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  1. Come with us and play! William Carlos Williams From “The Birth of Venus,” Song
  2. Come, Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song
  3. Come, brother, come. Lets lift it; Jean Toomer Cotton Song
  4. Come, brothers all! Georgia Douglas Johnson Brotherhood
  5. Come, children, put away your toys; George MacDonald Bedtime
  6. Come, dear children, let us away; Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman
  7. Come, gather around me, children, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Jewish Grandfather’s Story
  8. Come, gentlemen⁠—your gold. Ambrose Bierce Salvini in America
  9. Come, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death! Henry van Dyke Jr. Another Chance
  10. Come, here is adieu to the city Robert Louis Stevenson Come, Here Is Adieu to the City
  11. Come, Holy Ghost, who ever One John Henry Newman Terce
  12. Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, Walt Whitman For You O Democracy
  13. Come, let us join this festal lay⁠— Mary Weston Fordham Rally Song
  14. Come, listen, while we sound the lyre, James McIntyre Lines on Removal
  15. Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy; John Donne To His Mistress Going to Bed
  16. Come, my beloved, hear from me Robert Louis Stevenson Come, My Beloved, Hear from Me
  17. Come, my little children, here are songs for you; Robert Louis Stevenson Come, My Little Children, Here Are Songs for You
  18. Come, my soul, thy suit prepare⁠— John Newton Ask What I Shall Give Thee
  19. Come, sisters, weep!⁠—our Baron dear, Ambrose Bierce A “Scion of Nobility”
  20. Come, Stanford, let us sit at ease Ambrose Bierce A Political Violet
  21. Come! Come! I have waited long! Voltairine de Cleyre The Dirge of the Sea
  22. Cometh a day and a night, David Park Barnitz Song
  23. Compassion in the world again is bred; John Donne Ralphius
  24. Comrades, what matter the watch-night tells Voltairine de Cleyre Ave et Vale
  25. Confirm the hope thy word allows, John Newton 89
  26. Confusion, desuetude and gloom, Georgia Douglas Johnson Falling Gods
  27. Congressman Rixey, you’re a statesman⁠—you Ambrose Bierce An Absurdum
  28. Consider me a memory⁠—a dream Georgia Douglas Johnson Recessional
  29. Constrain’d by their Lord to embark, John Newton The Disciples at Sea.
  30. Content Primroses, George MacDonald Wild Flowers
  31. Could every time-worn heart but see Thee once again, Henry van Dyke Jr. To the Child Jesus
  32. Could I hit on a theme John Henry Newman Seeds in the Air
  33. Could the creatures help or ease us John Newton The Ruler’s Daughter Raised
  34. Could we dig up this long-buried treasure, Oscar Wilde Roses and Rue
  35. Count not the cost of honour to the dead! Henry van Dyke Jr. National Monuments
  36. Courage yet, my brother or my sister! Walt Whitman To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
  37. Courage, my soul! behold the prize John Newton There the Weary Are at Rest
  38. Courageous fool!⁠—the peril’s strength unknown. Ambrose Bierce Two Types
  39. Cows suffered in the days of old James McIntyre Windmills and Stone Stables
  40. Craft of King Hiram and St. John, James McIntyre Masonic Lines Read at a Banquet
  41. Creator of the starry pole, John Henry Newman Advent⁠—Vespers
  42. Creep into thy narrow bed, Matthew Arnold The Last Word
  43. Cried Age to Youth: “Abate your speed!⁠— Ambrose Bierce A Warning
  44. Cried Allen Forman: “Doctor, pray Ambrose Bierce Diagnosis
  45. Crooked, black tree William Carlos Williams Trees
  46. Crouch’d on the pavement, close by Belgrave Square Matthew Arnold West London
  47. Cruel in vengeance, reckless in wrath, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Death of Zombi
  48. Cuba, our pupil, let thy glory shine⁠— Ambrose Bierce “Graft”
  49. Cuddle down, ma honey, in yo’ bed, James Weldon Johnson De Little Pickaninny’s Gone to Sleep
  50. Cumhal called out, bending his head, W. B. Yeats The Blessed
  51. Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: William Shakespeare CLIII
  52. Curie Mina Loy Gertrude Stein
  53. Cynic perforce from studying mankind Ambrose Bierce XVIII
  54. Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Last Tournament
  55. Dairymen’s association James McIntyre Address to the Dairymen’s Association
  56. Daisies are broken William Carlos Williams Love Song
  57. Dan Burns, you’d be a Senator, I hear, Ambrose Bierce In Dissuasion
  58. Dance there upon the shore; W. B. Yeats To a Child Dancing in the Wind
  59. Darest thou now O soul, Walt Whitman Darest Thou Now O Soul
  60. Dark brown is the river, Robert Louis Stevenson Where Go the Boats?
  61. Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead Edward Thomas The Dark Forest
  62. Darkness overspreads us here, John Newton Salvation Drawing Nearer
  63. Daughter of God! Audacity divine⁠— Ambrose Bierce L’audace
  64. Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that wild night Henry van Dyke Jr. Music
  65. Dawn heralded the coming sun⁠— Ambrose Bierce A Military Incident
  66. Dawns dread and red the fateful morn⁠— Ambrose Bierce Resurgam
  67. Day by day the threads of white Georgia Douglas Johnson To Time
  68. Day of judgment, day of wonders! John Newton The Day of Judgment
  69. Day of Satan’s painful duty! Ambrose Bierce The Day of Wrath
  70. Day’s herald bird John Henry Newman Lauds⁠—Tuesday
  71. Daylight fades away. George MacDonald Antiphon
  72. Days of old, George MacDonald Spring Song
  73. De river is a-glistenin’ in de moonlight, James Weldon Johnson Nobody’s Lookin’ but de Owl and de Moon
  74. De Young (in Chicago the story is told) Ambrose Bierce In His Hand
  75. Dead am I, and ye triumph o’er me dead, David Park Barnitz Scorn
  76. Dead days of rapture and despair Georgia Douglas Johnson Dead Days
  77. Dead, why defend thee, who in life George MacDonald To the Same
  78. Dear Aldrich, now November’s mellow days Henry van Dyke Jr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  79. Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair, Robert Louis Stevenson To Andrew Lang
  80. Dear Bruner, once we had a little talk Ambrose Bierce Indicted
  81. Dear cherished hours, how much ye tell Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis Hours of Childhood
  82. Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case. W. B. Yeats At the Abbey Theatre
  83. Dear father, I hear a whisper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Child to Her Blind Father
  84. Dear fellow-artist, why so free W. B. Yeats To a Young Beauty
  85. Dear Frank, this morn has usher’d in John Henry Newman To F. W. N.
  86. Dear Heart, I think the young impassioned priest Oscar Wilde Quia Multum Amavi
  87. Dear heart, why will you use me so? James Joyce Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?
  88. Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane! Edgar Lee Masters Paul McNeely
  89. Dear Lord! accept a sinful heart, William Cowper Self-Acquaintance
  90. Dear love, for nothing less than thee John Donne The Dream
  91. Dear lovely Death Langston Hughes Dear Lovely Death
  92. Dear man! although a stranger and a foe Ambrose Bierce Four of a Kind
  93. Dear Parents:⁠—Don’t imagine, please, Ring Lardner Foreword
  94. Dear Reynolds! As last night I lay in bed, John Keats Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
  95. Dear sir, good-morrow! Five years back, Robert Louis Stevenson Ad Se Ipsum
  96. Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Henry van Dyke Jr. The Ancestral Dwellings
  97. Dear Uncle Jim, this garden ground, Robert Louis Stevenson Historical Associations
  98. Dear, if I never saw your face again; Ambrose Bierce To Nanine
  99. DeArcy McGee, James McIntyre Lines on T. D. McGee
  100. Death I recant, and say, “Unsaid by me, John Donne Elegy on Mistress Boulstred

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