Potential Titles: Wave
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somethingdarkerThe winds and waves control - A.L.O.E. "Song of Hope"
Riding the waves without comment - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
With pinpricks emitting memory's wavy threads - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
Ready to move at the wave of her hand - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"
Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Fearless and firm as dreadnoughts on rough waves - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A wave where time and space bend - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The restless waves, like jewels - Willis Boyd Allen "The Fourth Watch"
Our voices lost to its crashing waves - Lauren K. Alleyne "Gift"
Where sunless rivers weep their waves - Ellen Allyn "Dream Land"
200 years underline with waving ribbons - Julie Babcock "The Remainder of Barns"
Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"
Waving forests swept by wings of doom - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The distance between words and waves - Elizabeth Bartlett "Air Bridge"
Where the waves still breathe of sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"
Glide down vertical waves of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Seething waves of trouble roll - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
Buffeted by the waves of chance - Cora C. Bass "The Waves of Chance"
To the waving cadence of a rod - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
That breaking wave of pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
With waves that break with force - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."
A wave possessing definite mass - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
A wave function for the universe - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"
The sea calls home his crystal waves - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
How waves know when to stop cresting - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
Understood why the waves were quiet - Laurel Blossom "By the Sea, By the Sea"
Wash me with a wave of wind upon the barley - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Amid the wilderness of waves - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Conducted by wave and ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "Wilson's Specimens"
Dark alleys between night-crested waves - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
With the waves' jade coaxing - William Brewer "Detox Psalm"
Lightens on the comb of leaden waves - Robert Bridges "The Clouds Have Left the Sky"
By Time's all-severing wave - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
Where wild are the waves of strife - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
Waves its wild tentacles against the high blue sky - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"
The sea, where waves act as snares - Paul Cameron Brown "Voyage"
Waving solidarity to each surviving sunburst - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
The glassy waves repeating their incomplete sentences - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Where waves bring gifts of kelp - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
And a hand fit a fay's wand to wave - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Sinks beneath Oblivion's wave - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"
Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"
Watching the waves eat back the blueblack dunes - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
A cat's rough tongue scraping land back to waves - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Thrashing the waves with fins of gold - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Must watch the waves with ruin all bestrew - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
The waves he etches with his oar - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Waved to a country of ghosts - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
A sea of tears and every soul a wave - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Morning harmonizing like emerald waves - Tiana Clark "A Blue Note for Father's Day"
Hostile winds and angry waves - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
Ungovernable angers take the waves - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VII"
On wings of wavy sound - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
All sink beneath the boiling wave - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
The winds and waves obey - Benjamin Copeland "Out of the Depths"
The wave of war still rolls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Waves of harmony eternal - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
To try their speed in rougher waves - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Waves that murmur on the sunward beach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Superscription of bent foam and wave - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
On crested waves of melodies - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Iris-flowers above the waves - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Oak, earth and waves - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
And the wave the wind surprises weeps - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh
Cross the paper waves and printed sands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"
A wave with tusks of a boar - Fanny Stearns Davis "Storm Dance"
Pillars of blue light rising from its waves - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Defaced by its own lines on shattered waves - Armen Davoudian "The Palace of Forty Pillars"
In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The dismal gulfs of Acheron's black waves - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
No wave of mortal tumult - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
In waves of backpacks and barrel fires - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"
And only the waves reply - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life V"
And what a wave must be - Emily Dickinson "Certainty"
Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"
Waves as high as ziggurats - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The yellow willows waving slow - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"
And listen to the waves' wild hymn - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
The arching wave's suspended malachite - Edward Dowden "Deus Absconditus"
Through waves of old, blown glass - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Confusing waves of sky - Heid E. Erdich "Craving, First Month"
From centuries lived on waves - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"
Rides the same unexpected waves - Heid E. Erdich "The Deep"
Let the rude waves beat their sullen music - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
From the wave of dark oblivion - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The fleeting currents, the hungry waves - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
With spotless wave and crystal tide - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Nesting on green waves in the gold sunlight - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Watching the waves pull against time - Jennifer Elise Foerster "River"
Couldn't calculate the pitch of waves - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
Waves of articulation and silence - Tonya M. Foster "Preamble"
With all those heavy waves flowing over me - John Freeman "Waking"
Recognizable on my wave of ruin - James Galvin "Putting Down the Night"
Hushes the heaving wave all the year - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Scarlet on the ether's inky waves - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
Boisterous intention and omnivorous wave - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."
Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
When time waved through the corn - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
Battling the waves' recurrent shock - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"
That waving pyramid of fire - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The shock of Peril's darkest wave - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Though bright the laurels waved - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
With waves of dark light & star dust - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Still identity more like a wave than solid - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]
The winds and waves for guides - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
Waves the only language - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
And unchain the silvery feet of waves - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Upon the torrent wave of time - "Hours of Childhood"
A tipsy Triton on the crest of a wave - Frank Horne "Immortality"
This tunnel of funneling waves - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"
Plow the wave, and sow the sand - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
Like sea waves eating a coastline - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
To make waves in a history - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Breath like a wave of cicadas - John James "Heirloom (Wreck)"
Through the wave of Fire into Annihilation - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
A wave in the silk of white water - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"
Forgive these ravenous waves for demanding sacrifice - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Breathe words from the wave - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
In vehement wind and vehement wave - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
The swift ship's lurch on the lucent wave - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Some jade wave buoyed me forward - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"
On the orange grove's waving height - Fanny Kemble "Eastern Sunset"
Music of the wood, the wave, the wind - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Conjured upon the glassy wave - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Found its waves were wine - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
Travel for miles on the waves - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"
Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Angling themselves against the waves - Christopher Kondrich "Beach Scene"
A burst of tachyons signals another wave - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"
Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"
The wave collapses. Or it doesn't - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans "Rattlebox III"
A dark wave of clapping shadows - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
No wave is lost in all the tides that flow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Broken Waves"
Across the wind-swept waves of Time - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Your wealth of idle waves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
And throw confession of delight upon the wave - D.H. Lawrence "Moonrise"
Slumbered beneath the overwhelming waves - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
The waves fill my hand with blue memories - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Wailing radio waves warning - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
From beyond the veils of sundering wave - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
While the winds and the waves their sighs combine - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
The waves prefer their cold free-will - Lermontof "[One wave upon another leaps]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Waves of shadow fret the yellowing fields - Lermontof "When--Then" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Awaking in waves - J. Patrick Lewis "Bats"
A wave struck cold in midair - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Leap free as the waves - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
Lazily waving a white-feathered fan - Li Po "Contentment [Lazily waving a white-feathered fan]" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Find evil winds and waves - Li T'ai-Po "The Crosswise River" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Wave blossoms for my delight - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson
Let the dust rise off in waves - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Those jazz songs that warn of the waves - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Crafted from ocean waves & starlight - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
When the waves are mingled milk and fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
Like grey mist on sable wave - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Wild waves of cloud - Douglas Malloch "March"
Scoops the white crest off a wave - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Discharged chaos waves through our souls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"
Which stirs the wave of memory - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
Through the bruised, unbalanced waves - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"
When Mercury waved the potent wand - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
The word like a wave lightning and then thunder - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
That unravels in the wave of breath - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
My breathing wave - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"
The sea remembering all of its waves - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"
The frayed waves of absence - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"
Who gave so many dead unto the journeying wave - Alice Meynell "Parentage"
An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Wave after wave of unanswered murmur - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Pushing his heavy music through the waves - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
The waves have not awakened - Edna St Vincent Millay "Inland"
To cope with waves so vast - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Inland Waves"
The waves bare their foamy teeth - Jenny Molberg "Voyager"
Which encrust the side of the wave - Marianne Moore "The Fish"
Where no fresh stream temper the rich salt wave - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Long waves that gather and build - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The only waves are shadows stretching darkly - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"
A single wave of salt and crystal - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
In a single wave of pride and knives - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell
The waltz over the wave - Pablo Neruda "Seaquake" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Mahoney
Among the waves of gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The wave that repeats the sea's questions - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIX" transl. by James Nolan
Where the last wave reached her - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Where red saltwater waves carry calcium east then west - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
A clan fish whispers the language of waves - Margaret Noodin "Red Sky over Superior" transl. by the author
As the fiery waves congealed - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
As the wave on the moon's path - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Wave the flag of stone and seed - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"
Where waves erase whole villages - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
From whence there flows no backward wave - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
Among the lifting waves unafraid - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"
Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"
Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
My haunting terror by wave and land - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
On a wave of doubt mixed with fear - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
Like a memory of waves - Carl Phillips "Torn Sash"
From the clutches of the cold, remorseless wave - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
Up on the waves of the great sea-sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
Wings beat together and create rough waves - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Ends like a sobbing wave - E.J. Pratt "The Toll of the Bells"
The deep waves of memory's stream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Floating on a wave of blood - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Then waving as I fall - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"
Muffled waves of shoreless mystery - Theodore H. Rand "To Emeline"
Each wave a muffled bell - Herbert Randall "Cry of the Wounded Loon"
Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"
Untame [sic] funnels and silver crested waves - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Waving their dreams like flags - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Red flag waving over Spartacus - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"
On all who pass the Stygian wave - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Waves of vanishing light - Valencia Robin "Story of My Life"
This twinkling shade of waving bushes - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: V. The Mohawk Girl"
Beneath far fathom depths of waves - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Waves that foam and riot about the seas of life - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
Waved his sword in the lightnings - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Calling us all out into the waves - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"
The wave of phantom time withdraws - George William Russell "Babylon"
Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"
Like a star on life's wave - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"
The inward, moonless waves of death - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
On the time-flood's heaving waves my name - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"
The raucous applause of the waves - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Tell our tales of plasma waves - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
The waves a lustrous path - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
Naught save the harsh sea and ice-cold wave - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
The waves have a story to tell - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"
Bringing in the sheep and waving away the goats - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"
As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"
In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
No house but the waves - Don Share "The Last Thoughts of Jeff Buckley in Memphis"
That mingled with the roar of dashing waves - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The whispering waves were half asleep - Shelley "The Recollections"
Stirred by Passion's stormy wave - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Hurled by sorrow wave on wave - Taras Shevchenko "To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
How soon the senseless wave resign'd the tints - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Down-crashing hills of wild, devouring waves - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Rescuer bright who walked the howling wave - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
The spell of waves intense with night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
The waves of Time may bear us - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
The sun cresting like a wave that won't break - Maggie Smith "How Dark the Beginning" [Poetry Feb 2020]
A rage of waves protects our horizon - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Set the stricken air waves drumming - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Strung my proud harp to the wave - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Chord Unsung"
On the mounting waves of effort - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Quaff the calm Lethean wave - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Save what the dreary winds and waves incur - James Stephens "The Shell"
And waves that journeyed blind - James Stephens "The Shell"
When the wave rolls black with storm - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
The spell of tree, wave, and dell - Alfred B. Street "Racket River"
What wave withholds itself for sighs of broken reeds - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
When the moon is rippling on the waves - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Sliver-moons seen between the waves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 99: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Out of which all waves rise and fall - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
The waves under my tongue - Mary Szybist "On Gravity"
A chime to the strenuous wave of life - John B. Tabb "A Sea-Sound" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The shadow waves of satin - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"
Waves in the great process of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Satellites have plotted every wave - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"
All the waves' wild hearts - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower
Scream till the waves scream back - Marian Thanhouser "At Night"
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
When the golden waves are tumbling into the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"
Dust turned to waves in the desert - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
Gone beyond the eternal wave - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"
Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Erupting in waves of failed attempts - Edwin Torres "Moth"
Made by blind gods waving sieves - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Traversing the waves in tiny steps - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Great waves churn and leap - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
For a brave, red wave of sound - Louis Untermeyer "In a Strange City"
Such a proud and crashing wave - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"
Beneath the black unheeding waves - John Updike "Endpoint"
an enclave for cosmic waves - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Who fronted the waves of fate - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
A rag tag cosmology we can raise and wave - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
As waves gather from chaos - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"
Waves of something like water - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"
The tether between particle and wave - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
The smile of wave and flower - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
In a thousand seething waves, there's no trace of a heart - Wang An-Shih "East Ridge" transl. by David Hinton
The first wave was an accident - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "Goodbyes"
Reweave its patterning of silver wave - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
The waves of evening flood - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
Mild as the murmurs of the moonlight wave - Henry Kirk White "Time"
When the waves show their teeth - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"
Sunk in Avon's fatal wave - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"
The full sweep of certain wave summits - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"
Tideless waves thundering slantwise - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"
Exquisite brown waves - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
Waved me from the white wet - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
In the waving grass of your minds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"
That bathes each wild untrodden dell in waves of mystic light - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
That hugs me with a thousand waves - Adolf Wolff "Questionings"
They out-did the sparkling waves in glee - William Wordsworth "[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]"
Across the river with white waves rising - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"
A bright shell in a dark wave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Never afraid to wave good-bye - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
Dance like a wave of the sea - W.B. Yeats "The Fiddler of Dooney"
Washed within a wave of golden - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
As the wave desired - Adam Zagajewski "Mandelstam in Theodosia"
Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"
The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
The fish in shadow-waved herds - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"
Between the solar shockwave and Earth's rattling - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
Sun-wave or heart of star - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"
Watching each wavecrash reverberate - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
The wavelength of euphoria - Fady Joudah "Taurus"
The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
Through the waveless mirror-seas - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"
Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
The waning tide of a waveless sea - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]
Inability to grasp wave-particle duality - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"
All the dancing wavers rejoice - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
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Riding the waves without comment - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
With pinpricks emitting memory's wavy threads - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
Ready to move at the wave of her hand - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"
Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Fearless and firm as dreadnoughts on rough waves - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A wave where time and space bend - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The restless waves, like jewels - Willis Boyd Allen "The Fourth Watch"
Our voices lost to its crashing waves - Lauren K. Alleyne "Gift"
Where sunless rivers weep their waves - Ellen Allyn "Dream Land"
200 years underline with waving ribbons - Julie Babcock "The Remainder of Barns"
Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"
Waving forests swept by wings of doom - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The distance between words and waves - Elizabeth Bartlett "Air Bridge"
Where the waves still breathe of sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"
Glide down vertical waves of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Seething waves of trouble roll - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
Buffeted by the waves of chance - Cora C. Bass "The Waves of Chance"
To the waving cadence of a rod - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
That breaking wave of pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
With waves that break with force - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."
A wave possessing definite mass - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
A wave function for the universe - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"
The sea calls home his crystal waves - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
How waves know when to stop cresting - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
Understood why the waves were quiet - Laurel Blossom "By the Sea, By the Sea"
Wash me with a wave of wind upon the barley - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Amid the wilderness of waves - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Conducted by wave and ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "Wilson's Specimens"
Dark alleys between night-crested waves - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
With the waves' jade coaxing - William Brewer "Detox Psalm"
Lightens on the comb of leaden waves - Robert Bridges "The Clouds Have Left the Sky"
By Time's all-severing wave - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
Where wild are the waves of strife - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
Waves its wild tentacles against the high blue sky - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"
The sea, where waves act as snares - Paul Cameron Brown "Voyage"
Waving solidarity to each surviving sunburst - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
The glassy waves repeating their incomplete sentences - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Where waves bring gifts of kelp - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
And a hand fit a fay's wand to wave - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Sinks beneath Oblivion's wave - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"
Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"
Watching the waves eat back the blueblack dunes - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
A cat's rough tongue scraping land back to waves - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
Thrashing the waves with fins of gold - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"
Must watch the waves with ruin all bestrew - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
The waves he etches with his oar - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Waved to a country of ghosts - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
A sea of tears and every soul a wave - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Morning harmonizing like emerald waves - Tiana Clark "A Blue Note for Father's Day"
Hostile winds and angry waves - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
Ungovernable angers take the waves - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VII"
On wings of wavy sound - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
All sink beneath the boiling wave - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
The winds and waves obey - Benjamin Copeland "Out of the Depths"
The wave of war still rolls - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Waves of harmony eternal - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
To try their speed in rougher waves - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Waves that murmur on the sunward beach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Superscription of bent foam and wave - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
On crested waves of melodies - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"
A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Iris-flowers above the waves - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Oak, earth and waves - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
And the wave the wind surprises weeps - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh
Cross the paper waves and printed sands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"
A wave with tusks of a boar - Fanny Stearns Davis "Storm Dance"
Pillars of blue light rising from its waves - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Defaced by its own lines on shattered waves - Armen Davoudian "The Palace of Forty Pillars"
In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The dismal gulfs of Acheron's black waves - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
No wave of mortal tumult - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
In waves of backpacks and barrel fires - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"
And only the waves reply - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life V"
And what a wave must be - Emily Dickinson "Certainty"
Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"
Waves as high as ziggurats - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The yellow willows waving slow - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"
And listen to the waves' wild hymn - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
The arching wave's suspended malachite - Edward Dowden "Deus Absconditus"
Through waves of old, blown glass - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Confusing waves of sky - Heid E. Erdich "Craving, First Month"
From centuries lived on waves - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"
Rides the same unexpected waves - Heid E. Erdich "The Deep"
Let the rude waves beat their sullen music - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
From the wave of dark oblivion - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The fleeting currents, the hungry waves - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
With spotless wave and crystal tide - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Nesting on green waves in the gold sunlight - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Watching the waves pull against time - Jennifer Elise Foerster "River"
Couldn't calculate the pitch of waves - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
Waves of articulation and silence - Tonya M. Foster "Preamble"
With all those heavy waves flowing over me - John Freeman "Waking"
Recognizable on my wave of ruin - James Galvin "Putting Down the Night"
Hushes the heaving wave all the year - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Scarlet on the ether's inky waves - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
Boisterous intention and omnivorous wave - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."
Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
When time waved through the corn - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
Battling the waves' recurrent shock - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"
That waving pyramid of fire - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The shock of Peril's darkest wave - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Though bright the laurels waved - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
With waves of dark light & star dust - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Still identity more like a wave than solid - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]
The winds and waves for guides - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
Waves the only language - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
And unchain the silvery feet of waves - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Upon the torrent wave of time - "Hours of Childhood"
A tipsy Triton on the crest of a wave - Frank Horne "Immortality"
This tunnel of funneling waves - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"
Plow the wave, and sow the sand - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
Like sea waves eating a coastline - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
To make waves in a history - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Breath like a wave of cicadas - John James "Heirloom (Wreck)"
Through the wave of Fire into Annihilation - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
A wave in the silk of white water - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"
Forgive these ravenous waves for demanding sacrifice - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Breathe words from the wave - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
In vehement wind and vehement wave - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
The swift ship's lurch on the lucent wave - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Some jade wave buoyed me forward - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"
On the orange grove's waving height - Fanny Kemble "Eastern Sunset"
Music of the wood, the wave, the wind - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Conjured upon the glassy wave - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Found its waves were wine - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
Travel for miles on the waves - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"
Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Angling themselves against the waves - Christopher Kondrich "Beach Scene"
A burst of tachyons signals another wave - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"
Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"
The wave collapses. Or it doesn't - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans "Rattlebox III"
A dark wave of clapping shadows - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
No wave is lost in all the tides that flow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Broken Waves"
Across the wind-swept waves of Time - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Your wealth of idle waves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
And throw confession of delight upon the wave - D.H. Lawrence "Moonrise"
Slumbered beneath the overwhelming waves - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
The waves fill my hand with blue memories - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Wailing radio waves warning - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
From beyond the veils of sundering wave - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
While the winds and the waves their sighs combine - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
The waves prefer their cold free-will - Lermontof "[One wave upon another leaps]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Waves of shadow fret the yellowing fields - Lermontof "When--Then" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Awaking in waves - J. Patrick Lewis "Bats"
A wave struck cold in midair - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Leap free as the waves - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
Lazily waving a white-feathered fan - Li Po "Contentment [Lazily waving a white-feathered fan]" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Find evil winds and waves - Li T'ai-Po "The Crosswise River" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Wave blossoms for my delight - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson
Let the dust rise off in waves - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Those jazz songs that warn of the waves - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Crafted from ocean waves & starlight - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
When the waves are mingled milk and fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
Like grey mist on sable wave - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Wild waves of cloud - Douglas Malloch "March"
Scoops the white crest off a wave - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Discharged chaos waves through our souls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"
Which stirs the wave of memory - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
Through the bruised, unbalanced waves - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"
When Mercury waved the potent wand - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
The word like a wave lightning and then thunder - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
That unravels in the wave of breath - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
My breathing wave - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"
The sea remembering all of its waves - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"
The frayed waves of absence - W.S. Merwin "A Ring"
Who gave so many dead unto the journeying wave - Alice Meynell "Parentage"
An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Wave after wave of unanswered murmur - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Pushing his heavy music through the waves - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
The waves have not awakened - Edna St Vincent Millay "Inland"
To cope with waves so vast - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Inland Waves"
The waves bare their foamy teeth - Jenny Molberg "Voyager"
Which encrust the side of the wave - Marianne Moore "The Fish"
Where no fresh stream temper the rich salt wave - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Long waves that gather and build - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The only waves are shadows stretching darkly - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"
A single wave of salt and crystal - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
In a single wave of pride and knives - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell
The waltz over the wave - Pablo Neruda "Seaquake" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Mahoney
Among the waves of gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The wave that repeats the sea's questions - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIX" transl. by James Nolan
Where the last wave reached her - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Where red saltwater waves carry calcium east then west - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
A clan fish whispers the language of waves - Margaret Noodin "Red Sky over Superior" transl. by the author
As the fiery waves congealed - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
As the wave on the moon's path - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Wave the flag of stone and seed - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"
Where waves erase whole villages - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
From whence there flows no backward wave - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
Among the lifting waves unafraid - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"
Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"
Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
My haunting terror by wave and land - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
On a wave of doubt mixed with fear - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
Like a memory of waves - Carl Phillips "Torn Sash"
From the clutches of the cold, remorseless wave - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
Up on the waves of the great sea-sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
Wings beat together and create rough waves - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Ends like a sobbing wave - E.J. Pratt "The Toll of the Bells"
The deep waves of memory's stream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Floating on a wave of blood - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Then waving as I fall - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"
Muffled waves of shoreless mystery - Theodore H. Rand "To Emeline"
Each wave a muffled bell - Herbert Randall "Cry of the Wounded Loon"
Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"
Untame [sic] funnels and silver crested waves - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Waving their dreams like flags - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Red flag waving over Spartacus - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"
On all who pass the Stygian wave - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
Waves of vanishing light - Valencia Robin "Story of My Life"
This twinkling shade of waving bushes - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: V. The Mohawk Girl"
Beneath far fathom depths of waves - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Waves that foam and riot about the seas of life - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
Waved his sword in the lightnings - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Calling us all out into the waves - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"
The wave of phantom time withdraws - George William Russell "Babylon"
Till the wizard willows waved in the wind - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"
Like a star on life's wave - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"
The inward, moonless waves of death - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
On the time-flood's heaving waves my name - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"
The raucous applause of the waves - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Tell our tales of plasma waves - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
The waves a lustrous path - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
Naught save the harsh sea and ice-cold wave - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
The waves have a story to tell - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"
Bringing in the sheep and waving away the goats - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"
As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"
In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
No house but the waves - Don Share "The Last Thoughts of Jeff Buckley in Memphis"
That mingled with the roar of dashing waves - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The whispering waves were half asleep - Shelley "The Recollections"
Stirred by Passion's stormy wave - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Hurled by sorrow wave on wave - Taras Shevchenko "To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
How soon the senseless wave resign'd the tints - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Down-crashing hills of wild, devouring waves - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Rescuer bright who walked the howling wave - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
The spell of waves intense with night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
The waves of Time may bear us - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
The sun cresting like a wave that won't break - Maggie Smith "How Dark the Beginning" [Poetry Feb 2020]
A rage of waves protects our horizon - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Set the stricken air waves drumming - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Strung my proud harp to the wave - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Chord Unsung"
On the mounting waves of effort - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Quaff the calm Lethean wave - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Save what the dreary winds and waves incur - James Stephens "The Shell"
And waves that journeyed blind - James Stephens "The Shell"
When the wave rolls black with storm - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
The spell of tree, wave, and dell - Alfred B. Street "Racket River"
What wave withholds itself for sighs of broken reeds - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
When the moon is rippling on the waves - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Sliver-moons seen between the waves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 99: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Out of which all waves rise and fall - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
The waves under my tongue - Mary Szybist "On Gravity"
A chime to the strenuous wave of life - John B. Tabb "A Sea-Sound" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The shadow waves of satin - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"
Waves in the great process of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Satellites have plotted every wave - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"
All the waves' wild hearts - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower
Scream till the waves scream back - Marian Thanhouser "At Night"
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
When the golden waves are tumbling into the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"
Dust turned to waves in the desert - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
Gone beyond the eternal wave - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"
Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Erupting in waves of failed attempts - Edwin Torres "Moth"
Made by blind gods waving sieves - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Traversing the waves in tiny steps - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Great waves churn and leap - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
For a brave, red wave of sound - Louis Untermeyer "In a Strange City"
Such a proud and crashing wave - Louis Untermeyer "Thanks"
Beneath the black unheeding waves - John Updike "Endpoint"
an enclave for cosmic waves - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Who fronted the waves of fate - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
A rag tag cosmology we can raise and wave - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
As waves gather from chaos - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"
Waves of something like water - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"
The tether between particle and wave - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
The smile of wave and flower - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
In a thousand seething waves, there's no trace of a heart - Wang An-Shih "East Ridge" transl. by David Hinton
The first wave was an accident - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "Goodbyes"
Reweave its patterning of silver wave - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
The waves of evening flood - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"
Mild as the murmurs of the moonlight wave - Henry Kirk White "Time"
When the waves show their teeth - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"
Sunk in Avon's fatal wave - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"
The full sweep of certain wave summits - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"
Tideless waves thundering slantwise - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"
Exquisite brown waves - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
Waved me from the white wet - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
In the waving grass of your minds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"
That bathes each wild untrodden dell in waves of mystic light - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
That hugs me with a thousand waves - Adolf Wolff "Questionings"
They out-did the sparkling waves in glee - William Wordsworth "[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]"
Across the river with white waves rising - Emperor Wu-ti "The Autumn Wind" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"
A bright shell in a dark wave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Never afraid to wave good-bye - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
Dance like a wave of the sea - W.B. Yeats "The Fiddler of Dooney"
Washed within a wave of golden - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
As the wave desired - Adam Zagajewski "Mandelstam in Theodosia"
Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"
The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
The fish in shadow-waved herds - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"
Between the solar shockwave and Earth's rattling - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
Sun-wave or heart of star - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"
Watching each wavecrash reverberate - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
The wavelength of euphoria - Fady Joudah "Taurus"
The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
Through the waveless mirror-seas - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"
Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
The waning tide of a waveless sea - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]
Inability to grasp wave-particle duality - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"
All the dancing wavers rejoice - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
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