| Center of a famed palindrome | 28 |
| Byronic "before" | 26 |
| Byronian "before" | 27 |
| Blake's ''before'' | 38 |
| Before, to Tennyson | 19 |
| Before, to Robert Burns | 23 |
| Before, to Prior | 16 |
| Before, to Longfellow | 21 |
| Before, to Kipling | 18 |
| Before, to Frost | 16 |
| Before, to Dickinson | 20 |
| Before, to Bryant | 17 |
| Before, to Blake | 16 |
| Before, old school | 18 |
| Before, in the past | 19 |
| Before, in one syllable | 23 |
| Before, in old poems | 20 |
| Before, in odes | 15 |
| Before, in bygone times | 23 |
| Before, in an ode | 17 |
| Before, in a poem | 17 |
| Before, for a bard | 18 |
| Before, either way you look at it | 33 |
| Before, before we used "before" | 41 |
| Before to Browning | 18 |
| Bardic before | 13 |
| An old syllable meaning "before" | 42 |
| Afore's cousin | 18 |
| "We shun it ___ it comes": Emily Dickinson | 52 |
| "Night Before Christmas" preposition | 46 |
| "Maid of Athens, ___ we part" (Lord Byron poem) | 57 |
| "Maid of Athens, ___ We Part" (Byron poem) | 52 |
| "Maid of Athens, __ we part . . .": Byron | 51 |
| "Into the brain __ one can think": Keats | 50 |
| "How long will a man lie i' the earth ___ he rot?": Hamlet | 72 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight . . ." | 68 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove . . ." | 55 |
| "Before" of yore | 26 |
| "Able was I ___..." | 29 |
| "Able was I ___ I saw Elba" (notable palindrome) | 58 |
| "Able was I ___ I saw . . ." | 38 |
| "Able was I ___ I ..." | 32 |
| "Able was I ___ . . ." | 32 |
| "A little ___ the mightiest Julius fell": Shak. | 57 |
| "... was I ___ I saw ..." | 35 |
| "... ___ my Romeo comes" | 34 |
| "... ___ he rode out of sight" | 40 |
| "... __ those shoes were old": "Hamlet" | 59 |
| "... __ he drove out of sight ..." | 44 |
| ". . . ___ my Romeo comes?" | 37 |
| ". . . __ he drove out of sight" | 42 |
| "___ Time transfigured me": Yeats | 43 |
| "___ the bat hath flown / His cloister'd flight ...": Macbeth | 75 |
| "___ on my bed my limbs I lay": Coleridge | 51 |
| "___ he drove out of sight..." | 40 |
| ''And look before you ___ you leap'' (Samuel Butler) | 68 |
| ''Able was I ___ I saw Elba'' | 45 |
| You might see it before long? | 29 |
| You might have seen it before now | 33 |
| Wordsworth's "__ With Cold Beads of Midnight Dew" | 63 |
| Word used before now | 20 |
| Word between I's in a noted palindrome | 42 |
| Word before now | 15 |
| Word before long or now | 23 |
| With "long," this means soon | 38 |
| What's been written before now? | 35 |
| Up to, to a versifier | 21 |
| Up to, in odes | 14 |
| Up to, for a poet | 17 |
| This may appear before long | 27 |
| Syllable-saving word for a haiku writer | 39 |
| Syllable-saving preposition | 27 |
| Stanzaic preposition | 20 |
| Spanish letter two after pe | 27 |
| Spanish letter after cu | 23 |
| Sooner than, to Shakespeare | 27 |
| Sooner than, to a sonneteer | 27 |
| Sooner than, poetically | 23 |
| Sooner than in poetry | 22 |
| Shelley's oft-used preposition | 34 |
| Roll-call reply in Soho | 23 |
| Riley's "_____ I Went Mad" | 40 |
| Rather than, to Hamlet | 22 |
| Rather than, to Cowper | 22 |
| Rather than, poetically | 23 |
| Prior, to Browning | 18 |
| Prior, prior to now | 19 |
| Prior, prior | 12 |
| Prior, in poetry | 16 |
| Prior to, to Poe | 16 |
| Prior to, previously | 20 |
| Prior to, poetically [Subscribe to the AVCX at avxwords.com] | 60 |
| Prior to, long ago | 18 |
| Prior to, in sonnets | 20 |
| Prior to, in poesy | 18 |
| Prior to, in old times | 22 |
| Prior to, in odes | 17 |
| Prior to, in an ode | 19 |
| Prior to, in a sonnet | 21 |
| Prior to, in "The Prioress's Tale" | 48 |