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  1. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? John Keats Sleep and Poetry
  2. “What is that, mother?” Ambrose Bierce The Humorist
  3. What is the face, the fairest face, till Care, Robert Louis Stevenson To Madame Garschine
  4. What is the thing called Genius? One has said Ambrose Bierce Genius
  5. What is the welcoming word I hear Ring Lardner The Eternal Greeting
  6. What is there within this beggar lad Langston Hughes Beggar Boy
  7. “What is this I see, what is this I see Ambrose Bierce A Future Conversation
  8. What is your substance, whereof are you made, William Shakespeare LIII
  9. What jungle tree have you slept under, Langston Hughes Nude Young Dancer
  10. What made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell?⁠— Matthew Arnold A Picture at Newstead
  11. What makes the lingering Night so cling to thee? Henry van Dyke Jr. The Grand Canyon
  12. What man may learn, what man may do, Robert Louis Stevenson What Man May Learn, What Man May Do
  13. What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele, Edmund Spenser Mutability
  14. What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth, Edward Thomas Digging
  15. What matters though love’s dream shall pass, Georgia Douglas Johnson Treasure
  16. What may we chant, O thou within this tomb? Walt Whitman Outlines for a Tomb
  17. What mortal, when he saw, Matthew Arnold Human Life
  18. What need have I for memory, Georgia Douglas Johnson What Need Have I for Memory?
  19. What need you, being come to sense, W. B. Yeats September 1913
  20. What parallel, neighbor, be pleased to expound Ambrose Bierce Rudolph Block
  21. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth
  22. What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege? Walt Whitman What Place Is Besieged?
  23. What poets feel not, when they make, Matthew Arnold A Caution to Poets
  24. What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, William Shakespeare CXIX
  25. What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands T. S. Eliot Marina
  26. What shall I be?⁠—I will be a knight George MacDonald The Three Horses
  27. What shall I do with this absurdity⁠— W. B. Yeats The Tower
  28. What shall I give for thee, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Bargain
  29. What shall I give my daughter the younger Edward Thomas What Shall I Give?
  30. What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning? Walt Whitman What Ship Puzzled at Sea
  31. What think you I take my pen in hand to record? Walt Whitman What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
  32. What think you of Christ is the test John Newton What Think Ye of Christ?
  33. What though, for showing truth to flatter’d state, John Keats Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison
  34. What though, while the wonders of nature exploring, John Keats To Some Ladies
  35. What thousands never knew the road! William Cowper The Narrow Way
  36. What time my heart unfolded its fresh leaves John Henry Newman A Blight
  37. What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of night, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Angler’s Reveille
  38. What tree may not the fig be gathered from? Robert Frost Wild Grapes
  39. What various hindrances we meet William Cowper Exhortation to Prayer
  40. What will they do when I am gone? It is plain Edward Thomas What Will They Do?
  41. “What will you do when you come to die, Edgar Lee Masters Le Roy Goldman
  42. What would you see, if I took you up George MacDonald Up in the Tree
  43. What wrecked the Roman power? One says vice, Ambrose Bierce History
  44. What you give me I cheerfully accept, Walt Whitman To Rich Givers
  45. What, Kaiser dead? The heavy news Matthew Arnold Kaiser Dead
  46. What, madam, run for School Director? You? Ambrose Bierce A Woman in Politics
  47. What! “Out of danger?” Can the slighted Dame Ambrose Bierce Convalescent
  48. What! for a term so scant Matthew Arnold Westminster Abbey
  49. What! imitate me, friend? Suppose that you Ambrose Bierce A Pickbrain
  50. What! photograph in colors? ’Tis a dream Ambrose Bierce A Bit of Science
  51. What! Pixley, must I hear you call the roll Ambrose Bierce The Transmigrations of a Soul
  52. What! Salomon! such words from you, Ambrose Bierce To E. S. Salomon
  53. What! you a Senator?⁠—you, Mike de Young? Ambrose Bierce To an Aspirant
  54. What! you were born, you animated doll, Ambrose Bierce Fleet Strother
  55. What! you whip rascals?⁠—you, whose gutter blood Ambrose Bierce A Lifted Finger
  56. What’s in the brain that ink may character William Shakespeare CVIII
  57. “What’s in the paper?” Oh, it’s dev’lish dull: Ambrose Bierce Something in the Papers
  58. What’s riches to him W. B. Yeats The Peacock
  59. When a black o’erspreading cloud John Newton Thunder
  60. When a dark and fearful strife Frances Ellen Watkins Harper An Appeal to the American People
  61. When a fair bridge is builded o’er the gulf Ambrose Bierce On a Proposed Crematory
  62. When a man gits on his uppers in a hardpan sort of town, Robert W. Service The Little Old Log Cabin
  63. When Adam fell he quickly lost John Newton Cain and Abel
  64. When Adam first saw Eve he said: Ambrose Bierce The Genesis of Embarrassment
  65. When Admonition’s hand essays Ambrose Bierce Rebuke
  66. When amatory poets sing their loves Lord Byron Canto V
  67. When any turn from Zion’s way⁠— John Newton Will Ye Also Go Away?
  68. When at home alone I sit Robert Louis Stevenson The Little Land
  69. When at Philippi, he who would have freed George MacDonald To Garibaldi, with a Book
  70. When at your window radiant you’ve stood Ambrose Bierce To One Across the Way
  71. When Bishop Berkeley said “there was no matter,” Lord Byron Canto XI
  72. When blanket round us we do fold, James McIntyre Blanket Shield
  73. When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, James Weldon Johnson Beauty That Is Never Old
  74. When Burns did make triumphant entry James McIntyre Burns and Scott in Edinburgh
  75. When by my solitary hearth I sit, John Keats To Hope
  76. When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead, John Donne The Apparition
  77. When children are playing alone on the green, Robert Louis Stevenson The Unseen Playmate
  78. When darkness long has veil’d my mind. William Cowper Peace After a Storm
  79. When days are dark and nights are cold, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Master’s Voice
  80. When Death shall touch thy body beautiful, David Park Barnitz Changelessness
  81. When descending from the sky John Newton The Foolish Virgins.
  82. When down the stair at morning Henry van Dyke Jr. My April Lady
  83. When Dr. Bill Bartlett stepped out of the hum Ambrose Bierce On the Platform
  84. When Dr. Charles O’Donnell died Ambrose Bierce Rejected
  85. When Father Ranney left the States, James McIntyre Father Ranney, the Cheese Pioneer
  86. When first earth’s rulers welcomed home John Henry Newman External Religion
  87. When first God stirr’d me, and the Church’s word John Henry Newman The Wrath to Come
  88. When first I came here I had hope, Edward Thomas When First
  89. When first my soul enlisted John Newton Saul’s Armour
  90. When first, to make my heart his own, John Newton Dagon Before the Ark
  91. When Fort Sumter fell and the war came Edgar Lee Masters Jacob Goodpasture
  92. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, William Shakespeare II
  93. When Gabriel blows a dreadful blast Ambrose Bierce XXXVII
  94. When Gertrude Atherton pronounced the ladies Ambrose Bierce A False Alarm
  95. When God resolved to make the world Ambrose Bierce A Mine for Reformers
  96. When God’s own child came down to earth, George MacDonald A Father to a Mother
  97. When Hagar found the bottle spent, William Cowper For the Poor
  98. When Hannah, press’d with grief, John Newton Hannah; or the Throne of Grace
  99. When hard luck overtakes you Langston Hughes Hard Luck
  100. When have I last looked on W. B. Yeats Lines Written in Dejection

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