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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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