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  1. I’m waitin’ for de springtime Langston Hughes Red Roses
  2. “I’ve found the secret of your charm,” I said, Ambrose Bierce Vanished at Cock-Crow
  3. I’ve known ere now an interfering branch Robert Frost The Axe-Helve
  4. I’ve known rivers: Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  5. I’ve learned of life this bitter truth: Georgia Douglas Johnson Lesson
  6. I’ve orders to waken you from your nap, Ring Lardner Hesitation
  7. I’ve sat on the park benches in Paris Langston Hughes Park Benching
  8. I’ve sometimes wished that Ingersoll were wise Ambrose Bierce A Controversialist
  9. Ice-cold passion Langston Hughes Poem to a Dead Soldier
  10. Ideals are like the stars, Langston Hughes Teacher
  11. If a man could bite the giant hand Edgar Lee Masters Robert Fulton Tanner
  12. If all the skies were sunshine, Henry van Dyke Jr. If All the Skies
  13. If any man drew near W. B. Yeats A Woman Homer Sung
  14. If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d, John Keats Sonnet
  15. If e’er I fall beneath Thy rod, John Henry Newman Judgment
  16. If faithful souls be alike glorified John Donne VIII
  17. If for a time the air be calm, John Newton The Sea.
  18. If from great Nature’s or our own abyss Lord Byron Canto XIV
  19. If his statements don’t seem to agree Ring Lardner F. H. Rawson
  20. If I could arise and travel away Robert Louis Stevenson If I Could Arise and Travel Away
  21. If I could have lived another year Edgar Lee Masters Franklin Jones
  22. If I did seem to you no more George MacDonald To Any Friend
  23. If I had wings, my lady, like a dove Robert Louis Stevenson If I Had Wings, My Lady, Like a Dove
  24. If I have erred in showing all my heart, Henry van Dyke Jr. Without Disguise
  25. If I have faltered more or less Robert Louis Stevenson The Celestial Surgeon
  26. If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXXV
  27. If I might guess, then guess I would George MacDonald Dorcas
  28. If I say I have heard voices William Carlos Williams Pastoral
  29. If I should ever by chance grow rich Edward Thomas If I Should Ever by Chance
  30. If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, Walt Whitman Election Day, November, 1884
  31. If I should worship at thine ancient shrine, Ameen Rihani Nectar and Blood
  32. “If I sit in the dust George MacDonald Abu Midjan
  33. If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun, George MacDonald If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
  34. If I were screaming in a cage, Ambrose Bierce To My Bird
  35. If I were to own this countryside Edward Thomas If I Were to Own
  36. “If I weren’t so busy,” says Waller, Ring Lardner Waller Morton
  37. If I when my wife is sleeping William Carlos Williams Danse Russe
  38. If in his study he hath so much care John Donne Antiquary
  39. If in my arms I bore my child, George MacDonald Appeal
  40. If it’s fun to take books from the bookcase, Ring Lardner Riddles
  41. “If life were not worth living,” said the preacher, Ambrose Bierce A Paradox
  42. If men should ask, Despoina, why I tell C. S. Lewis Apology
  43. If Michael, leader of God’s host W. B. Yeats The Rose of Peace
  44. If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts’ cage; Henry van Dyke Jr. Might and Right
  45. If my dear love were but the child of state, William Shakespeare CXXIV
  46. If on the closed curtain of my sight Henry van Dyke Jr. Portrait and Reality
  47. If Paul in Cesar’s court must stand, John Newton Paul’s Voyage
  48. If pleasant night you wish to spend, James McIntyre A Concert Invitation
  49. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, John Donne IX
  50. If Solomon for wisdom pray’d, John Newton Another
  51. If space and time, as sages say, T. S. Eliot A Lyric
  52. If that apparent part of life’s delight Fernando Pessoa II
  53. If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, William Shakespeare XLIV
  54. If the excursion train to Peoria Edgar Lee Masters Barney Hainsfeather
  55. If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois Edgar Lee Masters Roy Butler
  56. If the Lord our leader be, John Newton Jacob’s Ladder
  57. If the wicked gods were willing Ambrose Bierce A Possibility
  58. If there be nothing new, but that which is William Shakespeare LIX
  59. If they’d level the bunkers and traps, Ring Lardner Joseph Michaels
  60. If this importunate heart trouble your peace W. B. Yeats The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
  61. If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race George MacDonald Concerning Jesus
  62. If thou must love me, let it be for nought Elizabeth Barrett Browning XIV
  63. If thou survive my well-contented day, William Shakespeare XXXII
  64. If thy soul check thee that I come so near, William Shakespeare CXXXVI
  65. If to Jesus for relief John Newton Questions to Unbelief
  66. If two may read aright Robert Louis Stevenson To Willie and Henrietta
  67. If we were longing for the bread George MacDonald Blessed Are They That Hunger
  68. If yet I have not all thy love, John Donne Lovers’ Infiniteness
  69. If you are sulky, Nova Scotia, James McIntyre Nova Scotia
  70. If you can laugh along the road, Georgia Douglas Johnson Promise
  71. If you from spoil of th’ old world’s farthest end John Donne Cales and Guyana
  72. If you had come away with me William Carlos Williams April
  73. If you have read my former words, Robert Williams Wood Author’s Add‑end‑’em
  74. If you have revisited the town, thin Shade, W. B. Yeats To a Shade
  75. If you in the village think that my work was a good one, Edgar Lee Masters A. D. Blood
  76. If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Robert W. Service The Younger Son
  77. If you loves me Langston Hughes Down an’ Out
  78. If you see this song, my dear, Robert Louis Stevenson Apologetic Postscript of a Year Later
  79. If you wait in the Morrison foyer Ring Lardner Harry Moir
  80. If you will tap the Cantelope Robert Williams Wood The Antelope; The Cantelope
  81. If you, that have grown old, were the first dead, W. B. Yeats The New Faces
  82. If you’re up against a bruiser and you’re getting knocked about⁠— Robert W. Service Grin
  83. If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be, John Donne To Mr. Rowland Woodward
  84. If, in the silent mind of One all-pure, Matthew Arnold In Utrumque Paratus
  85. If, Prentiss Maslin, you would kindly leave Ambrose Bierce To a Grabber
  86. Ils ont vu les Pays-Bas, ils rentrent à Terre Haute; T. S. Eliot Lune de Miel
  87. Image of her whom I love, more than she, John Donne The Dream
  88. Imagination cannot rise above thee; George MacDonald To My Lord and Master
  89. Immensity, cloister’d in thy dear womb, John Donne Nativity
  90. In a backwoods town James Weldon Johnson The Ghost of Deacon Brown
  91. In a deep cleft among the hills James McIntyre The Rescue
  92. In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks Oscar Wilde The Sphinx
  93. In a far off hamlet near the sea Mary Weston Fordham Uranne
  94. In a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Walt Whitman The Ox-Tamer
  95. In a great city hospital James McIntyre Child Made Happy
  96. In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Henry van Dyke Jr. Longfellow
  97. In a lingering fever many visions come to you: Edgar Lee Masters Hamlet Micure
  98. In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house, Walt Whitman My Picture-Gallery
  99. In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds William Carlos Williams Spring Strains
  100. In after-time, a sage of mickle lore John Keats Spenserian Stanza

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