First lines

  1. Let the sun summon all his beams to hold John Henry Newman My Birthday
  2. Let the world’s sharpness like a clasping knife Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXIV
  3. “ ‘Let there be Liberty!’ God said, and, lo! Ambrose Bierce Liberty
  4. Let those who are in favour with their stars William Shakespeare XXV
  5. Let us adore the grace that seeks John Newton The Lord’s Call to His Children
  6. Let us arise, and watch by night, John Henry Newman Matins⁠—Sunday
  7. Let us go then, you and I, T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  8. Let us love and sing and wonder, John Newton Praise for Redeeming Love
  9. Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards; Robert Louis Stevenson The House of Tembinoka
  10. Let worldly minds the world pursue John Newton Old Things Are Passed Away
  11. Let your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope; George MacDonald A Story of the Sea-Shore
  12. “Let’s bury the hatchet,” said Miller to Platt; Ambrose Bierce Sepulture
  13. Let’s go see old Abe Langston Hughes Lincoln Monument
  14. Let’s say “Good-bye” Georgia Douglas Johnson Good-Bye
  15. “Liars for witnesses; for lawyers brutes Ambrose Bierce “The Whole World Kin”
  16. Lichens, regardless of conventions, Robert Williams Wood The Hen; The Lichen
  17. Lie, little cow, and chew thy cud, George MacDonald Waiting
  18. Life is greatly what we make it, James McIntyre Duties of Life
  19. Life to her no brightness brought, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Saved by Faith
  20. Life was trembling, faintly trembling Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Bondman
  21. Life’s little hour is fleet, so fleet Georgia Douglas Johnson To Love
  22. Life’s stormy surge had scarcely touched Mary Weston Fordham The Grafted Bud
  23. Lift ev’ry voice and sing James Weldon Johnson Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
  24. Lift your flowers William Carlos Williams Chickory and Daisies
  25. Light as my heart was long ago, Robert Louis Stevenson Light as My Heart Was Long Ago
  26. Light as the linnet on my way I start, Robert Louis Stevenson Light as the Linnet on My Way I Start
  27. Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Matthew Arnold The Buried Life
  28. Light foot and tight foot, Robert Louis Stevenson Song
  29. Light hearted William twirled William Carlos Williams Light Hearted William
  30. Light lie the earth upon his dear dead heart, Ambrose Bierce William F. Smith
  31. Light of the anxious heart, John Henry Newman The Transfiguration⁠—Lauds
  32. Light upon Waldheim! And the earth is gray; Voltairine de Cleyre “Light Upon Waldheim”
  33. Light! more light! the shadows deepen, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “Let the Light Enter!”
  34. Lightly come or lightly go: James Joyce Lightly Come or Lightly Go
  35. “Lights out” along the land, Henry van Dyke Jr. Lights Out
  36. Like a bad suitor desperate and trembling Fernando Pessoa XV
  37. Like a cold fish escaping from its tank, Ambrose Bierce XLI
  38. Like a fawn from the arrow, startled and wild, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Eliza Harris
  39. Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting, Henry van Dyke Jr. Fire-Fly City
  40. Like a worn mother he attempts in vain Ambrose Bierce Samuel Shortridge
  41. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, William Shakespeare LX
  42. Like as, to make our appetite more keen, William Shakespeare CXVIII
  43. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man’s bed Oscar Wilde The Grave of Shelley
  44. Like children in the market-place Henry van Dyke Jr. Children in the Market-Place
  45. Like Dives in the deeps of Hell Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Save the Boys
  46. Like Esop’s fellow-slaves, O Mercury, John Donne Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus
  47. Like fruit that’s large and ripe and mellow, James McIntyre American Poets
  48. Like one who in her third widowhood doth profess John Donne To Mr. Rowland Woodward
  49. Like the touch of rain she was Edward Thomas Like the Touch of Rain
  50. Like to a ship that storms urge on its course, Fernando Pessoa XI
  51. Like yonder swallow, I would soar away⁠— Ameen Rihani Three Golden Threads
  52. Limb to limb, mouth to mouth William Carlos Williams Winter Quiet
  53. Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock, Henry van Dyke Jr. Pan Learns Music
  54. Link your arm in mine, my lad⁠— Robert Louis Stevenson Link Your Arm in Mine, My Lad
  55. List, England, to our words of scorn Ambrose Bierce At the Beach
  56. Listen to his wild romances: Ambrose Bierce The Boss’s Choice
  57. “Listen, darling, and tell to me George MacDonald The Sea-Shell
  58. Little Bo-Peep, she has lost her sheep, George MacDonald Little Bo-Peep
  59. Little Boy Blue lost his way in a wood⁠— George MacDonald Little Boy Blue
  60. Little dark baby, Langston Hughes America
  61. Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Robert Louis Stevenson Foreign Children
  62. Little maiden, dost thou pine John Henry Newman Valentine to a Little Girl
  63. “Little one, who straight hast come George MacDonald The Christmas Child
  64. Little one, you must not fret George MacDonald Going to Sleep
  65. Little tapers lighted leaning diagonally Mina Loy Café du Néant
  66. Little think’st thou, poor flower, John Donne The Blossom
  67. Little’s the good to sit and grieve Ambrose Bierce Consolation
  68. Lo, all the passionate pale evening David Park Barnitz Evening Song
  69. Lo, all the world as some vast corpse long dead, David Park Barnitz Sepulchral Life
  70. Lo, how the moon, beloved, David Park Barnitz Nocturne
  71. Lo, in the night I cry out, in the night, David Park Barnitz Mad Sonnet
  72. Lo, in thy green enclosure here, Robert Louis Stevenson To Priapus
  73. Lo, now, my guest, if aught amiss were said, Robert Louis Stevenson Lo, Now, My Guest
  74. Lo, the unbounded sea, Walt Whitman The Ship Starting
  75. Lo, Victress on the peaks, Walt Whitman Lo, Victress on the Peaks
  76. Lo! ’tis a gala night Edgar Allan Poe The Conqueror Worm
  77. Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch William Shakespeare CXLIII
  78. Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Edgar Allan Poe The City in the Sea
  79. Lo! for this dark terrestrial ball Phillis Wheatley An Hymn to Humanity
  80. Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry; John Keats Specimen of an Induction to a Poem
  81. Lo! I, the man whose Muse whylome did maske, Edmund Spenser The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross, or of Holiness
  82. Lo! in the orient when the gracious light William Shakespeare VII
  83. Lo! in thine honest eyes I read Robert Louis Stevenson Lo! In Thine Honest Eyes I Read
  84. Lo! Kearney, rising on his hinder legs, Ambrose Bierce The New Dennis
  85. Lo! the wild rabbit, happy in the pride Ambrose Bierce Aspiration
  86. Lo! tooth and nail my countrymen contest Ambrose Bierce Art
  87. Locations and times⁠—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home? Walt Whitman Locations and Times
  88. Long ’ere Her Majesty the Queen James McIntyre Prince Charlie’s Grandsons
  89. Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Henry van Dyke Jr. The White Bees
  90. Long ago the world was finer⁠— Ambrose Bierce The Golden Age
  91. Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, Matthew Arnold The Better Part
  92. Long had I loved this “Attic shape,” the brede Henry van Dyke Jr. To Julia Marlowe
  93. Long hast thou suffered, sister of my heart, Ameen Rihani Saada
  94. Long have I a word enshrined Ameen Rihani Rest
  95. Long have I beat with timid hands upon life’s leaden door, Georgia Douglas Johnson The Suppliant
  96. Long leagues on either hand the trenches spread C. S. Lewis French Nocturne
  97. Long must elapse ere you behold again Robert Louis Stevenson To My Wife
  98. Long time I lay in little ease Robert Louis Stevenson Long Time I Lay in Little Ease
  99. Long, long ago I heard a little song, Henry van Dyke Jr. Dulciora
  100. Long, long ago I heard a little song, Henry van Dyke Jr. Dulcis Memoria

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