Poems begining by B
/ page 23 of 94 /Breaking The Charm
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
Caught Susanner whistlin'; well,
It's most nigh too good to tell.
Booker T. Washington
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
The word is writ that he who runs may read.
What is the passing breath of earthly fame?
Beard And Baby
© Eugene Field
I say, as one who never feared
The wrath of a subscriber's bullet,
I pity him who has a beard
But has no little girl to pull it!
Beauty, Its Effect.
© Robert Crawford
I have been touched with her, and have ta'en (Unclear
The acquaintance of her beauty like a dream,
Or as it were a flower of Faerie breathed
By an immortal; for the light and air
Ball's Bluff: A Reverie
© Herman Melville
One noonday, at my window in the town,
I saw a sight - saddest that eyes can see -
Between Sleep and Waking
© Mathilde Blind
SOFTLY in a dream I heard,
Ere the day was breaking,
Softly call a cuckoo bird
Between sleep and waking.
Ballad of the Breadman
© Charles Causley
Mary stood in the kitchen
Baking a loaf of bread.
An angel flew in the window
Weve a job for you, he said.
Behold we come, dear Lord, to Thee;
© John Austin
Behold we come, dear Lord, to Thee;
And bow before thy Throne:
Book Eleventh: France [concluded]
© William Wordsworth
But indignation works where hope is not,
And thou, O Friend! wilt be refreshed. There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.
Birds of a Feather
© Theocritus
Cicala is dear to cicala,
Ant loves ant, hawks hawk;
But me the muse and song enchant.
Of this may my house be full;
Bush Justice
© Charles Harpur
A Dealer, bewitched by gain-promising dreams
Settled down near my Station, to trade with my Teams,
Babette's Love
© William Schwenck Gilbert
BABETTE she was a fisher gal,
With jupon striped and cap in crimps.
She passed her days inside the Halle,
Or catching little nimble shrimps.
Yet she was sweet as flowers in May,
With no professional bouquet.
By the green waters
© Louis Zukofsky
By the green waters oil
The air circles the wild flower; the men
Skirt along the skyscraper street and carry weights
Heavier than themselves;
By the rotted piers where sunk slime feeds
the lily-pads,
Breitmann In Politics
© Charles Godfrey Leland
VHEN ash de var vas ober, und Beace her shnow-wice vings
Vas vafin' o'er de coondry (in shpodts) like efery dings
Und heroes vere revardtet, de beople all pegan
To say 'tvas shame dat nodings vas done for Breitemann.
Beauty: [Notes for an unfinished poem]
© Wilfred Owen
The beautiful, the fair, the elegant,
Is that which pleases us, says Kant,
Without a thought of interest or advantage.
Body And Soul
© Lesbia Harford
Through the Museum
I stroll, and see
Goblets fashioned in Arcady,
Spears from the Islands, and robes from Tyre