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Potential Titles: Numbers [category]
Aug. 14th, 2012 06:45 pmCount.
Decimal:
The frolicking despair of repeating decimals - Dean Young "Lucifer"
Estimate:
Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"
What is dull Time in true love's estimation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
Innumerable.
Number/Outnumber.
Numberless.
Prime Number:
not enough prime numbers; and not enough time travel - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"
Tally.
Unnumbered.
Zero.
Two hundred million to nil - Edward van de Vendel "Impossible Beats Possible"
One.
Once.
First.
Two.
Binary.
Couple:
The bitter symbiosis of couples - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"
Geographic couplings with no witnesses - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Like meeting a couple of sphinxes - Charles Simic "Paradise"
Double.
Second.
Twain.
Twice.
Three.
Third.
Thrice.
Triad:
This nameless triad of the years - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
A triad now become a square - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks: V. A Game of Chess"
Triple.
Four.
Quadruple:
A spider quadrupling in my chest - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
Quartet:
Quartets of sun people - Terrance Hayes "We Should Make a Documentary About Spades"
Five.
Fifth.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Ninth:
Always on the ninth midnight - Andrew Lang "The Milk White Doe"
Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"
Ten.
11:
Eleven kinds of fear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Cranked to eleven by the sublimation of despair - Edgar Kunz "New Year"
Eleven petals about the rose - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Twelve.
Dozen.
13:
On the thirteenth of never - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
14:
With fourteen young ravens to feed - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"
He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Fourteen faithful moons to call your own - Allan Wolf "The Moons of Neptune: Roses Are Red, Neptune is Blue"
15.
16.
17:
In a country of seventeen moons - Louis Golding "Ghost and Body"
The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"
The seventeen year locust charged by - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
18:
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
19:
The great vigilance of the 19th century - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Nineteen poets sitting on their thrones - Gerald Stern "Ted Rosenberg"
Twenty.
Score.
23:
The 23rd mansion of the moon - Erin Belieu "Field"
24:
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
25:
No twenty-fifth hour will be given - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"
Twenty-five centuries of space and time - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"
26:
The twenty-six letters of my cowardice - Leonard Cohen "Death to this Book"
27:
Stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"
30.
33:
Three and thirty birds there stood - Walter de la Mare "Melmillo"
Thirty-three beads strung between an absence of wings - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
36:
Through all the thirty-six folds of the turning and twisting waters - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
40.
50.
59:
Hung fifty silver bells and nine - "The Queen of Elfland"
60:
Some sixty years of hunger - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
Where the eagles gather in bands of sixties - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
70:
Walk the length of seventy ships - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
Osiris' arms open and wait seventy days and nights - Maryann Hazen-Stearns "Embalmer"
Take from seventy springs a score - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II"
77:
Seventy-seven betrayers - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
80:
Eighty years in a notch of eternity - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"
90:
Lifting ninety years of stillness - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"
93:
Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"
99:
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Hundred.
101:
Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"
115:
A hundred wild centuries and fifteen - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
118:
One hundred and eighteen miniatures - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"
200:
200 years underline with waving ribbons - Julie Babcock "The Remainder of Barns"
206:
The shape of her two hundred and six bones - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
300:
At one sitting three hundred cups - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
The three hundred roads meet - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Wind" transl. by Alma Strettell
400:
Which lives only four hundred minutes - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
500.
600:
Six hundred years twice told - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
700:
A thousand million scoops, and seven hundred stairs - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
702:
The food could have fed seven hundred and two - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"
800:
Eight hundred of the brave - W. Cowper "Loss of the Royal George"
With the tumults of eight hundred years - Emily Lawless "Afterword"
900:
Spent in slumber just nine hundred years - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
in the wake of over 900 explosions - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Nine hundred degrees of nonstop night - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
999:
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Thousand.
1001:
As if eating were a thousand and one nights - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Those dyes of one and thousand autumn tints - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"
1100:
Eleven hundred sticks they cut - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
1200:
Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
1500:
Fifteen hundred ancient woes - Louis Golding "Numbers"
1800:
Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
2000:
Two thousand anvils of sunshine - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"
Song before two thousand uneven ears - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XVII" transl. by William O'Daly
Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"
3000.
4000:
Who has slept four thousand years - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
5000:
Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Five thousand coffins guard each flank - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"
6000:
With all the lumber of six thousand years - Robert Blair "The Grave"
An arrogance endured six thousand years - William Carlos Williams "History"
7000:
With Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
8000:
Eight thousand sunsets ago - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"
Watched a leaf disappear eight thousand times - Leah Naomi Green "Hashem"
Ten Thousand.
20 000:
His pride twenty thousand years mute - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"
More than twenty thousand ancient stars - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"
50 000:
And fifty thousand unconvicted crimes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"
Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"
From the summit of fifty thousand years - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"
70 000
Cry beneath the majesty of 70,000 stars - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
100 000:
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Imagining a hundred thousand different futures - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Million.
2 000 000:
In the maze of two million moments - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"
Two-million-year-old currents - Tyree Daye "Gin River"
Two million naturally occurring sweet things - Ross Gay "Sorrow Is Not My Name"
Two million things for me to learn - Edward Thomas "The Child in the Orchard"
3 000 000:
After making three millions in gold - Tom Hall "Why he asked for a Vacation"
8 000 000:
Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
10 000 000:
Ten million people came out to see - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Should haunt the undying stars ten million years - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Wisdom"
100 000 000:
And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
200 000 000:
Two hundred million to nil - Edward van de Vendel "Impossible Beats Possible"
Billion.
Ten Billion:
Filled ten billion barrels with the soot - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Thousand Million:
A thousand million scoops, and seven hundred stairs - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
Trillion.
3 Trillion:
The antlers of three trillion trees - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen f"
66 Trillion:
For 66 trillion eons I search the unseen - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Zillion:
A zillion crickets shimmeringly shrill - Tony Hoagland "Frog Song"
Finite.
Infinite.
Infinity.
Maximum:
A minimum of reason and a maximum of rhyme - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"
My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Minimum:
A minimum of reason and a maximum of rhyme - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"
no frame can minimize nor contain horizon - David Maduli "alameda point"
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Decimal:
The frolicking despair of repeating decimals - Dean Young "Lucifer"
Estimate:
Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"
What is dull Time in true love's estimation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
Innumerable.
Number/Outnumber.
Numberless.
Prime Number:
not enough prime numbers; and not enough time travel - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"
Tally.
Unnumbered.
Zero.
Two hundred million to nil - Edward van de Vendel "Impossible Beats Possible"
One.
Once.
First.
Two.
Binary.
Couple:
The bitter symbiosis of couples - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"
Geographic couplings with no witnesses - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Like meeting a couple of sphinxes - Charles Simic "Paradise"
Double.
Second.
Twain.
Twice.
Three.
Third.
Thrice.
Triad:
This nameless triad of the years - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
A triad now become a square - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks: V. A Game of Chess"
Triple.
Four.
Quadruple:
A spider quadrupling in my chest - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
Quartet:
Quartets of sun people - Terrance Hayes "We Should Make a Documentary About Spades"
Five.
Fifth.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Ninth:
Always on the ninth midnight - Andrew Lang "The Milk White Doe"
Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"
Ten.
11:
Eleven kinds of fear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Cranked to eleven by the sublimation of despair - Edgar Kunz "New Year"
Eleven petals about the rose - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Twelve.
Dozen.
13:
On the thirteenth of never - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
14:
With fourteen young ravens to feed - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"
He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Fourteen faithful moons to call your own - Allan Wolf "The Moons of Neptune: Roses Are Red, Neptune is Blue"
15.
16.
17:
In a country of seventeen moons - Louis Golding "Ghost and Body"
The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"
The seventeen year locust charged by - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
18:
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
19:
The great vigilance of the 19th century - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Nineteen poets sitting on their thrones - Gerald Stern "Ted Rosenberg"
Twenty.
Score.
23:
The 23rd mansion of the moon - Erin Belieu "Field"
24:
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
25:
No twenty-fifth hour will be given - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"
Twenty-five centuries of space and time - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"
26:
The twenty-six letters of my cowardice - Leonard Cohen "Death to this Book"
27:
Stand like twenty-seven prophets in a field - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"
30.
33:
Three and thirty birds there stood - Walter de la Mare "Melmillo"
Thirty-three beads strung between an absence of wings - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
36:
Through all the thirty-six folds of the turning and twisting waters - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
40.
50.
59:
Hung fifty silver bells and nine - "The Queen of Elfland"
60:
Some sixty years of hunger - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
Where the eagles gather in bands of sixties - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
70:
Walk the length of seventy ships - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
Osiris' arms open and wait seventy days and nights - Maryann Hazen-Stearns "Embalmer"
Take from seventy springs a score - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II"
77:
Seventy-seven betrayers - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
80:
Eighty years in a notch of eternity - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"
90:
Lifting ninety years of stillness - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"
93:
Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"
99:
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Hundred.
101:
Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"
115:
A hundred wild centuries and fifteen - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
118:
One hundred and eighteen miniatures - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"
200:
200 years underline with waving ribbons - Julie Babcock "The Remainder of Barns"
206:
The shape of her two hundred and six bones - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
300:
At one sitting three hundred cups - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
The three hundred roads meet - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Wind" transl. by Alma Strettell
400:
Which lives only four hundred minutes - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
500.
600:
Six hundred years twice told - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
700:
A thousand million scoops, and seven hundred stairs - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
702:
The food could have fed seven hundred and two - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"
800:
Eight hundred of the brave - W. Cowper "Loss of the Royal George"
With the tumults of eight hundred years - Emily Lawless "Afterword"
900:
Spent in slumber just nine hundred years - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
in the wake of over 900 explosions - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Nine hundred degrees of nonstop night - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
999:
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Thousand.
1001:
As if eating were a thousand and one nights - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Those dyes of one and thousand autumn tints - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"
1100:
Eleven hundred sticks they cut - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
1200:
Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
1500:
Fifteen hundred ancient woes - Louis Golding "Numbers"
1800:
Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
2000:
Two thousand anvils of sunshine - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"
Song before two thousand uneven ears - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XVII" transl. by William O'Daly
Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"
3000.
4000:
Who has slept four thousand years - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
5000:
Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Five thousand coffins guard each flank - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"
6000:
With all the lumber of six thousand years - Robert Blair "The Grave"
An arrogance endured six thousand years - William Carlos Williams "History"
7000:
With Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
8000:
Eight thousand sunsets ago - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"
Watched a leaf disappear eight thousand times - Leah Naomi Green "Hashem"
Ten Thousand.
20 000:
His pride twenty thousand years mute - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"
More than twenty thousand ancient stars - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"
50 000:
And fifty thousand unconvicted crimes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"
Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"
From the summit of fifty thousand years - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"
70 000
Cry beneath the majesty of 70,000 stars - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
100 000:
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Imagining a hundred thousand different futures - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Million.
2 000 000:
In the maze of two million moments - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"
Two-million-year-old currents - Tyree Daye "Gin River"
Two million naturally occurring sweet things - Ross Gay "Sorrow Is Not My Name"
Two million things for me to learn - Edward Thomas "The Child in the Orchard"
3 000 000:
After making three millions in gold - Tom Hall "Why he asked for a Vacation"
8 000 000:
Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
10 000 000:
Ten million people came out to see - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Should haunt the undying stars ten million years - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Wisdom"
100 000 000:
And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
200 000 000:
Two hundred million to nil - Edward van de Vendel "Impossible Beats Possible"
Billion.
Ten Billion:
Filled ten billion barrels with the soot - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Thousand Million:
A thousand million scoops, and seven hundred stairs - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
Trillion.
3 Trillion:
The antlers of three trillion trees - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen f"
66 Trillion:
For 66 trillion eons I search the unseen - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Zillion:
A zillion crickets shimmeringly shrill - Tony Hoagland "Frog Song"
Finite.
Infinite.
Infinity.
Maximum:
A minimum of reason and a maximum of rhyme - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"
My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Minimum:
A minimum of reason and a maximum of rhyme - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"
no frame can minimize nor contain horizon - David Maduli "alameda point"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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