Amarsh is awetland that is dominated byherbaceous rather than woody plant species.

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• In the great marshes and the wide lagoons, I am your persecutingdemon.
  • Bird to Fish, inDebate between Bird and Fish (mid to late3rd millennium BCE).[1].

• Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day,
  I sit in solitude and only hear
  Long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay,
  The lost intensities of hope and fear;
  In those old marshes yet the rifles lie.
  • Edmund Charles Blunden,Festubert, 1916 (1921)

• Enki knit together the marshlands, makingyoung and old reeds grow there; he madebirds andfish teem in the pools andlagoons
  • Debate between Bird and Fish (late3rd millennium BCE to early2nd millennium BCE).[2].

• Where there was a marsh then inUnug, it was full ofwater. Where there was any dry land,Euphratespoplars grew there. Where there werereed thickets, old reeds and young reeds grew there.
  • Enmerkar toLugalbanda, inLugalbanda and the Anzud Bird,Ur III Period (21st century BCE).[3]

• Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-with-holding and free
  Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
  • Sidney Lanier,The Marshes of Glynn.

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