First lines

  1. A rock, for ages, stern and high, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Truth
  2. A sailor he was swept from deck, James McIntyre Strange Life Preserver
  3. A shelter, from the rain or wind, John Newton For a Garden-Seat or Summer-House
  4. A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, Walt Whitman A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
  5. A silent world⁠—yet full of vital joy Henry van Dyke Jr. Vera
  6. A silken curtain veils the skies, Henry van Dyke Jr. Indian Summer
  7. A silver Lucifer Mina Loy Lunar Baedeker
  8. A sleuth like Pinkerton or Burns Ring Lardner Confession
  9. A song for occupations! Walt Whitman A Song for Occupations
  10. A song of the rolling earth, and of words according, Walt Whitman A Song of the Rolling Earth
  11. A song, a poem of itself⁠—the word itself a dirge, Walt Whitman Yonnondio
  12. A Soul, half through the Gate, said unto Life: Voltairine de Cleyre Life or Death
  13. A speckled cat and a tame hare W. B. Yeats Two Songs of a Fool
  14. A spirit is treading the earth, Maria Lowell The Sick-Room
  15. A spitcat sate on a garden gate Ambrose Bierce Revenge
  16. A spray of pine-needles, Jean Toomer Nullo
  17. A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me. Edgar Lee Masters Georgine Sand Miner
  18. A storm was coming, but the winds were still, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Merlin and Vivien
  19. A story that everyone knows Ring Lardner Gene Greene
  20. A street contractor, t’other morn, Ambrose Bierce Three Highwaymen
  21. A sudden blow: the great wings beating still W. B. Yeats Leda and the Swan
  22. A tale that the poet Rückert told Henry van Dyke Jr. The Foolish Fir-Tree
  23. A tale we’ll tell of what hath been James McIntyre Halloween
  24. A tattered soldier, gone the glow and gloss, George MacDonald Home from the Wars
  25. A thing to be thought with abated breath, Ambrose Bierce A Mystery
  26. A thousand knights have rein’d their steeds Matthew Arnold Calais Sands
  27. A thousand perfect men and women appear, Walt Whitman Offerings
  28. A thousand women’s eyes Mina Loy At the Door of the House
  29. A three-day-long rain from the east⁠— William Carlos Williams The Dark Day
  30. A traveler observed one day Ambrose Bierce An Apologue
  31. A vague mist hanging ’round half the pages: Walt Whitman Apparitions
  32. A voice from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power, Walt Whitman A Voice from Death
  33. A wail went o’er broad Canada, James McIntyre Reminiscences
  34. A wanderer is man from his birth. Matthew Arnold The Future
  35. A whisper at twilight, a sigh through the night, Georgia Douglas Johnson Deluge
  36. A white mist drifts across the shrouds, Oscar Wilde La Mer
  37. A wind might blow a lotus petal William Carlos Williams History
  38. A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Walt Whitman A Woman Waits for Me
  39. A woman with a burning flame Georgia Douglas Johnson Smothered Fires
  40. A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted William Shakespeare XX
  41. A wondrous tale we now do trace James McIntyre A Providential Escape
  42. A word from Jesus calms the sea, John Newton Peter Walking Upon the Water
  43. A wordless kiss, a stifled sigh, Georgia Douglas Johnson Emblems
  44. A worlding spent each day John Newton The Rich Man and Lazarus
  45. A year ago I breathed the Italian air⁠— Oscar Wilde Ravenna
  46. A young man’s body long it lay James McIntyre Lines on the Finding of a Young Man’s Body in Toronto Bay
  47. Aboard at a ship’s helm, Walt Whitman Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
  48. About the polls the freedmen drew, Ambrose Bierce Inter Arma Silent Leges
  49. About the sheltered garden ground Robert Louis Stevenson About the Sheltered Garden Ground
  50. About us lies the summer night; Robert Louis Stevenson A Summer Night
  51. Abundant bores afflict this world, and some Ambrose Bierce The King of Bores
  52. Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear Elizabeth Barrett Browning XV
  53. Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all William Shakespeare CXVII
  54. Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land, Henry van Dyke Jr. Arrival
  55. Add to your show, before you close it, France, Walt Whitman Bravo, Paris Exposition!
  56. Adela, Adela, Adela Chart, Robert Louis Stevenson The Lesson of the Master
  57. Adele! a name that kindled in the breast Ameen Rihani Adele
  58. Adieu O soldier, Walt Whitman Adieu to a Soldier
  59. Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads, Phillis Wheatley A Farewel to America. To Mrs. S. W.
  60. Adorned daggers, ruby-hilted swords; David Park Barnitz Sonnet of the Instruments of Death
  61. Aeronaut, you’re fairly caught, Ambrose Bierce On the Wedding of an Aeronaut
  62. Affections, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, Matthew Arnold Written in Butler’s Sermons
  63. Afflictions do not come alone, John Newton Love Tokens
  64. Afflictions, though they seem severe, John Newton The Prodigal Son
  65. Affronting fool, subdue your transient light; Ambrose Bierce To a Critic of Tennyson
  66. Aflounder the uncompassed darkness of doubt Georgia Douglas Johnson Eclipse
  67. Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Walt Whitman Song of the Open Road
  68. African Guardian of Souls, Jean Toomer Conversion
  69. After a long day of work in my hot-houses Edgar Lee Masters Gustav Richter
  70. After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials, Walt Whitman Long, Long Hence
  71. After a week of physical anguish, Walt Whitman An Evening Lull
  72. After all⁠— Georgia Douglas Johnson Retrospection
  73. After chatting with each friend, James McIntyre Lines Read at a Ladies’ Aid
  74. After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains John Keats Sonnet
  75. After him who did the mills own, James McIntyre Lines on Tilsonburg
  76. After I got religion and steadied down Edgar Lee Masters “Butch” Weldy
  77. After I had attended lectures Edgar Lee Masters Ida Chicken
  78. After night’s thunder far away had rolled Edward Thomas Haymaking
  79. After surmounting three-score and ten, Walt Whitman My 71st Year
  80. After the blast of lightning from the east, Wilfred Owen The End
  81. After the dazzle of day is gone, Walt Whitman After the Dazzle of Day
  82. After the fret and failure of this day, C. S. Lewis Night
  83. After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds, Walt Whitman After the Sea-Ship
  84. After the supper and talk⁠—after the day is done, Walt Whitman After the Supper and Talk
  85. After those reverend papers, whose soul is John Donne To Sir Henry Wotton at His Going Ambassador to Venice
  86. After you have enriched your soul Edgar Lee Masters Jonathan Swift Somers
  87. After you speak Edward Thomas After You Speak
  88. Afterthought of summer’s bloom! Henry van Dyke Jr. A November Daisy
  89. Again I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well⁠— Robert Louis Stevenson The Piper
  90. Again I reply to the triple winds William Carlos Williams January
  91. Again I see my bliss at hand; Matthew Arnold Meeting
  92. Again it is the vibrant May, Georgia Douglas Johnson Springtime
  93. Again we meet⁠—a flashing glance, Georgia Douglas Johnson The Return
  94. Against my love shall be, as I am now, William Shakespeare LXIII
  95. Against that time, if ever that time come, William Shakespeare XLIX
  96. Against these turbid turquoise skies Oscar Wilde Les Ballons
  97. Ages and ages returning at intervals, Walt Whitman Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
  98. (Ah little recks the laborer, Walt Whitman Song of the Exposition
  99. Ah poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats, Walt Whitman Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
  100. Ah, Langston Hughes Poem

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