Potential Titles: Sum

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A sum of rigid limits - Mary Jo Bang "In this Business of Touch and Be Touched"

Enough to avoid making an easy sum - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Sum of all jaded aims and drab dissembling - William Rose Benét "The City"

In light and dark, a zero sum - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

The sum of knowledge granted - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Suspend us from atrocious sums - Hart Crane "Recitative"

The sum of dust was seen - Helen Parry Eden "The Confessional"

And saved the sum of things for pay - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"

The sum and substance of my hard-luck story - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

In just Proportion to the Sum you Earn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

In the endless sum of death and birth - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Nets to catch the full sum of our being - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

With sins a countless sum - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

Give the sum total of infinity - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Where life's total sum is sleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "An Idyll of Dandaloo"

The heavy sum of silence - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)


Test of all sumless agonies - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

The sumless tale of sorrow is all unrolled in vain - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIV"


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