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  1. Unbelief the soul dismays, John Newton Good Effects by Weak Means
  2. Uncertain how the way to find John Newton Perplexity Relieved
  3. Uncle Jacob often told us, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Church Building
  4. Under a burning tropic sun, James Weldon Johnson The Color Sergeant
  5. Under an undermined and shot-bruised wall John Donne Fall of a Wall
  6. Under the after-sunset sky Edward Thomas Two Pewits
  7. Under the cloud of world-wide war, Henry van Dyke Jr. Easter Road
  8. Under the rose-tree’s dancing shade Oscar Wilde Le Panneau
  9. Under the wide and starry sky, Robert Louis Stevenson Requiem
  10. Unfelt, unheard, unseen, John Keats Lines
  11. Unfolded out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded, Walt Whitman Unfolded Out of the Folds
  12. Unhappy State! with horrors still to strive: Ambrose Bierce France
  13. Unless it was that day I never knew Edward Thomas Ambition
  14. Unless the Lord had been my stay, John Newton Help in the Time of Need
  15. Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart! Elizabeth Barrett Browning III
  16. Unlike the common run of men, Robert Louis Stevenson Proem
  17. Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well, Walt Whitman Unseen Buds
  18. Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend William Shakespeare IV
  19. Unveil, O Lord, and on us shine John Henry Newman The Two Worlds
  20. Unwearied God, before whose face John Henry Newman Sleeplessness
  21. Unwelcome shroud of the forgotten dead, Matthew Arnold Alaric at Rome
  22. Up into the cherry-tree Robert Louis Stevenson Foreign Lands
  23. Up to the sky the birdman flew Ring Lardner The Paths of Rashness
  24. Up with the sun, the breeze arose, Robert Louis Stevenson An English Breeze
  25. Upon a rock I sat⁠—a mountain-side, George MacDonald A Memorial of Africa
  26. Upon a Sabbath-day it fell; John Keats The Eve of St. Mark
  27. Upon a time, before the faery broods John Keats Lamia
  28. Upon my desk a single spray, Ambrose Bierce An Augury
  29. Upon the face of darkness beams my soul⁠— Ameen Rihani A Nocturn
  30. Upon the table in their bowl William Carlos Williams The Disputants
  31. Upon this cake of ice is perched, Robert Williams Wood Puffin; Nuffin
  32. Upon this Primrose hill, John Donne The Primrose, Being at Montgomery Castle Upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate
  33. Upon this quarter-eagle’s leveled face, Ambrose Bierce The Lord’s Prayer on a Coin
  34. Upon this scene, this show, Walt Whitman Red Jacket (from Aloft)
  35. Vain is the effort to forget. Matthew Arnold On the Rhine
  36. Vast and grey, the sky William Carlos Williams The Desolate Field
  37. Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian; Edgar Lee Masters W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
  38. Vengeance will sit above our faults; but till John Donne Ode
  39. Very few can Robert Williams Wood The Pecan; The Toucan
  40. Very soon the Yankee teachers Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Learning to Read
  41. Very well, you liberals, Edgar Lee Masters Thomas Rhodes
  42. Victorious through failure! faithful Lord, George MacDonald General Gordon
  43. Vigil strange I kept on the field one night; Walt Whitman Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
  44. Villain, when the word is spoken, Ambrose Bierce Llewellyn Powell
  45. Villain! for years you’ve plied your awful trade Ambrose Bierce To One in Custody
  46. Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Walt Whitman Vocalism
  47. Volteiam dentro de mim, Mário de Sá-Carneiro RODOPIO
  48. W’en de banjos wuz a-ringin’, James Weldon Johnson A Banjo Song
  49. W’en de leaves begin to fall, James Weldon Johnson The Seasons
  50. W’en ole Mister Sun gits tiah’d a-hangin’ James Weldon Johnson A Plantation Bacchanal
  51. Waking from tender sleep, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Message
  52. Waking in the night to pray, George MacDonald Foolish Children
  53. Walk within thy own heart’s temple, child, and rest, Georgia Douglas Johnson Gilead
  54. Walking through life’s dusty highways, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lessons of the Street
  55. Wallace, created on a noble plan Ambrose Bierce One Judge
  56. Wanderer moon William Carlos Williams Summer Song
  57. Wandering at morn, Walt Whitman Wandering at Morn
  58. Warble me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,) Walt Whitman Warble for Lilac-Time
  59. Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d, Matthew Arnold A Dream
  60. Was it the double of my dream W. B. Yeats Towards Break of Day
  61. Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, William Shakespeare LXXXVI
  62. Was this His coming! I had hoped to see Oscar Wilde Ave Maria Gratia Plena
  63. Way down in the Boom Belt lived Mrs. Roselle; Ambrose Bierce A Celebrated Case
  64. “Wayside songs and meadow blossoms; nothing perfect, nothing rare; Henry van Dyke Jr. To My Lady Graygown: With a Handful of Verses
  65. We are as maidens one and all, Robert Louis Stevenson Death
  66. We are born at sunset and we die ere morn, Fernando Pessoa XIV
  67. We are in ancient stories told, James McIntyre All Men Are Brothers
  68. We are in Fate and Fate’s and do but lack Fernando Pessoa XXV
  69. We are not children of a guilty sire, John Henry Newman Hope
  70. We are the hollow men T. S. Eliot The Hollow Men
  71. We are the souls that crept and cried in the days when they tortured men; Voltairine de Cleyre Angiolillo
  72. We blench when maniacs to dance begin. Ambrose Bierce Judex Jocosus
  73. We both like the Sox, him and me, Ring Lardner Harry R. Gibbons
  74. We built a ship upon the stairs Robert Louis Stevenson A Good Play
  75. We buried him high on a windy hill, Langston Hughes Death of an Old Seaman
  76. We cannot kindle when we will Matthew Arnold Morality
  77. We caught the tread of dancing feet, Oscar Wilde The Harlot’s House
  78. We chanced in passing by that afternoon Robert Frost The Black Cottage
  79. We come, but not to celebrate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 25th Anniversary of the “Old Folks’ Home”
  80. We contrast light and darkness⁠—light of God, Voltairine de Cleyre The Christian’s Faith
  81. We couldn’t sit and study for the law; Robert W. Service The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
  82. We cry among the skyscrapers Langston Hughes Afraid
  83. We do greet thee Thomas Conant, James McIntyre Lines Sent to Thomas Conant of Oshawa, a Writer of Canadian Sketches
  84. We doubt the word that tells us: Ask, George MacDonald Prayer
  85. We English make a tepid blot Mina Loy The Costa San Giorgio
  86. We fear to say, and yet we must, James McIntyre Dried Apples
  87. We have a favorite old mule, James McIntyre Mule and Bear Fight
  88. We have cried in our despair W. B. Yeats When Helen Lived
  89. We have cried⁠—and the Gods are silent; Voltairine de Cleyre The Toast of Despair
  90. We have flowed out of ourselves Mina Loy The Dead
  91. We have for many years been bored Robert Williams Wood The Pen‑guin; The Sword‑fish
  92. We have here a sight as fair James McIntyre Canadian Rivers and Lakes
  93. We have seen thee, queen of cheese, James McIntyre Ode on the Mammoth Cheese
  94. We have the Murray and McKay James McIntyre Scottish Names in Oxford County
  95. We have tomorrow Langston Hughes Poem
  96. We heard a song-bird trilling⁠— Ambrose Bierce Nanine
  97. We know a hill is smooth and round, James McIntyre Indian Romance
  98. We let Ontario farmers sing James McIntyre The Joys of Prairie Farmers
  99. We lift a song to you across the day Georgia Douglas Johnson To John Brown
  100. We look in vain for our Past Grands, James McIntyre Odd Fellowship Lines Read at Concert

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