Potential Titles: Nine

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The reflection of the broken nine mirrors - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Nine tailors with their shears - "American Parody of Swinburne's 'The Creation of Man'"

The unique union of nine - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"

The nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

Clasp the nine eyes of the desert - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

For nine days uncelebrated - May Chong "Kamcia"

Planted nine acres of orchids - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

The dower of Apollo and the Nine - Arthur Hugh Clough "Wen Gott Betrugt, Ist Wohl Betrogen."

A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

The Spacious Empire of the Nine - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Nine circling years name thee - George Allan England "Dante"

Write his name nine times in blood ink - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"

A 9 second lullaby in the dead of night - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Nine drops of water bead the jessamine - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"

An immersion in nine alphabets - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"

With nine turns in a hundred steps - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley

This place of nine parts death - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

With nine black hounds at heel - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Or mingle with its brothers nine - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Finger"

In that galaxy of nine - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

The nine lives of pathological compulsion - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

Nine miles of mist and fire - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Every night we baited nine traps - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"

Nine gates to the vermilion city - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

Hither, all the Grecian Nine - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

Cups brim with nine kinds of spirits - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson

Hung fifty silver bells and nine - "The Queen of Elfland"

Nine fair sisters in one home - Amy Redpath Roddick "England's Oldest Colony"


And with your ninefold harmony - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"


The nine-bend stream of time - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"


Driving out of a nine-circle hell - Mary Jo Bang "Magic Makes Everything Right"


Submitted to the nine-tiered palace - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson

Sweeping all the nine-tiered sky - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "In the Year with the Cyclical Sign Mou-shen (408), in the Sixth Month We Had a Fire" transl. by Burton Watson


The ninth heaven as witness - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson


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