The Wondering Minstrels

Sorted on title, letter B

#	Date	Poet	Title	1stLine	Length
538	05 Sep 2000	John Updike	Back From Vacation	"Back from vacation"...	14
1329	19 Aug 2003	David Ignatow	The Bagel	I stopped to pick up...	13
18	27 Feb 1999	Louis MacNeice	Bagpipe Music	It's no go the merry...	34
1002	18 Feb 2002	John Donne	The Bait	Come live with me, a...	28
947	22 Nov 2001	John Kendal	Ballad of a Homeless Bat	The man was going in...	52
67	19 Apr 1999	Rudyard Kipling	The Ballad of East and West	Oh, East is East, an...	103
237	17 Oct 1999	W.B.Yeats	The Ballad of Father Gilligan	The old priest Peter...	48
1233	22 Apr 2003	Edwin Muir	Ballad of Hector in Hades	Yes, this is where I...	46
731	22 Mar 2001	Sir Henry Newbolt	A Ballad of John Nicholson	It fell in the year ...	80
303	28 Dec 1999	Anon	The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard	As it fell out on a ...	116
389	03 Apr 2000	James Joyce	The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly	Have you heard of on...	92
959	11 Dec 2001	Henry Carey	The Ballad of Sally in our Alley	Of all the Girls tha...	56
1386	14 Nov 2003	Peggy Seeger	Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster)	In the town of Sprin...	25
607	15 Nov 2000	Phoebe Cary	Ballad of the Canal	We were crowded in t...	24
1147	17 Jan 2003	James Fenton	The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah	(An Old Persian Legend)	86
1165	4 Feb 2003	Raymond Calvert	The Ballad Of William Bloat	In a mean abode on t...	30
1171	12 Feb 2003	Edward E. Paramore Jr	The Ballad of Yukon Jake	Begging Robert W. Se...	125
900	27 Sep 2001	W. S. Gilbert	Ballad: The Sorcerer's Song	Oh! My name is John ...	77
556	25 Sep 2000	Francois Villon	Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph)	Brothers that live w...	35
1335	27 Aug 2003	Roger McGough	Balloon Fight	'This morning, the A...	23
446	05 Jun 2000	Jibanananda Das	Banalata Sen	For thousands of yea...	18
981	9 Jan 2002	Eric Bogle	The Band Played Waltzing Matilda	Now when I was a you...	64
1375	23 Oct 2003	Sarojini Naidu	The Bangle Sellers	Bangle sellers are w...	24
548	16 Sep 2000	Anonymous	Barbara Allen	In Scarlet town, whe...	44
1054	17 May 2002	William Ernest Henley	Barmaid	Though, if you ask h...	14
385	30 Mar 2000	Seigfreid Sassoon	Base Details	If I were fierce, an...	10
1649	12 Mar 2005	Franklin Pierce Adams	Baseball's Sad Lexicon	These are the saddes...	8
203	11 Sep 1999	Robert Southey	The Battle of Blenheim	It was a summer evening,	66
1656	20 Mar 2005	Patrick Barrington	Battle Song	There's havoc on the...	52
473	03 Jul 2000	Julia Ward Howe	The Battle-Hymn of the Republic	Mine eyes have seen ...	31
77	29 Apr 1999	D. H. Lawrence	Bavarian Gentians	Not every man has ge...	22
748	9 Apr 2001	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	Be Near Me	You who demolish me,...	21
1326	16 Aug 2003	Michael Ondaatje	Bearhug	Griffin calls to com...	14
887	11 Sep 2001	Walt Whitman	Beat! Beat! Drums!	Beat! beat! drums! -...	23
810	14 Jun 2001	Adrian Mitchell	Beatrix is Three	At the top of the stairs	9
792	26 May 2001	Sheenagh Pugh	The Beautiful Lie	He was about four, I...	30
511	09 Aug 2000	William Butler Yeats	Beautiful Lofty Things	Beautiful lofty thin...	12
898	26 Sep 2001	Lewis Carroll	Beautiful Soup	Beautiful Soup, so r...	14
695	13 Feb 2001	John Masefield	Beauty	I have seen dawn and...	8
290	13 Dec 1999	R. L. Stevenson	Bed in Summer	In winter I get up a...	12
558	26 Sep 2000	Norman Rowland Gale	Bees	You voluble,	24
480	09 Jul 2000	W. N. Hodgson	Before Action	By all the glories o...	24
972	28 Dec 2001	Rupert Brooke	The Beginning	Some day I shall ris...	20
1243	2 May 2003	David Lee	Behold	And came forth like ...	11
1444	30 Jan 2004	Wendy Cope	Being Boring	If you ask me 'What'...	24
101	27 May 1999	Edgar Allan Poe	The Bells	Hear the sledges wit...	112
1701	17 May 2005	Ralph Hodgson	The Bells of Heaven	'Twould ring the bel...	10
1293	2 Jul 2003	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Beloved Dust	And you as well must...	14
1232	21 Apr 2003	Sir Henry Newbolt	The Best School of All	It's good to see the...	49
149	16 Jul 1999	George Peele	Bethsabe's Song	Hot sun, cool fire, ...	10
1155	25 Jan 2003	A. S. J. Tessimond	Betrayal	If a man says half h...	10
1591	7 Jan 2005	Zachary Richard	Big River	Water's on the river...	31
797	31 May 2001	Lewis F. Richardson	Big Whorls Have Little Whorls	Big whorls have litt...	4
1005	22 Feb 2002	Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	They paved paradise	26
1112	19 Nov 2002	J. R. R. Tolkien	Bilbo's Last Song	Day is ended, dim my...	24
1272	9 Jun 2003	Robert Frost	Birches	When I see birches b...	59
164	1 Aug 1999	Pablo Neruda	Bird	It was passed from o...	25
1257	17 May 2003	Oswald Mtshali	The Birth of Shaka	His baby cry	25
1297	7 Jul 2003	Eiluned Lewis	The Birthright	We who were born	24
1048	7 May 2002	Sylvia Plath	Black Rook in Rainy Weather	On the stiff twig up...	41
934	7 Nov 2001	Seamus Heaney	Blackberry-picking	Late August, given h...	24
998	13 Feb 2002	Brian Patten	A blade of grass	You ask for a poem.	23
1055	21 May 2002	Jack Prelutsky	Bleezer's Ice Cream	I am Ebenezer Bleezer,	40
715	5 Mar 2001	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	The Blessed Damozel	The blessed damozel ...	144
1179	20 Feb 2003	John Godfrey Saxe	The Blind Men and the Elephant	It was six men of In...	55
1521	19 Jun 2004	Hamish Blair	The Bloody Orkneys	This bloody town's a...	32
200	09 Sep 1999	William Shakespeare	Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks	Blow, winds, and cra...	23
1708	26 May 2005	Bob Dylan	Blowin' in the Wind	How many roads must ...	24
1045	3 May 2002	Grace Nichols	The Body Reclining	I sing the body reclining	28
40	22 Mar 1999	Anon	The Book of Job	Can you hunt the pre...	62
902	30 Sep 2001	Rainer Maria Rilke	The Book of Pilgrimage, II, 22	You are the future,	14
958	11 Dec 2001	Anon	The Bookworm	A moth, I thought, m...	8
365	10 Mar 2000	John Collins Bossidy	Boston	And this is good old...	4
1556	5 Nov 2004	Joni Mitchell	Both Sides Now	Rows and flows of an...	36
949	24 Nov 2001	Andrew Lang	Brahma	If the wild bowler t...	8
1250	9 May 2003	Tony Hoagland	Brave World	But what about the c...	38
1685	28 Apr 2005	Roger Waters	The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range	You have a natural t...	52
1689	3 May 2005	Robert Service	The Bread-Knife Ballad	A little child was s...	16
31	12 Mar 1999	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Break, break, break	Break, break, break,	16
1532	20 Jul 2004	Yevgeny Yevtushenko	Breaking Up	I fell out of love: ...	36
440	29 May 2000	J. R. R. Tolkien	Bregalad's Lament	O Orofarnë, Lassemis...	8
1175	16 Feb 2003	Mark Doty	Broadway	Under Grand Central'...	60
1795	14 Nov 2005	Jeremy Reed	Broken Hearts	There should be hear...	30
1477	12 Mar 2004	Vachel Lindsay	The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken	A little colt -- bro...	40
80	4 May 1999	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	The Brook (excerpt)	`O babbling brook,' ...	46
1222	11 Apr 2003	Sigerson Clifford	Brother Mick	The mountain frowned...	96
1481	17 Mar 2004	Giuseppe Ungaretti	Brothers	What regiment are yo...	10
483	11 Jul 2000	Walter de la Mare	Brueghel's Winter	Jagg'd mountain peak...	20
1022	26 Mar 2002	A. A. Milne	Buckingham Palace	They're changing gua...	30
1258	18 May 2003	Rick Fields	Buddha And The Goddess	Thus have I made up	114
379	24 Mar 2000	Rudyard Kipling	The Buddha at Kamakura	"And there is a Japa...	49
139	5 Jul 1999	E. E. Cummings	Buffalo Bill's/ defunct	Buffalo Bill's	11
115	10 Jun 1999	Charles Wolfe	The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna	Not a drum was heard...	32
563	1 Oct 2000	S. Thomas Ansell	Butterfly	Down the air	12
680	29 Jan 2001	Arun Kolatkar	The Butterfly	There is no story be...	13
1089	7 Sep 2002	John Thomas	By Heart	The years pass like ...	19
140	6 Jul 1999	Christina Rossetti	By The Sea	Why does the sea moa...	15
186	24 Aug 1999	Patrick MacGill	By-the-Way	These be the little ...	15
60	12 Apr 1999	William Butler Yeats	Byzantium	The unpurged images ...	40

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