Water.
Potential Titles: Geographic/Landscape Features [category].
For proper names of specific oceans, rivers, lakes, etc. go to Potential Titles: Allusions - Places/Items [category]. I'm not going to try to crosslink all of them here.
Aquifer:
Art's uncharted aquifers - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"
Atlantic.
Bay.
Brook.
Canal.
Cascade.
Cataract.
Creek.
Estuary:
this estuary guarded by gurgling sea lions - David Maduli "alameda point"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Ford.
Fjord:
Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"
From the fiords of the sunless winter - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Freshet:
Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"
Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
How these freshets scour our valleys - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Geyser.
Gulf.
Harbor/Harbour.
Headwaters:
Headwaters plummeting three thousand feet in flight - Li Po "Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall" transl. by David Hinton
High Seas:
A buccaneer on the high seas of journalism - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Lagoon.
Lake.
Moat.
Ocean.
Pond.
Pool.
Puddle.
Rill.
Riptide:
Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"
River.
Rivulet.
Runnel:
Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
Sea.
Seven Seas:
Drown my hopeless passion in the Seven Seas of wine - Justin H. McCarthy "A Night-Piece"
Sucked the Seven Oceans from their cup of golden sand - Justin H. McCarthy "Vine-Visions"
Strait.
Stream.
Tarn:
In some deepest tarn astray - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"
A lurid tarn that glassed the brow of night - John B. Tabb "The Vision of the Tarn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Through the tarn a lonely cheer - William Wordsworth "Fidelity"
Tidepool:
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
Tributary.
Water Hole:
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Thirst at the watering hole - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Waterfall.
Watershed:
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
Wellspring:
The pupil dilated to the wellspring of her soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Well-springs of joy in a desolate heart - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
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Potential Titles: Geographic/Landscape Features [category].
For proper names of specific oceans, rivers, lakes, etc. go to Potential Titles: Allusions - Places/Items [category]. I'm not going to try to crosslink all of them here.
Aquifer:
Art's uncharted aquifers - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"
Atlantic.
Bay.
Brook.
Canal.
Cascade.
Cataract.
Creek.
Estuary:
this estuary guarded by gurgling sea lions - David Maduli "alameda point"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Ford.
Fjord:
Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"
From the fiords of the sunless winter - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Freshet:
Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"
Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
How these freshets scour our valleys - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Geyser.
Gulf.
Harbor/Harbour.
Headwaters:
Headwaters plummeting three thousand feet in flight - Li Po "Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall" transl. by David Hinton
High Seas:
A buccaneer on the high seas of journalism - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Lagoon.
Lake.
Moat.
Ocean.
Pond.
Pool.
Puddle.
Rill.
Riptide:
Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"
River.
Rivulet.
Runnel:
Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
Sea.
Seven Seas:
Drown my hopeless passion in the Seven Seas of wine - Justin H. McCarthy "A Night-Piece"
Sucked the Seven Oceans from their cup of golden sand - Justin H. McCarthy "Vine-Visions"
Strait.
Stream.
Tarn:
In some deepest tarn astray - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"
A lurid tarn that glassed the brow of night - John B. Tabb "The Vision of the Tarn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Through the tarn a lonely cheer - William Wordsworth "Fidelity"
Tidepool:
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
Tributary.
Water Hole:
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Thirst at the watering hole - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Waterfall.
Watershed:
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
Wellspring:
The pupil dilated to the wellspring of her soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Well-springs of joy in a desolate heart - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
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