Potential Titles: Count

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Learned to count clouds - Francisco X. Alarcon "My Grandma Is an Angel"

Who counted angels' footsteps - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)

Possible to count occurrences - Rae Armantrout "Exact"

the knights no longer can be counted - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

So I count my hopes - Fatimah Asghar "I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth"

Count all the oceans - Fatimah Asghar "Oil"

Count patient years in false Earth days - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

Reach through our coats to count our vertebrae - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"

Who countest the steps of the sun - William Blake "The Sunflower"

Count a tornado of slow concessions - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

Counting future tears - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"

Counts his dying years by sun and sea - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Love"

Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

None but he could ever count them - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Count the stars beyond the canes - May Chong "Kamcia"

Till the clock had counted ten - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Nor counting the debt clear then - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

And count the hidden harvest - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

Go, seek the stars and count them - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

We counted on the rapture - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Counted all the ways love hurt me - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)

Forget the distance, count no steps, nor stop to blow - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

To weigh as she counted their sorrow - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"

Counting all our tears - Paul Laurence Dunbar "We Wear the Mask"

The constellations counting change - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"

Count miles on telephone poles - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"

Count the cost of golden laughter - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

Counting the dark tongues of bells - Carolyn Forche "The Memory of Elena"

Counting my sleeplessness in silence - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

Those that lifted eyes could count - Robert Frost "Out, Out--"

Robbers counting chains and rings - R.L. Gales "A Childermas Rhyme"

As though we'd lost all count of time - Wilfrid Gibson "Flannan Isle"

Always forgot to count me - Nikita Gill "The Epiphany"

Sprawl in the carnage and count the spoils - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"

Do not count your labour lost - Robert Graves "Sullen Moods"

Bound my mind to counted bars - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Count your zeros inside out - Nathalie Handal "Amor en la Zona Colonial: Habitacion 32"

Count my every blink - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"

And Suitors more than she could count - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

Count your knuckles in the dark - Jackson Holbert "2003"

Counting the beaded silence - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

We count the broken lyres - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Voiceless"

And heart cannot count the cost - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Counts up the times of the dead - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The Middle Watch"

The only ones that don't keep count - Gary Jackson "Kansas"

Counting themselves no kin of anything - Robinson Jeffers "Mountain Pines"

What counts the will of time? - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"

Counting on catastrophe - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"

Counting its heart-beats on the dial - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"

Counted the corners and angles - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"

Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Can't count invisibles in the green shallows - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

Who counted every stone blessed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Counting till revelations - Eunsong Kim "Romance #1"

Counted all the links of evidence - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

While counting years by sorrow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

I have begun to count my dead - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, II: Written in a Year When Many of My People Died"

Count with lifeless breath - John McCrae "Penance"

Counted coins in a cup - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

Counts less than raindrops in the sea - H.P. McKnight "Hope--Eternity"

Counts down the lightning - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"

Count the years as we feed the beast of time - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Count on these walls - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"

Go out to count the dead - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Spent our childhood counting stones - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Counting petals and comets' tails - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Will count again the ancient stars - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Doesn't count illusions - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly

Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

The dead who teach us how to count - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Which poet and sculptor count as unforeseen - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

To count milliseconds by watching a brook run - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Count the roses, wrinkled and salt - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Count on no to-morrow - John Oxenham "Judgment Day"

Count the hushed electrons blooming - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

To count the eyes of which we dream - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"

Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

Will count the hosts of night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Youthful in the count of years - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To --"

A tear counts the choices given - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Pro Choice"

And I regret not counting - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

And we took no count of the hours - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

I'll count the aches another time - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

Count out cities and forget the numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Count all the blackbirds - Adam Scheffler "Florence, Kentucky"

Restored are joys I counted lost - W.M. Shields "Once More the Dream"

Counting down the heartbeats of eternity - Richard Solomon "Possession IX: Prayer Beads"

Count dust specks, mote by mote - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

Knows how the count will fall - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"

Rabbits count the hours no more - John B. Tabb "Hare-Bells"

You can only count that backwards - Matthew Thorburn "Go Together Come Apart"

Count on summer evenings the apples he will eat - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IX. The Sands"

Who counts a nation's tears - Richard Chenevix Trench "To Nicholas, Emperor of Russia"

Count down stone steps into the dark - Chase Twichell "Downstairs in Dreams"

Count coins you do not have - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Horned Woman Ancestor"

Counting crows and listening to cricket whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Counting a spoil of screaming bone - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"

Caparisoned at cost beyond all counting - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

And he counted the long years coming - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Past knowledge and past counting - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

Tenaciously counting its gifts - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

Unless you count bad dreams - Jane Yolen "Mortar/Pestle"


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Recounts these careless wonders - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"


Uncountable thousands of divisions in the stream of time - Mike Allen "Pulse"


The misdemeanors of uncounted time - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"

In the crowd, uncounted - Leslie Noyes Harrison "Pantoum for a Walk in the Woods"

Uncounted hours of presence - Paul Valery "Palme" transl. by May Sarton in 1954


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