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June's high-tide on bank and bower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"

Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Captivated by a tidal pool - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

The tidal journeyings of Eternity - Louis Golding "Creed"

These tidal griefs - Donna Masini "A Gate"

The first flux of tidal sleep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Like secret tidal pools doomed by salt - Linda Pastan "The Grandfathers"

Swept by tidal power - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"

Love's wedded tidal song - Theodore H. Rand "Annapolis Basin"


Breathing against the tide of your breath - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

To hold the weight of her tide - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"

Cannot outflow its appointed tide - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIV--Moonlight at Sea"

With the certainty of tides - Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

On the tide of generations flows - "Another Peep at the Links"

Five hundred years of tide - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"

A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

The refrains of seasons and tides - Atticus "Magic in Youth"

The ebbless flow of time's unwearied tide - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Waver with the motions of the tide - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

The dark Plutonian tide - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

that the tides too might be flattened - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

the shore frightened by the tide - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

To outride wind, tide and stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sailor's Story"

Aware of other tides - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"

To trace the course of wind and tide - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

Tides set in motion by light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"

Do not delay my tide - Ardelia Maria Barton "What Is the Future of the Race?"

Upon her Seven Hills Rome rules the seas and tides - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Down the tide of Time - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"

By casting pebbles in its tide - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

The tide of grief would flow unchecked - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

On a calm and gentle tide - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"

Moving against the tide of a world - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

And Leathe's wick tide takes that, too - CM Burroughs "I am Warm, I Know Nothing"

And the great tides roared, assembling - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

Marches with wind and tide - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"

Haunting the tides of Time - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"

Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"

The sweeping tide of onward and resistless time - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

As the moon drags the flood tide - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Flood Tide"

River and tide confer - Bliss Carman "Golden Rowan"

Somewhere on the bitter tide - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

Withstood that seething tide - Roger Casement "Benburb"

A draught of Hope's crystal tide - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

The golden tide of opportunity - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"

With such upon her tide, freedom can't reign - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Drink the fulness of the tide - Susan Coolidge "Ebb-Tide"

Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive no farther tides - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

These poinsettia meadows of her tides - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Goblin lights and magic tide - George Cronyn "The Derelict"

Over time and tide and death leaping - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

Black and battered hulk that slumbers on the tide - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Where the Rhine pours down its sounding tide - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

The murmuring turn of the tide - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

Where the slow river meets the tide - H.D. "Leda"

Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

Mists to muffle midnight tide - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"

The ox-birds chase the tide - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Recede the disappointed tide - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LVII: Called Back"

On the good tide of the world - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Stir the dark weeds with the turn of the tide - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Murdered Lover"

Along the margin of the unknown tide - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

The fickle flow of Tide and Time - Helen Parry Eden "Bournemouth to Poole"

The barges drift with turning tide - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

This place where the tide rolls out - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"

Time and tide their faults may find - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

After the tides have given up - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"

Floating upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"

Haven upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"

Faster and fiercer rolls the tide - an anonymous Cherokee "[Faster and fiercer rolls the tide]" published in the Cherokee Advocate in 1871 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Tides fold over me - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

With spotless wave and crystal tide - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"

With flood tides filled thy bosom - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

In stemming disaster's tide - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"

Checked the tide with golden bars - Michael Field "Another Leadeth Thee"

The tide of martyrdom - Michael Field "Stones of the Brook"

Under tide burrowing shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"

Rain rolls its tides before us - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

The sentence of a shifting tide - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"

I forgot the rising tide - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

A bell upon the night-tide - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"

Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

When the tide recedes - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Glassblowing and fishing nets and the tide - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Bowed their heads to the radiant tide - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"

Of moons forgotten with their tides - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

Have marked the battle's tide - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The slave of the high tide and the ebb tide - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

On a night of moon-enchanted tides - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Close my ears to the beat of your tides - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"

Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Soundless tides of sunset - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Have half congealed the glowing tide - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Over the mountain and over the tide - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Free as the eagle and full as the tide - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

The red tides of thanksgiving - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"

Amidst the idols of speaking tides - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Where such a tide began - Ivor Gurney "The Fisherman of Newnham"

The swallow is dipping his wings in the tide - H. "June" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

The tide of chance may bring its offer - Thomas Hardy "The Opportunity"

So torn by my tides - Stefania Heim "So Torn by My Tides"

The stormy tide of passions - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

In victory's full resistless tide - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

This full tide of joy effaced - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Nodding to each other in the tide - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Bluestone River, W. Va."

The tide of time sweeps to eternity - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

The tide that came for you - Faylita Hicks "A Note to My Daughter about Water"

That thrilled its mimic tide - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Calm and peaceful sleeps the tide - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"

Poured out its measured tides - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Bend my life to bridge the tide - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Swift the tide of time is flowing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The tides of time run out - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"

A tide of mysteries breaking - Islwyn "Thought" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The gravitation of the tide's pull - John James "At Assateague"

Joining the solid tide - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

For the tides are tireless - Robinson Jeffers "Practical People"

Rooted against the tides - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"

Beside the low tide of the world - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Chart the paths of invisible tides - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

Accept whatever the tides bring - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"

By Fortune's adverse tide - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Bitter tides of sorrow roll - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

They watched thro' time and tide - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Who tames the moonstruck tide - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

The burden of a salt-encumbered tide - C.H.B. Kitchin "Eschatological Sonnet"

Accounting for tides, currents, grief - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Underground dogs turning the tide - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Launched on your pleasant dreamless tide - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Twilight ship blown up the tide - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"

Creeps the tide of shadow - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

High tide's wet letters - M.L. Liebler "This Atlantic Language"

Our close resemblance turn'd the tide - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"

As the seaweed waits for the lifting tide - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"

With a rose's red heart's tide - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Queen whom my tides obey - James Russell Lowell "Under the October Maples"

Where the bayonets gleam and the red tides flow - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

With a secret tide to a secret sea - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Down at the Docks"

On what long tides - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fires of Driftwood"

Stronger runs the tide - Douglas Malloch "Children of the Spring"

Sorrow that cries like a tide - Jeannette Marks "The Nest"

Troubled with the shifting tide - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

The call of the running tide - John Masefield "Sea-Fever"

Each tide was a slender finger pulling - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

on the last day in ordinary tide - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

Like tides into my blood - Claude McKay "America"

Each song sending a ripple through the tide - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Keeping the wasteland's unending tide - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

The frogs came in their tide in late July - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

The overflowing tide of hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

By cold, by chains, by moon and tides - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Who felt the moon lose her grip on the tides - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

Where the Trades and the tides roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

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]

Sigh as the tide rises - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

Golden snares on the tide - James Oppenheim "Self"

Loose on the swelling tide - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

When the tide of silence rises - Craig Santos Perez "ars pasifika"

Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

On history's tide receding - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

The phantom of the buried tide - Theodore H. Rand "The Bowing Dyke"

Like the tides and the stars and the rose - Theodore H. Rand "The Note of Nature"

And chants the tide to sleep - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

The furious tide in elemental fight - Theodore H. Rand "The Opal Fires Are Gone"

Soft cradled by the tide - Theodore H. Rand "The Sea Undine"

With the kiss of the tide entwine - Herbert Randall "Outside"

The mystic tide of sacred song - John Reade "Pictures of Memory"

To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"

A tide that dreams of motion - Cale Young Rice "Haunted Seas"

The tides beseeching, besieging the bay - Adrienne Rich "For an Anniversary"

Galleys miss appointments with the tides - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Like a river addled with its hot tide - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Swirling in tumultuous uncharted tides - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Hope freights your tides - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Canadian Streams"

Jettied on the peacock tide - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Unknown City"

Restful beauty on the restless tide - Alice Wellington Rollins "Serenity"

Has cast me on a tide of time - George Santayana "Avila"

Rocked in glory in the mighty tide - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

Mortal gray becomes the indigo of tides - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Siren gusts like tides beneath their words - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

The surge of the tide of dreams - Clinton Scollard "Carrowmore"

Beyond the sway of tides - Clinton Scollard "Dirge for a Sailor"

The ridge of the tossing tides - Clinton Scollard "The Mist Barque"

Each day orphaned in the tide - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

Deep in the sliding ebon tide - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"

To answering tides of spears - Clark Ashton Smith "In Lemuria"

Rises and ebbs in a tide of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"

The tide of cold and leaden loneliness - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

In time to the raucous tide - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"

What time you sported in the lifting tides - James Stephens "Sean O'Cosgair"

On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Of all the tides of conquest - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"

Trophies of tides invincible - George Sterling "Memory"

The tides of Time in travail - George Sterling "The Spirit of Beauty"

Whose slow, annuling tide creeps nearer - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"

Rose out of the dark tide - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"

Here amid the seething London tides - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

That the tides of time may cover - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"

As if fortune's rich tide never ebbed - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Close from the wind and at ease from the tide - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

Flicker in the tide of darkness - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"

A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

The cold insistence of the tide - Sara Teasdale "Sea Longing"

Choke the deserts with her tides - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

I call the tides - Priscilla Jane Thompson "Song of the Moon"

The tides from seas of rest - Priscilla Jane Thompson "Song of the Moon"

To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"

By herself impressed on the tide - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Naiads arose on the tide - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Piles aerial down the tide of dreams - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Reached the haven of love's wayward tide - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

To steep their drowsy bloom in the tide - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Still lashed and bit the tide - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Ferryman" transl. by Alma Strettell

Silver tides from all the universe - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours X" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Ache toward the tide - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

Tides of flame and darkness - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

That gild the battle's crimson tide - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Spring tides robed in rain - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

The immortal tides of longing - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

When the tides of life run low - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

Seven tides graced our lee shore - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

And new tides sweep the sand - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

A slow hand lifted a tide - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Royal and tide riddled - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"

No motion but the moving tide - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

From the tides in the bloodstream - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Hard tide of shame - Jenny Xie "Zazen"

Fought with the invulnerable tide - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea"

Above the tide of hours- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Where the dim tides are hurled- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

When the tide rose to meet the twilight - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Compelled by the receding tide - Zheng Min "An Appointment" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

hauling a tide I can no longer feel - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"


Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"


A chant to the sea-tide's chorus - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"


Lingering by Lethe's tideless void - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

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

Tideless waves thundering slantwise - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"


Salvaging among the tideline's bitter gleanings - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"


Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"


Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"


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