Potential Titles: Shore
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somethingdarkerRowed his captain's Saint Bernard ashore - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
The lees of the Atlantic washed ashore - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
A tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"
Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
The shore of some brief & gilded mercy - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"
The shore anticipates the sea - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"
Vision-isles and fairy shore - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Come back from that echo-less shore - Elizabeth Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"
Charged on a shore of air - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
All the shores of being - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Come back from the echoless shore - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)
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"
Paladins from Jordan's shore - Charles Badham "Lines Written at Warwick Castle"
With joy I view the waking shore - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Three paces down the shore - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"
A flotsam of ill-omens washed these shores - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"
the shore frightened by the tide - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
A pebble on the shore of time - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Pebble's Soliloquy"
Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited
Hell on shore behind the eyes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
And rattles down the pebbly shore - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"
Embarked for desperate shores - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"
I would siege the golden shores of space - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"
Slanted sunsets beyond forbidden shores - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
From this familiar shore now banished - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Pour vanished song on a mystic shore - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"
Follow him to Canaan's shore - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
Beacons along rock strewn shores - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"
Left flat upon a dismal shore - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Reed" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
Can find no shore - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
On these shores they find no home - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"
A rapture on the lonely shore - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
To the shores of the sacred stream - F. O. Call "An Idol in a Shop Window"
An infinite shore with gaping ghosts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"
Shoring gold at the core - Cyrus Cassells "Return to Florence"
Her great mansion on the shore of the Yellow River - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Upon the shore of silver fall asleep - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
With the ghosts patrolling my shores - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
Your seeds are scattered on distant summer shores - May Chong "Kamcia"
On the one-way shore - Leonard Cohen "Song to Make Me Still"
Scapegoats of shore and hill - Helen Gray Cone "The Riddle of Wreck"
The Raven from the 'night's Plutonian shore' - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
That pale and grieving shore - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
On striving's pebbly shore - Kyle Dargan "But My Chains"
Ancient secrets by the lonely shore - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Do not take a stone from my shores - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"
Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"
From farthest dreamland's shores - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Woke up on an abandoned shore - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Abandoned Shore"
Homesick feet upon a foreign shore - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
By Disappointment's lonely shore - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"
Lonely wanderer by wood and shore - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
Paint me a cavernous waste shore - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
A branch from Scotland's shore - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Came unnumbered to the shore - George Allan England "One Summer Night"
Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Down to the fatal shore where sirens smile - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Like the stars to the shore - Heid E. Erdich "In Search of Jane's Grave"
The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
As pebbles upon a remote shore - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Laugh and dream on Lethe's shore - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"
Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
From Troy's doom-crimson shore - James Elroy Flecker "The Old Ships"
Seagulls resisting the shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Last Kingdom"
Drawing your vessel to shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"
Left him hiking along the barren shores of physics - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
Wash the dim shores of old Eternity - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
White reefs of clouds on airy shores - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Raise the veil from the shores of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Breaks upon its rocky shore - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
Singing of unknown shores and far - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Frowning on that hostile shore - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
A heap of rotten leaves blown to the shores of folly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Dreams too might guard the shore - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
To the wild shore went hurrying down - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Reverberates from shore to echoing shore - Claude Halcro "Niagara"
What strange keels touched her shore - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
In the candle light on the shore of dreams - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
At the shore of all knowledge - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"
Tern and piping plover that keeps expansion along its shore - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
That lies beyond Time's rugged shore - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
The shores of ruined space - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Those who stumble to shore - Matthea Harvey "Translation"
That spent their strength against the unheeding shore - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"
Forever fled from time's bleak desert shore - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
And sorrow on the shore - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"
To dash irradiant on the barren shore - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"
Those far shores that knew me not - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Sunshine that gleams from Eternity's shore - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"
Worthless weeds upon the shore of Time - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
To dive from that beguiling shore - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
A stream past fabulous shores - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
Waft the heir of life immortal to those shores - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Our monuments rooting bones in all shores - Ashaki M. Jackson "A Proclamation"
Was welcome on that shore of recognition - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Came slowly down the dismal shore - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
Walk the cheerless shore - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"
The shore has no choice - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"
Hundreds of egrets stroll the shore - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
On the wild shore of the eternal deep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"
A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"
Dark waters and an unknown shore - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Out from the blossoming shore - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"
To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Ghosts of the sea and shore - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"
Immerse the shores of that mysterious star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
The grime of weed that blackened the shore - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Where I was king of all the shore - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Has watched your tragic shore - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
A chorus breaks from shore to shore - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
On the bleak shore of Norway - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.1: Cod Liver Oil"
Reached the wilder shores - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"
To lie down on your inconsistent shore - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Hurling myself at the unfamiliar shore - Audre Lorde "Change"
Kept neatly on the shores of conversation - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"
A castaway in a city without shores - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"
The color of the shore that welcomes - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
The sobbing reef and hollowed shore - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"
Anchor by the ultimate shore - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"
The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
Shore lit by a fugitive sun - Maureen N. McLane "Passage I"
Shall steal by a sullen shore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
But the drifting to another shore - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
And revel on the boundless shore - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Feast on jade by the clear-watered shore - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Bringing the flame from the other shore - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
From love's dark uncertain shore - Walter Dean Myers "Marcia Williams, 17, High School Senior"
On the shore of your eyes of mourning - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Lead you now by distant shores - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"
Pointed toward my shore - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"
From the shore of the Sea of Dreams - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
Sail kisses to heaven or row to a heart's shore - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author
As if those addresses were a definite shore - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"
On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"
Golden windows gazing from the shore - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"
But never reach the freedom shore - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"
The dark shore of himself - Carl Phillips "Bronze Where Once the Blue Had Been"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Shored up by haunts - Robert Pinsky "Gulf Music"
From earth's unstable shores - E.J. Pratt "In Memoriam"
The shores became the color of clear crystals and blood - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
Plague-wind, over a sterile shore - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
Dim shores of emptiness - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Ideal"
And one was some fennel up on the shore - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"
The shores of tyranny on the left - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"
Wait not along the shore - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
From treacherous quicksands or from leeward shore - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
An echo of youth from its far sunny shore - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
The changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
The wind of the lake shore waits and wanders - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
Eagerly greets the shore - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"
Poured out on thy granite shore - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Dying whispers on the shore - Clinton Scollard "On Caragh Lake"
Away and toward the shore of knowing what is to come - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
A land of ice and fire beneath ether shores - Alexandra Seidel "Give Me Pluto"
As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"
With the whisper of the unseen shores - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"
Respond in whispers from the shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Wrecks on its inhospitable shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"
The shore that will gratify my quest - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"
Round the flinty shores of my bleak isles - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
The golden shore allured me - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
A murmur from the shore - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
Swagger up and down the shore - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"
The ferns and reeds of the shore - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"
Thrown me down on a stony shore - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"
On the shore beside the Lethe - Maura Stanton "Wander Indiana"
From this shore of bog and mire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Upon a shore wind-swept and desolate - James Stephens "The Shell"
Leave my eager foot-prints on the shore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
When shores clicked with frogs - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"
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"
Fainting on the shores of Dawn - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Gird the complaining shores of snow - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Murmur evermore old-world tidings to the shore - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"
Scattered this to shore - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"
That flowed with her beyond its shores - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
Lay on the shore of heaven - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"
Which stalked along the lovely shore - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
Around the shore of silence - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
Like tigers on a lone lee shore - Sherard Vines "Permission"
And left her sitting weeping by the shore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: iii) Godzilla Weeps for Baldur"
Down the large shores of evening - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Washed up on shores of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Move down the night's shore - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
He waits to row me to a fairer shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"
Encroaching ever on the yielding shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"
Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Seven tides graced our lee shore - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Trumpets heard on every shore - Joseph R. Wilson "Napoleon's Tomb"
In a vain longing for the further shore - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"
Were each other's distant shore - Nancy Wood "Commitment"
Proud bird of the shore - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
Dreams walk us back to the shore - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
From seashores to the stratosphere - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"
In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"
On the seashore of endless worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 60"
Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"
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against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Traces borderlands of dream clear through river and shoreline - Wang An-Shih "Dream" transl. by David Hinton
Through river and shoreline sands to the end of dreams - Wang An-Shih "Dream" transl. by David Hinton
Where waters wash with exquisite music shoreward - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"
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The lees of the Atlantic washed ashore - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
A tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"
Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
The shore of some brief & gilded mercy - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"
The shore anticipates the sea - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"
Vision-isles and fairy shore - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Come back from that echo-less shore - Elizabeth Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"
Charged on a shore of air - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
All the shores of being - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Come back from the echoless shore - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)
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"
Paladins from Jordan's shore - Charles Badham "Lines Written at Warwick Castle"
With joy I view the waking shore - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Three paces down the shore - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"
A flotsam of ill-omens washed these shores - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"
the shore frightened by the tide - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
A pebble on the shore of time - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Pebble's Soliloquy"
Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited
Hell on shore behind the eyes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
And rattles down the pebbly shore - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"
Embarked for desperate shores - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"
I would siege the golden shores of space - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"
Slanted sunsets beyond forbidden shores - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
From this familiar shore now banished - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Pour vanished song on a mystic shore - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"
Follow him to Canaan's shore - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
Beacons along rock strewn shores - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"
Left flat upon a dismal shore - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Reed" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
Can find no shore - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
On these shores they find no home - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"
A rapture on the lonely shore - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
To the shores of the sacred stream - F. O. Call "An Idol in a Shop Window"
An infinite shore with gaping ghosts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"
Shoring gold at the core - Cyrus Cassells "Return to Florence"
Her great mansion on the shore of the Yellow River - Chan Tiu-lin "The Willow Leaf" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Upon the shore of silver fall asleep - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
With the ghosts patrolling my shores - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
Your seeds are scattered on distant summer shores - May Chong "Kamcia"
On the one-way shore - Leonard Cohen "Song to Make Me Still"
Scapegoats of shore and hill - Helen Gray Cone "The Riddle of Wreck"
The Raven from the 'night's Plutonian shore' - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
That pale and grieving shore - Susan Coolidge "Flood-Tide"
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
On striving's pebbly shore - Kyle Dargan "But My Chains"
Ancient secrets by the lonely shore - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Do not take a stone from my shores - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"
Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"
From farthest dreamland's shores - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Woke up on an abandoned shore - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Abandoned Shore"
Homesick feet upon a foreign shore - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
By Disappointment's lonely shore - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"
Lonely wanderer by wood and shore - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
Paint me a cavernous waste shore - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"
A branch from Scotland's shore - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Came unnumbered to the shore - George Allan England "One Summer Night"
Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Down to the fatal shore where sirens smile - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Like the stars to the shore - Heid E. Erdich "In Search of Jane's Grave"
The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
As pebbles upon a remote shore - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Laugh and dream on Lethe's shore - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"
Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
From Troy's doom-crimson shore - James Elroy Flecker "The Old Ships"
Seagulls resisting the shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Last Kingdom"
Drawing your vessel to shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"
Left him hiking along the barren shores of physics - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
Wash the dim shores of old Eternity - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
White reefs of clouds on airy shores - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Raise the veil from the shores of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Breaks upon its rocky shore - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
Singing of unknown shores and far - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Frowning on that hostile shore - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
A heap of rotten leaves blown to the shores of folly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Dreams too might guard the shore - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
To the wild shore went hurrying down - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Reverberates from shore to echoing shore - Claude Halcro "Niagara"
What strange keels touched her shore - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
In the candle light on the shore of dreams - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
At the shore of all knowledge - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"
Tern and piping plover that keeps expansion along its shore - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
That lies beyond Time's rugged shore - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
The shores of ruined space - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
Those who stumble to shore - Matthea Harvey "Translation"
That spent their strength against the unheeding shore - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"
Forever fled from time's bleak desert shore - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
And sorrow on the shore - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"
To dash irradiant on the barren shore - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"
Those far shores that knew me not - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Sunshine that gleams from Eternity's shore - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"
Worthless weeds upon the shore of Time - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
To dive from that beguiling shore - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
A stream past fabulous shores - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
Waft the heir of life immortal to those shores - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Our monuments rooting bones in all shores - Ashaki M. Jackson "A Proclamation"
Was welcome on that shore of recognition - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Came slowly down the dismal shore - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
Walk the cheerless shore - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"
The shore has no choice - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"
Hundreds of egrets stroll the shore - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
On the wild shore of the eternal deep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"
A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"
Dark waters and an unknown shore - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Out from the blossoming shore - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"
To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Ghosts of the sea and shore - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"
Immerse the shores of that mysterious star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
The grime of weed that blackened the shore - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Where I was king of all the shore - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Has watched your tragic shore - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
A chorus breaks from shore to shore - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
On the bleak shore of Norway - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.1: Cod Liver Oil"
Reached the wilder shores - J. Patrick Lewis "Christopher Columbus"
To lie down on your inconsistent shore - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Hurling myself at the unfamiliar shore - Audre Lorde "Change"
Kept neatly on the shores of conversation - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"
A castaway in a city without shores - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"
The color of the shore that welcomes - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
The sobbing reef and hollowed shore - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"
Anchor by the ultimate shore - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"
The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
Shore lit by a fugitive sun - Maureen N. McLane "Passage I"
Shall steal by a sullen shore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
But the drifting to another shore - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
And revel on the boundless shore - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Feast on jade by the clear-watered shore - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Bringing the flame from the other shore - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
From love's dark uncertain shore - Walter Dean Myers "Marcia Williams, 17, High School Senior"
On the shore of your eyes of mourning - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Lead you now by distant shores - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"
Pointed toward my shore - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"
From the shore of the Sea of Dreams - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
Sail kisses to heaven or row to a heart's shore - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author
As if those addresses were a definite shore - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"
On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"
Golden windows gazing from the shore - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"
But never reach the freedom shore - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"
The dark shore of himself - Carl Phillips "Bronze Where Once the Blue Had Been"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Shored up by haunts - Robert Pinsky "Gulf Music"
From earth's unstable shores - E.J. Pratt "In Memoriam"
The shores became the color of clear crystals and blood - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
Plague-wind, over a sterile shore - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
Dim shores of emptiness - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Ideal"
And one was some fennel up on the shore - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"
The shores of tyranny on the left - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"
Wait not along the shore - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
From treacherous quicksands or from leeward shore - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
An echo of youth from its far sunny shore - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
The changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
The wind of the lake shore waits and wanders - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
Eagerly greets the shore - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"
Poured out on thy granite shore - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Dying whispers on the shore - Clinton Scollard "On Caragh Lake"
Away and toward the shore of knowing what is to come - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
A land of ice and fire beneath ether shores - Alexandra Seidel "Give Me Pluto"
As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"
With the whisper of the unseen shores - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"
Respond in whispers from the shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Wrecks on its inhospitable shore - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"
The shore that will gratify my quest - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"
Round the flinty shores of my bleak isles - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
The golden shore allured me - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
A murmur from the shore - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
Swagger up and down the shore - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"
The ferns and reeds of the shore - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"
Thrown me down on a stony shore - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"
On the shore beside the Lethe - Maura Stanton "Wander Indiana"
From this shore of bog and mire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Upon a shore wind-swept and desolate - James Stephens "The Shell"
Leave my eager foot-prints on the shore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
When shores clicked with frogs - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"
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"
Fainting on the shores of Dawn - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Gird the complaining shores of snow - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Murmur evermore old-world tidings to the shore - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"
Scattered this to shore - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"
That flowed with her beyond its shores - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
Lay on the shore of heaven - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"
Which stalked along the lovely shore - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
Around the shore of silence - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
Like tigers on a lone lee shore - Sherard Vines "Permission"
And left her sitting weeping by the shore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: iii) Godzilla Weeps for Baldur"
Down the large shores of evening - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Washed up on shores of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Move down the night's shore - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
He waits to row me to a fairer shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"
Encroaching ever on the yielding shore - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"
Between the shores of keen delights and pains - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Seven tides graced our lee shore - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Trumpets heard on every shore - Joseph R. Wilson "Napoleon's Tomb"
In a vain longing for the further shore - Humbert Wolfe "Orpheus"
Were each other's distant shore - Nancy Wood "Commitment"
Proud bird of the shore - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
Dreams walk us back to the shore - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
From seashores to the stratosphere - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"
In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"
On the seashore of endless worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 60"
Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"
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against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Traces borderlands of dream clear through river and shoreline - Wang An-Shih "Dream" transl. by David Hinton
Through river and shoreline sands to the end of dreams - Wang An-Shih "Dream" transl. by David Hinton
Where waters wash with exquisite music shoreward - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"
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