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One glass of water that did not contain war - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

Where innocent water thought aloud - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

That withers quickly back into dark water - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"

Not enough clean water left to wash it off - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Unified mix of greenery, gravity, and water - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

Light glinting in a headdress of water - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

All the water seeks is to swallow weight - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

From the starless waters of sleep - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

On the breath of moving water - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

The full choir of water, air, and earth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

The water surrounds me with longing - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Mallards carved in oily silken water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Watery reflections where the wisdom lies - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Be lit by immersion in water - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

Water in the anchored rock - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Among winds and waters holy - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Learned to swim in the caustic water - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"

Rose water in black coffee - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"

Whatever power wields the watering can - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

Over the muddy waters of reconciliation - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

Pulls its heavy cloak over anxious waters - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

The force of relentless water through dry cement - Mouna Ammar "Mama's Words"

The stripped woods and chilled waters - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Present your hands to the basin of water - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Where water is not thirsty - Maya Angelou "Alone"

Water boiled in innocence - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Gather wormwood into boiling water press its bitters - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Sipping margaritas from a water bottle - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"

No choice but to curse the coming waters - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"

And assassinate the water - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Getting to know violence"

The water of the vanished river - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Water over a thrown stone - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

The water breathing steadily - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

my father was rafted over waters - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Daisies rooted in water reeds - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"

Filled with dripping water and locked doors - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"

Influence with Wind and Water - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Impartial lightning strikes the water - Mary Jo Bang "The Doctor's Monster Is Drowning"

This little bit of Lethe water - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"

Using only a cup of water - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Pin pricks in a watery bed sheet - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"

Water bubbling in a magic jar - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

The secret scent of ancient waters - Lou Barrett "Young Fisher King"

We write on stony water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Nearby I take your words to water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

The slow gathering of waters - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

The waters of the sun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

can't forget water while i drown - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"

The waters lift impulsive arms - Cora C. Bass "Our River"

Sweet and bitter waters - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"

Of water that only swallows - Gabrielle Bates "Dear Birmingham"

Where water sleeps at night - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

The living water from the rock - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Blurry pearls along the water's skin - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Burn the black water of night's lagoons - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

A more perfect name for water - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"

Who crossed waters to follow midnights - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

A flame that can ride water - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

Come into the presence of still water - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Where water's alive with vibration - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Untangle the roots of salt water - Sherwin Bitsui "Triptych"

And the quill on the quicksilver water - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"

The hurried machination of water - Maxwell Bodenheim "I Walk Upon a Street"

Who sway in and out of the waters of life - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Falling like precipitous water - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

I have sown beside all water - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

Fear of quiet waters and of faint twilights - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

Let us dance by metal waters burned with gold - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

That cherish dim waters - Gordon Bottomley "The Crier by Night"

To trust water might safely erase me - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

Water dancing with onion, garlic and salt - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Walk towards a faint murmur of water - Russell Brakefield "Myth"

See rushing water in your eyes - Shannon Bramer "You Speak Violets"

A boat on the waters of solitude - William Brewer "Playing Along"

A galleon on the caustic waters - William Brewer "Resolution"

A long divining for water - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"

The cry of waters where the snow was white - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

Waters blown by changing winds - Rupert Brooke "The Dead"

These rising waters filthy and licking with flames - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

A burning magnet on the water - Paul Cameron Brown "The Burning"

The same substance that dooms the water to be - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"

Thick as the watering dews of Eden - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Where the living water runs - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"

Like music on the waters - Lord Byron "Stanzas for Music"

The waters under the ruined mill - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"

The roar of waters and the lightning's gleaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

In these mid-stream waters - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"

Laboring in soap and hot water - Jody Chan "Triage"

Converts water into wasps - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

How to hold water - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

Landed at the mouth of neon waters - Tina Chang "Sugar"

Born from small waters - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"

Waters and stars and the lone moods of men - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"

Water so cold it hurt his bones - Ch'en Lin "Song: I Watered My Horse at the Long Wall Caves" transl. by Burton Watson

Would turn our prints to water - Wendy Chen "No use to say"

A deep pact between stone and water - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"

A water chariot with lotus canopy - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson

A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"

The host of names written on water - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

watching from the water - Lucille Clifton "california lessons. 1, geography"

your mother's face turned to water - Lucille Clifton "memory"

dreaming a small boat through centuries of water - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Warm water under silver covers - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Over still waters mildly come - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Deep waters where no ground is - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The fire and the water agree - "Cobbe's Prophecies"

Sold me water beside the river - Leonard Cohen "My Teacher"

Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

Idly watering weeds of casual growth - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"

And tones of falling water - Hilda Conkling "Little Papoose"

Danced in the gold waters - Hilda Conkling "Theatre-Song"

Poison in the water's measure - Flower Conroy "Frog"

Which out of water brought forth solid rock - "The Coral Island" [The Mirror of Literature v.10, no.279 (20 October 1827)]

I'll quench my thirst with dead water - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

All water flows toward loneliness - Eduardo C. Corral "Lines Written During My Second Pandemic"

The force of watery judgments - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Teach the water to forget - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

The silent midnight waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"

Out on Life's wild waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"

A downpour of whiskey and water - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Does Not Care about Football"

I will bathe in waters of ice - Adelaide Crapsey "The Lonely Death"

Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Cool water to the thirsty lamb - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Into canyons intimate with water - Shutta Crum "At the River"

Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"

Send whispers across water - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"

A long corridor of water in the morning - Tyree Daye "Uncle Pac's Blues"

When echo lurks by the waters - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"

My voice like water - Diana Marie Delgado "Bridge Called Water"

Fir trees growing in flood water - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

Across my air & through his water - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"

Except how water touches land - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Even the eye's small water - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Mistake the pool for moon water - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Woven like water, through itself - Natalie Diaz "lake-loop"

An emotional museum of water - Natalie Diaz "lake-loop"

As a reed bent to the water - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XX"

Water is taught by thirst - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LI"

That great water in the west - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LII: Thirst"

Or upside down water - Michael Dickman "Broadway"

And the trees were weak for water - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"

Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"

Warm as whiskey chased down with cold water - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Water drawn from the cosmos's deepest well - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Elephants watered at the hydrant - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Private islands made of water bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"

The apple green water of my mother's youthful memory - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"

Broke the water into a thousand needles - Rita Dove "Someone's Blood"

Around a goblet of great waters - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Deeper than coiled waters laid - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Its waters will keep broadcasting - Iris Jamahl Dunkle "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

Whole salt water galaxies - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

Gathered like waters to the sun - Helen Parry Eden "Post-Communion"

The air and the water lose their separateness - Katherine Edgren "Mornings and River Currents: Morning on Cass Lake"

On this dark land of water - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"

Recognize water in the poison sunrise - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

Her shuttered barge burned on the water - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

Drink water from one well - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

The wet pitch of the water's mirrors - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Little Song"

The steep pitch of the water's ceilings - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Little Song"

And murmuring waters counselled me - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Drink water from the sacred canals - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

The only path through water & life - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"

Speaks in the water’s tongue - Martin Espada "Not Here"

Watering the fields of memory - Constance Fairbanks "Those Far-Off Fields"

Be the water you siphon into the roots - Tarfia Faizullah "Apology from a Muslim Orphan"

The wash and whisper of far waters - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Water to the parched earth - Sid Farrar The Year Comes Round

Slip like water from your palms - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Waited by the trembling waters - Andrew Feld "To Adam"

A great fire muted by holy water - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"

Pursuing the receding waters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Where the Waters of Destiny boom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

In the pressure-filled waters of heartbreak - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Writing constitutions for water - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen g"

And ascended the tributary waters - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"

What sunlight does to water - Laura Foley "What Stillness"

Abandoned by water - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

Like a wreath on water - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"

Again in the waters apart - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"

How the volcanoes stand piously over the water - Ariel Francisco "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"

Even its monstrous size can be buried in dark waters - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Water ices reacted with lava flows - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

By rubbing them with water - Todd Fredson "[Erratum: Found Ecology Piece]"

Water falling golden from the sun - John Freeman "The Body"

Nor water such strength has - John Freeman "The Body"

As one climbs from water up to land - John Freeman "Waking"

The serried hosts of falling waters - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

And wait to watch the water clear - Robert Frost "The Pasture"

More sundered than water and fire - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"

Water slouching through a bathroom ceiling - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

The velocity of water - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Epilogue: A Story for After"

A memorial to distant waters - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Every Human Is a Black Box"

In my heart like water in a well - Zona Gale "At Least..."

Like a lily from a quiet water - Zona Gale "Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills"

Pouring water for the dead - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"

Because water understands everything - Tess Gallagher "Two of Anything"

Between you and memory everything is water - Eric Gamalinda "The Opposite of Nostalgia"

Where the mountain waters play - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"

What shadow flits dark'ning the face of the water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

What melody rolls over mountains and water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Into the shadows of a water colored world - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"

Ashamed of needing more than water - Andrea Gibson "Said the Wishing Well"

To adapt the way water does - Nikita Gill "Ares, After"

Dead waters and dark destinies - Nikita Gill "What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker"

Over the radiant water - Louise Gluck "Parable for the King"

The footprints made by water - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

Envy her scent for water - Rae Gouirand "Petrichor"

Bastard child of water - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

Contrived the storm with watering cans - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"

Dies by water as well as fire - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"

Water will outwit a wall - Linda Gregerson "Waterborne"

Tombs of rocky teeth and salt waters - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"

The woman with spring water palms - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

The uncanny affection of earth for water - Donald Hall "Convergences"

The hill wearing water - Nathalie Handal "Dor"

Sing what belongs to the water - Nathalie Handal "Granada Sings Whitman"

Discover what water gave you - Nathalie Handal "On Blindness"

My car tires swishing on the lying water - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"

Her needle mouth filling with water - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"

That grace can smooth no waters - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"

Nine drops of water bead the jessamine - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"

The gate of forbidden waters - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

Jumping hoops of water - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"

By scarlet waters of belief - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"

The still waters of the silver sea - C.R.S. Harris "Sonnet"

The scripture of water - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Above the scent of raw water - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

The unparsed language of water - Jim Harrison "Spring"

Deciding to breathe the water - Jim Harrison "Spring"

Where wind and water meet - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Mad waters lashed to foam - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"

The water beasts roaring in the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"

As I gaze upon the hurrying waters - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Water knew anything could be a seed - Matthew Herskovitz "Water on Mars"

Light imperious talk of water freed - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

And pours itself back into water - Mary Hickman "Eva Hesse"

When will water open its mouth - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"

The steep water of your making - Conrad Hilberry "For Katharine, 1952-1961"

Watery epochs, breathing salt - Conrad Hilberry "The Surge"

Fled to electrical dark water - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Light in the hour of lemon & water - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"

Carrying the dark water of need - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

Where the waters yawn - "Hirmos" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Ice is astonished by water - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"

Pigeon feather floating on the tension of the water - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"

Begin with those marigolds you forgot to water - Tony Hoagland "Real Estate"

One part water and three parts smoke - Florence Hoatson "Jerry"

I wear water as my blue apron - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

Where the waters grieve - Norah M. Holland "A Storm at Night"

Hang a ribbon above the water - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

River is time in water - Barten Holyday "Distiches"

On falling waters writes the text - Gerard Manley Hopkins "It was a hard thing to undo this knot"

Clouds and water block the way home - Hsiang Ssu "The Ailing Japanese Monk" transl. by Burton Watson

Crimson fruit chilled in water - Hsieh T'iao "In a Provincial Capital Sick in Bed: Presented to the Shang-shu Shen" transl. by Burton Watson

A land of fragrant water - Langston Hughes "Our Land"

With water brimming our throats - Ashaki M. Jackson "A Proclamation"

Weigh on the water and strain the rock - Robinson Jeffers "Contrast"

Where all of time flows into water - Allison Eir Jenks "Canvas"

What's Atlantis without the water - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Somebody told me we got LA"

We drank hard water - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

The northern waters pitiless - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Water won't answer our questions - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

Neptune in the waters burned - Ben Jonson "Venus' Runaway"

The knife in a pail of water - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Taps your sins on water pipes - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

An afternoon of apricots and water - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Our languages separate as oil on water - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

When the skies cleared and the waters retreated - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"

Stayed aloft until the waters dried - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"

Pure water from their golden urns - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

As warm water shatters at birth - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Applause in running water - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

At home in so many bodies of water - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"

Water rolls the stone away - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Splints the ice water saws right through - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Mix media on slow water - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"

Green ice in blue water - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"

That flow of fabrics and waters of Manhattan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

I am the water you need - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Waters from the rushing founts of May - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

the wind pushing water out of itself - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Where the gold-green waters run - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

Mighty waters conquering sweep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"

To the birds and waters only known - Henry Kendall "After Many Years"

The hymn of water and the gale's high tone - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Cement themselves to the silky water - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

An oar touches the water's rim - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"

May its waters cover me - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

Sunless waters beside a sunless beach - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

All the sweet buttermilk watered the plain - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Trust the water to break - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Body Remembers"

Deserts sometimes dream of water - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

My bones drank water - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"

Water fell through all my doors - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"

When the waters of hope abate - Archibald Lampman "A Ballade of Waiting"

Dark waters and an unknown shore - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

With iron roar of waters - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

The speech of wind and water - Archibald Lampman "The Islet and the Palm"

Patched with pale water sleeping - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

And water it with bitter tears - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"

Being ignorant of the water - Archibald Lampman "Personality"

By that grey and solemn water - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Woven of water and the moon - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

A magnetism in the water - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

Fishes in the breathing waters - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

Sunlight slapped off the water - Aimee Le "That Girl"

Looking for a book made of water - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"

Water moves in trajectories guided by breath - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

The brink of leaden waters - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Lethe"

Clumps of reeds where there is no water - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

The virulent water beat my flame down to ash - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

That casts a bitter shadow into the waters - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Stitched to the water's edge - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"

Weather and water in its perfecting - Denise Levertov "A Stone from Iona"

Becomes colder than water - J. Patrick Lewis "The Arctic and Antarctica: Which Is Colder"

Flying waters descending straight - Li Po "Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

A bold blundering sky of fresh water - Ada Limon "The Crossing"

Standing on the watery extension of time - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

In my mouth like bad water - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

But we could drown in a glass of water - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Quaff the most sparkling of water - "Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon"

Little thimble of chalk and hard water - Cecilia Llompart "The Barnacle and the Gray Whale"

Lands prone in the jeering water - Amy Lowell "Convalescence"

Between the searing water and the whirling wind - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Of water and frost and star - Thomas MacDonagh "Litany of Beauty"

Lions of the duckweed, dragons of the Water - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "newt"

Mounted his steed of the water clear - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"

Could charm cool waters back - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"

Wind-fiends hunt the water - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"

When Water itself goes for a swim - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

Waters meet and rushes quiver - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"

The bioluminscent waters of his youth - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

The phantom wood in waters deep - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

Net the white water with silver - Jeannette Marks "Bread"

Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"

Girdled with swinging waters - Don Marquis "From the Bridge"

The well anchoring the water's wish - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

To glint upon mad water - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"

Stars & moon blinking in agitated water - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

The water behind a thousand mirages - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"

The water stolen from our wells - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Up from shadow water - Airea D. Matthews "HERO(i)N"

The way she commands water - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

The watered garden of the Mystic Rose - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"

The waters boom like tenor bells - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"

Beside your bitter waters rise - Theodore Maynard "Ireland"

The waters half asleep - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

A world the old trees make of water and air - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"

Fettered the flowing waters fast - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"

The sadness of water fountains - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"

My thousand dreams of waters - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"

Across the waters and the sighing reeds - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Water, earth all kinds of dust & dirt - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

On the brink of the great waters - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

On the wilds of midnight waters - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

Fire in water hued as wine - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Water's refusal to freeze - Joanne Merriam "Settler's Song"

In the mind of water - W.S. Merwin "Beyond Question"

After a long time as water - W.S. Merwin "The Biology of Art"

The sounds remembered by water - M.S. Merwin "The Cisterns"

Always a sky made of water - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"

Carried water in their voices - W.S. Merwin "Parts of a Tune"

No longer ply the living water - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

That choiring of water - W.S. Merwin "That Music"

Be rabid in the endless water - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

The light from common water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy Before Death"

Too long away from water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Exiled"

The sound of cold sweet water - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet V from Second April

Because the water was under your heels - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

Water in the tiger's mouth - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Spilled books like holy water - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Better than stars or water - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

The waters rise from infinite realms of rest - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Sapped in sour water of the bogs - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

Frightened waters huddle close - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Abundant the waters that gather - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Winnowed from the water & the fire - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Rinsing green life's yellow waters - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman

A fable of endless water - Carol Muske-Dukes "Like This"

Tears water the curry-leaf dragon - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

To the imagination of water - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

What water says as it plummets - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

because the waters drowned our history - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

An orchestra of water, stone, and iron - Pablo Neruda "Beyond Your Lands, America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Like a flower of eternal water - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf

Until water finds a voice - Pablo Neruda "Bread-Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

Faraway glass of water and oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Only water's threat is heard - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A river that carried more stones than water - Pablo Neruda "Disasters" transl. by William O'Daly

Pockets of water converted into iron - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Touches hurtling mute waters - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Like an emblem of rebellious water - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Green as water in October - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A darting fish in the water of the sky - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The scrutiny of water and fire - Pablo Neruda "Lost Letters" transl. by Alastair Reid

Who make the water and the earth tremble - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Vipers assaulted by a water of hell - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Silence of water and wind - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Rivers of water and of threat - Pablo Neruda "Midday LIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

All the machines of water - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner

To fill our hearts with salt water - Pablo Neruda "Perhaps, perhaps oblivion..." transl. by Jack Schmitt

Many waters and infinite death - Pablo Neruda "Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

The implacable eternity of water - Pablo Neruda "Seaquake" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Mahoney

Next to the water of winter - Pablo Neruda "The Son" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Seeking amid the watery constellations - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Carpeting the caverns of air and water - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIII" transl. by James Nolan

The aligned water of diamonds - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan

In the transparent kingdom of a drop of water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Corrosive tongue against the water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Writes letters with water and stone - Pablo Neruda "To the Traveler" transl. by Dennis Maloney

In search of heavenly waters - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Radiant coal and water - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A thunderbolt of water - Pablo Neruda "Waltz" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Carrying water in containers filled with holes - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The water you sipped seemed dry - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

When the moon-led waters flow - Henry Newbolt "Cities Drowned"

Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"

A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"

Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

Sweeping water past the window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

Our water isn't free either - Naomi Shihab Nye "It Was or It Wasn't"

Water of light poured freely - Naomi Shihab Nye "Peace"

A poem unwritten by water - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

Plunge from warm waters to cool air - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]

Up the river to spawn in eclipse water - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

A hungry well of water and memory loss - Porsha Olayiwola "We Drink at the Attenuation Well"

Solid as well water - Sharon Olds "Earliest Memory"

In the black, polished water - Mary Oliver "Some Herons"

Like the first fair water - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Standing in their beloved water - Mary Oliver "Walking to Indian River"

The difference between water and stone - Mary Oliver "Work"

Heard me in the captive water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

Wants to astonish the water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Sign?"

A captain of the moving waters - James Oppenheim "Hebrews"

Over the waters of our own darkness - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Determined in part by water - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"

Clothed the water's strife - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

Profaned and swollen by bitter waters - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

The water that flows blue but runs red - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

The wide imagined water - Grace Paley "Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie"

Where older waters swell - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

In a welter of bells & holy water - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

Wore a suit of woven water - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

I poured water & stars - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

Water in the aftermath of light - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

One endless white furrow of water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Abandoned old jetties just under the water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Walking toward the sound of water - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Despite the fact of water - Carl Phillips "Crossing"

Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"

Above the thickness of water - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

Haunted by grime and green water - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

Sprouting from your black waters - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"

From the waters of anonymity - Robert Pinsky "Antiques"

Upon the lonely waters of the world - V. De S. Pinto "Swans"

Ache with the chill of dawn water - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

To drink from Limbo's waters - Alexander Posey "The Deer"

The distant brim of silent waters - E.J. Pratt "Evening"

Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

A face that shifts like the sky or water - Tim Pratt "Mask"

Soft as twilight waters - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

Nurtured for the hungry waters - John Presland "The Deluge"

Woven of sunshine, water, and birdsong - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"

Water pouring from spaces between soil and root - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

A journey of feet made of water - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

They walk on a thread of dust or water - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

Crawling baby of magma and water - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

For water to break the river's ceiling - Jacques J. Rancourt "Voyeur"

And noontide spanned the waters - Herbert Randall "Burial Hill"

A dirge was on the waters - Herbert Randall "Cry of the Wounded Loon"

On the desolate water's wings - Herbert Randall "Romp of the Sea"

The deep waters below me and shallow waters above - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

All the ocean's water without me - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"

Into the sweet and salt mix of waters - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"

watered with the fallen dreams of all women - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

dreams wash spirits in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

spirits washed in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Could overwhelm those waters - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Water is carved like fern - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

Beautiful as gulls upon the water - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Who parted waters with a glistening tusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

The first stammering upon the waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

The savor of bitter waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

And his heart is fed with water - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Inflow of jewelled waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Drinking fouled water and sour wines - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

The endless banalities of water - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

As sluggish waters in duress - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

May wound the water sailed - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

With its fabulous waters of gold - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"

Drink forbidden waters - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Silver tongues of waters where the willows blush - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

And the rocks are at war with the waters - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

In caverns deep where sulphur waters boil - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Ballad of a Bugaboo"

Several hundred cathedrals worth of water - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

Kiss and wake the waters - Isaac Rosenberg "Don Juan's Song"

Whose nest is like a watered shoot - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

Lover of death's tideless waters - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

In the house of water and clay - Rumi "I Well Cherish the Soul" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Cold water and the jar that pours - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks

As though there were gaps in water - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

Like muddied water holds the sun - R.S. Saha "Kin"

Water from the lips of Orpheus - David St. John "Overlooking the Castle"

Unsubdued in war of winds and waters - Arthur L. Salmon "Solitude"

Your silence is a sealed jar of water - Erika L. Sanchez "The Loop"

Planting our songs among the stars and on the waters - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Reborn in stone in wind in water - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"

Water sparkling a drowsy monotone - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

Forged out water, woods and stubborn skies - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

And sip the wealthy water - Robert W. Service "The Reckoning"

The water where the silver salmon play - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

Whose waters of deep woe - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"

With red serpent on the water - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Bathing your shadow in ice water - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

A braid of water and cement - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

With its waters of eightfold Virtue - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Learn to be water in a garden - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

Still water as their mirror - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Or dancing along the waters pale - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"

Dig holes into the water to find the fish - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

Hate them for the watery secrets they keep - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

When water undresses into tar sands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

water and sun race every infinite evening - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

Mud water puddles along enamel - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Beneath the sumac, yarrow, and bitter water - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

deserts build water so drink the lightning - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

a city that too builds its water from fly ash - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Bewitched mixture of fuel with sea water - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

How dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"

The insistent perfume of plain water - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"

Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Floating with the water I escape - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Brave and water-clean - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

hoof paused over water - Donna Spruijt-Metz "Hoof"

Leaps away like luck, over rapid water - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"

Lavishes money as water - Robert J.C. Stead "The Prairie"

Alder thickets at the water's edge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

To float on alien waters - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

On waters, grey and lone - George Sterling "Duandon"

Onyx waters stilled by gorgeous oils - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

The grinding water and the gasping wind - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Glided over the salt-stained water - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

Lotus shining pink on the water - Su Tung-p'o "[Mountains shine through forest breaks]" transl. by Burton Watson

Heaven has sent me a dipper of water - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson

Just as the color of water is fixed - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 82: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Through the torture of water and blood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

In the fathomless waters of being - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Barracudas hang in the water and watch - Alison Swan "Sand Key"

Dissolving in ghost water - Chad Sweeney "Prophecy of a Monday"

What new delight of waters - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Drags the waters of hundred rivers with him - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"

And make a fortune out of all those waters - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"

The hushed and silent waters of the deep - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Made of water and invisible feathers dipped in moonlight - Lehua M. Taitano "When the World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day"

In the mind's waters - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "The Gods of the Age"

Water upon water upon water - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"

With us beneath the emerald waters - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

A dance in the wind at water's edge - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"

And water running freely past the remnants - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"

Lir's vast host of shouting water - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower

The king of water and fish and things - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

Watery dreams against the desert of her days - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"

The round Zion of the water bead - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"

Secret by the unmourning water - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"

Water that toils no more - Edward Thomas "The Mill-Water"

When night was on the waters - Francis Thompson "Lilium Regis"

Learn to water joy with tears - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Rereading the many translations of water - Matthew Thorburn "Loneliness in Jersey City"

Lighting the watery way - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Listening to ice become water - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Weaving the fabric of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Blackberry"

Breaking the shell of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Running Naked"

Singers in the wings of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Summer Song of Lake Michigan"

Rising on the waters of my heart - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"

what is the water like when followed unwillingly - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

A hypnosis of breath and water - Edwin Torres "Water"

The water's murmuring wisdom - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Her waters our priestess - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Her chant of wailing waters - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

not revealing where the moon finds its water - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Waters are deep and bridges broken - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Birds at rest on the water - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

The suggestive waters of the counterfeit - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

A sheet of golden water, cold and sweet - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

A river of strange waters flowed - Mark Van Doren "Communication"

Worships water over light - Emily van Kley "Sarracenia, Purpurea"

Water and milk in such strange ratios - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

The slow and steady drip of water from a reed - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Both here and of other waters - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"

To the memory of water - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

An overheated moon pulling at the waters - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

The whiteblue well of constant water- Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"

Water whittled down to intention - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"

Waves of something like water - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"

Out of the mirage of water - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Water the skies of the dead - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

The line between water and grammar - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Any Single Thing"

Revoked edge of water and dry land - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

The working of instinct near water - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

By storm's or wind's or water's might - Thomas Walsh "From Gardens Over Seas"

River waters ruffled in the west wind - Wang An-shih "By the River" transl. by Burton Watson

Only the mindless waters remain - Wang Wei "Weeping for Ying Yao" transl. by Burton Watson

The feverish offering of our cold water sacrifices - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Where the water seldom goes - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"

Golden water or green hail - Mary Webb "Green Rain"

And when December waters rose - Arthur Weir "The Oak"

Inscribing the language of water - Marjory Wentworth "The Music of the Earth: Celebrating Pablo Neruda"

White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

To draw the mounting waters - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

As the water loves the sea - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Longer than water ebbs and flows - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

Charging the water and the land - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Water of tears with oil of joy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Rose hedges to the very water's brink - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"

Dipped his hand in the black waters of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"

The way water thinks about the desert - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"

Blind as a thread of water - Yvor Winters "The Moonlight"

A mill that will go without water or wind - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

Filling the air with silver and water - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"

Who lead them beside the dry waters - Charles Wright "The Children of the Plain"

Cut out by water into oblivion - Charles Wright "No Entry"

When the waters go down on their knees - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"

Variation water knows from air - Jay Wright "Boli"

Contest the majesty of water - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Appears invincible in water - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

The density of absent water - Jay Wright "Imule"

Singing water in a sieve - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"

Water growing out of water - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

Then their water shall be made bitter - "XIII: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of Huexotzinco" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

At the junction of the waters - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The waters which the blue duck rules - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

While my soul lives by the waters - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

All in the end is water - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

To the water in the West - W.B. Yeats "He reproves the Curlew"

The waters won't be sentimental - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

Our salts can't forget what water told them - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Whose name was writ in water - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

In the vast horizon of water - Felicia Zamora "Acts After Addiction"

Sounding nothing like water - Jordan Zandi "River"

Drawing water rings on the ceiling - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A lasso fetching the moon from the water - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

With the laughter of water - Alfonso Guillen Zelaya "Lord, I Ask a Garden..." transl. by William George Williams

Dissolve in dark waters - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Grace"

How water and wind scar them - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

Fantasy forests draped in graying waters - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver


Breakwaters of eternity - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Feast on jade by the clear-watered shore - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Floodwater pulling me down - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

crocodile at the edge of a freshwater marsh - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

The switchgrass pale and starved for groundwater - Molly McCully Brown "Virginia, Autumn"

Meltwater frozen for millennia - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"

Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

The secret of seawater - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"

Erasing myself with seawater - Brenda Shaughnessy "Identity & Community (There is no 'I' in 'Sea')"

A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"

Submerging mountaintops in stormwater - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"


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And frolic with the water-borne moon - Li Po "Autumn Cove" transl. by Burton Watson


Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"


The rain has shelved its watering can - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize


beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"


Penguins fly through watersky - Eileen Spinelli "Water-Wings"


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