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- Why, who makes much of a miracle? Walt Whitman Miracles
- Wild wanton Luxury lays waste the land Ambrose Bierce Sires and Sons
- Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running, Walt Whitman Patroling Barnegat
- Will it never be possible William Carlos Williams A Portrait in Greys
- Will you come? Edward Thomas Will You Come?
- Will you leave the hills of Scotland? Mary Weston Fordham Highland Mary
- Will you please to let me go, Ma, James McIntyre Let Her Go
- “Willis, I didn’t want you here today: Robert Frost The Self-Seeker
- Willy is a silly boy, Langston Hughes The Lament of a Vanquished Beau
- Wilmot of fish culture fame, James McIntyre Eagle and Salmon
- Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun, John Donne A Hymn to God the Father
- Wilt thou love God as He thee? then digest, John Donne XV
- Winds of May, that dance on the sea, James Joyce Winds of May, That Dance on the Sea
- Wine comes in at the mouth W. B. Yeats A Drinking Song
- Wine-maiden Langston Hughes To a Black Dancer in “The Little Savoy”
- Winter froze both brook and well; George MacDonald What Makes Summer?
- Winter has a joy for me William Cowper I Will Praise the Lord at All Times
- Winter has spent this snow William Carlos Williams M. B.
- Winter is long in this climate William Carlos Williams March
- Winter on Mount Shasta, Henry van Dyke Jr. The First Bird o’ Spring
- Winter—aback sweeps the inward eye, Georgia Douglas Johnson Recall
- With a Methodist hymn in his musical throat, Ambrose Bierce Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus
- With aimless feet, along the verge Ambrose Bierce Basilica
- With all thy gifts America, Walt Whitman With All Thy Gifts
- With antecedents, Walt Whitman With Antecedents
- With but one life full certified, Georgia Douglas Johnson Resolution
- With caws and chirrupings, the woods Robert Louis Stevenson Duddingstone
- With crow bones all the land is white, Ambrose Bierce The Valley of Dry Bones
- With eager heart and will on fire, Henry van Dyke Jr. Ode to Peace
- With eager heart and will on fire, Henry van Dyke Jr. Peace
- With gypsies and sailors, Langston Hughes A Farewell
- With half a heart I wander here Robert Louis Stevenson In the States
- With hands all reddened and sore, Mary Weston Fordham The Washerwoman
- With her grief the widow was so engrossed Ambrose Bierce Privation
- With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe, John Donne Temple
- With husky-haughty lips, O sea! Walt Whitman With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
- With Isr’el’s God who can compare? John Newton Deuteronomy 33:26, 29
- With its cloud of skirmishers in advance, Walt Whitman An Army Corps on the March
- With kisses I’ll awake you love Georgia Douglas Johnson Pledge
- With lifted hands, Lone Mountain’s giant cross Ambrose Bierce A Peaceful Community
- With memories old and wishes new Henry van Dyke Jr. To Mark Twain
- With our Canadian snow shoes, James McIntyre Riding an Avalanche
- With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, Edgar Lee Masters Caroline Branson
- With patient hand Jesus in clay once wrought, Maria Lowell Jesus and the Dove
- With print paper scarce and so high, Ring Lardner Albert G. Welsh
- With saintly grace and reverent tread, Ambrose Bierce Presentiment
- With Satan, my accuser, near, John Newton A Brand Plucked Out of the Fire
- With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee, Robert Louis Stevenson With Storms A-Weather, Rocks A-Lee
- With the first blush of morning, my soul is awing, Georgia Douglas Johnson In Quest
- With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace W. B. Yeats Her Courtesy
- With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee Elizabeth Barrett Browning XXXIV
- With this picture on view, it requires Ring Lardner Jno. W. Maguire
- With thy rugged, ice-girt shore, Mary Weston Fordham Alaska
- With two bright eyes, my star, my love, Henry van Dyke Jr. Echoes from the Greek Anthology
- With us there is no gray fearing, George MacDonald A Song of the Waiting Dead
- Within my dark and narrow bed Ambrose Bierce Down Among the Dead Men
- Within my heart a worm had long been hid. George MacDonald The Thorn in the Flesh
- Within the temple of our heart Georgia Douglas Johnson To Abraham Lincoln
- Within this black hive to-night Jean Toomer Beehive
- Within this humble mausoleum Ambrose Bierce Disjunctus
- Within this restless, hurried, modern world Oscar Wilde My Voice
- Within your pulsing day Georgia Douglas Johnson Separation
- Without all fear, without presumption, he Philip James Bailey Proem
- Witness, would you— William Carlos Williams Keller Gegen Dom
- Woe unto you, ye sons of pain that are this day in earth, C. S. Lewis Ode for New Year’s Day
- “Woe’s me!” the peaceful prophet cried, John Henry Newman Jeremiah
- Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain, John Keats “Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain”
- Women he liked, did shovel-bearded Bob, Edward Thomas Women He Liked
- Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, Walt Whitman Beautiful Women
- Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Walt Whitman Reconciliation
- Words shouting, singing, smiling, frowning— Ambrose Bierce With a Book
- Wordsworth, thy music like a river rolls Henry van Dyke Jr. Wordsworth
- World take good notice, silver stars fading, Walt Whitman World Take Good Notice
- World-wide dusk Langston Hughes Black Seed
- Worthy of either song or story James McIntyre The Shires on the Moray Frith
- Would Langston Hughes Songs to the Dark Virgin
- Would I could cast a sail on the water W. B. Yeats The Collar-Bone of a Hare
- Would I might mend the fabric of my youth Georgia Douglas Johnson Welt
- “Would it were anything but merely voice!” W. B. Yeats King and No King
- Would-be prophets tell us George MacDonald False Prophets
- Wouldst thou be free? I think it not, indeed; Robert Louis Stevenson In Maximum
- “Write to Sardis,” (saith the Lord,) William Cowper Sardis
- Writer folk across the bay Ambrose Bierce Borrowed Brains
- Written in red their protest stands, Voltairine de Cleyre Written—in—Red
- “Yawp, yawp, yawp! Ambrose Bierce A Demagogue
- Ye are builders, little builders, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Little Builders
- Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Edgar Lee Masters The Unknown
- Ye cannot halve the Gospel of God’s grace; John Henry Newman Liberalism
- Ye gods of battle, lords of fear, Henry van Dyke Jr. Stain Not the Sky
- Ye martial pow’rs, and all ye tuneful nine, Phillis Wheatley Goliath of Gath
- Ye parasites that to the rich men stick, Ambrose Bierce Twin Unworthies
- Ye saints on earth, ascribe, with heav’n’s high host John Newton 107
- Ye sons of earth, prepare the plough, William Cowper The Sower
- Ye storm-winds of Autumn Matthew Arnold Parting
- Ye who are kicking against Fate, Edgar Lee Masters Calvin Campbell
- Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it, Robert W. Service The Lone Trail
- Ye young debaters over the doctrine Edgar Lee Masters The Village Atheist
- Year after year the artist wrought Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Lost Bells
- Year of meteors! brooding year! Walt Whitman Year of Meteors
- Year that trembled and reel’d beneath me! Walt Whitman Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
Alphabetical, keeping any leading “A” or “The”.