Potential Titles: End

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To stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Told us this war would never end - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"

Never reaching to the end - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

End my officiating journey - J.M. Allen "Youth Sports Referee"

A voice heard from the wrong end of a trumpet - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

The penny dropped ends its run - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"

Catching the light at day's end - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

And saying goodbye does not end anything - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

The wreath begins and ends in dark - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Ascending toward the ending sky - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"

From isolation without end - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

When the end comes, we hold a beginning in our hands - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

The splintered ends of what went before - Mary Jo Bang "Green Earth"

Light at the end of a harrowed day - Mary Jo Bang "I as in Justice"

In the moment that ended an eon ago - Mary Jo Bang "Louise"

Until the latch at the end of the day - Mary Jo Bang "A Man Mentioned in an Essay"

Out onto the end of looking - Mary Jo Bang "The Story of Small Cars"

As thinking reaches its dwindling end - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"

The post-script at the end of her letter - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"

Training us for end of times - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"

Then you knew forever can end - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

ends with a dawn cold white - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"

The ties of summer are ended - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

The silent page of the end - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"

The raw end of your squared off world - Erin Belieu "Field"

Agonies that end in laughter - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"

And know there was an end to pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"

Into the seed of the beginning and the end - Wendell Berry "The Wish to be Generous"

End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"

All the way to the end of tomorrow - Ana Bozicevic "The Mystery of the Seagulls"

Ending with that blade of rusted teeth - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

The attribute, the evidence, and end - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Between us at the end - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet II in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Dancers in ceremonies that never ended - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"

Will end in ashes and dust - Gerald Bullett "The Crucifixion"

That must contend to the dark and bitter end - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

At the end of a corrupting calm - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

A composure which promises never to end - Scott Cairns "Necropolitan"

Know that at the end opens - Rafael Campo "California"

Questions with no end - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"

Darkness is falling without end - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"

That the oath endures the end - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

When the ends of the world waxed free - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

End me like a period - Wendy Chin-Tanner "Infertility"

The war or its unending ending - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

To the end of the four directions - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Ends in the folding of hands - Lucille Clifton "9th picture returning to the origin back to the source"

In dead details to smother vital ends - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

End in the sky - Hilda Conkling "Venice Bridge"

Never dreamed of the bitter end - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

A heart at the mile's end beckons - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"

Shred ends from remembered stars - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

Ended when her oxygen ran out - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

Includes all reasonable ends of knowledge - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

End their rule and begone - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson

The dream between the end and the beginning - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Always ended with a tumbleweed excuse - Micah Daniels "The Secret of Youth"

The end of the crusade - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

Thoughts lasting to the end - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"

Cardamom flavored with a cup-reading at the end - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

A light at the end of the big bang tunnel - Diane DeCillis "Thinking about What Matters"

That stand between this knowing and the end - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

Far ends of tired days - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XLVIII"

To throw the other end of a tin can telephone - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"

The wildness of the day's mad ending - E.R. Dodds "Measure"

At the end of a tunnel of years - Carol Ann Duffy "The Light Gatherer"

The smoky candle end of time - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

Our beginnings never know our ends - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

The burnt-out ends of smoky days - T.S. Eliot "Preludes"

Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]

Mark of one song ending - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"

The end of things beloved - Eve L. Ewing "The Discount Mega Mall (in memorium)"

And this is the end of a tale that is true - "Fairy's Album: II. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"

Ending in a question of poison - Camonghne Felix "Contouring the Flattening"

A perpetual resident of cold endings - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"

Constructing intricately engineered endings - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

That begins just as soon as it ends - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Surveys on creation's ragged end - George Blackstone Field "The Rhyme of the Rolling Stone"

And the day draws to its dark end - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

Thus I end my evening knell - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

That the world would end in snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"

A wraith so poised and willful at trail's end - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

To sanctify what far ends He will - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"

The rough end of a dark age - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Ecotoxicology, or, a Short History of the Chemical Age"

To know an ending - Tess Gallagher "Red Poppy"

Milder at the end than sleep - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"

The end was always just around the bend - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

But the devil always trips up in the end - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

The devil at his fingers' ends - John Gay "The Jugglers"

Behind an old door at the end - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

Then the grey dawn shall end my hateful days - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

And end in embers of themselves - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

Intend to seek the roadway's farthest end - Mona Gould "Lunch Hour"

Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

Ends her descending aria - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

Tired of trying to find the right endings - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Loved to the end - Jennifer Grotz "Staring into the Sun"

To wayward ends and to half use - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 5. The Miner"

At the end of an imagined sky - Jin Ha "The Detached" (translated by the author)

Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"

Ends this gorging bliss - Avis Harley "Worldly Wise"

at the end of another life - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

When time ends - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Have reached the end of my desire - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet I (from Farewell)"

The shallow end of a stormy sea - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

All with the same end in view - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"

Chewing the ends of time - Conrad Hilberry "A Clutch of Mammals"

The soul itself at season's end - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

For the end of something wild - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

But the radiance is not ended - Leslie Pinckney Hill "Vacation End"

Where does the sea end - Robert Hillyer "Fog"

And loves like Ruth's of old no end - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Two noises too old to end - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"

Dreams of home are ended now - Hsiang Ssu "The Ailing Japanese Monk" transl. by Burton Watson

The charnel stench of the end of the world - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Though it turn to ash at the end - Aldous Huxley "Waking"

On the precipice of the end - fahima ife "recrudescence"

angel at the beginning and ending - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

Red is at the end of black - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"

Should the battle end by fire - Tanque R. Jones "Scipio"

Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

Every step more near the end - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"

All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

On what will end - Eunsong Kim "Romance #1"

To kindlier ends and vaster - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

Gathers the ends of joy and pain - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

The day's sad pages end - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

Touched the ends of the horizon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

At the opposite end of the table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"

End up in a thicket of eyes - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"

May poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Towards their own democratic end - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Persisting bleakly for one end alone - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Knew the taste of that ending - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Must invent someone on the other end of eternity - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"

All dreams end in surprise - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"

At the far end of destiny - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"

Both of them sure of their beginnings and ends - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Where the Gulfs of Silence end - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

We reach our disparate endings - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"

Boys fleeing from the day's end - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"

The ends of paths that once were endless - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Youth"

I looked at you at the end of the world - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

Memorials of Summer's ended bloom - Douglas Malloch "March"

Begins and ends in gold - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"

The end of geometric space - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

Broad light at the end of the world - Louise Mathias "Quandary"

A trip to the grocery store at the end of the world - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"

With buttercups from end to end - Theodore Maynard "The English Spring"

Chews the end of a bone already buried - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"

Tears from all Beginning to all Ending - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Salome's dance is ended - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

False ends as false began - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

All the end foreseeing - George Meredith "Phaethon"

On the bridge with one end - M.S. Merwin "Vixen"

My subtle spirit's end - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

And dream his journey's end - Edna St Vincent Millay "Tavern"

Traveling the sun to serve our ends - Jane Miller "Tilt"

Done like an ended tune - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"

The scraps between endings & beginnings - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Coup in Progress"

A staircase ending at the sky - Jim Moore "Diptych: My Bracelet"

A darkening song without end - Jim Moore "So Be It"

Even after the world ends, there is work to do - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

Without putting an end to truth - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly

Whose wives all came to unhappy ends - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Ended this bitter journey - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VI. The Full Heart"

From the Sibyl of the End - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

My sheer existence heralds the beginning of the end - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

At the end of this claustrophobic the dance - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Where odds and ends of memory smile - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Ending only in the realms of light - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"

End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Outcasts at the farther end of the sky - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Ends like a sobbing wave - E.J. Pratt "The Toll of the Bells"

Gnawing at the endings of your nerves - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

In silence, we foretell the end - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "At the feast of asylum"

Of a chase ending in blood - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

For attachment past attachment's end - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

Ending in decayed light - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"

Forever ending on the archipelago of thousand - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"

Deeply mistaken about the end of the world - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

End past compass or compute - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Exactly where my country ended me - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

To be destroyed for no good end - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

This was the end love made - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Never thought that love had such an end - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

End like a spring leaf shed - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

Strives unguided towards indefinite ends - V. Sackville-West "To a Poet Whose Verses I Had Read"

The singed end of a family line - Sam Sax "Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943"

By ignorance of a mayfly's ending - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

At opposite ends of the sky - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Yet the Wild must win in the end - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

In the crash of the utter end - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Their sharp ends meeting at the center - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"

Against this coming end you should prepare - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"

Our minutes hasten to their end - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"

Where the listening ends - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

For us the long shadows and the end of day - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

This language of mirrors at the end of the world - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Ending in the underworld and unknowing - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"

where does the map end? - Danez Smith "three Black poems from August"

Awaits us at the end - Effie Smith "Thanksgiving"

Love has a hundred gentle ends - Leonora Speyer "Two Passionate Ones Part"

And to all lamentation be there end - James Stephens "Clann Carte"

At the wearier end of November - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

The great weightings of the end - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

At the end of distances - Wallace Stevens "The Rock II: The Poem as Icon"

And the fire of the end begin to burn - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

When Earth's revolutions are ended - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"

Out here at the end of a lonely peninsula - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

At the tail end of a harsh winter - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

I know where the roads end - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

Final credits that follow an uncertain ending - Keith Taylor "Schumann, While Driving"

To revel on time without end - "The Three Expectants" transl. by George Borrow

A line saw itself clear to its end - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"

Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end - "Tom o' Bedlam"

The sun coming to an end - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Dead Deer"

The ending of my history of grief - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes "Placido's Farewell to His Mother" transl. by James Weldon Johnson

Was never the end of the wheat - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

And, at the end, need no Paradise - Wang Chi "Tell Me Now" (translated by Arthur Waley)

On a journey that has no end - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson

There seemed no end to the pretty things - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"

Of adoration without end - John Hall Wheelock "Immensity"

And so shall end my dream - Helen Hay Whitney "Love's Kiss"

At the end of the cavern's crawl - Evan Williams "Yours, Stalagmite"

Putting off the night's usual end - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"

Turn bitter in the end - William Carlos Williams "Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

By standing where a world is ending - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

The one end I know complete - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"

The cold triumphant ending of the sun - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"

As the thrush once waited for childhood's end - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

Who find a different end and different haven - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

All things in the end are bittersweet - Charles Wright "Future Tense"

Autumn night at the end of the world - Charles Wright "We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure"

And the nights end - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Where endings approach room temperature - Jenny Xie "Misconjugate"

The book of their souls has come to an end - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

All in the end is water - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Burden without end - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

End with the mourner's tears - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

A noon as the beginning and end of existence - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

To end something never begun - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

To what we thought was the end - Cynthia Zarin "Faun"

Ending in an ouroboric blaze of regret - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


Talked in mellow day-ends - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"


Step out before the endgame - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In the endgame of her days - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"


Endless.


To a mind tired of loose ends - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Having tied all the loose ends - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Loose end of a rainbow dangling - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"


Unending/Unended.


Upended by error and X-rays - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"


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