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“water” + waters across the centuries

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

pre-1500 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 0 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 2 / 34 1750s 2 / 161 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 19 / 937 1900s 34 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 19 with this theme Show all eras

A Fable

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A Fable

by May (Julian) Sinclair · English

24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946 (~83)

A Sea Dirge

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A Sea Dirge

by Lewis Carroll · English

27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898 (~66)

A Wintry Sonnet

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A Wintry Sonnet

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

An Old Picture

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An Old Picture

by John Boyle O'Reilly · English

28 June 1844 - 10 August 1890 (~46)

Barcarolle

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Barcarolle

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

Beautiful Lie the Dead

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Beautiful Lie the Dead

by Stephen Phillips · English

28 July 1864 - 9 December 1915 (~51)

By the Waters of Babylon

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By the Waters of Babylon

by Edgar Lee Masters · English

23 August 1868 - 5 March 1950 (~82)

Gunga Din

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Gunga Din

by Rudyard Kipling · English

30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936 (~71)

I started early

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I started early

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Isaiah Beethoven

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Isaiah Beethoven

by Edgar Lee Masters · English

23 August 1868 - 5 March 1950 (~82)

Oh fair enough are sky and plain

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Oh fair enough are sky and plain

by A.E.Housman · English

26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936 (~77)

Song of the Artesian Water

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Song of the Artesian Water

by Banjo Paterson · English

17 February 1864 - 5 February 1941 (~77)

The Fisherman

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The Fisherman

by Lady Jane Wilde · English

27 December 1821 - 3 February 1896 (~75)

The Kingfisher

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The Kingfisher

by William Canton · English

27 October 1845 - 2 May 1926 (~81)

The Lady of Trees

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The Lady of Trees

by Mary Coleridge · English

23 September 1861 - 25 August 1907 (~46)

The Lesson of the Water Mill

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The Lesson of the Water Mill

by Sarah Doudney · English

15 January 1841 - 8 December 1926 (~85)

The Two Glasses

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The Two Glasses

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox · English

5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 (~69)

Torrents

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Torrents

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

Yr Afon

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Yr Afon

by Watcyn Wyn · Welsh

7 March 1844 - 19 November 1905 (~61)

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