First lines

  1. Long, long, long the trail Henry van Dyke Jr. Light Between the Trees
  2. Long, too long America, Walt Whitman Long, Too Long America
  3. Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Walt Whitman Look Down Fair Moon
  4. Look heah, Tunk!⁠—Now, ain’t dis awful! T’ought I sont you off to school. James Weldon Johnson Tunk
  5. Look heah! ’Splain to me de reason James Weldon Johnson An Explanation
  6. Look heah! Is I evah tole you ’bout de curious way I won James Weldon Johnson The Rivals
  7. Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest William Shakespeare III
  8. Look round: You see a little supper room; Robert Louis Stevenson De Cœnatione Micæ
  9. Look to me, faith, and look to my faith, God; John Donne Elegy Upon the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Henry
  10. Look! look there! George MacDonald The Lost Soul
  11. Looking across the line, the Grecian said: Ambrose Bierce The Eastern Question
  12. Lord Jesus, George MacDonald A Song Prayer
  13. Lord Jesus, Thou hast known Henry van Dyke Jr. A Mother’s Birthday
  14. Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage William Shakespeare XXVI
  15. Lord of the tempest, pray refrain Ambrose Bierce Reedified
  16. Lord of unbounded space, John Henry Newman Vespers⁠—Monday
  17. Lord, in this dust Thy sovereign voice John Henry Newman Thanksgiving
  18. Lord, my soul with pleasure springs William Cowper True Pleasure
  19. Lord, shed thy light upon his desert path, Ambrose Bierce Cain
  20. Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and T. S. Eliot A Song for Simeon
  21. Lord, thou hast won⁠—at length I yield⁠— John Newton The Rebel’s Surrender to Grace.⁠–⁠Lord, What Wilt Thou Have Me to Do?
  22. Lord, what is man? extremes how wide John Newton Man by Nature, Grace, and Glory
  23. Lord, who hast suffer’d all for me, William Cowper Prayer for Patience
  24. Lost the little one roams about, George MacDonald Lost but Safe
  25. “Lothario is very low,” Ambrose Bierce A Bulletin
  26. Loud and low in the chimney Robert Louis Stevenson Loud and Low in the Chimney
  27. Love Langston Hughes Beale Street Love
  28. Love Langston Hughes Love Song for Lucinda
  29. Love alone is great in might, George MacDonald Love Is Strength
  30. Love and forgetting might have carried them Robert Frost Two Look at Two
  31. Love at the lips was touch Robert Frost To Earthward
  32. Love calls me tonight Georgia Douglas Johnson Envoys
  33. Love came to us in time gone by James Joyce Love Came to Us in Time Gone By
  34. Love is like water or the air William Carlos Williams Riposte
  35. Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate, William Shakespeare CXLII
  36. Love is the part, and love is the whole; George MacDonald Love Is Home
  37. Love is the very heart of spring; Robert Louis Stevenson Love Is the Very Heart of Spring
  38. Love is too young to know what conscience is; William Shakespeare CLI
  39. Love it is the precious loom, James McIntyre Power of Love
  40. Love⁠—what is love? A great and aching heart; Robert Louis Stevenson Love, What Is Love?
  41. Love, any devil else but you John Donne Love’s Exchange
  42. Love, the baby, George MacDonald Love’s History
  43. Love, there is a castle built in a country desolate, C. S. Lewis World’s Desire
  44. Love’s kisses spurned so long ago, Georgia Douglas Johnson Retrospect
  45. Love’s roses I gathered, all dewy, in May, Georgia Douglas Johnson Memory
  46. Lovely, dark, and lonely one, Langston Hughes Song
  47. Lover divine and perfect Comrade, Walt Whitman Gods
  48. Lover of beauty, walking on the height Henry van Dyke Jr. Milton
  49. Loving looks the large-eyed cow, George MacDonald A Christmas Prayer
  50. Lullaby! Lullaby! C. S. Lewis Lullaby
  51. Lulled in the purple darkness is my soul, Ameen Rihani The Sufi
  52. Ma Lord ain’t no stuck up man. Langston Hughes Ma Lord
  53. Ma old time daddy Langston Hughes Lover’s Return
  54. Ma sweet good man has Langston Hughes Suicide
  55. Maceo dead! a thrill of sorrow Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Maceo
  56. Mackay’s hot wrath to Bonynge, direful spring Ambrose Bierce The Mackaiad
  57. Mad paper, stay, and grudge not here to burn John Donne To Mrs. Magdalen Herbert
  58. Madam⁠— John Donne To the Countess of Bedford
  59. Madam⁠— John Donne To the Countess of Bedford
  60. Madam⁠— John Donne To the Countess of Huntingdon
  61. Madam, John Donne Epitaph on Himself
  62. Madame⁠— John Donne A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mistress Essex Rich, from Amiens
  63. Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade, Phillis Wheatley To Maecenas
  64. Magnolia! “Pale city of the dead,” Mary Weston Fordham Magnolia
  65. Mahatma Holden, Autocrat of Stars, Ambrose Bierce At the Observatory
  66. Mahomet Stanford, with covetous stare, Ambrose Bierce For President, Leland Stanford
  67. Make me a grave where’er you will, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bury Me in a Free Land
  68. Malheur à la malheureuse Tamise! T. S. Eliot Le Directeur
  69. “Man goeth forth” with reckless trust John Henry Newman Nature and Art
  70. Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be; John Donne To Sir Edward Herbert, Now Lord Herbert Cherbury, Being at the Siege of Juliers
  71. “Man is blind because of sin; Matthew Arnold Pis Aller
  72. Man is permitted much John Henry Newman The Elements
  73. Man is the world, and death the ocean, John Donne Elegy on the Lady Markham
  74. Man of absolute physical equilibrium Mina Loy Sketch of a Man on a Platform
  75. Man sails the deep awhile; Robert Louis Stevenson Man Sails the Deep Awhile
  76. Man the maker of cities is also a builder of altars: Henry van Dyke Jr. The Unseen Altar
  77. Manhattan’s streets I saunter’d pondering, Walt Whitman Song of Prudence
  78. Manna to Israel well supplied John Newton Manna
  79. Many a homestead it was burned, James McIntyre Great Fire in Michigan
  80. Many a tree is found in the wood Henry van Dyke Jr. Salute to the Trees
  81. Many cages round me, Georgia Douglas Johnson Bondage
  82. Many ingenious lovely things are gone W. B. Yeats Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
  83. Many the guileless years the Patriarch spent, John Henry Newman Isaac
  84. Many the wonders I this day have seen: John Keats To My Brother George
  85. Many things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine; Walt Whitman To a Western Boy
  86. March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay! Henry van Dyke Jr. Song of a Pilgrim-Soul
  87. Mark but this flea, and mark in this, John Donne The Flea
  88. Mark, printed on the opposing page, Robert Louis Stevenson Mark, Printed on the Opposing Page
  89. Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she John Donne The Anagram
  90. Martha her love and joy express’d John Newton Martha and Mary
  91. Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Robert Frost The Death of the Hired Man
  92. Mary to her Saviour’s tomb John Newton Weeping Mary
  93. Mary, to thee the heart was given George MacDonald The Gospel Women
  94. Master only left old Mistus Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Deliverance
  95. Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree. Edgar Lee Masters Sarah Brown
  96. May God be praised for woman W. B. Yeats On Woman
  97. May the dread Three in One, who sways John Henry Newman Matins⁠—Friday
  98. May the grace of Christ our Saviour, John Newton 2 Corinthians 13:14
  99. McAllister, of talents rich and rare, Ambrose Bierce XIX
  100. McKay he is a clever chap, James McIntyre Lines

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