Potential Titles: Until/Till
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somethingdarkerThree times until surrender - Elmaz Abinader "First the Morning Cup of Coffee"
Until judgment sought its claim - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Until something resonated in the very air - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Until the perfect closing of the night - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
Until I jotted down my gratitude - Julia Alvarez "Why I Write"
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
Until the scissors severed us - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"
Until the ground groaned with war - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
Until no one remembers the road - Fatimah Asghar "Partition"
Until I can burn no more - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Until the sun bowed down to me - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Wild until we are free - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Cento Between the Ending and the End"
repeat a happy song until it becomes a blade - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
To sanctify the journey until now - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Until the latch at the end of the day - Mary Jo Bang "A Man Mentioned in an Essay"
Until the doom door opens - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"
As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
And sweet dreams until dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Until the oven claimed the pie - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Until this sore minute - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"
Until that melancholy hour - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited
Until they kissed their souls away - Clive Bell "December"
Here until the crack of doom - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Until the broken heavens streamed apart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Until her darkest streets ran weltering fire - William Rose Benét "The City"
Until we reach the Keeper of the Door - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"
Until the sun sets you are safe - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Attend until your dream is done - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Until there is no room for breath - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"
Until horizon spills our of our mouths - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"
Until I am hollow as a bone pipe - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"
Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
Until the key kisses the lock - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
How long until the world is sea again? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Until I was overflowing with light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Until these new bastiles fall - Ralph Chaplin "To France"
Until my touch wouldn't burn - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"
Until the sea shall free them - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
Alone until the times change - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"
Until the gasoline burns low - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
Until they stood on ruin's brink - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Until I learned how kites are made - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
Silent until my song - H.D. "Flute Song"
Until dawn bleaches it bare - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
Until the night is changed to noon - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Until the dawn's sure prophets cleft the night - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Pushed back into vagueness until it succumbs - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Until they fall like withered roots - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"
Can't burn until a true freeze hits - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"
Until the day no help arrives - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #3"
Until the North evoked it - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XLVIII: Fringed Gentian"
Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Until the lark began to sing - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]
Until the battlefields bittered our pollen - Tarik Dobbs "Mad Honey"
Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Until the imprisoned soul forgets - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Until Time's pulse is stayed - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
Until the spirit's instincts could he spell - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"
Until the final asteroid hides Omaha - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
Until my soul is lost - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"
Until her cup is too heavy - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"
Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
To guard until the break of day - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"
Until the doorknob went silent - Tarfia Faizullah "100 Bells"
Until I was but dust, buried unknown - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
For a moment until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Until memory held her - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Until they meet him and his electric teeth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
Until we learn to doubt its existence - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Preventing shadow until the moon prevail - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Until the beast outweighed my fear - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
Until you burned, a flame of ecstasy - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
I can pass until I speak - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Until time passes them on to his kin - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Until want and need cannot be separated - Rae Gouirand "In Lieu of Questions"
Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"
How it hungers the virus until neither function - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"
Until my frailties had to merits grown - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Until all of existence stood still - Cheng Him "Declaration"
Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
Until my eyes were blind with stars - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Deep from light and air, until the day of doom - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
Until awoke to judgment - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Until their music becomes cosmic - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Until all my words vanished - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
Until the truth saunters in - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"
Until absorbed by yellowed floral wallpaper - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
A birthright to sing until emptied - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #39: Jigglypuff"
Until thunder seemed impossible - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
Until we washed our hair with stars - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
Move until the ocean turns - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"
Laughed until it made the teardrops start - Marie L. Johnson "The Snow Man" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
Until the meanings leave - Rodney Jones "The Watergate"
Thrive until we grieve - Allison Joseph "Untethered"
Stayed aloft until the waters dried - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"
Until my heart broke me awake - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"
Watch you snap back until you yawn - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"
Until the proof becomes accepted - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Until what hastens went slower - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Not to meet until heaven - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Until my pulses leap like rills unbound - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Until they sank to sad suggestings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Until it bleeds lipstick - Aimee Le "American Poetry/The Age of Hypocrisy, Part II"
Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Until the forest wilted with slow poison - R.B. Lemberg "The Rivers, the Birchgroves, All the Receding Earth"
Until the qualm was drowned - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Until my balcony freezes with the icy notes - Prince Li Chin "Thinking of Her Lover" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Until I couldn't separate you from music - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
Until all she had left was silence - Tariq Luthun "I Wonder About the Woman who Now Lives in the Balad Without Me"
Until my lagging heart is dust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"
Until your heart can hear their silences - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
Until the mottled jaguar dawn surrenders - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
Until they read in Folly's eyes - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"
Until the bowls of fury were depleted - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Until all lawns shimmer with your bluest energy - Cate Marvin "A Windmill Makes a Statement"
No branch shall endure until morning - Theodore Maynard "A Great Wind"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
Until the sun collapses behind all the dust - John McCarthy "County Fair"
Until your coat stops shivering - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Until my daughter hails the day - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"
No one sang until one person began - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
Nothing is real until it can be sold - W.S. Merwin "Journey"
A destination only until attained - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"
Until that noon of sombre sky - Alice Meynell "Easter Night"
Until all the knowing turns to nonsense - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Until the sea drives them away - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
Until your breath becomes holy smoke - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
Until the charm be made complete - Christopher Morley "A Charm: For Our New Fireplace, to Stop Its Smoking"
Until it bleeds dense lunar silence - Jaye Nasir "November"
Until water finds a voice - Pablo Neruda "Bread-Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid
Until I reach the jaws of gold - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt
I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Until the doors of hatred fall - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
Circles the swells until subsumed by salt - Caroline Harper New "The Bathtub"
Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Until you miraculously break my inertia - Margaret Noodin "Inertia" transl. by the author
Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"
Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
Until devotion carved a wound - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"
Until evolving consciousness reveals my thoughts - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]
Until my heart goes out - Hannah Sanghee Park "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"
Until they lined up shoulder to shoulder - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Until reduced to history - Carl Phillips "Forecast"
Until the vows were held by heart - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"
Until they drown in our songs - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with the Inventor of the Barometer"
Until Apollo calls the Bard - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
Until my pain is upside down - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"
Until his sorrow became his action - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"
Until his tears became a rupture - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"
Until my soul was melted into song - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Until they run out of nights - William Reichard "In the Evening"
Until the gold ran rich and thick into jars - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Until the twilight shadows creep - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"
Until the final shadows fall - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"
Until the whole harmonious landscape rang - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Until it ceased to be a wild and common thing - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Until we go faultless in our turn - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: IV. The Fall and Explulsion from Paradise" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Until you throw your sword away - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Until you turn to star-shine - Margaret E. Sangster "Intangible"
beats the page until knuckles singe - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
Until a random shard drew scarlet - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Unremembered until this place is made of only ourselves - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"
Until he walks out of the sea and into the mountains - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"
Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Until the pines murmur of your despair - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Until one forgets the color of the unseen skies - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Until at last Time's legions overthrow - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
until you are the one writing the song - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
That I chew on until my teeth rust - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Until light outweighs us - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"
Until their memory be fled - George Sterling "The Nile"
Until it reached those barriers Elysian - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Until the wind turns from the west - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
And sing until the stars grow pale - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Until the world was drowned - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"
until our clays together tangle - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Hope, neglected, falls behind until we walk alone - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Paradise until the freeze came killing - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Cahuilla Bird Songs"
Until the cataract of colour breaks - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Drinking their words until they became mine - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"
Until the Suns of Spring have smiled - Charles William Wallace "Life's Philosophy"
Until the stooping midnight covers - D.E.A. Wallace "Life and I"
Until the time to mingle with true hearts - John Moncure Wettarau "For Coyote"
Find and shape what is not known until it's made - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"
Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"
Still until the night - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"
We hug the world until it stings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
Until time had been washed finally under - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Walk until you hit a wall - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Until the hard daybreak - Jenny Xie "Ongoing"
The sun weeps until I boil - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
Until the spirit untangles itself - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
Until the next singularity comes along - James F. Yockey "What If"
Until all you're holding is a curl of ash - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]
Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Till the spears of Spain came shivering in - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Gnashing their teeth till the ropes are frayed - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Till slothful Charon in his barge rowed by - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"
Till Thought and Purpose caused the void to leap - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Till the leafless limbs be clothed again - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Till the red rose blooms on the willow tree - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Till oldest wisdom rose to shake hands with the new - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Till in full worth it breaks at last - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
Till waterfalls are turned to stone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
played till time had tired - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
Till liquid sweetness stirs the air - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"
Till Autumn fades the rose - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
Incredible conquests till the whole world reels - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Till you reach the tangled tide advancing - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
The kudzu spreads till it darkens - "The Book of Odes: No.124 The Kudzu Spreads Till It Darkens the Brier" transl. by Burton Watson
Till I heard the nightmare brewing - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Follow till the dusk of my day - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Till sorrow's source were dry - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"
Till I quaff from the goblet of duty - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"
Till each astonishes the other - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Till the strong tornado broke - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Till my last sun shall set - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Uplifted till we touch a star - Witter Bynner "The New World I"
Run from stars till you are out of breath - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"
Till all worlds shall tremble at my nod - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Till our appetites are lit into star spangled flames - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Till danger's troubled night depart - Thomas Campbell "Ye Mariners of England"
Till the rocket tells the star - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Blow your trumpets till they crack - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"
'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"
Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Till the clock had counted ten - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Dreaming till I find him - Hilda Conkling "Fairies"
Till life's poor transient night is spent - Cowper "Nightingale and Glow-worm" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 11, June 2, 1832]
Till morning tide comes full and free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Till damsons dropped from the branches sere - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
Till this stormy night be gone - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"
Till the birds forbore their call - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Till fire shatter the dark - H.D. "Demeter"
Till the sea shall be no more - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"
Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave - William H. Davies "The Captive Lion"
Till they take this changeling creature - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"
Till he floods both earth and ocean - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
Subtracting till my fingers dropped - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"
Till qualified for pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IV"
Till it argued him narrow - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXVIII: The Preacher"
Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Till those tearful winds abate - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"
Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"
It won't come till yesterday - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"
Till he came unasked by night - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Till human Time shall fold its eyelids - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
Till the refusal propagates a fear - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Till human voices wake us - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Till time, and life, and warfare end - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
Till the stars of Heaven fell - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Till dusk met the hills - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"
Till green no longer bandages what I feel - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"
Till they enclose mighty circles - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Till Autumn's loveliest days are past - "The Flower and the Oak: Imitated from the Italian" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Till triumph shall find them desolate - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Never knew her till her hair was grey - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"
And played hide-and-seek till the clock struck one - Nellie M. Garabrant "Grandmother's Clock" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Till slumber lays us on her shelves - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Till echo rang a mile - Jean Glover "O'er the Muir amang the Heather"
Till the Princes of Earth bow low to kiss his stirrup - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Till I breathe corruption - David Gray "Sonnet"
Till the heavens began to frown - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
Till every heart-string thrills and glows - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Till my heart drains joy's cup - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Rest till stars shall fall - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Till the brow of Night grew pale and starless - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Till the din invades the palace - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
Till a harsh change comes edging in - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"
Till it catch the sound of that western sea - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
Till you learn again to breathe underwater - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"
Till bold revenge shall give the blow - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
No morning till we've said goodnight - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Till fire runs in the maples and ice goes out - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"
Till circling air seems drunken quite - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"
Till even Sorry gently glide away - Kate Hillard "Love's Sepulchre" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
You know not what's Inside them till they're Broke - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
A Solon ponders till his Years are great - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Expanding till I am light - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Barred at the threshold till we cleaned the tar - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Till all the eternal stars shall wane - Elinor Jenkins "H.S.T. Requiescat"
To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"
Till time withers with his kiss - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Till royal Morning ope her dreaded eye - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Till the night-stars do the day-star meet - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Till our bleeding feet spurt compassion - Kevin Killian "Free"
Counting till revelations - Eunsong Kim "Romance #1"
Till golden Phoebus should restore his splendor - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Torrents raging down till rivers surge - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"
Till his small borrowings will yield no more - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Coldness clogged the sea, till it ceased to croon - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Till the grey downs dulled to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
No peace till the hill bursts - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
Held locked in the veins till the last fire - Philip Levine "Breath"
Yet Judith, till her war was won - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
Till we've consumed enough to leave - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Phragmites"
Till all the allotted flax were spun - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
The morn not waking till she sings - John Lyly "The Spring"
Till the weeping fawn descended - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Ever renewed till waking cease - Thomas MacDonagh "Litany of Beauty"
Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Till the Pillars of Hell are uprooted - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"
Till our vainglory puts its scepter by - Harry Martinson "Aniara 24" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Till I come to quiet moorings - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"
Glad till the dancing stops - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
Perfect till the rocks dissolve - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Till our Raven's plumes were scattered - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
Scaring Fear till Fear escapes - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Under my head till morning - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"
Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"
Let us both listen till we understand - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Halt not till thou seest the beacons flare - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Row till the sea-nymphs rise - T. Sturge Moore "Rower's Chant"
Till our hope grow a wrathful fire - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Till all my human hungers are fulfilled - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet to Death"
Till they get too big for the little nest - "Nesting Time" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Till even flushed Silenus wakes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Till all the waters of liberty flowed forth - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Perplex the mind till tired reflection turns - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"
And makes us unwillling till late to depart - James Parkerson "A Description of the Pine-apple at Towse"
Till sight and hearing ache - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Till glory be acknowledged vain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Till all that spectral host appear - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Till horror outdoes hate - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"
Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"
Till the weaver's fingers ache - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Sing on till light and shadow meet - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"
Till he's lost in the stars of the milky way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
Till I lost all measure of good or ill - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"
Till lust and murder gorge their fierce desire - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Till the snow-caps catch the chorus - Robert Reid "A Song of Canada"
Till the dark and the dawning meet - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Song of the Little Winds"
Till the mountains give back the far sounds - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"
Till they shine like phosphorus - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Till the lopped staff blooms again - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"
Till we had nothing but thoughts and memories - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Till even my own dream dies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Speed till time has pass'd away - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Till Death shall ply his sieve - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"
Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"
Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
Till valor and love be no more - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Till the new day quenches the lamps - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Till only ladders bring deliverance - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"
Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"
Till their ghosts are unmasked - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"
Till their plumes have gathered strength to lift them - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"
Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Among the sunset hills till the Hunter's Moon arise - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Till the living wood became a devastated solitude - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Change"
Till the screaming vulture whets his beak - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"
Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Not till the Peace had closed our quarrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Till the links of the universe are unfastened - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Till through the weight of overcoming hours - C.H. Sorley "German Rain"
Race with the brook till my breath is gone - "A Spring Song" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Till you and I and Time are old - James Stephens "By Ana Liffey"
Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"
Till I am crushed with beauty - Marion Strobel "Spring Morning"
Waiting in the tall reeds till the intruders pass - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Till the night calls forth the moon - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"
Denied admittance till his trial's past - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Scream till the waves scream back - Marian Thanhouser "At Night"
Till luxury gets what it wrongfully craves - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Till fields of ice her course confine - Henry David Thoreau "Lines [Though all the Fates should prove unkind]"
Past all removal till the world were done - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VI"
That we dally with hearts till their treasures are ours - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Till Time shall find Eternity - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Till my name re-entered me - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"
Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Till the clock says stop - Jacqueline Waters "Ready for My Statement?"
From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"
Kissing apples till they blush - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"
And wrestle till the break of day - Charles Wesley "Wrestling Jacob"
That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Till heaven yield her sceptre - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Till the throne of night be shaken - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Whirl till our whim is won - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
Till angels wrap the spheres in fire - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Swim in milk and honey till we drown - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Till time and times are done - W.B. Yeats "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
Till the heart dare not move - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Till the marble-stone was rent and riven - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
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Until judgment sought its claim - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Until something resonated in the very air - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Until the perfect closing of the night - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
Until I jotted down my gratitude - Julia Alvarez "Why I Write"
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
Until the scissors severed us - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"
Until the ground groaned with war - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
Until no one remembers the road - Fatimah Asghar "Partition"
Until I can burn no more - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Until the sun bowed down to me - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Wild until we are free - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Cento Between the Ending and the End"
repeat a happy song until it becomes a blade - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
To sanctify the journey until now - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Until the latch at the end of the day - Mary Jo Bang "A Man Mentioned in an Essay"
Until the doom door opens - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"
As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
And sweet dreams until dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Until the oven claimed the pie - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Until this sore minute - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"
Until that melancholy hour - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited
Until they kissed their souls away - Clive Bell "December"
Here until the crack of doom - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Until the broken heavens streamed apart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Until her darkest streets ran weltering fire - William Rose Benét "The City"
Until we reach the Keeper of the Door - Stella Benson "The Newer Zion"
Until the sun sets you are safe - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Attend until your dream is done - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Until there is no room for breath - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"
Until horizon spills our of our mouths - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"
Until I am hollow as a bone pipe - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"
Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
Until the key kisses the lock - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
How long until the world is sea again? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Until I was overflowing with light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Until these new bastiles fall - Ralph Chaplin "To France"
Until my touch wouldn't burn - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"
Until the sea shall free them - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
Alone until the times change - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"
Until the gasoline burns low - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
Until they stood on ruin's brink - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Until I learned how kites are made - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
Silent until my song - H.D. "Flute Song"
Until dawn bleaches it bare - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
Until the night is changed to noon - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Until the dawn's sure prophets cleft the night - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Pushed back into vagueness until it succumbs - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Until they fall like withered roots - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"
Can't burn until a true freeze hits - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"
Until the day no help arrives - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #3"
Until the North evoked it - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XLVIII: Fringed Gentian"
Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Until the lark began to sing - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]
Until the battlefields bittered our pollen - Tarik Dobbs "Mad Honey"
Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Until the imprisoned soul forgets - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Until Time's pulse is stayed - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
Until the spirit's instincts could he spell - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"
Until the final asteroid hides Omaha - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"
Until my soul is lost - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"
Until her cup is too heavy - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"
Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
To guard until the break of day - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"
Until the doorknob went silent - Tarfia Faizullah "100 Bells"
Until I was but dust, buried unknown - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
For a moment until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Until time returns - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"
Until memory held her - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Until they meet him and his electric teeth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
Until we learn to doubt its existence - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Preventing shadow until the moon prevail - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Until the beast outweighed my fear - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"
Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
Until you burned, a flame of ecstasy - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
I can pass until I speak - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Until time passes them on to his kin - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Until want and need cannot be separated - Rae Gouirand "In Lieu of Questions"
Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"
How it hungers the virus until neither function - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"
Until my frailties had to merits grown - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Until all of existence stood still - Cheng Him "Declaration"
Never knew this fruit until I tasted it - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
Until my eyes were blind with stars - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Deep from light and air, until the day of doom - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
Until awoke to judgment - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Until their music becomes cosmic - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Until all my words vanished - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
Until the truth saunters in - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"
Until absorbed by yellowed floral wallpaper - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
A birthright to sing until emptied - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #39: Jigglypuff"
Until thunder seemed impossible - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
Until we washed our hair with stars - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"
Move until the ocean turns - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"
Laughed until it made the teardrops start - Marie L. Johnson "The Snow Man" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
Until the meanings leave - Rodney Jones "The Watergate"
Thrive until we grieve - Allison Joseph "Untethered"
Stayed aloft until the waters dried - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"
Until my heart broke me awake - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"
Watch you snap back until you yawn - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"
Until the proof becomes accepted - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Until what hastens went slower - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Not to meet until heaven - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Until my pulses leap like rills unbound - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Until they sank to sad suggestings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Until it bleeds lipstick - Aimee Le "American Poetry/The Age of Hypocrisy, Part II"
Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Until the forest wilted with slow poison - R.B. Lemberg "The Rivers, the Birchgroves, All the Receding Earth"
Until the qualm was drowned - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Until my balcony freezes with the icy notes - Prince Li Chin "Thinking of Her Lover" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Until I couldn't separate you from music - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
Until all she had left was silence - Tariq Luthun "I Wonder About the Woman who Now Lives in the Balad Without Me"
Until my lagging heart is dust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"
Until your heart can hear their silences - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
Until the mottled jaguar dawn surrenders - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
Until they read in Folly's eyes - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"
Until the bowls of fury were depleted - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Until all lawns shimmer with your bluest energy - Cate Marvin "A Windmill Makes a Statement"
No branch shall endure until morning - Theodore Maynard "A Great Wind"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
Until the sun collapses behind all the dust - John McCarthy "County Fair"
Until your coat stops shivering - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Until my daughter hails the day - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"
No one sang until one person began - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
Nothing is real until it can be sold - W.S. Merwin "Journey"
A destination only until attained - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"
Until that noon of sombre sky - Alice Meynell "Easter Night"
Until all the knowing turns to nonsense - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Until the sea drives them away - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
Until your breath becomes holy smoke - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
Until the charm be made complete - Christopher Morley "A Charm: For Our New Fireplace, to Stop Its Smoking"
Until it bleeds dense lunar silence - Jaye Nasir "November"
Until water finds a voice - Pablo Neruda "Bread-Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid
Until I reach the jaws of gold - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt
I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Until the doors of hatred fall - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf
Circles the swells until subsumed by salt - Caroline Harper New "The Bathtub"
Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Until you miraculously break my inertia - Margaret Noodin "Inertia" transl. by the author
Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"
Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
Until devotion carved a wound - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"
Until evolving consciousness reveals my thoughts - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]
Until my heart goes out - Hannah Sanghee Park "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"
Until they lined up shoulder to shoulder - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Until reduced to history - Carl Phillips "Forecast"
Until the vows were held by heart - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"
Until they drown in our songs - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with the Inventor of the Barometer"
Until Apollo calls the Bard - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
Until my pain is upside down - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"
Until his sorrow became his action - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"
Until his tears became a rupture - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"
Until my soul was melted into song - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Until they run out of nights - William Reichard "In the Evening"
Until the gold ran rich and thick into jars - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Until the twilight shadows creep - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"
Until the final shadows fall - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"
Until the whole harmonious landscape rang - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Until it ceased to be a wild and common thing - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Until we go faultless in our turn - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: IV. The Fall and Explulsion from Paradise" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Until you throw your sword away - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Until you turn to star-shine - Margaret E. Sangster "Intangible"
beats the page until knuckles singe - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
Until a random shard drew scarlet - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Unremembered until this place is made of only ourselves - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"
Until he walks out of the sea and into the mountains - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"
Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Until the pines murmur of your despair - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Until one forgets the color of the unseen skies - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Until at last Time's legions overthrow - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
until you are the one writing the song - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
That I chew on until my teeth rust - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Until light outweighs us - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"
Until their memory be fled - George Sterling "The Nile"
Until it reached those barriers Elysian - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Until the wind turns from the west - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
And sing until the stars grow pale - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Until the world was drowned - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"
until our clays together tangle - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Hope, neglected, falls behind until we walk alone - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"
Paradise until the freeze came killing - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Cahuilla Bird Songs"
Until the cataract of colour breaks - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Drinking their words until they became mine - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"
Until the Suns of Spring have smiled - Charles William Wallace "Life's Philosophy"
Until the stooping midnight covers - D.E.A. Wallace "Life and I"
Until the time to mingle with true hearts - John Moncure Wettarau "For Coyote"
Find and shape what is not known until it's made - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"
Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"
Still until the night - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"
We hug the world until it stings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
Until time had been washed finally under - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Walk until you hit a wall - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Until the hard daybreak - Jenny Xie "Ongoing"
The sun weeps until I boil - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
Until the spirit untangles itself - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
Until the next singularity comes along - James F. Yockey "What If"
Until all you're holding is a curl of ash - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]
Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Till the spears of Spain came shivering in - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Gnashing their teeth till the ropes are frayed - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Till slothful Charon in his barge rowed by - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"
Till Thought and Purpose caused the void to leap - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Till the leafless limbs be clothed again - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Till the red rose blooms on the willow tree - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Till oldest wisdom rose to shake hands with the new - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Till in full worth it breaks at last - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
Till waterfalls are turned to stone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
played till time had tired - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
Till liquid sweetness stirs the air - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"
Till Autumn fades the rose - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
Incredible conquests till the whole world reels - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Till you reach the tangled tide advancing - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
The kudzu spreads till it darkens - "The Book of Odes: No.124 The Kudzu Spreads Till It Darkens the Brier" transl. by Burton Watson
Till I heard the nightmare brewing - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Follow till the dusk of my day - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Till sorrow's source were dry - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"
Till I quaff from the goblet of duty - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"
Till each astonishes the other - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Till the strong tornado broke - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Till my last sun shall set - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
Uplifted till we touch a star - Witter Bynner "The New World I"
Run from stars till you are out of breath - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"
Till all worlds shall tremble at my nod - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Till our appetites are lit into star spangled flames - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Till danger's troubled night depart - Thomas Campbell "Ye Mariners of England"
Till the rocket tells the star - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Blow your trumpets till they crack - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"
'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"
Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
Till the clock had counted ten - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Dreaming till I find him - Hilda Conkling "Fairies"
Till life's poor transient night is spent - Cowper "Nightingale and Glow-worm" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 11, June 2, 1832]
Till morning tide comes full and free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Till damsons dropped from the branches sere - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
Till this stormy night be gone - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"
Till the birds forbore their call - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Till fire shatter the dark - H.D. "Demeter"
Till the sea shall be no more - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"
Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave - William H. Davies "The Captive Lion"
Till they take this changeling creature - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"
Till he floods both earth and ocean - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
Subtracting till my fingers dropped - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"
Till qualified for pearl - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IV"
Till it argued him narrow - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXVIII: The Preacher"
Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Till those tearful winds abate - Irving Sidney Dix "March Wind Blow"
Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"
It won't come till yesterday - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"
Till he came unasked by night - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Till human Time shall fold its eyelids - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
Till the refusal propagates a fear - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Till human voices wake us - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Till time, and life, and warfare end - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
Till the stars of Heaven fell - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Till dusk met the hills - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"
Till green no longer bandages what I feel - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"
Till they enclose mighty circles - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Till Autumn's loveliest days are past - "The Flower and the Oak: Imitated from the Italian" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Till triumph shall find them desolate - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Never knew her till her hair was grey - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"
And played hide-and-seek till the clock struck one - Nellie M. Garabrant "Grandmother's Clock" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Till slumber lays us on her shelves - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Till echo rang a mile - Jean Glover "O'er the Muir amang the Heather"
Till the Princes of Earth bow low to kiss his stirrup - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Till I breathe corruption - David Gray "Sonnet"
Till the heavens began to frown - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
Till every heart-string thrills and glows - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Till my heart drains joy's cup - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"
Rest till stars shall fall - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Till the brow of Night grew pale and starless - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Till the din invades the palace - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
Till a harsh change comes edging in - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"
Till it catch the sound of that western sea - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
Till you learn again to breathe underwater - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"
Till bold revenge shall give the blow - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
No morning till we've said goodnight - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Till fire runs in the maples and ice goes out - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"
Till circling air seems drunken quite - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"
Till even Sorry gently glide away - Kate Hillard "Love's Sepulchre" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
You know not what's Inside them till they're Broke - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
A Solon ponders till his Years are great - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Expanding till I am light - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Barred at the threshold till we cleaned the tar - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Till all the eternal stars shall wane - Elinor Jenkins "H.S.T. Requiescat"
To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"
Till time withers with his kiss - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Till royal Morning ope her dreaded eye - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Till the night-stars do the day-star meet - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Till our bleeding feet spurt compassion - Kevin Killian "Free"
Counting till revelations - Eunsong Kim "Romance #1"
Till golden Phoebus should restore his splendor - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Torrents raging down till rivers surge - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"
Till his small borrowings will yield no more - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Coldness clogged the sea, till it ceased to croon - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Till the grey downs dulled to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Till the roots of my vision seems torn - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
No peace till the hill bursts - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
Held locked in the veins till the last fire - Philip Levine "Breath"
Yet Judith, till her war was won - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
Till we've consumed enough to leave - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Phragmites"
Till all the allotted flax were spun - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
The morn not waking till she sings - John Lyly "The Spring"
Till the weeping fawn descended - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Ever renewed till waking cease - Thomas MacDonagh "Litany of Beauty"
Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Till the Pillars of Hell are uprooted - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"
Till our vainglory puts its scepter by - Harry Martinson "Aniara 24" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Till I come to quiet moorings - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"
Glad till the dancing stops - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
Perfect till the rocks dissolve - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Till our Raven's plumes were scattered - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
Scaring Fear till Fear escapes - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Under my head till morning - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"
Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"
Let us both listen till we understand - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Halt not till thou seest the beacons flare - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Row till the sea-nymphs rise - T. Sturge Moore "Rower's Chant"
Till our hope grow a wrathful fire - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Till all my human hungers are fulfilled - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet to Death"
Till they get too big for the little nest - "Nesting Time" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Till even flushed Silenus wakes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Till all the waters of liberty flowed forth - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Perplex the mind till tired reflection turns - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"
And makes us unwillling till late to depart - James Parkerson "A Description of the Pine-apple at Towse"
Till sight and hearing ache - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Till glory be acknowledged vain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Till all that spectral host appear - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Till horror outdoes hate - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"
Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"
Till the weaver's fingers ache - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Sing on till light and shadow meet - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"
Till he's lost in the stars of the milky way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
Till I lost all measure of good or ill - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"
Till lust and murder gorge their fierce desire - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Till the snow-caps catch the chorus - Robert Reid "A Song of Canada"
Till the dark and the dawning meet - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Song of the Little Winds"
Till the mountains give back the far sounds - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"
Till they shine like phosphorus - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Till the lopped staff blooms again - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"
Till we had nothing but thoughts and memories - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Till even my own dream dies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Speed till time has pass'd away - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Till Death shall ply his sieve - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"
Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"
Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
Till valor and love be no more - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Till the new day quenches the lamps - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Till only ladders bring deliverance - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"
Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"
Till their ghosts are unmasked - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"
Till their plumes have gathered strength to lift them - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"
Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Among the sunset hills till the Hunter's Moon arise - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Till the living wood became a devastated solitude - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Change"
Till the screaming vulture whets his beak - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"
Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Not till the Peace had closed our quarrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Till the links of the universe are unfastened - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
Till through the weight of overcoming hours - C.H. Sorley "German Rain"
Race with the brook till my breath is gone - "A Spring Song" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Till you and I and Time are old - James Stephens "By Ana Liffey"
Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"
Till I am crushed with beauty - Marion Strobel "Spring Morning"
Waiting in the tall reeds till the intruders pass - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Till the night calls forth the moon - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"
Denied admittance till his trial's past - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Scream till the waves scream back - Marian Thanhouser "At Night"
Till luxury gets what it wrongfully craves - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Till fields of ice her course confine - Henry David Thoreau "Lines [Though all the Fates should prove unkind]"
Past all removal till the world were done - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VI"
That we dally with hearts till their treasures are ours - H.T. Tuckerman "[You call us inconstant]" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Till Time shall find Eternity - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Till my name re-entered me - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"
Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Till the clock says stop - Jacqueline Waters "Ready for My Statement?"
From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"
Kissing apples till they blush - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"
And wrestle till the break of day - Charles Wesley "Wrestling Jacob"
That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Till heaven yield her sceptre - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Till the throne of night be shaken - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Whirl till our whim is won - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
Till angels wrap the spheres in fire - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Swim in milk and honey till we drown - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Till time and times are done - W.B. Yeats "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
Till the heart dare not move - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Till the marble-stone was rent and riven - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
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