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  1. Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Edgar Allan Poe Lenore
  2. Ah, holy midnight of the soul, George MacDonald The Holy Midnight
  3. Ah, not this marble, dead and cold: Walt Whitman Washington’s Monument, February, 1885
  4. Ah, talk to me of something else, I pray; Ameen Rihani The Sister of Death
  5. Ah, that Time could touch a form W. B. Yeats Peace
  6. Ah, welcome, welcome! Sit you down, old friend: Ambrose Bierce To the Fool-Killer
  7. Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  8. Ah, whispering, something again, unseen, Walt Whitman To the Sun-Set Breeze
  9. Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Henry van Dyke Jr. Spring in the North
  10. Ah! love! Georgia Douglas Johnson Fiction
  11. Ah! the year is slowly dying, Mary Weston Fordham Passing of the Old Year
  12. Ah! what can I do, John Newton The Burdened Sinner
  13. Ah! wherefore with infection should he live, William Shakespeare LXVII
  14. Ah!⁠—What should follow slips from my reflection; Lord Byron Canto XV
  15. Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth, William Shakespeare CIII
  16. Alas for ambition’s possessor! Ambrose Bierce Omnes Vanitas
  17. Alas, ’tis cold and dark! George MacDonald The Tree’s Prayer
  18. Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there William Shakespeare CX
  19. Alas, alas, for the tourist’s guide!⁠— Ambrose Bierce Fate
  20. Alas, we’ve fallen upon an evil time, Ambrose Bierce A Plague of Asses
  21. Alas! by nature how depraved, John Newton How Shall I Put Thee Among the Children?
  22. Alas! Elisha’s servant cried, John Newton More with Us Than with Them
  23. Albeit nurtured in democracy, Oscar Wilde Libertatis Sacra Fames
  24. All along the Brazos river, Henry van Dyke Jr. Texas
  25. All crying “We will go with you, O Wind!” Robert Frost Misgiving
  26. All day and night, save winter, every weather, Edward Thomas Aspens
  27. All day I hear the noise of waters James Joyce All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters
  28. All day long in the city’s canyon-street, Henry van Dyke Jr. Who Follow the Flag
  29. All day subdued, polite Langston Hughes Negro Servant
  30. All day the air triumphs with its two voices Edward Thomas The Source
  31. All day the world’s mad mocking strife, Georgia Douglas Johnson The Cross
  32. All deep there stirs the throb of Spring, Georgia Douglas Johnson Springtide
  33. All hail, sweet poet, more full of more strong fire, John Donne To Mr. Thomas Woodward
  34. All hail, ye famous Farmers! Henry van Dyke Jr. Ars Agricolaris
  35. All hail! fair vistas break upon the view, Georgia Douglas Johnson To Ridgely Torrence⁠—Playwright
  36. All hail! thou gorgeous sunset, Mary Weston Fordham Sunset
  37. All influences were in vain, Robert Louis Stevenson All Influences Were in Vain
  38. All is divine John Henry Newman The Queen of Seasons
  39. All kings, and all their favourites, John Donne The Anniversary
  40. All night long, and every night, Robert Louis Stevenson Young Night Thought
  41. All night long, by a distant bell Henry van Dyke Jr. The Window
  42. “All night the dreadless Angel unpursued, John Milton Book VI
  43. All night through, raves or broods Robert Louis Stevenson All Night Through, Raves or Broods
  44. All sights and sounds of day and year, George MacDonald A Prayer for the Past
  45. All submit to them where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis in the soul, Walt Whitman Tests
  46. All tender lights, all hues divine John Henry Newman Matins⁠—Thursday
  47. All the authors that there are bore Me; David Park Barnitz Litany
  48. All the complicated details William Carlos Williams Winter Trees
  49. All the names I know from nurse: Robert Louis Stevenson The Flowers
  50. All the pretty baubles spread Georgia Douglas Johnson Values
  51. All the things magicians do C. S. Lewis Hymn (For Boy’s Voices)
  52. All the tom-toms of the jungles beat in my blood, Langston Hughes Poem
  53. All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, Henry van Dyke Jr. Hide and Seek
  54. All the virgin eyes in the world are made of glass Mina Loy Magasins du Louvre
  55. All they said was true: Edgar Lee Masters Ralph Rhodes
  56. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: W. B. Yeats All Things Can Tempt Me
  57. All those who quality do prize James McIntyre Hints to Cheese Makers
  58. “All vices you’ve exhausted, friend; Ambrose Bierce Slander
  59. All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, Walt Whitman To a President
  60. All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me Edgar Lee Masters Herbert Marshall
  61. All-bountiful Creator, who, John Henry Newman Vespers⁠—Tuesday
  62. All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow’r, Phillis Wheatley To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, on the Death of His Lady. March 24, 1773
  63. Allah is merciful, Allah is kind, Ameen Rihani The Song of Rain
  64. Almighty King! whose wondrous hand William Cowper Grace and Providence
  65. Almost broken was the lyre James McIntyre The Flood on the Creek
  66. Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon’s knife! Edgar Lee Masters Pauline Barrett
  67. Alone above the stream it stands, Robert Louis Stevenson The Precarious Mill
  68. Alone! yes, evermore alone⁠—isolate each his way, Georgia Douglas Johnson Isolation
  69. Along Assunpink’s woody bank we left our camp-fires bright, Henry van Dyke Jr. Ballad of Princeton Battle
  70. Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, W. B. Yeats Fallen Majesty
  71. Although genial Jimmy McGill Ring Lardner Jas. C. McGill
  72. Although he has had some career Ring Lardner James O. Heyworth
  73. Although I can see him still W. B. Yeats The Fisherman
  74. Although I never took much stock, Robert Williams Wood The Roc; The Shamrock
  75. “Although I’d lie lapped up in linen W. B. Yeats Under the Round Tower
  76. Although on massy pillars built, John Newton On the Earthquake. Sept. 8, 1775
  77. Although the Cow’slips on this plant, Robert Williams Wood The Cow Bird; The Cowslip
  78. Although thy face be whiter than the dawn, David Park Barnitz Languor
  79. Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, John Donne Change
  80. Although you do your best to regard me William Carlos Williams Translations from the Spanish, “El Romancero”
  81. Although you hide in the ebb and flow W. B. Yeats The Fisherman
  82. Always our old feuillage! Walt Whitman Our Old Feuillage
  83. Always the same, when on a fated night Robert Frost The Onset
  84. Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound!) John Newton Faith’s Review and Expectation
  85. America, here is your son, born of your iron heel, Georgia Douglas Johnson The True American
  86. Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity, Walt Whitman The Dying Veteran
  87. Among a crowd of tenuous dreams, unknown T. S. Eliot On a Portrait
  88. Among all sorrows that my heart hath known, David Park Barnitz Consolation
  89. Among the earliest saints of old, before the first Hegira, Henry van Dyke Jr. A Ballad of Santa Claus
  90. Among the first who took stock in James McIntyre The Mammoth Cheese and Cheese Factories
  91. Among the hills lives John McCrae, James McIntyre Fairy Tale
  92. Among the men and women the multitude, Walt Whitman Among the Multitude
  93. Among the notables one day that came Ambrose Bierce At the White House
  94. Among the rain William Carlos Williams The Great Figure
  95. Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon T. S. Eliot Portrait of a Lady
  96. An “actors’ cemetery”! Sure Ambrose Bierce Foresight
  97. An acre of land between the shore and the hills, Edward Thomas For These
  98. An agent with both smiles and nods, James McIntyre Lightning Rod Agent
  99. An alley ran across the pleasant wood, Robert Louis Stevenson The Mill-House
  100. An ancient song, reciting, ending, Walt Whitman Old Chants

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