Potential Titles: Six
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somethingdarkerShe has counted six and over - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Woman's Shortcomings" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
Six impeccable threads of scorn - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"
In no less than six languages - Diane DeCillis "Falling in Love at the Speed of the William Tell 'Overture'"
Six little white ducks running out to play - "The Ducks" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
The seven we loved, the six we lost - Katie Ford "Koi"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Six owls cloaked with age and dream - Louis Golding "Numbers"
Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
Six ells of Virgil should the crime repair - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Mixing six simple ingredients - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
The silence adding its six percent - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Bank Teller"
Six fat trout in my creel - David Jauss "Never"
6 lanes of life's constant motion - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
Six daughters gather space and time - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
Six times more solitary - D.H. Lawrence "Baby Turtle"
Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Stable your six dragon-steeds - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"
As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
Six years the moon shone at mid-autumn - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
With the flowers and fruits of the Six Seasons - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"
Six poplar trees, in golden green - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]
Six birds settle in the crowns of the cedars - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Six months to dismantle the dead rooms - John Moncure Wettarau "[Clouds booming over the washed woods]"
Spirit me into the six - Kevin Young "Eulogy"
On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"
Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"
On the sixth new moon of each bright year - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
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Six impeccable threads of scorn - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"
In no less than six languages - Diane DeCillis "Falling in Love at the Speed of the William Tell 'Overture'"
Six little white ducks running out to play - "The Ducks" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
The seven we loved, the six we lost - Katie Ford "Koi"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Six owls cloaked with age and dream - Louis Golding "Numbers"
Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
Six ells of Virgil should the crime repair - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Mixing six simple ingredients - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
The silence adding its six percent - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Bank Teller"
Six fat trout in my creel - David Jauss "Never"
6 lanes of life's constant motion - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
Six daughters gather space and time - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
Six times more solitary - D.H. Lawrence "Baby Turtle"
Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
Stable your six dragon-steeds - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"
As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
Six years the moon shone at mid-autumn - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
With the flowers and fruits of the Six Seasons - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"
Six poplar trees, in golden green - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]
Six birds settle in the crowns of the cedars - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Six months to dismantle the dead rooms - John Moncure Wettarau "[Clouds booming over the washed woods]"
Spirit me into the six - Kevin Young "Eulogy"
On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"
Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"
On the sixth new moon of each bright year - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
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