Potential Titles: Three

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Three 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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