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  1. Jerome, you are a mighty famous man⁠— Ambrose Bierce The Jack of Clubs
  2. Jesu, Maria⁠—I am near to death, John Henry Newman The Dream of Gerontius
  3. Jesus Christ, the Lord’s Anointed, John Newton On One Stone Shall Be Seven Eyes
  4. Jesus is mine! I’m now prepared John Newton Habakkuk 3:17⁠–⁠18
  5. Jesus, my gentle Jesus, James Weldon Johnson The Crucifixion
  6. Jesus, Thou divine Companion, Henry van Dyke Jr. Hymn of Labor
  7. Jesus, to what didst thou submit, John Newton The Woman of Samaria
  8. Jesus, where’er thy people meet, William Cowper Another
  9. Jesus, who bought us with his blood, John Newton The Prayer of Jabez
  10. Jesus, whose blood so freely stream’d William Cowper Jehovah-Shalem⁠—The Lord Send Peace
  11. John Galt and Doctor Dunlop witty James McIntyre Galt and Dunlop
  12. John in vision saw the day John Newton The Great Tribunal
  13. John Irish went, one luckless day, Ambrose Bierce XXII
  14. John Jackson, once a soldier bold, Ambrose Bierce The Veteran
  15. John S. Hittell, whose sovereign genius wields Ambrose Bierce By False Pretenses
  16. Johnston he is an engineer, James McIntyre Child Saved by Dog
  17. Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one Edgar Lee Masters Albert Schirding
  18. Joseph Howe, none higher stood than thou, James McIntyre Departed Statesmen
  19. Joy comes and goes: hope ebbs and flows, Matthew Arnold To Fausta
  20. “Joy is a Duty,”⁠—so with golden lore Henry van Dyke Jr. Joy and Duty
  21. Joy is a fruit that will not grow John Newton The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength
  22. Joy to my bosom! rest to my fear! Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Syrophenician Woman
  23. Joy, shipmate, joy! Walt Whitman Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
  24. Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, Henry van Dyke Jr. Hymn of Joy
  25. Judge Armstrong, when the poor have sought your aid, Ambrose Bierce Judex Judicatus
  26. Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people tried Ambrose Bierce XXI
  27. Judge Shafter, you’re an aged man, I know, Ambrose Bierce A Growler
  28. Judgment slumbered. God in mercy Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Retribution
  29. Jules Verne, that brilliant son of France, James McIntyre Short Route to the Orient
  30. Just a bit of ashes Georgia Douglas Johnson Song of the Sinner
  31. Just as the twilight’s holy hour Mary Weston Fordham To an Infant
  32. Just look, ’tis a quarter past six, love⁠— Mary Weston Fordham The Coming Woman
  33. Just now you behold him at ease, Ring Lardner Charles Piez
  34. Just to give up, and trust Henry van Dyke Jr. Bitter-Sweet
  35. Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there John Keats Sonnet
  36. Kind and gracious princess, more than friend, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Moses
  37. Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids John Donne Satire III
  38. Kind solace in a dying hour! Edgar Allan Poe Tamerlane
  39. Kindle, Saviour, in my heart John Newton Bitter and Sweet
  40. Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake, John Newton A Welcome to Christian Friends
  41. King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Alfred, Lord Tennyson Pelleas and Ettarre
  42. King Cole he reigned in Aureoland, George MacDonald King Cole
  43. King Eochaid came at sundown to a wood W. B. Yeats The Two Kings
  44. Kiss me: there now, little Neddy, George MacDonald The Mistletoe
  45. Kiss me! Georgia Douglas Johnson Amour
  46. Klockius so deeply hath sworn ne’er more to come John Donne Klockius
  47. Knight-errant of the Never-ending Quest, Henry van Dyke Jr. Shelley
  48. Know you the river near to Grez, Robert Louis Stevenson Know You the River Near to Grez
  49. Know, that I would accounted be W. B. Yeats To Ireland in the Coming Times
  50. Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war Edgar Lee Masters Lydia Puckett
  51. Kusta ben Luka is my name, I write W. B. Yeats The Gift of Harun-al-Rashid
  52. Ladies, well I deem, delight John Henry Newman My Lady Nature and Her Daughters
  53. Lady of dusk wood fastnesses, William Carlos Williams First Praise
  54. Lady with thine eyes of beauty Mary Weston Fordham The Valentine
  55. Lancaster bore him⁠—such a little town, Robert Frost A Hundred Collars
  56. Language, thou art too narrow and too weak John Donne Elegy
  57. Last night I dreamed that I was come again C. S. Lewis Spooks
  58. Last night we had a thunderstorm in style. Robert Louis Stevenson Last Night We Had a Thunderstorm in Style
  59. Last night you lost the rarest thing Georgia Douglas Johnson Friendship
  60. Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, Robert Louis Stevenson Winter-Time
  61. Late, O miller, Robert Louis Stevenson Late, O Miller
  62. Latest born of Jesse’s race, John Henry Newman The Call of David
  63. Laugh, my Friends, and without blame Matthew Arnold A Memory-Picture
  64. Lawrence, what though the world be growing dark, George MacDonald To One Threatened with Blindness
  65. Laws for creations, Walt Whitman Laws for Creations
  66. “Lay me in a cushioned chair; W. B. Yeats The Ballad of the Foxhunter
  67. Le garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire T. S. Eliot Dans le Restaurant
  68. Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom John Henry Newman The Pillar of the Cloud
  69. Lean out of the window, James Joyce Lean Out of the Window
  70. Leaves are greygreen, William Carlos Williams Lines
  71. Legion was my name by nature, John Newton The Legion Dispossessed
  72. Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Coming of Arthur
  73. Let all who will Langston Hughes Pride
  74. Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams, Robert Louis Stevenson Let Beauty Awake in the Morn from Beautiful Dreams
  75. Let hearts and tongues unite, John Newton Another
  76. Let heathen sing thy heathen praise, John Henry Newman The Greek Fathers
  77. “Let John P. Irish rise!” the edict rang Ambrose Bierce Ornithanthropos
  78. Let love go, if go she will. Robert Louis Stevenson Let Love Go, if Go She Will
  79. Let lowly theme engage my humble pen⁠— Ambrose Bierce For a Certain Critic
  80. Let man’s soul be a sphere, and then, in this, John Donne Good-Friday, 1613, Riding Westward
  81. Let me but do my work from day to day, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Three Best Things
  82. Let me but feel thy look’s embrace, Henry van Dyke Jr. Love in a Look
  83. Let me confess that we two must be twain, William Shakespeare XXXVI
  84. Let me dwell on Golgotha, John Newton It Is Good to Be Here
  85. Let me make the songs for the people, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Songs for the People
  86. Let me not hate, although the bruising world decries my peace, Georgia Douglas Johnson Let Me Not Hate
  87. Let me not lose my dream, e’en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing through their glaze of tears, Georgia Douglas Johnson Let Me Not Lose My Dream
  88. Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare CXVI
  89. Let me pour forth John Donne A Valediction of Weeping
  90. “Let music flourish!” So he said and died. Ambrose Bierce A Bequest to Music
  91. Let not my love be call’d idolatry, William Shakespeare CV
  92. Let now your soul in this substantial world Robert Louis Stevenson An End of Travel
  93. Let others sing their favourite lay, James McIntyre Lay of the Spring
  94. “Let patriots manipulate Ambrose Bierce The Politician
  95. Let slaves and subjects with extolling psalms Ambrose Bierce Democracy
  96. Let that which stood in front go behind, Walt Whitman Reversals
  97. Let the bird of loudest lay, William Shakespeare The Phoenix and the Turtle
  98. Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade Wilfred Owen Arms and the Boy
  99. Let the rain kiss you. Langston Hughes An April Rain Song
  100. Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling⁠—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands; Walt Whitman Transpositions

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