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Potential Titles: Two
Dreaming two nations' glory - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
A refuge built against two reckonings - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Equivalent in effect to two cups of coffee - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"
His eyes are two keen blades - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)
Bring two dewy, fresh pieces of the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Improvised between two cups of tea - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Lurched between two smokestack towns - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Two wingless geese flew up the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Would I oscillate in two or three dimensions? - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"
Cushioned between two storms - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"
Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
The labyrinth door swings two ways - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Locked between two rows of metal teeth - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
Two hawks courting in a dead drop - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
With awful maledictions on the two who were such fools - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Two more days for your sun to shine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Two stone posts and a gate between - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"
There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
Some stars occupy two places - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Determine how two particles differ - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"
Two tired shepherds with lanterns - Max Bodenheim "A Head"
The interval between two steps - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Walking two by two beneath the shade - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Sulks and sighs push the two toward nightside - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"
In a barnacle built for two - Calef Brown "Barnacle Built for Two"
Two miles walked over a bridge - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
The two sides of her heart exchanging blood - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"
Two fragile arms enchain me - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXV. Love's Paradoxes" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A mind of two halves - Anthony Butts "Before Autumn"
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Rome on two iron legs - Tommaso Campanella "XLVII. Nebuchadnezzar's Image" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A gap between two rails - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"
His eyes two open ovens - Tina Chang "Celestial"
Two hosts shocked with dust and din - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
Like two loose comets wandering - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The woman with two souls and one body - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Four dividing into two scavenging pairs - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
And from the vast profound betwixt the two - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
The darkness between two buildings - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Joined two lakes into one - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Sprouted two intricate flowers in our minds - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Two moths dust the same screen for remembered light - Jay Deshpande "On Speaking Quietly with My Brother"
Two crows rowing through the rain - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
Two shallow cups of shadow - Chris Dombrowski "A Toast"
Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Two jewels of green fire - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
Two clear raindrops in your eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "The Light Gatherer"
Two seeming candles shine - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"
Mix the two legends together - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
Life of mine, before we two must part - George Eliot "Self and Life"
My two fates are reflected in the glass - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author
Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
Two tin cans and infinite string - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Sometimes in a Moment of Déjà Vu"
Two guitars fighting over the same late career Willie Nelson - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Two kinds of jewels, a vision for thieves - Robert Frost "Blueberries"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
One born for two worlds - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"
So the world continues around two corners - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"
Two people to bring the world to ruin - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Two tall elms were its sentinels - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Pinch the sun between two fingers - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"
One set of bootprints back where two had come - Lore Graham "Absence"
Two seconds shy of seven days - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"
Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Two horses grazed on a roof - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"
Two geraniums bravely in leaf - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
A shadow split in two - Nathalie Handal "As We Wait"
Those two seasons unsought - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"
A sip or two of sweet summer - Avis Harley "Sipping Supper"
A drop or two of honey around the top - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Rising to the tick of two clocks - Seamus Heaney "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication for Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight"
Two natures in perpetual strife - Oliver Herford "The Centaur"
Two starlings sail down the wind - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"
Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Two noises too old to end - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"
The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"
Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Spend a night or two among the dead - John James "Le Moribond"
To look at their two shadows on your surface - Mark Jarman "Spell for Encanto Creek"
Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Turkey vultures circling in two by two - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"
Two blocks beyond gravity - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"
Two boats upon a sea of glass - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
Maybe one or two things not quite right - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"
Two branches clap two stones together - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"
Two shovels for hardpan and splintering - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"
In the embrace of the same two seas - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"
Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"
Might swallow two whales - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Because two syllables are an easier loss to bear - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Snow falling inside two minds - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
A breath or two against all time - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"
Two pages to a grape fable - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Dividing the hours into two mismatched halves - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
Hope's conversation the best of the two - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Two discrete young snakes left their skin - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
Two motes laughing as they leave - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Two specks somersaulting right through the screen - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Two halves of the same strange atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Crossing"
Two different kitchen tables - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"
Two sad shadows over the old nations - Vachel Lindsay "The Fever Called War"
Then add a pinch or two of grammar - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"
A lady of clay and two stone men - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Two mis-matched puzzle pieces - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
You two with your one life - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Two candles at her head - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"
Midnight splits the darkness in two - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Two metric heretics dressed like crows - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"
Two new scars since yesterday - Furnley Maurice "Master in Equity"
Two lovely Queens divided - Theodore Maynard "John Redmond"
Two sowers in Life's field - John McCrae "Recompense"
Trapped between two mirror points - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"
In one or two lives - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
Two owls above the meeting - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"
We two will lie and burn - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Two empty suitcases sit in the corner - Jim Moore "Almost Sixty"
Removed the masks from my two faces - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Cut my destiny in two - Daniel Nadler [untitled]
Two dark moons or their eclipse - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Like two systems of salt - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Two heads of molten volcanoes - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
A laugh dividing the day in two - Pablo Neruda "Shy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Two travel stained wanderers - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"
Only two charms in my pocket - Frank O'Hara "Personal Poem"
Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"
Even God needs two versions of Creation - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
two entwined snakes and a lyre - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
Two and two will not make five - John Oxenham "God Is Good"
A grief that links two hearts in bliss - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
Broke my brittle heart in two - Dorothy Parker "A Very Short Song"
Although two shillings in the pound can't pay - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
Two arms outstretched to fold the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
These two hands to bar the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"
Found two colors of love - Willie Perdomo "Poet in Harlem"
Just the two dreams left - Carl Phillips "Self"
Always dwindling to just the two of us - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"
Two worthy difficulties - Robert Pinsky "Work Songs"
Then get up for two bowls of tea - Po Chu'i "After Eating" transl. by Burton Watson
Two and one, and three, and two again - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"
In a week or two real soon - John Prine
Two moons that fill my palms - Sina Queyras "Morning Song"
Two sisters in the middle of the world - Danni Quintos "Pond's White Beauty"
Caught between two unmarked graves - Camille Rankine "Inheritance"
Lie between two lions paws - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Caught between two winds - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Two points of amber fire - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
Like two flagons yet unfilled - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
With only two moons listening - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
We two must wait for the angel's key - Rennell Rodd "Hic Jacet"
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Two generations in a single summer - Ira Sadoff "My First Roses"
The two that fade away together - Carl Sandburg "A Coin"
Two robins fly out of the sun - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
In the guise of two pressed thumbs - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"
Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"
Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
Your two tangled souls - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"
Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"
Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"
'Tween two storms of leaden rain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Two sceptic children of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
The two worlds are asleep - Wallace Stevens "An Old Man Asleep"
Garnered nothing but a dream or two - Arthur Stringer "The Man of Dreams"
Between two common days - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
These two eyes are very nimble thieves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Sit in front of two candles - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"
Between two dates of death - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
When again we two should offer greeting - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
An inch or two outside the track - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
This moment brief between two lives - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"
Two witches' cauldrons roar - Edward Thomas "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"
Decided he wanted to juggle two flames - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
we two usurp a throne - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
With two bags and three names at the border - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Only two names to remember - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Your palms two puddles of rain - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"
With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
A flower or two picked from mud - William Carlos Williams "March"
Two blue-grey birds chasing a third - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Between two sister moorland rills - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"
Two wounds in my upper arm and in my heart - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Two nights I wooed in vain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
The journey between two people - Jenny Xie "Solitude Study"
Death and birth the two infinite walls - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
A puppet that doubles in two roles - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Who birthed one two-faced desire - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Paying each service twofold - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"
The geometrical faith of two-and-two - Laura Riding Jackson "Ahead and Around"
Walking two by two beneath the shade - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
With his two-edged breath - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Man About Town"
Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"
But we don't trust in things two-sided - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Our solitude a two-way mirror - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
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A refuge built against two reckonings - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Equivalent in effect to two cups of coffee - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"
His eyes are two keen blades - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)
Bring two dewy, fresh pieces of the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Improvised between two cups of tea - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Lurched between two smokestack towns - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Two wingless geese flew up the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Would I oscillate in two or three dimensions? - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"
Cushioned between two storms - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"
Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"
The labyrinth door swings two ways - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Locked between two rows of metal teeth - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
Two hawks courting in a dead drop - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
With awful maledictions on the two who were such fools - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Two more days for your sun to shine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Two stone posts and a gate between - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"
There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
Some stars occupy two places - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Determine how two particles differ - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"
Two tired shepherds with lanterns - Max Bodenheim "A Head"
The interval between two steps - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Walking two by two beneath the shade - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Sulks and sighs push the two toward nightside - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"
In a barnacle built for two - Calef Brown "Barnacle Built for Two"
Two miles walked over a bridge - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
The two sides of her heart exchanging blood - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"
Two fragile arms enchain me - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXV. Love's Paradoxes" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A mind of two halves - Anthony Butts "Before Autumn"
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Rome on two iron legs - Tommaso Campanella "XLVII. Nebuchadnezzar's Image" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A gap between two rails - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"
His eyes two open ovens - Tina Chang "Celestial"
Two hosts shocked with dust and din - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
Like two loose comets wandering - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The woman with two souls and one body - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Four dividing into two scavenging pairs - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
Two colts too strong for a tether - Countee Cullen "Spring Reminiscence"
And from the vast profound betwixt the two - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
The darkness between two buildings - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Joined two lakes into one - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Sprouted two intricate flowers in our minds - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Two moths dust the same screen for remembered light - Jay Deshpande "On Speaking Quietly with My Brother"
Two crows rowing through the rain - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
Two shallow cups of shadow - Chris Dombrowski "A Toast"
Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Two jewels of green fire - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
Two clear raindrops in your eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "The Light Gatherer"
Two seeming candles shine - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"
Mix the two legends together - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
Life of mine, before we two must part - George Eliot "Self and Life"
My two fates are reflected in the glass - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author
Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
Two tin cans and infinite string - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Sometimes in a Moment of Déjà Vu"
Two guitars fighting over the same late career Willie Nelson - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Two kinds of jewels, a vision for thieves - Robert Frost "Blueberries"
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
One born for two worlds - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"
So the world continues around two corners - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"
Two people to bring the world to ruin - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Two tall elms were its sentinels - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Pinch the sun between two fingers - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"
One set of bootprints back where two had come - Lore Graham "Absence"
Two seconds shy of seven days - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"
Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Two horses grazed on a roof - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"
Two geraniums bravely in leaf - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
A shadow split in two - Nathalie Handal "As We Wait"
Those two seasons unsought - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"
A sip or two of sweet summer - Avis Harley "Sipping Supper"
A drop or two of honey around the top - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Rising to the tick of two clocks - Seamus Heaney "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication for Mary Heaney 1. Sunlight"
Two natures in perpetual strife - Oliver Herford "The Centaur"
Two starlings sail down the wind - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"
Two big planets of unpainted silence - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Two noises too old to end - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"
The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"
Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Spend a night or two among the dead - John James "Le Moribond"
To look at their two shadows on your surface - Mark Jarman "Spell for Encanto Creek"
Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Turkey vultures circling in two by two - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"
Two blocks beyond gravity - Saeed Jones "Skin Like Brick Dust"
Two boats upon a sea of glass - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
Maybe one or two things not quite right - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"
Two branches clap two stones together - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"
Two shovels for hardpan and splintering - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"
In the embrace of the same two seas - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"
Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"
Might swallow two whales - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Because two syllables are an easier loss to bear - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Snow falling inside two minds - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
A breath or two against all time - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"
Two pages to a grape fable - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Dividing the hours into two mismatched halves - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
Hope's conversation the best of the two - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Two discrete young snakes left their skin - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
Two motes laughing as they leave - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Two specks somersaulting right through the screen - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Two halves of the same strange atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Crossing"
Two different kitchen tables - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"
Two sad shadows over the old nations - Vachel Lindsay "The Fever Called War"
Then add a pinch or two of grammar - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"
A lady of clay and two stone men - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Two mis-matched puzzle pieces - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
You two with your one life - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Two candles at her head - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"
Midnight splits the darkness in two - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Two metric heretics dressed like crows - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"
Two new scars since yesterday - Furnley Maurice "Master in Equity"
Two lovely Queens divided - Theodore Maynard "John Redmond"
Two sowers in Life's field - John McCrae "Recompense"
Trapped between two mirror points - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"
In one or two lives - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
Two owls above the meeting - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"
We two will lie and burn - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Two empty suitcases sit in the corner - Jim Moore "Almost Sixty"
Removed the masks from my two faces - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Cut my destiny in two - Daniel Nadler [untitled]
Two dark moons or their eclipse - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Like two systems of salt - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Two heads of molten volcanoes - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
A laugh dividing the day in two - Pablo Neruda "Shy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Two travel stained wanderers - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"
Only two charms in my pocket - Frank O'Hara "Personal Poem"
Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"
Even God needs two versions of Creation - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
two entwined snakes and a lyre - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
Two and two will not make five - John Oxenham "God Is Good"
A grief that links two hearts in bliss - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
Broke my brittle heart in two - Dorothy Parker "A Very Short Song"
Although two shillings in the pound can't pay - James Parkerson "An Address to a Wealthy Libertine / or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction"
Two arms outstretched to fold the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
These two hands to bar the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"
Found two colors of love - Willie Perdomo "Poet in Harlem"
Just the two dreams left - Carl Phillips "Self"
Always dwindling to just the two of us - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"
Two worthy difficulties - Robert Pinsky "Work Songs"
Then get up for two bowls of tea - Po Chu'i "After Eating" transl. by Burton Watson
Two and one, and three, and two again - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"
In a week or two real soon - John Prine
Two moons that fill my palms - Sina Queyras "Morning Song"
Two sisters in the middle of the world - Danni Quintos "Pond's White Beauty"
Caught between two unmarked graves - Camille Rankine "Inheritance"
Lie between two lions paws - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Caught between two winds - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Two points of amber fire - Lola Ridge "Shadow"
Like two flagons yet unfilled - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
With only two moons listening - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
We two must wait for the angel's key - Rennell Rodd "Hic Jacet"
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Two generations in a single summer - Ira Sadoff "My First Roses"
The two that fade away together - Carl Sandburg "A Coin"
Two robins fly out of the sun - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
In the guise of two pressed thumbs - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"
Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"
Two images returning to the same darkness - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
Your two tangled souls - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"
Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"
Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"
'Tween two storms of leaden rain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Two sceptic children of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
The two worlds are asleep - Wallace Stevens "An Old Man Asleep"
Garnered nothing but a dream or two - Arthur Stringer "The Man of Dreams"
Between two common days - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
These two eyes are very nimble thieves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 78: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Sit in front of two candles - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"
Between two dates of death - Algernon Swinburne "Autumn and Winter"
When again we two should offer greeting - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
An inch or two outside the track - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
This moment brief between two lives - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"
Two witches' cauldrons roar - Edward Thomas "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"
Decided he wanted to juggle two flames - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
we two usurp a throne - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
With two bags and three names at the border - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
Only two names to remember - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Your palms two puddles of rain - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"
With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
A flower or two picked from mud - William Carlos Williams "March"
Two blue-grey birds chasing a third - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Between two sister moorland rills - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"
Two wounds in my upper arm and in my heart - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Two nights I wooed in vain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
The journey between two people - Jenny Xie "Solitude Study"
Death and birth the two infinite walls - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
A puppet that doubles in two roles - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Who birthed one two-faced desire - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Paying each service twofold - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"
The geometrical faith of two-and-two - Laura Riding Jackson "Ahead and Around"
Walking two by two beneath the shade - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
With his two-edged breath - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Man About Town"
Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"
But we don't trust in things two-sided - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
Our solitude a two-way mirror - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
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