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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
The Bell-Buoy (McClure's)			English	At the careless end of night I thrill to the nearing screw, I turn to the nearing light, And I call to the drowsy crew; And the mud boils foul and blue As the blind bow backs away. Do they give me...
The Belle of the Ball	Winthrop Mackworth Praed	1822	English	Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams Had been of being wise or witty, Ere I had done with writing themes, Or yawned o’er this infernal Chitty,— Years, years ago, while all my joys Were in my fowling-piece and filly; In short, while I was yet a...
The Bells	Edgar Allan Poe	1829	English	I hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All...
The Bells	Edgar Allan Poe	1829	English	HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to...
The Bells of Lynn	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1827	English	O curfew of the setting sun! O Bells of Lynn! O requiem of the dying day! O Bells of Lynn! From the dark belfries of yon cloud-cathedral wafted, Your sounds aerial seem to float, O Bells of Lynn! Borne on the evening wind across the crimson twilight, O...
The Bells of Shandon	Francis Sylvester Mahony		English	Sabbata pango; Funera plango; Solemnia clango. —Inscription on an Old Bell. WITH deep affection And recollection I often think on Those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, ...
The Betrayal of the Rose	Edith Matilda Thomas		English	A white rose had a sorrow— And a strange sorrow! For her sisters they had none, As they all sat around her Each on her feudal throne. A strange sorrow For one with no to-morrow, No yesterday, to call her own, But...
The Bible is an antique Volume —				The Bible is an antique Volume — Written by faded men At the suggestion of Holy Spectres — Subjects — Bethlehem — Eden — the ancient Homestead — Satan — the Brigadier — Judas — the Great Defaulter — ...
The Bibliomaniac's Prayer	Eugene Field	1870	English	Keep me, I pray, in wisdom’s way, That I may truths eternal seek; I need protecting care to-day,— My purse is light, my flesh is weak. So banish from my erring heart All baleful appetites and hints Of Satan’s fascinating art, Of...
The Birch Stream	Anna Boynton Averill	1863	English	At noon, within the dusty town, Where the wild river rushes down, And thunders hoarsely all day long, I think of thee, my hermit stream, Low singing in thy summer dream Thine idle, sweet, old, tranquil song. Northward, Katahdin’s chasmed pile...
The Bird did prance — the Bee did play —			English	The Bird did prance — the Bee did play — The Sun ran miles away So blind with joy he could not choose Between his Holiday The morn was up — the meadows out The Fences all but ran, Republic of Delight...
The Bird her punctual music brings			English	The Bird her punctual music brings And lays it in its place — Its place is in the Human Heart And in the Heavenly Grace — What respite from her thrilling toil Did Beauty ever take — But Work might be...
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb			English	The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb What merit have the Tune No Breakfast if it guaranty The Rose content may bloom To gain renown of Lady's Drawer But if the Lady come But once a Century, the Rose...
The Birds (Blake, Notebook)			English
The Birds begun at Four o'clock —			English	The Birds begun at Four o'clock — Their period for Dawn — A Music numerous as space — But neighboring as Noon — I could not count their Force — Their Voices did expend As Brook by Brook bestows...
The Birds of Bethlehem	Richard Watson Gilder		English	I heard the bells of Bethlehem ring— Their voice was sweeter than the priests’; I heard the birds of Bethlehem sing Unbidden in the churchly feasts. They clung and sung on the swinging chain High in the dim and incensed air; The priests,...
The Birds reported from the South —				The Birds reported from the South — A News express to Me — A spicy Charge, My little Posts — But I am deaf — Today — The Flowers — appealed — a timid Throng — I reinforced the Door — Go blossom for...
The Bivouac of the Dead			English	The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat The soldier’s last tattoo; No more on Life’s parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame’s eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The...
The Bivouac of the Dead	Theodore O’Hara	1840	English	[Dedication of a monument to Kentucky volunteers, killed at Buena Vista, Mexico] THE MUFFLED drum’s sad roll has beat The soldier’s last tattoo; No more on Life’s parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame’s eternal camping-ground...
The Black Berry — wears a Thorn in his side —			English	The Black Berry — wears a Thorn in his side — But no Man heard Him cry — He offers His Berry, just the same To Partridge — and to Boy — He sometimes holds upon the Fence — Or struggles to a Tree — Or...