First lines

  1. Begirt with bombs that fall and flames that rise, Ambrose Bierce After Portsmouth
  2. Begone, unbelief, John Newton I Will Trust and Not Be Afraid
  3. Behind my father’s cottage lies George MacDonald The Hills
  4. Behold the lilies of the field Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Behold the Lilies!
  5. Behold the throne of grace! John Newton Another
  6. Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes, Walt Whitman Behold This Swarthy Face
  7. Behold, as goblins dark of mien Robert Louis Stevenson Behold, as Goblins Dark of Mien
  8. Behold! the days of miracle at last Ambrose Bierce Emancipation
  9. Behold! the living thrilling lines Georgia Douglas Johnson Poetry
  10. Being out of heart with government W. B. Yeats An Appointment
  11. Being walkers with the dawn and morning Langston Hughes Poem
  12. Being your slave, what should I do but tend William Shakespeare LVII
  13. Believe me⁠–⁠when I say Georgia Douglas Johnson Autumn
  14. Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, W. B. Yeats The Two Trees
  15. Beloved, my Beloved, when I think Elizabeth Barrett Browning XX
  16. Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers Elizabeth Barrett Browning XLIV
  17. Beloved! amid the earnest woes Edgar Allan Poe To F⁠⸺⁠
  18. Ben Bulger was a silver man, Ambrose Bierce Bimetalism
  19. Ben Truman, you’re a genius and can write, Ambrose Bierce A Railroad Lackey
  20. Beneath his coat of dirt great Neilson loves Ambrose Bierce A Literary Hangman
  21. Beneath my window twilight made Ambrose Bierce Reminded
  22. Beneath the burden of our joy Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fifteenth Amendment
  23. Beneath the salvias, where some angel slew Ameen Rihani Beneath the Salvias
  24. Beneath the tyrant Satan’s yoke John Newton We Were Pharaoh’s Bondmen
  25. Beneath this casket rots unknown Ambrose Bierce George Francis Train
  26. Beneath this monument which rears its head, Ambrose Bierce Reparation
  27. Beneath this stone O’Donnell’s tongue’s at rest⁠— Ambrose Bierce XXXV
  28. Beneath this stone sleeps Reuben Lloyd, Ambrose Bierce XXVI
  29. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est
  30. Berried brake and reedy island, Robert Louis Stevenson We Have Loved of Yore
  31. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan William Shakespeare CXXXIII
  32. Beside the gospel pool, John Newton The Pool of Bethesda.
  33. Besides my little son’s imagination, Ring Lardner His Memory
  34. Bestow, dear Lord, upon our youth William Cowper Another
  35. Better than granite, Spoon River, Edgar Lee Masters Aaron Hatfield
  36. Better to smell the violet George MacDonald Better Things
  37. Between a sunny bank and the sun Edward Thomas Two Houses
  38. Between two comrades dear, John Henry Newman Ethelwald
  39. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, William Shakespeare XLVII
  40. Beyond th’ old Pillars many have travalled John Donne Sir John Wingfield
  41. Beyond the gates thou gav’st a field to till; Robert Louis Stevenson In Lupum
  42. Bid a strong ghost stand at the head W. B. Yeats A Prayer for My Son
  43. Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, James Joyce Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu
  44. Bide thou thy time! John Henry Newman The Patient Church
  45. Big Smith is an Oakland School Board man, Ambrose Bierce One of the Saints
  46. Bing, Bim, Bang, Bome! George MacDonald The Owl and the Bell
  47. Bird of the woodland, sing me a song, Mary Weston Fordham To the Mock-Bird
  48. Birds all the sunny day Robert Louis Stevenson Nest Eggs
  49. Birthday gifts, with the early year, John Henry Newman Epiphany-Eve
  50. Bitter indeed the waters are John Newton The Bitter Waters
  51. Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Jean Toomer Reapers
  52. Blame me not that this epistle Robert Louis Stevenson A Familiar Epistle
  53. Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears, John Donne Twickenham Garden
  54. Bleak winter is subdued at length, John Newton Spring
  55. Blessed is the man that beholdeth the face of a friend in a far country, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Distant Road
  56. Blest are your north parts, for all this long time John Donne To Mr. I. L.
  57. Blinded in youth by Satan’s arts, John Newton The Enchantment Dissolved
  58. Bloom, beloved Flower!⁠— John Henry Newman The Winter Flower
  59. Blows the wind today, and the sun and the rain are flying, Robert Louis Stevenson To S. R. Crockett
  60. Blue sky above, blue sea below, George MacDonald Far and Near
  61. Blue! ’Tis the life of heaven,⁠—the domain John Keats Written in Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus
  62. Bob Southey! You’re a poet⁠—Poet-laureate, Lord Byron Dedication
  63. Boll-weevil’s coming, and the winter’s cold, Jean Toomer November Cotton Flower
  64. Boruck and Waterman upon their grills Ambrose Bierce A Commuted Sentence
  65. Both for the country and for the man, Edgar Lee Masters Anthony Findlay
  66. Both robb’d of air, we both lie in one ground; John Donne Hero and Leander
  67. Brand Whitlock sped from Hell through space, Ambrose Bierce Two Socialists
  68. Brantford as thriving city’s famed, James McIntyre Brantford
  69. Brave lads in olden musical centuries, Robert Louis Stevenson Alcaics to Horatio F. Brown
  70. Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through the fight; Walt Whitman The Bravest Soldiers
  71. Break, break my heart Georgia Douglas Johnson Break, Break My Heart
  72. Breathe from the gentle south Lord, William Cowper The Waiting Soul
  73. Breeze a-sighin’ and a-blowin’, James Weldon Johnson Ma Lady’s Lips Am Like de Honey
  74. Bright and beautiful art thou, Mary Weston Fordham October
  75. Bright cap and streamers, James Joyce Bright Cap and Streamers
  76. Bright clouds of may Edward Thomas Bright Clouds
  77. Bright is the ring of words Robert Louis Stevenson Bright Is the Ring of Words
  78. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! John Keats The Last Sonnet
  79. Bright, jolly sunshine and clear blue skies, Langston Hughes Signs of Spring
  80. Bring forth the balance, let the weight be gold! Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Soul
  81. Bring me all of your dreams, Langston Hughes The Dream Keeper
  82. Bring the comb and play upon it! Robert Louis Stevenson Marching Song
  83. Bring where our Beauty lies W. B. Yeats Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls and Drawings
  84. British infants who were nobly born James McIntyre Indian Mutiny
  85. Broad gazing on untrodden lands, Robert Louis Stevenson A Peak in Darien
  86. Brother artist, help me; come! George MacDonald Brother Artist!
  87. Bruce Douglas, nephew to a Scottish Earl, Ambrose Bierce Indictment on Evidence
  88. “Build me a house,” said the Master, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Building
  89. “Build me a nation,” said the Lord. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Then and Now
  90. Builder, in building the little house, Robert Frost The Kitchen Chimney
  91. Burbank crossed a little bridge T. S. Eliot Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
  92. Burns sang of joys of Halloween James McIntyre Canadian Sports and Games and Plays
  93. Burns sang so sweet behind the plow, James McIntyre Reply to the Toast of Scottish Poets
  94. Busy old fool, unruly Sun, John Donne The Sun Rising
  95. But be contented: when that fell arrest William Shakespeare LXXIV
  96. But do thy worst to steal thyself away, William Shakespeare XCII
  97. But now had Hesper from the Hero’s sight Joel Barlow Book IX
  98. But of all tales that war’s black annals hold Joel Barlow Book VI
  99. But one rude stone for him whose song Maria Lowell The Grace of Keats
  100. But only three in all God’s universe Elizabeth Barrett Browning II

Alphabetical, keeping any leading “A” or “The”.