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  1. O Buddha, had you but foreknown Ambrose Bierce From Top to Bottom
  2. O but we talked at large before W. B. Yeats Sixteen Dead Men
  3. O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!
  4. O Chatterton! how very sad thy fate! John Keats To Chatterton
  5. O chief director of the growing race, Robert Louis Stevenson Ad Quintilianum
  6. O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, W. B. Yeats He Tells of the Perfect Beauty
  7. O come to me in my dreams love! Mary Weston Fordham Lines to ⸻
  8. O come while youth’s bright rosy veil Georgia Douglas Johnson Glamour
  9. O comrade bold of toil and pain! John Henry Newman Zeal and Patience
  10. O Comrade of the Human Heart, Henry van Dyke Jr. Christ Our Comrade
  11. O cool is the valley now James Joyce O Cool Is the Valley Now
  12. O Crimson salamander, William Carlos Williams The Ordeal
  13. O curlew, cry no more in the air, W. B. Yeats He Reproves the Curlew
  14. O dark the night and dim the day Henry van Dyke Jr. From Glory Unto Glory
  15. O David’s Son and David’s Lord! John Newton David’s Charge to Solomon
  16. O do not leave me, mother, lest I weep; George MacDonald O Do Not Leave Me
  17. O dull cold northern sky, Robert Louis Stevenson O Dull Cold Northern Sky
  18. O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind, C. S. Lewis Song of the Pilgrims
  19. O Earth, adore creative power, Mary Weston Fordham Creation
  20. O endless idiocy of humankind! David Park Barnitz The Defilers
  21. O fair wind blowing from the sea! Oscar Wilde Θρηνῳδία (Eur. Hec., 444⁠–⁠483)
  22. O far away on the Benign Peninsular Mina Loy Lions’ Jaws
  23. O Father, I am in the dark, George MacDonald Dejection
  24. “O father, I saw at the church as I passed Ambrose Bierce The Wise and Good
  25. O Father, list a sinner’s call! John Henry Newman Absolution
  26. “O for a lodge in some vast wilderness” James McIntyre O for a Lodge
  27. O for that warning voice, which he who saw John Milton Book IV
  28. O Freedom, in thy cause I fought, Ameen Rihani O Freedom
  29. O frivolous mind of man, Matthew Arnold Fragment of Chorus of a Dejaneira
  30. O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, Henry van Dyke Jr. Sicily, December, 1908
  31. O goat-foot God of Arcady! Oscar Wilde Pan
  32. O God from God, and Light from Light, John Henry Newman Matins⁠—Tuesday
  33. O God, of Thy soldiers John Henry Newman For a Martyr
  34. O God, unchangeable and true, John Henry Newman None
  35. O God, who canst not change nor fail, John Henry Newman Sext
  36. O God, who hast given John Henry Newman Vespers⁠—Thursday
  37. O God, whose daylight leadeth down George MacDonald Evening Hymn
  38. O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung John Keats Ode to Psyche
  39. O golden-tongued Romance, with serene lute! John Keats On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
  40. O Happy they who know the Lord, John Newton Gospel Privileges
  41. O heart of fire! misjudged by wilful man, John Henry Newman David and Jonathan
  42. O heart, be at peace, because W. B. Yeats Against Unworthy Praise
  43. O hoary sculptor, stay thy hand: Ambrose Bierce Inspiration
  44. O Holiest Truth! how have I lied to Thee! John Henry Newman Evening
  45. O holy Lord, who with the Children Three John Henry Newman Temptation
  46. O how I love thy holy word, William Cowper Afflictions Sanctified by the Word
  47. O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus? Walt Whitman O Hymen! O Hymenee!
  48. O it’s I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, Robert Louis Stevenson My Ship and I
  49. O kiss me now; the end is near Ameen Rihani The First and Last
  50. O lady fair and sweet Robert Louis Stevenson O Lady Fair and Sweet
  51. O leave the labouring roadways of the town, C. S. Lewis The Ocean Strand
  52. O Liberty, God-gifted⁠— Ambrose Bierce To the Bartholdi Statue
  53. O living always, always dying! Walt Whitman O Living Always, Always Dying
  54. O Lord and Christ, Thy Children of the South John Henry Newman Superstition
  55. O Lord of Bounties, melt thy heaven’s breath, Ameen Rihani Prayer in the Desert
  56. O Lord of life, thy quickening voice George MacDonald Morning Hymn
  57. O Lord our God, Thy mighty hand Henry van Dyke Jr. Peace-Hymn of the Republic
  58. O Lord, how vile am I, John Newton Behold, I Am Vile
  59. O Lord, incline Thine ear unto our prayer Ambrose Bierce The Farmer’s Prayer
  60. O Lord, my best desire fulfill, William Cowper Submission
  61. O Lord, our languid souls inspire, John Newton On Opening a Place for Social Prayer
  62. O Lord, we come this morning James Weldon Johnson Listen Lord
  63. O Lord, who, thron’d in the holy height, John Henry Newman Vespers⁠—Wednesday
  64. O Lord! when sin’s close-marshall’d line John Henry Newman A Word in Season
  65. O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart, Georgia Douglas Johnson Devastation
  66. O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly Lord Byron Canto VII
  67. O loyal to the royal in thyself, Alfred, Lord Tennyson To the Queen
  68. O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! my South! Walt Whitman O Magnet-South
  69. O Maker of the Mighty Deep Henry van Dyke Jr. Voyagers
  70. O Master, I can not adventure with thee; Ameen Rihani The Lost Disciple
  71. O me, man of slack faith so long, Walt Whitman All Is Truth
  72. O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head, William Shakespeare CXLVIII
  73. O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring, Walt Whitman O Me! O Life!
  74. O mighty river! strong, eternal Will, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Great River
  75. O mighty, powerful, dark-dispelling sun, James Weldon Johnson Prayer at Sunrise
  76. O Mike, have ye heard the good news? Ambrose Bierce A Finger on the Lips
  77. “O monstrous, dead, unprofitable world, Matthew Arnold Written in Emerson’s Essays
  78. O Mother mountains! billowing far to the snow-lands, Henry van Dyke Jr. Sierra Madre
  79. O Mother, lay your hand on my brow! Robert Louis Stevenson The Sick Child
  80. —O Muse of mine that sittest orientally David Park Barnitz Louanges d’Elle
  81. O Music hast thou only heard Henry van Dyke Jr. Storm-Music
  82. O my grey hairs! William Carlos Williams Spring
  83. O my Love, how long wilt thou continue Ameen Rihani Lebanus
  84. O Nepos, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home Robert Louis Stevenson Ad Nepotem
  85. O never an oathe sweares he, Ambrose Bierce Ye Foe to Cathaye
  86. O nonsense, parson⁠—tell me not they thrive Ambrose Bierce A Reply to a Letter
  87. O Peter, wherefore didst thou doubt? George MacDonald Saint Peter
  88. O piteous race! John Henry Newman Judaism
  89. O poppy-buds, that in the golden air David Park Barnitz Poppy Song
  90. O prophet, tell me not of peace, John Henry Newman Bondage
  91. O purblind race of miserable men, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Geraint and Enid
  92. O purest Symbol of the Eternal Son! John Henry Newman Joseph
  93. O rail not at our kindred in the North, John Henry Newman Samaria
  94. O Reverend Ravlin, once with sounding lung Ambrose Bierce Lucifer of the Torch
  95. O sacrificial throng whose lives Georgia Douglas Johnson To the Martyred
  96. O sight of pity, shame and dole! Walt Whitman The Singer in the Prison
  97. O singer of Persephone! Oscar Wilde Theocritus
  98. O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man, James Weldon Johnson Sleep
  99. O soft embalmer of the still midnight, John Keats To Sleep
  100. O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, John Keats Sonnet to Solitude

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