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For certain minutes at the least W. B. Yeats Demon and Beast
For certain soldiers lately dead Robert Louis Stevenson A Martial Elegy for Some Lead Soldiers
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now, John Donne Love’s Usury
For fifty years, James Weldon Johnson The Suicide
For Gladstone’s portrait five thousand pounds Ambrose Bierce Art
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love; John Donne The Canonization
For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Edgar Allan Poe A Valentine
For him I sing, Walt Whitman For Him I Sing
For him who must see many years, Matthew Arnold Early Death and Fame
For his o’erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi, Walt Whitman A Persian Lesson
For love of lovely words, and for the sake Robert Louis Stevenson Skerryvore
For me, an old neighbor of his, it Ring Lardner Fred C. Schwab
For mercies, countless as the sands, John Newton What Shall I Render?
For my first twenty years, since yesterday, John Donne The Computation
For one brief day, did Queenie stay Mary Weston Fordham Queenie
For one throb of the Artery, W. B. Yeats A Meditation in Time of War
For shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any, William Shakespeare X
For some abiding central source of power, Robert Louis Stevenson Music at the Villa Marina
For that thy face is fair I love thee not; Henry van Dyke Jr. Love’s Reason
For the hour that is left us Fair Harvard, with thee, T. S. Eliot Ode
For the lands and for these passionate days and for myself, Walt Whitman The Return of the Heroes
For the long nights you lay awake Robert Louis Stevenson To Alison Cunningham
For these are sacred fishes all Robert Louis Stevenson Ad Piscatorem
For those this mausoleum is erected Ambrose Bierce XXV
For to save life one great solver James McIntyre Danger of Fire Arms
Forest beasts that live by prey, John Newton The Benighted Traveler
Forever and forevermore, Georgia Douglas Johnson Husks
Forms, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, Walt Whitman Germs
Forth from her land to mine she goes, Robert Louis Stevenson To Princess Kaiulani
Forth to his study the sculptor goes George MacDonald The Unseen Model
Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land, Edward Thomas Health
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; John Keats The Human Seasons
Four things a man must learn to do Henry van Dyke Jr. Four Things
Four walls can hold Langston Hughes Walls
Four years!⁠—and didst thou stay above Matthew Arnold Geist’s Grave
Fragile, tiny, just a sprite, Georgia Douglas Johnson Thrall
Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue, Georgia Douglas Johnson Hope
Framer of the earth and sky, John Henry Newman Lauds⁠—Sunday
France! I will think of thee as what thou wast, John Henry Newman Apostacy
Frank Pixley, you, who kiss the hand Ambrose Bierce To a Word-Warrior
Fresh morning gusts have blown away all fear John Keats To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown
Friend Poth loves our national game, Ring Lardner Frank L. Poth
Friend, in my mountain-side demesne, Robert Louis Stevenson To a Gardener
From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you, Walt Whitman To One Shortly to Die
From Bindle’s opera house in the village Edgar Lee Masters Flossie Cabanis
From breakfast on all through the day Robert Louis Stevenson The Land of Nod
From childhood’s hour I have not been Edgar Allan Poe Alone
From dark abodes to fair etherial light Phillis Wheatley On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age
From dewy dreams, my soul, arise, James Joyce From Dewy Dreams, My Soul, Arise
From east and west across the horizon’s edge, Walt Whitman Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
From Egypt lately freed John Newton The Pilgrim’s Song
From end to end, thine avenue, Van Ness, Ambrose Bierce The Van Nessiad
From fairest creatures we desire increase, William Shakespeare I
From far Dakota’s canyons, Walt Whitman From Far Dakota’s Canyons
From Ingersoll, on Canadian Thames, James McIntyre A Civic Holiday Trip
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Holy Grail
From off a hill whose concave womb reworded William Shakespeare A Lover’s Complaint
From off the earth the vapours curled, George MacDonald The Golden Key
From Paumanok starting I fly like a bird, Walt Whitman From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
From pent-up aching rivers, Walt Whitman From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
From pole to pole let others roam, John Newton The Lord Is My Portion
From pride, joy, hate, greed, melancholy⁠— Ambrose Bierce Incurable
From Rome’s palaces and villas Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Hermit’s Sacrifice
From Sheba a distant report John Newton Queen of Sheba
From the besieged Ardea all in post, William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece
From the bonny bells of heather Robert Louis Stevenson Heather Ale
From the long continuous rains James McIntyre London Flood
From the Mist of Arcana we rise, Ameen Rihani A Chant of Mystics
From the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendours of the moon, Henry van Dyke Jr. Tennyson
From the moonlit brink of dreams Fernando Pessoa Spell
From the regions of the Night, Ambrose Bierce Visions of Sin
From the regions of the north James McIntyre Wild Goose Shot at Midnight
From where I lingered in a lull in March Robert Frost Evening in a Sugar Orchard
From worshipping I now arise Georgia Douglas Johnson Little King
From you have I been absent in the spring, William Shakespeare XCVIII
Full many a dreary hour have I past, John Keats Epistle to My Brother George
Full many a glorious morning have I seen William Shakespeare XXXIII
Full moon rising on the waters of my heart, Jean Toomer Evening Song
Full of life now, compact, visible, Walt Whitman Full of Life Now
Full oft we did enraptured hark James McIntyre Canada Our Home
Furl your sail, my little boatie; Henry van Dyke Jr. “Little Boatie”
Gather ye roses while ye may, Robert Louis Stevenson Gather Ye Roses While Ye May
Gayly bedight, Edgar Allan Poe Eldorado
Gazing on rapids mighty sea, James McIntyre Niagara’s Charms and Death of Capt. Webb
Gene Byfield plays polo quite well, Ring Lardner Eugene Byfield
Gent on sidewalk held out his foot James McIntyre Shoe Black
Gentle as a maiden’s dream, Mary Weston Fordham The Snowstorm
Gentle lady, do not sing James Joyce Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing
George Cohan would simply expire Ring Lardner Harry J. Ridings
George Dewey, dear, I did not think that you⁠— Ambrose Bierce Another Aspirant
George Perry here is stiff and stark, Ambrose Bierce XXXIII
Germinal!⁠—The Field of Mars is plowing, Voltairine de Cleyre Germinal
Girl of fifteen, James Weldon Johnson Girl of Fifteen
“Give any boon for peace! John Henry Newman Warfare
Give me a board so I can trace on James McIntyre High in Masonry
Give me a golden pen, and let me lean John Keats On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Walt Whitman Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
Give me your hand old Revolutionary, Walt Whitman The Centenarian’s Story
Give to me the life I love, Robert Louis Stevenson The Vagabond
Give us a name to fill the mind Henry van Dyke Jr. The Name of France

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