Potential Titles: Twelve

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Twelve towers tall enough to pierce and hold - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"

Dieted down to twelve hours of light - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"

Twelve white eyes always staring out - Mrs. Clara Doty Bates "The Cuckoo Clock" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Twelve deep vibrations toll - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert III: The Welcome Home"

The strokes of many twelves - A.Y. Campbell "Animula Vagula"

And bound themselves, by kisses twelve - "Come Lasses and Lads"

Twelve trees is a forest these days - CAConrad "Neptune.4"

Its twelve lonely years in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Summer Nocturne"

In the house there are twelve ghosts - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

Traveled the twelve Houses of the Heavens - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

Shaped twelve sparrows from wet clay - Zilka Joseph "Sparrows and Dust"

Sewing twelve sweaters out of nettles - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Twelve ways to be wrong - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Shift her bones to shape the world twelve times - Maya Marshall "Musing onLilith Lost to Time"

Twelve black crows in mourning - Herbert Woodward Martin "Twelve Black Crows"

Bound with twelve shining clasps - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Twelve others might open - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

Foundations twelve of gems most dear - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Twelve little birds fly by in a row - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flying Hours"

Twelve little owls fly by in a row - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flying Hours"

The moonlight when the hell struck twelve - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"


From eve and morning and yon twelve-winded sky - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXII"


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