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The reeds and the dark clouds - Richard Aldington "Au Vieux Jardin"

The waxed reeds and the double pipe - Richard Aldington "Bromios"

Crisp reeds and all the ready bare twigs - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

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

Weak reeds which by the rivers stand - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Curled up like scared cats in the reeds - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Staring straight at the thinking reeds - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Reeds when fire goes over the fen - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

On a reed you can cross it - "The Book of Odes: No.61 Who Says the River Is Wide?" transl. by Burton Watson

To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

Pan, down in the reeds by the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

Takes the reeds and visitors by storm - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"

Torn and defiant as a wind-lashed reed - Ralph Chaplin "Wesley Everest"

Not for piping empty reeds - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

And humble reeds bewail the shepherd's pain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

My worn reeds broken - Walter de la Mare "The Scribe"

The flash of cardinal in the reeds - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Annual Migration"

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

Tremble like lonely reeds - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Among the vocal reeds - "Flora: a Vision"

The strangling garden of computerized reeds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"

Swift the waiting reeds unclose - Rose Fyleman "This Island"

Do not stop to listen to the reeds - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

Pooled 'mid reeds and gorse - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Reason for Silence"

Breathe the thrilling reeds for wine - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"

Who will not break the bruised reed - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Gates opened in the reeds - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Bring a message from the reeds - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Weave a bed of reeds and willow limbs - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With all his whispering reeds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The dreary melody of bedded reeds - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Sweep the golden reed beds - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

A song among the golden reeds - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

Amid the reeds at setting sun - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

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

From written rune and stricken reed - Don Marquis "Selves"

In the reeds of a steel lagoon - John Masefield "The Wild Duck"

I tiptoed backwards toward our door under twisted reeds - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

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

The reed of the old moaning waste - George Meredith "A Later Alexandrian"

The moor-hen stepping from her reeds - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"

Crowned with vocal reeds - John Milton "Lycidas"

Which strays and wanders among the reeds - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]

The wind bending the reeds westward - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

Then I will howl all night in the reeds - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

To see a reed so shaken by the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

Buried among the reeds and the crocodiles - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"

But he thought not of the reeds - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil's Decoy"

Burn up Manhattan like a reed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

As a reed holds song - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Tall crying in the willow reeds - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

On his bed of straw and reeds - James Whitcomb Riley "Das Krist Kindel"

The birds are back in the reeds again - Lloyd Roberts " On the Marshes"

To hear the merry-sounding reed - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

The reed is as the oak - William Shakespeare "Dirge"

Where with the wind the hollow reeds complain - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

The wild strain that night-winds wake from reeds - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

From reeds that breathe in pain - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The ferns and reeds of the shore - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Motions gracious as reeds by Babylon - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The gray pickerel from his reedy shoals - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

What wave withholds itself for sighs of broken reeds - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"

Waiting in the tall reeds till the intruders pass - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Permit me to be found trusting to reeds - G.P.T. "The Soul's Trust" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

Rushes and reed banks cluster darkly - "They Fought South of the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson

Deep in the earth with a reed to breathe through - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"

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

Rust creeps through the brittle reeds - Noah Warren "Cattail History"

Among whose reeds the wild fowl fed - Arthur Weir "Ode for the Queen's Jubilee. 1837-1887"

Glints of prairie sun through river reeds - Helen Hay Whitney "East and West"

A perilous foot that treads the reeds - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"

Frail cities of lath and reed - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Perches on trampled cat tail reeds - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"


Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"

Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Frothing all the reed-fringed margins - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"


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