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  1. Surely thy face, love, is a little pale, David Park Barnitz Constancy
  2. Swallows travel to and fro, Robert Louis Stevenson Swallows Travel to and Fro
  3. Sweep the house clean, William Carlos Williams Love Song
  4. Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, John Keats Epistle to George Felton Mathew
  5. Sweet Auburn! liveliest village of the plain, Ambrose Bierce The Perverted Village
  6. Sweet child, William Carlos Williams The Ogre
  7. Sweet friends, receive my offering. You will find George MacDonald The Diary of an Old Soul
  8. Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said William Shakespeare LVI
  9. Sweet Spirit of Cesspool, hear a mother’s prayer: Ambrose Bierce A Prayer
  10. Sweet was the time when first I felt John Newton Oh That I Were as in Months Past!
  11. Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of common clay Oscar Wilde Flower of Love
  12. Sweeter far than lyric rune Georgia Douglas Johnson Love’s Tendril
  13. Sweeter sounds than music knows John Newton Praise for the Incarnation
  14. Sweetest love, I do not go, John Donne Song
  15. Swift melting into yesterday, Georgia Douglas Johnson The Passing of the Ex-Slave
  16. Swift-footed Time, how eagerly you go Georgia Douglas Johnson Decay
  17. ’T is but a score of hours when he didst swear Ameen Rihani Her First Sorrow
  18. ’T is Night; all the Sirens are silent, Ameen Rihani The Song of Siva
  19. Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; William Shakespeare XL
  20. Take heed of loving me; John Donne The Prohibition
  21. Take not my hand as mine alone⁠— Robert Louis Stevenson Take Not My Hand as Mine Alone
  22. Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Edgar Lee Masters The Circuit Judge
  23. Take of the first fruits, Father, of thy care, George MacDonald To My Father
  24. Take sackcloth of the darkest dye, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bible Defence of Slavery
  25. Take that, damn you; and that! William Carlos Williams Mezzo Forte
  26. Take this kiss upon the brow! Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream
  27. Tall nettles cover up, as they have done Edward Thomas Tall Nettles
  28. Tamely, frail body, abstain today; today John Donne The Annunciation and Passion
  29. Tears! tears! tears! Walt Whitman Tears
  30. Tell me, did the angels greet thee? Frances Ellen Watkins Harper To a Babe Smiling in Her Sleep
  31. Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor? Edgar Lee Masters Magrady Graham
  32. Tempest tossed and sore afflicted, sin defiled and care oppressed, Robert Louis Stevenson Tempest Tossed and Sore Afflicted
  33. Ten thousand talents once I owed, John Newton The Happy Debtor
  34. Ten years!⁠—and to my waking eye Matthew Arnold The Terrace at Berne
  35. Thank God for little children, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Thank God for Little Children
  36. Thank God that there are solid folk C. S. Lewis In Praise of Solid People
  37. Thank God that thou hast spoken Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lines to Charles Sumner
  38. Thank Heaven! the crisis⁠— Edgar Allan Poe For Annie
  39. Thanks in old age⁠—thanks ere I go, Walt Whitman Thanks in Old Age
  40. That coursing on, whate’er men’s speculations, Walt Whitman The Calming Thought of All
  41. That dusky child upon your knee Georgia Douglas Johnson Guardianship
  42. That from you, neighbor! to whose vacant lot Ambrose Bierce A Critic
  43. That girl’s clear eyes utterly concealed all Edward Thomas That Girl’s Clear Eyes
  44. That god forbid that made me first your slave, William Shakespeare LVIII
  45. That is no country for old men. The young W. B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
  46. That Justice is a blind goddess Langston Hughes Justice
  47. That land full surely hastens to its end Ambrose Bierce Politics
  48. That little yaller gal Langston Hughes The New Cabaret Girl
  49. That man no guard or weapons needs John Newton Another
  50. That may not be the proper way Ring Lardner The Heckuses
  51. That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear, Walt Whitman That Music Always Round Me
  52. That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, Walt Whitman That Shadow My Likeness
  53. That son of Italy who tried to blow, Matthew Arnold Austerity of Poetry
  54. That staunch good ship, The Albatross, James McIntyre Tom Norton
  55. That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Passing of Arthur
  56. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, William Shakespeare LXX
  57. That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, William Shakespeare XLII
  58. That time of year thou mayst in me behold William Shakespeare LXXIII
  59. That was a fair one which a Queen Maria Lowell Necklaces
  60. That was a wonder-working word John Newton The Old and New Creation
  61. That which eludes this verse and any verse, Walt Whitman A Riddle Song
  62. That you were once unkind befriends me now, William Shakespeare CXX
  63. That’s the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it. Edward Thomas The Cuckoo
  64. The Abbot for a walk went out Robert Louis Stevenson The Abbot for a Walk Went Out
  65. The air was full of sun and birds, Robert Louis Stevenson Spring Song
  66. The ancient poets ne’er did dream James McIntyre Oxford Cheese Ode
  67. The Angel ended, and in Adam’s ear John Milton Book VIII
  68. The Angel-lights of Christmas morn, John Henry Newman Candlemas
  69. The angler rose, he took his rod, Robert Louis Stevenson The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
  70. The ant is known by his ant‑ennae, Robert Williams Wood The Ant; The Pheas‑ant
  71. The antique Persians taught three useful things, Lord Byron Canto XVI
  72. The Apes, from whom we are descended, Robert Williams Wood The Ape; The Grape
  73. The Apiary is a bee village, James McIntyre The Apiary
  74. The apparel does not proclaim the man⁠— Ambrose Bierce An Undress Uniform
  75. The apple trees are hung with gold, Oscar Wilde Endymion
  76. The appointed winners in a long-stretch’d game; Walt Whitman To-day and Thee
  77. The Archer is wake! William Carlos Williams Peace on Earth
  78. The Argo‑naut or Nautilus, Robert Williams Wood Naught; Nautilus
  79. The ark of God has hidden strength; John Henry Newman Uzzah and Obed-Edom
  80. The armless Vatican Cupid Matthew Arnold New Rome
  81. The autumn leaves Langston Hughes Poème d’Automne
  82. The bands have played, the singers finished singing, Ambrose Bierce Memorial Day
  83. The bank broke and I lost my savings. Edgar Lee Masters Henry Tripp
  84. The bed was made, the room was fit, Robert Louis Stevenson A Camp
  85. The belching ghost-wail of the locomotive Mina Loy Mexican Desert
  86. The better portion didst thou choose, Great Heart, John Henry Newman Abraham
  87. The big, red house is bare and lone C. S. Lewis Ballade Mystique
  88. The billows swell, the winds are high, William Cowper Temptation
  89. The birches are mad with green points William Carlos Williams Portrait of the Author
  90. The Blue Jay, as we clearly see, Robert Williams Wood The Jay; The Bay
  91. The blue sky arching overhead, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Change
  92. The book of nature open lies, John Newton The Book of Creation
  93. The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see Edgar Allan Poe To ⸻
  94. The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur’s court, Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Marriage of Geraint
  95. The breaking dead leaves ’neath my feet Georgia Douglas Johnson Dead Leaves
  96. The brilliant kernel of the night, Robert Louis Stevenson The Light-Keeper
  97. The British bard who looked on Eton’s walls, Henry van Dyke Jr. Spirit of the Everlasting Boy
  98. The British soldiers on the Nile James McIntyre Canadian Voyageurs on the Nile
  99. The broad sun, Robert Louis Stevenson The Far-Farers
  100. The broad-backed hippopotamus T. S. Eliot The Hippopotamus

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