Potential Titles: Cease

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To cease for a time to exist - Frank Bidart "Song [You know that it is there]"

Though the world's regard may cease - Vera M. Brittain "The Sisters Buried at Lemnos"

The blaring party bugles cease - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

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

When we will have ceased even the waiting - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

That should never cease while daylight lasted - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"

Each lonely owl hath ceas'd to call - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"

Where trivial clamours cease - C.J. Druce "The Meeting"

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

The dizzy pulses cease - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

The wood-thrush ceased her song - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Rise of the Tide"

Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"

That my heart may cease to ache - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"

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

Morning brought sorrow, but Eve bids it cease - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"

Ever renewed till waking cease - Thomas MacDonagh "Litany of Beauty"

Close your eyes and cease your searches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Ceasing marathon plastic productions - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"

Ceased to admit what I, too, cease to admit - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

That ceased to be useful in the jungle - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Stilling the fire that does not cease - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Some day this quest shall cease - Alexander Posey "A Vision of Rest"

Earthly pleasures cease to charm - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen

Let these dreams and terrors cease - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Ceased to look on light - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems IV: Revoke Not"

In which the wars of time shall cease - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"

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]

Dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

With wounded feet we cease from wandering - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Because the heavens cease to smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

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

And the ancient struggles cease - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

Hoping to cease not - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

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

Deep silence where the shadows cease - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

And cease to know the poet's rapture - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

A sea that could not cease to smile - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

That my old care may cease - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"

Cease their gossip at the gate - Francis Brett Young "The Rain-Bird"

Each raindrop ceasing to exist - Jenny Zhang "under the chiming bell"


A cease fire for even the wilder kingdom - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"


Ceaseless/Unceasing.


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