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  1. On my Northwest coast in the midst of the night a fishermen’s group stands watching, Walt Whitman The Torch
  2. On now, although the year be done, Robert Louis Stevenson On Now, Although the Year Be Done
  3. On the beach at night alone, Walt Whitman On the Beach at Night Alone
  4. On the beach at night, Walt Whitman On the Beach at Night
  5. On the day when youth is no more upon me William Carlos Williams To Wish Myself Courage
  6. On the gorgeous hills of morning Robert Louis Stevenson On the Gorgeous Hills of Morning
  7. On the great streams the ships may go Robert Louis Stevenson The Canoe Speaks
  8. On the grey rock of Cashel the mind’s eye W. B. Yeats The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
  9. On the same flow’r we often see John Newton The Spider and Bee
  10. On the shores of the northern lakes James McIntyre Patriot Fighting for His Home
  11. On the walls of his den may be scanned Ring Lardner Geo. S. Albaugh
  12. On, on the same, ye jocund twain! Walt Whitman On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
  13. Once a woman silent stood John Newton The Two Debtors
  14. Once cast with men of language strange John Henry Newman The Gift of Tongues
  15. Once der was a meetin’ in de wilderness, James Weldon Johnson Brer Rabbit, You’s de Cutes’ of ’Em All
  16. Once Hector Stuart in his tersest mood Ambrose Bierce An Epigrammatist
  17. Once I “dipt into the future far as human eye could see,” Ambrose Bierce An Offer of Marriage
  18. Once I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Walt Whitman Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
  19. Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me, Edgar Lee Masters William Jones
  20. Once it smiled a silent dell Edgar Allan Poe The Valley of Unrest
  21. Once more the storm is howling and half hid W. B. Yeats A Prayer for My Daughter
  22. Once Moses (in Scripture the story is told) Ambrose Bierce A Rear Elevation
  23. Once on a time a lady quarrelled James McIntyre Gray Hairs
  24. Once on a time there lived a duck, James McIntyre Duck and Oyster
  25. Once on a time, so ancient poets sing, Ambrose Bierce The Royal Jester
  26. Once only by the garden gate Robert Louis Stevenson Youth and Love⁠—I
  27. Once perishing in blood I lay; John Newton Humbled and Silenced by Mercy
  28. Once the Queen of Nether China Ambrose Bierce A Teagoing Admiral
  29. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
  30. Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, Robert Frost The Runaway
  31. Once with Christ he entered Salem, Ambrose Bierce Metempsychosis
  32. Once you were beautiful⁠— Langston Hughes Montmartre Beggar Woman
  33. Once⁠—in the county of Marin, Ambrose Bierce The Oleomargarine Man
  34. Once, and but once, found in thy company, John Donne The Perfume
  35. Once, as I brooded o’er my guilty state, John Henry Newman The Gift of Preserverance
  36. Once, in the olden time, a certain King Ambrose Bierce The Tale of a Crime
  37. Once, o’er a clear calm pool, John Henry Newman To Edward Caswall
  38. Once, only once, I saw it clear⁠— Henry van Dyke Jr. The Black Birds
  39. Once, when midnight smote the air, W. B. Yeats On Those That Hated The Playboy of the Western World, 1907
  40. Once, while digging ’neath the snow, James McIntyre Lines on Violets
  41. Once, while we aim’d at Zion’s songs, John Newton Prayer for the Continuance of the Gospel.
  42. One awful word which Jesus spoke John Newton The Blasted Fig-Tree
  43. One day a youth full of conceit, James McIntyre Young Swell and Tramp
  44. One day when Satan visited the earth Ambrose Bierce Content
  45. One day while passing ’long the road James McIntyre George Menzies’ Poems
  46. One drop of midnight in the dawn of life’s pulsating stream Georgia Douglas Johnson The Octoroon
  47. One evening I sat on a heavenward hill, Ambrose Bierce Communing with Nature
  48. One glance of thine, eternal Lord, John Newton The Way of Access
  49. One had a lovely face, W. B. Yeats Memory
  50. One hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! Walt Whitman One Hour to Madness and Joy
  51. One hour: as dim he and his house now look Edward Thomas House and Man
  52. One leaves his leaves at home William Carlos Williams Great Mullen
  53. One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, Matthew Arnold Quiet Work
  54. One morn as through Hyde Park we walk’d. Matthew Arnold Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoön
  55. One morn before me were three figures seen, John Keats Ode on Indolence
  56. One of my marionettes is dead T. S. Eliot Humoresque
  57. One only, of God’s messengers to man, John Henry Newman Day-Labourers
  58. One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, Robert W. Service Quatrains
  59. One sail in sight upon the lonely sea, Henry van Dyke Jr. Hudson’s Last Voyage
  60. One that is ever kind said yesterday: W. B. Yeats The Folly of Being Comforted
  61. One there is, above all others, John Newton A Friend That Sticketh Closer Than a Brother
  62. One thing that’s yours, my little child Ring Lardner His Imagination
  63. One thousand years I slept beneath the sod, Ambrose Bierce Fame
  64. One who sings “chansons vulgaires” Langston Hughes Young Singer
  65. One winter day in snow-bound train, James McIntyre Love in a Snowdrift
  66. One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Walt Whitman One’s-Self I Sing
  67. Only a little scrap of blue Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “A Little Child Shall Lead Them”
  68. Only a little shrivelled seed, Henry van Dyke Jr. Transformation
  69. Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, Edgar Lee Masters Trainor, the Druggist
  70. Only the sound remains Edward Thomas The Mill-Water
  71. Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, Walt Whitman Perfections
  72. Onward keep! Forget the self that cried: Ameen Rihani Onward Keep
  73. Onward to her destination, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Our Hero
  74. Onward, onward, sons of freedom, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Be Active
  75. Ope! ye everlasting doors, unto my soul’s demand, Georgia Douglas Johnson Desire
  76. Open the gates for me, C. S. Lewis Death in Battle
  77. “Open wide, ye golden gates Ambrose Bierce From the Death-Column
  78. Oppress’d with unbelief and sin, John Newton My Grace Is Sufficient for Thee
  79. Or I shall live your epitaph to make, William Shakespeare LXXXI
  80. Or whether doth my mind, being crown’d with you, William Shakespeare CXIV
  81. Ori, my brother in the island mode, Robert Louis Stevenson The Song of Rahéro
  82. Ostracized as we are with God⁠— Mina Loy Apology of Genius
  83. Others abide our question. Thou art free. Matthew Arnold Shakespeare
  84. Others because you did not keep W. B. Yeats A Deep-Sworn Vow
  85. Others may praise what they like; Walt Whitman Others May Praise What They Like
  86. Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Robert Frost For Once, Then, Something
  87. Our Administration Ambrose Bierce In Cuba
  88. Our ancient custom to renew, James McIntyre St. Andrew
  89. Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us⁠ ⁠… Wilfred Owen Exposure
  90. Our Canadian county Perth, James McIntyre Lines on Stratford
  91. Our college rhymes⁠—how light they seem, Henry van Dyke Jr. A Rondeau of College Rhymes
  92. Our Father, hear our longing prayer, George MacDonald Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
  93. Our first Canadian job when boy, James McIntyre Lines Read at a Maple Sugar Social
  94. Our friend, Mr. Romley, James McIntyre A Rabbit Story
  95. Our Lord, who knows full well John Newton The Importunate Widow.
  96. Our separate winding ways we trod, Georgia Douglas Johnson Mate
  97. Our storm is past, and that storm’s tyrannous rage John Donne The Calm
  98. Our youth and beauty here arranged, James McIntyre Our Firemen
  99. “Ours is a Christian army”; so he said Ambrose Bierce Arma Virumque
  100. Out from behind this bending rough-cut mask, Walt Whitman Out from Behind This Mask

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