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“water” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 2 / 34 1750s 2 / 163 1800s 16 / 684 1850s 19 / 939 1900s 33 / 1117 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 16 with this theme Show all eras

A Complaint

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A Complaint

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

How dear to me the hour

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How dear to me the hour

by Thomas Moore · English

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath

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Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening

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Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Love's Lullaby

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Love's Lullaby

by John Stuart Blackie · English

28 July 1809 - 2 March 1895 (~86)

The Ballad of the Oysterman

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The Ballad of the Oysterman

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · English

29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894 (~85)

The Bridge

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The Bridge

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Brook

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The Brook

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Cloud

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The Cloud

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · English

4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822 (~30)

The Sun has long been set

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The Sun has long been set

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

The Well of St. Keyne

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The Well of St. Keyne

by Robert Southey · English

12 August 1774 - 21 March 1843 (~69)

To the River Charles

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To the River Charles

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Two Rivers

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Two Rivers

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Venice

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Venice

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Whispers of Heavenly Death

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Whispers of Heavenly Death

by Walt Whitman · English

31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892 (~73)

Written in March

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Written in March

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

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