Potential Titles: Rush [plant]

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Gather the loveliest of the dream-rushes - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"


Shall we find him in the rushes? - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

From his roost of rush and chord - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

When the rushes are nodding - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: I: Shilric, Vinvela"

Sit not by the nodding rushes - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: I: Shilric, Vinvela"

Waters meet and rushes quiver - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"

The rushes talking in their dreams - Charlotte Mew "The Changeling"

A Scylla in the form of rushes - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: II. The Second or Cartgate Hole"

The creak of broken rushes and the last snipe's cry - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"

Rushes and reed banks cluster darkly - "They Fought South of the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson

And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"

Stand high on the yellow rushes - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Not a plant uses of Rush.


Can afford to burn a rushlight - Henry S. Leigh "An Old Cynic"


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