Potential Titles: Three
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somethingdarkerThree times until surrender - Elmaz Abinader "First the Morning Cup of Coffee"
Three minutes of electromagnetic flux - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"
Repeating three clear tones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
False tongues three have whisper'd evil - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Would I oscillate in two or three dimensions? - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
With three lines of gold in its ceiling - Taneum Bambrick "Oven Street"
The vapor fringe where three theorems meet - Mary Jo Bang "The Harbor"
Three paces down the shore - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"
Three paces in the moonlight's glow - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"
Three times reclined on Thetis' breast - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
In three elements free - Henry Charles Beeching "Prayers"
Checked the locks three times - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Brightest three leaved bay - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
Around three times like a tornado - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
To quell three Titan evils I was made - Tommaso Campanella "VII. The Brood of Ignorance" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Three days we've fled together - Thomas Campbell "Lord Ullin's Daughter"
Three boughs of sacred laurel and myrtle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Three golden hairs from the demon's head - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Those three standing stones - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Three little birds in a row sat musing - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Three hours after the celestial attack - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Three that would go into every conflict - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Three crows perched on the dresser - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
Preempted by three bitter decades - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"
Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Three of one fellowship - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Three times up and three times down - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
With his fairy kisses three - Eugene Field "Ganderfeather's Gift"
From three days' woe she came - Michael Field "Another Leadeth Thee"
The voices of Time's children three - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Against three angry Heads prevail - Oliver Herford "Cerberus"
Sent me three red carnations - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
The fractaled branches of three oaks - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"
One part water and three parts smoke - Florence Hoatson "Jerry"
Three lamps of holy flame - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Three generations weep - Edward Irving "To the Memory of My Venerable Grandfather-in-Law, Samuel Martin, who Was Taken from Us in the Sixty-Eighth Year of his Memory"
Scared three babies into fits - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Turned three essences where it stood - Laura Riding Jackson "The Quids"
Studded with three nails of burning gold - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"
Where the Sisters three are weaving - Annie Fellows Johnston "Elinor"
Waited three days and nights - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
For three days hold supremacy - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"
Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Three dollars for their shoes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Called for thunderbolts three - Rachel Kolar "Frankenstein Had a Marvelous Mind"
Adjusts vision from three dimension to four - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
Three golden tulips spouting flame - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"
Lights up the mauve of three - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
With aptitudes enough for three - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
And spends three days washing out his ears - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
Split three pills with my ficus - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"
Casting shadows in three dimensions - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"
Gave her thistles three - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"
And like the three-forked lightning - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
Three flaming memories - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Three fragile, sacramental things - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Inexpressible in three dimension - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"
Three broad bits of lucky gold - Alice Meynell "The Joyous Wanderer"
Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"
The empress of three colors - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Three alley cats remember - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
Playing such tricks on my children three - "Nobody" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
When the dawn hides the three hunters - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"
Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"
Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"
Three wild turkeys crossing the street - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"
Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"
Only three of the countless fates - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"
Saluted the lions three - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Under constellations three fists apart - Khadijah Queen "Sky Erasure"
Three darts thrown over a cliff - Charles Rafferty "Ellipses"
Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"
With three years' dust above the mellow wine - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
The world is still for three heartbeats - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Three sang of love together - Christina Rossetti "A Triad"
Three lilies in her hand - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Three ramparts undecaying - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Heard three red words - Carl Sandburg "Threes"
Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
the wolf in a guise of three heads - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
The darkness of the three worlds - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
An owl has a skeleton of three letters - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Three tiny eggs in thistledown - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Monarch of all three worlds - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
My three claims for mercy - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Three hours before the moon - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
With clarions blowing three times twice - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"
For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
With the heart's blood of the three worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"
Thrice three times it was enwalled - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"
Poison has three leaves - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Warning"
With two bags and three names at the border - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
One must die three times - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos
Three and five and seven times - Jody Wallace "Beans"
Their three-cornered, fearful symmetry - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
Three girls in crimson satin - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"
Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"
In a vision of three poplar-trees - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"
Three goats balking at the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"
For a threefold term to choose - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"
A torment thrice three-fold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"
Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
And the threefold choir of sages - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
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Three minutes of electromagnetic flux - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"
Repeating three clear tones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
False tongues three have whisper'd evil - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Would I oscillate in two or three dimensions? - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
With three lines of gold in its ceiling - Taneum Bambrick "Oven Street"
The vapor fringe where three theorems meet - Mary Jo Bang "The Harbor"
Three paces down the shore - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"
Three paces in the moonlight's glow - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"
Three times reclined on Thetis' breast - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
In three elements free - Henry Charles Beeching "Prayers"
Checked the locks three times - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Brightest three leaved bay - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
Around three times like a tornado - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
To quell three Titan evils I was made - Tommaso Campanella "VII. The Brood of Ignorance" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Three days we've fled together - Thomas Campbell "Lord Ullin's Daughter"
Three boughs of sacred laurel and myrtle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Three golden hairs from the demon's head - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Those three standing stones - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Three little birds in a row sat musing - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Three hours after the celestial attack - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Three that would go into every conflict - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Three crows perched on the dresser - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
Preempted by three bitter decades - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"
Round his neck three chains of roses - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
Three of one fellowship - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Three times up and three times down - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
With his fairy kisses three - Eugene Field "Ganderfeather's Gift"
From three days' woe she came - Michael Field "Another Leadeth Thee"
The voices of Time's children three - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Against three angry Heads prevail - Oliver Herford "Cerberus"
Sent me three red carnations - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
The fractaled branches of three oaks - Conrad Hilberry "A Body Between"
One part water and three parts smoke - Florence Hoatson "Jerry"
Three lamps of holy flame - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Three generations weep - Edward Irving "To the Memory of My Venerable Grandfather-in-Law, Samuel Martin, who Was Taken from Us in the Sixty-Eighth Year of his Memory"
Scared three babies into fits - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Turned three essences where it stood - Laura Riding Jackson "The Quids"
Studded with three nails of burning gold - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"
Where the Sisters three are weaving - Annie Fellows Johnston "Elinor"
Waited three days and nights - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
For three days hold supremacy - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"
Over three kingdoms my father was King - "The Knavish Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Three dollars for their shoes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Called for thunderbolts three - Rachel Kolar "Frankenstein Had a Marvelous Mind"
Adjusts vision from three dimension to four - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
Three golden tulips spouting flame - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"
Lights up the mauve of three - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
With aptitudes enough for three - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
And spends three days washing out his ears - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
Split three pills with my ficus - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"
Casting shadows in three dimensions - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"
Gave her thistles three - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"
And like the three-forked lightning - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
Three flaming memories - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Three fragile, sacramental things - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Inexpressible in three dimension - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"
Three broad bits of lucky gold - Alice Meynell "The Joyous Wanderer"
Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"
The empress of three colors - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Three alley cats remember - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
Playing such tricks on my children three - "Nobody" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
When the dawn hides the three hunters - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"
Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"
Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"
Three wild turkeys crossing the street - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"
Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"
Only three of the countless fates - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"
Saluted the lions three - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Under constellations three fists apart - Khadijah Queen "Sky Erasure"
Three darts thrown over a cliff - Charles Rafferty "Ellipses"
Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"
With three years' dust above the mellow wine - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
The world is still for three heartbeats - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Three sang of love together - Christina Rossetti "A Triad"
Three lilies in her hand - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Three ramparts undecaying - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Heard three red words - Carl Sandburg "Threes"
Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
the wolf in a guise of three heads - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
The darkness of the three worlds - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
An owl has a skeleton of three letters - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Three tiny eggs in thistledown - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Monarch of all three worlds - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
My three claims for mercy - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Three hours before the moon - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
With clarions blowing three times twice - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"
For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
With the heart's blood of the three worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"
Thrice three times it was enwalled - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Three musketeers of faithful following - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"
Poison has three leaves - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Warning"
With two bags and three names at the border - Divya Victor "Make/Do"
One must die three times - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos
Three and five and seven times - Jody Wallace "Beans"
Their three-cornered, fearful symmetry - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
Three girls in crimson satin - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"
Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"
In a vision of three poplar-trees - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"
Three goats balking at the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"
For a threefold term to choose - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."
Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"
A torment thrice three-fold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"
Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
And the threefold choir of sages - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
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