Potential Titles: Never

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Where Death can never reach the bowers - A.L.O.E. "Gardener's Hymn"

If never I held some fragrant flame - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Since energy is never lost, only converted - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"

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

Rooms I could never breathe in - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

Never unpack the rucksack of happiness again - Carl Adamshick "Loss"

Bored by classes on constellations we'll never see - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

Never a better the Queen might wear - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

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

Never left any traces behind - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "We Have Not Met" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

But ne'er the time that we have known together - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Maintenance itself is never won - J.M. Allen "Maintenance"

Never wanted to be a lava angel - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"

Never found solace in silence - Julia Alvarez "Life Lines"

Never chose the language we spoke - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

A gift I never expected - Mouna Ammar "My All-American Car - A Story"

The ones who never experienced transplanting - Mouna Ammar "1 Zmagria Place"

I'll never drink the proffer'd wine - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXVII: Foolish Vow" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Which never yet without remorse - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Though never winds have whispered it - Matthew Arnold "Religious Isolation"

And never a spray of yew - Matthew Arnold "Requiescat"

More afraid of never flying - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Inside an ocean that never spills - Julie Babcock "Being Right"

Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"

Never leave the reservation - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Where the summer never failed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Never stops knowing hunger - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"

The gun on the wall never fired - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"

Who waits for never to happen - Mary Jo Bang "Untitled"

Such fighting as blind Homer never sung - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

never say the dreams were false - Elizabeth Bartlett "odyssey"

as none aware of hallways to never - Elizabeth Bartlett "suddenly"

Never trembled at a fear like mine - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited

Time who speeds with never tiring flight - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Never copper but always fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

Storms sometimes never come - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

A lost thing could I never find - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"

Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

Damned souls had never much to tell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

Chaste paradigms that never sold themselves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

Conscious of wit I never yet possess'd - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

But never owns their sway - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Never phrased what he desired - Robert Bly "My Father at Eighty-Five"

never let them know your true size - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

To superman never pay toll - Howard Futhey Brinton "E Pluribus"

My heart shall never know despair - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

Should never crave the rose - Anne Bronte "The Narrow Way"

Never a hand on the cottage door - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

May grief never spoil its hue - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"

Never climb a rubber ladder - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"

Never punch a kettle - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"

Never kiss a nettle - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"

He never loses twice - Calef Brown "The Gambling Ghost"

How never to start the night empty - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

Mischief-making Time would never dare - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

Never, never have forgot themselves - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

Never stirred by rain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Never to see my heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

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

The sun has never met its shadow - Sue Budin "Totality"

With those I never succeeded to love - Julie Byrne "Sleepwalker"

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

The linnet wearies never - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"

The first in worlds we've never seen - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"

Never an echo came - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy

Who have never trusted snow - Marianne Chan "December 1998"

Never is a strange design - Jennifer Chang "Mount Pleasant"

The never outside my window - Jennifer Chang "Mount Pleasant"

A silent girl is never safe - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

But her words never came - Victoria Chang "OBIT"

Never yet outlawed - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"

Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"

Never having lived among things - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"

Never a moment of ceasing - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson

Knowing me never made anyone a needle - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

Snow that never reaches fog - Youmna Chlala "Night Needs No Stars"

A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"

A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"

Who were never the one - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"

Never won an inch of star - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"

Never think of home - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"

He never saw the hand that threw them - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)

So wilderness never becomes mythology - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"

The flower you must never name - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"

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

Men die, but sorrow never - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"

Reaping what was never sown - Benjamin Copeland "A Prophecy"

Abide with never a glimpse of dawn - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"

And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"

Love never clung to the nettle - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"

Never the nightingale - Adelaide Crapsey "Dirge"

Never would cry my songs to sell - Adelaide Crapsey "The Vendor's Song"

With friends that never failed - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson

I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

never spoke ill of the pretty stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

somewhere i have never travelled - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

That never saw the sun fall in the sea - H.D. "Projector"

Unworded songs and musics never heard - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

And passion's dark'ning storms he never fears - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"

But never change the words that were within - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song may never come together again - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

Never heard the soil speak - Tyree Daye "Do-si-do"

Never pushed the garden door - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"

Doles out Nevers and Nots - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"

Will never stay in the mansions of despair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Thou, O Love, the traitor art]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Never meant for the apple to make you hungry - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

A fever and a hunger that never leaves - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Just another episode of things that never happened - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Never mournful to be in their company - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Who never refused combat - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

A window that never opens - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"

And never dread to strike a wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

The wizard-fingers never rest - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"

Have never passed her haunted house - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIV: A Well"

Never hindered by man-made walls - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

You are the cloud I never name - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Take it and fly through never - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"

Reach for it but never in haste - Dom "Risking for a Sign"

And never taste death's woe - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"

Never a sunrise mars the luminous air - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

What never will come true - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

There's never enough time to learn - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

From which the soul swerves never - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Never bid the Sphinx despair - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

The river I will never recover - Boris Dralyuk "Lethe:

Defiling wonder that he never knew - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Never so rash a steersman - "The Drowning of John Remorsson"

The clock's never ceasing and passionless chime - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"

To loose a link never made - "Eadwacer" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone

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

Which an age of prudence can never retract - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Forget never their command - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Never let the ball escape his glove - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

With never a bit of bread therein - "Fairy's Album: II. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"

In his labours failing never - "Fairy's Album: III. Fairy's Friends"

Which never gold could buy - Eleanor Farjeon "Vagrant Songs III"

We never were strangers to one another - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Listening for sounds that will never be made again - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Sowers who never will reap - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"

Who never from Apollo fled - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

Never thought the tyrant could ever die - Mina Florea "Remember"

Master the map of never - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

Oft assailed but never quelled - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Never begging at the sky - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

Never to forget my lost bearings - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

The wheel never rusts, never stopped - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"

So now and never any different - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

Never knew her till her hair was grey - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"

A rose would never admit me - Zona Gale "Roses"

Never overfilling from this banquet - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"

The moon that never changed allegiances - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

Shall never have any fear of love - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"

Paradise never made you any promises - Nikita Gill "How to Leave Paradise"

Never remembering how to return - Nikita Gill "Temporary"

A bad dream that never started - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"

On the thirteenth of never - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"

The sun never sets on your nostalgia - Dana Gioia "Map of the Lost Empire"

Swept on a course we never could have charted - Dana Gioia "Words, Words, Words"

Never the promise of shelter - Louise Gluck "March"

To never look away - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"

A map by which their future was ne'er confined - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

Never flush of copper stir - Louis Golding "Jack of April"

Never in crevice or cave or chasm - Louis Golding "The Quest"

A thing that was once wild is never tame - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

Never enough keys for all the doorways of memory - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Never enough keys for all the hidden rooms - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

A world that never explains why - Jennifer Grotz "Staring into the Sun"

And never should his eyes turn back - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

The sentence God never gave us - Nathalie Handal "Glory"

With never a fault in its flow - Thomas Hardy "The Selfsame Song"

that I never stopped looking for you - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

Never bowed his haughty crest - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"

Never have the luxury of making ourselves simple - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

Never a hint of a challenging hope - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XXIII"

Never was a voice on earth - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"

All dreams of what I know can never be - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"

Mephisto never yet was caught beneath false colors - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

But never actually awakens the trees - Michael Hettich "The Angels"

The petal of hibiscus that never blooms - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"

Hoping never to open up the cupboard - Conrad Hilberry "Empty Plate"

Where the future never thinks to look - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

A bleeding heart can never beat as strong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"

Never looked at the unbroken ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"

Now was the moment or never at all - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Never a storm will vex her - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

That tap will never run again - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

To show what man should never see - Thomas Hood "The Water Lady"

Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

The trumpet that shall never call retreat - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

Who never neglect to offer up praise - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

But shepherds have never required sheep - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

To silence what was never right - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

In the room where she never sleeps - John James "Forget the Song"

Anchored me into the mouth of never - Charles Jensen "Complaint of Isadora Duncan's Scarf"

the daylight never changes - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"

A shawl of sparks over a story I have never told - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

Never lonesome in Babylon - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

Never forgetful silence fall - Lionel Johnson "Celtic Speech"

The window that never opens - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Never an easy dream - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Silence has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

History has never stopped me - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

Never sleeping when the storm hit - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Never ghostless as it glows - A.M. Juster "The impossible in which I believe"

Fire from a match you never lit - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

For a beloved who never arrived - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"

Like messages that will never be caught - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Shoes never worn enough to be worth the price - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

At four in the never noon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

a bridge you will never need to cross first - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

To which our footsteps never shall return - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Where never Shepherd fed his Flock - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

Never heeds the violets or lilies - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"

That never a wind may reach - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Never shy of flowers - Kim Unsong "Blessed"

Never eternal - Kim Unsong "Life Candle"

In the face of never lasting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Never Icarus with wax melting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

And we never gave her fuel - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

If not tomorrow then never - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Misfortunes will never come single - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

The expected can never happen here - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Never hitting the destined mark - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Never drops an answer from those worlds unknowns - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"

Never utterly gone from reach - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"

Drawn blades never sheathed - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

The words my lute can never say - Frances Ledwidge "In September"

Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"

Never cease the pure chaste hymns - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

For Olympus ne'er open'd its portals - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"

Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"

Money and all it never bought - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"

Never in fair justice framed - Amy Levy "Medea"

Whose fruit was never ripe - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

And never again be sober - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Wars most Americans never know are happening - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

A giant hound that never sleeps - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Never ready for the skyscrapers - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

All this skin that will never bear fruit - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Never known a law to rewind a bullet - Tariq Luthun "Al-Bahr"

And never see the crescent moon of Hope - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

Things the sequel never brought - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"

Never a sunrise too deep - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"

Never a look or a turning back - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"

That which was never united - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 1"

We never talked about the war - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"

Never meant to live in euphemism - Randall Mann "Realtor"

A hunger I can never grasp - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

Outside a house that never belonged to us - Maya Marshall "Long Live the Queen"

Never needed any other emotion than power - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"

Though infinite can never meet - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Reaching hands that never met - John Masefield "King Cole"

Who are never near - Donna Masini "A Gate"

One lethed hour that duty never brings - Florence Ripley Mastin "Moth Moon"

Nothing left but ideas we will never have - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

All the snow that never falls - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

Must never heed the fascinating note - Claude McKay "The Barrier"

May never hope for full release - Claude McKay "Outcast"

An idea never taking root - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"

Never feel it aching in your bones - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

But never so fell a scowl - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Naked and never looking back - W.S. Merwin "Note"

Lines rehearsed though never written - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"

And ghosts never left behind - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

That blue that never bled to red - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Never worth immortal misery - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"

Of thorns and petals never worn - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

Of flowers dead and letters never sent - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

Never seen our own face - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'

Coated in sauces I've never tasted - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

A house that was never built - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

because carbon can never be innocent - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

On the condition that you never attempt revisions - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

You will never go outside the lines - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

Never quite willing to remain confined - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

You never knew her name - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Never sped the midnight deer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

And never lead to summer's dust - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"

The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Who never knew a victory - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Never a vassal should leave his lord - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Never veered from the path where he meant to go - Sarah Noble-Ives "Horse-Back"

Chattering ducks who never lose hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Big Songs"

Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

That can fail or falter never - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

Our true hearts shall never falter - "The Old Flag Alone" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

If we never disown its weight - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

Never stopped me from dancing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

A conscience that never blinks - Mary Oliver "With the Blackest of Inks"

Promises never to mend it again - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

I never said they feed my heart - Dorothy Parker "Faut de Mieux"

That ways of love are never new - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"

Never done - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's song"

Ghosts of pictures never painted - Linda Pastan "Late in October"

Never a prudent thing - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"

May never dare to ask return - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

But we never averted our eyes - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"

Never quenched a living song - Walter S. Percy "The Good Samaritan"

But never reach the freedom shore - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

My father never needed a compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

By earthquakes never sealed - Phan Nhien Hao "Meeting a Cab Driver in New York" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

As affection was never twilight - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"

Never stop courting recklessness - Carl Phillips "If You Will, I Will"

Early in its slow unwinding to never again - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"

The bodies of fruit we never tasted - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

Patterns never in repose - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

The moon never beams without bringing me dreams - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

To sail towards the wildest of screams and never return - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

Your peer on earth I never did see - "The Queen of Elfland"

A language I wish I had never learned - Paige Quinones "Viability Study"

But never may complete the tune - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Laying of Ghosts"

Like the place you were from never existed - m.s. RedCherries "finding tomorrow"

Cole Porter never wrote a song about us - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Never meant to be human - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

Staring at the god he could never rival - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Never to trust to memory only - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Never blamed my hands - James Richardson "Essay on the One Hand and on the Other"

The amen in the prayer you never say - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"

But the exit is never to see light - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

The song I never sing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"

You never march alone - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

Where never wild seas break - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

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

Where the Mongol steeds never galloped - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

May we never be so parched - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Never caught his quarry - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Never stand still on the path - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

Never answer another letter - May Sarton "Wanting to Die"

back to some childhood we never got to live - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

Her misgivings never strayed from liquid night - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

Never heard the call to shelter - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"

This latest means of never needing air - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"

These stars will never shine so bright - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"

& never dream that you should be afraid - Ann K. Schwader "Weird of the White Sybil"

the river for me never quenched - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"

And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Beauty's rose might never die - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVI"

Shall never cut from memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"

Never say that I was false - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CIX"

Looks on tempests and is never shaken - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Never divides a flaw from its lesson - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"

With butterflies that never left me - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

My tryst was never made with them - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cuchulain"

His wit ne'er drives his wisdom out of court - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

If erring often, never commonplace - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Softly dreaming, waking never - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

And harbors never known - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"

With never a spark in the empty dark - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

A knot in my most likely never - Arthur Solway "What Is Not"

Earth that never doubts nor fears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

But my dreams never explained - Juliana Spahr "Will There Be Singing"

Choices that we didn't make and never wanted - A.E. Stallings "Whethering"

Who never strives with fortune - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"

Never her wrongs repair - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Too Late"

Like ghosts that never slept - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"

Swept by winds that never blew before - George Sterling "The Last of Sunset"

Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"

Never trusted his paradise - Gerald Stern "E. P. 1"

Never touched his heart - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"

The outland peace of the trail that never turns back - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Never broken by doubt - General Su Wu "To His Wife" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Never to measure its full depth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 71: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

As if fortune's rich tide never ebbed - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

And gave us never yet a ray of satisfaction - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

Never ask why will is but obedience - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"

A night when dusk never comes - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"

Murmuring numbers that never added up - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

You had never started and would never stop - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

Grown in gardens never owned - Carmen Tafolla "Marked"

Never touched what made me holy - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"

A brazen thief never charged - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Never mind the pins and needles - Dorothea Tanning "Never Mind"

Had that witch ne'er crossed the sea - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

A few trout in streams that never freeze - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"

Waiting for a bus that would never come - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

Never in the marketplace of nations - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"

Lights and shades hid what has never been - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Never lost except to prove the sweetness - Edward Thomas "Tall Nettles"

And never fail to cheer - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"

Never kissed at all - Sara Teasdale "The Look"

Never tears at night - Sara Teasdale "The Mother of a Poet"

The one crop that never failed - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

In the undefiled abyss of what can never be - Edward Thomas "The Word"

Never sleeps afraid - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

Depending on what I can never tell - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Never turn down a sedative - David Trinidad "Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera"

The Bible never changes its mind - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Glories gone but never dead - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

Through years he never endured - John Updike "Outliving One's Father"

Whose somersault never got off the ground - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"

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

Burrowed back with never a sound - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Golden streams that never freeze - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Would never go unseen - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

Will never hear their whispers leak through the dirt - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"

The hills never turned in their sleep - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

That never shall borrow peace - Charles William Wallace "Soul of My Soul"

Whose stings and gnawing shall never cease - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist

Never will unloose my hold - Charles Wesley "Wrestling Jacob"

In this kitchen that I never knew was infinite - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Voids that never knew the pity of creation - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Answers never come late - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"

Whom fate can never surprise - Walt Whitman "Song for All Seas, All Ships"

Midnight seas that never sleep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

The charm with Eden never lost - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

Never start to hide your heart - Margaret Widdemer "If You Should Tire of Loving Me"

I wish the wind may never cease - "The Wife of Usher's Well"

Never our plan - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Greater Britain"

Never a breeze scatters the thistledown - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

And to sorrow never yield - Myra Viola Wilds "Sunshine"

A tongue that never lies - Joseph R. Wilson "A Country Romance"

We were never ones to avoid pain - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

For stalking what was never there - Humbert Wolfe "February 14"

Had never been the empty dark - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

See that never thread lie wrong - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Where we know the light will never reach us - Charles Wright "April Evening"

That never stalls at boundaries - Jay Wright "Boli"

Tell them that light is never a metaphor - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"

What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

At the edge of Never - Mark Wunderlich "Gone Is Gone"

Like the child I never really got to be - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

For all our angels who never had this moment - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

Never afraid to wave good-bye - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

A carrion flower never in bloom - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

And never rest shalt know - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Never swallow a serpent's spine - Felicia Zamora "Dear Coyote"

Going out and never into - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"

That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"

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

The sparrow named never - Matthew Zapruder "You Have Astounding Cosmic News"

The hour's arrow never misses - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Curious flowers that never fall - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


The doors of never-ending gorges - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Over never-ending roads - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


To the never-fading sun-fields - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"


A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"


Where nevermore the rose of sunset pales - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Nevermore to rust unblemished - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"


Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"


Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"


Nevertheless persists in beauty - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"

Open nevertheless like hope - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"


Less than the unmade, the never-was - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"


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