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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 / 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 33 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 33 with this theme Show all eras

By the Weir

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By the Weir

by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson · English

2 June 1878 - 26 May 1962 (~84)

Careless Water

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Careless Water

by Gertrude Stein · English

3 February 1874 - 27 July 1946 (~72)

Conceive these images in air

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Conceive these images in air

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Cornish Lament

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Cornish Lament

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Elegy before Death

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Elegy before Death

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Heaven

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Heaven

by Rupert Brooke · English

3 August 1887 - 23 April 1915 (~28)

I Have Wandered to a Spring

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I Have Wandered to a Spring

by Edna Wahlert McCourt · English

19 July 1887 - 4 January 1963 (~76)

If I die solvent

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If I die solvent

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

In the grey skirts of the fog

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In the grey skirts of the fog

by John Gould Fletcher · English

3 January 1886 - 20 May 1950 (~64)

Love Me at Last

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Love Me at Last

by Alice Corbin · English

16 April 1881 - 18 July 1949 (~68)

Niagara: Seen on a Night in November

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Niagara: Seen on a Night in November

by Adelaide Crapsey · English

9 September 1878 - 8 October 1914 (~36)

Oily Weather

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Oily Weather

by Ernest Hemingway · English

21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961 (~62)

One Way of Love

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One Way of Love

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Oread

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Oread

by Hilda Doolittle · English

10 September 1886 - 27 September 1961 (~75)

Rain cuts the place we tread

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Rain cuts the place we tread

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Romance sonámbulo

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Romance sonámbulo

by Federico García Lorca · Spanish

5 June 1898 - 19 August 1936 (~38)

Snake

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Snake

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Song of a Man Who Is Not Loved

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Song of a Man Who Is Not Loved

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Spring Salmon

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Spring Salmon

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

Summer Afternoon

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Summer Afternoon

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

The Cottage

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The Cottage

by Clifford Bax · English

13 July 1886 - 18 November 1962 (~76)

The Evening Rise

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The Evening Rise

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

The Mirror

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The Mirror

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

The morning, space for Leda

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The morning, space for Leda

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

The Old Sailor

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The Old Sailor

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

The Sister

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The Sister

by Francis Ledwidge · English

19 August 1887 - 31 July 1917 (~30)

The Snake

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The Snake

by Arthur Davison Ficke · English

10 November 1883 - 30 November 1945 (~62)

The Swan

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The Swan

by F. S. Flint · English

19 December 1885 - 28 February 1960 (~75)

The Woman at the Well

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The Woman at the Well

by Joseph Campbell · English

15 July 1879 - 6 June 1944 (~65)

Then was my neophyte

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Then was my neophyte

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

To the Cloud Juggler

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To the Cloud Juggler

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Water-Lillies

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Water-Lillies

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

We lying by seasand

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We lying by seasand

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

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