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| Search results for: flood | Found 19 Poems |
| 1. | The Flood by Robert Frost | | Blood has been harder to dam back than water.
Just when we think we have it impounded safe
Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!),
It breaks... |
| 2. | The Voice that stands for Floods to me by Emily Dickinson | | The Voice that stands for Floods to me
Is sterile borne to some --
The Face that makes the Morning mean
Glows impotent on them --
What differenc... |
| 3. | The Flood by John Clare | | On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood
I've seen the winter floods their gambols play
Through each old arch that trembled while I stood
Bent o'er ... |
| 4. | The Floods by Rudyard Kipling | | The rain it rains without a stay
In the hills above us, in the hills;
And presently the floods break way
Whose strength is in the hills.
The ... |
| 5. | Before The Flood by W. S. Merwin | | Why did he promise me
that we would build ourselves
an ark all by ourselves
out in back of the house
on New York Avenue
in Union City New Jersey
... |
| 6. | Flood by James Joyce | | Goldbrown upon the sated flood
The rockvine clusters lift and sway;
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.
A waste of waters r... |
| 7. | Mr Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson | | Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
Over the hill between the town below
And the forsaken upland hermitage
That held as much as he should ever... |
| 8. | Flood-Tide of Flowers by Henry Van Dyke | | IN HOLLAND
The laggard winter ebbed so slow
With freezing rain and melting snow,
It seemed as if the earth would stay
Forever where the tide wa... |
| 9. | The Flood by William Henry Davies | | I thought my true love slept;
Behind her chair I crept
And pulled out a long pin;
The golden flood came out,
She shook it all about,
With bo... |
| 10. | The Haystack in the Floods by William Morris | | Had she come all the way for this,
To part at last without a kiss?
Yea, had she borne the dirt and rain
That her own eyes might see him slain
Besi... |
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