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• The Bee (Dickinson)

  Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
  I hear the level bee :
  A jar across the flowers goes, …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Beggar at the Door for Fame

  The Beggar at the Door for Fame
  Were easily supplied
  But Bread is that Diviner thing …

• The Beggar. A Song.

  I.
  WHILE cruel to your wishing slave,
  You still refuse the boon I crave, …

  Henry Fielding

• The Bird did prance — the Bee did play —

  The Bird did prance — the Bee did play —
  The Sun ran miles away
  So blind with joy he could not choose …

• The Bird her punctual music brings

  The Bird her punctual music brings
  And lays it in its place —
  Its place is in the Human Heart …

• The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb

  The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
  What merit have the Tune
  No Breakfast if it guaranty …

• The Birds begun at Four o'clock —

  The Birds begun at Four o'clock —
  Their period for Dawn —
  A Music numerous as space — …

• The Black Berry — wears a Thorn in his side —

  The Black Berry — wears a Thorn in his side —
  But no Man heard Him cry —
  He offers His Berry, just the same …

• The Blunder is in estimate.

  The Blunder is in estimate.
  Eternity is there
  We say, as of a Station — …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Bobolink is gone —

  The Bobolink is gone —
  The Rowdy of the Meadow —
  And no one swaggers now but me — …

• The Bone that has no Marrow,

  The Bone that has no Marrow,
  What Ultimate for that?
  It is not fit for Table …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Brain, within its Groove

  The Brain, within its Groove
  Runs evenly — and true —
  But let a Splinter swerve — …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Bride (Sigourney)

  I came, but she was gone. In her fair home,
  There lay her lute, just as she touched it last,
  At summer twilight, when the woodbine cups …

  Lydia Sigourney

• The Butterfly in honored Dust

  The Butterfly in honored Dust
  Assuredly will lie
  But none will pass the Catacomb …

  Emily Dickinson

• The butterfly obtains

  The butterfly obtains
  But little sympathy
  Though favorably mentioned …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Butterfly upon the Sky,

  The Butterfly upon the Sky,
  That doesn't know its Name
  And hasn't any tax to pay …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Butterfly's Assumption Gown

  The butterfly's assumption-gown,
  In chrysoprase apartments hung,
  This afternoon put on. …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Butterfly's Numidian Gown

  The Butterfly's Numidian Gown
  With spots of Burnish roasted on
  Is proof against the Sun …

• The Call (Mordaunt)

  Go, lovely boy! to yonder tow'r
  The fane of Janus, ruthless King!
  And shut, O! shut the brazen door, …

  Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

• The Cat And Fiddle. To The Favourite Cat Of A Fiddling Miser.

  THRICE happy cat, if, in thy A— House,
  Thou luckily shouldst find a half-starv'd mouse;
  The mice, that only for his music stay, …

  Henry Fielding

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