Potential Titles: Five
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Five little sparrows sitting in a row - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Five Little Sparrows"
Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
With five fish in a fountain - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"
And cross the rivers five - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
Perfect sunny fives haphazard in the air - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Appointed of parrots five - Howard Futhey Brinton "Jumbo's Dream"
Those five gray, haggard days - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"
Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"
Five downy fledglings in a row - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral Close"
The doctor who exhausted five horses - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"
Five crimes at half-a-crown - W.S. Gilbert "Gentle Alice Brown"
Beneath the shadow of five trees - Louis Golding "Numbers"
All the five seas wash my veins - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
Five words of unfinished prayer - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
who walk five paces behind their own footsteps - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
Changed into the five-coloured clouds - Li T'ai-Po "The Pleasures within the Palace" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Five grey dogs attended his steps - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"
Those five gateways of the soul - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
The starfish with its five blunt fingers - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"
A conversation of five hundred years- Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"
The five gateways of the soul - Lewis Morris "At the End"
The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Five chosen roots - Pablo Neruda "I Ask for Silence" transl. by Alastair Reid
If one may settle the score for five - Henry Newbolt "He Fell Among Thieves"
Reviewed by five generations of scholars - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
Five dogs screaming at his flanks - Mary Oliver "Dogs"
Two and two will not make five - John Oxenham "God Is Good"
Five swans chanting overhead - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"
Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Flotsam of the five oceans - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Five items of knowledge are required - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A tigereye banded five kinds of gold - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Alone and warming his five wits - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "When Cats Run Home"
Moon in chimes of five - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."
Five sons gone to distant battle - Tso Yen-Nien "Call to Arms" transl. by Burton Watson
The mountains were five times as wide - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"
Five times as steep and wild - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"
Built a boundary out of five pounds of definition - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Three and five and seven times - Jody Wallace "Beans"
Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"
His five-fold complex-nature - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"
With five-fold strains of harmony - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Five-legged pocket spiders - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"
Fifth.
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Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
With five fish in a fountain - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"
And cross the rivers five - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
Perfect sunny fives haphazard in the air - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Appointed of parrots five - Howard Futhey Brinton "Jumbo's Dream"
Those five gray, haggard days - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"
Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"
Five downy fledglings in a row - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral Close"
The doctor who exhausted five horses - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"
Five crimes at half-a-crown - W.S. Gilbert "Gentle Alice Brown"
Beneath the shadow of five trees - Louis Golding "Numbers"
All the five seas wash my veins - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
Five words of unfinished prayer - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
who walk five paces behind their own footsteps - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"
Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
Changed into the five-coloured clouds - Li T'ai-Po "The Pleasures within the Palace" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Five grey dogs attended his steps - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"
Those five gateways of the soul - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
The starfish with its five blunt fingers - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"
A conversation of five hundred years- Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"
The five gateways of the soul - Lewis Morris "At the End"
The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Five chosen roots - Pablo Neruda "I Ask for Silence" transl. by Alastair Reid
If one may settle the score for five - Henry Newbolt "He Fell Among Thieves"
Reviewed by five generations of scholars - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
Five dogs screaming at his flanks - Mary Oliver "Dogs"
Two and two will not make five - John Oxenham "God Is Good"
Five swans chanting overhead - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"
Five-pierced with old pain - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Flotsam of the five oceans - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Five items of knowledge are required - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A tigereye banded five kinds of gold - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
In threes and fives by thorn hedge gates - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Alone and warming his five wits - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "When Cats Run Home"
Moon in chimes of five - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."
Five sons gone to distant battle - Tso Yen-Nien "Call to Arms" transl. by Burton Watson
The mountains were five times as wide - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"
Five times as steep and wild - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"
Built a boundary out of five pounds of definition - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Three and five and seven times - Jody Wallace "Beans"
Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"
His five-fold complex-nature - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"
With five-fold strains of harmony - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Five-legged pocket spiders - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"
Fifth.
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