Water Poems

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The Asra
by Heinrich Heine

Every day so lovely, shining,
up and down, the Sultan’s daughter
walked at evening by the water,
where the white fountain splashes.

Every day the young slave stood
by the water, in the evening,
where the white fountain splashes,
each day growing pale and paler.


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Adam's Curse
by William Butler Yeats

WE sat together at one summer's end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,
And you and I, and talked of poetry.
I said, 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together

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The Mississippi River Empties Into The Gulf
by Lucille Clifton

and the gulf enters the sea and so forth,
none of them emptying anything,
all of them carrying yesterday
forever on their white tipped backs,
all of them dragging forward tomorrow.
it is the great circulation
of the earth's body, like the blood
of the gods, this river in which the past
is always flowing. every water
is the same water coming round.

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The Song Of The Darling River
by Henry Lawson

The skies are brass and the plains are bare,
Death and ruin are everywhere --
And all that is left of the last year's flood
Is a sickly stream on the grey-black mud;
The salt-springs bubble and the quagmires quiver,
And -- this is the dirge of the Darling River:

'I rise in the drought from the Queensland rain,
'I fill my branches again and again;
'I hold my billabongs back in vain,

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Green Chile
by Jimmy Santiago Baca

I prefer red chile over my eggs
and potatoes for breakfast.
Red chile ristras decorate my door,
dry on my roof, and hang from eaves.
They lend open-air vegetable stands
historical grandeur, and gently swing
with an air of festive welcome.
I can hear them talking in the wind,
haggard, yellowing, crisp, rasping
tongues of old men, licking the breeze.

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Lago
by Tom Cameron

At the edge of the water
We light a lantern for two
Watch it rise through the night sky
To make friends with all the stars
That's what they call magic

Took a ride through the wild wood
Blind for a while, we got lost
Then emerged after lifetimes
In a land that time forgot

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Seashell
by Zemde .

She sells sea shells
By the sea shore
Where the mermaids dance
Behind the green glass door

She shouts she yells
By the sea shore
And the waves, they echo
a resounding roar


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the water in the tap
by swp swp

Walk into the room
hear the drop fall
you look so nice; I look so dull
but people use you as people use me
when I’m stuck with you, I cannot breathe
please go away
you haunt me at night and mock me at day
I can’t get rid of you
Am I hallucinating?
No matter how hard I turn off the tap,

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A Little Drop Of Water
by Ananta Kumar Singh

A little drop of water
Evoke imagine of the creatures
A little drop of water
Refresh trees branches
A little drop of water
The Elegant Beauty of the nature
A little drop of water
Splendour blooms of the flowers
A little drop of water
Express the feelings of the writers

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Push and Pull
by Kyle McAfee

Amidst a clear, warm night
I find myself falling into an ocean
Floating and bearing witness to the relationship
Between the Earth and the Moon.

A rivalry, moreover, a friendship, as old as time:
The moon teasing her older sister
Tugging and poking the Earth’s overflowing bodies of water
And the Earth, pulling back, not allowing the Moon to disturb her slumber.


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  • Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling (75 poems about Water)
    30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 / Bombay
  • William Topaz McGonagall
    William Topaz McGonagall (54 poems about Water)
    1830 - 1902 / Edinburgh / Scotland
  • Henry Wadswor Longfellow
    Henry Wadswor Longfellow (36 poems about Water)
    27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882 / Portland, Maine
  • Henry Lawson
    Henry Lawson (30 poems about Water)
    17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922 / Grenfell, New South Wales
  • Elizabeth Bishop
    Elizabeth Bishop (25 poems about Water)
    8 February 1911 – 6 October 1979 / Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas (21 poems about Water)
    27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 / Swansea / Wales
  • Pablo Neruda
    Pablo Neruda (18 poems about Water)
    July 12, 1904 / Parral, Chile - September 23, 1973 / Santiago, Chile
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    Lucretius (17 poems about Water)
    Character of the Atoms] (99 BC - 55 BC
  • Robert Frost
    Robert Frost (15 poems about Water)
    March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco
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    Li Po (13 poems about Water)
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