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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WATER Matches Found: 501 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` , by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drop caught / in the curl behind your left ear lobe Last Line: Tip of my tongue. Subject(s): Bodies; Details; Love - Erotic; Man-woman Relationships; Shaving; Water; Zen Buddhism; Things; Male-female Relations "RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "willy's rare, and willy's fair" Last Line: She found him drown'd in yarrow Subject(s): "drowning;yarrow (water), Scotland; 33, by JOEL BETTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Up stains hem of sky Last Line: Hope the rain stops soon Subject(s): Rain; Water A DIVER, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Firm and erect on the board she stands Last Line: Flashes the pink of a laughing face. Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Water A FLAKE OF FOAM, by LAVINIA R. CLARK Poem Text First Line: In the seething foam I am tossed on the height of the waves Last Line: Oh! The turquoise sky that I love! Subject(s): Bubbles; Sea; Water; Ocean A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH ODE OF THE 3RD BOOK OF HORACE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sol with thee, dear fountain, plays Last Line: While you reign each a naïad of the stream. Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Praise; Water; Youth A PLAIN ORDINARY STEEL NEEDLE CAN FLOAT ON PURE WATER, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Water A PSALM OF THE WATERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This is a psalm of the waters Last Line: Cries, enter, and share with thy servant! Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Water; Ocean A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is dim on the dark soft water Last Line: And here to south of them swells the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dreams; Seasons; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Fall; Sunrise; Nightmares; Swimmers A WET EVENING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silvern circle of this summer lake Last Line: With morn may kindle again. Subject(s): Harvest; Mist; Rain; Water; Weather ABBOTT'S LAGOON, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm's still everywhere I run [or, step] Last Line: & trot into another morning's workout Subject(s): Lagoons; Sea; Storms; Water ABOVE AND BELOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Water from the well Last Line: Poison struts on top Subject(s): Innocence; Poisons And Poisoning; Water; Wells ABSENCE OF WATER, by TERRY ANN THAXTON Poem Source First Line: From a prairie of white egrets Last Line: A door must first be opened. %the moon undresses the lake Subject(s): Absence; Water ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean ADVENTURE WITH SKY, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Dusk crept out from the woods to the water Last Line: The fawn bent down and sampled sky! Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Sky; Water; Woods ADVERTISEMENT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We want a man of forty for the job Last Line: We want such a man for the job. Subject(s): Advertising; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Water; Work; Workers AFTER PUMPING, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the day Last Line: Always away from %the green incursion Subject(s): Nature; Summer; Water AFTER THE FLOOD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning it was over, I walked Last Line: What sort of drunken creature had passed there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers; Water AFTER THE RAIN, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The elves peep through the ferny copse Last Line: And under the rainbow arch is gone. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Water AFTER THE SHIPWRECK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost, drifting, on the current, as the sun pours down Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Water AFTER THE SHIPWRECK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost, drifting, on the current, as the sun pours down Last Line: To coat us with salt, we stop talking. We try to remember Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Water AGUA DE VIOLETAS, by PEG BOYERS Poem Source First Line: Agua de violetas, eau de violettes Last Line: Aqua de mi alma, drink me back Subject(s): Water ALGAE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Pond scum Last Line: Greengrocers. %life Subject(s): Water ALLEGORY OF WATERS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: As she neared the traffic light on I-17 Last Line: Like the spongy brain in fluid, suspended in the head, %in a body 90 percent water Subject(s): Bodies; Water ALMOST NOON, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water, you remember / was so cold it took our breath Subject(s): Sun; Water ALONG THE WALLAWHATOOLA, by MARY STUART WAMSLEY Poem Text First Line: What wondrous sights - what gorgeous scenes Last Line: A singing, winding water -- wallawhatoola! Subject(s): Wallawhatoola River, Virginia; Water ALPHA, by AMANDA PECOR Poem Source First Line: I was nowhere Last Line: We're swimming up our river %as if water had a home Subject(s): Rivers; Swimming; Water AMSTEL DIKE NEAR TROMPENBURG, C. 1649-50, by CHARLES WYATT Poem Source First Line: The dike is a road which curves gently away Last Line: He draws, and stays behind, over and again Subject(s): Drawing; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Roads; Water Supply AN EASY REMEMDY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An honest tailor, whose baptismal Last Line: "why don't you warm it?" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Cold; Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Water; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN OLD SAYING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many waters cannot quench love Last Line: As a seal upon thine arm. Subject(s): Love; Soul; Water APOLOGUE: THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A SPANISH SAYING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek for me in the arab maid's bower Last Line: Parted once, we part for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Air; Fire; Shame; Water APPARITION, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: That's the moon come down to drink Last Line: Somewhere deep, quick and moonlike Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Supernatural; Water AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water AQUEOUS HUMOR, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: At bottom, the world is water Last Line: High up, we swim in lanes in our bright tank suits Subject(s): Humor; Language; Water AS RIVERS OF WATER IN A DRY PLACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lonely, lonely lay the hill Last Line: Fresh as god's latest word! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Water; Streams; Creeks AT BREAK OF DAY -- I WAS STILL ASLEEP, by FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDAO Poem Source Last Line: That had shattered the enigma of images Subject(s): Morning; Sleep; Water AT BROAD RIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, luxury! Beyond the heat Last Line: And feel the best of life is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility AT THE SPRINGS OF THE CLITUMNUS, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even today from the hill, whose back ripples Last Line: And panting to put new industries in train, %an engine whistles Subject(s): Landscape; Springs (water) AUBADE FROM INSIDE THE WATER, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY Poem Source First Line: Here is an atlas of your memory Last Line: A bird that moves through the forest %breaking everything in sight Subject(s): Birds; Children; Memory; Water AYIASMA, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: A one-eyed prison-warder Last Line: This possible evil %was sufficient according to our measure Subject(s): Water BABBLING BROOK, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: The brook it really babbles Last Line: It would be grand to understand %and speak with it in brookish Subject(s): Water BAPTIST, by CHRISTOPHER PRESFIELD Poem Source First Line: In my youth, there were nine %sources of water on hand: three Last Line: How the mountain showed its wound Subject(s): Water BARTON SPRINGS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, how I loved your cold spring mornings of putting my stuff in Last Line: There just might be time to catch up on praise Subject(s): Springs (water); Swimming And Swimmers; Cancer (disease) BATH, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Listen to the water Last Line: And a single yellow duckie Subject(s): Water BELLEVUE EXCHANGE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A large man rowing in a white tub Last Line: To the floor. The water climbing for him. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fantasy; Fog; Imagination; Water; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Haze; Fancy BETWEEN HINGHAM AND BRAINTREE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between braintree and hingham Last Line: On the full flood tide! Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Water BLACK LAGOON, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: Living, he'd found, was about breathing. Deep Last Line: As long in this earth as the deep and its two %new faces would allow Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Water BLUE HOLE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The deepest pool in green river Last Line: Between local pool, high ocean Subject(s): Lakes; Water BODIES OF WATER, by GREG WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Yes, but the body is made of water. That's Last Line: And hundreds of miles of water. Subject(s): Bodies; Water BODY OF WATER, BODY OF FIRE, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: Water wants to get Last Line: Or show us the way Subject(s): Bodies; Fire; Water BRIGHT WATER FOR ME!, by JAMES P. CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: O! Come, come with me to the stream in the glade Last Line: And our drink the cool water, pure water shall be. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks BROKEN LINE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the dry bread and water in the prisons of the sky Last Line: The belly of our words is golden tonight and naught any longer is in vain. Subject(s): Boats; Mourning; Prisons & Prisoners; Water; Bereavement; Convicts BROOKLYN WATERFALL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water where you least expect it Last Line: Where it waits for us, %not needing forgiveness Subject(s): Rain; Water; Waterfalls BUCKETS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of rain Last Line: We win Subject(s): Rain; Water BURNING WATER, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the youtube video a man flips a lighter, flare Subject(s): Water BY THIS CREEK, THIS OTTER CREEK, by DONALD EVERETT AXINN Poem Source First Line: The songs she weaves into chants Last Line: Bury me here by her banks. %oh, bury me here Subject(s): Brooks; Water CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Rivers; Water CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory %ye ma jah Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Rivers; Water CANAL DU MIDI, by SARAH ROSSITER Poem Source First Line: We enter, and doors lock behind us Last Line: Rising, to where all waters meet as one? Subject(s): Boats; Canals; Death; Water CASIDA OF THE GOLDEN GIRL, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The golden girl %was bathing in the water Last Line: And the water turned her gold Subject(s): Water; Youth CASIDA OF THE ONE WOUNDED BY WATER, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I want to go down to the well, Last Line: That I may see the one wounded by water Subject(s): Death - Children; Water CASUALTIES: 19. THE FLOOD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of events pours down Last Line: Who were at home on sea, air, and land Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Umbrellas; Water CHILDREN OF BARCELONA, by ANDREA MOORHEAD Poem Source First Line: Clouds moving in, the sun still warm and mild behind the air Last Line: Gold eyes of atlantic waters, a path beyond the longing flesh, %beyond the sweet fragrance of summer Subject(s): Barcelona, Spain; Sea; Water CINEMATOGRAPHER'S FARO ISLAND LOG, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like so many stories this begins Last Line: What is your favorite body of water. And why Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Water CITY RAIN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are etched with traceries of grey Last Line: Dashing its living wonder in our eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Water CITY RIVER, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Who could believe our sudden summer stream Last Line: Otters play %each winter day? Subject(s): Water CLEPSYDRA, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, let it run! Who bids it stay? Last Line: Against a cannon-bullet. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Water Clocks; Wine COMPLETION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean CONFESSION, by JAMES+(3) KOCH Poem Source First Line: I'm in love with the morton salt girl Last Line: And dream of skinny-dipping beneath the stars in vast salt seas Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Salt; Swimming; Water CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 8. OLD PALO ALTO CLASSIC, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: If you like you can sit out Last Line: Space sort of live. Of course Subject(s): Water CONSOLATIONS OF WATER, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking your way barefoot across the parking lot to the beach Last Line: Soft hands seek to rub anger from stones Subject(s): Seashore; Water CONTRA MORTEM: THE WATER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brook had been frozen almost everywhere. Mounds Last Line: And singing singing so pleasantly in their flight Subject(s): Water COUNTING THE CHILDREN, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Five kids round up fiddler crabs into blue Last Line: There's nothing but water's nothing sound Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Nurses; Seashore; Water CROSSING A CANAL-LOCK, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: From this old canal-lock Last Line: Over a corpse. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Canals; Water CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 3, by HUGH HENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Now as he watches water Last Line: Who dove underground %years and years ago Subject(s): Memory; Water DANCING ON ROUGH WATER: FAMILY REUNION, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: After decades apart, they sail again on green water Last Line: Their spitfire bite of cloud thinning as it fills Subject(s): Reunions; Water DANCING ON ROUGH WATER: THREE SISTERS ON ROUGH WATER, 1959, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: I see it at the last light-clustering wash of sleep Last Line: While he sleeps in the play and service of their beauty Subject(s): Sisters; Water DEAD WATER, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: Here is a ditch of hopelessly dead water Last Line: And see what kind of world comes out Subject(s): Water DEAD WATER, by WEN YI-TUO Poem Source First Line: Here is a ditch of hopelessly dead water. Last Line: And see what kind of world comes out Subject(s): Ugliness; Water DECEMBER STAR, by SHARON KOUROUS Poem Source First Line: What the rock seeks to know the river Last Line: Still sift of water past the unmoved shore %awakes the child whom distant stars adore Subject(s): Knowledge; Seashore; Water DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds; DESERT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with the skin you do acknowledge drought, Subject(s): Deserts; Water DICHTER-HERZ, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sand through which the waters of the spring Last Line: As they drink the water I have made clear for them. Subject(s): Seashore; Spring; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore DIE KUCHE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lets the hydrant water run Last Line: She lets the hydrant water run. Subject(s): Children; Tears; Water; Childhood DISHES AND DASHES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always wanted (when I was a boy - and even Last Line: And join the praying crowd Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Dreams; Water DRAWING WATER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had drunk from founts of pleasure Last Line: With a golden chain of prayer. Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Thirst; Water DRESS-UP, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Each morning in the garden I watch the daily game Last Line: So no tree is ever caught %in yesterday's old clothes Subject(s): Water EAR IN THE CLOCK: 2, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: All of a sudden the fish had to have mouth-to-mouth Last Line: A sound in dreams is dead. Didn't you know? Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Time; Water EMBROIDERY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On this green loom Last Line: This water lace %embroidery Subject(s): Water ENCOUNTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At two thousand feet the sea wrinkles like an old man's hand Last Line: The night stirred angrily like an old suspicion Subject(s): Fog; Giants; Sea; Water; Haze; Ocean ETTRICK BANKS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On ettrick banks in a summer's night Subject(s): Ettrick Water, Scotland EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first, descending from the moorlands Last Line: And ettrick mourns with her their poet dead. Variant Title(s): Memories Of Departed Friends;on The Death Of James Of James Hogg Subject(s): Hogg, James (1770-1835); Yarrow (water), Scotland FAIR-WEATHER FRIEND, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: I'm a fair-weather friend to the rain Last Line: I wish the rain would remember to come down %and play! Subject(s): Water FATHER UNDER WATER, by THEA SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: All day I watched you Last Line: Like tools you'd forgotten how to use Subject(s): Fathers; Water FAUCET DRIPPING INTO A PAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The same sweet music Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sound; Water FIRST TRIMESTER, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Who knows where they begin Last Line: The fast hooves of a boy's heart %over the ocean floor Subject(s): Change; Pregnancy; Water FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean Last Line: And red when they are cooked. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean FISHERIES SCIENTIST SIGHTS A LARGE SCHOOL OF MYTH SWIMMING IN..., by PETER MUNRO Poem Source First Line: I cut the outboard %silence opens out Last Line: The sudden strike flashed out of nowhere %and I am caught Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Mythology; Water; Winter FLECKS OF FOAM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The scripture of water Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Water FLOATER BEWARE, by DAVID DALE Poem Source First Line: Jesus, old man, remember Last Line: Where cilly creek flows in Subject(s): Rivers; Water FOR A FOREST WALKER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quaff the mid-forest spring! Sink palms and knees Last Line: Seven times repeated on the crimson air! Subject(s): Forests; Springs (water); Woods FOR THE LOVE OF GERALD FINZI: WATER, by MARY LEADER Poem Source First Line: In whose motions children dance Last Line: Send this woman this hour no barrier, %rain on slurry-gray waves.' Subject(s): Water FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye active streams, where'er your waters flow Last Line: Anna quid imperiis potuit, quid marlburus armis. Subject(s): Danube (river); Fountains; Thames (river); Water FOUNTAIN, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Clear the fountain waters glowing Last Line: "for the stintless bucket fills." Subject(s): Fountains; Springs (water) FOUNTAINS IN THE SEA, by MARIN SORESCU Poem Source First Line: Water: no matter how, there is still not enough Last Line: Each one the other's phantom limb in the sea Subject(s): Water FOUR ELEMENTS: WATER, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: In the form of rain, water becomes an Last Line: That will be discussed later Subject(s): Earth; Water FROG PRINCE, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Down under the wet %green Last Line: This prince will never be %a frog Subject(s): Water FULL SWEET OF A TRUTH IS THE SPARKLE OF WINE, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Wine; Water; Drinks & Drinking GHAZAL FROM THE DROWNED CITY: LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE GILT AND ...., by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: I set myself adrift under the piecemeal, puzzled Last Line: Who can keep strict account of all the tides have taken and given %these days? Subject(s): Cities; Drowning; Water; Weather GIRL BATHING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her basket of cassava, set away from reach Last Line: Your porcelain skin to tattoo beads of coral! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Seashore; Water GLASS OF WATER, by CHARLES RAFFERTY Poem Source First Line: A glass of water spilled into the sea Last Line: Of water being spilled into the sea %soon to be vanished in that enormity Subject(s): History; Loss; Sea; Water GOB-NY-USHTEY (WATER'S MOUTH), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a little stream today Last Line: What manners of th' extremely early gods? Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Springs (water) GOD OF THE SEA GREETS BRAN IN THE LAND OF THE WAVES, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bran is astonished at the beauty of the waters Last Line: We cannot imagine debility; we %are unmarked by guilt Subject(s): Sea; Water; Waves GOING FOR WATER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The well was dry beside the door, Last Line: Like pearls, and now a silver blade. Subject(s): Water GREAT RAIN OF THE SOUTH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great rain of te south is falling on isla negra Last Line: A woman, a man, and winter on the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Rain; Water GROTTO VINH HA LONG (BAY OF THE LANDING DRAGON) TONKIN GULF, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The rower gaunt as his oar Last Line: Stalagmite meeting stalactites coincidences %taking forever to form Variant Title(s): Grott Subject(s): Boats; San Francisco; Vietnam; Water HARBOR: 1. MOSAIC, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face clears of expression, your eyes Last Line: Our flesh/fish bodies puddling molten Subject(s): Boats; Relationships; Water HARBOR: 2. BATH, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buoyancy lifting us on each wave's crest Last Line: The swell of your razoring whiplash tail Subject(s): Boats; Water HATTERAS HOLIDAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Hatteras is a thread of land Last Line: From a live ship or a dead one Subject(s): Holidays; Water HAYING, VERMONT AND GINGER DRINK COORDINATED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know what dido drank, a scholar Last Line: Vermont's great beverage, ginger drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Vermont; Water; Wine HEAVY WATER, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: From the kitchen, iw atch grandaddy making his bath Last Line: Yes, I want desperately to believe %I might ignite it Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Grandparents; Water HIDDEN WATER, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH Poem Text First Line: Water in hole and trench Last Line: And leap and thunder. Subject(s): Water HISTORIES: THE GREAT HANDIWORK: WATER, & SOFT, DELICIOUS AIR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All of them the great...Mmm...Did Last Line: Take. Subject(s): History; Water; Historians HOMAGE TO PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are days I can understand Last Line: At sea which owns no country Subject(s): Sea; Ships And Shipping; Water HOMING, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water's wonderful there Subject(s): Water HORIZON, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And yet there must exist Last Line: Toward another outlet, even greater Subject(s): Human Rights; Salvation; Water HOUR'S KNOT, by RAMON PINYOL Poem Source First Line: I will find you where wells never die Last Line: A trip on high seas the boat on the waves Subject(s): Love; Thirst; Water HOUSE BETWEEN WATER, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source First Line: For someone else, this thirst Last Line: And pinwheels, %birdhouses and gods Subject(s): Houses; Water HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These springs were maidens once that loved Last Line: In nothing changed but in their name. Subject(s): Springs (water) HOW TO CROSS A POND, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: You can swim %or you can float Last Line: And in the winter %you can walk Subject(s): Water I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea: Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean I STAND UPON A DIKE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I have only this dike Subject(s): Water Supply I THINK THAT THE ROOT OF THE WIND IS WATER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the atmosphere Subject(s): Wind; Water I WAS A BROOK, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a brook in straitest channel pent Last Line: To shew their forms and hues in the all revealing sun. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks I'M STILL ON THE DOCKS, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: In brooklyn -- beneath the bridge Last Line: Come direct from nowell's arc Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Water IBIZA 60, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Again we had ourselves locked up Last Line: Free us from these left-over %lies Subject(s): Boats; Sea; Sea Voyages; Water ICICLE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: There %is %no %rhyme Last Line: It %is %itself %a %poem Subject(s): Water IDEA THAT HOLDS WATER, by PAUL J. CASELLA Poem Source First Line: The atmosphere is great here Last Line: Onto the blue face below Subject(s): Nature; Water IF RAIN, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If rain can come Last Line: Then shall we know coming and going Subject(s): Clouds; Love; Rain; Romance; Water IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it. Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians IN THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT, by JOHN E. SMELCER Poem Source First Line: Rambling across a great field Last Line: Fill the waters from this place %on which so much depends Subject(s): Water IN THE YARD FACING THE OCEAN: A ROOTS COMPOSITION, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below the surface of the sea a place full of jawless and boneless Last Line: Are leaving in the morning Subject(s): California; Seashore; Swimming; Water; Waves INSTRUCTIONS FOR WALKING ON WATER, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When sitting foot onto the water, keep in mind Last Line: And you no longer care which way leads up or down Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Sea; Swimming; Water INWARD BRUISE, by MARY MAKOFSKE Poem Source First Line: 1. Photograph: faeroe islands %whale skulls and vertebrae Last Line: To move mountains, but only %to be them? Subject(s): Nature; Water IT LEAVES THEM, by EUGENE W. RELLUM Poem Source First Line: The tide ebbs %to where it came from Last Line: Who will let %you believe? Subject(s): Tides; Water ITALIAN STREAM, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Distinct reflections mark the hoarded caves Last Line: And that, I swear, is a dream! Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Water; Songs JACK, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI Poem Source First Line: You and I have a lot in common,' I tell him, as we bundle up on the Last Line: We shiver in the sun: who said there's nothing new beneath it? Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Rivers; Tides; Water JAPANESE WOMAN BESIDE THE WATER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: As rain is bending the urgent pine needles Last Line: And later we live for the sky in her arms Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water JOHN ROUAT THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of ayr Last Line: And on a rude pallet lay poor margaret rouat cold and dead. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Water JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Class, I say, this is %the front head release Last Line: I tell you what I know: %go down to save Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Learning; Lifeguards; Survival; Swimming; Teaching And Teachers; Water KINGS BLUFF, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Kings bluff was a steamboat town Last Line: When the booze yacht came to town Subject(s): Towns; Water LADY WITH THE HERON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk athirst Last Line: At the feet of a heron Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drought; Fables; Thirst; Water LAKE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We won't return. Like seeds, awkward as auks Last Line: Twelve heretics condemned in secret trials, %a noblewoman singing to herself. Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Lakes; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel; Water LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Last Line: And an infinite shipwreck Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water LAKE HAKONE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Many loves have I known and much intoxication Last Line: Wherewith to drink to drunkenness. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Fuji, Mount; Water; Wine LAKE TSERKNITSA (SLOVENIA), by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: For months Last Line: For the opposite to arrive Subject(s): Drought; Harvest; Water LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: If she had lived my mother would have told me Last Line: Toward the deepest water, its blue embrace Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Death; Landscape; Memory; Mothers; Parents; Water LAST RITE, by DAVID CHORLTON Poem Source First Line: Water laps against the mirrors Last Line: To look at his reflection Subject(s): Funerals; Water LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LESSONS OF WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When given a palce to wait, it fills that place Last Line: For the wind to begin again Subject(s): Learning; Water LIFE AND WATER, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: Life is as water, commencing its flow Last Line: Life is as water; take care how you drink. Subject(s): Water LIFEJACKETS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Tied into their chilly embrace Last Line: Those jackets %that never dried through Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Lifeguards; Water LIGHTNING WHELK, by MICHAEL SOWDER Poem Source First Line: We wnet down to hear what the water said Last Line: This cup, that only a cry of the sea has filled? Subject(s): Lightning; Water LIKE BEGETTING, by FRANCESCA ABBATE Poem Source First Line: In the storm, the cloud that looked Last Line: Are in shadow. Parts are bright with rain Subject(s): March (month); Water LINES TO A GARDEN HOSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sprinkle, sprinkle, little hose" Last Line: Irresponsibility! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;floods;gardens & Gardening;water LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 1. OLD STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: This is sister water's cell Last Line: Sing laus deo! Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 2. NEW STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: The little grassy hollow is sunny Last Line: So-called. Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LISLE'S RIVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud Last Line: What joy have you had since, that equaled this? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Happiness; Memory; Rivers; Water; Joy; Delight LISTEN:, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: In the other world Subject(s): Native Americans; Riddles; Water LITTLE RAIN IN RIYADH, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: A drizzle tickles our upturned faces Last Line: Regarding me as you would the light shed %over the sea at alexandria Subject(s): Love; Rain; Water LIVING WITH MISTAKES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They won't wear boots Last Line: In their presence. Subject(s): Errors; Etiquette; Water; Mistakes; Fallacies; Manners; Courtesy LIZARDS FALL INTO THE WATER TANKS...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY Poem Source Last Line: A poison in my veins Subject(s): Lizards; Water LOOKING AROUND III, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August cloud-forest chinese ming screen Last Line: Tonight after 10 pm the moon will varnish everything %with a brilliance worthy wherever that is of p Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nature; Water LOOKING BACK DOWN, by CHARLES HADFIELD Poem Source First Line: Rhythms of water Last Line: Almost within earshot Subject(s): Sight; Water LOSING CUBA, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: You scrape the trowel against Last Line: A soft white lichenous frosting %spreading itself across the basement floor Subject(s): Revolutions; Water LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: When the snow melts Last Line: And finds again its shiny new spring shoes Subject(s): Water LOST VALLEY, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: I found it on a morning when the wings Last Line: Share some of it with you. Subject(s): Springs (water) LOVE IN THE WATER, LOVE IN THE STONE, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful bean lady of the plantain, Subject(s): Love; Water; Stones; Granite; Rocks MAGIC WATER JAR, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Did you know the hopi Last Line: & doubt that I'd %be trusted Subject(s): Magic; Water MEANDERING, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Something in water loves %the curve Last Line: To be commander %of meander Subject(s): Water MELANCHOLY WATER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: There is an intelligence in joy Last Line: I hear only the cry of a goose Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Tears; Water MEXICAN NURSERY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There comes the water splashing and croaking Last Line: My little brothers will get a good soaking Subject(s): Nonsense;water MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips MILTONIC, by MAVIS CLARE BARNETT Poem Text First Line: Poet thou shalt have to drink Last Line: Water in a wooden bowl. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Water MIMOSA, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days and nights the dull metallic %hammer of welders' work Last Line: The night is starting to burn and to bloom Variant Title(s): The Mimosa Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Water MIRACLES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Water for guinness Last Line: You're walking on air Subject(s): Kildare, Ireland; Miracles; Water MISSISSIPPI MUSKRAT, by RICHARD BRODERICK Poem Source First Line: I like the way he chooses the calm waters Last Line: Shaped head aimed straight at an eddying heart Subject(s): Mississippi; Water MONTAUK BEACH, WINTER FOR M.R., by APRIL DENONNO Poem Source First Line: Inside the rented bungalow the floors collect sand Last Line: And sinks the water closing like a dream Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Seashore; Water MOON'S GRAVITY, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: I feel sorry for the moon Last Line: From under their sandy feet Subject(s): Water MOUNTAIN POOL, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poured by a hundred rills Last Line: In this water, clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds MOUNTAIN WATER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have taken a drink from a wild fountain Last Line: In the feathery green of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MOURNING PABLO NERUDA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water is practical / especially in august Last Line: Gone. Subject(s): Death; Legacies; Mourning; Nature; Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Usefullness; Water; Dead, The; Bereavement MUDDY WATER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Leave the muddy water alone, she said Last Line: It'll make itself clear. Subject(s): Water MUSIC ON WATER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where does remembrance weep when we forget? Last Line: Watches the time, and thinks it wondrous slow. Subject(s): Death; Mars (god); Music & Musicians; Water; Dead, The MUSINGS, by MICHAEL J. CAMPIONE Poem Text First Line: Have ever you sat by a midnight shore Last Line: Were always, and will always be? Subject(s): Seashore; Water; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore MY FOUNTAIN, by LUIS GONZAGA ORTIZ Poem Source First Line: Hard by the cottage, innocent and free Last Line: My humble, sweet and murmurous fount, of thee! Subject(s): Fountains; Sea; Water MY WISH WON'T WASH, by ROSEMARIE WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: When I was young, I fantasized Last Line: The laundry room and kitchen sink! Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Water NAMMU: TO ADAM, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea keeps sending my emissaries, wave Last Line: Your shroud of water is ready. Come with me Subject(s): Water NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water NEW YORK: FIRST SWIM, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: As usual, as in the beginning, it all began with water Last Line: To the frozen future of the american dream Subject(s): New York City; Swimming; Water NEW YORK: SECOND SWIM, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: Through a lit tunnel, under the river Last Line: And all your fears were thoroughly eroded Subject(s): New York City; Water NIAGARA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When lakes of western waters, prison bound Last Line: And thundered to the sea with joyful flow. Subject(s): Nature; Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Travel; Water; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean NIGHT PLUMBER, by NIKKI MOUSTAKI Poem Source First Line: My neighbor comes at one a.M. In her night Last Line: Like a friend saying don't be lonely, or I'm lonely too Subject(s): Night; Plumbers; Water NONSENSE RHYMES: 10, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There comes the water curling and running Last Line: I fear my aunt jennie will need a good sunning Subject(s): Nonsense;water NORTH JETTY, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: Spy satellite sees a blue circle bisected Last Line: Been flowing? Hasn't our blood? Out of reach %a dolphin blows, breathes, sinks Subject(s): Sea; Sea Monsters; Water O'CLOCK, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You float inside your water Subject(s): Time; Leaves; Water OASIS, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: If a pond is an oasis Last Line: Sailors hungry for a taste of land? Subject(s): Water OBJECT, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: If you lift the lid off the clay pot Last Line: The one to escape %his lashing tongue Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Water OBSERVATION, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Above, blue sky Last Line: Simple, plain: %iris after rain Subject(s): Water OBSESSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, take away those haunting eyes Last Line: And the rain cover the hill! Subject(s): Clouds; Moon; Rain; Sea; Water; Ocean OCEAN CHECKLIST, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Vast, blue-green or winter gray Last Line: Is everybody's dream of deep Subject(s): Water OCEAN LESSON, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Val drips the slime of the moonsnail Last Line: Trumpeting the final show and tell Subject(s): Sea; Water ODE TO NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: My lyre! Give me my lyre! My bosom Last Line: To listen to the echoes of my fame Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Niagara Falls; Water; Waterfalls ODE; FOR THE CELEBRATION OF ... COCHITUATE WATER INTO BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name is water: I have sped Last Line: That never will make slaves of you. Subject(s): Boston; Water ODES III, 13. TO THE FOUNTAIN BANDUSIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O fountain of bandusia, clearer than crystal Last Line: From which leap your loquacious waters Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Springs (water) ON A LAKE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in the rushes Last Line: The life of the lake. Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds ON A MINERAL IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND ... CURED OF DISEASES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM LUCKYN Poem Text First Line: For introduction, not to stay Last Line: Rapture to give it you again. Alternate Author Name(s): Grimston, Viscount Subject(s): Healing; Water; Cures ON READING THE POETRY OF A MYSTIC, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a sound of waters; --not the combing Last Line: Dips in the liquid dusk a flaming wing. Subject(s): Mysticism; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Water; Theology ON ST. GEORGE ISLAND, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four years since I've touched this water Last Line: Clear daughter of the tides Subject(s): Islands; Water ON THE WATERFRONT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know! Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What is not water Last Line: Or is it simply the mathematics %of natural selection? Subject(s): Water ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium OTHER WATERS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: It is when the seminal smell of the shadow announces the Last Line: But before then we will have made our descent to the waters Subject(s): Rain; Water OTHERWISE EMPTY PUBLIC POOL (1965), by DEZSO TANDORI Poem Source First Line: As if we were at an empty pool Last Line: Among other things Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Lakes; Sports; Swimming; Water OUR LADY'S WELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fount of the woods! Thou art hid no more Last Line: Who hath made thee nature's own again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Ruins; Springs (water); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR SON SWEARS HE HAS 102 GALLONS OF WATER IN HIS BODY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere a mistaken word distorts the sum Last Line: That nobody could break. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Milk; Parents; Water; Wine; Milkmen; Milkmaids; Parenthood OVER THE MONTH OF JUNE THE RAIN IS FALLING, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source Last Line: The lights of the city come on for further exploits Variant Title(s): The Rain Is Fallin Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water OVER THE WATER TO CHARLIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come boat me o'er, come row me o'er" Last Line: We'll o'er the water Subject(s): Ferry Boats;water OVER THE WATER WI' CHAIRLIE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er! Last Line: Or we lippen again to chairlie! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Boats; Travel; Water; Journeys; Trips PASSING THROUGH WATERLESS PLACES, by ANNETTE ABMA Poem Source First Line: The bird circles, drops onto the water Last Line: Swimming and oblivious of water Subject(s): Birds; Water PATCHES OF GOLD FLARING UP UNEXPECTEDLY, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: Patches of gold flaring up unexpectedly Last Line: Silently very fast %tout autre part Subject(s): Beauty; Sun; Time; Water PERCH, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perch on their water perch hung in the clear bann river Last Line: In the everything flows and steady go of the world Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Water PERFECT SELVES, by ELIZABETH TIBBETTS Poem Source First Line: The harbor was full of sewage Last Line: To sizzle like a smelt in the pan Subject(s): Swimming; Water PETIT MANAN, by ROBERT FARNSWORTH Poem Source First Line: I know no fitting prayer for the margins Last Line: The tideline, fixed by the moon's %indifferent aim across the water Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sea; Water PIER, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: The stars are behind the wall Last Line: And the other breathes in the sky all in one breath Subject(s): Memory; Water PIXIES AT THE POOL, by RICHARD POMFRET Poem Text First Line: Look below into the pool's Last Line: And flee at dawn's first light. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Water; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime POEM FOR MY SON, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where water laps my hips Last Line: Now, boy, swim off for this Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Children; Parents; Seashore; Swimming; Water POOL, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: I know a wood and in that wood Last Line: Of the master of the woods, great of secrets and long of meditations Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Forests; Water POOLS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: When jose daniel %says water Last Line: The perfect sound %of the sea Subject(s): Peace; Seashore; Water; Waves POSITED, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That as all parts of it Subject(s): Water; Language; Words; Vocabulary POSSESSION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shepherd in solitude crosses the deformed desert Last Line: Painted voices -- Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Pollution; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains PRACTICING FOR THE RAPTURE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the grainy frames of an early film, a man straps on Last Line: To rise, and enter a realm of creatures %lighter than air Subject(s): Storms; Water; Wind PRAIRIE CALM, by ELLEN DRINKWATER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think Last Line: And plenty -- for millions of cattle to drink. Subject(s): Kansas; Prairies; Water; Wells; Plains PRAISE OF WATER, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain, the rain at length Last Line: Wine, wine, exulting wine! Subject(s): Water PRESENCE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Glance of a star, humid and tepid Last Line: Whatever is reborn %to be undone %in water Subject(s): Love; Presence; Seashore; Water; Waves PSYCHOANALYSIS OF WATER, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clock here is quiet. Subject(s): Water PURE ELEMENT OF WATERS! WHERESOE'ER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their anguish,—and they blend sweet songs with thine Subject(s): Springs; Water; Caves RAIN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: There are so many kinds of rain Last Line: And leaving to exalt or jade. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One evening as we were lounging in his apartment in a relaxed mood Last Line: The substance of the land into the sea Subject(s): Rain; Water RAIN, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: This is the rain Last Line: The ground, lied god, in the beginning Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by MARGARET MCCORMICK Poem Text First Line: A man sinned today Last Line: . . . Me. Subject(s): Water RAIN, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The april rain falls quietly, / with soft caress for bush and tree Last Line: December rain, december rain. Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Spring; Water; Weather RAIN, by RACHEL L. WHITE Poem Text First Line: O rain, why come on sunday Last Line: Sometimes I make mistakes. Subject(s): Rain; Sabbath; Water; Sunday RAIN FOREST, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: In the rain forest, where the ground is a limitless Last Line: Every pool a boundless lake Subject(s): Water RAIN IN THE PINE GROVE, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: You keep silent. On the threshold Last Line: Oh terrestial creature %by name %hermione Subject(s): Rain; Water RAIN MARCH, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water falls, plick, plock, plack Last Line: The water falls and fills my sack. Subject(s): Rain; Water RAIN PSALM, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: The sky was a somber cave of water Last Line: And in the deep valley fields a partridge whistled Subject(s): Rain; Thunder; Water RAINS THAT NEVER FALL FELL IN MY HOUSE, by NEIL ROLLINSON Poem Source First Line: I turned on the tap, the drain belches Last Line: The whole of africa's rainfell fell in my house tonight Subject(s): Houses; Rain; Water RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement RECKONINGS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, what a feeling! We declared Last Line: The waves were bigger now: one carried a contestant %miles down the beach, then left him churning in Subject(s): Competition; Elections; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves REFLECTION, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Water is a magic mirror Last Line: A truth so fragile %only eyes can hear Subject(s): Water REMEDIOS VARO AS DAPHNE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the rooms are tall, begin to open Last Line: And a welter / of water Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Daphne (mythology); Water; Paintings & Painters RESIGNATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struggle no more: let it go Last Line: It is dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Water; Wind; Dead, The RETURNING TO THE LUXAPALILA, by PAUL DEAN RUFFIN Poem Source First Line: The river is the color of earth, fed by runoff Last Line: Her arms outstretched to the mounting sun Subject(s): Rivers; Water REUMINATIONS ON CONCAVE WATER, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: The house consumes its occupant Last Line: Rusting in an armature %of hungry waters Subject(s): Water RIVER BATHERS, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was no paradise Last Line: The grass and rusting iron furniture. Subject(s): Rivers; Seashore; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore RIVER'S WATERS, by LEO YANKEVICH Poem Source First Line: The river's waters are grey, sometimes blue Last Line: And for the sun's merciful but meat-eating honey Subject(s): Colors; Rivers; Water RIVER-LOVERS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Beaver: river-weaver Last Line: Spider: water-writer %bullfrog: burper-burper %owl: night-delighter Subject(s): Animals; Water ROCK CRIES OUT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: As if I were fool enough to hide Last Line: Where no water, no wave, no raised fist %will trouble us %anymore Subject(s): Water ROOM BELOW THE RIVER, by AL MAGINNES Poem Source First Line: Every summer a few bridge divers disappear Last Line: All the downward commands of gravity Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Rooms; Water RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: PISCES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the stars quaver Last Line: In the eddying sky Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Astrology And Astrologers; Fishing And Fishermen; Stars; Water SALMON BROOK, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: May they still endure? Subject(s): Water SAVING THE RAIN IN BARRELS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nights, I rode my father's pickup Last Line: Spiraling for those that stumble %under the sun and fall Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Farm Life; Water SAY WATER, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Say birds instead of water Last Line: When I, wild-tongued, was burning up %and you were beautiful Subject(s): Nature; Water SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water SEAL AND THE SEAGULL, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Even now, survival is godhead, a dim red glow warming the water Last Line: You could have chosen pity, feeding the tide the broken bones to see what %might come back Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seals (animals); Seashore; Water SELKIE, by KATHLEEN AGUERO Poem Source First Line: It's the salt in the air Last Line: I long to sing again, but my own voice frightens me Subject(s): Sea; Singing And Singers; Water SEMPITERNAL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SEQUENCE: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the woods the low red bridge Last Line: Flowing then and still. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Water; Dead, The SEXUAL WATER, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tumbling in big solitary drops Last Line: I see its waters crossing the bone Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Water SHOOTING AT WATER, by OLIVIA C. H. FINLEY Poem Source First Line: With your hand crippled %from a lack of sleep Last Line: Or treading water - %let us go, let us go Subject(s): Swimming; Water SIERRA NOTE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She opened the window Last Line: They called castilla Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Spain; Water SILVER, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishing is life for towns along the sea Last Line: Yet they shall keep a people until spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Water; Winter; Anglers SILVER SPRING, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord of light revealed Last Line: Undine! Undine! Thou are princess of the parables of old! Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Springs (water) SILVER SURFER, by JEFF HALBERT Poem Source First Line: He begins at midnight. He paddles Last Line: Soon you won't hear him anymore. %then he will not be there Subject(s): Night; Sports; Water SINKER, by ALEC KOWALCZYK Poem Source First Line: When they inundated the hollow Last Line: And at the end of the line, %a leaded weight Subject(s): Floods; Water SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES SCIENCE CLASS: DOCTRINES OF ELEMENTS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God's a bag of wind, primum mobile, push come Last Line: Our bodies vessels shaped to hold god's love Subject(s): Fire; Water SISTER WATER: THE SEA MIST, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Mist is the dream of the water, which becomes light-gray Last Line: And I said, 'let us extol the lord, sister mist!' Subject(s): Dreams; Mist; Water SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS ABOVE GROUND, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I praise heaven because it offers me, in love, gems for my Last Line: Sister water, let us praise god! Subject(s): God; Nature; Praise; Religion; Rivers; Water SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS UNDER GROUND, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I sing to heaven because my unknown streams make the Last Line: Caverns; and I said, 'sister water, let us bless the lord!' Subject(s): Blessings; God; Praise; Spring; Water SISTERS AND WATER, by KATHY KOLIAN-DIMEGLIO Poem Source First Line: We carry crystal goblet %clear cool water Last Line: Will come cold to the table %will come from some higher ground Subject(s): Sisters; Water SKATING, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: It was saturday, Last Line: Through the rise of pines. Subject(s): Cold; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Water; Winter SMALL DEFEATS: DEATH BY WATER, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Of deaths, a death by water, we are told Last Line: Lulled within lives and deaths. We do not die Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Water SMALL LIGHT FROM OUR WINDOW, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: When no one is home Subject(s): Rain; Water SMALL SKIFF HAS BEEN ROWED, by PETER READING Poem Source Last Line: And there is autumnal evening precipitation Subject(s): Boats; Water SONG (8), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were the drop of rain Last Line: With maiden kisses three. Subject(s): Rain; Water SONG OF THE ARTESIAN WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stock have started dying, for the lord has sent a / drought Last Line: It is flowing, ever flowing, further down. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Earth; Hope; Singing & Singers; Water; World; Optimism SONG OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CELEUS, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep the well and dark the water Last Line: Hers who has the brightest eyes. Subject(s): Water; Wells SONG OF THE MAD MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I on whom the wild sun Last Line: The body behind bone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drought; Poverty; Thirst; Water SONNET: 1. A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet Last Line: Whose likeness is the faithless face of rose. Subject(s): Mountains; Springs (water); Hills; Downs (great Britain) SOURCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I know how poems spring up. Well water flows Last Line: The singers lift their silver for man's seeing. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Water; Songs SOURCE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Let other rivers carry toward the sea Last Line: Alone with all its visible and invisible stars Subject(s): Rivers; Water SPRING, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little mountain spring I found Last Line: Belonged by rights to him Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Springs (water) SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares SPRING IN THE GARDEN, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: In the lotus pool Last Line: About who saw her first Subject(s): Water SPRING WATER, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: How very distant shrills the slaughter Last Line: And forest things grow frolicsome. Subject(s): Water STARS WHICH SEE, STARS WHICH DO NOT SEE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sat by the water. The fine women Last Line: And then its promise, but never the water. Subject(s): Beauty; Seine (river), France; Water; Women STICK IN THE WATER, by RAY SKJELBRED Poem Source First Line: The barber with mirrors on both sides knows Last Line: Maybe nothing is far away.' Subject(s): Water STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude closes down around us Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nakedness; Swimmers STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude closes down around us Last Line: Of your nude jubilation Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming; Water SUBMERSIBLE, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Down from twilight into dark at noon Last Line: Could have come until our time but corpses Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Water SUCH WATER DO THE GODS DISTILL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of helicon again. Subject(s): Water; New England SUMMER DROWNING, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: Just a moment to step into Last Line: And counting how long %she can stay under Subject(s): Drowning; Water SUMMER RAIN, by APOLLON NIKOLAYEVICH MAIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden rain! Golden rain! Out of the sky!' Last Line: "in the full granaries fragrant with rye." Alternate Author Name(s): Maykov, Apollon Nikolaycich Subject(s): Rain; Water SURF, by ISRAEL NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Sea-ache, and sea-scent, and the welter of white Last Line: Of wave-heaps trailing tresses drowned in green! Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SWIMMER, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His chin cut water Last Line: Was acheron. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Hades; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Dead, The; Swimmers SWIMMER, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I jumped from the bow of the ocean liner I had three things in Last Line: His own life, the man who is an obvious liar Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Swimming; Water TAKE ME TO THE WATER, by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I wanted to go over to the lake, but instead he drove me inland Last Line: Of a straight, hard, sharp, direct, flat, utterly convincing horizon Subject(s): Travel; Water TANGLE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A muddle, a meddle Last Line: Made of wet tangles Subject(s): Water THE AMERICAN FIREMAN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: A clamor and clatter of galloping hoofs Last Line: Had half such a guerdon won. Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke; Water THE ART OF HAPPINESS, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am too weak to speak, Last Line: What’s a phone call or two? Subject(s): Happiness; Water; Joy; Delight THE BALLAD OF EPHRON, PRINCE OF TOPERS, by IMMANUEL OF ROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a merry song about a merry / wight Last Line: Nor he, nor we, shall crave in vain for water! Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Repentance; Sin; Water; Judaism; Penitence THE BALLAD OF THE LONG DAM, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day the dam gave way, I mind it / awfully well Last Line: And riley's daughter's married to me — honest, so help me god. Subject(s): Floods; Water; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE BELL-BUOY, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: The bell buoy off manana sings twenty miles to sea, Last Line: And many miles, inland . . . It reaches me. Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Buoys; Islands; Maine (state); Water THE BRAES OF YARROW, by JOHN LOGAN (1748-1788) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy braes were bonny, yarrow stream Last Line: And then with thee I'll sleep in yarrow. Variant Title(s): Yarrow Stream Subject(s): Death; Yarrow (water), Scotland; Dead, The THE CASE OF EDGAR ABBOTT AND PHILIP RIDD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was edgar alvin abbott, who had Last Line: "leaping bravely to her rescue, cried: ""I'ii save you!"" and he did." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lifeguards; Seashore; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore; Swimmers THE CASTE WIFE SPEAKS TO THE ENIGMATIC PARABOLAS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two stone breakers in loincloths Last Line: For the rising cream that forms a golden brick of butter. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Social Classes; Water; Male-female Relations; Caste THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The course of least resistance is Last Line: Upon the rocks below. Subject(s): Death; Water; Waterfalls; Dead, The THE DIVE, by CORNELIA BROWNELL GOULD Poem Text First Line: One moment, poised above the flashing blue Last Line: To swim back to the gray old pile from which I dive. Subject(s): Water THE ENCHANTED SPRING, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er golden sands my waters flow Last Line: Come! Sip it freshly as it flows. Subject(s): Flowers; Spring; Water THE EXISTING POOL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begin with a pool. The deepening Last Line: Gather together Subject(s): Water THE FAIR WATERS OF DREAM, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fair waters of asia, in a green countryside Last Line: The stroke gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Dreams; Fountains; Shadows; Water; Waves; Nightmares THE FEAST, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Juniper and cedar in the sand Last Line: Our two shapes dying in each other's arms Subject(s): Water; Sand THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FOUNTAIN, by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II Poem Text First Line: The sea hath tempered it; the mighty sun Last Line: Hath steel somewhat advantage over water. Alternate Author Name(s): Mu'tamid, Al-; Al-mu'tamid Of Sevilla Subject(s): Fountains; Water THE FOUNTAINS OF ASHOKAN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforth what dream can e'er efface Last Line: Would quaff new beauty in the glass! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE GIFT OF WATER, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is water nigh? Last Line: Brothers in bond of the water's ring. Subject(s): Water THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER INUNDATION IN CHINA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of september Last Line: For fear god punished you likewise for your iniquities. Subject(s): China; Drowning; Floods; Rain; Rivers; Water THE HARBOR: 1. MOSAIC, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your face clears of expression, your eyes Last Line: Our flesh/fish bodies puddlng molten Subject(s): Boats; Relationships; Water THE HARBOR: 2. BATH, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buoyancy lifting us on each wave's crest Last Line: The swell of your razoring whiplash tail Subject(s): Boats; Water THE INUNDATION OF THE SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For that peninsula Subject(s): Water THE IRON BRIDGE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am standing on a disused iron bridge Last Line: With no end or name, some boundless province of water Subject(s): Cormorants; Bridges; Mothers; Water; Death THE LESSONS OF WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When given a place to wait, it fills that place Subject(s): Learning; Water THE LITTLE ONE THE WATER-SPIRIT LOVED, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: So young he could not go alone on earth Last Line: Before whom I must smile dry-eyed? Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Mothers; Water; Death - Babies THE MILL, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two leaps the water from its race Last Line: The second bounding snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Water THE MIMOSA, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days and nights the dull metallic / hammer of welders' work Last Line: The night is starting to burn and to bloom Variant Title(s): The Mimosa: Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Water THE NYMPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The pool in the forest drinks her in, mirrors her, laughs with her Last Line: Pool. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Lakes; Nymphs; Water; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE OLD MEADOW SPRING, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the red-top blooming in the / sun Last Line: And be a boy at the meadow spring. Subject(s): Spring; Water THE OLD SPRING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under rocks whereon the rose Last Line: Falling, flowing, wild and white. Subject(s): Springs (water) THE OLD WATER-WHEEL, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies beside the river; where its marge Last Line: How they once sounded. All is silent now. Subject(s): Water-wheels THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For an image of life and death Last Line: Both life and death are fine Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Ice; Life; Reincarnation; Water; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring water is pure in an emerald stream Last Line: Focus on emptiness and the world grows still Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Silence; Springs (water) THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woods and springs make me smile Last Line: All I hear is noise Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight THE POOLS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to look into the green-brown Subject(s): Water; Nature THE RAIN COMES, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and rain and lightest snow Last Line: Still she sits unheeding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Water; Lightning Rods THE RAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've watched the ground-hog's shadow Last Line: Did you ever see the comin' of the rains? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Rain; Spring; Water; Plains THE RAVINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stones, brown tufted grass, but no water Last Line: Day after day, I wonder what they mean Subject(s): Water THE RAVINE OF SAINT-GILLES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The gorge is dark below the reeds' massed slimness Last Line: And lights in him the eternal hope unquelled! Subject(s): Hope; Nature; Water; Optimism THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE RIVER RUNNING TO THE SEA, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river running to the sea Last Line: To front the larger sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Rivers; Sea; Strength; Tides; Water; Ocean THE SACRAMENT OF WATER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Crystal clear from the throne of god Last Line: For all fair, fresh, running water! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Religion; Sacraments; Water; Theology THE SAKIYEH, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long shall man be nature's fool?' man cries Last Line: Bound blindfold to the groaning wheel of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels THE SEA DREAM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the loud waters, the loud and crying waters Last Line: Cities, sea-dreaming through the night! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Silence; Water; Waves; Ocean THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood Last Line: And few there are who understand. Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SHIPS OF ARCADY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' the faintest filigree Last Line: In the misty filigree. Subject(s): Arcadians; Boats; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Arcadia; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE SHOWER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On every budding leaf and flower Last Line: Thy life, thy grace, thy light Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rain; Tears; Water; Showers & Showering THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am already a singing flower Last Line: Your singing flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean THE SONG OF GLAUCUS, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea! How blue, far off, the sonorous sea! Last Line: Will watch a long time if I do not come. Subject(s): Sea; Seaweed; Singing & Singers; Water; Waves; Ocean THE SONG OF THE ELEMENTS, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit amidst the universe Last Line: Of its own unvanquished power. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Universe; Water; World THE SONG OF THE LIGHT CANOE, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE Poem Text First Line: When the dew is fresh and the grasses wet Last Line: When the flush of the sunset dies. Subject(s): Boats; Canoes & Canoeing; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Water; Seamen; Sails THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Straight from the cool green arms Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam. Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips THE SOWERS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woe to the seed Last Line: It finds a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Storms; Water; Ocean THE SPRINGS OF FONTANA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The springs of fontana well high on the mountain Last Line: Springs of fontana! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Italy; Springs (water); Italians THE SUMMITS, by VICTOR DE LAPRADE Poem Text First Line: I will go and drink the waters pure that feed the rolling river Last Line: Shall never guess the wayfarer returned is even he. Subject(s): Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SURF, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: The day's wild ocean sings and thunders Last Line: On hour in restless monotone. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Floods; Seashore; Surfing; Thunder; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TOAST: A SEA SONG, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH Poem Text First Line: Come drink to the toast that I give ye Last Line: Drink health to our sweethearts and wives. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Sailing & Sailors; Toasts; Water; Wine THE TURNS OF THE WATERCOURSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It falls from heaven upon the hill Last Line: It turns to heaven again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Water THE TWO GLASSES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There sat two glasses filled to the brim Last Line: On the rich man's table, rim to rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Cups; Drinks & Drinking; Fables; Water; Wealth; Wine; Allegories; Riches; Fortunes THE UNKNOWN HAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, o waves of ocean Last Line: On some distant strand. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Water; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of water-breaks, with grateful heart could tel Subject(s): Water; Sound THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land Last Line: Along that silent strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WATER CROWVOOT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O small-feac'd flow'r that now dost bloom Last Line: Fair small-feäc'd flow'r o' the frome. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooks; Flowers; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WATER FINDER, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: They heard him shuffling through the maple leaves Last Line: The farmer chuckled as he got his jug. Subject(s): Water Finders THE WATER SPIRIT'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent hour of even Last Line: And with her till morn dwell joyously. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Singing & Singers; Stars; Water; Ocean THE WATER! THE WATER!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As wandering on it sought its grave Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Water THE WATER-OUSEL, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow by the water's edge Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Water Ousels THE WATER-SPRINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arbor and orchard in our soul's south land Last Line: "give also springs of water!" Subject(s): Fruit; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE WATERLESS BRIDGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of water though the channel bare is Last Line: A little water buy. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Bridges; Water THE WATERS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Placid it lies as death and passionless as the grave Last Line: Till their pent-up rage broke forth on the men who curbed their will. Subject(s): Floods; Water THE WATERS OF H. BAPTISME, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The worlds great lord as once he stood Last Line: These onely sin. Subject(s): Baptism; God; Water; Christenings THE WATERS OF THE LAKE, by NELLIE E. FEALY Poem Text First Line: Listen to the rippling waters / whispering Last Line: They are talking with their god. Subject(s): Water THE WATERWHEEL, by ELEANOR VAN WINKLE Poem Text First Line: Unending was the path the camel trod Last Line: Serving a man-made god -- and they are blind! Subject(s): Egypt; Water-wheels THE WAY OF WATER, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: Is there a way of water unextolled? Last Line: Of a cool cup lifted to self-damned lips! Subject(s): Water THE WAYS OF WATER, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With your unknown Subject(s): Water THE WELL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse / in her dark habit Subject(s): Water THE WHOLE MOISTY NIGHT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The viking ship sails into the full harbor Last Line: Water pours down, faint flute notes in the sound of the water Subject(s): Water THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent. Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THESE BAPTIZING WATERS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We are at the thin brink that marks Last Line: These baptizing waters Subject(s): Baptism; Catholics; Water THIRTY-THIRD SPRING, by RODNEY TYNAN JACK Poem Source First Line: Past a huge toppled pine Last Line: Withstanding my own blight, I will %behold this sight again Subject(s): Aging; Springs (water) THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It scratches on the door Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind THOUSAND WATERS OF APRIL, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Go clouds of cotton and ash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Rain; Water THREE NIGHT SONGS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving in liquid dark Last Line: But to freeze until another glacier comes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Night; Water; Bedtime THREE VARIATIONS ON ELEGIAC THEMES: I: 1821, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: By the lakeside where %water batters the flat Last Line: Move yet hold what %pushed them in their shapes Subject(s): Lakes; Water THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 2. SURF, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Wild white legions of foam! Last Line: Ever the living pursuing the dying. Subject(s): Seashore; Surfing; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore TIDES, by INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY Poem Text First Line: Once more you journey outward, weary tide Last Line: Must vanish with the ebb tide's old despair. Subject(s): Tides; Water TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange little spring, by channels past our telling Last Line: Dancing, dimpling, welling, welling. Subject(s): Springs (water) TO A SPRING IN THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gurgling spring in sylvan beauty Last Line: You will ever here abide. Subject(s): Beauty; Cumberland Mountains; Springs (water) TO DRINK, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I remember gestures of infants Last Line: And they were gestures of giving me water Subject(s): Water TOAST TO A FUTURE DAY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have climbed to the highest point of the mountain Last Line: Ringed with the seven-colored rainbow Subject(s): Future; Mountains; Toasts; Water TRINKET, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love watching the water Last Line: Small enough to contain it. Subject(s): Plants; Self; Time; Water; Planting; Planters TRIUMPH OF THE BLUE, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The glowing red of dawn paints the lake to pale blood Last Line: Distance, the sail of a boat places its sweet note of virginal white Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Paintings And Painters; Water TURNING, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: Icicles, as long-stemmed as ornaments or trumpets Last Line: The ground ahead littered with leaves and molted %skins Subject(s): Ice; Water TWO ESKIMO SONGS: 2: HOW WATER BEGAN TO PLAY, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water wanted to live Last Line: Till it had no weeping left %it lay at the bottom of all things %utterly worn out utterly clear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Human Rights; Tears; Water; Weariness TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 1. UNDER THE CANALS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All one needs to do is follow the sound of water Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Canals; Venice, Italy; Water TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 1. UNDER THE CANALS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All one needs to do is follow the sound of water Last Line: Under the water who have more than all the time they need Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Canals; Venice, Italy; Water TWO STONES, ONE RIVER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Nothing is as wise Last Line: And sometimes running %in between Subject(s): Water UNDER COVER, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: In the cedar forest %the rain drips Last Line: And it is. %it does Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Rain; Water UNDER THE WHARF, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Silurus shoals and water butterflies Last Line: Rising from this dark flood to seek eternal breath? Subject(s): Birds; Death; Floods; Gulls; Seashore; Water; Dead, The; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore UNDERTONES: CENTURY MINDED, by DAVID O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: They've had their ration of good luck Last Line: "the more there isn't any water." Subject(s): Water UNDERWATER, by J. D. KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Some days, in the ocean swells of her bed Last Line: While the cat drifted in, and the red flowers %bobbed on the sill Subject(s): Sea; Water UNDERWATER BALLET, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Flower petals %pumpkinseeds Last Line: Flapping flippers %pond ballet Subject(s): Water VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it's because we're all born into this world Last Line: Splitting, and wedding, and breaking, and healing Subject(s): Divorce; Healing; Seashore; Water; Cures; Beach; Coast; Shore VERSES ON THE SPRINGS AT BATH, by ? GROVES Poem Source First Line: When bladud once espied some hogs Last Line: The hogs thus banished by their prince, %have liv'd in bristol ever since Subject(s): Bath, England; Mythology; Pigs; Springs (water) VIRGINIA, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: I know not how her trees compare Last Line: Me, resurrection's spring! Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Trees; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WALKING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back on a chill morning past kilmer's lake Last Line: Dark endless weight of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Walking; Water; Hunters WASHED AWAY: A DOUBLE HAIKU, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Leaf upon the land Last Line: Rip me from my shore Subject(s): Water WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WASHING THE DOG: A HAIKU, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: The dog was filthy Last Line: Bubbles in the grass Subject(s): Water WATCHING RUNNING WATER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How swift and smooth this water glinters past! Last Line: My spirit seems in readiness to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Water WATER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water remembered, treasured up Last Line: Breathing bread. Subject(s): Water WATER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine, wine, thy power and praise Last Line: The minstrel's song and a tithe of fame. Subject(s): Water WATER, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Water drips Subject(s): Water WATER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water understands Last Line: Elegantly destroy. Subject(s): Water WATER, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what hath water done?' Last Line: "when tear-washed hearts recapture bliss." Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Water WATER COLOR, by DEAN BELDEN LYMAN JR. Poem Text First Line: Along the winding reaches of the river Last Line: Hark, in the distance! Hark to the night-owl crying. Subject(s): Water WATER CONTENT, by BIAN ZHILIN Poem Source First Line: The sponge containing the most water Last Line: Don't say water is soft, flowering branch. %lift up your sadface, lift it up Subject(s): Water WATER GUNS, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: We're having a water war Last Line: And then it starts %to rain Subject(s): Water WATER I'LL HAVE, by DOROTHY BURGESS Poem Text First Line: Now it's water I'll have to live beside Last Line: And an old, old promise broken. Subject(s): Water WATER JEWELS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: How well bedecked the weeds become Last Line: And raindrop diadems Subject(s): Water WATER LILY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Pond lotus, open up your face Last Line: Water lily, welcome me Subject(s): Water WATER LOG, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Lake water waits. %that's %what it does best. And I Last Line: Will understand the loon %laughing back Subject(s): Lakes; Swimming; Water WATER MAKES MANY BEDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose axis never comes Variant Title(s): Poem: 1428; Poem: 144 Subject(s): Water WATER MUSIC, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Water has such a powerful voice Last Line: Water has such a powerful voice Subject(s): Water WATER MUSIC, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I do not hear a noise Last Line: Where water sings across the rocks %with perfect pitch Subject(s): Water WATER NOISES, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am playing by myself Last Line: "the water say, ""and do you think?" Subject(s): Water WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: The dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water; Serpents; Vipers WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: Those brash & roiling fields of ruby kelp where %the dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water WATER SERPENTS (2), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found her daughter in the river Last Line: & everywhere inside her a gallery of faces clenched against her given name Subject(s): Animals; Daughters; Death; Snakes; Water WATER SILLIES, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: In a red canoe Last Line: Calls home his daughter. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Kisses; Water WATER SKETCHES, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: Fragile river boats Last Line: Of silver moire. Subject(s): Geography; Rivers; Water WATER SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast's begun Last Line: Like streams of water, streams of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Thirst; Water; Wine; Judaism WATER SPIDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But cannot shake the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Spiders; Water WATER STORY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I love the living sound of my plant when I water it Last Line: I carry this story on my white shoes Subject(s): Birth; Life; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Water WATER STRIDERS ON PAPER MILL CREEK, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Do they delight %in being lighter than water Last Line: Between shadow and sun Subject(s): Brooks; Water WATER TABLE, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A river flows under my window Last Line: I have set a table for you, %come, come, quick! Subject(s): Rivers; Water WATER TABLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is on dry sunny days like this one that I find myself Subject(s): Water WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind Last Line: To write his name Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WATER TOWER AT WALDO, by DAISY MARITA BISHOP Poem Text First Line: A huge upthrust of turreted, white stone Last Line: And, half concealed, one violet blooms, alone. Subject(s): Water; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains WATER WITCH, by JOHN CRUTCHFIELD Poem Source First Line: What we of gloomy dust Last Line: When the murmuring comes Subject(s): Water; Witchcraft And Witches WATER WITHOUT SOUND, by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: The sea %tore a rib from its side Last Line: What can be sadder than water %without sound? Subject(s): Water WATER WOMAN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lived here so long, she Last Line: When she was done. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Water; Ocean WATER!, by STEWART VAN DER VEER Poem Text First Line: Standing at dawn on blue mountain, beside the old spring Last Line: "worship the great god water till your blood, bones and sinews are dust." Subject(s): Thirst; Water WATER, WINTER, FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WATER-POEM: A PRAYER & INVOCATION TO THE PRINCE OF RAIN, by ELEAZAR HA-KALLIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Af-bri / sign Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Water; Judaism WATERCOLORS, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Turquoise, teal, aquamarine Last Line: To understand just how black %black can be Subject(s): Water WATERFALL, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Waterfall. %waterfall Last Line: Into its own quiet %pool Subject(s): Water WATERS STILL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Neath my casement window Last Line: To my window sill. Subject(s): Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds WATERSHED, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here the land is tilted / like a gambrel roof. The world Last Line: The knife that cuts the rain in two, the lie Subject(s): Colorado (state); Mountains; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WAVE (DISSECTED), by DENNIS HINRICHSEN Poem Source First Line: Is no less remarkable Last Line: It all %with measureless silk Subject(s): Water; Waves WE THIRST AT FIRST, - 'TIS NATURE'S ACT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Termed immortality Subject(s): Water WELL WATER, by FRAZEE TUCKER Poem Text First Line: Bring me a drink Last Line: The water from the northwest corner of the well. Subject(s): Pioneers; Water WELLS, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Water is too easy here Last Line: What is not yours to own Subject(s): Water WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WET EDEN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What is there beyond water Last Line: Therein to live, to die Subject(s): Water WHAT COMES AFTER THIS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water earth fire air Last Line: After this -- whether it is air %or it is nothing Subject(s): Air; Earth; Fire; Future; Introspection; Water WHAT MYSTERY PERVADES A WELL!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The nearer her they get Subject(s): Water; Wells WHAT WATER CAN BE, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: A furrow that's filling Last Line: One drop on your eyelash %water, selective Subject(s): Water WHEN EVERYTHING HAS THE ALLUSION OF WATER, by VICKI L. VIETTI Poem Source First Line: I lived on the mississippi river Last Line: My mother will wear it always Subject(s): Life; Water WHEN YOU SEE WATER, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you see water in a stream Subject(s): Water WHERE ARE THE ATERS OF CHLDHOOD?, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where the windows are boarded up, Subject(s): Children; Water; Childhood WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To move into it again, as it was Last Line: To look again at the reflection of her huge eye in water. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cows; Water; White (color) WILD DUCKS FLOATING BY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under spruce trees with roots dangling from a cutbank Last Line: To him by his river swiftly out of sight Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Ducks; Water WILL COGAN'S MAP, by TOM DOMEK Poem Source First Line: Mine are the drills Last Line: Like dust in my skull Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; North Dakota; Prairies; Water Supply; Wells WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down in yon garden sweet and gay Last Line: Syne, in the cleaving of a craig, %she found him dorwn'd in yarrow! Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland WINTER RAIN, by EVA BERRY HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The day is gray and chill and bleak Last Line: Still leaden gloom and whistling rain! Subject(s): Rain; Tears; Water WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas WOMAN OF AIR, WOMAN OF WATER, by GLORIA DIEZ Poem Source First Line: I know that a seaweed wind Last Line: Will be a woman of earth %a woman of fire Subject(s): Earth; Fire; Human Rights; Water; Wind WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hills and waters fostered you Last Line: Its kingdom in the thought of man. Subject(s): Eyes; Mountains; Time; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WORLDS FROM WATER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Always. %loon, her red eye a dart in darkness Last Line: What in 1492 was found %was also lost Subject(s): Boundaries; Geology; Water WRITING IN WATER, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: It is not like writing in blood Last Line: Someplace to plant their feet Subject(s): Water; Writing And Writers YARROW REVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gallant youth, who may have gained Last Line: To memory's shadowy moonshine! Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW UNVISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From stirling castle we had seen Last Line: "the bonny holms of yarrow!" Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YARROW VISITED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is this -- yarrow? -- tis the stream Last Line: And cheer my mind in sorrow. Subject(s): Yarrow (water), Scotland YEAR'S FIRST RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain comes %after long surcease in desert Last Line: Swollen already with the life to break at day Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water YOU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight passes through the window into the room Last Line: Still heavy with its desire to be the cloud. Subject(s): Desire; Light; Love; Sewing; Water YOU, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slanting rain and a sky of gray Last Line: And you—at home! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Rain; Water; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness |
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