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  1. Some leaves hang late, some fall William Carlos Williams The Soughing Wind
  2. Some like drink Robert Louis Stevenson Not I
  3. Some man unworthy to be possessor John Donne Confined Love
  4. Some may have blamed you that you took away W. B. Yeats Reconciliation
  5. Some men enjoy the constant strife James Weldon Johnson “Lazy”
  6. Some one whisper’d yesterday, John Henry Newman A Hermitage
  7. Some poets they abroad do roam, James McIntyre Snake and Potato Bug
  8. Some say the world will end in fire, Robert Frost Fire and Ice
  9. Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; William Shakespeare XCVI
  10. Some souls there are which never live their life; Voltairine de Cleyre To My Mother
  11. Some that have deeper digg’d love’s mine than I, John Donne Love’s Alchemy
  12. Some threescore years and ten ago Henry van Dyke Jr. A Fairy Tale
  13. Somehow I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is, Walt Whitman The Pallid Wreath
  14. Someone (’tis hardly new) has oddly said Ambrose Bierce An Actor
  15. Something has died when the lily lifts Georgia Douglas Johnson Soul’s Easter
  16. Something in me was born before the stars Fernando Pessoa XXIV
  17. Something startles me where I thought I was safest, Walt Whitman This Compost
  18. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, Robert Frost Mending Wall
  19. Sometimes a light surprises William Cowper Joy and Peace in Believing
  20. Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, James Weldon Johnson The Gift to Sing
  21. Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn’d love, Walt Whitman Sometimes with One I Love
  22. Somewhere in the book I have read Ring Lardner Mort H. Singer
  23. Son of a race, whose dusky visage shows Georgia Douglas Johnson To Richard R. Wright⁠—Instructor
  24. Son of God, thy people shield! John Newton Prayer for the Lord’s Promised Presence
  25. Son of my woman’s body, you go, to the drum and fife, Robert Louis Stevenson Mater Triumphans
  26. Son of the old moon-mountains African! John Keats To the Nile
  27. Son, first-born, at home abiding! George MacDonald Song of the Lonely
  28. Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main Phillis Wheatley An Hymn to the Evening
  29. Soon our friends perish, Robert Louis Stevenson Soon Our Friends Perish
  30. Soon shall the winter’s foil be here; Walt Whitman Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
  31. Sorrow is my own yard William Carlos Williams The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
  32. Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way, John Donne Elegy on the Lord Chancellor
  33. Soul of a soldier in a poet’s frame, Henry van Dyke Jr. Richard Watson Gilder
  34. Souls of Poets dead and gone, John Keats Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
  35. Souls of the Just, I call not you John Henry Newman Sympathy
  36. Sounds of the winter too, Walt Whitman Sounds of the Winter
  37. Sovereign grace has power alone John Newton The Two Malefactors
  38. Spades take up leaves Robert Frost Gathering Leaves
  39. Spawn of Fantasies Mina Loy Songs to Joannes
  40. Speak to our hearts, O Father! Say George MacDonald Blessed Are They That Mourn
  41. Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine, John Keats To Spenser
  42. Spirit here that reignest! John Keats Song
  43. Spirit that form’d this scene, Walt Whitman Spirit That Form’d This Scene
  44. Spirit whose work is done⁠—spirit of dreadful hours! Walt Whitman Spirit Whose Work Is Done
  45. Spit in my face, you Jews, and pierce my side, John Donne XI
  46. Splendor of ended day floating and filling me, Walt Whitman Song at Sunset
  47. Spontaneous me, Nature, Walt Whitman Spontaneous Me
  48. Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring Edgar Lee Masters Rebecca Wasson
  49. Spring, you are welcome, for you are the friend of Ring Lardner Welcome to Spring
  50. St. Agnes’ Eve⁠—Ah, bitter chill it was! John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
  51. St. Catharines famed for mineral waters James McIntyre St. Catharines
  52. Stand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Henry van Dyke Jr. Mercy for Armenia
  53. Stand fast, Great Britain! Henry van Dyke Jr. Stand Fast
  54. Stand on the highest pavement of the stair⁠— T. S. Eliot La Figlia Che Piange
  55. Stand still, and I will read to thee John Donne A Lecture Upon the Shadow
  56. Standing aloof in giant ignorance, John Keats To Homer
  57. Standing within the triple wall of Hell, Ambrose Bierce A Merciful Governor
  58. Stanford and Huntington, so long at outs, Ambrose Bierce Reconciliation
  59. Stanford, when recently you gave Tom Fitch Ambrose Bierce An Election Expense
  60. Star high, George MacDonald Christmas Day and Every Day
  61. Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
  62. Steaming the northern rapids⁠—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence, Walt Whitman Fancies at Navesink
  63. Step lightly, stranger: here Jerome B. Cox Ambrose Bierce XXXVIII
  64. Step, step, step, ’tis her lover’s walk, James McIntyre Her Lover’s Step
  65. Still as he climbed into the public view Ambrose Bierce “Phil” Crimmins
  66. Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat Matthew Arnold The River
  67. Still I bring flowers William Carlos Williams Ad Infinitum
  68. Still I love to rhyme, and still more, rhyming, to wander Robert Louis Stevenson Still I Love to Rhyme
  69. Still though the one I sing, Walt Whitman Still Though the One I Sing
  70. Stoop to a dirty trick or low misdeed? Ambrose Bierce Elihu Root
  71. Stop⁠—Not to me, at this bitter departing, Matthew Arnold Separation
  72. Stop, poor sinner! stop and think, John Newton Alarm
  73. Stout marches lead to certain ends, Robert Louis Stevenson Stout Marches Lead to Certain Ends
  74. Strange and mysterious is my life, John Newton The Inward Warfare
  75. Strange are the ways of men, Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Are the Ways of Men
  76. Strange incidents do happen ever James McIntyre Bear and Falls
  77. Strange to a sensing motherhood, Georgia Douglas Johnson To Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Upon Hearing His
  78. Strange, Langston Hughes Aesthete in Harlem
  79. Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? Walt Whitman To You
  80. Stranger, uncover; here you have in view Ambrose Bierce A Trencher-Knight
  81. Strew on her roses, roses, Matthew Arnold Requiescat
  82. Strings in the earth and air James Joyce Strings in the Earth and Air
  83. Strolling at sunset in my native land, Ambrose Bierce Finis Aeternitatis
  84. Stronger than man-made bars, the chain, Georgia Douglas Johnson My Son
  85. Strut and wiggle, Langston Hughes To Midnight Nan at Leroy’s
  86. Study good women and ignore the rest, Ambrose Bierce Woman
  87. Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, William Carlos Williams Play
  88. Successive bards pursue Ambition’s fire Ambrose Bierce Poesy
  89. Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting Heaven W. B. Yeats The Cold Heaven
  90. Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves, Walt Whitman Europe
  91. Suddenly there came to me C. S. Lewis L’Apprenti Sorcier
  92. Summer fading, winter comes⁠— Robert Louis Stevenson Picture-Books in Winter
  93. Summer is come again. The sun is bright, George MacDonald Hope Deferred
  94. Sunday: this satisfied procession T. S. Eliot Spleen
  95. Supernal Word, proceeding from John Henry Newman Advent⁠—Matins
  96. Supported by the word, John Newton The Power and Triumph of Faith
  97. Suppose it is nothing but the hive: Edgar Lee Masters Davis Matlock
  98. Suppose you stood just five feet two, Edgar Lee Masters Judge Selah Lively
  99. Surely among a rich man’s flowering lawns, W. B. Yeats Meditations in Time of Civil War
  100. Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind; William Carlos Williams In Harbor

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