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7 | 1 | Hardy | The Darkling Thrush | Mar 19 | 1 | |||
8 | 2 | Edgar, Marriott | The Lion and Albert | |||||
9 | 3 | Donaldson, Julia | I Opened A Book | |||||
10 | 4 | Donne | The Good Morrow | Mar 20 | 2 | |||
11 | 5 | Oliver, Mary | Wild Geese | |||||
12 | 6 | Milligan, Spike | On the Ning Nang Nong | |||||
13 | 7 | Marvell, Andrew | To His Coy Mistress | Mar 21 | 3 | |||
14 | 8 | Hope, A D | His Coy Mistress to Mr Marvell | |||||
15 | 9 | Pugh, Sheenagh | Sometimes | |||||
16 | 10 | Larkin | The Mower | Mar 22 | 4 | |||
17 | 11 | Wordsworth | Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3 1802 | |||||
18 | 12 | Muir, Edwin | The Horses | Emma Fielding | ||||
19 | 13 | Stevenson, R L | The Land of Counterpane | Mother's Day | ||||
20 | 14 | Sondheim, Stephen | The Ballad of Sweeney Todd | Sondheim's 90th Birthday | ||||
21 | 15 | Noyes, Alfred | The Highwayman | Mar 23 | 5 | |||
22 | 16 | Milton | Sonnet 19 (On his Blindness) | Mar 24 | 6 | |||
23 | 17 | Cassian, Nina | Intimacy | Louise Brealey | ||||
24 | 18 | Harrison, Tony | Book Ends I & II | Neil Dudgeon | ||||
25 | 19 | Yeats | The Lake Isle of Innisfree | Emma Fielding | ||||
26 | 20 | Ferlinghetti, Lawrence | The World is a Beautiful Place | Ferlinnghetti's 101st Birthday | ||||
27 | 21 | Berry, Wendell | The Peace of Wild Things | Mar 25 | 7 | |||
28 | 22 | Walcott, Derek | Love after Love | Inua Ellams | ||||
29 | 23 | McGough, Roger | Bedroom Poem | |||||
30 | 24 | Henley, William Ernest | Invictus | Mar 26 | 8 | |||
31 | 25 | Dickinson, Emily | If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking | |||||
32 | 26 | Milne, A.A. | Disobedience | |||||
33 | 27 | Nash, Ogden | The Tale of Custard the Dragon | Emma Fielding | ||||
34 | 28 | Sassoon | Everyone Sang | Mar 27 | 9 | For #ClapForNHS | ||
35 | 29 | Adcock, Fleur | Londoner | Louise Brealey | ||||
36 | 30 | Hirons, Tom | Sometimes a Wild God | |||||
37 | 31 | Smith, Stevie | Black March | Mar 28 | 10 | |||
38 | 32 | Bush, Kate | Cloudbusting | First Weekend Lyric | ||||
39 | 33 | Angelou, Maya | Still I Rise | Adjoa Andoh | ||||
40 | 34 | Wheatland, Rosie | My Husband Was Very Cuddly | Mar 29 | 11 | |||
41 | 35 | Hafez | (یوسف گمگشته بازآید به کنعان غم مخور) The Lost Joseph | Khalid Abdallah | ||||
42 | 36 | Lear, Edward | The Jumblies | First Weekend Children's poem | ||||
43 | 37 | Fanthorpe, U A | Atlas | Mar 30 | 12 | West Family Repertory Company | ||
44 | 38 | Sitwell, Edith | Waltz | Prunella Scales | ||||
45 | 39 | Browning | My Last Duchess | Timothy West | ||||
46 | 40 | Beckett | What is the Word (Comment Dire) | Joseph West | ||||
47 | 41 | Rosen, Michael | These are the Hands | Mar 31 | 13 | #GetWellSoonMichaelRosen | ||
48 | 42 | Bishop, Elizabeth | One Art | |||||
49 | 43 | Day Lewis, C | Walking Away | Neil Dudgeon | ||||
50 | 44 | Masefield | Cargoes | |||||
51 | 45 | Auden | The More Loving One | April 1 | 14 | |||
52 | 46 | Ellams, Inua | The Child God of Chaos | Inua Ellams | ||||
53 | 47 | Lovelace, Richard | To Althea, from Prison | |||||
54 | 48 | Neruda, Pablo | Keeping Quiet | April 2 | 15 | |||
55 | 49 | Lee, Laurie | April Rise | |||||
56 | 50 | Frost | Stopping by Woods | Emma Fielding | ||||
57 | 51 | Arnold, Malcolm | Dover Beach | |||||
58 | 52 | Smith, Maggie | Good Bones | |||||
59 | 53 | Housman | A Shropshire Lad XL (Into my Heart an Air that Kills) | Beatie Edney | ||||
60 | 54 | Carroll, Lewis | Jabberwocky | |||||
61 | 55 | Keats | On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |||||
62 | 56 | Smith, Stevie | Not Waving but Drowning | Rebecca Front | ||||
63 | 57 | de la Mare, Walter | The Listeners | |||||
64 | 58 | Addonizio, Kim | For Desire | Susan Wokoma | ||||
65 | 59 | Gallagher, Noel | Live Forever | |||||
66 | 60 | Cope, Wendy | The Orange | |||||
67 | 61 | Gilbert, Jack | Michiko Dead | |||||
68 | 62 | cummings, e.e. | i carry your heart with me | Beatie Edney | ||||
69 | 63 | Donne | Meditation XVII (No Man Is An Island) | |||||
70 | 64 | Shelley | Ozymandias | |||||
71 | 65 | Towers, Katharine | The Way We Go | |||||
72 | 66 | Heaney, Seamus | Digging | |||||
73 | 67 | James, Clive | The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered | Deborah Frances White | ||||
74 | 68 | Collins, Billy | Litany | |||||
75 | 69 | Hopkins, G M | The Windhover | |||||
76 | 70 | Dickinson, Emily | Hope is the thing with Feathers | Beatie Edney | ||||
77 | 71 | Tennyson | The Eagle | Timothy West | ||||
78 | 72 | Wordsworth | Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey | |||||
79 | 73 | Larkin | Church Going | |||||
80 | 74 | Burns, Robert | To a Mouse | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
81 | 75 | Betjeman | Diary of a Church Mouse | |||||
82 | 76 | Bilston, Brian | Refugees | |||||
83 | 77 | Dickinson, Emily | Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church | Emma Fielding | ||||
84 | 78 | Cave, Nick | Into My Arms | |||||
85 | 79 | Dahl, Roald | Television (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) | |||||
86 | 80 | Poe, E A | Annabel Lee | |||||
87 | 81 | Yeats | Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | Beatie Edney | ||||
88 | 82 | Patten, Brian | On Time for Once | |||||
89 | 83 | McLendon-Laumann | Smiling is Infectious | |||||
90 | 84 | Auden | The Fall of Rome | |||||
91 | 85 | Nash, Ogden | The Germ | |||||
92 | 86 | Smart, Christopher | For I will Consider my Cat, Jeoffry | |||||
93 | 87 | Farjeon, Eleanor | Cats Sleep Anywhere | Beatie Edney | ||||
94 | 88 | Ewart, Gavin | A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in Winter | |||||
95 | 89 | Noyes, Alfred | Daddy Fell Into the Pond | |||||
96 | 90 | Kipling | If - | Timothy West | ||||
97 | 91 | Nash, Miriam | Prayer for my Father as a Child | |||||
98 | 92 | Thomas, Edward | As The Team's Head Brass | |||||
99 | 93 | Hughes | The Horses | Emma Fielding | ||||
100 | 94 | Housman | Is My Team Ploughing? | |||||
101 | 95 | Rossetti, Christina | Goblin Market | |||||
102 | 96 | Leigh Hunt | Abou Ben Adhem | |||||
103 | 97 | Wilde | The Harlot's House | Gyles Brandreth | ||||
104 | 98 | Pulp | Something Changed | |||||
105 | 99 | MacNeice | Autumn Journal IV | |||||
106 | 100 | Frost | The Road Not Taken | Eddie Redmayne | ||||
107 | 101 | Hopkins, G M | Inversnaid | Emma Fielding | ||||
108 | 102 | Coleridge | Frost at Midnight | |||||
109 | 103 | Lamb, Mary | Choosing a Name | |||||
110 | 104 | Larkin | This be the Verse | Beatie Edney | ||||
111 | 105 | Cope, Wendy | After the Lunch | |||||
112 | 106 | Heaney | Scaffolding | Jessica Regan | ||||
113 | 107 | Centolella, Thomas | In the evening we shall be examined on love | |||||
114 | 108 | Brooke, Rupert | The Soldier | Paterson Joseph | ||||
115 | 109 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 18 | Juliet Stevenson | ||||
116 | 110 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 65 | Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | ||||
117 | 111 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 29 | Emma Fielding | ||||
118 | 112 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 116 | Eddie Redmayne | ||||
119 | 113 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 19 | Adjoa Andoh | ||||
120 | 114 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 130 | |||||
121 | 115 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 73 | Timothy West | ||||
122 | 116 | Dickinson, Emily | A Book | |||||
123 | 117 | Auden | Musee dex Beaux Arts | Neil Dudgeon | ||||
124 | 118 | Byron | Solitude | |||||
125 | 119 | Seuss, Dr | Too Many Daves | |||||
126 | 120 | Bojelian, Adam | A Silly Poem | |||||
127 | 121 | Drury, Linnet | I Want The Faith | |||||
128 | 122 | Wodehouse, P G | Printer's Error | |||||
129 | 123 | Prodigy, The | Firestarter | |||||
130 | 124 | Zephaniah, Benjamin | The London Breed | Paterson Joseph | ||||
131 | 125 | Cooper Clarke, John | I Wanna Be Yours | |||||
132 | 126 | Prevert, Jacques | Dejeuner du Matin | Hedwige West | ||||
133 | 127 | Boland, Eavan | Quarantine | Ella Hickson | ||||
134 | 128 | Ehrmann, Max | Desiderata | |||||
135 | 129 | Hood, Thomas | Silence | |||||
136 | 130 | McCaig, Norman | Sounds of the Day | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
137 | 131 | MacNeice | Prayer before Birth | |||||
138 | 132 | Plath | You're | Emma Fielding | ||||
139 | 133 | Clough | Through a Glass Darkly | |||||
140 | 134 | Wordsworth | Daffodils | |||||
141 | 135 | Hopkins | Spring | |||||
142 | 136 | Reed, Henry | Naming of Parts | |||||
143 | 137 | Blake | London | |||||
144 | 138 | Stafford, William | A Ritual to Read to Each Other | |||||
145 | 139 | Fanthorpe, U A | Daffodil Ministry | |||||
146 | 140 | Ahlberg, Alan | Dog in the Playground | |||||
147 | 141 | Armitage, Simon | Before you cut loose | Beatie Edney | ||||
148 | 142 | Goldsmith, Oliver | An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | |||||
149 | 143 | Oliver, Mary | Invitation | |||||
150 | 144 | Milne, A A | Rice Pudding | Nina Sosonya | ||||
151 | 145 | Harvey, P J | Last Living Rose | |||||
152 | 146 | Collins, Billy | The History Teacher | |||||
153 | 147 | O'Donohue, John | This is the time to be slow ... | Jessica Regan | ||||
154 | 148 | Lucas, George | Star Wars Ep 4 Opening Crawl | |||||
155 | 149 | Auden | Night Mail | |||||
156 | 150 | Thomas, Edward | Adlestrop | |||||
157 | 151 | Stevenson, R L | From A Railway Carriage | |||||
158 | 152 | Whitman | O Me! O Life! | |||||
159 | 153 | Thomas, R S | Arrival | Amy Morgan | ||||
160 | 154 | Carver, Raymond | Late Fragment | |||||
161 | 155 | Keats | Ode to a Nightingale | |||||
162 | 156 | Baudelaire, Charles | L'Albatros | Joseph West | ||||
163 | 157 | Langley, R.F. | To a Nightingale | |||||
164 | 158 | Lawrence, D H | Shadows | Susie Dent | ||||
165 | 159 | Rich, Adrienne | Storm Warnings | Louise Brealey | ||||
166 | 160 | Ungar, Lynn | Pandemic | Beatie Edney | ||||
167 | 161 | Coward, Noel | Lie in the Dark and Listen | |||||
168 | 162 | Hardy | In time of 'The Breaking of Nations' | Richard Trinder | ||||
169 | 163 | McGee, J.G. | High Flight | |||||
170 | 164 | Thomas, Dylan | Fern Hill | |||||
171 | 165 | McGough, Roger | The Way Things Are | Stephen Mangan | ||||
172 | 166 | Causley, Charles | I Saw A Jolly Hunter | |||||
173 | 167 | Edgar, Marriott | Albert's Return | |||||
174 | 168 | Duffy, Carol Ann | Little Red Cap | Beatie Edney | ||||
175 | 169 | Owen, Mark Antony | Childhood these Days | |||||
176 | 170 | Dyer, Edward | The Lowest Trees have Tops | |||||
177 | 171 | Browning, E B | Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? | Nina Sosonya | ||||
178 | 172 | Clewell, David | Not to Mention Love: A Heart For Patricia | |||||
179 | 173 | Masefield | Sea Fever | |||||
180 | 174 | Larkin | Toads | Neil Dudgeon | ||||
181 | 175 | Millay, Edna St Vincent | Dirge Without Music | |||||
182 | 176 | Milligan | I Must Go Down to the Sea Again | |||||
183 | 177 | Hopkins | My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On | |||||
184 | 178 | Keats | The Eve of St Agnes | Jamie Parker | ||||
185 | 179 | Nye, Naomi Shihab | Kindness | |||||
186 | 180 | Flecker, James Elroy | Oxford Canal | |||||
187 | 181 | Chesterton, G K | The Rolling English Road | Timothy West | ||||
188 | 182 | 1988 WFC FA Cup Squad | We Are Wimbledon | |||||
189 | 183 | Coleridge | Kubla Khan | |||||
190 | 184 | Smith, Stevie | Do Take Muriel Out | Rebecca Front | ||||
191 | 185 | Poe | El Dorado | |||||
192 | 186 | Byron | She Walks in Beauty | |||||
193 | 187 | Seuss, Dr | Green Eggs and Ham | Carrie Quinlan | ||||
194 | 188 | Sorley, C H | Song of the Ungirt Runners | |||||
195 | 189 | Larkin | The Trees | |||||
196 | 190 | Blur | This is a Low | |||||
197 | 191 | Kipling | A Smuggler's Song | |||||
198 | 192 | Auden | Lullaby (Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love) | |||||
199 | 193 | Burns, Robert | My Love is like a Red Red Rose | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
200 | 194 | Scannell, Vernon | No Sense of Direction | |||||
201 | 195 | Lawrence, D H | Piano | |||||
202 | 196 | Plath | Morning Song | Emma Fielding | ||||
203 | 197 | Stevenson, R L | Block City | |||||
204 | 198 | Thomas, Dylan | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | |||||
205 | 199 | Cope, Wendy | If I Don't Know | |||||
206 | 200 | MacNeice | Autumn Journal XIX | |||||
207 | 201 | Betjeman | Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants | |||||
208 | 202 | Yeats | When you are Old | Beatie Edney | ||||
209 | 203 | Bronte, Emily | The Old Stoic | |||||
210 | 204 | Donne | The Flea | |||||
211 | 205 | Milligan, Spike | Silly Old Baboon | |||||
212 | 206 | Paterson, Don | The Rat | |||||
213 | 207 | Belloc | Henry King | |||||
214 | 208 | Hippolyte, Kendel | Mamoyi | Sibusiso Mamba | ||||
215 | 209 | Hood, Thomas | I Remember, I Remember | |||||
216 | 210 | Yeats | The Second Coming | |||||
217 | 211 | Sondheim, Stephen | Children will Listen | |||||
218 | 212 | cummings, e e | Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond | |||||
219 | 213 | Mitchell, Adrian | Celia, Celia | |||||
220 | 214 | Rossetti, Christina | Echo | Beatie Edney | ||||
221 | 215 | Rochester | My Dear Mistress has a Heart | |||||
222 | 216 | Kipling | Epitaphs of the War | |||||
223 | 217 | Adams, Douglas | Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly | |||||
224 | 218 | Flecker, James Elroy | To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence | |||||
225 | 219 | Patten, Brian | Blade of Grass | Emma Fielding | ||||
226 | 220 | Hughes | The Thought Fox | |||||
227 | 221 | Davies, W.H. | Leisure | |||||
228 | 222 | Thomas, R S | The View from the Window | |||||
229 | 223 | Oswald, Alice | Dunt: a poem for a dried up river | |||||
230 | 224 | Eliot | The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock | |||||
231 | 225 | Clare, John | I Am | Richard Trinder | ||||
232 | 226 | Tennyson | Ulysses | |||||
233 | 227 | Belloc | Tarantella | |||||
234 | 228 | Heaney | When All The Others Were Away At Mass | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
235 | 229 | Hardy | Her Temple | |||||
236 | 230 | Lear, Edward | The Owl and the Pussycat | |||||
237 | 231 | Auden | Edward Lear | |||||
238 | 232 | Yeats | The Stolen Child | Jessica Regan | ||||
239 | 233 | Motion, Andrew | The Mower | |||||
240 | 234 | Grenfell, Joyce | I'm Going To See You Today | |||||
241 | 235 | Walcott, Derek | Pentecost | Paterson Joseph | ||||
242 | 236 | Larkin | The Whitsun Weddings | Adrian Edmondson | ||||
243 | 237 | Eliot | Little Gidding: Four Quartets IV | |||||
244 | 238 | Betjeman | A Subaltern's Love Song | |||||
245 | 239 | Herbert | Love (III) | |||||
246 | 240 | de la Mare, Walter | Arabia | |||||
247 | 241 | Blake | Garden of Love | |||||
248 | 242 | Hemphill, Essex | For My Own Protection | Paterson Joseph | ||||
249 | 243 | Tapahonso, Luci | Elegy for My Younger Sister | |||||
250 | 244 | Frost | Mending Wall | |||||
251 | 245 | Gilbert, Jack | Failing and Flying | David Baddiel | ||||
252 | 246 | Dickinson, Emily | I Stepped from Plank to Plank | |||||
253 | 247 | Brodsky, Joseph | Song (I wish you were here) | |||||
254 | 248 | Daniels, Kate | War Photograph | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
255 | 249 | Strand, Mark | Lines for Winter | |||||
256 | 250 | Hughes, Langston | Still Here | Adrian Lester | ||||
257 | 251 | Thomas, Dylan | And Death Shall have no Dominion | |||||
258 | 252 | Tessimond, ASJ | Day Dream | |||||
259 | 253 | Rosen, Michael | Mr Hobson-Jobson Says | |||||
260 | 254 | Oliver, Mary | The Summer Day | Gemma Whelan | ||||
261 | 255 | Auden | A Summer Night | |||||
262 | 256 | Carroll, Lewis | Hiawatha's Photographing | |||||
263 | 257 | Tagore, Rabindranath | Paper Boats | Meera Syal | ||||
264 | 258 | MacColl, Kirsty | England 2 Columbia 0 | |||||
265 | 259 | Drayton, Michael | Idea LXI ('Since There's No Help') | |||||
266 | 260 | Hayden, Robert | Those Winter Sundays | Adrian Lester | ||||
267 | 261 | McCaig, Norman | Party | |||||
268 | 262 | Keats | When I Have Fears | |||||
269 | 263 | Plath | Lady Lazarus | Jane Slavin | ||||
270 | 264 | Rossetti, Christina | When I am Dead, my Dearest | |||||
271 | 265 | Clough | Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth | |||||
272 | 266 | Auden | The Unknown Citizen | |||||
273 | 267 | Larkin | An Arundel Tomb | Richard Trinder | ||||
274 | 268 | Spender, Steven | The Truly Great | |||||
275 | 269 | Gray, Thomas | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |||||
276 | 270 | Scannell, Vernon | Missing Things | Timothy West | ||||
277 | 271 | Chesterton, G K | Elegy in a Country Courtyard | |||||
278 | 272 | Plath | Black Rook in Rainy Weather | |||||
279 | 273 | Thomas, Edward | Tall Nettles | |||||
280 | 274 | Oswald, Alice | A Short Story of Falling | |||||
281 | 275 | Causley, Charles | Timothy Winters | |||||
282 | 276 | Belloc | Matilda | Gemma Whelan | ||||
283 | 277 | MacNeice | When We Were Children | |||||
284 | 278 | Marvell, Andrew | The Garden | |||||
285 | 279 | Berry, Wendell | To Know the Dark | David Oakes | ||||
286 | 280 | Bowie | Rock n Roll Suicide | |||||
287 | 281 | Cope, Wendy | Flowers | |||||
288 | 282 | Bishop, Elizabeth | Insomnia | Emma Fielding | ||||
289 | 283 | Parker, Dorothy | A Fairly Sad Tale | |||||
290 | 284 | Thomas, Edward | Words | |||||
291 | 285 | Heaney | Anahorish | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
292 | 286 | Thomas, R S | Poetry for Supper | |||||
293 | 287 | Auden | There Will Be No Peace | |||||
294 | 288 | Dyer, Edward | My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is | |||||
295 | 289 | Lawson, Henry | After All | |||||
296 | 290 | Betjeman | The Village Inn | |||||
297 | 291 | Larkin | Toads Revisited | Neil Dudgeon | ||||
298 | 292 | Hughes, Ted | Football at Slack | |||||
299 | 293 | Harjo, Joy | Perhaps the World Ends Here | |||||
300 | 294 | Tuwhare, Hone | Friend | |||||
301 | 295 | Palladas | Loving the Rituals | |||||
302 | 296 | Tennyson | The Revenge | |||||
303 | 297 | Noyes, Alfred | The Moon Is Up | |||||
304 | 298 | Kipling | Big Steamers | Timothy West | ||||
305 | 299 | Tolkien | I Sit By the Fire and Think | |||||
306 | 300 | Brooke, Rupert | Heaven | |||||
307 | 301 | Gibson, Wilfred | The Ice Cart | |||||
308 | 302 | MacNeice | Autumn Journal V | |||||
309 | 303 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | The Kiss | |||||
310 | 304 | Lowell, Amy | Patterns | Gemma Whelan | ||||
311 | 305 | Herrick, Robert | Upon Julia's Clothes | |||||
312 | 306 | Duffy, Carol Ann | Moments of Grace | |||||
313 | 307 | Hardy | The Self Unseeing | Emma Fielding | ||||
314 | 308 | Causley, Charles | Eden Rock | |||||
315 | 309 | Arnold, Malcolm | The Scholar-Gipsy | |||||
316 | 310 | Douglas, Keith | Canoe | David Oakes | ||||
317 | 311 | Mackinnon, Lachlan | Oxford | |||||
318 | 312 | Thomas, Dylan | The force that through the green fuse drives the flower | |||||
319 | 313 | Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan | Swineherd | Jessica Regan | ||||
320 | 314 | Langley, R.F. | Blues for Titania | |||||
321 | 315 | Barrington, Patrick | I Had a Hippopotamus | |||||
322 | 316 | Okara, Gabriel | You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed | Noma Dumezweni | ||||
323 | 317 | Milligan | Have a Nice Day | Adrian Edmondson | ||||
324 | 318 | Holloway, Stanley | Sam, Sam, Pick oop thi Musket | |||||
325 | 319 | Hardy | Channel Firing | |||||
326 | 320 | Szymborska, Wisława | The End and the Beginning | |||||
327 | 321 | Lennon & McCartney | Eleanor Rigby | |||||
328 | 322 | Millay, Edna St Vincent | Sonnet 43 (What Lips My Lips have Kissed) | |||||
329 | 323 | Hopkins | Heaven Haven | |||||
330 | 324 | Donne | Batter My Heart | |||||
331 | 325 | Graves, Robert | Love Without Hope | Gemma Whelan | ||||
332 | 326 | Patten, Brian | You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen | |||||
333 | 327 | Lawrence, D H | Snake | |||||
334 | 328 | Morgan, Edwin | Hyena | Douglas Henshall | ||||
335 | 329 | Keats | Lamia (Transformation section) | |||||
336 | 330 | Yeats | Among School Children | |||||
337 | 331 | Rooney, Rachel | First Word | Natalie Dormer and David Oakes | ||||
338 | 332 | Sandberg, Carl | Arithmetic | |||||
339 | 333 | Nashe, Thomas | In Time of Pestilence | |||||
340 | 334 | Dickinson, Emily | After great pain, a formal feeling comes | Emma Fielding | ||||
341 | 335 | Larkin | Aubade | |||||
342 | 336 | Oliver, Mary | The Buddha's Last Instruction | |||||
343 | 337 | Housman | Yonder See the Morning | Beatie Edney | ||||
344 | 338 | Hopkins | God's Grandeur | |||||
345 | 339 | Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | |||||
346 | 340 | Frost | Fire and Ice | |||||
347 | 341 | Key, Frances Scott | The Star-Spangled Banner | |||||
348 | 342 | Cohen, Leonard & Robinson, Sharon | Everybody Knows | |||||
349 | 343 | Betjeman | Indoor Games near Newbury | |||||
350 | 344 | Duffy, Carol Ann | Anne Hathaway | |||||
351 | 345 | Tessimond, ASJ | Not Love, Perhaps | |||||
352 | 346 | Causley, Charles | Green Man in the Garden | |||||
353 | 347 | Heaney | Bog Queen | Jessica Regan | ||||
354 | 348 | Crawford, Ide | The Moors | |||||
355 | 349 | Wordsworth | The Tables Turned | |||||
356 | 350 | Clare, John | After Reading ...Proposals For Building A Cottage | Richard Trinder | ||||
357 | 351 | Thomas, R S | The Bright Field | |||||
358 | 352 | Kavanagh, Patrick | Memory of my Father | |||||
359 | 353 | Hughes, Langston | Mother to Son | Adjoa Andoh | ||||
360 | 354 | Hardy | Boys Then and Now | |||||
361 | 355 | Wyatt, Thomas | They Flee From Me | |||||
362 | 356 | Browning | The Patriot | Timothy West | ||||
363 | 357 | Cavafy | The God Abandons Antony | |||||
364 | 358 | Borja, Aisha | Days | |||||
365 | 359 | Limbu, Mukahang | Cooking | |||||
366 | 360 | Beekmayer, Anna | OX4 | |||||
367 | 361 | Drury, Linnet | Unmute | |||||
368 | 362 | Newman, St John Henry | Lead, Kindly Light | |||||
369 | 363 | Oliver, Mary | The Journey | Gemma Whelan | ||||
370 | 364 | Flecker, James Elroy | The Golden Journey to Samarkand (Prologue) | |||||
371 | 365 | Longley, Michael | Baucis and Philemon | |||||
372 | 366 | de la Mare, Walter | Fare Well | |||||
373 | 367 | Tennyson | Crossing the Bar | Alexander Armstrong | ||||
374 | 368 | Catullus | Ave Atque Vale (101) | |||||
375 | 369 | Bishop, Elizabeth | Sandpiper | |||||
376 | 370 | Poe | The Raven | Mark Gatiss | ||||
377 | 371 | Stevens, Wallace | Of Mere Being | |||||
378 | 372 | Duffy, Carol Ann | Prayer | |||||
379 | 373 | Neruda, Pablo | Ode to Clothes | Gemma Whelan | ||||
380 | 374 | Evans, Gareth | Hold Everything Dear (for John Berger) | |||||
381 | 375 | Kipling | The Roman Centurion's Song | |||||
382 | 376 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 50 | |||||
383 | 377 | Byron | When We Two Parted | |||||
384 | 378 | Blake | The Tyger | |||||
385 | 379 | Belloc | Jim, Who Ran away from his Nurse, and was Eaten… | Hugh Bonneville | ||||
386 | 380 | Hughes, Ted | Jaguar | |||||
387 | 381 | Larkin | Here | |||||
388 | 382 | Anon | Ye Cannae Shove yer Grannie aff a Bus | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
389 | 383 | cummings, e e | she being Brand | |||||
390 | 384 | Graves, Robert | Lost Love | |||||
391 | 385 | Millay, Edna St Vincent | Pity me Not | |||||
392 | 386 | Armitage, Simon | To His Lost Lover | |||||
393 | 387 | Case, Molly | Nursing the Nation | |||||
394 | 388 | Crane, Hart | To Brooklyn Bridge | |||||
395 | 389 | Campion, Thomas | There is a Garden in her Face | |||||
396 | 390 | Marvell, Andrew | The Mower against Gardens | Timothy West | ||||
397 | 391 | Benson, Fiona | First Wife | |||||
398 | 392 | Eliot | Burnt Norton: Four Quartets (I) | |||||
399 | 393 | Young, Augustus | After Five Years | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
400 | 394 | Auden | If I Could Tell You | |||||
401 | 395 | Belloc | The South Country | |||||
402 | 396 | Betjeman | Greenaway | |||||
403 | 397 | Morgan, Edwin | Midge | |||||
404 | 398 | Hegley, John | Allez and The Martian | John Hegley | ||||
405 | 399 | MacNeice | Autumn Journal I | |||||
406 | 400 | Hughes, Langston | I, Too | Adrian Lester | ||||
407 | 401 | Ayres, Pam | Unmasked | Pam Ayres | ||||
408 | 402 | Keats | To Sleep | |||||
409 | 403 | Glasvegas | Geraldine | |||||
410 | 404 | Clare, John | First Love | |||||
411 | 405 | Donne | Air and Angels | Alexander Armstrong | ||||
412 | 406 | Whitman | When I Heard at the Close of the Day | |||||
413 | 407 | Wright, Kit | The Orbison Consolations | |||||
414 | 408 | Browning | A Toccata of Galuppi's | Prunella Scales | ||||
415 | 409 | Okara, Gabriel | Piano & Drums | Chi-chi Nwanoku | ||||
416 | 410 | Owen, Wilfred | Dulce et Decorum est | |||||
417 | 411 | Sassoon | The Dug-Out | |||||
418 | 412 | Duffy, Carol Ann | War Photographer | |||||
419 | 413 | Coleridge | This Lime-tree Bower My Prison | |||||
420 | 414 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 30 | Hugh Bonneville | ||||
421 | 415 | Jennings, Elizabeth | Friendship | |||||
422 | 416 | de la Mare, Walter | Nicholas Nye | |||||
423 | 417 | Paterson, Andrew Barton 'Banjo' | The Man from Snowy River | Alice Fraser | ||||
424 | 418 | Henry, E. R. Lance-Corporal | The Battery Horse | |||||
425 | 419 | Larkin | Sunny Prestatyn | |||||
426 | 420 | Milne, A A | The Knight Whose Armour Didn’t Squeak | Emma Fielding | ||||
427 | 421 | Duhig, Ian | The Lammas Hireling | |||||
428 | 422 | Wordsworth | The Solitary Reaper | |||||
429 | 423 | Small, Judy | Mothers Daughters Wives | Deborah Frances White | ||||
430 | 424 | Wyatt, Thomas | Whoso list to Hunt | |||||
431 | 425 | Fenton, James | Hinterhof | Nancy Carroll | ||||
432 | 426 | Murray, Les | An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow | |||||
433 | 427 | Heaney | Mid-Term Break | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
434 | 428 | Edmund, Lauris | Rain in the Hills | |||||
435 | 429 | Serraillier, Ian | Get up and Shut the Door | |||||
436 | 430 | Rukeyser, Muriel | Effort at Speech Between Two People | Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson | ||||
437 | 431 | Merriam, Eve | Teevee | Emma Fielding | ||||
438 | 432 | Tōge Sankichi (峠 三吉) | August 6th | Aug 6 | 141 | |||
439 | 433 | Shigemoto Yasuhiko | Three Haiku | |||||
440 | 434 | Kurihara Sadako (栗原 貞子) | Let us be Midwives! | |||||
441 | 435 | Lawrence, D H | Bat | |||||
442 | 436 | MacCaig, Norman | Basking Shark | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
443 | 437 | Scannell, Vernon | A Case of Murder | |||||
444 | 438 | Keats | Bright Star | |||||
445 | 439 | Stevenson, R L | The Lamplighter | |||||
446 | 440 | Housman | How Clear, How Lovely Bright | |||||
447 | 441 | Kavanagh, Patrick | Canal Bank Walk | |||||
448 | 442 | Sullivan, Justin (New Model Army) | Ballad | |||||
449 | 443 | Kipling | The Way Through The Woods | Richard Trinder | ||||
450 | 444 | Donne | A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. | Benedict Cumberbatch | ||||
451 | 445 | Millay, Edna St Vincent | And You as Well Must Die, Beloved Dust | |||||
452 | 446 | Ennis, John | The Road to Patmos | |||||
453 | 447 | Clare, John | The Skylark | |||||
454 | 448 | Hughes, Ted | Thrushes | Jane Slavin | ||||
455 | 449 | Ciardi, John | White Heron | |||||
456 | 450 | Tennyson | The Lady of Shallott | |||||
457 | 451 | Hardy | Nobody Comes | Timothy West | ||||
458 | 452 | Cowper, William | The Castaway | |||||
459 | 453 | Shelley | The Cloud | |||||
460 | 454 | Thomas, Edward | Rain | |||||
461 | 455 | Hughes | Fate-Playing | |||||
462 | 456 | Stevenson, R L | The Vagabond | |||||
463 | 457 | Rendall, Robert | Angle of Vision | Nicholas Ralph | ||||
464 | 458 | Yeats | Who goes with Fergus? | |||||
465 | 459 | Keats | La Belle Dame Sans Merci | |||||
466 | 460 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | Supreme Surrender | |||||
467 | 461 | Causley, Charles | Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast | |||||
468 | 462 | Turner, Frank | Demons | |||||
469 | 463 | Dickinson, Emily | Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Hattie Morahan | ||||
470 | 464 | Gilmore, Mary | The Tenancy | Deborah Frances-White | ||||
471 | 465 | Auden, W H | Funeral Blues | |||||
472 | 466 | Hardy, Thomas | A Broken Appointment | Jo Stone-Fewings | ||||
473 | 467 | Milton, John | Sonnet 23 (Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint) | |||||
474 | 468 | Sidney, Sir Philip | Sonnet 39 (Come Sleep, O Sleep) | |||||
475 | 469 | Sinha, Shampa | Siesta | Indira Varma | ||||
476 | 470 | Brooke, Rupert | Doubts | |||||
477 | 471 | Mitchell, Adrian | Beattie is Three | |||||
478 | 472 | cummings, e e | i thank You God for most this amazing | Nancy Carroll | ||||
479 | 473 | Hopkins, G M | As Kingfishers Catch Fire | |||||
480 | 474 | Causley, Charles | The Song of the Dying Gunner AA1 | |||||
481 | 475 | Hardy, Thomas | Drummer Hodge | Jo Stone-Fewings | ||||
482 | 476 | Sergeant, Howard | The Inarticulate | |||||
483 | 477 | Brontë, Charlotte | Preference | |||||
484 | 478 | Brontë, Emily | No Coward Soul is Mine | Emma Fielding | ||||
485 | 479 | Brontë, Anne | Mirth and Mourning | |||||
486 | 480 | Plath | Wuthering Heights | Jane Slavin | ||||
487 | 481 | MacNeice, Louis | Bagpipe Music | |||||
488 | 482 | McGough, Roger | Crotchet | Rufus Sewell | ||||
489 | 483 | Collins, Billy | Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House | |||||
490 | 484 | Auden, W H | The Witnesses | |||||
491 | 485 | Poison Girls (Vi Subversa) | Persons Unknown | |||||
492 | 486 | Wagoner, David | Lost | |||||
493 | 487 | Hayes, J Milton | The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God | |||||
494 | 488 | Housman | When I was One-and-Twenty | Leah Harvey | ||||
495 | 489 | Thomas, R S | Luminary | |||||
496 | 490 | Frost, Robert | Birches | |||||
497 | 491 | Armitage, Simon | I am Very Bothered | Rufus Sewell | ||||
498 | 492 | O'Hara, Frank | Animals | |||||
499 | 493 | Donne | Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star) | |||||
500 | 494 | Rich, Adrienne | Power | Amanda Abbington | ||||
501 | 495 | Plath | Mushrooms | Jane Slavin | ||||
502 | 496 | Haskins, Minnie Louise | God Knows (The Gate of the Year) | |||||
503 | 497 | Mahon, Derek | A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
504 | 498 | Auden, W H | Bunyan's Good Night (iii) from 'Paul Bunyan' | |||||
505 | 499 | MacNeice | Autumn Journal iii (August is nearly over) | |||||
506 | 500 | Ayres, Pam | Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth | Pam Ayres | ||||
507 | 501 | Milton, John | The Temptation of Eve, from Paradise Lost Book IX (l. 494 - 784) | |||||
508 | 502 | Betjeman | Norfolk | Aug 29 | 163 | Nostalgia for countryside | ||
509 | 503 | Tennyson | The Brook | Indira Varma | ||||
510 | 504 | Belloc, Hilaire | Ha'nacker Mill | |||||
511 | 505 | Harburg, Yip | Lydia The Tattooed Lady | Aug 30 | 164 | none | ||
512 | 506 | Heaney | Blackberry-Picking | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
513 | 507 | Shire, Warsan | Home | Amanda Abbington | ||||
514 | 508 | Dowson, Ernest | Cynara (Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae) | Aug 31 | 165 | Love | ||
515 | 509 | Lewis, Alun | Postscript - For Gweno | Ioan Gruffudd | ||||
516 | 510 | Sassoon, Siegfried | The Imperfect Lover | |||||
517 | 511 | Auden | September 1, 1939 by W H Auden | Sep 1 | 166 | Second World War | ||
518 | 512 | Yevtushenko, Yevgeny | Babi Yar | |||||
519 | 513 | Armitage, Simon | Poundland | Sep 2 | 167 | Journeys and separation | ||
520 | 514 | Cavafy, C P | Ithaca | Carrie Quinlan | ||||
521 | 515 | Pound, Ezra | The River-Merchant's Wife (after Li Po) | |||||
522 | 516 | Feinstein, Elaine | Getting Older | |||||
523 | 517 | Milligan, Rose | Dust If You Must | Amanda Abbington | ||||
524 | 518 | Lundy, Randy | Happiness | |||||
525 | 519 | Clare, John | Thoughts In A Church-Yard | |||||
526 | 520 | Rossetti, Christina | Remember | Alice Evans | ||||
527 | 521 | Wordsworth | The Two April Mornings | |||||
528 | 522 | Lear, Edward | The Dong With A Luminous Nose | |||||
529 | 523 | Blake | Night | |||||
530 | 524 | Thomas, Edward | Out In The Dark | |||||
531 | 525 | Marillion (Fish) | Grendel | |||||
532 | 526 | Chesterton, G K | The Last Hero | Richard Trinder | ||||
533 | 527 | Smith, Clark Ashton | Satan Unrepentant | |||||
534 | 528 | Donne | The Sun Rising | |||||
535 | 529 | Herrick, Robert | To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything | Jo Stone-Fewings | ||||
536 | 530 | Beresford, Elizabeth | Letter From An Italian Prisoner | |||||
537 | 531 | Keats | Ode On Melancholy | |||||
538 | 532 | Harrison, Tony | A Kumquat for John Keats | |||||
539 | 533 | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | The Day is Done | Sep 9 | 174 | Poets, Poetry and Imagination | ||
540 | 534 | Cope, Wendy | Favourite | Carrie Quinlan | ||||
541 | 535 | Stevens, Wallace | Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour | |||||
542 | 534 | Herbert, George | The Collar | Sep 10 | 175 | The identity of children | ||
543 | 537 | de la Mare, Walter | Myself | Emma Fielding | ||||
544 | 538 | McGough, Roger | A Poem Just For Me | |||||
545 | 539 | Shakespeare | There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men, from "Julius Caesar" | Sep 11 | 176 | A better world is possible | ||
546 | 540 | Tagore, Rabindranath | Where The Mind Is Without Fear from Gitanjali (35) | Indira Varma | ||||
547 | 541 | Ortiz, Simon J | Culture And The Universe | |||||
548 | 542 | Milne, A A | The King's Breakfast | Sep 12 | 177 | Food | ||
549 | 543 | Goodison, Lorna | Aunt Rose's Honey Advice | Leah Harvey | ||||
550 | 544 | Anonymous | I Eat My Peas With Honey | |||||
551 | 545 | Dearmer, Geoffrey | A Blessing | Sep 13 | 178 | Nature and moderation | ||
552 | 546 | Rusby, Kate | Only Desire What You Have | |||||
553 | 547 | Williams, Hugo | Joy | |||||
554 | 548 | cummings, e e | it may not always be so;and i say | Sep 14 | 179 | Love | ||
555 | 549 | Rancman, Robyn (attr.) | Miss Me But Let Me Go | Indira Varma | ||||
556 | 550 | Fenton, James | In Paris With You | |||||
557 | 551 | Yeats | He Remembers Forgotten Beauty | Sep 15 | 180 | Men looking back | ||
558 | 552 | Larkin | High Windows | Chris Addison | ||||
559 | 553 | Mahon, Derek | Dog Days | |||||
560 | 554 | Tennyson | Mariana | Sep 16 | 181 | Grief, solitude and strength | ||
561 | 555 | Pastan, Linda | I Am Learning To Abandon The World | Alicia Witt | ||||
562 | 556 | Waheed, Nayyirah | -therapy | |||||
563 | 557 | Shakespeare | Sonnet 94 | Sep 17 | 182 | Love and cruelty | ||
564 | 558 | Duffy, Carol Ann | Havisham | Beatie Edney | ||||
565 | 559 | Berryman, John | Dream Song 29 | |||||
566 | 560 | Hopkins, G M | Spring And Fall | Sep 18 | 183 | Youth and innocence | ||
567 | 561 | Heaney | Death Of A Naturalist | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
568 | 562 | Betjeman | A Russell Flint | |||||
569 | 563 | Keats | To Autumn | Sep 19 | 184 | Autumn | ||
570 | 564 | Teasdale, Sara | Dusk At Autumn | Emma Fielding | ||||
571 | 565 | Frost, Robert | After Apple Picking | |||||
572 | 566 | Cohen, Leonard | Hallelujah | Sep 20 | 185 | Lyric | ||
573 | 567 | Rosen, Michael | Shoes | S West and Daughter | Children's | |||
574 | 568 | Donne | The Expiration | Sep 21 | 186 | Love | ||
575 | 569 | Hardy | The Moth Signal | |||||
576 | 570 | Rochester, Earl of | Song: Love And Life | |||||
577 | 571 | Lawrence, D H | Mountain Lion | Sep 22 | 187 | Creatures Great and Small | ||
578 | 572 | Anonymous (Seamus Heaney transl.) | Pangur Bán | Jonjo O'Neill | ||||
579 | 573 | Clare, John | Insects | |||||
580 | 574 | Plath | The Arrival of the Bee Box | Sep 23 | 188 | Freedom | ||
581 | 575 | Normal, Henry | A Prayer for the Hesitant | Toby Jones | ||||
582 | 576 | Kavanagh, Patrick | Pegasus | |||||
583 | 577 | Auden | The Shield Of Achilles | Sep 24 | 189 | The pity of war | ||
584 | 578 | Armitage, Simon | The Manhunt | Nina Sosonya | ||||
585 | 579 | Owen, Wilfred | Strange Meeting | |||||
586 | 580 | Chesterton, G K | Lepanto | Sep 25 | 190 | Ships and the Sea | ||
587 | 581 | Flecker, James Elroy | The Old Ships | Prunella Scales | ||||
588 | 582 | Moore, Marianne | A Grave | |||||
589 | 583 | Patten, Brian | Eight Brand New Angels - A Counting Rhyme | Sep 26 | 191 | Children's | ||
590 | 584 | Blake | A Poison Tree | Toby Jones | ||||
591 | 585 | Stevens, Cat (Yusuf Islam) | Matthew and Son | Lyric | ||||
592 | 586 | Ashbery, John | The Painter | Sep 27 | 192 | Art (American poets) | ||
593 | 587 | Bishop, Elizabeth | The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop | Jane Slavin | ||||
594 | 588 | Collins, Billy | The Death Of Allegory | |||||
595 | 589 | Marks, Leo | The Life that I Have | Sep 28 | 193 | Love | ||
596 | 590 | Bradstreet, Ann | Before the Birth of One of Her Children | Emma Fielding | ||||
597 | 591 | McGonagall, William | The Famous Tay Whale | Nicholas Ralph | Sep 29 | 194 | Creatures Great and Small II | |
598 | 592 | Richards, Laura E | Kindness To Animals | |||||
599 | 593 | Milligan, Spike | Ant And Elephant | |||||
600 | 594 | ap Gwilym, Dafydd | Morfudd fel yr Haul (Morfudd like the Sun) | Ioan Gruffudd | Sep 30 | 195 | World Translation Day | |
601 | 595 | Rilke, Rainer Maria | Herbst (Autumn) | Moritz Kiermeier and Mark Edel-Hunt | ||||
602 | 596 | Tranströmer, Tomas | Den halvfärdiga himlen (The half-finished heaven) | Michaela Caunter | ||||
603 | 597 | Paz, Octavio | Como quien oye llover (As somebody hears the rain) | Will Keen | ||||
604 | 598 | Akhmatova, Anna | Я научилась просто, мудро жить (I Have Taught Myself To Live Simply) | Tommy Millar and Jane Slavin | October 1 | 196 | Rules to live by | |
605 | 599 | Joseph, Jenny | Warning | Katherine Parkinson | ||||
606 | 600 | MacNeice, Louis | Autumn Journal XXIV | |||||
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