E. E. Cummings | pity this busy monster, manunkind | pity this busy monst... | 15 |
| 1582 | 27 Dec 2004 | E. E. Cummings | Little Tree | little tree | 28 |
| 1072 | 12 Jul 2002 | e. e. cummings | next to of course god america i | "next to of course g... | 14 |
| 139 | 5 Jul 1999 | E. E. Cummings | Buffalo Bill's/ defunct | Buffalo Bill's | 11 |
| 454 | 13 Jun 2000 | e. e. cummings | If I have made, my lady, intricate | If I have made, my l... | 15 |
| 1260 | 24 May 2003 | E. E. Cummings | Anyone lived in a pretty how town | anyone lived in a pr... | 36 |
| 619 | 28 Nov 2000 | e. e. cummings | somewhere i have never travelled | somewhere i have nev... | 20 |
| 1536 | 18 Aug 2004 | e. e. cummings | All in green went my love riding | All in green went my... | 35 |
| 1629 | 20 Feb 2005 | E. E. Cummings | suppose | suppose | 26 |
| 311 | 14 Jan 2000 | e. e. cummings | Untitled | "think of it: not so... | 37 |
| 1636 | 27 Feb 2005 | e. e. cummings | In Just- | in Just- | 24 |
| 1132 | 20 Dec 2002 | E. E. Cummings | if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) | if everything happen... | 45 |
| 945 | 19 Nov 2001 | E. E. Cummings | O sweet spontaneous | O sweet spontaneous | 27 |
| 1697 | 12 May 2005 | E. E. Cummings | nobody loses all the time | nobody loses all the time | 38 |
| 492 | 21 Jul 2000 | e. e. cummings | Poem 42 | n | 15 |
| 214 | 23 Sep 1999 | E.E. Cummings | Where's Madge then, | Where's Madge then, | 17 |
| 1237 | 26 Apr 2003 | William Waring Cuney | No Images | She does not know | 12 |
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