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  1. Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, W. B. Yeats On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature
  2. Where’er I roam in this fair English land, John Henry Newman Home
  3. Where’er you find the Fisher folk James McIntyre Fairy Tale
  4. Where’s the Poet? Show him! show him, John Keats “Where’s the Poet? Show Him! Show Him”
  5. Where’s your kingdom, little king? Henry van Dyke Jr. The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
  6. Whether that soul which now comes up to you John Donne A Hymn to the Saints, and to Marquis Hamilton
  7. Whether upon the garden seat Robert Louis Stevenson Envoy for “A Child’s Garden of Verses”
  8. Whether we like it, or don’t, Robert Louis Stevenson Poem for a Class Re-Union
  9. Whether we write or speak or do but look Fernando Pessoa I
  10. While all the East was weaving red with gray, T. S. Eliot Before Morning
  11. While an intrinsic ardor prompts to write, Phillis Wheatley To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
  12. While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Phillis Wheatley To the Honourable T. H. Esq.; On the Death of His Daughter
  13. While I lived without the Lord, John Newton Freedom from Care
  14. While I was handling Dom Pedro Edgar Lee Masters Jim Brown
  15. While I, from that reed-throated whisperer W. B. Yeats Closing Rhymes
  16. While Joshua led the armed bands John Newton Moses and Amalek
  17. While Moses on the Mountain lay, John Henry Newman Intercession of the Saints
  18. While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, Walt Whitman The Artilleryman’s Vision
  19. While not the past forgetting, Walt Whitman While Not the Past Forgetting
  20. While others chant of gay Elysian scenes, Phillis Wheatley To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain for the Recovery of His Health
  21. While raging tempests shake the shore, Phillis Wheatley Ode to Neptune
  22. While there’s leaves on the forest or foam on the river, James McIntyre MacGregor’s Gathering
  23. While voyaging on northern seas James McIntyre Sailor’s Yarn
  24. While with ceaseless course the sun John Newton Time How Swift
  25. Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, William Shakespeare LXXIX
  26. Whilst yet to prove John Donne Farewell to Love
  27. whisper of yellow globes Jean Toomer Her Lips Are Copper Wire
  28. Whispers of heavenly death murmur’d I hear, Walt Whitman Whispers of Heavenly Death
  29. White men’s children spread over the earth⁠— Georgia Douglas Johnson The Riddle
  30. White-rose perfume David Park Barnitz Requiem
  31. Who am I? Only one of the commonest common people, Voltairine de Cleyre Out of the Darkness
  32. Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wilfred Owen Mental Cases
  33. Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, Walt Whitman Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
  34. Who cares Langston Hughes Hurt
  35. Who carved this shattered harp on my stone? Edgar Lee Masters Joseph Dixon
  36. Who comes tonight? We ope the doors in vain. Robert Louis Stevenson Henry James
  37. Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? W. B. Yeats The Rose of the World
  38. “Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat;” Ambrose Bierce My Lord Poet
  39. Who follows Jesus shall not walk George MacDonald After Thomas Kemp
  40. Who goes amid the green wood James Joyce Who Goes Amid the Green Wood
  41. Who has gone farthest? for I would go farther, Walt Whitman Excelsior
  42. Who hath not built his castles in the free and open air? Georgia Douglas Johnson Illusions
  43. Who hath prophetic vision sees James McIntyre Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese
  44. Who includes diversity and is Nature, Walt Whitman Kosmos
  45. Who is it that says most? which can say more William Shakespeare LXXXIV
  46. Who is Sylvia? What is she Ring Lardner His Lady Friend
  47. Who is there who has never heard, Robert Williams Wood Burr; Bird
  48. “Who is this little one lying,” George MacDonald Master and Boy
  49. Who know thee, love: thy life be such George MacDonald A Birthday-Wish
  50. Who knows how many thousand years ago Henry van Dyke Jr. “The Signs”
  51. Who learns my lesson complete? Walt Whitman Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
  52. Who loves to peer up at the morning sun, John Keats On Leigh Hunt’s Poem, The Story of Rimini
  53. Who madest all and dost control, John Henry Newman Matins⁠—Wednesday
  54. Who makes the past a pattern for next year, John Donne To Sir Henry Goodyere
  55. Who now reads clear the roster of that band? John G. Neihardt The Song of Three Friends
  56. Who prop, thou ask’st, in these bad days, my mind? Matthew Arnold To a Friend
  57. Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Way
  58. Who shall be our prophet then, C. S. Lewis The Philosopher
  59. Who taught thee conflict with the pow’rs of night, Phillis Wheatley On the Death of a Young Gentleman
  60. Who taught this pleading to unpractis’d eyes? Matthew Arnold To a Gipsy Child by the Seashore
  61. Who told Creed Haymond he was witty?⁠—who Ambrose Bierce An Idler
  62. Who watched the worn-out Winter die? Henry van Dyke Jr. The Parting and the Coming Guest
  63. Who will believe my verse in time to come, William Shakespeare XVII
  64. Who’s this that lispeth in the thickening throng Ambrose Bierce A Voluptuary
  65. Whoever Comes to shroud me, do not harm, John Donne The Funeral
  66. Whoever guesses, thinks, or dreams, he knows John Donne The Curse
  67. Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy “Will,” William Shakespeare CXXXV
  68. Whoever loves, if he do not propose John Donne Love’s Progress
  69. Whoever thou art who passest by Edgar Lee Masters Henry Layton
  70. Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Walt Whitman Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
  71. Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, Walt Whitman To You
  72. Whom all obey⁠— John Henry Newman Vespers⁠—Friday
  73. Whose woods these are I think I know. Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  74. Why are we by all creatures waited on? John Donne XII
  75. Why are you running so fast hither and thither Edgar Lee Masters Plymouth Rock Joe
  76. Why art thou so hushed and sad, Ameen Rihani From the Arabic
  77. Why ask me, Gastrogogue, to dine, Ambrose Bierce Hospitality
  78. Why did Albert Schirding kill himself Edgar Lee Masters Jonas Keene
  79. Why did I laugh to-night? No voice will tell; John Keats Sonnet
  80. Why did the sun his beams conceal Mary Weston Fordham The Crucifixion
  81. Why did you bruise me with your rough places Edgar Lee Masters Voltaire Johnson
  82. Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day William Shakespeare XXXIV
  83. Why do I write today? William Carlos Williams Apology
  84. Why do you clothe me with scarlet of shame? Voltairine de Cleyre Bastard Born
  85. Why do you love your Cousin Paull? Ring Lardner Cousinly Affection
  86. Why dost thou want to sing George MacDonald My Heart Thy Lark
  87. Why each is striving, from of old, Matthew Arnold Destiny
  88. Why is my verse so barren of new pride, William Shakespeare LXXVI
  89. Why loiterest within Simon’s walls, John Henry Newman The Church in Prayer
  90. Why make so much of fragmentary blue Robert Frost Fragmentary Blue
  91. Why reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing? Walt Whitman To the States
  92. Why should he not have been allowed Ambrose Bierce California
  93. Why should I blame her that she filled my days W. B. Yeats No Second Troy
  94. Why should I fear the darkest hour, John Newton Jesus My All
  95. —Why sittest thou, O Muse, in grief enfolden? David Park Barnitz Hélas
  96. Why this man gelded Martial I muse, John Donne Raderus
  97. Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, Edgar Lee Masters Alfred Moir
  98. Why, dear Cousin, John Henry Newman Monks
  99. Why, wedded to the Lord, still yearns my heart John Henry Newman Messina
  100. Why, when the World’s great mind Matthew Arnold The World and the Quietist

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