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  1. I wandered through Scoglietto’s far retreat, Oscar Wilde Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa
  2. I want a hero: an uncommon want, Lord Byron Canto I
  3. I want to die while you love me, Georgia Douglas Johnson I Want to Die While You Love Me
  4. I wanted the gold, and I sought it; Robert W. Service The Spell of the Yukon
  5. I wanted to be County Judge Edgar Lee Masters Granville Calhoun
  6. I wanted to go away to college Edgar Lee Masters Searcy Foote
  7. I was a barren tree before, Robert Louis Stevenson The Consecration of Braille
  8. I was a grov’ling creature once, William Cowper Lively Hope and Gracious Fear
  9. I was a gun-smith in Odessa. Edgar Lee Masters Ippolit Konovaloff
  10. I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Edgar Lee Masters Tom Beatty
  11. I was a peasant girl from Germany, Edgar Lee Masters Elsa Wertman
  12. I was a red man one time, Langston Hughes Lament for Dark Peoples
  13. I was among multitudes of children Edgar Lee Masters Elijah Browning
  14. I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Walt Whitman Mannahatta
  15. I was attorney for the “Q” Edgar Lee Masters John M. Church
  16. I was born in State of Florida, James McIntyre Alligator Rider
  17. I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour. Edgar Lee Masters Adam Weirauch
  18. I was just turned twenty-one, Edgar Lee Masters Harry Wilmans
  19. I was looking a long while for Intentions, Walt Whitman I Was Looking a Long While
  20. I was not apprenticed nor ever dwelt in famous Lincolnshire; Edward Thomas An Old Song
  21. I was not beloved of the villagers, Edgar Lee Masters Dorcas Gustine
  22. I was only eight years old; Edgar Lee Masters Nellie Clark
  23. I was sick, but more than that, I was mad Edgar Lee Masters Rosie Roberts
  24. I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams, Edgar Lee Masters Zenas Witt
  25. I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins, Edgar Lee Masters Lillian Stewart
  26. I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. Edgar Lee Masters Knowlt Hoheimer
  27. I was the laughing-stock of the village, Edgar Lee Masters Tennessee Claflin Shope
  28. I was the milliner Edgar Lee Masters Mrs. Williams
  29. I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia Edgar Lee Masters Hamilton Greene
  30. I was the Sunday school superintendent, Edgar Lee Masters Henry Phipps
  31. I was the Widow McFarlane, Edgar Lee Masters Widow McFarlane
  32. I was well known and much beloved Edgar Lee Masters Josiah Tompkins
  33. I was Willie Metcalf. Edgar Lee Masters Willie Metcalf
  34. I wear an easy garment, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Free Labor
  35. I went before God, and he said, Voltairine de Cleyre Love’s Compensation
  36. I went out to the hazel wood, W. B. Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus
  37. I went to de gypsy, Langston Hughes Fortune Teller Blues
  38. I went to look for Joy, Langston Hughes Joy
  39. I went to the dances at Chandlerville, Edgar Lee Masters Lucinda Matlock
  40. I went up and down the streets Edgar Lee Masters Doc Hill
  41. I whispered, “I am too young.” W. B. Yeats The Young Man’s Song
  42. I who all the winter through Robert Louis Stevenson I Who All the Winter Through
  43. I who kept the greenhouse, Edgar Lee Masters Samuel Gardner
  44. I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, W. B. Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  45. I will find out a place for thee, O Sleep⁠— C. S. Lewis To Sleep
  46. I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Robert Louis Stevenson I Will Make You Brooches and Toys for Your Delight
  47. I will praise thee every day, William Cowper O Lord, I Will Praise Thee
  48. I will sing a song, George MacDonald Bird-Songs
  49. I will sing of the bounty of the big trees, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Friendly Trees
  50. I will teach you my townspeople William Carlos Williams Tract
  51. I will think as thinks the rabbit:⁠— George MacDonald A Make-Believe
  52. I winged my bird, Edgar Lee Masters Bert Kessler
  53. I wish I’d paid heed to you, Wickett, Ring Lardner Fred H. Wickett
  54. “I wish,” said the poor father bear, Ring Lardner Major A. A. Sprague
  55. I woke and rose and slipt away C. S. Lewis The Ass
  56. I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day, Robert Louis Stevenson A Good Boy
  57. I won the prize essay at school Edgar Lee Masters John Horace Burleson
  58. I wonder how ’twould make you feel, Ring Lardner Inexpensive Guests
  59. I wonder what your thought will be Ring Lardner The New Plaything
  60. I wonder⁠— Georgia Douglas Johnson I Wonder
  61. I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I John Donne The Good-Morrow
  62. “I wonder,” they heard Philip say, Ring Lardner Phil. R. Toll
  63. I work all day, Langston Hughes Pierrot
  64. I would be ignorant as the dawn W. B. Yeats The Dawn
  65. I would be simple again, Langston Hughes Disillusion
  66. I would have been as great as George Eliot Edgar Lee Masters Margaret Fuller Slack
  67. I would I had thrust my hands of flesh Edgar Lee Masters Edmund Pollard
  68. I would I were a child, George MacDonald I Would I Were a Child
  69. I would I were an angel strong, George MacDonald A Song in the Night
  70. I would in that sweet bosom be James Joyce I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be
  71. I would liken you Langston Hughes Ardella
  72. I would not even ask my heart to say Henry van Dyke Jr. Patria
  73. I would to Heaven that I were so much clay, Lord Byron Fragment on the Back of the MS. of Canto I
  74. I would, but cannot sing⁠— John Newton The Good That I Would Do, I Do Not
  75. I wrote him a letter asking him for old times’ sake Edgar Lee Masters Hannah Armstrong
  76. I, born in Weimar Edgar Lee Masters Russian Sonia
  77. I, the poet William Yeats, W. B. Yeats To Be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee
  78. I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Edgar Lee Masters State’s Attorney Fallas
  79. I, too, saw God through mud⁠— Wilfred Owen Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
  80. I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes I Too
  81. I, whom Apollo sometime visited, Robert Louis Stevenson I, Whom Apollo Sometime Visited
  82. I’d long been dead, but I returned to earth. Ambrose Bierce Posterity’s Award
  83. I’d wear the same satisfied smile Ring Lardner S. R. Kaufman
  84. I’ll say and maybe dream I have drawn content⁠— W. B. Yeats The Living Beauty
  85. I’ll tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do John Donne A Valediction to His Book
  86. I’ll think of thee, mine own, dear one Mary Weston Fordham To a Loved One
  87. I’m a gorgeous golden hero Ambrose Bierce The National Guardsman
  88. I’m back down in ole Georgy w’ere de sun is shinin’ hot, James Weldon Johnson July in Georgy
  89. I’m folding up my little dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson My Little Dreams
  90. I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; Robert Frost The Pasture
  91. “I’m going to the office.” Ring Lardner Nearly a Sinecure
  92. I’m grateful to you, Mr. Bateman, Ring Lardner F. L. Bateman
  93. I’m informed that he tells stories well, Ring Lardner J. C. Dunn
  94. I’m nearly stone deaf to the Call Ring Lardner Thos. J. Wall
  95. I’m one of the number of ones Ring Lardner Ex. Gov. E. F. Dunne
  96. I’m sitting by the hearthstone now, Mary Weston Fordham Twilight Musing
  97. “I’m sorry I married,” says Upton Sinclair: Ambrose Bierce Understated
  98. I’m tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing I know⁠— Georgia Douglas Johnson Wishes
  99. I’m tired, days and nights to me Georgia Douglas Johnson Tired
  100. I’m told that men have sometimes got Ambrose Bierce Discretion

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