| Before, to Marlowe | 18 |
| Before, to Chaucer | 18 |
| Before, to Boccaccio | 20 |
| Before, to Birney | 17 |
| Before, to Beaumont | 19 |
| Before, to and fro | 18 |
| Before, to an elegist | 21 |
| Before, previously | 18 |
| Before, pretentiously | 21 |
| Before, poet. | 13 |
| Before, non-iambically | 22 |
| Before, in hymnody | 18 |
| Before, in Brit Lit class | 25 |
| Before, in a syllable of old | 28 |
| Before, in a ballade | 20 |
| Before, for Wordsworth | 22 |
| Before, before before | 21 |
| Before, backward and forward | 28 |
| Before, as written by poets | 27 |
| Before, archaically | 19 |
| Before, poetically | 19 |
| Before to Emerson | 17 |
| Before to Yeats | 16 |
| Before to Shakespeare | 22 |
| Before to Byron | 16 |
| Before to Browning | 19 |
| Before to a bard | 17 |
| Before of yore | 15 |
| Before in poesy | 16 |
| Bardic preposition | 18 |
| Bard's palindrome | 21 |
| Bard's 'before' | 27 |
| Anteceding, to poets | 20 |
| Ahead of, to a bard | 19 |
| Ahead of, in poetry | 19 |
| Ahead of, in poems | 18 |
| “Able was I ___ ...” | 28 |
| A palindrome's pivot | 24 |
| "You always end ___ you begin": Shak. | 47 |
| "Whose passing-bell may ___ the midnight toll" (Keats) | 64 |
| "We'll teach you to drink deep ___ you depart": Shak. | 67 |
| "We shun it ___ it comes": Dickinson | 46 |
| "To love that well which thou must leave ___ long" | 60 |
| "That will be ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth" | 64 |
| "Take heed, __ summer comes ...": Shakespeare | 55 |
| "Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ___ the other side he see." | 118 |
| "Sometimes I ain't so sho who's got ___ a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't" (William Faulkner) | 134 |
| "Prior to," palindromically | 37 |
| "Present!," in Soho | 29 |
| "Myself was stirring ___ the break of day": Shak. | 59 |
| "Maid of Athens, __ we part ...": Byron | 49 |
| "Look ___ ye leap": Heywood | 37 |
| "Listen, ___ the sound be fled": Longfellow | 53 |
| "Let us part, ___ the season of passion forget us": Yeats | 67 |
| "Let us part, __ the season of passion forget us": Yeats | 66 |
| "It will be long ___ the marshes resume" (Robert Frost) | 65 |
| "Inconstancy falls off ___ it begins": Shak. | 54 |
| "I kissed thee ___ I killed thee": Shakespeare | 56 |
| "I kissed thee ___ I killed thee": Othello | 52 |
| "I kissed thee __ I killed thee": "Othello" | 63 |
| "I kiss'd thee __ I kill'd thee": Othello | 59 |
| "I hope to see London once ___ I die": Shak. | 54 |
| "I hope to see London once ___ I die": "Henry IV, Part 2" | 77 |
| "I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight..." | 61 |
| "I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight ..." | 62 |
| "Heir" homophone | 26 |
| "For Lycidas is dead, dead ___ his prime": Milton | 59 |
| "Ev'n thought meets thought, ___ from the lips it part" (Pope) | 76 |
| "Drink deep ___ you depart" (Hamlet) | 46 |
| "Death closes all: but something ___ the end ..." (Tennyson) | 70 |
| "Dear mother Ida, hearken ___ I die" (Tennyson) | 57 |
| "Catch, __ she change . . ." Pope | 43 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ he drove out of sight" (penultimate line of "A Visit From St. Nicholas") | 122 |
| "But I heard him exclaim, ___ ..." | 44 |
| "Before" of long before | 33 |
| "Before" in only one syllable | 39 |
| "And look thou meet me ___ the first cock crow" (Oberon, to Puck) | 75 |
| "Air" homophone | 25 |
| "Able was I ____ ..." | 31 |
| "A little __ the mightiest Julius fell": Horatio | 58 |
| "...was I --- I saw ..." | 34 |
| "...___ I saw Elba" | 29 |
| "...___ he rode out of sight..." | 42 |
| "...___ he drove out of sight..." | 43 |
| "... was I ___ I saw Elba" | 36 |
| "... Venus sets __ Mercury can rise": Pope | 52 |
| "... thou must leave ___ long" (Sonnet 73) | 52 |
| "... the sun paused ___ it should alight": Shelley | 60 |
| "... die strangled ___ my Romeo comes?": Shak. | 56 |
| "... ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth" | 55 |
| "... ___ I again behold my Romeo!" | 44 |
| "... __ we extinguish sight and speech": Browning | 59 |
| "... __ the hot sun count / His dewy rosary ...": Keats | 65 |
| "... __ I saw Elba" | 29 |
| "... __ he drove out of sight": Christmas poem line | 61 |
| ". . . a little ___ the mightiest Julius fell": Shak. | 63 |
| ". . . __ thou and peace may meet": Shelley | 53 |
| ". ___ he drove out of sight ." | 41 |
| "--- I saw Elba" | 26 |
| "--- I saw Elba ..." | 30 |