Potential Titles: Seven

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My dice rolled to seven - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

Seven stout ghosts so hearty and hale - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

That seven champions straight lay slain - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

A solution to the seven deadly sins - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"

Seven dishes made out of the best red gold - Clara Doty Bates "Sleeping Beauty" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Upon her Seven Hills Rome rules the seas and tides - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Crowding life into seven words - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Her memories of Caesar, Alexander, the wolves on seven hills - Deborah Brown "Reprise"

Kept seven years in a drawer - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Dead Rose" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]

And in the burning of the Seven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"

By seven vineyards on one hill - Witter Bynner "The Mystic"

Where I went seven moons ago - Witter Bynner "Romance"

The seven champions of the silver-mantled shield - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

Through all the paradises seven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"

Where seven sunken Englands lie buried - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

And seven swords were in her heart - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

The seven heavens came roaring down - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"

In the seven days that I toiled below - Frank J. Cotter "The Birth of the Land"

Under seven heavens bright - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"

The Pleiads seven stand watch - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"

Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"

Seven separate pictures of ants - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"

Those things uttered by the seven tongues - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

And reigns there seven weeks - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Calm'd by the wizard Seven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Seven long ages doomed to dwell - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Though she suspects that seven will be better - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Only seven trees left in the world - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #3"

Madame Blavatsky will instruct me in the Seven Sacred Trances - T.S. Eliot "A Cooking Egg"

The changing courses of at least seven rivers - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Transformation"

And my seven maidens as seven wolves - "The Enchanted Maiden" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Seized the seven powers of the gods - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Riding on seven great lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle

Gazing on the seven desires - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle

And the seven northern winds - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 27. E-Ugalgala, the Temple of Ishkur in Karkara" transl. by Sophus Helle

The seven ecstasies resound for her - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 30. E-Galmah, the Temple of Ninisina in Isin" transl. by Sophus Helle

Of Chaos and the Sacred Seven - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

The seven we loved, the six we lost - Katie Ford "Koi"

Her crown is jeweled with seven sorrows - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"

Wear through seven pairs of shoes - Theodora Goss "Seven Shoes"

The seven years' curse is ended now - Robert Graves "Return"

You, too, shall clank the seven years' chain - Robert Graves "Return"

Two seconds shy of seven days - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"

Shining with moments the seven days steal - Katherine Hale "A Fabulous Day"

I have laboured seven years - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"

Moves the seven great ebony pharaohs - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Seven years' worth of blood moons - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine"

A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"

Hoards the seven tiny silences - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"

Hidden as seven human echoes - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Seven dancers measureless as air - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Seven burning years before I remembered - fahima ife "shamanism"

Like seven peals of thunder - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

Seven steps together bind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Seven times tried in fiery furnaces - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Who stays silent for seven years - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Marked the first of seven - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

Rich with the songs of seven larks - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"

Seven hills of scraped earth topped with crab grass - Philip Levine "Drum"

The seven rivers that surround the heart - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"

Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

With the stride of seven league boots - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Blue as your seven elder sisters - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Fighting like seven devils - Edgar Lee Masters "Fletcher McGee"

To the seven ecstatic hallelujahs - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

The seven deeps of heaven - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Seven stars bright with awful mystery - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"

You're the sister of the seven ravens - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

The visiting vision of seven centuries - Alice Meynell "Two Boyhoods"

My seven brief hours of mortal life - "Midges in the Sunshine"

And if the seven plagues should come - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

Under seven blankets of dust - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

To see seven birds of the same color - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly

Seven sisters of the night sky - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

Seven sacred seals begem - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

His seven horns of clear gold glowing - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Rifling Polaris and the Seven Stars - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"

Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"

The stars in her hair were seven - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Set the course of the seven Stars - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull

With cantrip kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Has lured me to the seven lonely seas - Robert W. Service "The Wanderlust"

Hammered, beaten, seven times melted - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Sit for seven days in silence - Richard Solomon "God Drives Home in a Slow Room"

With seven created beings - "The Soul (From 'The Black Book of Caermarthen.')" (translated by ??)

From the seven strands of the small harp - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Read the secret of the Seven - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

The ordinariness of seven - Wallace Stevens "Song of Fixed Accord"

The seven fragrances of the rainbow - May Swenson "The Blindman"

From the crowning star of the seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The swords in my heart for one were seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Where my mother's seven guitars sleep - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Protected by seven months of cold and ice - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

And dealt seven murderous blows - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

Three and five and seven times - Jody Wallace "Beans"

Seven tides graced our lee shore - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

From the seven wounds bleeding - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"

Seven times around the world - Allan Wolf "Going the Distance"

Seven yards short of immortality - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"

With white feet of angels seven - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of a Blessed Spirit"


And carry me into a seven-day kiss - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Climb a seven-story mountain - Richard Solomon "Orpheus at Fifty"

In a seven-walled prison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe


A heaven in their sevenfold hells - Theodore Maynard "The Soil of Solace"


At the bottom of the seventh circles of hell - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

Through the seventh Gate I rose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Rises and plunges into the unimaginable seventh dimension - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

On the seventh night of the seventh moon - John Wieners "For Huncke"


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