Daily Poetry Break Archives

December 17, 1998 to December 31, 1999

12/31/99 The Death of the Old Year, by Lord Tennyson
12/30/99 Tommy, by Rudyard Kipling
12/29/99 Conduct of the Radicals Justified, by "Radix"
12/28/99 Soup, by Carl Sandburg
12/27/99 There was a Child went Forth, by Walt Whitman
12/24/99 Christmas Everywhere, by Phillips Brooks
12/23/99 On the Train, by Harriet Monroe
12/22/99 Miniver Cheevy, by Edgar Arlington Robinson
12/21/99 The Major General's Song, by William S. Gilbert
12/20/99 The Deserted Wife, by John Gates Percival
12/17/99 In School Days, by John Greenleaf Whittier
12/16/99A Toast, by George Santayana
12/15/99 Truth At Last, by Edward Rowland Sill
12/14/99 Canto 10 of Don Juan, by Lord Byron
12/13/99 Ode on S. Lucy's Day, by John Donne
12/10/99 "There's a certain slant of light" by Emily Dickinson
12/09/99 "When I consider how my light is spent" by John Milton
12/08/99 Bread and Roses, by James Oppenheim
12/07/99 A Likeness, by Willa Cather
12/06/99 Falling Leaves (IV), by William Stanley Braithwaite
12/03/99 Warren's Address to The American Soldiers, Before the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Pierpoint.
12/02/99 Solomon and the Witch, by William Butler Yeats
12/01/99 The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred Tennyson

11/30/99 Psalm 19: Coeli enerrant, by Sir Philip Sidney
11/29/99 The Lay of the Golden Goose, by Louisa May Alcott
11/23/99 A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, by John Dryden
11/22/99 The Choir Invisible, by George Eliot
11/19/99 Buddha and Brahma, by Henry Adams
11/18/99 Etiquette, by William S. Gilbert
11/17/99 Sonnet 3 from Astrophil and Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney
11/16/99 The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11/15/99 November Night, by Adelaide Crapsey
11/12/99 Changed, by John Stuart Calverley
11/11/99 Armistice Day, by John Freeman
11/10/99 The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith
11/09/99 Goldenhair, by James Joyce
11/08/99 See-Saw, by Owen Meredith
11/05/99 The Gates of Damascus, by James Elroy Flecker
11/04/99 Had I a heart for falsehood framed, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
11/03/99 Thanatopsis, by William Cullen Bryant
11/02/99 It Is Not Beauty I Demand, by George Darley
11/01/99From The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane

10/29/99 What is Our Life? by Sir Walter Ralegh
10/28/99 Autumn Morning at Cambridge, by Frances Cornford
10/27/99 The Evening Star, by Walter Savage Landor
10/26/99 The Battle of Naseby, by Lord Macaulay
10/25/99 Impressions de Nuit, by Lord Alfred Douglas
10/22/99 Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10/20/99 Luke Havergal, by Edward Arlington Robinson
10/19/99 We live in deeds . . . , by Philip James Bailey
10/18/99 Advertisement, by Alfred Kreymborg
10/15/99 October, by Helen Hunt Jackson
10/14/99 it may not always be so, by ee cummings
10/13/99 The Tree, by Karle Wilson Baker
10/12/99 A Dead Poet, by Theordore Watts-Dunton
10/11/99 How in all wonder . . . by Arthur Hugh Clough
10/08/99 On the Mississippi, by Hamlin Garland
10/07/99 Little Orphant Annie, by James Whitcomb Riley
10/06/99 The Awaking of the Poetic Faculty, by George Henry Boker
10/05/99 The Character of a Happy Life, by Sir Henry Wotton
10/04/99 A Prayer for my Daughter, by William Butler Yeats
10/01/99 On Parting, by Edward Coote Pinkney

09/30/99 Oh for a bowl of fat Canary, by John Lyly
09/29/99 Comrade Jesus, by Sarah N. Cleghorn
09/28/99 Eutopia, by Francis Turner Palgrave
09/27/99 The Sea-Breeze at Matanzas. by Epes Sargent
09/24/99 A Drinking Song, by William Butler Yeats
09/23/99 Knowt Hoheimer, by Edgar Lee Masters
09/22/99 Singers to Come, by Alice Meynell
09/21/99 The Dancing Seal, by Wilfred Wilson Gibson
09/20/99 On the Anniversary of Our Father's Death, by Hartley Coleridge
09/17/99 The Hydraulic Ram, by Charles Turner
09/16/99 The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes
09/15/99 Drinking Song from Valentian by Beaumont and Fletcher
09/14/99 The Lyric, by John G. Neihardt 09/13/99 What Is To Come, by William E. Henley
09/10/99 The Roman Road, by Thomas Hardy
09/09/99 The Gypsy Girl, by Ralph Hodgson
09/08/99 Columbus, by Joaquin Miller
09/07/99 Wild Peaches, by Elinor Wylie
09/06/99 America, by Claude McKay
09/03/99 Song from The Mulberry Garden by Sir Charles Sedley
09/02/99 September, by Thomas Tusser
09/01/99 Sonnet 63 from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip SIdney

08/31/99 Rose and Murray from Turns and Movies, by Conrad Aiken
08/30/99 Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening, by Dorothy Wordsworth
08/27/99 My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is, by Sir Edward Dyer
08/26/99 Sweeney among the Nightingales, by T.S. Eliot
08/25/99 The Cantelope, by Bayard Taylor
08/24/99 Delight in Disorder, by Robert Herrick
08/23/99 "Petit, the Poet", by Edgar Lee Masters
08/20/99 The Sonnet (In Answer to a Question), by Richard Watson Gilder
08/19/99 The Nut-Brown Ale, by John Marston
08/18/99 An Epitaph, by James Beattie
08/17/99 Of Books and Cheese, by John Heywood
08/16/99 Extract from Canto VI of The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott
08/13/99 "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth
08/12/99 "The Old Woman of Berkeley" by Robert Southey
08/11/99 "The Cold Change" by Caroline Norton
08/10/99 "Edith Cavell" by Laurence Binyon
08/09/99 "The Angler's Song" by Izaak Walton
08/06/99 "How thought you that this thing could captivate?" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
08/05/99 Captain Stratton's Fancy, by John Masefield
08/04/99 To a Sky-Lark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
08/03/99 "Chilterns" by Rupert Brooke
08/02/99 "Song" by Sir William Watson

07/30/99 "Thorpe Green" by Branwell Brontë
07/29/99 "They Had No Poet . . ." by Don Marquis
07/28/99 The Child is Father to the Man, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
07/27/99 Hohenlinden, by Thomas Campbell
07/26/99 A Song of Impossibilities, by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
07/25/99 Missed, by P.G. Wodehouse
07/22/99 Success, by Emma Lazurus
07/21/99 Jinny the Just, by Matthew Prior
07/20/99 Sonnet 91 from Sonetto in Vito by Petrarch
07/19/99 The Sorrows of Werther, by William Makepeace Thackeray
07/16/99 Sestina of a Tramp-Royal, by Rudyard Kipling
07/15/99 Drinking Song, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
07/14/99 The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
07/13/99 I Am! by John Clare
07/12/99 Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell. . . by Henry David Thoreau
07/09/99 Rivals, by William Walsh
07/08/99 Epithalmium, by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
07/07/99 The Spires of Oxford, by Winifred Mary Letts
07/06/99 If, by Rudyard Kipling
07/05/99 Some Epigrams by Edwin Markham
07/02/99 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, by Walt Whitman
07/01/99 Mending Wall, by Robert Frost

06/30/99 The Man and the Flea, by John Gay
06/29/99 A Valentine, by Edgar Allan Poe
06/28/99 Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll
06/25/99 All Things Bright and Beautiful, by Cecil Frances Alexander
06/24/99 Elegy, by Ambrose Bierce
06/23/99 The Sea Gypsy, by Richard Hovey
06/22/99 The Rower's Chant, by Thomas Sturge Moore
06/21/99 Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale
06/18/99 Beneath the Cross, by Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane
06/17/99 Memory, by Oliver Goldsmith
06/16/99 June, by Helen Jackson Hunt
06/15/99 Baseball's Sad Lexicon, by Franklin P. Adams
06/14/99 Still, Still with Thee by Harriet Beecher Stowe
06/11/99 To Celia, by Ben Jonson
06/10/99 Sonnet 4, by George Wither
06/09/99 Jim, by Hilaire Belloc
06/08/99 Witchery, by Frank Dempster Sherman
06/07/99 Imogen, by Sir Henry Newbolt
06/04/99 Three Men of Gotham, by Thomas Love Peacock
06/03/99 Under a Telephone Pole, by Carl Sandburg
06/02/99 In Time of "The Breaking of Nations", by Thomas Hardy
06/01/99 Trade Winds, by John Masefield

05/31/99 I Hear America Singing, by Walt Whitman
05/28/99 Introduction to The Music Makers, by A.W.E. O'Shaugnessy
05/27/99 Absence, by Richard Jago
05/26/99 How One Winter Came to the Lake Region, by Wilfred Campbell
05/25/99 Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
05/24/99 "In these days. . ." by Ebenezer Elliott
05/21/99 Solitude, by Alexander Pope
05/20/99 Paul Revere's Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
05/19/99 Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning
05/18/99 The Angler, by Thomas Buchanan Reed
05/17/99 When We Two Parted, by Lord Byron
05/14/99 The Suppliant, by Georgia Douglas Johnson
05/13/99 The Jumblies, by Edward Lear
05/12/99 The Blessed Damozel, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
05/11/99 Low Tide on Grand Pré, by Bliss Carman
05/10/99 Night Song, by John Gould Fletcher
05/07/99 Rabbi Ben Ezra, by Robert Browning
05/06/99 The Baby's Day by Rabindranath Tagore
05/05/99 The Power of Words, by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
05/04/99 April the Maiden, by John G. Neihardt
05/03/99 Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos, by Lord Byron

04/30/99 The Child on the Curbstone, by Elinor Wylie
04/29/99 Winter Remembered, by John Crowe Ransom
04/28/99 God's Garden, by Dorothy Frances Gurney
04/27/99 Improvisations: Light and Snow, by Conrad Aiken
04/26/99 The Dream, by Alice Cary
04/23/99 The Man with the Hoe, by Edwin Markham
04/22/99 The Dying Christian to his Soul, by Alexander Pope
04/21/99 Night and Death, by Joseph Blanco White
04/20/99 Days Too Short, by W.H. Davies
04/19/99 When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay, by Lord Byron
04/16/99 Heaven, by Rupert Brooke
04/15/99 We talk of taxes . . ., by Edna St. Vincent Milay
04/14/99 The Master, by Edward Arlington Robinson
04/13/99 Inversnaid, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
04/12/99 "Oh solitude! if I must with thee dwell" by John Keats
04/09/99 "Lights Out" by Edward Thomas
04/08/99 Aubade, by Dame Edith Sitwell
04/07/99 "The world is too much with us . . .", by William Wordsworth
04/06/99 "Loveliest of Trees..." by A.E. Houseman
04/05/99 The Milkmaid's Song, by Sydney Dobell
04/02/99 Ballade of a Ship, by Edward Arlington Robinson
04/01/99 To Mistress Margaret Hussey, by John Skelton

03/31/99 The Garden, by Andrew Marvell
03/30/99 Death Stands Above Me, by Walter Savage Landor
03/29/99 Work Without Hope, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
03/26/99 The Need of Being Versed in Country Things, by Robert Frost
03/25/99 Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck
03/24/99 The Haystack in the Floods, by William Morris
03/23/99 To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour, by Franklin P. Adams
03/22/99 Sonnet on Lake Leman, by Lord Byron
03/19/99 Meadowsweet, by William Allingham
03/18/99 Greater Love, by Wilfred Owen
03/17/99 A White Rose, by John Boyle O'Reilly
03/16/99 Alexander's Feast, by John Dryden
03/15/99 Bagley Wood, by Lionel Pigot Johnson
03/12/99 Bermudas, by Andrew Marvell
03/11/99 "Snow Bound" by John Greenleaf Whittier
03/10/99 "Sing me a song of a lad who is gone," by Robert Louis Stevenson
03/09/99 To Byron, by John Keats
03/08/99 The Cumberland, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
03/05/99 "Nuns fret not . . .", by William Wordsworth
03/04/99 Heaving of the Lead, by Charles Dibdin.
03/03/99 Go, Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller
03/02/99 The Man from Snowy River, by Banjo Patterson
03/01/99 To Wordsworth, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

02/26/99 Written at Midnight, by Samuel Rogers
02/25/99 "To plead my faith. . ." by Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex
02/24/99 Barbara Allan
02/23/99 Adonais, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
02/22/99Washington Monument, February, 1885, by Walt Whitman
02/19/99 Ferdinand and Elvira, by William S. Gilbert
02/18/99 My Picture Left in Scotland, by Ben Jonson
02/17/99 Poppies on the Wheat, by Helen Hunt Jackson
02/16/99 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray
02/15/99 The Golf Links, by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
02/12/99 Lucifer by Starlight, by George Meredith
02/11/99 An Anacreontick by William Oldys
02/10/99 "Out upon it! I have loved . . ." by Sir John Suckling
02/09/99 Purple Grackles, by Amy Lowell
02/08/99 "Scorn not the Sonnet. . . ." by William Wordsworth
02/05/99 Written At Ostend, by William Lisle Bowles
02/04/99 Spring, by Charles Murray
02/03/99 The Waving of the Corn, by Sidney Lanier
02/02/99 Bronx, by Joseph Rodman Drake
02/01/99 The Negro Speaks of Rivers, by Langston Hughes

01/29/99 After Apple-Picking, by Robert Frost
01/28/99 Drake's Drum, by Sir Henry Newbolt
01/27/99 Epilogue to Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
01/26/99 To the Lord General Fairfax, by John Milton
01/25/99 Address to a Haggis, by Robert Burns
01/22/99 We'll go no more a-roving, by George Gordon, Lord Byron
01/21/99 Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
01/20/99 The Eve of St Agnes, by John Keats
01/19/99 Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe
01/18/99 Fame is a food that dead men eat, by Austin Dobson
01/15/99 Reconciliation, by Æ
01/14/99 Smoke, by Henry David Thoreau
01/13/99 Sonnet #6 from Amoretti by Edmund Spenser
01/12/99 Rose Aylmer, by Walter Savage Lander
01/11/99 Translation of Petrarch's Sonnetto in Vita #95 by the Earl of Surrey
01/08/99 "The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs..." by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
01/07/99"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" by Robert Browning
01/06/99 "Soup" by Carl Sandburg
01/05/99 "Thou art not lovlier than lilacs" by Edna St Vincent Millay
01/04/99 "I Find No Peace" by Sir Thomas Wyatt

12/31/98 Part CVI of In Memoriam by Tennyson
12/30/98 "The Power of the Dog" by Rudyard Kipling
12/29/98 "Ruth" by Thomas Hood
12/28/98 "The Florida Beach" by Constance Fenimore Woolson
12/24/98 "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" by Nahum Tate
12/23/98 "The Blue Ridge" by Harriet Monroe
12/22/98 "Lepanto" by G.K. Chesterton
12/21/98 "The Sale of St Thomas" by Lascelles Abercrombie
12/18/98 "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" by John Keats
12/17/98 "In School Days" by John Greenleaf Whittier