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  1. I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! T. S. Eliot Conversation Galante
  2. I owned sawmill in Michigan, James McIntyre Bear and Buzzsaw
  3. I passed along the water’s edge below the humid trees, W. B. Yeats The Indian Upon God
  4. I preached four thousand sermons, Edgar Lee Masters Rev. Lemuel Wiley
  5. I put my heart to school Henry van Dyke Jr. School
  6. I ran away from home with the circus, Edgar Lee Masters Sam Hookey
  7. I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned, Oscar Wilde Sonnet on approaching Italy
  8. I reached the highest place in Spoon River, Edgar Lee Masters Henry C. Calhoun
  9. I read in Dante how that horned light, Matthew Arnold S.S. Lusitania
  10. I read within a poet’s book Henry van Dyke Jr. A Home Song
  11. I read, dear friend, in your dear face Robert Louis Stevenson To F. J. S.
  12. I reckon that ye never knew, Ambrose Bierce The Unpardonable Sin
  13. I remember, well remember, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Aunt Chloe
  14. I rest me deep within the wood, Georgia Douglas Johnson Peace
  15. I rise and raise my clasped hands to Thee! John Henry Newman Morning
  16. I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow W. B. Yeats The Song of the Old Mother
  17. I said I will shake myself out of my clothes, Ambrose Bierce The Mormon Question
  18. I said when they handed me my diploma, Edgar Lee Masters Dr. Siegfried Iseman
  19. I sat beneath an olive’s branches grey, John Henry Newman Corcyra
  20. I sat in tall Gomorrah on a day, David Park Barnitz Ennui
  21. I sat on cushioned otter skin: W. B. Yeats The Madness of King Goll
  22. I sat on the bank above Bernadotte Edgar Lee Masters Schroeder the Fisherman
  23. I saw a dead corpse lying in a tomb, David Park Barnitz The Grotesques
  24. I saw a man who knelt in prayer, Ambrose Bierce To-Day
  25. I saw a pleasing sight this spring, James McIntyre A Pleasing Illusion
  26. I saw him sensitive in frame, Matthew Arnold Stanzas
  27. I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, Walt Whitman I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
  28. I saw old General at bay, Walt Whitman I Saw Old General at Bay
  29. I saw one day on the horizon grey, Ameen Rihani A Bed of Flame
  30. I saw red evening through the rain Robert Louis Stevenson I Saw Red Evening Through the Rain
  31. I saw the devil. He was working free⁠— Ambrose Bierce A Constructor
  32. I saw Thee following me, Ameen Rihani The Fugitive
  33. I saw thee on thy bridal day⁠— Edgar Allan Poe Song
  34. I saw thee once and nought discern’d John Henry Newman Transfiguration
  35. I saw thee once⁠—once only⁠—years ago: Edgar Allan Poe To Helen
  36. I saw them toiling in the blistering sun, Voltairine de Cleyre The Road Builders
  37. I saw you toss the kites on high Robert Louis Stevenson The Wind
  38. “I saw your charms in another’s arms,” Ambrose Bierce Not Guilty
  39. I saw⁠—’twas in a dream the other night⁠— Ambrose Bierce Montefiore
  40. I scarce believe my love to be so pure John Donne Love’s Growth
  41. I see before me now a traveling army halting, Walt Whitman Bivouac on a Mountain Side
  42. I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea. Walt Whitman To Old Age
  43. I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother, Walt Whitman Mother and Babe
  44. I see thine image through my tears tonight, Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXX
  45. I seek no tokens of you dear Georgia Douglas Johnson Offering
  46. I send to you, commissioners, Robert Louis Stevenson To the Commissioners of Northern Lights
  47. I should like to rise and go Robert Louis Stevenson Travel
  48. I should like, good friends, to mention the disaster that befell Ambrose Bierce The Woeful Tale of Mr. Peters
  49. I sing no harm, good sooth, to any wight, John Donne A Tale of a Citizen and His Wife
  50. I sing the body electric, Walt Whitman I Sing the Body Electric
  51. I sing the Mariner who first unfurl’d Joel Barlow Book I
  52. I sing the progress of a deathless soul, John Donne The Progress of the Soul
  53. I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame, Walt Whitman I Sit and Look Out
  54. I sit and wait a pair of oars Robert Louis Stevenson To H. F. Brown
  55. I sit up here at midnight, Robert Louis Stevenson I Sit Up Here at Midnight
  56. I slept, and, waking in the years to be, Ambrose Bierce Expositor Veritatis
  57. I slumbered with your poems on my breast Robert Frost To E. T.
  58. I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know, James Weldon Johnson Vashti
  59. I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor Edgar Lee Masters Robert Southey Burke
  60. I staggered on through darkness, Edgar Lee Masters Oscar Hummel
  61. I staid the night for shelter at a farm Robert Frost Two Witches
  62. I stand as on some mighty eagle’s beak, Walt Whitman From Montauk Point
  63. I stand in the darkness waiting Voltairine de Cleyre The New Hope
  64. I stand on the windy uplands among the hills of Down C. S. Lewis The Roads
  65. I stay; Robert Frost An Empty Threat
  66. I step from the door with a shiver Ambrose Bierce A Study in Gray
  67. I stood by the unvintageable sea Oscar Wilde Vita Nuova
  68. I stood tiptoe upon a little hill, John Keats “I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill”
  69. I stood upon a hill. The setting sun Ambrose Bierce A Vision of Doom
  70. I stopped the car William Carlos Williams Blueflags
  71. I strolled upon the Brooklyn Bridge one day, Ameen Rihani It Was All for Him
  72. I swayed upon the gaudy stern W. B. Yeats His Dream
  73. I take my dreams Langston Hughes Dreamer
  74. I tell you what my little Dora, James McIntyre Little Dora
  75. I thank all who have loved me in their hearts, Elizabeth Barrett Browning XLI
  76. I Thank Thee, boundless Giver, George MacDonald A Thanksgiving
  77. I think it better that in times like these W. B. Yeats On Being Asked for a War Poem
  78. I think of thee when golden sunbeams glimmer Henry van Dyke Jr. Love’s Nearness
  79. I think of thee!⁠—my thoughts do twine and bud Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXIX
  80. I thirst, but earth cannot allay Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “I Thirst”
  81. I thirst, but not as once I did, William Cowper My Soul Thirsteth for God
  82. I thought no more was needed W. B. Yeats A Song
  83. I thought of your beauty, and this arrow, W. B. Yeats The Arrow
  84. I thought once how Theocritus had sung Elizabeth Barrett Browning I
  85. I too have had my dreams: ay, indeed known Oscar Wilde Sen Artysty
  86. I too have suffer’d: yet I know Matthew Arnold Urania
  87. I took it for a bird of prey that soared George MacDonald A Better Thing
  88. I took up the burden of life anew Mary Weston Fordham To My Mother
  89. I tried to put a bird in a cage. William Carlos Williams The Fool’s Song
  90. I tried to win the nomination Edgar Lee Masters Hiram Scates
  91. I trust that Son Lou won’t be mad Ring Lardner Charles A. Comiskey
  92. I turned my eyes upon the Future’s scroll Ambrose Bierce A Promised Fast Train
  93. I waited for the Master George MacDonald Waiting
  94. I walk through the long schoolroom questioning, W. B. Yeats Among School Children
  95. I walked all night: the darkness did not yield. George MacDonald To A. J. Scott
  96. I walked along the countryside Ameen Rihani Reflections
  97. I walked into her Temple, as of yore Ameen Rihani The Pagan
  98. I wander all night in my vision, Walt Whitman The Sleepers
  99. I wander among the hills of alien lands Ameen Rihani The Wanderer
  100. I wander by the edge W. B. Yeats He Hears the Cry of the Sedge

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