The Poem Index — Vol. I
Poems& their analyses
Every entry is a fully indexed poem — full text where the work is in the public domain, plus a summary, line-by-line gloss, themes, form, and meter. Sourced from Project Gutenberg, Wikidata, and Poets.org.
- Indexed poems
- ~2,700
- Cataloged poets
- 261
- Centuries spanned
- 30 (since 900 BCE)
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Showing 50 of 113 poems · Letter: B- —
Baael's stone obscene: Human sacrifices were offered on the
by James Russell Lowell
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BABY-BIRD
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Babylon Revisited
by Amiri Baraka
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BALLAD OF ANOTHER OPHELIA
by D. H. Lawrence
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Ballad of Birmingham
by Dudley Randall
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Ballad of the Landlord
by Langston Hughes
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BALLAD OF WOMEN I LOVE
by Eugene Field
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BANG!!
by Amy Lowell
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BANNER AND PENNANT.
by Walt Whitman
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BARABBAS IN PRISON
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BARTIMEUS.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BARTOLOME.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bavarian Gentians
by D. H. Lawrence
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BAYARD TAYLOR
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BEARD AND BABY
by Eugene Field
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BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
by Walt Whitman
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Beautiful Dreamer
by Stephen Foster
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BEAVER BROOK
by James Russell Lowell
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BECALMED
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death
by Emily Dickinson
- 1922
BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK
by Alfred Noyes
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children
by Anne Bradstreet
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BEFORE THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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BELISARIUS
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BELLINGHAM.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bells in the Rain
by Elinor Wylie
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BELSHAZZAR.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BEN APFELGARTEN
by Eugene Field
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Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
by James Russell Lowell
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BENVENUTO.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BEOWULF'S EXPEDITION TO HEORT.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bermudas
by Andrew Marvell
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BEWARE!
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BIBLIOLATRES
by James Russell Lowell
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BIGLOW
by James Russell Lowell
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Big Wind
by Theodore Roethke
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BINDO.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 1915
Birches
by Robert Frost
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BIRDOFREDOM SAWIN.
by James Russell Lowell
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BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN.
by James Russell Lowell
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BISHOP SIGURD AT SALTEN FIORD
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
by Walt Whitman
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Black Art
by Amiri Baraka
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Blackberrying
by Sylvia Plath
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BLESSING THE CORNFIELDS
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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BLIND BARTIMEUS
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bliss it: A rather violent use of the word, not recognized by
by James Russell Lowell
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Blow Bugle Blow
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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BLUE
by D. H. Lawrence
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Bluebird
by Charles Bukowski