Potential Titles: Tide
Aug. 5th, 2011 03:45 amJune'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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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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