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Be Mine the Doom —

Be Mine the Doom —
Sufficient Fame —
To perish in Her Hand!
Beast and Man in India (headings)

They killed a Child to please the Gods
In Earth's young penitence,
And I have bled in that Babe's stead …

Rudyard Kipling
The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 2/Number 1/Beatrice

How was I worthy so divine a loss,
Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?
Why waste such precious wood to make my cross, …
Poems of Passion/"The Beautiful Blue Danube"

They drift down the hall together;
He smiles in her lifted eyes;
Like waves of that mighty river, …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Passion/The Beautiful Land of Nod

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sailing away from here …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beauty crowds me till I die

Beauty crowds me till I die
Beauty mercy have on me
But if I expire today …

Emily Dickinson
Beauty — be not caused — It Is —

Beauty — be not caused — It Is —
Chase it, and it ceases —
Chase it not, and it abides — …

Emily Dickinson
Because 'twas Riches I could own,

Because 'twas Riches I could own,
Myself had earned it — Me,
I knew the Dollars by their names — …
Because He loves Her

Because He loves Her
We will pry and see if she is fair
What difference is on her Face …
Because I could not stop for Death —

Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves— …

Emily Dickinson
Because my Brook is fluent

Because my Brook is fluent
I know 'tis dry —
Because my Brook is silent …
Because the Bee may blameless hum

Because the Bee may blameless hum
For Thee a Bee do I become
List even unto Me. …
A Bee his burnished Carriage

A Bee his burnished Carriage
Drove boldly to a Rose —
Combinedly alighting — …
Been There Before

There came a stranger to Walgett town,
To Walgett town when the sun was low,
And he carried a thirst that was worth a crown, …

Banjo Paterson
Before I got my eye put out

Before I got my eye put out
I liked as well to see —
As other Creatures, that have Eyes …

Emily Dickinson
Before you thought of Spring

Before you thought of Spring
Except as a Surmise
You see — God bless his suddenness — …

Emily Dickinson
A Believer's Shroud

I saw a Moslem work upon his shroud alone,
With earnest care, even as the silk-worms weave their own.
In his illness it always near his bedside lay, …

William Rounseville Alger
The Bell Buoy (comparison)

They christened my brother of old--
And a saintly name he bears--
They gave him his place to hold …
The Bell Buoy (Inclusive Verse)

Rattle of block and sheet--
"Ready about-stand by!"
Shall I ask them a fee ere they fetch the quay? …

Rudyard Kipling
The Bell-Buoy (McClure's)

At the careless end of night
I thrill to the nearing screw,
I turn to the nearing light, …

Rudyard Kipling