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  1. The brother knew well the castle old, George MacDonald The Old Castle
  2. The business man the acquirer vast, Walt Whitman My Legacy
  3. The buzzards wheel slowly Edgar Lee Masters Dillard Sissman
  4. The California Quail is said Robert Williams Wood The Quail; The Kale
  5. The calm, Langston Hughes Suicide’s Note
  6. The careful angler chose his nook Robert Louis Stevenson The Careful Angler Chose His Nook
  7. The castle of the human heart, John Newton The Heart Taken
  8. The cat went here and there W. B. Yeats The Cat and the Moon
  9. The Cat‑bird’s call resembles that Robert Williams Wood The Cat‑bird; The Cat‑nip
  10. The cherry trees bend over and are shedding Edward Thomas The Cherry Trees
  11. The Chinatown at Bakersfield Ambrose Bierce A Dampened Ardor
  12. The church a garden is, John Newton The Barren Fig-Tree
  13. The church bells toll a melancholy round, John Keats Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
  14. The Church shone brightly in her youthful days John Henry Newman Sacrilege
  15. The Church’s compass, if you please, Ambrose Bierce The Binnacle
  16. The citizens of London West James McIntyre London West
  17. The city Mina Loy To You
  18. The clam that once, on Jersey’s banks, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Little-Neck Clam
  19. The clans have gone nearly insane Ring Lardner Col. Angus McLean
  20. The clouds that are so light, Edward Thomas The Clouds That Are So Light
  21. The coach is at the door at last; Robert Louis Stevenson Farewell to the Farm
  22. The cock’s clear voice into the clearer air Robert Louis Stevenson The Cock’s Clear Voice Into the Clearer Air
  23. The cold storms of winter shall chill him no more, Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis The Grave of the Slave
  24. The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark. Edward Thomas The Combe
  25. The commonplace I sing; Walt Whitman The Commonplace
  26. The conies had their hiding-place, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper He “Had Not Where to Lay His Head”
  27. The cooper should know about tubs. Edgar Lee Masters Griffy the Cooper
  28. The corn has turned from grey to red, Oscar Wilde Rome Unvisited
  29. The corner of a great rain William Carlos Williams Contemporania
  30. The cornerstone in Truth is laid, Henry van Dyke Jr. For the Friends at Hurstmont
  31. The coroner’s merry little children William Carlos Williams Hic Jacet
  32. The Cowry seems to be, somehow, Robert Williams Wood The Cow; The Cowry
  33. The cradle I have made for thee Henry van Dyke Jr. Eight Echoes from the Poems of Auguste Angellier
  34. The cricket to the corn-crake came one day, Ameen Rihani The Philistine
  35. The croak of a raven hoar! George MacDonald A Mammon-Marriage
  36. The cruel war was over⁠—oh, the triumph was so sweet! Robert W. Service The March of the Dead
  37. The curtains of twilight are drawn in the west Georgia Douglas Johnson Despair
  38. The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, W. B. Yeats A Cradle Song
  39. The dawn is sprinkled o’er the sky, John Henry Newman Lauds⁠—Saturday
  40. The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! John Keats Sonnet
  41. The Day of Judgment spread its glare Ambrose Bierce The Gates Ajar
  42. The day returns by which we date our years: Henry van Dyke Jr. Christmas Tears
  43. The days lie dark between our jeweled meetings Georgia Douglas Johnson Interim
  44. The dayseye hugging the earth William Carlos Williams Daisy
  45. The deed is done, O Kings: the blood is shed: Ameen Rihani The End and the Beginning
  46. The Devil one day, coming up from the Pit Ambrose Bierce A Hasty Inference
  47. The Devil stood before the gate Ambrose Bierce Mr. Sheets
  48. The Devil troubled a pool of mud, Ambrose Bierce An Inspired Performance
  49. The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas’d, Walt Whitman “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
  50. The dew is on the grasses, dear, Georgia Douglas Johnson Youth
  51. The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears W. B. Yeats The Valley of the Black Pig
  52. The die is cast, come weal, come woe, Mary Weston Fordham Marriage
  53. The dim sea glints chill. The white sun is shy. Edward Thomas The Sign-Post
  54. The Doe and her phonetic double, Robert Williams Wood The Doe; The Dodo
  55. The door was an absurd thing Mina Loy The Effectual Marriage
  56. The downs will lose the sun, white alyssum Edward Thomas Head and Bottle
  57. The dreams of the dreamer Georgia Douglas Johnson The Dreams of the Dreamer
  58. The dust of a hundred years Voltairine de Cleyre Mary Wollstonecraft
  59. The earth keeps some vibration going Edgar Lee Masters Fiddler Jones
  60. The earth was young, the world was fair, Mary Weston Fordham The Saxon Legend of Language
  61. The echoing bridge you here may see, Robert Louis Stevenson The Angler & The Clown
  62. The edge of the green wave whitely doth hiss Fernando Pessoa XXVIII
  63. The embers of the day are red Robert Louis Stevenson Evensong
  64. The engineer who drives the train, James McIntyre Leach the Engineer
  65. The evening comes, the fields are still. Matthew Arnold Bacchanalia; or, the New Age
  66. The evils that beset our path, John Newton Vanity of Life.
  67. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame William Shakespeare CXXIX
  68. The face of all the world is changed, I think, Elizabeth Barrett Browning VII
  69. The faint lose faith Georgia Douglas Johnson Faith
  70. The fairest lips are those we kiss, Georgia Douglas Johnson Supreme
  71. The fame of the Canadian Horse, James McIntyre The Canadian Horse
  72. The farm house lingers, though averse to square Robert Frost A Brook in the City
  73. The farmers now should all adorn James McIntyre Ensilage
  74. The farmers they now all make rich James McIntyre Farrington, 1866, Factory System
  75. The fascination of what’s difficult W. B. Yeats The Fascination of What’s Difficult
  76. The Father we adore, John Newton 104
  77. “The Fathers are in dust, yet live to God:”⁠— John Henry Newman Relics of Saints
  78. The fire of love was burning, yet so low Henry van Dyke Jr. The Wind of Sorrow
  79. The first pine to the second said: Robert Louis Stevenson The Disputatious Pines
  80. The first time that the sun rose on thine oath Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXXII
  81. The first winter which I did spend James McIntyre Land Clearing
  82. The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood Edward Thomas In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)
  83. The forest ended. Glad I was Edward Thomas The Other
  84. The forward violet thus did I chide: William Shakespeare XCIX
  85. The fragile fabric of our dream Georgia Douglas Johnson Omega
  86. The friendly cow, all red and white, Robert Louis Stevenson The Cow
  87. The friends we’ve loved, the home we’ve left, Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis Past Joys
  88. The friends who stood about my bed Ambrose Bierce Hell
  89. The frozen peaks he once explored, Robert Louis Stevenson The Frozen Peaks He Once Explored
  90. The gabled roofs of old Malines Henry van Dyke Jr. The Bells of Malines
  91. The Gander loves to promenade, Robert Williams Wood The Ole Gander; The Oleander
  92. The gardener does not love to talk, Robert Louis Stevenson The Gardener
  93. The gath’ring clouds, with aspect dark, John Newton On the Commencement of Hostilities in America
  94. The gauger walked with willing foot, Robert Louis Stevenson A Song of the Road
  95. The gent who invented the flivver Ring Lardner Elliott G. Stevenson
  96. The ghost of Winter stalks amidst the boughs Ameen Rihani Resurrection
  97. “The ghosts are all gone,” the Bulletin cries. Ambrose Bierce Apparition
  98. The Glasgow people do take pride James McIntyre River Clyde
  99. The gloom of night had overspread the land, Mary Weston Fordham The Nativity
  100. The glory of ships is an old, old song, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Glory of Ships

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