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  1. As the serpent raised by Moses John Newton Look Unto Me, and Be Ye Saved
  2. As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled well, Robert Louis Stevenson Tropic Rain
  3. As the sun’s enliv’ning eye John Newton At Parting
  4. As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, John Donne The Comparison
  5. As the team’s head-brass flashed out on the turn Edward Thomas As the Team’s Head-Brass
  6. As the time draws nigh glooming a cloud, Walt Whitman As the Time Draws Nigh
  7. As they draw to a close, Walt Whitman As They Draw to a Close
  8. As through the blue expanse he skims Ambrose Bierce At the Eleventh Hour
  9. As time rolled on the whole world came to be Ambrose Bierce Industrial Discontent
  10. As to a child, I talked my heart asleep Fernando Pessoa X
  11. As to democracy, fellow citizens, Edgar Lee Masters John Hancock Otis
  12. As to her child a mother calls, George MacDonald In the Night
  13. As toilsome I wander’d Virginia’s woods, Walt Whitman As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
  14. As vicious women think all men are knaves, Ambrose Bierce A Retort
  15. As virtuous men pass mildly away, John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
  16. As westward we of late did rove James McIntyre Transformation Scene
  17. As when the hunt by holt and field Robert Louis Stevenson After Reading “Antony and Cleopatra”
  18. As when the weary trav’ler gains John Newton Home in View
  19. As, when the hand some mimic form would paint, John Henry Newman The Married and the Single
  20. Ashes of soldiers South or North, Walt Whitman Ashes of Soldiers
  21. Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl John Keats “Asleep! O Sleep a Little While, White Pearl”
  22. Assembled in the parlor Ambrose Bierce Californian Summer Pictures
  23. At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream, Henry van Dyke Jr. Three Alpine Sonnets
  24. At evening when the lamp is lit, Robert Louis Stevenson The Land of Story-Books
  25. At eventide the Pilgrim came Ameen Rihani Renunciation
  26. At first I suspected something⁠— Edgar Lee Masters Tom Merritt
  27. At first you will know not what they mean, Edgar Lee Masters Faith Matheny
  28. At Forres is a large round stone, James McIntyre Witch Stone
  29. At four o’clock in late October Edgar Lee Masters Zilpha Marsh
  30. At great reunion of the South, James McIntyre Good Shot
  31. At hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travelling Edward Thomas Lob
  32. At last she comes, O never more Robert Louis Stevenson At Last She Comes
  33. At last the four year storm of fratricide John G. Neihardt The Song of the Indian Wars
  34. At London Thames is a broad stream, James McIntyre Disaster to Steamer Victoria at London
  35. At midnight in the month of June, Edgar Allan Poe The Sleeper
  36. At morn⁠—at noon⁠—at twilight dim⁠— Edgar Allan Poe Hymn
  37. At morning on the garden seat Robert Louis Stevenson At Morning on the Garden Seat
  38. At night on the radiant Rialto, Ameen Rihani Lilatu Laili
  39. At once from hence my lines and I depart, John Donne To Mr. Thomas Woodward
  40. At poet’s tears, Edward Thomas Song
  41. At sunset, when the rosy light was dying Henry van Dyke Jr. Wings of a Dove
  42. At that hour when all things have repose, James Joyce At That Hour When All Things Have Repose
  43. At the last, tenderly, Walt Whitman The Last Invocation
  44. At the Portals of the Future, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Lines
  45. At the round earth’s imagined corners blow John Donne VII
  46. Athwart the sky the great sun sails, Georgia Douglas Johnson Impelled
  47. Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine, Phillis Wheatley An Hymn to the Morning
  48. Attend, mine enemies of all degrees, Ambrose Bierce To My Liars
  49. Attention, Miles! You have observed, no doubt, Ambrose Bierce To One Out of Favor
  50. Attorney Knight, it happens so sometimes Ambrose Bierce George A. Knight
  51. Aunt Sue has a head full of stories. Langston Hughes Aunt Sue’s Stories
  52. “Authority, authority!” they shout Ambrose Bierce Authority
  53. Autumn clouds are flying, flying George MacDonald Autumn Song
  54. Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, W. B. Yeats The Falling of the Leaves
  55. Away from the city’s herds! George MacDonald Longing
  56. Away with funeral music⁠—set Robert Louis Stevenson Away with Funeral Music
  57. Away, thou changeling motley humourist, John Donne Satire I
  58. Babe Jesus lay in Mary’s lap, George MacDonald A Christmas Carol
  59. Baby Priests Mina Loy The Black Virginity
  60. Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church, Edgar Lee Masters Lydia Humphrey
  61. Back further than Ambrose Bierce To Either
  62. Back to thy breast, O Mother, turns thy child, Voltairine de Cleyre In Memoriam
  63. Bacon, philosopher profound, James McIntyre Poets and Philosophers
  64. Baffled he stands upon the track⁠— Ambrose Bierce The Division Superintendent
  65. Bald heads forgetful of their sins, W. B. Yeats The Scholars
  66. Bands of dark and bands of light George MacDonald Travellers’ Song
  67. Banish’d the House of sacred rest, John Henry Newman Behind the Veil
  68. Bards of Passion and of Mirth, John Keats Ode
  69. Baron of butcher’s burly brave, James McIntyre Lines on the Pioneer Exporter of Canadian Bullocks to Britain
  70. Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you John Donne XIV
  71. Be composed⁠—be at ease with me⁠—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Walt Whitman To a Common Prostitute
  72. Be not cast down my heart, and be not sad, David Park Barnitz Sonnet
  73. Be not sad because all men James Joyce Be Not Sad Because All Men
  74. Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people’s thanks Ambrose Bierce Matter for Gratitude
  75. Be still, my heart! these anxious cares John Newton Why Art Thou Cast Down?
  76. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press William Shakespeare CXL
  77. Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; W. B. Yeats To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
  78. Beat the drums of tragedy for me. Langston Hughes Fantasy in Purple
  79. Beat! beat! drums!⁠—blow! bugles! blow! Walt Whitman Beat! Beat! Drums!
  80. Beautiful mother is busy all day, George MacDonald Mother Nature
  81. Beauty (they called her) wasn’t a maid Ambrose Bierce In Memoriam
  82. Beauty and love let no one separate, Fernando Pessoa XIX
  83. Because from Folly’s lips you got Ambrose Bierce To Oscar Wilde
  84. Because I do not hope to turn again T. S. Eliot Ash-Wednesday
  85. Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, Edgar Allan Poe To My Mother
  86. Because my hope is dead, my heart a stone, David Park Barnitz Hegel
  87. Because my mouth Langston Hughes Minstrel Man
  88. Because that I am weak, my love, and ill Ambrose Bierce One Morning
  89. Because thou hast believ’d, the wheels of life Matthew Arnold To the Duke of Wellington
  90. Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXXIX
  91. Because to-day is some religious festival W. B. Yeats She Turns the Dolls’ Faces to the Wall
  92. Because you are to me a song Langston Hughes Passing Love
  93. Because you call yourself Knights Templars, and Ambrose Bierce A Welcome
  94. Because your voice was at my side James Joyce Because Your Voice Was at My Side
  95. Before Elisha’s gate John Newton Naaman
  96. Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe, John Donne The Will
  97. Before man came to blow it right Robert Frost The Aim Was Song
  98. Before Man parted for this earthly strand, Matthew Arnold Revolutions
  99. Before this little gift was come Robert Louis Stevenson Before This Little Gift Was Come
  100. Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much, Walt Whitman Beginning My Studies

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