Potential Titles: River
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somethingdarkerA boat afloat on a river of tears - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A unique river of desire - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"
Tearing the eye of the river open - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Make peace beyond the river - Richard C. Adams "A Delaware Indian Legend"
A red river the sun must ford - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
Like a river of molten amethyst - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
The tiny stars that crawled through river flows - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Where sunless rivers weep their waves - Ellen Allyn "Dream Land"
Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
No rivers clothed in light - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
The river that remakes me in its image - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
The sleep of a sunken log at the river's bottom - William Archila "Childhood"
The water of the vanished river - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
A river waiting to wake - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
With silver moon rivers and sailing ships - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Crossed the rivers with my bag of stealth - Julie Babcock "Ohio Apologia"
Weak reeds which by the rivers stand - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Washed themselves in salted rivers - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
I asked the river for answers - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"
Lost in a river of falling leaves - Basho transl. by David Young
Made a river with her tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited
The spirit of a heron lifting from the river - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Rivers under ancient walls flowing - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Near the river but not the railroad - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
And cross the rivers five - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
Washed in life's river - William Blake "Night"
Wants an eternal river - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Stretched and curled like a meandering river - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"
A charm of river stones and coiled hair - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"
That rivers cannot quench - Anne Bradstreet "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
a herd of stars coaxed from a river - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Barges spinning on a mud-sick river - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Rivers of scarlet and crosses of grey - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"
I am the river of pain - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Songs of the Spavinaw"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
Drinking from the bloody river - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Dear singing river full of my blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
The river we can't outrun - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
The sweet solace is a river bed - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
Pan, down in the reeds by the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Came back to dream on the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Our paper house sat on the banks of the red river - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Shining rivers with their brimming floors - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
River and tide confer - Bliss Carman "Golden Rowan"
Crossed irrevocable rivers - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"
Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Picking river sage and rare angelica - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
By the rivers dark in Babylon - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"
Sold me water beside the river - Leonard Cohen "My Teacher"
She lets the river answer - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
Wearing a river's disguise - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"
Ever since the river died - Leonard Cohen "You Got Me Singing"
In the gray signatures of rivers - Billy Collins "Student of Clouds"
A river in her heart - Hilda Conkling "Moon Thought"
A silver boat on the beautiful river - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Making families where river meets sea - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Swallowing the veins of rivers - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Where the slow river meets the tide - H.D. "Leda"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Who will let loose a river of lament - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Leading chained rivers - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
By Babylon's river languishing - Walter de la Mare "Dust to Dust"
Roam on the banks of the river of peace - "The Dead Brother"
My river waits reply - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XI: The Outlet"
Swam in its polluted river - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"
The river held in cupped hands - Chris Dombrowski "Serotonin"
Hear the river's dreamy rhyme - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
The sob of the forgetful river - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
The river I will never recover - Boris Dralyuk "Lethe"
A dark blanket of river - Cornelius Eady "Birthing"
Skin walls and blood rivers - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
Wild flames jumped the river - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
The river danced for acres - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
The river sweats oil and tar - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"
Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The changing courses of at least seven rivers - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Transformation"
Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"
Bring home the river and sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"
Red river surge of time - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"
Blood river once between you - Heid E. Erdich "Microchimerism"
For they become the river - Martin Espada "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913: V. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed"
Out of that long river of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"
Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
In woods where many rivers run - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"
Has taken lessons from the river - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
The marching river of the beer - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: III. A Poetry-Party"
On a river of crystal light - Eugene Field "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
The river lifts its grain to crystal - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"
My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
From pale river-pools of sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Threads the river's mouth shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"
Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
Forded the river for rock trout - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 14"
Chips of winter river thawed - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"
Hungry together by its rivers and bones - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"
Where there are rivers of wine - Colin Francis "Tony O"
And disturb a cold river of stars with a touch - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
When frozen rivers start to run - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
A wall between the thirst and the river - Andrea Gibson "Dear Trump Voter,"
Dry river and tents of the outcast poor - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"
Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
Speeds the rivers in their onward course - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Skating upon plunging rivers - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
But these are not my rivers - Ivor Gurney "The Fire Kindled"
I sailed a thousand rivers - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
Lizards coming out of rivers of lava - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"
Make my river an ocean - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
Along the gravel beds of the braided river - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"
Bring our hands there scented of a river - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Upset your darts in Lethe's river - Oliver Herford "The Heart of Ice"
The river will bring new lights - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Poisonous rivers make poisonous ice - Jackson Holbert "Landscape"
Rivers don't remember anything - Jackson Holbert "The Water Poem"
River is time in water - Barten Holyday "Distiches"
In the bed of a river of poison - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Taking leave at the western river - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Written on a river's path - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
By the river where the wind stops - John James "Materia"
The south wind shouts to the rivers - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
Steal the ghosts from the river - Allison Eir Jenks "Lament"
The rivers wend a lawless course - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"
Turn the river in me - Taylor Johnson "Go-Go Ode"
And rivers precious to the stars - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Rise like breath from the river mud - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
The broad rivers of the heart - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"
Gnats mourn among the river sallows - John Keats "To Autumn"
The eagles at the river's edge - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
Some sunny dream of river, field, and sky - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
My night on the wild river - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
In a river a hundred years wide - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"
A chorus of bone, river and soot - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"
As the heated banks of a river - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"
Lost themselves in reflected rivers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
My voice does not remember crossing the river - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"
The slow river of fear - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
Into a cold river of shadows - Ted Kooser "The Old People"
A chill river flows from the glacier's toe - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
Across the river's shadow-haunted floor - Archibald Lampman "September"
On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"
The doubtful current of Time's mighty river - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"
The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
River breaks past its banks of ash - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The New Craft"
The seven rivers that surround the heart - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
A river of stars overflowing their bowl - Philip Levine "These Streets"
In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Recall the river arbor at twilight - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
The long river flowing to the edge of the sky - Li Po "At Yellow Crane Tower Taking Leave of Meng Hao-jan as He Sets off for Kuang-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the river sky drowns - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley
The river that flows past me forever - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
To stand in the strong spine of rivers - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Tiny flames in the river's ripples - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
The dream-side of a pennyroyal river - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
In the rapid, rushing river of time - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"
a river borne red from the rock - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
As you travel far from crag and river - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heather"
The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
So why are you compelled to forgive rivers? - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Their pleas were like a river - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"
An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
Where a river used to tumble to the sea - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Following the river to its source - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"
The songs of those migrating over your rivers - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Passes like an underground river - W.S. Merwin "The Archaic Maker"
And seen the rivers bitten black - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Clouds clutching the river - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
The river down both our faces - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
The rhythms of serpentine rivers - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
The river of grief and wrong - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"
Make a necklace from all the rivers - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Let the golden rivers flow - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"
From the perpetual river of laments - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A river that carried more stones than water - Pablo Neruda "Disasters" transl. by William O'Daly
In writing the river's tremor - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Grew like a river in a downpour - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
Rivers that muttered prayers - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Rivers splintered by ancient stone - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The metallic shifting of a river of bells - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Rivers of water and of threat - Pablo Neruda "Midday LIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Rivers of bitter certainty - Pablo Neruda 100 Love Sonnets LIV (trans. by Stephen Tapscott)
Like a tearing river of glass - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Prepare your immortal rivers - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The first music of the river - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIX" transl. by James Nolan
Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
Set the yarrow by the river side - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Mimicking the river's bends - Tim Newcomb "Upper Sacramento River Valley"
A river we've only visited in our dreams - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"
And showed me rivers of light - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"
The crystal memory shared with a river - Grace Nichols "Picture My Father"
Your paintings carry the genes of rivers - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
The torrent to raise the river - Lorine Niedecker "Wilderness"
A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Placed one toe in the river of gloom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"
To pour you full of rivers - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"
Rivers of dust through a window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"
Bathe in a river of lost shoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last Song for the Mend-It Shop"
Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"
The flood-gates of the rivers of heaven - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Up the river to spawn in eclipse water - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
At the juncture of celestial river systems - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"
The wreath woven by the river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]
A fastness of double rivers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Crossing the river and crossing the line - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"
The only rivers memory knows - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"
Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
Context for the river's progress or retreat - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"
To return shadows into the river - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Dyed with the hue of spring rivers - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
The same river twice stepped in - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"
The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Forging rivers, navigating times, and crossing gulfs - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
A river of tales fenced in by the dead's texts - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
Rivers broke off in my fingers - Paige Quinones "I Dreamed in Spanish Once"
The last flat stone in a river - Paige Quinones "Ode to Loss"
Who forged the rivers in my blood - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"
For water to break the river's ceiling - Jacques J. Rancourt "Voyeur"
Because we lifted a stone from the bloodless river - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"
The memory we share of rivers - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
Cellars cold with air of rivers at night - Charles Reznikoff "[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves]"
Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"
To trouble rivers with their small fierce eyes - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
Like a river addled with its hot tide - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"
Their path through rivers of mud - Lynn Riggs "The Wolves"
Solitude floats down the river wan - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
River bridges and star charts - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
Whose hair was as long as the river - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
Restlessness of loneliness and agglomerations of rivers - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
To unbar the gates and let the rivers run - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"
The despair that flows down in widest rivers - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Their veins are rivers of mercury - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"
That drinks the river of my love - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Out of their river mouths - Sonia Sanchez "This Is Not a Small Voice"
Crossing the river of shorn paper - Natalie Scenters-Zapico "Paper Cuts"
When I have crossed dark Lethe's river - Friedrich Schiller "Klopstock and Wieland"
Beneath the river's roof of stars - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
Fills my veins with rivers of excess - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Rivers pour forth a stream of honey - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Rivers leaping into dazzling light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
the river for me never quenched - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Mingle with the river - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love’s Philosophy"
The fountains mingle with the river - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Wakes and quivers with the strength of newborn rivers - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Brother forest, sister river - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
The rains have undone the river - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Wading into the river of forgiveness - Joyce Sidman "The River of Forgiveness"
The voices scraping against the river - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
The river's lifeline joins itself to winter - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
The river's constant menace - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Calls the river line to attention - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
The river of wrath - A.E. Stallings "The Boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx"
The shade throwing himself into the river - Frank Stanford "Lament of the Land Surveyor"
The river that flows nowhere - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"
Ten by ten times have the rivers run dry - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Bell and drum on the south river bank - Su Tung-p'o "Following the Rhymes of Chiang Hsi-shu" transl. by Burton Watson
One speck where the river swallows the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring wind shook the river - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"
Drags the waters of hundred rivers with him - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"
Has burnt a mark no rivers wash away - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"
Washed in tears, in blood, in rivers of despair - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Weary of shifting rivers and roadways - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountains and rivers know no season of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
A river that drains the abandoned factories - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"
All those old stories about your burning rivers - Keith Taylor "Dear Erie"
Mountains and rivers and crimson sunbirds - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Dream by her river - Sara Teasdale "Sunset: St. Louis"
When the parched river drank you down - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"
Down the rivers of the windfall light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Forms a rivering ribbon - Edwin Torres "Swerver Says Sweeeee"
Wind kissing the river - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
The river a library on fire - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
This stone river knows what you have done - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Gulls in the middle of the river - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell
All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"
A river of strange waters flowed - Mark Van Doren "Communication"
The river of dreams runs quietly - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
The river flows begrimed and troubled - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"
Braid the poisoned river and the lost tongues - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"
The river banks tremble in horror - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos
By the river's consolations - Derek Walcott "Central America"
Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
River waters ruffled in the west wind - Wang An-shih "By the River" transl. by Burton Watson
How far along the twisting river - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Canoe"
And the rivers that glass your sky - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
And all the rivers run poison-red - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
Glints of prairie sun through river reeds - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"
Scared the river eels and perches - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"
Lady of rivers strewn with stones - William Carlos Williams "First Praise"
And with chains the rivers lashed - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"
Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
The gates that guard the river breaking - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Old at the birth of the river - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
Rivers sweep and roll between - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
A river flooding the underweave - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
A dry river in Athens - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
Blank as the underside of a river - Jenny Xie "Alike, Yet Not Quite"
A river someone forgets to bless - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"
What stars once telegraphed to the river - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Routes and rivers set ablaze - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Anguish rushing downriver - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"
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The riverbed's washed dream of gold - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
A riverbend dredged of impossible children - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
A frenzy of riverdrops, riot of current - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"
The castle and the riverward rat - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"
Lost among graveyards and riverward ways - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
The massed memory of upriver rain - Michael Lauchlan "Lips"
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
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A unique river of desire - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"
Tearing the eye of the river open - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Make peace beyond the river - Richard C. Adams "A Delaware Indian Legend"
A red river the sun must ford - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
Like a river of molten amethyst - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
The tiny stars that crawled through river flows - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Where sunless rivers weep their waves - Ellen Allyn "Dream Land"
Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
No rivers clothed in light - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
The river that remakes me in its image - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
The sleep of a sunken log at the river's bottom - William Archila "Childhood"
The water of the vanished river - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
A river waiting to wake - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
With silver moon rivers and sailing ships - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Crossed the rivers with my bag of stealth - Julie Babcock "Ohio Apologia"
Weak reeds which by the rivers stand - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Washed themselves in salted rivers - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
I asked the river for answers - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"
Lost in a river of falling leaves - Basho transl. by David Young
Made a river with her tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited
The spirit of a heron lifting from the river - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Rivers under ancient walls flowing - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Near the river but not the railroad - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
And cross the rivers five - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
Washed in life's river - William Blake "Night"
Wants an eternal river - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Stretched and curled like a meandering river - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"
A charm of river stones and coiled hair - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"
That rivers cannot quench - Anne Bradstreet "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
a herd of stars coaxed from a river - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Barges spinning on a mud-sick river - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Rivers of scarlet and crosses of grey - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"
I am the river of pain - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Songs of the Spavinaw"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
Drinking from the bloody river - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Dear singing river full of my blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
The river we can't outrun - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
The sweet solace is a river bed - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
Pan, down in the reeds by the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Came back to dream on the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Our paper house sat on the banks of the red river - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Shining rivers with their brimming floors - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
River and tide confer - Bliss Carman "Golden Rowan"
Crossed irrevocable rivers - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"
Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Picking river sage and rare angelica - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson
By the rivers dark in Babylon - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"
Sold me water beside the river - Leonard Cohen "My Teacher"
She lets the river answer - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
Wearing a river's disguise - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"
Ever since the river died - Leonard Cohen "You Got Me Singing"
In the gray signatures of rivers - Billy Collins "Student of Clouds"
A river in her heart - Hilda Conkling "Moon Thought"
A silver boat on the beautiful river - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves
Making families where river meets sea - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Swallowing the veins of rivers - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Where the slow river meets the tide - H.D. "Leda"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Who will let loose a river of lament - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Leading chained rivers - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
By Babylon's river languishing - Walter de la Mare "Dust to Dust"
Roam on the banks of the river of peace - "The Dead Brother"
My river waits reply - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XI: The Outlet"
Swam in its polluted river - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"
A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"
The river held in cupped hands - Chris Dombrowski "Serotonin"
Hear the river's dreamy rhyme - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
The sob of the forgetful river - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
The river I will never recover - Boris Dralyuk "Lethe"
A dark blanket of river - Cornelius Eady "Birthing"
Skin walls and blood rivers - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
Wild flames jumped the river - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
The river danced for acres - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
The river sweats oil and tar - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"
Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Followed the river until I forgot my name - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The changing courses of at least seven rivers - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Transformation"
Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"
Bring home the river and sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"
Red river surge of time - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"
Blood river once between you - Heid E. Erdich "Microchimerism"
For they become the river - Martin Espada "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913: V. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed"
Out of that long river of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"
Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
In woods where many rivers run - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"
Has taken lessons from the river - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
The marching river of the beer - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: III. A Poetry-Party"
On a river of crystal light - Eugene Field "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
The river lifts its grain to crystal - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"
My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
From pale river-pools of sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Threads the river's mouth shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"
Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
Forded the river for rock trout - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 14"
Chips of winter river thawed - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"
Hungry together by its rivers and bones - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"
Where there are rivers of wine - Colin Francis "Tony O"
And disturb a cold river of stars with a touch - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
When frozen rivers start to run - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
A wall between the thirst and the river - Andrea Gibson "Dear Trump Voter,"
Dry river and tents of the outcast poor - Dana Gioia "Psalm for Our Lady Queen of the Angels"
Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
Speeds the rivers in their onward course - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Skating upon plunging rivers - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
But these are not my rivers - Ivor Gurney "The Fire Kindled"
I sailed a thousand rivers - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
Lizards coming out of rivers of lava - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"
Make my river an ocean - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
Along the gravel beds of the braided river - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"
Bring our hands there scented of a river - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Upset your darts in Lethe's river - Oliver Herford "The Heart of Ice"
The river will bring new lights - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Poisonous rivers make poisonous ice - Jackson Holbert "Landscape"
Rivers don't remember anything - Jackson Holbert "The Water Poem"
River is time in water - Barten Holyday "Distiches"
In the bed of a river of poison - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Taking leave at the western river - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Written on a river's path - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"
By the river where the wind stops - John James "Materia"
The south wind shouts to the rivers - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
Steal the ghosts from the river - Allison Eir Jenks "Lament"
The rivers wend a lawless course - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"
Turn the river in me - Taylor Johnson "Go-Go Ode"
And rivers precious to the stars - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Rise like breath from the river mud - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
The broad rivers of the heart - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"
Gnats mourn among the river sallows - John Keats "To Autumn"
The eagles at the river's edge - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
Some sunny dream of river, field, and sky - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
My night on the wild river - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
In a river a hundred years wide - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"
A chorus of bone, river and soot - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"
As the heated banks of a river - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"
Lost themselves in reflected rivers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"
My voice does not remember crossing the river - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"
The slow river of fear - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"
Into a cold river of shadows - Ted Kooser "The Old People"
A chill river flows from the glacier's toe - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
Across the river's shadow-haunted floor - Archibald Lampman "September"
On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"
The doubtful current of Time's mighty river - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"
The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
River breaks past its banks of ash - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The New Craft"
The seven rivers that surround the heart - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
A river of stars overflowing their bowl - Philip Levine "These Streets"
In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Recall the river arbor at twilight - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
The long river flowing to the edge of the sky - Li Po "At Yellow Crane Tower Taking Leave of Meng Hao-jan as He Sets off for Kuang-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the river sky drowns - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley
The river that flows past me forever - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
To stand in the strong spine of rivers - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Tiny flames in the river's ripples - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
The dream-side of a pennyroyal river - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
In the rapid, rushing river of time - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"
a river borne red from the rock - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"
As you travel far from crag and river - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heather"
The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
So why are you compelled to forgive rivers? - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Their pleas were like a river - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"
An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
Where a river used to tumble to the sea - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Following the river to its source - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"
The songs of those migrating over your rivers - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Passes like an underground river - W.S. Merwin "The Archaic Maker"
And seen the rivers bitten black - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Clouds clutching the river - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
The river down both our faces - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
The rhythms of serpentine rivers - N. Scott Momaday "Lines for My Daughter"
The river of grief and wrong - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"
Make a necklace from all the rivers - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Let the golden rivers flow - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"
From the perpetual river of laments - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A river that carried more stones than water - Pablo Neruda "Disasters" transl. by William O'Daly
In writing the river's tremor - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Grew like a river in a downpour - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid
Rivers that muttered prayers - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Rivers splintered by ancient stone - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The metallic shifting of a river of bells - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Rivers of water and of threat - Pablo Neruda "Midday LIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Rivers of bitter certainty - Pablo Neruda 100 Love Sonnets LIV (trans. by Stephen Tapscott)
Like a tearing river of glass - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Prepare your immortal rivers - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The first music of the river - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIX" transl. by James Nolan
Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
Set the yarrow by the river side - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
Mimicking the river's bends - Tim Newcomb "Upper Sacramento River Valley"
A river we've only visited in our dreams - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"
And showed me rivers of light - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"
The crystal memory shared with a river - Grace Nichols "Picture My Father"
Your paintings carry the genes of rivers - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
The torrent to raise the river - Lorine Niedecker "Wilderness"
A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Placed one toe in the river of gloom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"
To pour you full of rivers - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"
Rivers of dust through a window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"
Bathe in a river of lost shoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last Song for the Mend-It Shop"
Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"
The flood-gates of the rivers of heaven - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Up the river to spawn in eclipse water - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
At the juncture of celestial river systems - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"
The wreath woven by the river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]
A fastness of double rivers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Crossing the river and crossing the line - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"
The only rivers memory knows - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"
Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
Context for the river's progress or retreat - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"
To return shadows into the river - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Dyed with the hue of spring rivers - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
The same river twice stepped in - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"
The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Forging rivers, navigating times, and crossing gulfs - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
A river of tales fenced in by the dead's texts - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
Rivers broke off in my fingers - Paige Quinones "I Dreamed in Spanish Once"
The last flat stone in a river - Paige Quinones "Ode to Loss"
Who forged the rivers in my blood - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"
For water to break the river's ceiling - Jacques J. Rancourt "Voyeur"
Because we lifted a stone from the bloodless river - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"
The memory we share of rivers - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
Cellars cold with air of rivers at night - Charles Reznikoff "[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves]"
Eel eyes piercing the rivers - Adrienne Rich "Ends of the Earth"
To trouble rivers with their small fierce eyes - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
Like a river addled with its hot tide - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"
Their path through rivers of mud - Lynn Riggs "The Wolves"
Solitude floats down the river wan - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
River bridges and star charts - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"
Whose hair was as long as the river - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
Restlessness of loneliness and agglomerations of rivers - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
To unbar the gates and let the rivers run - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"
The despair that flows down in widest rivers - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Their veins are rivers of mercury - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"
That drinks the river of my love - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Out of their river mouths - Sonia Sanchez "This Is Not a Small Voice"
Crossing the river of shorn paper - Natalie Scenters-Zapico "Paper Cuts"
When I have crossed dark Lethe's river - Friedrich Schiller "Klopstock and Wieland"
Beneath the river's roof of stars - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
Fills my veins with rivers of excess - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Rivers pour forth a stream of honey - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Rivers leaping into dazzling light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
the river for me never quenched - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Mingle with the river - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love’s Philosophy"
The fountains mingle with the river - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Wakes and quivers with the strength of newborn rivers - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Brother forest, sister river - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
The rains have undone the river - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Wading into the river of forgiveness - Joyce Sidman "The River of Forgiveness"
The voices scraping against the river - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
The river's lifeline joins itself to winter - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
The river's constant menace - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Calls the river line to attention - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
The river of wrath - A.E. Stallings "The Boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx"
The shade throwing himself into the river - Frank Stanford "Lament of the Land Surveyor"
The river that flows nowhere - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"
Ten by ten times have the rivers run dry - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Bell and drum on the south river bank - Su Tung-p'o "Following the Rhymes of Chiang Hsi-shu" transl. by Burton Watson
One speck where the river swallows the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring wind shook the river - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
Their own river of beating hearts - Alison Swan "True Story"
Drags the waters of hundred rivers with him - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"
Has burnt a mark no rivers wash away - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"
Washed in tears, in blood, in rivers of despair - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Weary of shifting rivers and roadways - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountains and rivers know no season of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
A river that drains the abandoned factories - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"
All those old stories about your burning rivers - Keith Taylor "Dear Erie"
Mountains and rivers and crimson sunbirds - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Dream by her river - Sara Teasdale "Sunset: St. Louis"
When the parched river drank you down - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"
Down the rivers of the windfall light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Forms a rivering ribbon - Edwin Torres "Swerver Says Sweeeee"
Wind kissing the river - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
The river a library on fire - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
This stone river knows what you have done - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Gulls in the middle of the river - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell
All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"
A river of strange waters flowed - Mark Van Doren "Communication"
The river of dreams runs quietly - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
The river flows begrimed and troubled - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"
Braid the poisoned river and the lost tongues - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"
The river banks tremble in horror - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos
By the river's consolations - Derek Walcott "Central America"
Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
River waters ruffled in the west wind - Wang An-shih "By the River" transl. by Burton Watson
How far along the twisting river - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Canoe"
And the rivers that glass your sky - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
And all the rivers run poison-red - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
Glints of prairie sun through river reeds - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"
Scared the river eels and perches - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"
Lady of rivers strewn with stones - William Carlos Williams "First Praise"
And with chains the rivers lashed - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"
Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
The gates that guard the river breaking - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Old at the birth of the river - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
Rivers sweep and roll between - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
A river flooding the underweave - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
A dry river in Athens - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
Blank as the underside of a river - Jenny Xie "Alike, Yet Not Quite"
A river someone forgets to bless - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"
What stars once telegraphed to the river - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Routes and rivers set ablaze - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Anguish rushing downriver - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"
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The riverbed's washed dream of gold - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
A riverbend dredged of impossible children - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
A frenzy of riverdrops, riot of current - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"
The castle and the riverward rat - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"
Lost among graveyards and riverward ways - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
The massed memory of upriver rain - Michael Lauchlan "Lips"
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
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