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An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street; Robert W. Service The Woman and the Angel
An artist’s trick by which the Nude’s Ambrose Bierce Fig Leaf
An average rule it will be found James McIntyre An Average Rule to Judge of Cheese
An English ship when homeward bound, James McIntyre Lost Son Found
An English youth to Canada came, James McIntyre A Canadian Romance
An oblique cloud of purple smoke William Carlos Williams Woman Walking
An old man bending I come among new faces, Walt Whitman The Wound-Dresser
An old man who had charge of field, James McIntyre A Bird’s Nest
An old man’s thought of school, Walt Whitman An Old Man’s Thought of School
An old willow with hollow branches William Carlos Williams Epitaph
An omnibus across the bridge Oscar Wilde Symphony in Yellow
An unborn bird lies crumpled and curled, George MacDonald Hope and Patience
And God called Moses from the burning bush, James Weldon Johnson Let My People Go
And God stepped out on space, James Weldon Johnson The Creation
And now gentlemen, Walt Whitman The Base of All Metaphysics
And now⁠— Georgia Douglas Johnson Sunset
And since I understood not what so strong David Park Barnitz Fragments
And the first grey of morning fill’d the east, Matthew Arnold Sohrab and Rustum
And therefore if to love can be desert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning XI
And they are gone⁠—that little band Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis The Separation
And they shall rise and cast their mantles by, Georgia Douglas Johnson Sonnet to the Mantled
And thus declared that Arab lady: W. B. Yeats Solomon and the Witch
And what is love? It is a doll dress’d up John Keats Modern Love
And whence and why come you? Walt Whitman Lingering Last Drops
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Walt Whitman The Voice of the Rain
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech Elizabeth Barrett Browning XIII
And would’st thou reach, rash scholar mine, John Henry Newman Zeal and Love
And yet one arrives somehow, William Carlos Williams Arrival
And yet, because thou overcomest so, Elizabeth Barrett Browning XVI
And you, Helen, what should I give you? Edward Thomas And You, Helen
Anguish and Mourning are as gold to her; David Park Barnitz Madonna
Another Irish landlord gone to grass, Ambrose Bierce A Fair Division
Ao ver escoar-se a vida humanamente Mário de Sá-Carneiro PARTIDA
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful spring Phillis Wheatley Niobe in Distress for Her Children Slain by Apollo, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI and from a View of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson
Apple orchards, the trees all cover’d with blossoms; Walt Whitman Out of May’s Shows Selected
Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat John Newton The Effort-in Another Measure
Approaching, nearing, curious, Walt Whitman Queries to My Seventieth Year
April is the cruellest month, breeding T. S. Eliot The Waste Land
Are these the tracks of some unearthly Friend, John Henry Newman Angelic Guidance
Are you a mason? No; I prefer James McIntyre Questions and Answers
Are you bowed down in heart? James Weldon Johnson Deep in the Quiet Wood
Are you not weary, William Carlos Williams Ballet
Are you the new person drawn toward me? Walt Whitman Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur’d, rise Phillis Wheatley Thoughts on the Works of Providence
Arm’d year⁠—year of the struggle, Walt Whitman Eighteen Sixty-One
Around her fountain which flows T. S. Eliot Circe’s Palace
Around the council-board of Hell, with Satan at their head, James Weldon Johnson And the Greatest of These Is War
Artist, whose hand, with horror wing’d, hath torn Matthew Arnold To George Cruikshank, Esq.
Artsybashev is a Russian. William Carlos Williams Foreign
As a bad orator, badly o’er-book-skilled, Fernando Pessoa VI
As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours Edgar Lee Masters Theodore the Poet
As a decrepit father takes delight William Shakespeare XXXVII
As Adam early in the morning, Walt Whitman As Adam Early in the Morning
As an unperfect actor on the stage William Shakespeare XXIII
As at thy portals also death, Walt Whitman As at Thy Portals Also Death
As birds their infant brood protect, William Cowper Jehovah-Shammah
As consequent from store of summer rains, Walt Whitman As Consequent, etc.
As down the stage again, Walt Whitman The Dead Tenor
As due by many titles I resign John Donne II
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest William Shakespeare XI
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove John Keats Sonnet
As from the house your mother sees Robert Louis Stevenson To Any Reader
As Hermes once rook to his feathers light, John Keats A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode of “Paolo and Francesca”
As I came over Windy Gap W. B. Yeats Running to Paradise
As I ebb’d with the ocean of life, Walt Whitman As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
As I lay with my head in your lap camerado, Walt Whitman As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
As I ponder’d in silence, Walt Whitman As I Ponder’d in Silence
As I sit by the ruddy oak fire, Mary Weston Fordham Nestle-Down Cottage
As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame, Walt Whitman A Twilight Song
As I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing, Walt Whitman Thought
As I sit writing here, sick and grown old, Walt Whitman As I Sit Writing Here
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace, Walt Whitman As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing, Walt Whitman As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing
As if a phantom caress’d me, Walt Whitman As if a Phantom Caress’d Me
As in their flight the birds of song Robert Louis Stevenson As in Their Flight the Birds of Song
As Jesus went into Jericho town, George MacDonald Blind Bartimeus
As late I rambled in the happy fields, John Keats To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
As Love and Hope together Robert Louis Stevenson Love’s Vicissitudes
As needles point towards the pole John Newton The Loadstone
As of old Phoenician men, to the Tin Isles sailing C. S. Lewis Prologue
As oft it happens in the youth of day Ambrose Bierce James L. Flood
As often-times the too resplendent sun Oscar Wilde Silentium Amoris
As once for Jonah, so the Lord, John Newton The Gourd
As one by one the lofty actors of the age James McIntyre Lofty Actors Withdraw
As one by one withdraw the lofty actors, Walt Whitman Death of General Grant
As one who having wandered all night long Robert Louis Stevenson As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long
As one who in his journey bates at noon, John Milton Book XII
As one who poring on a Grecian urn Oscar Wilde Camma
As parched in the barren sands, John Newton The Trust of the Wicked and the Righteous Compared
As seamen on the seas Robert Louis Stevenson As Seamen on the Seas
As shadows pass, in the misty night, David Park Barnitz Rondeau
As some enormous violet that towers Ambrose Bierce Montague Leverson
As some tall rock amidst the waves John Newton The Death of Stephen
As swallows turning backward Robert Louis Stevenson St. Martin’s Summer
As sweet as the look of a lover Ambrose Bierce Geotheos
As the Greek’s signal flame, by antique records told, Walt Whitman As the Greek’s Signal Flame
As the kindling glances, Matthew Arnold The Voice
As the lone, frighted user of a night-road Fernando Pessoa XII
As the poor ass that from his paddock strays Ambrose Bierce Homo Podunkensis

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