12/31/03 The Mad Potter, by John Hollander
12/29/03 Youth and calm, by Matthew Arnold
12/23/03 I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, by John Rox
12/22/03 Stille Nacht, by Joseph Mohr
12/17/03 St Lucy's Day, by John Donne
12/16/03 A sonnet by George Santayana
12/15/03 Ha'nacker Mill, by Hilaire Belloc
12/12/03 Let Evening Come, by Jane Kenyon
12/11/03 A Theory of Prosody, by Philip Levine
12/10/03 On a Line from Valéry, by Carolyn Kizer
12/09/03 The Crooked Footpath, by Oliver Wendall Holmes
12/08/03 I am a book I neither wrote nor read, by Delmore Schwartz
12/05/03 Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti
12/04/03 My Company, by Herbert Read
12/03/03 The Hunter's Moon, by Mathilde Blind
12/02/03 Factory Windows, by Vachel Lindsay
11/26/03 The Confessional, by Robert Browning
11/25/03 Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg
11/24/03 Mr. Flood's Party, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
11/21/03 Early Rising, by John Saxe
11/20/03 Under Saturn, by William B. Yeats
11/19/03 Valenciennes, by Thomas Hardy
11/18/03 Variations on the word Sleep, by Margaret Atwood
11/17/03 De Gustibus, by Robert Browning
11/14/03 Open Windows, by Sara Teasdale
11/13/03 In the highlands, in the country places by Robert Louis Stevenson.
11/12/03 Now dreary dawns the easter light, by A.E. Housman.
11/11/03 Oh stay at home, my lad, by A.E. Housman
11/10/03 Sherman's Statue by Saint-Gaudens, by Henry Van Dyke
11/07/03 Skipper Ireson's Ride, by John Greenleaf Whittier
11/06/03 Yankee Doodle
11/05/03 The Gates of Damascus, by James Flecker
11/04/03 Rock of Ages, by Augustus Toplady
11/03/03 The Constellations, by William Cullen Bryant
10/31/03 Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum, by Stephen Vincent Benét
10/30/03 A Double Dactyl by Bob Blair
10/29/03 Forget Not Yet, by Sir Thomas Wyatt
10/28/03 An Old-Fashioned Song, by John Hollander
10/27/03 Fern Hill, by Dylan Thomas
10/24/03 Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell, by Denise Levertov
10/23/03 The Definition of Love, by Andrew Marvell
10/22/03 Work, by Charles Lamb
10/21/03 Kubla Khan, by S.T. Coleridge
10/20/03 Shirt, by Robert Pinsky.
10/17/03 The New Hieroglyphics, by Les Murray.
10/16/03 "Long, too long, America" by Walt Whitman
10/15/03 October, by William Cullen Bryant
10/14/03 Man Listening to Disc, by Billy Collins
10/13/03 The Roman Centurion's Song, by Rudyard Kipling
10/10/03 Salvador Dali, by David Gascoyne
10/09/03 Hunc
10/08/03 The Horses Run Back to their Stalls, by Linda Gregerson
10/07/03 "He would never use one word when none would do", by Philip Levine
10/06/03He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by W.B. Yeats
10/03/03 L'Envoi to The Seven Seas by Rudyard Kipling
10/02/03 Robert Fulton Tanner, by Edgar Lee Masters
10/01/03 1919
09/30/03 Anthem, by William Wallace.
09/29/03 September by Thomas Tusser
09/26/03 Party Strife, by Jean de la Fontaine
09/25/03 What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to: The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, by Franklin P. Adams
09/24/03 What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to: Excelsior, by Franklin P. Adams
09/23/03 What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to: The Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight, by Franklin P. Adams
09/22/03 What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to: "Annabel Lee", by Franklin P. Adams
09/19/03 Phantasms All, by Harriet Prescott Spofford
09/18/03 Bacchus and the Pirates, by Alfred Noyes
09/17/03 Bacchus and the Pirates, by Alfred Noyes
09/16/03 A Devonshire Ditty, by Alfred Noyes
09/15/03 "God Lyæus, ever young", by John Fletcher
09/12/03 Only a Dancing Girl, by William S. Gilbert.
09/11/03 The Blind Rower, by Wilfrid Gibson.
09/10/03 Beach Glass, by Amy Clampitt
09/09/03 Time, You Old Gypsy Man by Ralph Hodgson
09/08/03 Dreamers, by Siegfried Sassoon
09/05/03 Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
09/04/03 Spenser's Sonnet 64
09/03/03 Love in my bosom like a bee, by Thomas Lodge
09/02/03 To see the summer sky, a fragment by Emily Dickinson
08/29/03 An Irish Airman Forsees His Death, by William Butler Yeats
08/28/03 Adolescense II, by Rita Dove
08/27/03 Sparkling and Bright, by Charles Fenno Hoffman
08/26/03 Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
08/25/03 Song from Epicoene by Ben Jonson.
08/22/03 To My Dog, by Dorothy Parker
08/21/03 A Butt in the Butt, by X.J. Kennedy
08/20/03 What Father Knows, by Edgar A. Guest
08/19/03 The Land of Counterpane, by Robert Louis Stevenson
08/18/03 An Anacreontic by Thomas Moore
08/15/03 An epigram of Meleager translated by Robert Herrick
08/14/03 From A Lament for Adonis (out of Bion) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
08/13/03 A sonnet from the Greek of Moschus, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
08/12/03 Cyclops and Galatea, translated by Richard Duke
08/11/03 The second idyll of Theocritus, as rendered by Alexander Lang.
08/08/03 The world's a bubble, by Sir Walter Raleigh out of Posidippus
08/07/03 From the Second Olympic Ode of Pindar
08/06/03 One Girl, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
08/05/03 Sapphics by Charles A. Swinburne
08/04/03 "The weeping Pleiads wester", a Sapphic fragment interpreted
by A.E. Housman
08/01/03 Epithalamium, by A.E. Housman
07/31/03 A fragment from Sappho, by Thomas Hardy
07/30/03 The Golden Age (from Hesiod's Works and Days)
07/29/03 An Homeric hymn on Bacchus, translated by Leigh Hunt
07/28/03 An extract from Chapman's translation of The Odyssey
07/25/03 Ulysses, by Lord Tennyson
07/24/03 El Capitan-General, by Charles Godfrey Leland
07/23/03 The Lover, by Coventry Patmore
07/22/03 The Venus of the Louvre, by Emma Lazarus
07/21/03 The Hills of Home, by Malcolm Hemphrey.
07/18/03 The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, by William Makepeace Thackeray
07/17/03 An Autobiography, by Ernest Rhys
07/16/03 The Wine of Song, by Charles Sangster
07/15/03 What the Ghost of the Gambler Said, by Vachel Lindsay
07/12/03 Kickin' my dawg aroun'
07/11/03 Underground, by Thomas McInnis
07/10/03 Breeze and Billow, by Albert D. Watson
07/09/03 At the Cedars, by Duncan Campbell Scott
07/08/03 I am young, by George Frederick Cameron.
07/07/03 The Unnamed Lake, by Frederick George Scott
07/03/03 Just To Be Out of Doors, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
07/02/03 To a Lady asking him how long he would love her, by Sir George Etherege
07/01/03 Raiders' Dawn, by Alun Lewis
06/30/03 Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas
06/27/03 To a Locomotive in Winter, by Walt Whitman.
06/26/03 The Song of Steel, by Charles Burton Going
06/25/03 "I've never sailed the Amazon", by Rudyard Kipling
06/24/03 The Deep-Sea Cables, by Rudyard Kipling
06/23/03 McAndrew's Hymn, by Rudyard Kipling
06/20/03 In the Train, by James Thompson
06/19/03 To Marguerite, by Matthew Arnold
06/18/03 Eat and Walk, by James Norman Hall
06/17/03 List, Lord: A Prayer from God's Trombones by
James Weldon Johnson.
06/16/03 Sleep now, you unquiet heart by James Joyce.
06/13/03 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by William B. Yeats
06/12/03 Bishop Doane on His Dog, by George Washington Doane
06/11/03 Karolin's Song, by Ben Jonson
06/10/03 Sonnet to America, by Edwin Arnold
06/09/03 Lucy, by William Wordsworth
06/06/03 In the Park, by Maxine Kumin.
06/05/03 Signs of Rain, by Edward Jenner.
06/04/03 Help Wanted, by Franklin Waldheim
06/03/03 The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven, by Guy Wetmore Carryl
06/02/03 Ah, are you digging on my grave? by Thomas Hardy
05/30/03 Grandfather's Clock, by Henry C. Work
05/29/03 For a War Memorial, by G.K. Chesterton
05/28/03 Derelict, by Young E. Allison
05/27/03 My Madonna, by Robert Service
05/26/03 God, give us men! by Josiah Gilbert Holland
05/23/03 Faithless Sally Brown, by Thomas Hood
05/22/03 A Farewell to C.E.G., by Charles Kingley
05/21/03 I love your lips when they're wet with wine, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
05/20/03 At Nightfall, by Charles Hanson Towne
05/19/03 Cleopatra Dying, by Thomas Stephens Collier
05/16/03 Miracle Ice Cream, by Adrienne Rich.
05/15/03 "Believe me, if all those enduring young charms" by Thomas Moore
05/14/03 Sonnet: First time he kissed me, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
05/13/03 El Greco: Espolio by Earle Birney
05/12/03 Spring, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
05/09/03 The Chimes of Freedom, by Bob Dylan
05/08/03 All I Really Want To Do, by Bob Dylan
05/07/03 Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
05/06/03 The Anactoria Poem, as translated by Richard Lattimore
05/05/03 The Microbe, by Hillaire Belloc
05/02/03 Ichbod, by John Greenleaf Whittier
05/01/03 May Night, by Sara Teasdale
04/30/03 Menelaus and Helen, by Rupert Brooke
04/29/03 The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
04/28/03 Patriotism by Willie Soutar
04/25/03 Napoleon, by Walter de la Mare
04/24/03 Who shall doubt, by George Oppen
04/23/03 Crowd Corraling by Margaret Avison
04/22/03 The Red Poppy, by Louise Glück
04/21/03 The Looking Glass, by Rudyard Kipling
04/18/03 Grizzly, by Bret Harte
04/17/03 Blueflags, by William Carlos Williams
04/16/03 1887, by A.E. Housman
04/15/03 The Joys of the Road, by Bliss Carman.
04/14/03 Lincoln, by John Gould Fletcher
04/11/03 Homesick in England by Rober Haven Schauffler
04/10/03 Salmon Fishing, by Robinson Jeffers
04/09/03 The Madman, by L.A.G. Strong
04/08/03 August Mood, by Duncan Campbell Scott
04/07/03 Spring Ode by Don Marquis.
04/04/03 Let me live out my years, by John G. Neihardt.
04/03/03 A Prayer for the Old Courage, by Charles Towne.
04/02/03 Come Blessèd Sleep, by Christina RossettiTartary, by Walter de la Mare
03/31/03 The Tuft of Flowers, by Robert Frost
03/28/03 Strictly Germ-Proof, by Arthur Guiterman
03/27/03 Peter Quince on the Clavier, by Wallace Stevens.
03/26/03 Could man be drunk forever, by A.E. Housman
03/25/03 Peter Quince, by Alfred Noyes
03/24/03 The Changing Light, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
03/21/03 The King and the Siren, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
03/20/03 Christmas at Sea, by Robert Louis Stevenson
03/19/03 Ode on "The Rights of Man", by Phillip Freneau
03/18/03 The Send-Off, by Wilfred Owen
03/17/03 Be Silent as You Are Beautiful, by Patrick MacDonogh
03/14/03 The King's Son by Thomas Boyd.
03/13/03 A Spray of Apple Blossoms, by Walter Lerned
03/12/03 Some keep the sabbath going to Church, by Emily Dickinson
03/11/03 Roger Casement, by William B. Yeats
03/10/03 The Traveled Man, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
03/07/03 At the Movies, by Florence Ripley Mastin
03/06/03 To a Survivor of the Mesopotamian Campaign, by Elizabeth Daryush
03/05/03 Transport of Wounded in Mesopotamia, 1917 by Mary Lawrence
03/04/03 Tommy Bowling, by Charles Dibdin
03/03/03 The Manor Farm, by Edward Thomas
02/28/03 An Elementry School Classroom in a Slum, by Stephen Spender
02/27/03 Snow-Flakes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
02/26/03 One Train May Hide Another, by Kenneth Koch
02/25/03 To Hope, by John Keats
02/24/03 Truth at Last, by Edward Rowland Sill
02/21/03 After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics, by
W.H. Auden
02/20/03 Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
02/19/03 The Yarn of the Nancy Bell, by W.S. Gilbert
02/18/03 To everything there is a season, from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3
02/17/03 Liberty, by John Hay
02/14/03 "Tell me, gentle youth, I pray thee", an anacreontic paraphrased by Thomas Moore.
02/13/03 The Enamel Girl, by Genevieve Taggart
02/12/03 Thrown, by Ralph Hodgson
02/11/03 Most Anglers are Very Humane, by Normand Rowland Gale
02/10/03 Prithee give me back my heart, by Sir John Suckling
02/07/03 Monteray, by Charles Fenno Hoffman
02/06/03 The Picket Guard, by Ethel Lynn Beers
02/05/03 When the Great Grey Ships Come In, by Guy Wetmore Carryl
02/04/03 The Men Behind the Guns, by John Jerome Rooney
02/03/03 A Toast To Our Native Land, by Robert Bridges
01/31/03 On Herself, by Lady Winchelsea
01/30/03 On His Saventy-fifth Birthday, by Walter Savage Landor
01/29/03 Mad Song, by Hester Sigerson
01/28/03 Pie in the Sky, by Joe Hill
01/27/03 A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London, by Dylan Thomas
01/24/03 Sucking Cider Thru a Straw
01/23/03 From "Tomorrow, Tomorrow" by Derek Walcott
01/22/03 On This Day I End My Thirty-Sixth Year, by Lord Byron
<01/21/03 The Sphinx Speaks, by Francis S. Saltus
01/20/03 It is in Winter that we dream of spring, by Robert Burns Wilson
01/17/03 Travelling in the Dark, by William Stafford
01/16/03 The Men Who Don't Fit In, by Robert W. Service
01/15/03 Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
01/14/03 I want to die while you love me, by Georgia Douglas Johnson
01/13/03 The Flea, by John Donne
01/10/03 Carmel Point, by Robinson Jeffers
01/09/03 An extract from Vasti by Lascelles Abercrombie
01/08/03 For Miriam, by Kenneth Patchen
01/07/03 The Opening of the Field, by Robert Duncan
01/06/03 Limited, by Carl Sandburg
01/03/03 Love Among the Ruins, by Robert Browning
01/02/03 Along the Road, by Robert Browning Hamilton