First lines

  1. Shy one, shy one, W. B. Yeats To an Isle in the Water
  2. Sickness brought me this W. B. Yeats A Friend’s Illness
  3. Sight, hearing, feeling, taste, and smell. John Newton Faith a New and Comprehensive Sense
  4. Sign of the Love Divine Henry van Dyke Jr. The Red Cross
  5. Silent and amazed even when a little boy, Walt Whitman A Child’s Amaze
  6. Silent before the jury, Edgar Lee Masters Mrs. Merritt
  7. Silent, the Lord of the world Matthew Arnold Men of Genius
  8. Silently she’s combing, James Joyce Silently She’s Combing
  9. ’Simmons ripenin’ in de fall, James Weldon Johnson ’Possum Song
  10. “Simon beware,” the Saviour said⁠— John Newton The Believer’s Danger, Safety, and Duty
  11. Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging, Walt Whitman The First Dandelion
  12. Sin enslaved me many years, William Cowper The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy
  13. Sin has undone our wretched race. William Cowper Pleading for and with Youth
  14. Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye William Shakespeare LXII
  15. Sin, when view’d by Scripture light, John Newton Sin’s Deceit
  16. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, William Shakespeare LXV
  17. Since Christ embraced the cross itself, dare I John Donne The Cross
  18. Since he began to talk and sing, Ring Lardner Speech Economy
  19. Since I am coming to that Holy room, John Donne Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness
  20. Since I am sworn to live my life, Robert Louis Stevenson Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life
  21. Since I left you, Anne, Langston Hughes A Letter to Anne
  22. Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; William Shakespeare CXIII
  23. Since long ago, a child at home, Robert Louis Stevenson To an Island Princess
  24. Since she must go, and I must mourn, come night, John Donne His Parting from Her
  25. Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt John Donne XVII
  26. Since thou hast given me this good hope, O God, Robert Louis Stevenson Since Thou Hast Given Me This Good Hope, O God
  27. Since years ago forevermore Robert Louis Stevenson Since Years Ago for Evermore
  28. Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still, Robert Louis Stevenson Sing Clearlier, Muse, or Evermore Be Still
  29. Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Robert Louis Stevenson Sing Me a Song of a Lad That Is Gone
  30. Singing black boatmen Langston Hughes Fog
  31. Singing my days, Walt Whitman Passage to India
  32. Sinner, art thou still secure? John Newton Prepare to Meet God
  33. Sinners, hear the Saviour’s call, John Newton Invitation
  34. Sir Impycu Lacquit, from over the sea, Ambrose Bierce In High Life
  35. Sir Muscle speaks, and nations bend the ear: Ambrose Bierce Quintessence
  36. Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls, John Donne To Sir Henry Wotton
  37. Sir, though⁠—I thank God for it⁠—I do hate John Donne Satire II
  38. Sir, you have killed a man and you are free⁠— Ambrose Bierce To One Acquitted
  39. Sir, you’re a veteran, revealed Ambrose Bierce To One Detested
  40. Sister darling, ope the window, let the balmy air once more Mary Weston Fordham The Dying Girl
  41. Sit on the bed; I’m blind, and three parts shell, Wilfred Owen A Terre
  42. Six hundred miles north of Cape Flattery, James McIntyre Whale and Its Foes
  43. Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress, James Weldon Johnson Dat Gal o’ Mine
  44. Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Walt Whitman The Dalliance of the Eagles
  45. Slain as they lay by the secret, slow, Ambrose Bierce A Year’s “Casualties”
  46. Sleek black boys in a cabaret. Langston Hughes Harlem Night Club
  47. Sleep fell upon my senses and I dreamed Ambrose Bierce Contentment
  48. Sleep has refresh’d our limbs, we spring John Henry Newman Matins⁠—Monday
  49. Sleep now, O sleep now, James Joyce Sleep Now, O Sleep Now
  50. Sleep, Christian warrior, sleep, Mary Weston Fordham To Rev. Thaddeus Saltus
  51. Sleep, love sleep, Mary Weston Fordham Serenade
  52. Sleep, sleep, old sun, thou canst not have repass’d, John Donne Resurrection, Imperfect
  53. Slowly o’er his darkened features Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Fugitive
  54. Small Elena Mina Loy Babies in Hospital
  55. Small is the trust when love is green Robert Louis Stevenson Small Is the Trust When Love Is Green
  56. Small Scotland nobly held its own James McIntyre Canada’s Resources
  57. Small the theme of my Chant, yet the greatest⁠—namely, One’s-Self⁠—a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing. Walt Whitman Small the Theme of My Chant
  58. Small, busy flames play through the fresh-laid coals, John Keats To My Brothers
  59. Smiles do not always echo cheer, Georgia Douglas Johnson Transpositions
  60. Smooth it slides upon its travel, Robert Louis Stevenson Looking-Glass River
  61. Snow: William Carlos Williams Blizzard
  62. So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, Wilfred Owen Parable of the Old Men and the Young
  63. So am I as the rich, whose blessed key William Shakespeare LII
  64. So are you to my thoughts as food to life, William Shakespeare LXXV
  65. So art thou broken in upon me, Apollo, William Carlos Williams An After Song
  66. Só de ouro falso os meus olhos se douram; Mário de Sá-Carneiro ESTÁTUA FALSA
  67. So far as I conceive the World’s rebuke Matthew Arnold The World’s Triumphs
  68. So is it not with me as with that Muse William Shakespeare XXI
  69. So like a boundless, soundless sea Georgia Douglas Johnson Love’s Miracle
  70. So live, so love, so use that fragile hour, Robert Louis Stevenson So Live, So Love, So Use That Fragile Hour
  71. So long, Langston Hughes Afro-American Fragment
  72. So oft as I with state of present time Edmund Spenser The Legend of Artegall, or of Justice
  73. So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse William Shakespeare LXXVIII
  74. So on the floor lay Balder dead; and round Matthew Arnold Balder Dead
  75. So piteously the lonely soul of man C. S. Lewis Dungeon Grates
  76. So shall I live, supposing thou art true, William Shakespeare XCIII
  77. So sweet the hour⁠—so calm the time, Edgar Allan Poe Serenade
  78. So, Beecher’s dead. His was a great soul, too⁠— Ambrose Bierce The Pied Piper of Brooklyn
  79. So, Estee, you are still alive! I thought Ambrose Bierce A Jack-at-All-Views
  80. So, gentle critics, you would have me tilt, Ambrose Bierce Substance or Shadow
  81. So, Hall McAllister, you’ll not be warned⁠— Ambrose Bierce To an Insolent Attorney
  82. So, in the Sunday papers you, Del Mar, Ambrose Bierce Thersites
  83. So, Juror Simpson, you got drunk Ambrose Bierce Contempt of Court
  84. So, now I have confess’d that he is thine, William Shakespeare CXXXIV
  85. So, Parson Stebbins, you’ve released your chin Ambrose Bierce Censor Literarum
  86. So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, John Donne The Expiration
  87. So, Waterman, you would not serve again Ambrose Bierce A Soaring Toad
  88. So, you’re the chaplain! You needn’t say what you have come for; I can guess. Voltairine de Cleyre Betrayed
  89. Soft hangs the opiate in the brain, Maria Lowell An Opium Fantasy
  90. Sol, Sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone, James Weldon Johnson Down by the Carib Sea
  91. Some are unable, as you know, Robert Williams Wood The Crow; The Crocus
  92. Some day Georgia Douglas Johnson Perspective
  93. Some day I shall be dead, and pride Georgia Douglas Johnson Estrangement
  94. Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed, Robert Louis Stevenson To My Name-Child
  95. Some day, I think, there will be people enough Edward Thomas The Lane
  96. Some days when the work’s a bit slack, Ring Lardner Col. L. M. Nicolson
  97. Some do boast of their pedigrees, James McIntyre Lines on Salford
  98. Some eyes condemn the earth they gaze upon: Edward Thomas Some Eyes Condemn
  99. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, William Shakespeare XCI
  100. Some guys⁠—we’ve all met quite a few⁠— Ring Lardner A. F. Brockman

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