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- To sleek your way to the goal of your hope, Ambrose Bierce Three Candidates for Senator
- To smoke a herring is to make Robert Williams Wood The Pipe‑fish; The Sea‑gar
- To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear Oscar Wilde Tædium Vitæ
- To tell the Pewee from the Pea, Robert Williams Wood The Pea; The Pewee
- To tell the Saviour all my wants, William Cowper The Hidden Life
- To tell the Turnip from the Tern, Robert Williams Wood The Tern; The Turnip
- To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught Oscar Wilde Athanasia
- To the East and to the West, Walt Whitman To the East and to the West
- To the garden the world anew ascending, Walt Whitman To the Garden the World
- To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside. Robert Louis Stevenson Youth and Love—II
- To the leaven’d soil they trod calling I sing for the last, Walt Whitman To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
- To the Ruins of Palmyra this the “Flatiron” addrest: Ameen Rihani The “Flatiron” and the Ruins of Palmyra
- To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Walt Whitman To the States
- “To the will of the people we loyally bow!” Ambrose Bierce Magnanimity
- To thee old cause! Walt Whitman To Thee Old Cause
- To thee our wants are known, John Newton 103
- To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Monument of Francis Makemie
- To think of time—of all that retrospection, Walt Whitman To Think of Time
- To think to know the country and not know Robert Frost A Hillside Thaw
- To this generation I would say: Edgar Lee Masters Mrs. George Reece
- To those who know the Lord I speak, William Cowper Seeking the Beloved
- To those who’ve fail’d, in aspiration vast, Walt Whitman To Those Who’ve Fail’d
- To us it is a pleasing sight, James McIntyre A Concert—Impromptu
- To what a cumbersome unwieldiness John Donne Love’s Diet
- To what shall I compare her, Robert Louis Stevenson To What Shall I Compare Her?
- To whom the heavy burden clings, George MacDonald Zacchaeus
- To worship Langston Hughes To Beauty
- To you Langston Hughes Rising Waters
- To you, let snow and roses Robert Louis Stevenson To You, Let Snow and Roses
- To-day a rude brief recitative, Walt Whitman Song for All Seas, All Ships
- To-day I think Edward Thomas Digging
- To-day I want the sky, Edward Thomas The Lofty Sky
- To-day the Blessed Three in One John Henry Newman Matins—Sunday
- To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought, Walt Whitman Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
- To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, Columbia, Walt Whitman The Dead Emperor
- To-night I’ll have my friar—let me think John Keats Fragment of “The Castle Builder”
- Today like yesterday Langston Hughes Monotony
- Together in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attorney at law, Edgar Lee Masters Benjamin Pantier
- Toil, and grow rich, W. B. Yeats The Witch
- Tom sees that Chicago gets nearly Ring Lardner Thos. Cusack
- Too frail to soar—a feeble thing— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Sparrow’s Fall
- Too late to roll the tangled skein Georgia Douglas Johnson The Snarl
- Too many, Lord, abuse thy grace, William Cowper Abuse of the Gospel
- Toward the last Edgar Lee Masters Julian Scott
- Tracks of rain and light linger in William Carlos Williams Romance Moderne
- Trailing night’s sand-sifted stars, Georgia Douglas Johnson Dawn
- Trapped amid the woods with guile C. S. Lewis The Witch
- “Traveller, what lies over the hill? George MacDonald Tell Me
- Tread lightly, she is near Oscar Wilde Requiescat
- Tread not the earth where lies her youthful form, Mary Weston Fordham Mrs. E. Cohrs Brown
- Trickle drops! my blue veins leaving! Walt Whitman Trickle Drops
- True, we must tame our rebel will: Matthew Arnold Courage
- Trust him in the common light; George MacDonald Obedience
- Trust my father, saith the eldest-born; George MacDonald What the Lord Saith
- Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, Robert Louis Stevenson My Wife
- Tuckerton Tamerlane Morey Mahosh Ambrose Bierce Born Leaders of Men
- Turn my daughters, full of woe, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Ruth and Naomi
- Turn O Libertad, for the war is over, Walt Whitman Turn O Libertad
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre W. B. Yeats The Second Coming
- Tut-tut! give back the flags—how can you care, Ambrose Bierce The Confederate Flags
- Tut! Moody, do not try to show Ambrose Bierce Ad Moodium
- ’Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright, Mary Weston Fordham The Cherokee
- ’Twas a fearful night—the tempest raved Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Death of the Old Sea King
- ’Twas a maiden lady, the newspapers say, Ambrose Bierce Corrected News
- ’Twas a night of dreadful horror— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Night of Death
- ’Twas a serious person with locks of gray Ambrose Bierce Technology
- ’Twas a sick young man with a face ungay Ambrose Bierce Polyphemus
- ’Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning, Ambrose Bierce At the Close of the Canvass
- ’Twas a weary-looking mortal, and he wandered near the portal Ambrose Bierce A Poet’s Hope
- ’Twas a year ago and the moon was bright Robert W. Service Premonition
- ’Twas at early morning, James Weldon Johnson Venus in a Garden
- ’Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead Matthew Arnold East London
- ’Twas far away and long ago, Henry van Dyke Jr. “Undine”
- ’Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Phillis Wheatley On Being Brought from Africa to America
- ’Twas noontide of summer, Edgar Allan Poe Evening Star
- ’Twas on a pleasant eve in May. James McIntyre The Great Fire of Ingersoll
- ’Twas sunset’s hour, the glorious day Mary Weston Fordham The Exile’s Reverie
- Twelve o’clock. T. S. Eliot Rhapsody on a Windy Night
- Twenty years go by on noiseless feet, James Weldon Johnson From the Spanish
- Twice or thrice had I loved thee, John Donne Air and Angels
- “ ’Twill take some getting.” “Sir, I think ’twill so.” Edward Thomas Man and Dog
- Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still, Walt Whitman A Paumanok Picture
- Two bodies are lying in Phoenix Park, Ambrose Bierce Disavowal
- Two brothers freely cast their lot John Henry Newman James and John
- Two crownèd Kings, and One that stood alone Oscar Wilde A Vision
- Two hundred years of blessing I record Henry van Dyke Jr. The Sun-Dial at Morven
- Two hunters near to Hudson Bay, James McIntyre Hunters and Trappers
- Two little children sit by my side, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Mother’s Treasures
- Two loves I have of comfort and despair, William Shakespeare CXLIV
- Two monks upon a field of battle Ambrose Bierce Famine in Prosperity
- Two souls move here, and mine, a third, must move John Donne The Harbinger to the Progress
- “Two things,” the wise man said, “fill me with awe: Henry van Dyke Jr. Stars and the Soul
- Two villains of the highest rank Ambrose Bierce Business
- Two youths came over from York state, James McIntyre Bear Hunt
- Two youths, employed at the fur fort, James McIntyre Fight with a Bear in the Northwest
- Two, by themselves, each other, love and fear, John Donne Pyramus and Thisbe
- Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Edgar Allan Poe The Coliseum
- Tyre of the West, and glorying in the name John Henry Newman England
- Um pouco mais de sol—eu era brasa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro QUASI
- Unbeautiful is the Piute! Ambrose Bierce The Piute
Alphabetical, keeping any leading “A” or “The”.