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  1. I am the centre Mina Loy Parturition
  2. I am the Lord your God: even he that made C. S. Lewis Satan Speaks
  3. I am the month when roses Mary Weston Fordham June
  4. I am two fools, I know, John Donne The Triple Fool
  5. I am unable, yonder beggar cries, John Donne A Lame Beggar
  6. I am weary of lying within the chase Oscar Wilde Ballade de Marguerite
  7. I am weary, and very lonely, George MacDonald Hard Times
  8. I am worn out with dreams; W. B. Yeats Men Improve with the Years
  9. “I am,” saith Christ, “your glorious head,” John Newton The Resurrection and the Life
  10. I am! The ages on the ages roll; Voltairine de Cleyre I Am
  11. I ask good things that I detest, Robert Louis Stevenson Prayer
  12. I ask not for fortune, for silken attire, John Henry Newman St. Philip in His Disciples
  13. I ask not that my bed of death Matthew Arnold A Wish
  14. I ask you this: Langston Hughes Prayer
  15. I ask’d the Lord, that I might grow John Newton Prayer Answered by Crosses
  16. I bear upon my brow the sign John Henry Newman The Brand of Cain
  17. “I beg you to note,” said a Man to a Goose, Ambrose Bierce Political Economy
  18. I began with Sir William Hamilton’s lectures. Edgar Lee Masters Imanuel Ehrenhardt
  19. I believe in the ultimate justice of Fate; Georgia Douglas Johnson Credo
  20. I belonged to the church, Edgar Lee Masters Deacon Taylor
  21. I bought a dishmop⁠— William Carlos Williams Youth and Beauty
  22. I bought every kind of machine that’s known⁠— Edgar Lee Masters Abel Melveny
  23. I bought of land two miles square, James McIntyre Adventures with Bears
  24. I bow at Jesu’s name, for ’tis the Sign John Henry Newman Reverence
  25. I breathe the lyric of my love Georgia Douglas Johnson A Fantasy
  26. I bring you with reverent hands W. B. Yeats A Poet to His Beloved
  27. I built myself a house of glass: Edward Thomas I Built Myself a House of Glass
  28. I called you through the silent night Georgia Douglas Johnson Where?
  29. I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening Robert Frost The Census-Taker
  30. I can love both fair and brown; John Donne The Indifferent
  31. I can write no stately proem Oscar Wilde To My Wife
  32. I can’t understand why you pass up the toys Ring Lardner Taste
  33. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, Walt Whitman Song of Myself
  34. I claim that it speaks pretty well for Ring Lardner Lawrence R. Adams
  35. I climbed the craggy hill of fame, Georgia Douglas Johnson The Final Strain
  36. I closed my shutters fast last night, Georgia Douglas Johnson I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night
  37. I could not run or play Edgar Lee Masters Francis Turner
  38. I could not think of thee as piecèd rot, Fernando Pessoa IV
  39. I count that friendship little worth Henry van Dyke Jr. Rendezvous
  40. I cried out for the pain of man, C. S. Lewis In Prison
  41. I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds: W. B. Yeats The Withering of the Boughs
  42. I cry your mercy⁠—pity⁠—love⁠—aye, love! John Keats To Fanny
  43. I didn’t make you know how glad I was Robert Frost A Servant to Servants
  44. I died. As meekly in the earth I lay, Ambrose Bierce Subterranean Phantasies
  45. “I do beseech thee, God, show me thy face.” George MacDonald The Unseen Face
  46. I do not ask for love⁠—ah! no, Georgia Douglas Johnson Lethe
  47. I do not fear to own me kin Robert Louis Stevenson I Do Not Fear to Own Me Kin
  48. I do not hate you, Langston Hughes The White Ones
  49. I do not know what truth the false untruth Fernando Pessoa XXX
  50. I do not think you rightly understand: Ambrose Bierce A Learner
  51. I do not wish to at‑tri‑bute Robert Williams Wood The Coot; The Bandicoot
  52. I doubt it not⁠—then more, far more; Walt Whitman Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher
  53. I dream’d in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, Walt Whitman I Dream’d in a Dream
  54. I dream’d that, with a passionate complaint, John Henry Newman St. Paul
  55. I dreamed I sailed along a tropic shore, Ambrose Bierce The Word-Way in Panama
  56. I dreamed I was dreaming one morn as I lay Ambrose Bierce Avalon
  57. I dreamed of a song⁠—I heard it sung; George MacDonald A Dream Song
  58. I dreamed of a song, I heard it sung; George MacDonald A Song in a Dream
  59. I dreamed of forest alleys fair Robert Louis Stevenson I Dreamed of Forest Alleys Fair
  60. I dreamed one night that Stephen Massett died, Ambrose Bierce The Spirit of a Sponge
  61. I dreamed that Gabriel took his horn Ambrose Bierce The Last Man
  62. I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, W. B. Yeats He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
  63. I dreamed that I was a rose James Weldon Johnson The Awakening
  64. I dreamed that I was dead. The years went by: Ambrose Bierce A Nightmare
  65. I dreamed that I was poor and ill and sad, Ambrose Bierce A Vision of Climate
  66. I dreamed, and in my dream came one who said: Ambrose Bierce Land of the Pilgrim’s Pride
  67. I drew aside the Future’s veil Ambrose Bierce Judgment
  68. I drifted (or I seemed to) in a boat Ambrose Bierce A Morning Fancy
  69. I dwelt alone Edgar Allan Poe Eulalie
  70. I envy every flower that blows Henry van Dyke Jr. A Lover’s Envy
  71. I fear my power impotent Georgia Douglas Johnson Review
  72. I feel the caress of my own fingers William Carlos Williams The Gentle Man
  73. I fell asleep and dreamed that I Ambrose Bierce Oneiromancy
  74. I fix mine eye on thine, and there John Donne Witchcraft by a Picture
  75. I follow, tottering, in the funeral train George MacDonald Rondel
  76. I got to leave this town. Langston Hughes Lonesome Place
  77. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse William Shakespeare LXXXII
  78. I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men. Edgar Lee Masters Robert Davidson
  79. “I guess I’ll help you, daddy.” Ring Lardner Guess Again
  80. I had a dove and the sweet dove died; John Keats Song
  81. I had a dream, a varied dream: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “Fishers of Men”
  82. I had a dream. A throng of people sped Ambrose Bierce Constancy
  83. I had a dream. The habitable earth⁠— Ambrose Bierce A Vision of Resurrection
  84. I had fiddled all day at the county fair. Edgar Lee Masters Blind Jack
  85. I had for my winter evening walk⁠— Robert Frost Good Hours
  86. I had ma clothes cleaned Langston Hughes Dressed Up
  87. I had no objection at all Edgar Lee Masters Rev. Abner Peet
  88. I had this thought awhile ago, W. B. Yeats The Consolation
  89. I haled me a woman from the street, Robert W. Service My Madonna
  90. I hate to die this way with the quiet Langston Hughes Mazie Dies Alone in the City Hospital
  91. I have a friend; I have a story; Robert Louis Stevenson I Have a Friend; I Have a Story
  92. I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, Robert Louis Stevenson My Shadow
  93. I have a puppet-jointed child, George MacDonald Little Elfie
  94. I have been a seeker Langston Hughes Star Seeker
  95. I have been honour’d and obey’d, John Henry Newman Humiliation
  96. I have but four, the treasures of my soul, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Slave Mother
  97. I have come a long way to-day: Edward Thomas The Bridge
  98. I have come to the borders of sleep, Edward Thomas Lights Out
  99. I have discovered that most of William Carlos Williams January Morning
  100. I have done one braver thing John Donne The Undertaking

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