Potential Titles: Ten

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In those ten dreamy days of old - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Ten acres and a sky-reflecting pond - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

Ten times the nerve, which is stitching darkness - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Twine ten dollars into every stitch - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Create a square bubble on ten acres - Ana Castillo "Pande...monium"

Perhaps ten thousand, perhaps ten times more - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Ten poles before their palisades - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

Till the clock had counted ten - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Flying through the ten toasts - Alda do Espirito Santo "The Same Side of the Canoe" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"

Dream in ten spikes of passionflower - francine j. harris "i live in detroit"

Ten bundles and four great piles - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Ten square feet of haunting perfume - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

Ten square feet of tossing blossoms - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

The journey lasting more than ten lifetimes - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

This home of ten long years - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

Made ten soldiers out of snow - Vachel Lindsay "The Battle-Ax of the Sun"

Ten gold suns in California - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Ten fathom beneath the keel - John Masefield "Burial"

Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"

Ten millstones to the neck of us - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"

Wound me with ten knives in the heart - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Ten enemies for every truth - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Ten loops of honeysuckle - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"

Tens of thousands upon the tongue - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"

In the clouds ten years in the future - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

Poured the ten plagues on Egypt - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

For ten long hours of doubt and dread - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

The sun is worth ten of you - Brenda Shaughnessy "I'm Over the Moon"

Ten by ten times have the rivers run dry - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Ten by ten tithes have been paid in a dazzling of leaves - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Ten dark steps of tangled rapture and tears - Arthur Stringer "Life"

For ten times the amount it's worth - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end - "Tom o' Bedlam"

Ten swift years had flown - F.E. Weatherly "No Thank You, Tom"

The boulevards chosen out of ten years - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

Ten parts bark and no parts bite - Allan Wolf "Mars: A Martian Sonnet"


That flares like the ten-colored turquoise - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson


With tenfold fierceness burn - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

With tenfold increase blessing - Emily Bronte "Death"

To wake with tenfold strength - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Rear'd her form in tenfold power - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

To grapple with your tenfold power - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"


Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"


Splash at a ten-league canvas - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"


That has a ten-mile voice and shines as far - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"


On each tenth returning sunrise - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

That could embrace a tenth part - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett


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