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The Braes of Yarrow
by Anonymous,
Brahma
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Brahma
by Lang, Andrew
Braid Claith
by Fergusson, Robert
Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
by Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio
Le Brave, brave automne!
by Laforgue, Jules
Break, break, break
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Break of Day
by Donne, John
breakfast
by Brooker, Bertram Richard
Breath
by Marquis, Don
Brenda Carbosier has hairy nostrils (#12)
by Agnew, Wendy Jane
Bricks and Straw
by Adams, Franklin Pierce
The Bride
by Lawrence, David Herbert
The Bride of a Year
by Leprohon, Rosanna Eleanor (Mullins)
The Brides
by Hope, A. D.
Brier: Good Friday
by Johnson, E. Pauline
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
by Keats, John
Bringing You Up
by Christakos, Margaret
Brise marine
by Mallarmé, Stéphane
Britannia's Pastorals
by Browne, William
The British Church
by Herbert, George
The Broken Bell
by Dutt, Toru
The Broken Heart
by Donne, John
The Broken Men
by Kipling, Rudyard
Bronx
by Drake, Joseph Rodman
Bronzes
by Sandburg, Carl
The Brook
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Brother and Sister
by Eliot, George
Browning's Funeral
by Huxley, Henrietta Anne
Buffalo Twang
by Barwin, Gary
Bug o' Night
by Benson, Mary Josephine
The Building of the Ship
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Bumblebee
by Riley, James Whitcomb
The Burden of Time
by Scott, Frederick George
Burial
by Fairbridge, Kingsley
The Burial Hour
by Hawker, Robert Stephen
The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
by Wolfe, Charles
The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
by McGonagall, William
The Buried Life
by Arnold, Matthew
The Burning Babe
by Southwell, SJ, Robert
Burning Drift-Wood
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
Burning River
by Ortiz, Simon Joseph
A Burnt Ship
by Donne, John
The Bushman
by Pringle, Thomas
Business
by Moritz, Albert Frank
The bustle in the house (1078)
by Dickinson, Emily
But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
by Crashaw, Richard
The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast
by Roscoe, William
By Bread Alone
by Gilbert, Ruth
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
by Keats, John

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On this day: September 15th

Random Poem of the Day

Romeo and Juliet (excerpts): Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye

Shakespeare, William

1Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,

2And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;

3But where unbruised youth with unstuff’d brain

4Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

Notes

1] Friar Lawrence contrasts the sleep of the elderly and the young in Act two. Back to Line

2] care: anxiety (here personified as an alert night-watchman). Back to Line

3] unbruised: unbattered by experience / unstuff'd: care-free Back to Line

4] couch: relax Back to Line