Cross reference topics for line 338

If there were only water amongst the rock

There are multiple cross reference topics for line 338. Choose from:

1. Descriptions of dry things
2. Rocks and stones
3. Water

Topic: Descriptions of dry things

• 7)  A little life with dried tubers.
  
  
• 30)  I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
  
  
• 101)  Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
  
  
• 194)  And bones cast in a little low dry garret,
  
  
• 292)   'Trams and dusty trees
  
  
• 331)  Here is no water but only rock
  332)  Rock and no water and the sandy road
  
  
• 334)  Which are mountains of rock without water
  335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  336)  Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
  337)  Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
  338)  If there were only water amongst the rock
  339)  Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
  340)  Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
  341)  There is not even silence in the mountains
  342)  But dry sterile thunder without rain
  
  
• 354)   And dry grass singing
  
  
• 384)  And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
  
  
• 395)  Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
  
  
• 424)  Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
  
  

Topic: Rocks and stones

• 20)  Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
  21)  You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
  22)  A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
  23)  And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
  24)  And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
  25)  There is shadow under this red rock,
  26)  (Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
  
  
• 49)  Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
  
  
• 78)  Glowed on the marble, where the glass
  
  
• 95)  Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
  
  
• 324)  After the agony in stony places
  
  
• 331)  Here is no water but only rock
  332)  Rock and no water and the sandy road
  333)  The road winding above among the mountains
  334)  Which are mountains of rock without water
  335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  336)  Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
  337)  Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
  338)  If there were only water amongst the rock
  
  
• 343)  There is not even solitude in the mountains
  344)  But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
  345)  From doors of mudcracked houses If there were water
  346)   And no rock
  347)   If there were rock
  348)   And also water
  
  

Topic: Water

• 8)  Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
  
  
• 24)  And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
  
  
• 38)  Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
  
  
• 55)  The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
  
  
• 89)  And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
  
  
• 94)  Huge sea-wood fed with copper
  
  
• 135)   The hot water at ten.
  
  
• 174)  Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
  
  
• 182)  By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept . . .
  188)  Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
  
  
• 189)  While I was fishing in the dull canal
  
  
• 193)  White bodies naked on the low damp ground
  
  
• 201)  They wash their feet in soda water
  
  
• 208)  Under the brown fog of a winter noon
  
  
• 257)  'This music crept by me upon the waters'
  
  
• 335)  If there were water we should stop and drink
  
  
• 337)  Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
  
  
• 338)  If there were only water amongst the rock
  
  
• 346)   And no rock
  
  
• 393)  In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust