| Bacon, Francis, Lord Bacon. 1561–1626 | Life (Gold) |
| Baillie, Joanna. 1762–1851 | Outlaw's Song (OBEV) |
| Baillie, Lady Grisel. 1665–1746 | Werena my Heart's licht I wad dee (OBEV) |
| Bangs, John Kendrick. 1862–1922 | Little Elf (MAP) |
| Bannerman, Frances. 19th Cent.? | An Upper Chamber (OBEV) |
| Barbauld, Anna Lætitia. 1743–1825 | Life (OBEV) |
| Life! I know not what thou art (Gold) |
| Barbour, John. 1320?–1395 | Freedom (OBEV) |
| Barlow, Joel. 1754–1812 | Psalm CXXXVII: The Babylonian Captivity (YBAV) |
| Barnefield, Richard. 1574–1627 | Nightingale (Gold) |
| Philomel (OBEV) |
| Barnes, William. 1801–1886 | Mater Dolorosa (OBEV) |
| Wife a-lost (OBEV) |
| Beattie, James. 1735–1803 | An Epitaph (OBEV) |
| Beaumont, Francis. 1584–1616 | On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey (Gold) |
| On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey (OBEV) |
| Beaumont, Sir John. 1583–1627 | Of his Dear Son, Gervase (OBEV) |
| Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. 1803–1849 | Dream-Pedlary (OBEV) |
| Song (OBEV) |
| Wolfram's Dirge (OBEV) |
| Beeching, Henry Charles. 1859–1919 | Going down Hill on a Bicycle (OBEV) |
| Prayers (OBEV) |
| Beers, Ethelinda (Eliot). 1827–1879 | All Quiet Along the Potomac (YBAV) |
| Behn, Aphra. 1640–1689 | Libertine (OBEV) |
| Song (OBEV) |
| Belloc, Hilaire. 1870–1953 | South Country (MBP) |
| Benét, Stephen Vincent. 1898–1943 | Portrait of a Boy (MAP) |
| Benét, William Rose. 1886–1950 | His Ally (MAP) |
| How to Catch Unicorns (MAP) |
| Benson, Arthur Christopher. 1862–1925 | Phoenix (OBEV) |
| Binyon, Laurence. 1869–1943 | A Song (MBP) |
| House That Was (MBP) |
| Invocation to Youth (OBEV) |
| O World, be Nobler (OBEV) |
| Blake, William. 1757–1827 | Cradle Song (OBEV) |
| Hear the Voice (OBEV) |
| Little Black Boy (OBEV) |
| Love's Secret (OBEV) |
| Night (OBEV) |
| Reeds of Innocence (OBEV) |
| Song (OBEV) |
| Tiger (OBEV) |
| To Spring (OBEV) |
| To the Muses (OBEV) |
| Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. 1840–1922 | Desolate City (OBEV) |
| Gibraltar (OBEV) |
| St. Valentine's Day (OBEV) |
| Song (OBEV) |
| To Manon, on his Fortune in loving Her (OBEV) |
| Two Highwaymen (OBEV) |
| With Esther (OBEV) |
| Written at Florence (OBEV) |
| Bodenheim, Maxwell. 1892–1954 | Poet to His Love (MAP) |
| Bowles, William Lisle. 1762–1850 | Time and Grief (OBEV) |
| Boyd, Mark Alexander. 1563–1601 | Sonet (OBEV) |
| Branch, Anna Hempstead. 1875–1937 | Monk in the Kitchen (MAP) |
| While Loveliness Goes By (MAP) |
| Breton, Nicholas. 1542–1626 | A Cradle Song (OBEV) |
| Phillida and Coridon (OBEV) |
| Bridges, Robert. 1844–1930 | Absence (OBEV) |
| A Passer-by (OBEV) |
| My Delight and Thy Delight (OBEV) |
| Nightingales (MBP) |
| Nightingales (OBEV) |
| On a Dead Child (OBEV) |
| Pater Filio (OBEV) |
| Spirits (OBEV) |
| When Death to Either shall come (OBEV) |
| Winter Nightfall (MBP) |
| Winter Nightfall (OBEV) |
| Brody, Alter. 1895– | Searchlights (MAP) |
| Brome, Alexander. 1620–1666 | Resolve (OBEV) |
| Brontë, Emily. 1818–1848 | Last Lines (OBEV) |
| My Lady's Grave (OBEV) |
| Prisoner (OBEV) |
| Remembrance (OBEV) |
| Brooke, Rupert. 1887–1915 | Dust (MBP) |
| Great Lover (MBP) |
| Soldier (MBP) |
| Broome, William. 1689–1745 | Belinda's Recovery from Sickness (OBEV) |
| Rosebud (OBEV) |
| Brown, Phebe (Hinsdale). 1783–1861 | Private Devotion (YBAV) |
| Brown, Thomas Edward. 1830–1897 | Dora (OBEV) |
| Jessie (OBEV) |
| My Garden (OBEV) |
| Salve! (OBEV) |
| Browne, of Tavistock, William. 1588–1643 | A Welcome (OBEV) |
| In Obitum M.S. Xo Maij (OBEV) |
| Memory (OBEV) |
| On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (OBEV) |
| Rose (OBEV) |
| Sirens' Song (OBEV) |
| Song (OBEV) |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. 1806–1861 | A Musical Instrument (OBEV) |
| Consolation (OBEV) |
| Deserted Garden (OBEV) |
| Grief (OBEV) |
| Rosalind's Scroll (OBEV) |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese i (OBEV) |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese ii (OBEV) |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese iii (OBEV) |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese iv (OBEV) |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese v (OBEV) |
| Browning, Robert. 1812–1889 | Earl Mertoun's Song (OBEV) |
| Home-thoughts, from Abroad (OBEV) |
| Home-thoughts, from the Sea (OBEV) |
| In a Gondola (OBEV) |
| Last Ride together (OBEV) |
| Lost Mistress (OBEV) |
| Meeting at Night (OBEV) |
| Misconceptions (OBEV) |
| Parting at Morning (OBEV) |
| Pippa's Song (OBEV) |
| Porphyria's Lover (OBEV) |
| Song (OBEV) |
| Song from 'Paracelsus' (OBEV) |
| Thus the Mayne glideth (OBEV) |
| Wanderers (OBEV) |
| You'll love Me yet (OBEV) |
| Bryant, William Cullen. 1794–1878 | Battle-Field (YBAV) |
| Conqueror's Grave (YBAV) |
| Crowded Street (YBAV) |
| Death of the Flowers (YBAV) |
| Forest Hymn (YBAV) |
| Future Life (YBAV) |
| June (YBAV) |
| Oh Mother of a Mighty Race (YBAV) |
| Past (YBAV) |
| Planting of the Apple-Tree (YBAV) |
| Snow-Shower (YBAV) |
| Song of Marion's Men (YBAV) |
| Thanatopsis (YBAV) |
| To a Waterfowl (YBAV) |
| Bunner, Henry Cuyler. 1855–1896 | A Pitcher of Mignonette (MAP) |
| Atlantic City (YBAV) |
| Behold the Deeds! (MAP) |
| Candor (YBAV) |
| Chakey Einstein (YBAV) |
| Chaperon (YBAV) |
| Da Capo (YBAV) |
| Feminine (YBAV) |
| Just a Love-Letter (YBAV) |
| She Was a Beauty (YBAV) |
| Way to Arcady (YBAV) |
| Wed (YBAV) |
| Bunyan, John. 1628–1688 | Shepherd Boy sings in the Valley of Humiliation (OBEV) |
| Burgess, Gelett. 1866–1951 | On Digital Extremities (MAP) |
| Psycholophon (MAP) |
| Purple Cow (MAP) |
| Burns, Robert. 1759–1796 | Ae Fond Kiss (OBEV) |
| A Farewell (Gold) |
| A Red, Red Rose (OBEV) |
| Auld Lang Syne (OBEV) |
| Banks o' Doon (OBEV) |
| Bonnie Lesley (Gold) |
| Bonnie Lesley (OBEV) |
| Duncan Gray (Gold) |
| Farewell (OBEV) |
| Hark! the Mavis (OBEV) |
| Highland Mary (Gold) |
| Highland Mary (OBEV) |
| Jean (Gold) |
| Jean (OBEV) |
| John Anderson (Gold) |
| John Anderson, my Jo (OBEV) |
| Lament for Culloden (Gold) |
| Lament for Culloden (OBEV) |
| Mary Morison (Gold) |
| Mary Morison (OBEV) |
| My Bonnie Mary (OBEV) |
| O my Luve's like a red, red rose (Gold) |
| O were my Love yon Lilac fair (OBEV) |
| To a Mouse (Gold) |
| Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon (Gold) |
| Burr, Amelia Josephine. 1878– | Lie-Awake Song (MAP) |
| Burton, Richard. 1861–1940 | Black Sheep (MAP) |
| Butler, Samuel. 1612–1680 | Metaphysical Sectarian (Meta) |
| Butler, William Allen. 1825–1902 | Incognita of Raphael (YBAV) |
| Nothing to Wear (YBAV) |
| Bynner, Witter. 1881–1968 | A Farmer Remembers Lincoln (MAP) |
| Train-Mates (MAP) |
Byron, George Gordon Noel,
Lord Byron. 1788–1824 | All for Love (Gold) |
| Elegy (Gold) |
| Elegy on Thyrza (Gold) |
| For Music (OBEV) |
| Isles of Greece (OBEV) |
| On the Castle of Chillon (Gold) |
| She walks in Beauty (OBEV) |
| She walks in beauty, like the night (Gold) |
| There be none of Beauty's daughters (Gold) |
| We'll go no more a-roving (OBEV) |
| When we two parted (Gold) |
| When we Two parted (OBEV) |
| Youth and Age (Gold) |
