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  1. These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest Robert Louis Stevenson My Treasures
  2. These paltry rhymes, which loftier shall pursue David Park Barnitz Dedication
  3. These rugged wintry days I scarce could bear, Maria Lowell Sonnet
  4. These things that poets said Edward Thomas These Things That Poets Said
  5. These to His Memory⁠—since he held them dear, Alfred, Lord Tennyson Dedication
  6. They are at rest: John Henry Newman Waiting for the Morning
  7. They are embosomed in the sod, Georgia Douglas Johnson Taps
  8. They are gone: all is still: Foolish heart, dost thou quiver? Matthew Arnold A Modern Sappho
  9. They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, T. S. Eliot Morning at the Window
  10. They brought me ambrotypes Edgar Lee Masters Rutherford McDowell
  11. They call me and I go William Carlos Williams Complaint
  12. They called me the weakling, the simpleton, Edgar Lee Masters Willie Pennington
  13. They come and go, they pass before my soul, David Park Barnitz Pride
  14. They couldn’t have chosen a wiser Ring Lardner Samuel A. Ettelson
  15. They do but grope in learning’s pedant round, John Henry Newman Substance and Shadow
  16. They do not know that they are wholly dead, David Park Barnitz Mankind
  17. They first charged me with disorderly conduct, Edgar Lee Masters Wendell P. Bloyd
  18. They forced him into prison, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Died of Starvation
  19. They got me into the Sunday school Edgar Lee Masters Yee Bow
  20. They have chiseled on my stone the words: Edgar Lee Masters Cassius Hueffer
  21. “They have no more wine!” she said. George MacDonald Marriage Song
  22. They have taken the gable from the roof of clay Edward Thomas Swedes
  23. They heard the South wind sighing Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Crocuses
  24. They hold their public meetings where W. B. Yeats The Three Monuments
  25. They laughed at me as “Prof. Moon,” Edgar Lee Masters Alfonso Churchill
  26. They met inside the gateway that gives the view, Edward Thomas Wind and Mist
  27. They must to keep their certainty accuse W. B. Yeats The Leaders of the Crowd
  28. They once in wilderness did ride James McIntyre Lines on London
  29. They robed her for another groom, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Bride of Death
  30. They say she died⁠— Langston Hughes Young Bridge
  31. They say that he once lost a number Ring Lardner John H. Kirby
  32. They say that lonely sorrows do not chance: George MacDonald To S. F. S.
  33. They say, Brig. Roberts, you have seven wives, Ambrose Bierce For Expulsion
  34. They say, George Perry, you’re a lawyer. Well, Ambrose Bierce To a Bully
  35. They say, my lord, that you’re a Warwick. Well, Ambrose Bierce To “Colonel” Dan Burns
  36. They scorned her for her sinning, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Contrast
  37. They seem to smile as others smile, the masquerader’s art Georgia Douglas Johnson Aliens
  38. They sent him back to her. The letter came Robert Frost Not to Keep
  39. They shall arise in the States, Walt Whitman Mediums
  40. They shall see Him in the crimson flush Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Pure in Heart Shall See God
  41. They should never have built a barn there, at all⁠— Edward Thomas The Barn
  42. They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold Henry van Dyke Jr. America’s Prosperity
  43. They tell me, Deacon Fitch, that you are out: Ambrose Bierce Valedictory
  44. They tell me, lady, that today Robert Louis Stevenson To Miss Cornish
  45. They tell us, dear Kipling, you’re coming to shoot Ambrose Bierce In Warning
  46. They tell us, May, that love is blind, James McIntyre Joined His Church
  47. They that have power to hurt and will do none, William Shakespeare XCIV
  48. They told me I had three months to live, Edgar Lee Masters Isaiah Beethoven
  49. They took away his seamless robe, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Simon’s Countrymen
  50. They were parted then at last? George MacDonald Winter Song
  51. They were two deaf mutes. They loved and they Ambrose Bierce An Example
  52. They would have lynched me Edgar Lee Masters Jack McGuire
  53. Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of stars! Walt Whitman Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
  54. Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, William Shakespeare CXXXII
  55. Think not of it, sweet one, so;⁠— John Keats On ⸻
  56. Thinking of her had saddened me at first, Edward Thomas Celandine
  57. This advantage hath the sheep, James McIntyre Sheep
  58. This ancient hag Langston Hughes Mexican Market Woman
  59. This beauty made me dream there was a time Edward Thomas Sedge-Warblers
  60. This dust was once the man, Walt Whitman This Dust Was Once the Man
  61. This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Oscar Wilde The Burden of Itys
  62. This gent goes to bed now and then Ring Lardner Clayton Mark
  63. This gent in the picture here shown Ring Lardner J. M. Sullivan
  64. This gent’s in a praying position, Ring Lardner Charles Kratsch
  65. This girl was sweeter than the song of swans, Robert Louis Stevenson De Erotio Puella
  66. This gloomy northern day, Robert Louis Stevenson This Gloomy Northern Day
  67. This good woman when in this life, James McIntyre Lines on the Death of a Farmer’s Wife
  68. This grave holds Barnes in all his glory⁠— Ambrose Bierce XXVIII
  69. This great purple butterfly, W. B. Yeats Another Song of a Fool
  70. This heart that flutters near my heart James Joyce This Heart That Flutters Near My Heart
  71. This I saw with my own eyes: Edgar Lee Masters Thomas Ross, Jr.
  72. This is a tale of a hunter brave, James McIntyre Fight in a Cave
  73. This is a tale, but it is truth, James McIntyre Four Acre Farm
  74. This is a true tale and no yarn, James McIntyre Alligator and Boy
  75. This is my play’s last scene; here heavens appoint John Donne VI
  76. This is no age for mystery, James McIntyre The Present Time
  77. This is no case of petty right or wrong Edward Thomas This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
  78. This is the feast of heav’nly wine, William Cowper Welcome to the Table
  79. This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: Robert W. Service The Law of the Yukon
  80. This is the opening dedication James McIntyre Decoration Day
  81. This is the payday up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; Robert W. Service The Low-Down White
  82. This is the Saint of gentleness and kindness, John Henry Newman St. Philip in His School
  83. This is the soldier brave enough to tell Henry van Dyke Jr. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
  84. This is the song of the parson’s son, as he squats in his shack alone, Robert W. Service The Parson’s Son
  85. This is the tale of the man Robert Louis Stevenson Ticonderoga
  86. This is the thanksgiving of the weary, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Welcome Tent
  87. This is the window’s message, Henry van Dyke Jr. For Katrina’s Window
  88. This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Walt Whitman A Clear Midnight
  89. This latent mine⁠—these unlaunch’d voices⁠—passionate powers, Walt Whitman A Font of Type
  90. This mighty empire hath but feet of clay: Oscar Wilde Theoretikos
  91. This moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone, Walt Whitman This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
  92. This moonlight makes Edward Thomas The Wasp Trap
  93. This mortal body of a thousand days John Keats Written in the Cottage Where Burns Was Born
  94. This my adventure is no hoax; James McIntyre Fox Hunt Yarn
  95. This night has been so strange that it seemed W. B. Yeats Presences
  96. This night shall never be forgot James McIntyre Scottish Poets
  97. This party sells railroad supplies, Ring Lardner Guilford S. Wood
  98. This pleasant tale is like a little copse: John Keats Written on the Blank Space at the End of Chaucer’s Tale of The Floure and the Lefe
  99. This plot of ground William Carlos Williams Dedication for a Plot of Ground
  100. This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Edward Thomas A Private

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