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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ... THE RIVER THAMES FROZE AT MARLOW...', by SUSAN PETERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It turns up in idle sketches
Last Line: And I will breathe again %without you
Subject(s): Rivers; Thames (river)


A BROOK IN THE CITY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square
Last Line: This new-built city from both work and sleep.
Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


A DESCRIPTIVE POEM ON THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful silvery tay
Last Line: To view the beautiful scenery along the banks of the silvery tay.
Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands
Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine!
Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks


A FEW OF THE BIRD-FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old bob-white and chipbird
Last Line: And our old settin'-hen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Rivers


A FLOWING RIVER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are lovely as a river
Last Line: And ripples in my thought
Subject(s): Rivers


A GLIMPSE OF PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught but a glimpse of him
Last Line: In eddies of odorous air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Rivers; Summer


A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought a run a while ago
Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A MYSTERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river hemmed with leaning trees
Last Line: The hills of heaven arise.
Subject(s): Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities
Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime


A NOCTURNE AT GREENWICH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far out, beyond my window, in the gloom
Last Line: Out yonder in the gloom.
Subject(s): Cities; Night; Rivers; Ships & Shipping; Urban Life; Bedtime


A PARTY OF PLEASURE UP THE RIVER TAMER, by FRANCES TALBOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The clock strikes nine -- nor has the sun
Last Line: Tis better starve than steal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Pleasure; Punishment; Rivers


A RIVER, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The line between land and water
Subject(s): Rivers


A SATYR, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Must I with patience ever silent sit
Last Line: Or who'd be safe and senseless like tom thinn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Gwynn, Eleanor (nell) (1650-1687); Hewitt, George. Viscount Hewytt Of Goran; How, John Grubman (1657-1722); Savage, Thomas. Earl Rivers (1628-1694); Savile, George. Marquis Of Halifax; Thynne Of Longleat, Thomas (1648-1682); Villiers, Edward (1620-1689)


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 50, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clunton and clunbury
Last Line: And little 'twill matter to one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Rivers


A SONG OF STRATFORD, by DOROTHY GOLDSMITH HARTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where avon's slow and silver stream
Last Line: Remembered footsteps pass!
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Stratford-on-avon, England


A WALGETT EPISODE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun strikes down with a blinding glare
Last Line: Like a tangible thing upon walgett town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Agriculture; Farmers


A YORKSHIRE RIVER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent surfaces sleep
Last Line: And deep unto deep doth call!
Subject(s): Rivers


ABSTRACTED WATER, by ROY FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abstracted water, captive for a while
Last Line: Lattices to and fro. There's a law %dirt grows out of
Subject(s): Rivers


AEOLIAN HARP (2), by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What saith the river to the rushes grey
Last Line: For ever, ever, ever fled away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Transience; Rivers; Impermanence


AFTER SKINNYDIPPING, THE OLD COUPLE FISHES FOR BROWN TROUT, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peel back that thin top layer of the earth's
Last Line: On their own
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love; Old Age; Rivers


AFTER THE FLOOD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning it was over, I walked
Last Line: What sort of drunken creature had passed there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Floods; Rivers; Water


AFTERNOON AT FORT WASHINGTON, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river swells the banks
Last Line: Blows through, bracing %as the river's current
Subject(s): Afternoon; Rivers


AFTON WATER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, among thy green braes
Last Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, disturb not her dream.
Variant Title(s): Sweet Afton
Subject(s): Afton (river), Scotland; Inland Waters; Love; Rivers


AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The meadow's a dream I'm working to wake to
Last Line: Forever comes to mind, and peaks where the snow stays
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Winter; Nightmares


ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TONIGHT (WITH MUSIC), by LAMAR FONTAINE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; U.s. - History


ALLIGATOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A huge trunk stranded where the river flows
Last Line: Within a river's crystal palace fair
Subject(s): Alligators; Dreams; Rivers


ALMA, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though till now ungraced in story
Last Line: Alma, roll thy waters proudly, proudly roll them to the sea.
Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


ALONG ALMOST ANY RIVER, by JEREMY HALVARD PRYNNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It has converted to its own purposes
Last Line: That the water will spring from, floating the lucent swans
Subject(s): Rivers


ALPHA, by AMANDA PECOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was nowhere
Last Line: We're swimming up our river %as if water had a home
Subject(s): Rivers; Swimming; Water


ANAHORISH, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My 'place of clear water'
Subject(s): Rivers


ANAHORISH, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My 'place of clear water'
Last Line: To break the light ice %at wells and dunghills
Subject(s): Rivers


ANCHORED AT CHIN-HUAI RIVER, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mist veils the cold water,
Last Line: Back court flowers on the farther bank
Subject(s): China; Rivers


AND THE RIVERS RUN SOUTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rivers run south in america
Last Line: My country, and her rivers running south.
Subject(s): Rivers; United States; America


ANGLER, by ADRIAN HENRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: His waders among the water-crowfoot
Last Line: Notebook, smiles a secret smile %of complicity
Subject(s): Rivers


AT BROAD RIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, luxury! Beyond the heat
Last Line: And feel the best of life is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


AT DUNKESWELL ABBEY, by ANTHONY THWAITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Below the ford, the stream in flood
Last Line: And hurtling without plan or aim
Subject(s): Rivers


AT POOL POINT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pool point is where the cumberland
Last Line: "forgive, forgive thy child."
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Grief; Rivers; Clemency; Sorrow; Sadness


AT THE BORDER, by DERICK BURLESON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pile of machetes and hoes
Last Line: Before he swings the blade
Subject(s): Rivers; Rwanda; War


AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path of most insistence
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves
Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


AVON AND THE THAMES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If, in all albion's storied sweep
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Thames (river)


BANISHED GODS, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paros, far-shining star of dark-blue earth
Last Line: And wisdom a five-minute silence at moonrise
Subject(s): Rivers


BANKS OF DEVON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How pleasant the banks of the clear-winding devon
Last Line: Where devon, sweet devon, meandering flows.
Subject(s): Rivers


BATHING IN THE RIVER, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fish around her crowded, as they do
Last Line: But she, fond maid, shuts and seals up the spring.
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rivers; Showers & Showering


BATTLE OF THE ALMA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "brightly, briskly runs the alma, cold and green from mountain snow"
Last Line: And the battle of the alma hath been won!
Subject(s): Alma River (russia);crimean War (1853-1856);rivers;russia; Soviet Union;russians


BEAUTIFUL BALMORAL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye lovers of the picturesque, away and see
Last Line: As ye walk along the bonnie banks o' the river dee.
Subject(s): Balmoral Castle, Scotland; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips


BEAUTIFUL RIVER, by ROBERT LOWRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we gather at the river
Last Line: With the melody of peace.
Subject(s): Rivers


BECK, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the beck only
Last Line: Every mountain and hill %flows slow
Subject(s): Rivers


BEEN THERE BEFORE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a stranger to walgett town
Last Line: On a previous visit to walgett town.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Hope; Rivers; Strangers; Optimism


BEHIND THE WATERFALL, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waterfall is at its best today
Last Line: Again, after a journey, after a dream
Subject(s): Rivers


BELLEVUE RIVER QUEEN, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's quiet now. %the last hungry human
Last Line: On a clear vision of the sea
Subject(s): Boats; History; Rivers


BESIDE THE WYE, by JOHN GREENING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before we pitched, we went to the farmer's wife
Last Line: Reunion bottle, before the peace turns to minor
Subject(s): Rivers


BETWEEN THE RAPIDS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The point is turned; the twilight shadow fills
Last Line: Once, twice, it smiles, and still we wander on.
Subject(s): Rivers


BEULAH LAND, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ober de ribber in beulah lan'
Last Line: Ober de ribber in beulah lan'.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): God; Rivers


BEYOND THE RED RIVER, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds have flown their summer skies to the south
Last Line: Where the prairie is starting to shake in the surf of the winter dark
Subject(s): Prairies; Rivers; Plains


BIRMINGHAM RIVER, by ROY FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where's birmingham river? Sunk
Last Line: Drains, with no part in anybody's plan
Subject(s): Rivers


BLACK RIVER, by PARK IN-HWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the name of god
Last Line: We see on the moon above %black river flowing
Subject(s): Rivers


BLIZZARD: APRIL 4, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring creeps into the city
Last Line: Close to the warm, black stove
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


BLUE RIVER, by AL-RUSAFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river of diaphanous waters
Last Line: Resting in the shade of his banner
Alternate Author Name(s): Rusafi, Muhammad Ibn Ghalib Al-
Subject(s): Rivers


BORDERLAND, by HERMAN KNICKERBOCKER VIELE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And have you been to borderland?
Last Line: Across the river I-forget.
Subject(s): Courtship; Forgetfulness; Rivers


BOUNDARIES, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees have come up as far as they can
Last Line: We create friend, daughter, lover. %the map converges
Subject(s): Rivers


BRANDY POND, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all you jolly river boys and join me while I sing
Last Line: And johnny williams of great pond was given of the blame!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Wine; Songs


BRAW LADS O' GALLA WATER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Braw, braw lads on yarrow braes
Last Line: O that's the chiefest warld's treasure.
Subject(s): Rivers


BRIAN BORU'S WELL, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This well is holy but looks foul
Last Line: To comfort or to heal
Subject(s): Rivers


BRIDGE, by GEOFFREY FRASER DUTTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They watch the river passing through
Last Line: A time of their own %to reflect upon
Subject(s): Rivers


BROADWAY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bed of the river is adamant and marl
Last Line: Till the soul of man be risen and his raiment rent away!
Subject(s): Rivers


BROOK, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seated once by a brook, watching a child
Last Line: And what I felt, yet never should have found %a word for, while I gathered sight and sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Rivers


BURNING RIVER, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will tell my son over and over again
Last Line: Four times the river
Subject(s): Rivers; Fire


BUT WHERE IS THE RIVER, by SIMON PERCHIK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And nothing but moonlight
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


BY AN AUSTRAL RIVER: AUSTRALIA'S PROPHECY; AN ANGLER'S REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The line whirs inward on the reel
Last Line: "has ""something worth!"" to show."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Zealand; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


BY AVON STREAM, by ARTHUR HENRY BULLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jonquils bloom round samarcand
Subject(s): Rivers


BY BROAD POTOMAC'S SHORE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By broad potomac's shore, again old tongue
Last Line: O deathless grass, of you!
Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers


BY THE ALMA, by JAMES DAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have found me out at last, will, sit down beside me here
Variant Title(s): After The Battl
Subject(s): Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers


BY THE ALMA RIVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Willie, fold your little hands
Last Line: "by the alma river."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Absence; Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; War; Separation; Isolation; Soviet Union; Russians


BY THE ARNO, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oleander on the wall
Last Line: Or if the nightingale should die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Florence, Italy; Rivers


BY THE ARNO (SUNSET), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the mountains and the sea
Last Line: In the cypress land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Rivers


BY THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The king of rivers has a dolorous shore
Last Line: Was startled some long-since battle day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


BY THE PASSAIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the river seeks the cover
Last Line: "rests in mine. Ah! Who can send her / thus to dangle / while iangle? / cupid, speak!"
Subject(s): Rivers


BY THE POTOMAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves
Last Line: And all our heavy heritage of grief.
Variant Title(s): Accomplices
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have got old
Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Rivers; Water


CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have got old
Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory %ye ma jah
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Rivers; Water


CAHABA, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the banks of the cahaba
Last Line: On the banks of the cahaba
Subject(s): Rivers


CALL OF THE OPEN, by LAURA E. BRADSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away from the din of the city
Last Line: Nature and peace and god.
Subject(s): Desolation; Fields; Rivers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


CAMPING IN THE HOUSE, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: No cooking. %no warm water
Last Line: I can't believe it's even our house
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


CAR PLUNGES INTO SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, by GRANT CLAUSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She screams she screams the water seeps
Last Line: Sad the way her hair bobbed and flowed %in the silty current sad the river goes
Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles; Rivers


CHAMBER MUSIC: 1, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strings in the earth and air
Last Line: Upon an instrument.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Rivers


CHARLES RIVER: 1, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sycamores throw shadows on the charles
Last Line: Infinite small stars would break like fish
Subject(s): Rivers


CHRISTMAS BOX, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red and silver garland
Last Line: They're survivors of the flood - %like us.'
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


CHROMO, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This old river town saw the
Subject(s): Wharves; Rivers; Piers


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 61. 'THE RIVER IS BROAD', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who claims that the river is wide?
Last Line: I can be there ere morning is done
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rivers


CLEANUP: MAY 5, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My feet shiver in the big gray boots
Last Line: But sarah's dolls must all be gone
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: ACROSS FROM CELILO FALLS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above goldendale we sat on a power relay tower
Last Line: We danced and sang the dance of the white deer
Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon; Tourists; Waterfalls


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE SALMON FESTIVAL, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At celilo falls the columbia
Last Line: Singing quietly to the salmon
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Rivers; Salmon; Sea Voyages


COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair
Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English


CONCORD RIVER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The turtles on the ledges of july
Last Line: Are absolutes, no longer scenery
Subject(s): Rivers


CROSSING A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You kneel at the verge of this impassable arroyo
Subject(s): Rivers


CROSSING THE RIVER, by XU YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Setting aslant its lightweight sails, I ride a tiny boat
Last Line: Dusk falls to the sound of a clear reed whistle throughout the garrison watchtowers
Subject(s): Rivers


CROSSROADS, by FORREST HAMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crossed over the river, and the river went dry
Last Line: Decided to myself needn't fight no more
Subject(s): Drowning; Homosexuality; Rivers; Seashore


CRYING, 'THALASSUS!', by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, as now, let it be the drawl of rivers
Last Line: "is in my blood and blinds me with desire!"
Subject(s): Rivers


CUENTISTA: STORY-TELLER, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She carries a green river in her arms
Last Line: And sip – from her own arms
Subject(s): Rivers


CULVERT, by ROGER GARFITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stone stepping over %cushioning arch
Last Line: A forethought of stone
Subject(s): Rivers


DANGER, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The newspaper says
Last Line: I wish they could tell me what happened to my cat
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


DARK CANYON: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RIVER, by DAVID BRESKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does a river flow backwards like the blues
Last Line: Wet memory of fear and hope, and hope
Subject(s): Rivers


DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow out the candles, my little one
Last Line: O I am cold, -- cold.
Subject(s): Candles; Dawn; Death; Rivers; Sunrise; Dead, The


DAY OF THE FEAST OF ALL THE RIVERS, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this day of the feast of all the rivers
Last Line: Symbolic eye of this day of the honorable river
Subject(s): Feasts; Rivers


DAY ON THE RIVER, by VERNON SCANNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It moved so slowly, friendly as a dog
Last Line: And they could bite
Subject(s): Rivers


DE RIBBER OB LIFE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt dat I saw de ribber ob life
Last Line: Dat flows to de jaspah sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Life; Rivers


DEATH'S WINDOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To stop the blood of flowers and rotate the order of things
Last Line: The altars look at each other, eye to eye. %to lie down on a blue cabbage
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers


DEEP RIVERS, by AILEEN WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep rivers fascinate and hold my heart
Last Line: Seek only peace: a priceless benison. . . .
Subject(s): Rivers


DEFINITION OF A WATERFALL, by JOHN ORMOND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not stitched to air or water but to both
Last Line: Among her trailing braids. The inconstancy %is reconciled to fall and falls free
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


DESCENDING THE RIVER, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well, let these men continue to sleep
Last Line: I sit among the peace of all the earth in the harvest solitudes
Subject(s): Boats; Rivers


DIMBOVITZA, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dimbovitza! Magic river
Last Line: Lies my dearest treasure sleeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Rivers; Romania; Rumania; Roumania


DIPPER, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No webbed feet, %but a water bird for all that
Last Line: A waterfall. %naturally
Subject(s): Rivers


DISCOURAGED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the little babbling streamlet
Last Line: Blue and infinite, the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fear; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


DOCKLAND, by BERNIE STEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cranes standing still, no work for them
Last Line: Character of our riverside
Subject(s): Rivers


DOG DAYS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In the river's eddy
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers


DOWN AROUND THE RIVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon-time and june-time, down around the river
Last Line: Noon-time and june-time down around the river!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; June; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, de ole plantation landin'
Last Line: To de lonesomeness -- dat's all.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi River; Plantation Life; Rivers; Negroes; American Blacks


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI AT NIGHT, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sowing the waves with a fiery rain
Last Line: Jehovah's dread, unutterable name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 1. EMBARKATION, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull masses of dense green
Last Line: Above the pink explosion of the calyx of the dawn.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 2. HEAT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if the sun had trodden down the sky
Last Line: Whereon the sun hangs motionless, a brassy disc of flame.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 3. FULL MOON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon
Last Line: Over white lakes of cotton, like moonfields on every side.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 4. THE MOON'S ORCHESTRA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the moon lights up
Last Line: Which show, through gaps and tatters, red stains half hidden away.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 5. THE STEVEDORES, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frieze of warm bronze that glides with catlike movements
Last Line: Far southward where a single chimney stands out aloof in the sky.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 6. NIGHT LANDING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the whistle's roar has bellowed and shuddered
Last Line: A blue-black negro with gleaming teeth waits for his chance to leap.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 7. THE SILENCE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a silence I carry about with me always
Last Line: I will curl up in it at last and sleep an endless sleep.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


DOWN THE RIVER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the wonderful, magical river
Last Line: To sing to you, heart's delight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Rivers


DOWN TO THE RIVER, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down to the river
Last Line: How we watch it go
Subject(s): Rivers


DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS: RIVER STOUR, by JAMES CROWDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water and voices mingled
Last Line: The river done it - the river done it
Subject(s): Rivers


DOWSER, by JAMES CROWDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With my forked branch of lebanese cedar
Last Line: Great desert, let your sweetness wake
Subject(s): Rivers


DRAGGING THE RIVER, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the hospital where we were born, we start across the plank
Last Line: They find no weapon. Later, we hear the wounded victim survives
Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Rivers


DREAM RIVER, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind-silvered willows hedge the stream
Last Line: One crystal-throated hermit-thrush.
Subject(s): Rivers


DRIVING TOWARD THE LAC QUI PARLE RIVER, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am driving; it is dusk; minnesota.
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Minnesota; Rivers


DRIVING TOWARD THE LAC QUI PARLE RIVER, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am driving; it is dusk; minnesota
Last Line: A few people are talking low in a boat
Subject(s): Minnesota; Rivers


DROUTH END, by PAUL HYLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stream shrank, curdled in its bed
Last Line: Hobbled on rot. Milk waned
Subject(s): Rivers


DROWNING ON THE PAMET RIVER, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because of the pull I ended up swimming in the grasses
Subject(s): Drowning; Love; Rivers


DROWNING ON THE PAMET RIVER, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because of the pull I ended up swimming in the grasses
Last Line: So much that's why I kissed you so desperately
Subject(s): Drowning; Love; Rivers


DRY RIVERS - ARIZONA, by RAMONA WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At casa grabde, only the names
Last Line: Like clear water %over rounded stones
Subject(s): Arizona; Rivers


DUNLEVY'S LAST TRIP, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was against the law, in such case made and provided
Last Line: "I don't hardly believe that I could explain exactly."
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Flight; Rivers; Flying


EBB TIDE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly thy flowing tide
Last Line: Then hasten to old age!
Subject(s): Aging; Avon (river), England; Rivers; Tides


EEL, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The strange part is his head. Her head. The strangely ripened
Last Line: A glimmering person
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Rivers


EELS AT NIGHT, by ROBERT MINHINNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finely poised above the crawling ffornwg
Last Line: And a joint affirmation of the hollow flesh
Subject(s): Rivers


ELEGIAC SONNET: 26. TO THE RIVER ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy wild banks, by frequent torrents worn
Last Line: Thy otway's sorrows, and lament his fate!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Rivers


ELEGIAC SONNET: 30. TO THE RIVER ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be the proud thames of trade the busy mart!
Last Line: Bright as its waves, and various as its way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Collins, William (1721-1759); Rivers


ELEGIAC SONNET: 33. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, rural naiad! Wind thy stream along
Last Line: Adds the cool head, and the unblemish'd heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Arun (river), England; Rivers; Sussex, England


ELEGY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have lov'd flowers that fade
Last Line: Beauty shall shed a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Rivers


ELEGY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor withered rose and dry
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Rivers


ELEGY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear and gentle stream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Rivers


ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio
Last Line: In rags, half in radiance.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores


ENCODED DITHYRAMB, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits on the bridge rail at midnight, watching
Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R.
Subject(s): Modern Life; Rivers


EPISTLE TO ALBERT DEW-SMITH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Figure me to yourself, I pray
Last Line: Smoke with an unperturbed mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


EPISTOLA AD DAKYNS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dakyns, when I am dead
Last Line: Three places, dakyns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Death; Rivers; Dead, The


ESTUARY, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A light elegant wall waves down
Last Line: As the sea pulls away their prop
Subject(s): Rivers


ETCHINGS: 3. TWILIT RIVERS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little rivers at twilight
Last Line: Falls silent in the fold.
Subject(s): Evening; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight


EVENING ON THE POTOMAC, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fervid breath of our flushed southern may
Last Line: And in the darkening thickets plunge again.
Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers


EVENING, AFTER A STORM ON THE RISTIGOUCHE RIVER; A MOOD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is cool; a mist hangs low
Last Line: "as eloquent of truth to thee."
Subject(s): Death; Nature; Rivers; Dead, The


FACTORIES, BATHING IN THE MOSCOW RIVER, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The water is a spray of pinpoints, and the air %is more tender than the frog-skin of air balloons
Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich
Subject(s): Rivers


FALL RIVER PASS, by ALICE C. NEWBERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The touch of tender majesty is here
Last Line: The tender touch of majesty is here.
Subject(s): Rivers


FALLS AT GREEN VALLEY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boulders like gray whales breach the canyon floor
Last Line: Hearts flaming like red bark on manzanita
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Waterfalls


FERRYING THE QIANTANG RIVER, by WANG SU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind is gentle, the moon is low, the water calm
Last Line: Carrying the mountain colors across xiling river
Subject(s): Rivers


FINDING TOKEN CREEK, by ROBERT ALEXANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the yahara enters lake mendota, it widens out and flows through
Last Line: Surface. While the wind blows uncommonly from the cloudless northeast
Subject(s): Brooks; Canoes And Canoeing; Rivers; Travel; United States; Wisconsin


FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, by FRANCES BELLERBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking by this shallow brook
Last Line: To soothe it to its night
Subject(s): Rivers


FISHER FOLK ON THE RIVER, by FAN ZHONGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men who come and go on the river
Last Line: Now seen, now unseen, in the windy waves
Subject(s): Rivers


FISHERMAN, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cast my mind over the greta river
Last Line: The stamp of any world he knows
Subject(s): Rivers


FIVE RIVERS, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Southward from whitehaven, where cliffs of coal
Last Line: The fresh and the salt, the cinders and the shingle
Subject(s): Rivers


FLAT ROCK, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Streams divided (around a boulder-cluster or barge)
Last Line: Get all the way into almost without getting wet
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Rivers


FLEEING: JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT: APRIL 18, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most things you lie awake and worry about
Last Line: Away from our home
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


FLOATER BEWARE, by DAVID DALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, old man, remember
Last Line: Where cilly creek flows in
Subject(s): Rivers; Water


FLOATING HEARTS, by GEORGE BRADFORD BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: One of indian summer's most perfect days
Last Line: Has never been able to get away.
Subject(s): Assabet River, Massachusetts; Rivers


FLOOD, by BLAKE MORRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live in the promise of miraculous lakes
Last Line: We would bring the whole world down if we could
Subject(s): Rivers


FLOOD WATCH, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love to hear ol' man river
Last Line: Silently rolling %just rolling %along...
Subject(s): Floods; Rivers


FLOODS, by CRAIG RAINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright as meringues, the swans sweep
Last Line: Not one of us can look away
Subject(s): Rivers


FLOWERS AND MOONLIGHT ON THE SPRING RIVER, by YANG-TI    Poem Text                    
First Line: The evening river is level and motionless
Last Line: And the tidal water comes with its freight of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yang-di
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Rivers


FLOWING RIVER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are lovely as a river
Last Line: To what sea that shines %and ripples in my thought
Subject(s): Rivers


FORD, by JARED CARTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A place of crossing over, where the river
Last Line: Reveals a path within the current's shadow
Subject(s): Rivers


FORD, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ploughman stops his wagon at the fore
Last Line: And lose their fears and talk and drive along
Subject(s): Rivers


FORDING THE FLOODED GOLDIE RIVER, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clamped to the log by the current
Last Line: I fought death: %got across it %alone
Subject(s): Rivers


FORECLOSURE, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father missouri takes his own
Last Line: And the old river rolls on, slowly to the gulf.
Subject(s): Missouri River; Rivers


FOREST POOLS, by LEONARD CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: They dream here %these pools, deep
Last Line: These pools dream till night; %then they wake
Subject(s): Rivers


FORMAGGIO, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world
Last Line: That would be the self in the present
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers


FRANKLIN AVE. BRIDGE, by MADELON SPRENGNETHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I walk down to the river, on a near-freezing, near-thawing januaruy
Last Line: (as much as the darkness that is to come) in the world's open palm?
Subject(s): Bridges; Rivers


FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the time of evening that promises miracles to anyone
Last Line: Might be willow sticks. Fish swim into her hair. One by one the lights in her nails go out
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers; Suicide; Dead, The


GENTLE BRENT, I USED TO KNOW YOU, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Out of northholt on and upward to the heights of harrow hill
Subject(s): Rivers


GEO-BESTIARY: 19, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat on a log fallen over a river and heard
Last Line: In a deep pool I saw the traces of last night's moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Rivers


GIHON, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They all wore little hats
Subject(s): Rivers; Vermont


GIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See the rivers flowing
Last Line: God will give thee more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature; Rivers


GOING BACK: MAY 3, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: All winter, cars leaped
Last Line: Every story is sad
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


GRAY WAGTAIL, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It must be summer - you're wearing
Last Line: In the summery river's %fashion show
Subject(s): Rivers


GREAT BRITAIN THROUGH THE ICE, OR PREMATURE PATRIOTISM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I lived in the icy times forlorn
Last Line: Thaw out old dover for the houseless kings?'
Subject(s): Great Britain; Rivers


GREEN RIVER, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green silk, or a shot silk, blue
Last Line: This water is passing by! %it arrives, and it is leaving!
Subject(s): Rivers


GREEN-HEARTED FLOWERS, by DORUS VREDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green-hearted flowers by the river
Last Line: Of what are you a sign %sunshine or rain?
Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers


GROWING RIVER, by RODNEY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first the river's very small
Subject(s): Rivers


GUESTS OF SILENCE, by JEREMY HOOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sheer above the river, cliffs
Last Line: Stroke on stroke %the river is
Subject(s): Rivers


HAIKU, by NOZAWA BONCHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single river stretching far
Last Line: Across the moorland swathed in snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boncho
Subject(s): Rivers


HAIKU (FOR JOE BARRY), by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I imagine
Last Line: Flowing with eyes
Subject(s): Love; Rivers


HALF-SALT RIVER; IN MEMORY OF RICHARD HUGO, by KATHRYN HUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mudflats and wood-painted shacks are still
Last Line: As good as they know how
Subject(s): Environment; Rivers


HE FINDS THE MANSION, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little road went on
Subject(s): Roads; Rivers; Paths; Trails


HEAVEN, by MICHAEL CULLUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I imagine heaven
Last Line: A single bird would bring the world with it
Subject(s): Rivers


HELEN; THE LABORATORY OF FAUST AT WITTENBERG, by LAURENT TAILHEDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have ascended the river of the years
Last Line: And my molten voice, rhythmic with prophecy.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Love; Rivers; Desertion


HERACLITUS ON RIVERS, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody steps into the same river twice
Subject(s): Rivers


HERACLITUS ON RIVERS, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody steps into the same river twice
Last Line: All these things will pass away in time
Subject(s): Rivers


HOW M'GINNIS WENT MISSING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us cease our idle chatter
Last Line: Going drifting out to sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Fate; Rivers; Sea; Sleep; Tears; Destiny; Ocean


HOW SHY THE ATTRACTION, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The rest, the rain, %is a tinker's damn
Subject(s): Rivers


HUDSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma-hican-ittuck! / river to the mountains
Last Line: Beats warm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; New York City - Dutch Period; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We drove to the river to see if the shad were rising
Last Line: In reaching the valley to foison the river anew
Subject(s): Rivers


HUNDRED RIVER, by NEIL POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We came to hundred river through a slow october
Last Line: And in the drizzle feel the season fracture
Subject(s): Rivers


HUNGRY THAMES, by HELEN DUNMORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hungry thames, I walk over the bridge
Last Line: Where the river gets what it wants
Subject(s): Rivers


HUNTINGDONSHIRE ECLOGUES, by JOHN GREENING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I %here it begins, with the rains of december
Last Line: Away to spread, great wheels scattering pearls of muck
Subject(s): Rivers


HYMN FOR THE BOATMEN, AS THEY APPROACH THE RAPIDS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesu! Bless our slender boat
Last Line: Miserere domine!'
Subject(s): Boats; Rivers; God


IDEA: 32. TO THE RIVER ANKER, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our flood's-queen thames for ships and swans is crown'd
Last Line: That fair idea only lives by thee.
Subject(s): Rivers


IDEA: 53. ANOTHER TO THE RIVER ANKER, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear anker, on whose silver-sanded shore
Last Line: And thou, sweet anker, art my helicon.
Subject(s): Rivers


IF ANYTHING WILL LEVEL WITH YOU WATER WILL, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Streams shed out of mountains in a white rust
Last Line: Said itself) so to speak perfectly in itself
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Rivers


IN AVON, by JOHN BURNSIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In spring we can taste the river
Last Line: All winter it changes. We find it again and again
Subject(s): Rivers


IN IMITATION OF COWLEY: 3. THE RIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail sacred spring, whose fruitful stream
Last Line: Till mischief learn'd to mix with wine.
Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Rivers


IN THE BACKS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too many of the dead, some I knew well
Last Line: Why is this air so sacred and so still?
Subject(s): Cambridge University; England; Rivers


IN THE SHADOWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sailing to the leeward
Last Line: Down the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


INDIAN RIVER, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trade-wind jingles the rings in the nets around the racks
Subject(s): Rivers


INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN ON A HEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sycamore, oft musical with bees
Last Line: Or passing gale or hum of murmuring bees!
Subject(s): Fountains; Rivers


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! Awhile upon this mossy bank
Last Line: Of innocence, and thou shalt find her there.
Subject(s): Comfort; Graves; Happiness; Innocence; Rivers; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight


INSCRIPTION FOR THE BANKS OF THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little while, o traveller! Linger here
Last Line: Flow to the ocean of eternity.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Future Life; Life; Rivers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips


IZAAK WALTON TO RIVER AND BROOK, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Which is more sweet, - the slow mysterious stream
Last Line: While rays of sun make rainbows in the spray?
Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Streams; Creeks


JACK, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and I have a lot in common,' I tell him, as we bundle up on the
Last Line: We shiver in the sun: who said there's nothing new beneath it?
Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Rivers; Tides; Water


JUST AS OF OLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as of old! The world rolls on
Last Line: Just as of old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Rivers; Time; World


JUST IN CASE, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: At supper, %everyone is as quiet
Last Line: Just %in %case
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


KINGFISHER, by PHOEBE HESKETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brown as nettle-beer, the stream
Last Line: The image blazes on
Subject(s): Birds; Rivers


KINGFISHER, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That kingfisher jewelling upstream
Last Line: Samurai, returning home %to his stinking slup
Subject(s): Kingfishers; Rivers


KNOW YOU THE RIVER NEAR TO GREZ, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Go on from grace to grace
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Rivers; Love; Grez, France


LANDSCAPE, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stalwart old men of earth
Last Line: By some miracle of destiny . . .
Subject(s): Canyons; Landscape; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


LANDSCAPE OF THE CAPIBARIBE RIVER, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city is crossed by the river
Last Line: With its eyes painted blue %on maps?
Subject(s): Rivers


LAUNCH, by PAUL MILLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That saturday, launch of the yard's last tug
Last Line: The river lay, a sleeve of crooked iron
Subject(s): Rivers


LAUREL RIVER, by JEFF GUNDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It runs louder even than the turnpike
Last Line: And leader, lets the current draw them, %lifts and lowers them again
Subject(s): Rivers


LEAST RIVERS - DOCILE TO SOME SEA, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My caspian - thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 206; Poem: 21
Subject(s): Rivers


LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self of my former shadow
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


LET ME TELL YOU, by PAUL KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river was full of swallowing
Last Line: It was probably a branch. %probably it was
Subject(s): Rivers


LETHE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, drink again
Last Line: Dip the song in the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hades; Rivers


LIFFEY WATER, by WILLIAM OXLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green, where thames is grey
Last Line: Must soon dissolve
Subject(s): Rivers


LIKE RAIN IT SOUNDED TILL IT CURVED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then like elijah rode away %upon a wheel of cloud
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1235; Poem: 124
Subject(s): Rivers; Wind


LIMITLESS OUT OF THE DUSK, by BROTHER CLEMENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are lightly moving rivers
Last Line: Of the world come home.
Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Rivers; Nightmares


LINES WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF EDEN, NEAR KIRKBY STEPHEN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From distant moor-land heights descending
Last Line: Eden, to thy dark stream farewell!
Subject(s): Calm; Eden (river), Great Britain; Rivers; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


LISLE'S RIVER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud
Last Line: What joy have you had since, that equaled this?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Happiness; Memory; Rivers; Water; Joy; Delight


LITTLE TOWN, by HAROLD H. KENISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hope some day to settle down
Last Line: When my time comes to settle down.
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Towns; Nightmares


LONG NANNY BURN, by KATRINA PORTEOUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This place changes with every tide
Last Line: Nothing buried lies safe here for long
Subject(s): Rivers


LORD, WE ARE RIVERS RUNNING TO THY SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sweetness to thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Rivers; Worship; God


LOTHIAN BURN, by JOHN STEWART CONN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up here, scarcely %birdsong even: only
Last Line: It comes to a glottal stop
Subject(s): Rivers


LUNDU, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight, if I sleep on this bank
Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Sugar; Agriculture; Farmers


LYNN, by LYNN POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Too american to remember the root
Last Line: Into my one and only vowel
Subject(s): Children; Life; Rivers


MAD, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm mad at the flood
Last Line: But I don't feel lucky
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


MAD RIVER IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou wildly rush and roar
Last Line: The mills are tired of waiting.
Subject(s): Rivers


MAIDEN VOYAGE, by D. NURSKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father made me
Last Line: Around a missing mouth
Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fathers; Rivers


MAN IN STREAM, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You stand in the brook, mud smearing
Subject(s): Rivers; Beavers; Death; Dead, The


MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was over you yesterday
Last Line: I couldn't tell you
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel


MEMORIALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the shining river's brim
Last Line: The well-sweep and the ruined wall.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Past; Rivers; Nightmares


MEMORIES, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river is back in its banks again
Last Line: In the whole world %we are
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


MIDNIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let the pigeons fold their wings
Last Line: Mean what I sing
Subject(s): Night; Poetry And Poets; Rivers


MILL-WATER, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the sound remains
Last Line: Where once men had a work-place and a home
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Rivers


MIRANDA IN HER FIRST SHORT POEM, by BARBRA NIGHTINGALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Miranda is swimming upstream
Last Line: Red mouth, tiny silvers bubbles
Subject(s): Rivers; Swimming


MISSISSIPPI, by TOM ROBERT SHIELDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two thousand %three hundred
Last Line: Somewhere - deep, deep within
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


MISSISSIPPI RIVER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn morning %these are the ghosts of tears
Last Line: And strangle the harpers %of the waterfall
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth
Last Line: Only here. Only now
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time


MISSISSIPPI-MISSOURI, by CHARLES H. TIFFANY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In clear cold blue itasca lake, in scores of mountain
Last Line: Like swaying drunken harlots in the gulf of mexico.
Subject(s): Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; New Orleans; Rivers


MISTS OVER THE RIVER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river-mirror mirrors the cold sky
Last Line: Of reading have not made you wise
Subject(s): Rivers


MISTS OVER THE RIVER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river-mirror mirrors the cold sky
Last Line: Many years, I see, many years %of reading have not made you wise
Subject(s): Rivers


MOON'S REFLECTION IN A THOUSAND RIVERS, by MARY CHI-WHI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: One thousand miles spare me from slavery
Last Line: To a thousand rivers, %reflecting one source
Subject(s): Family Life; Rivers


MOORED ON FALL RIVER, by KUAN HSIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Banks like late tung-t'ing, but
Last Line: The fisherman's %nightmare
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Lakes; Rivers; Zen Buddhism


MORNING AT THE NERETVA RIVER. NOVEMBER 8, 1993, by JOY DWORKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is one, but its name must not be one
Last Line: It bears this unheard prayer downstream to be undone
Subject(s): Bridges; Morning; Rivers


MORNING ON THE LIEVRE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far above us where a jay
Last Line: Like a dream.
Subject(s): Rivers


MOST TERRIBLE PART, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down beside the dike
Last Line: But this isn't home. %is it?'
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


MOTHER ANTHONY'S, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking for the well in the wood
Last Line: Looking for what was lost
Subject(s): Rivers


MOUTH OF THE ARNO, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mouth of woman was never to me
Last Line: Enjoy enchantment, %our single soul: worship here
Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Landscape; Rivers


MUDDY TOLL, by BESS STOUT LAMBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: That was the year we moved down from the hills
Last Line: The river loves me now ... I wear its charm.
Subject(s): Rivers


MY RIVER, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: River! My river in the young sunshine!
Last Line: The holy stars of god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich
Subject(s): Inland Waters; Rivers


MY RIVER RUNS TO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Say — sea — take me!
Subject(s): Rivers; Sea


NAME OF THE PLACE, by CRYSTAL V. BACON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is really too long a story to tell
Last Line: No ferry now, just the car and the road we're on humming
Subject(s): Rivers


NAMES OF THE SEA-TROUT, by TOM RAWLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: He who would seek her in the clear stream
Last Line: For the whispered spell
Subject(s): Rivers


NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What we all worried most about
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Rivers; Worry


NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What we all worried most about
Last Line: And what runs underground is water now, %the sweet elixir of our tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Rivers; Worry


NET AND RIVER, by MAURA DOOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old bus, nose to the road like a dog
Last Line: Till the lip of deepest water stops its trembling
Subject(s): Rivers


NEW DIKE, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city's cleaning up
Last Line: But the new dike will
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


NIGHT THE BUILDINGS BURN: APRIL 19, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shelter cots are hard and squeaky
Last Line: Again and %again and %again and %again
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


NIGHTFALL ON THE LYNNHAVEN, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love lynnhaven river at this hour
Last Line: Slowly to darkness and oblivion.
Subject(s): Night; Rivers; Shadows; Bedtime


NOAH'S ARK, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was one of my oldest toys, the ark my father made
Last Line: Like birds eager to lift
Subject(s): Floods; Noah (bible); Religion; Rivers


NOT DRINKING WATER, by PETER DALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Home after years, tonight
Last Line: I have been thirsty all my life
Subject(s): Rivers


NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In ireland now, why do so many
Last Line: Good night, sweet prince, good night'?
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Ireland; Poverty; Rivers; Sea; Suicide


NOW THE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over bright green grass and into the small wet mouth of the earth, %where she vanishes
Subject(s): Rivers


OCEAN OF FEELINGS, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two weeks of waiting
Last Line: I'll help you find the library.'
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


OCTOBER, by IRIS MURDOCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The october water is like glass and scarcely flows
Last Line: Where the bird's sudden movement has made no sound
Subject(s): Rivers


ODE TO THE RARITAN RIVER, by JOHN DAVIS (1805-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lost in a pleasing wild surprise
Last Line: "thou queen of rivers, raritan."
Subject(s): Rivers


OFFERING, by JOHN GREENING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live on the dry surface
Last Line: Black, toss it back
Subject(s): Rivers


OLD MAN RIVER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything elegant %but this water
Last Line: Don't say nothin' %must know somethin'
Subject(s): Old Age; Rivers


OLD MAPS, by KATHERINE E. YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river's the same, curving gentle and infinite from right
Last Line: Blowing the seasons right out of town
Subject(s): Rivers; Russia


OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You might call this / the far side of the river
Subject(s): Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Rivers; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


OLD WILLOW, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: With his cane
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Willow Trees


ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea
Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart.
Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


ON A PICTURE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a forlorn soul waiting by the styx
Last Line: He stands at fault for joy, she whispering 'ay.'
Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Rivers; Soul; Dead, The; Optimism


ON BIG SANDY RIVER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun-bathed hills were beautiful
Last Line: On dear old sandy river.
Subject(s): Boats; Rivers


ON FIRST ARRIVING IN BA-LING, JOINING LI BO AND PEI, WE GO BOATING, by JIA ZHIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: These men that I've met on the river
Last Line: Weep the maidens of xiang
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Rivers


ON LEAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have reached a green, green island
Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest.
Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


ON RECEIVING A DEER-SKIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With my bare feet on my deer-skin
Last Line: To the western wilds to-night.
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face
Last Line: As a lattice-gleam when midnight moans.
Subject(s): Bridges; Rivers


ON SWIFT JOINING AVON NEAR RUGBY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent and modest brook! Who dippest here
Last Line: Silent and modest brook!
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers; Rugby, England; Swift (river), England


ON THE BLUFF, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O grandly flowing river!
Last Line: Above her hillside grave.
Subject(s): Rivers


ON THE HUAI RIVER, by TS'AN LIAO TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reed tips face the dawn
Last Line: It seems like spring
Subject(s): Rivers; Zen Buddhism


ON THE MISSISSIPPI, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through wild and tangled forests
Last Line: A heron flaps away %like silence taking flight
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


ON THE RIVER, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: North of the river, autumn's wet umbra clears halfway
Last Line: Then, all of a sudden, a thousand other sails, now there, now here
Subject(s): Rivers; Sailors And Sailing; Zen Buddhism


ON THE RIVER AVON, NEAR STRATFORD, by DAVID+(2) WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is, of course, the genius of the place
Last Line: All that must be because of what has been
Subject(s): Rivers


ON THE RIVER TEPL, WRITTEN AT THE FREUNDSCHAFT SAAL, CARLSBAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friendless I came, but friendless now no more
Last Line: Still hastening onward to eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Tepl (river), Europe


ON THE RIVER: AN IMPRESSION, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A river of silver and azure
Last Line: The dome, the sky, the sail.
Subject(s): Boats; Rivers


ON THE TIP OF THE TONGUE', by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the tip of the tongue
Last Line: Territories of our skin
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Montana; Rivers; Travel


ONCE EACH SPRING THE FACE OF OPHELIA APPEARS UPON THE WATERS, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She drifts with the current on her back
Last Line: The clouds will roll downstream like drawings of organ music
Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Spring


ONE RIVER BLENDS WITH ANOTHER, by KIRK NESSET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your ghost makes you stumble but you're graceful
Last Line: A dry twig, long forking branch %on the right
Subject(s): Ghosts; Rivers; Supernatural


ONE TERRIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD: MAY 20, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: This was a great neighborhood,' dad says
Last Line: This was one terrific neighborhood.'
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


ONLY TODAY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Withing the river
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


ORARA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The strong sob of the chafing stream
Last Line: A beauty out of sight.
Subject(s): Rivers


OTTER OUT AND IN, by ALICE OSWALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Collision of opposites which pulls the river
Last Line: Out and in and disappear in darkness
Subject(s): Rivers


OUT BACK, by P. QUINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We dumped our swags by the river-side when the sun was getting low
Last Line: Twas the first gay time he had crossed that creek, but I had been there before.
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Vanity; Journeys; Trips


OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swallows flew in the curves of an eight
Last Line: These less things hold my gaze!
Subject(s): England; Rivers; Stour (river), England; English


PAROO RIVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a week from christmas-time
Last Line: "this is the paroo river!"
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


PASSAIC FALLS, by GEORGE LYNDE CATLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh fair passaic! Softly winding
Last Line: To brighter, purer, scenes of bliss.
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


PENMAEN POOL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who long for rest, who look for pleasure
Last Line: And taste the treats of penmaen pool.
Subject(s): Rivers


PENNIES FOR LUCK, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: A heron flaps upstream, the color of fog over the river
Last Line: Where you are
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Luck; Rivers


PENTRIDGE BY THE RIVER, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pentridge! -- oh! My heart's a-zwellen
Last Line: Tis pentridge – pentridge by the river.
Subject(s): Rivers; Towns


PERCH, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perch on their water perch hung in the clear bann river
Last Line: In the everything flows and steady go of the world
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Water


PICOMEGAN, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stars of gold the green sod fretting
Last Line: Or the wisdom of its grief.
Subject(s): Rivers; Wisdom; Grief


PIEN RIVER FREEZING OVER, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a hundred miles
Last Line: All day all night %nobody noticing
Subject(s): Cold; Rivers


POET AS SPIRIT OF THE RIVER, by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My first druid of nature
Last Line: No deserting between friends
Subject(s): Rivers


POHOQUALIN, by FRANK HILL PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon a castled crag a pine tree clings
Last Line: That leads them toward the distant waiting sea.
Subject(s): Rivers


POOR RIVER DRIVERS!, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're poor river drivers
Last Line: Withouten any home!
Subject(s): Rivers


PORCH OVER THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dusk of the river, the wind
Last Line: With the water's inward life. What has %made it so?--a quietness in it %no question can be asked in
Subject(s): Rivers


POTOMAC, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin potomac scarcely moves
Last Line: The money fade like leaves from green to brown, %and embassies dissolve to molecules
Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers; Washington, D.c.


POTOMAC PHOTOGRAPH, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: That afternoon, %just hours before your plane
Last Line: Continuous motion is her hand, waving, %waving
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Potomac River; Rivers


PROCESS, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were floating downstream for hours
Subject(s): Boats; Rivers


QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams
Last Line: And here, or there -- no. Should we have stayed at home, %wherever that may be?
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel


R??CKENFIGUR, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Iseult stands at tintagel
Last Line: Never forever whoso move
Subject(s): Rivers


RED RIVER, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river wiggled %like a fat brown thread
Last Line: That was us. %that was the river
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The willows carried a slow sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision; Fancy


REPOSE OF RIVERS, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The willows carried a slow sound
Last Line: I heard wind flaking sapphire, like this summer, %and willows could not hold more steady sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Imagination; Rivers; Vision


RESPECTFULLY ANSWERING 'DRIFTING ON THE RIVER', by YU HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spring river comes down past white emperor castle
Last Line: As the sun goes down, winds calm on the river, %the dragon sings our and turns back upstream
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Rivers; Travel


RETURNING TO THE LUXAPALILA, by PAUL DEAN RUFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river is the color of earth, fed by runoff
Last Line: Her arms outstretched to the mounting sun
Subject(s): Rivers; Water


RILL OF THE HOUSE OF LUANS, by P'EI TI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river's voice with whispers to the distant shore
Last Line: A white heron shrieks then dives
Subject(s): Rivers; Seashore; Waves; Zen Buddhism


RIO GRANDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this was what macpherson told
Last Line: The race the dead men ride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Racing; Rivers; Sleep; Nightmares


RISING DAMP, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At our feet they lie low
Last Line: That never surface. We feel their tug %as a dowser's rod bends to the source below
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


RIVER, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ...I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my
Last Line: And the poet feeling gratefully redundant
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the river %closes on twigs, dried weeds
Last Line: Hook %locked in the ice
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ask for help
Last Line: I won't do it, but %I think about it
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the vast and yellow river my eyes
Last Line: Harsh cry in the echoless wastes
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


RIVER, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the plane flew in I followed
Last Line: Somewhere and now I am saying goodbye
Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories


RIVER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the turn of the river the language changes
Last Line: Or on the sand, near where the river runs into the sea?
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the turn of the river the language changes
Last Line: Or on the sand, near where the river runs into the sea?
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by PETER FALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is whipping the air into shape
Last Line: And he was making a mistake %it's a river
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by TROY JOLLIMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What has this river ever brought to me
Last Line: The long walk back to town
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by ALICE OSWALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the black gland of the earth
Last Line: Carries the moon carries the sun but keeps nothing
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by MANUEL JOSE OTHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With graceful waves, ye waters, frolic free
Last Line: The laughter of the naiads is my song
Subject(s): Rivers; Waves


RIVER, by CLEM L. RAWLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe what I'll do
Last Line: Maybe this is how it is
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


RIVER, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The line between land and water
Last Line: Ceaselessly, without thought
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother, %why is the river laughing?
Last Line: Is waiting for the river to come home
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the cobbled water
Last Line: That are as near now %as on the morning I set out from them
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER, by MICHAEL VINCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this river-side town
Last Line: Turns below thought, and never stops
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER (1), by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing as broad as
Last Line: Finding its way without us
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER (2), by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother started the boat engine
Last Line: The opposing currents of my life and death
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER AND SEA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stood by the river that swept
Last Line: "to those who have looked on the sea."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Lakes; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Ocean


RIVER BATHERS, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was no paradise
Last Line: The grass and rusting iron furniture.
Subject(s): Rivers; Seashore; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore


RIVER ELMS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to sleep out doors beneath an elm
Last Line: An elm tree talked with god.
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Nightmares


RIVER GOD, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I may be smelly and I may be old
Last Line: If she wishes to go I will not forgive her
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


RIVER HISTORY, by LAVINIA GREENLAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even then the river carried cargo
Last Line: And its undefendable, passing light
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER IDLE, by PHOEBE HESKETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here the river idle sidles leisurely across the plain
Last Line: Where endings run into beginnings in the round of night and day
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER IN ALL LIGHTS, FROM AN UPSTAIRS WINDOW, by JANE MARVEL COOPER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: We call the river. Now there is only sky
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER IN THE VALLEY, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cross the sacramento river at colusa
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER IN THE VALLEY, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We cross the sacramento river at colusa
Last Line: All flowering at once, %all one place
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER ITSELF, by JANE MEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gretel chomps the shadow
Last Line: Or take it elsewhere - %gretel would
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a great river this side of stygia
Last Line: Of each of the senses; call it, again and again, %the river that flows nowhere, like a sea
Subject(s): Connecticut; Rivers


RIVER PEOPLE, by JOAN DOWNAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sandy spurs made desert islands
Last Line: Crouched by the river to make their lives
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER PROFILE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of a bellicose fore-time, thundering
Last Line: Too, even as water, the selfless mother %of all especials
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER PSALM, by ANDREW STEEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing in self-imposed exile
Last Line: Only the chuckle of the loons
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER RHYME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rumpled river
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER RISING IN INDIA, by JENNIFER JOSEPH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man sits fishing on the sultry bank
Last Line: One among thousand hearts swept beyond hearing?
Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER SAINT, by SOFIA M. STARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: We cannot ask
Last Line: Always rise, so %dangerously dry
Subject(s): Rivers; Saints


RIVER SONG, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer is draining away, and you, swift running
Last Line: You will not hear them again, hear them again
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER SONG, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the great and ponderous river
Last Line: But the song will not die.
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER SONG, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sumpin' 'bout a river
Last Line: Twell you -- up an' go!
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER SOUND REMEMBERED, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That day the huge water drowned all voices until
Last Line: That I will hear longer than any mortal song
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Drowning; Floods; Rivers


RIVER TOWNS, by ANNELIESE WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On hills above train stations
Last Line: Seperate. Divided by the river
Subject(s): Railroads; Rivers; Towns


RIVER WIE, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: During lovemaking he fell asleep, one moment
Last Line: Then turned to stare down the stagnant house %growing paler in the glimmer reflected off the river
Variant Title(s): River Wif
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Rivers; Romance


RIVER WILD, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Melting snow has made the river wild
Last Line: But she never answers
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


RIVER'S EDGE, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Howlin' wolf howlin' at the moon, full tonight
Last Line: Something borrowed, something green %and blue and gone as you
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER'S PEACE, by MARGARET ASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have loved many people with devotion
Last Line: Like rivulets that have found river's peace.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace; Rivers


RIVER'S TENT IS BROKEN: THE LAST FINGERS OF LEAF, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sweet thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVER'S WATERS, by LEO YANKEVICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river's waters are grey, sometimes blue
Last Line: And for the sun's merciful but meat-eating honey
Subject(s): Colors; Rivers; Water


RIVERBED, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Us, listening to a river in the trees
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVERINE, by LAWRENCE SAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the fall, of course, nothing is declined
Last Line: All the unspoken possible words of happiness
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVERS, by PETER CHAD TIGAR LEVI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky dark blue, the sun a butter-pat
Last Line: I like to see these robust colours
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVERS, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So lasting they are, the rivers!' only think. Sources
Last Line: Like to entrust my sins to the waters, let them be carried to the sea
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVERS, by ALAIN ROCHAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love you rise at the horizon
Last Line: To hug you yet aim at you so suddenly %like light does shadow
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVERS, by CHALLIS SILVAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sleeping earth! What ruthless lover
Last Line: The need of mirrors for the stars?
Subject(s): Earth; Rivers; Stars; World


RIVERS, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cling to this crippled tree
Last Line: A corolla %of shadows
Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers


RIVERS, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hold onto this badly wounded tree
Last Line: A flower-head %of darkness
Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers


RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Same brawl / this big scar on my belly
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Blood; Rivers


RIVERS INTO SEAS, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Palaces of drift and crystal, the clouds
Last Line: Adrift in the sea’s restless shouldering
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Travel; Seas; Rivers; Journeys; Trips


RIVERS OF IRELAND, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ne thence the irishe rivers absent were
Last Line: To doe their dueful service, as to them befell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Ireland; Rivers; Irish


RIVERS UNKNOWN TO SONG, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide waters in the waste; or, out of reach
Last Line: Unwelcomed, unrenowned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Rivers


RIVERSIDE, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There should be music in a place like this
Last Line: The golden legend of his lust for gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Rivers


ROCK OF THE PASSAIC FALLS, by OLIVER CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock where the many come
Last Line: Echoes no more.
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


ROSAMOND, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fragrant bright june morning, rosamond, the queen of girls
Last Line: Set them in her vase a week -- then throw them with her flowers away?
Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs


ROUND OAK AND EASTWELL, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my own native field two fountains run
Last Line: Like a friend's features time hath nigh forgot
Subject(s): Rivers


RUSKIN REMEMBERED, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it tunes a scottish stream so fine?
Last Line: As walking to unblent music, such as this
Subject(s): Rivers


RUSTIC FISHING, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On sunday mornings, freed from hard employ
Last Line: For their long absence bring a meet reward
Subject(s): Rivers


SALMON, by JOHN ORMOND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river sucks them home
Last Line: Was this %your glimpse %of holy law?
Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon


SALMON LEAP, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw one shadow shoot up and over
Last Line: But who can tell what death's cold touch %may prompt the lazy louts to yet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Rivers


SAND CREEK, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With its name sand creek speaks truth
Last Line: Anything is added to the cup already full, %the cup runs over
Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers


SANDBAGGING: APRIL 12, by JANE KURTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow's melting, %river's rising
Last Line: One, lift, two, swing, three, catch, four, toss
Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival


SANDS OF THE WELL, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden particles / descend, descend
Last Line: Clarity, is it water indeed, / or air, or light?
Subject(s): Rivers


SANDS OF THE WELL, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden particles %descend, descend
Last Line: Clarity, is it water indeed, %or air, or light?
Subject(s): Rivers


SAP, by ROBERT MINHINNICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the stream ox-bowed
Last Line: Green stick swam past the hand
Subject(s): Environment; Rivers


SARANAC RIVER, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look so much better
Last Line: Guessing how a river got its name
Subject(s): Rivers


SCOTLAND IN AN OXFORD LANDSCAPE, by OLIVIA BYARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stream's tidy banks have fled
Last Line: To be found again, of a more bucolic atlantis
Subject(s): Rivers


SEPARATION ON THE RIVER KIANG, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ko-jin goes west from ko-kaku-ro
Last Line: The long kiang, reaching heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Farewell; Rivers; Parting


SEPTEMBER, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today on chazy lake, a steely gray effluvium spreads
Last Line: I slap the two flies between my note pages to show a %fisherman I know
Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Rivers; Travel


SEVENSIDE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We looked for the tide, for the full river
Last Line: Rode massed before us in the filled divide
Subject(s): Rivers


SHADOW RIVER (MUSKOVA), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stream of tender [or, silver] gladness
Last Line: The shadows and the dreaming.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Rivers; Nightmares


SHADWELL STAIR, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the ghost of shadwell stair
Last Line: I wish another ghost am lain.
Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Rivers; Supernatural; Dead, The


SHANNON WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's going blind. Wrote a poem once
Last Line: As the shannon flow
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rivers; Shannon (river), Ireland; Women


SHENANDOAH (3), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "missouri, she's a mighty river"
Last Line: "ah ha I'm bound away, 'cross the wide missouri"
Subject(s): Missouri River;rivers


SHORELINES, by MAUDE PLESSINGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a place where sycamores
Last Line: That follow where the shoreline goes.
Subject(s): Rivers


SIBARD'S WELL, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house, named for the saxon spring
Last Line: Was all too clear. As clearly spoke.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Rivers


SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS ABOVE GROUND, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I praise heaven because it offers me, in love, gems for my
Last Line: Sister water, let us praise god!
Subject(s): God; Nature; Praise; Religion; Rivers; Water


SKIN TRADE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then I said, that's what it means
Subject(s): Rivers; Longing; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


SLEEPY RIVER, by H. NELSON HOOVEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I look into your muddy waters and see the hills
Last Line: Then disappear as mist, leaving a sleepy river -- and me.
Subject(s): Rivers


SOAKING, by IVOR GURNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain has come, and the earth must be very glad
Last Line: Duller because of the all soddernness of things, %till the skylark breaks his reluctance, hangs shak
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


SOME DAYS, by JANE MEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hide in the river
Last Line: I don't know how the dance goes
Subject(s): Rivers


SOME RIVERS, by FRANK ASCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some rivers rush to the sea
Last Line: With no hurry in her at all
Subject(s): Everglades, Florida; Rivers; Southern States


SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HERE AND BELEN, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Rivers


SONG, by EMMA ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the ganges' regal stream
Last Line: Within my native land.
Subject(s): Ganges River, India; Rivers


SONG OF THE LONG RIVER, by CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day my songs
Subject(s): Rivers


SONG OF THE OKTAHUTCHEE, by ALEXANDER L. POSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far, far, far are my silver waters drawn
Last Line: And herds are scattered o'er the verdant plain.
Subject(s): Rivers


SONG OF THE RIVER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A river went singing adown to the sea
Last Line: "that blends in one chord the 'forever and never'."
Subject(s): Rivers


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreary wind of night is out
Last Line: With stars that shine and see.
Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness


SONNET, by SHEILA WINGFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jordan that feeds from far mount hermon's snow
Last Line: Carried by veins throughout my whole estate, %so quiet is my face and wild my hope
Subject(s): Rivers


SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear native brook! Wild streamlet of the west
Last Line: Ah! That once more I were a careless child!
Variant Title(s): To The River Otter
Subject(s): Landscape; Otter (river), Great Britain; Rivers


SONNET: 9. TO THE RIVER LODON, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What a weary race my feet have run
Last Line: Nor with the muse's laurel unbestowed.
Variant Title(s): On Revisiting The River Lodon
Subject(s): Rivers


SOURCE, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let other rivers carry toward the sea
Last Line: Alone with all its visible and invisible stars
Subject(s): Rivers; Water


SOURCES OF THE DELAWARE, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love you he said but saying it took twenty years
Subject(s): Children; Love; Rivers; Childhood


SOUTH, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the small towns along the river
Subject(s): Rivers


SPRING AT CHEDWORTH, by ALISON BRACKENBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is no goddess in the spring
Last Line: As her laughter in the night
Subject(s): Rivers


SPRING TIDE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I seem lower than the distant waves
Last Line: To come and go with the spring tide
Subject(s): Rivers


SPRINGHEAD AT FONTMELL MAGNA, by JAMES CROWDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Music within the green and rounded hill
Last Line: And grazed the sheep on the lynchets above
Subject(s): Rivers


SPRINGS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a country without satins or shrines
Last Line: Of the place, the deep rock, sweetness %out of the dark. He bent and drank %in bondage to the ground
Subject(s): Rivers


ST WINEFRIDE'S WELL, by GILLIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Overhead the wren builds
Last Line: And stare through turbulence %into the dark
Subject(s): Rivers


STARING OUT AT THE RIVER, AFTER THE RAIN, by YIN RENRONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the rain, the water is brighter than ever
Last Line: River surface cloaked in morning mist
Subject(s): Rivers


STREAM (1), by ROBERT WELLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pouring of water through the night, through the year
Last Line: Where he kneels to drink, to paint his skin with cold
Subject(s): Rivers


STYX RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't help weeping with delight
Last Line: I did.
Subject(s): Death; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Rivers; Tears; Women; Dead, The


SUNDAY UP THE RIVER: 12, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My love o'er the water bends dreaming
Last Line: Shines pure in pure depths of my soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis
Variant Title(s): Sunday Up The River
Subject(s): Love; Rivers


SUNRISE, TISANG RIVER, by SEAN BRENDAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anchor line snapped, the boat drifts
Last Line: Trusting sleep; it's better that way
Subject(s): Boats; Dawn; Rivers


SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gold fringe on the purpling hem
Last Line: And sunsets never cold!
Subject(s): Bearcamp (river), New Hampshire; Rivers


SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the waters of babylon we sat down and wept
Last Line: And men see light.
Subject(s): Babylon; Freedom; Italy; Rivers; Liberty; Italians


SWEET EARLSBURN, BLYTHE EARLSBURN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their lustre ever dimmed
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Rivers; Childhood Memories; Home


SWEET THAMES FLOW SOFTLY, by FRANCIS XAVIER MATHEWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met my girl at woolwich pier, beneath a big crane standing
Last Line: Sweet thames flow softly
Subject(s): Rivers


SYMPHONY IN YELLOW, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: An omnibus across the bridge
Last Line: Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Rivers; Thames (river)


TALBINGO, by KENNETH SLESSOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Rivers; Australia


TAY BRIDGE, by DOUGLAS DUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sky that tastes of rain that's still to fall
Last Line: A city's elements, local, exact
Subject(s): Rivers


TEAM GUT, by KATRINA PORTEOUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who goes there? A scrap-yard river
Last Line: Only their bodies are water, mostly, %moving, like mine
Subject(s): Rivers


TESTIMONY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can't step into the same
Last Line: Either. Not once
Subject(s): Butter; Flowers; Rivers


THAMES, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good river, it carries
Last Line: I drive, into real mud
Subject(s): Rivers


THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack
Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow.
Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean


THE ALTERED RIVER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou lovely river, thou art now
Last Line: And when have dreams not flown?
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Rivers


THE ASSABET, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up this pleasant stream let's row
Last Line: With her simple stanza'd ode.
Subject(s): Assabet River, Massachusetts; Rivers


THE AVON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Avon - a precious, an immortal name!
Last Line: Shrink from 'thy' name, pure rill, with unpleased ears.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Rivers


THE AWAKENING RIVER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gulls are mad in love with the river
Last Line: And the river will fly to the sea with the mad-in-love birds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Rivers


THE BAIT, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me, and be my love
Last Line: Alas! Is wiser far than I.
Variant Title(s): The Baite
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rivers; Anglers


THE BALLAD OF YAADA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are fires on lulu island, and the sky is opalescent
Last Line: In the capilano cañon of the west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Legends; Rivers; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE BANISHED GODS, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paros, far-shining star of dark-blue earth
Subject(s): Rivers


THE BANKS OF ANNER, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In purple robes old sliavnamon
Last Line: Upon the banks of anner!
Subject(s): Anner River, Ireland; Rivers


THE BANKS OF NITH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thames flows proudly to the sea
Last Line: Amang the friends of early days!
Subject(s): Rivers


THE BATTURE, by DARA WIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All power is saved, having no end. Rises
Subject(s): Dams; Rivers; Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had been wandering for many days
Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song.
Variant Title(s): The White Mountains
Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BRIDGE (PITTSBURGH), by BENNETT WEAVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dull thunders troubled the great hills / and moaning lay upon the land
Last Line: Gathered and sank within my blood.
Subject(s): Lightning; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rivers; Thunder; Lightning Rods


THE BROOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Murmuring of the brook in late
Last Line: And I meant nothing, and I liked that too.
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


THE CALL, by ANNYE LEWIS ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The river, dimpling in the sun
Last Line: Though it bear me far from home.
Subject(s): Desire; Rivers


THE CALLING OF THE RIVER, by E. LYTTLETON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet and clear, sweet and clear
Last Line: And toward the town be going?
Subject(s): Rivers; Yale University


THE CHARLES RIVER: 1, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sycamores throw shadows on the charles
Subject(s): Rivers


THE CITY OF PERTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful ancient city of perth
Last Line: You're one of the fairest cities of the present day.
Subject(s): Cities; Courts & Courtiers; Rivers; Statues; Tourists; Travel; Urban Life; Journeys; Trips


THE DHOON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leap from the crags, brave boy!
Last Line: O, everywhere what stillness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE EDGE OF THE RIVER, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It has been a long journey
Last Line: Of the water
Subject(s): Boats; Rivers


THE EVENING RISE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Litten with lots and lots of little moons
Last Line: Have time for supper and a cider-cup!
Subject(s): Evening; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight


THE FALLS OF THE PASSAIC, by WASHINGTON IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a wild, tranquil vale, fringed with forests of green
Last Line: Where the torrent leaps headlong, embosomed in foam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


THE FAR FIELD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of journeys repeatedly
Subject(s): Travel; Rivers; Death; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The


THE FROZEN RIVER, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver-powdered willows of the quai
Last Line: No mute and frozen chasm of the heart?
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE GASCON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gascon one day when a cardinal's guest
Last Line: "in the course of one hour I would bottle it all."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER INUNDATION IN CHINA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of september
Last Line: For fear god punished you likewise for your iniquities.
Subject(s): China; Drowning; Floods; Rain; Rivers; Water


THE GUARD AT THE BINH THUY BRIDGE, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How still he stands as mists begin to move
Last Line: He aims. At her. Then drops his aim. Idly.
Subject(s): Guns; Rivers; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


THE LOST RIVER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It flows through virginia hills
Last Line: To the open and opulent sea!
Subject(s): Rivers


THE MEETING OF THE WATERS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There is not in this wide world a valley so sweet
Last Line: And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): The Vale Of Avoca
Subject(s): Avoca (river), Ireland; Avoca (vale), Ireland; Friendship; Rivers


THE MISSISSIPPI, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monarch of rivers in the wide domain
Last Line: The hymn of universal brotherhood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


THE MISSISSIPPI, by FREDERICK OAKES SYLVESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: And do you love my river
Last Line: The king of the rivers of earth.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (DEDICATED TO MISS ELLA F. KENNEDY), by SARA S. BASHEFKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the minnesota north woods
Last Line: To promote the source of living.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE MISSISSIPPI; JULY, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the silent mississippi, with his saintly soul aflame
Last Line: Far to eastward, far to westward, touch the shining ocean sands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; U.s. - History


THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've known rivers
Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NIGHT JOURNEY OF A RIVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh river, gentle river! Gliding on
Last Line: The crystal brightness of thy mountain-springs.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN; A BROADWAY LYRIC, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits by the side of a turbulent stream
Last Line: And the gates of a heavenly city.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poverty; Rivers; Women


THE OTHER SIDE, by MARTHA BANNING THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want to push behind silence
Last Line: But cannot remember!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eden, Patience
Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops
Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


THE PARIAH, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear me, bramha, bending lowly!
Last Line: Look in mercy on repentance!
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Legends; Prayer; Rivers; Estrangement; Outcasts


THE PASSAIC RIVER AT PATERSON, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: God made for beauty myriad souls and streams
Last Line: In the still twilights we have mirrored stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE PATRIOT, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce is my life more dear to me
Last Line: I have my own; I envy none.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Rivers; English


THE PICKET-GUARD [NOVEMBER, 1861], by ETHEL LYNN BEERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All quiet along the potomac,' they say
Last Line: The picket's off duty forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel
Variant Title(s): All Quiet Along The Potomac
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 261, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floodplain river is wide
Last Line: Everywhere spreads its fame
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE PORCH OVER THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dusk of the river, the wind
Last Line: It has grown too dark to see
Subject(s): Rivers


THE POTOMAC, by KARL SHAPIRO            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin potomac scarcely moves
Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers; Washington, D.c.


THE POWER OF PRAYER; OR, THE FIRST STEAMBOAT UP THE ALABAMA, by CLIFFORD LANIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You, dinah! Come and set me what de ribber-roads does meet
Last Line: Baltimore, 1875.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE QUESTION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way
Last Line: That I might there present it! -- oh! To whom?
Variant Title(s): A Dream Of Spring;a Dream Of The Unknown;shelley's Lists
Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Rivers; Spring; Planting; Planters


THE RAILWAY TRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like to see it lap the miles
Last Line: At its own stable door.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Railroads; Rivers; Railways; Trains


THE RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain! The rain! The rain!
Last Line: O the rain! The rain! The rain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rain; Rivers


THE RED RIVER VOYAGEUR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out and in the river is winding
Last Line: The chimes of eternal peace!
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat
Last Line: And dead to hopes of future joy.
Subject(s): Grief; Rivers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE RIVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a mighty river that I knew
Last Line: In that dim land that lies beyond our dreams.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Swimmers


THE RIVER, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to the stilldeep river
Last Line: Save only in the sea.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awed I behold once more
Last Line: And soon may give my dust their funeral shade.
Subject(s): Children; Growth; Nature; Rivers; Trees; Childhood


THE RIVER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What may the gray gull know
Last Line: That glide on the sable stream.
Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Night; Rivers; Bedtime


THE RIVER, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent stream flows on and in its glass
Subject(s): War; Rivers


THE RIVER, by CHARLOTTE GRACE O'BRIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poor mick was trotting on to the town
Last Line: Though the sweet south winds are blowing.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver
Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river.
Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers


THE RIVER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a venerable place
Last Line: Flows calm as household love.
Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers


THE RIVER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins
Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors


THE RIVER, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old towns set high above the mississippi
Last Line: Is our heritage. We are folded in low hills.
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers


THE RIVER, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I came from the sunny valleys
Last Line: Am bitter as the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a river flowing from god's sea
Last Line: For love is all, and over all. Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers; Worship


THE RIVER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How far soe'er thy restless waters roll
Last Line: E'en now its destiny.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How calm the silent sister of the sea
Last Line: Unending motion in unending rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER BRIDGED AND FORGOT, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bridged and forgot, the river
Last Line: Is this memory or promise?
Subject(s): Religion; Rivers; Theology


THE RIVER GOD, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I may be smelly and I may be old
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers


THE RIVER IN THE MEADOWS, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crystal parting the meads
Last Line: Or the bosom it dwelt in, stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER JAMES, by MARY JOHNSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Narrow, sliding, darkly clear
Last Line: Low red sunsets over james.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 59, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then, to conclude these pleasant acts
Last Line: And isles th'astonisht cattle round.
Subject(s): Floods; Rivers


THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 60, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others tell the paradox
Last Line: And pikes are taken in the pound.
Subject(s): Floods; Rivers


THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 61, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But I, retiring from the flood
Last Line: Take sanctuary in the wood.
Subject(s): Floods; Rivers


THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery
Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat.
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE RIVER OF RIVERS IN CONNECTICUT, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a great river this side of stygia
Last Line: The river that flows nowhere, like a sea
Subject(s): Connecticut; Rivers


THE RIVER PATH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No bird-song floated down the hill
Last Line: "the dear ones whom we loved below!"
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER RUNNING TO THE SEA, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river running to the sea
Last Line: To front the larger sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Rivers; Sea; Strength; Tides; Water; Ocean


THE RIVER SONG, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are cut magnolia
Last Line: Their voice is in the twelve pipes here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVER ST. JOE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bumblebee sips and the clover is red
Last Line: And I'm floating away down the river st. Joe.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Michigan; Rivers


THE RIVER STOUR, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stour, of all our streams the dearest
Last Line: Be thy by-dwellers, gliding stour.
Subject(s): Children; Rivers; Stour (river), England; Childhood


THE RIVER WAS THE EMBLEM OF ALL BEAUTY; ALL, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river swanly in its swanhood flowed
Subject(s): Rivers; Nature; Beauty


THE RIVER-GOD'S SONG, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not fear to put thy feet
Last Line: And not a wave shall trouble thee.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE RIVERS, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The terrain in my country
Last Line: And they revive
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers; Third World; Death


THE RIVERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go! Trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth
Last Line: The victory from the grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Rivers


THE ROSE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle, gentle river / hurrying along
Last Line: T will cheer life's wilderness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Rivers; Roses


THE SHREWSBURY RIVER, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Onward rolls the shrewsbury river
Last Line: And at last wind safe to sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Rivers


THE SNOWS, by CHARLES SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the snows / buoyantly goes
Last Line: To sing of the raftsmen's cheer.
Subject(s): Canada; Inland Waters; Rivers; Canadians


THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: West wind, blow from your prairie nest
Last Line: Swelling the song that my paddle sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Canoes & Canoeing; Crows; Rivers; Wind


THE SONG OF THE LIGHT CANOE, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the dew is fresh and the grasses wet
Last Line: When the flush of the sunset dies.
Subject(s): Boats; Canoes & Canoeing; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Water; Seamen; Sails


THE SPRINGS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a country without satins or shrines
Last Line: In bondage to the ground
Subject(s): Rivers


THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE DELAWARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of where or how, I nothing know
Last Line: Beside the susquehanna and along the delaware.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rivers of my life
Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers


THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, FR. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, by CHARLES SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bark leaps love-fraught from the land; the sea
Last Line: Ploughing, like a huge serpent from its ambuscade.
Subject(s): Great Lakes; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; St. Lawrence River; Thousand Islands


THE TROUT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O gay little troutlet, that runs in the river
Last Line: The pool is all silent -- trout, thou art still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Rivers; Soul; Trout


THE VOICE OF THE RAIN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower
Last Line: Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.)
Subject(s): Rain; Rivers


THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along a river-side, I know not where
Last Line: While waking I recalled my wandering brain.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen, by potomac, that shaft in the skies
Last Line: The noble, the peerless, the many in one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; Potomac River; Rivers; Washington Monument; Washington, D.c.; Liberty


THE WATCHERS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the ford at the town's edge
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Rivers


THE WATER-BABIES: SONG. THE TIDE RIVER, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear and cool, clear and cool
Last Line: Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child!
Variant Title(s): Song Of The River
Subject(s): Rivers


THE WEARY RIVER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a ceaseless river
Last Line: O bitter, barren sea.
Subject(s): Rivers


THE WHITE CASCADE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happy mortal sees that mountain now
Last Line: That on the mountain sings, and shines so far.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire, fire, fire, fire!
Last Line: That else must burn, and with me fall.
Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Pain; Rivers; Suffering; Misery


THIRD THING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water is hwo, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one
Last Line: But it is a third thing present which makes it an atom
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Rivers


THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river
Last Line: Going zap1 and zap! Zap! Zap! All the way home
Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)


THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river
Last Line: The bundle of dry clothes there on the shore
Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)


THREE RIVERS, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: What are you doing now, anne-marie, on the night we would bring home good
Last Line: I'm driving home from the airport without you. I feel sad in my stomach
Subject(s): Rivers


THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 2. RIVER SONG, by WILLIAM A. BEATTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like you, sweet bud
Last Line: Sunlight.
Subject(s): Flowers; Rivers


TIDE IN THE RIVER, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As the tide turned in its sleep
Variant Title(s): The White Ow
Subject(s): Rivers


TIME OPTICS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the ditch vaults the river
Last Line: I'll be alright gone
Subject(s): Rivers; Time


TIPPECANOE RIVER, by MARTIN WALLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two herons stretching. Their necks smoke through a cross-hatch of boughs
Last Line: The way a filigree of cobwebs in the lowest branches catches & holds the light
Subject(s): Herons; Nature; Rivers


TO A DRY ELM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the old elm split in two by a ray
Last Line: Another miracle of spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Spring


TO A RIVER IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me no more, o gentle stream
Last Line: Old love shall dwell with old delight.
Subject(s): Brooks; England; Rivers; Streams; Creeks; English


TO A STAGNANT RIVER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O river, why lie with your beautiful face
Last Line: To yourself, your creator, be true first of all.
Subject(s): Rivers


TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On either bank
Subject(s): Camping; Rivers; Camps; Summer Camps


TO DEAN-BOURN, A RUDE RIVER IN DEVON, BY WHICH ... HE LIVED, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dean-bourn, farewell; I never look to see
Last Line: Rockes turn to rivers, rivers turn to men.
Subject(s): Rivers


TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memory, hither come
Last Line: With silent melancholy.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection


TO MY MISTRESS SITTING BY A RIVER'S SIDE; AN EDDY, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark how yon eddy steals away
Last Line: Within these arms for ever swim.
Subject(s): Rivers


TO ONE THAT ASKED ME WHY I LOV'D J.G., by JOAN PHILIPS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I love? Go, ask the glorious sun
Last Line: That I shou'd love, and he shou'd be ingrate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Love; Rivers; Dead, The; Destiny


TO THE ALLANDER, by ROBERT TENNANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sweetly flows the allander, a mossy, winding stream
Last Line: Along the banks of allander, for one bright summer day.
Subject(s): Rivers


TO THE HONOURABLE W. R. SPENCER; FROM BUFFALO, UPON LAKE ERIE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou oft hast told me of the fairy hours
Last Line: Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Delaware (river); Homesickness; Lake Erie; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Rivers; Schuylkill River


TO THE RIVER, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis nearly night: a healing night
Last Line: Rimmed with a fragment halo?
Subject(s): Rivers; Thought


TO THE RIVER CHARLES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: River! That in silence windest
Last Line: Take this idle song from me.
Variant Title(s): To The Silent River
Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts; Rivers


TO THE RIVER CHERWELL, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cherwell, how pleased along thy willowed edge
Last Line: Till eve's last hush shall close the silent scene.
Subject(s): Rivers


TO THE RIVER DOVE, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Stream beloved by those
Last Line: Like thought recovered from an antique dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Nymphs; Rivers


TO THE RIVER DUDDON, by NORMAN NICHOLSON                        Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder, duddon, if you still remember
Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Duddon (river), England; England; Rivers; English


TO THE RIVER DUDDON, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder, duddon, if you still remember
Last Line: Thirty thousand feet of solid cumberland
Subject(s): Cumberland, England; Duddon (river), England; England; Rivers


TOO ANXIOUS FOR RIVERS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look down the long valley and there stands a mountain
Last Line: To find ‘twas the effort, the essay of love
Subject(s): Rivers


TORRIDGE SALMON, by TOM RAWLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft light through cloud
Last Line: Her virgin scales cling to my hands
Subject(s): Rivers


TRAGEDIES: 10, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The river's mouth is weary wide
Last Line: And mingled and melted over the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Rivers; Nightmares


TROUT MAP, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The management area of cherokee
Last Line: Now mapless the mountains were a dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Rivers


TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden river-reach afar
Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain!
Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery


TWIST IN THE RIVER, by KATHERINE PIERPOINT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the clear, beer-coloured and bubbleshot twist in the river
Last Line: And the river runs through its own fingers, careless
Subject(s): Environment; Rivers


TWO RIVERS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy summer voice, musketaquit, / repeats the music of the rain
Last Line: And ages drop in it like rain.
Subject(s): Concord River, Massachusetts; Rivers


TWO RIVULETS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two rivulets side by side
Last Line: Your breast so broad, with open arms, o firm, expanded shore!)
Subject(s): Rivers


TWO SONGS OF THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At night angry survivors
Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Dead, The


TWO-RIVER LEDGER, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joke used to be: / if you don't like it
Subject(s): Rivers; Pollution; Houses; Family Life; Relatives


TWO-SEATER PRIVY OVER A STREAM, by DAVID CONSTANTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All work, hitting at the buckled hills
Last Line: Like boiling quartz) and downstream not their worry
Subject(s): Rivers


UNDER JOCASSEE, by RON RASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: One summer morning when
Last Line: A grave you've just passed over, %wondering why she looked up
Subject(s): Boats; Death; Rivers


UNDER THE PLANE TREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under my wall / and plane-tree tall
Last Line: The home in which they find repose.
Subject(s): Lakes; Plane Trees; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Sycamores; Ocean


UNDER THE WATERFALL, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I plunge my arm, like this
Last Line: In turns therefrom sipped lovers' wine.'
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


UPON ECKINGTON BRIDGE, RIVER AVON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O pastoral heart of england! Like a psalm
Last Line: Turns in her sleep, and murmurs of the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Variant Title(s): Ode
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Bridges; England; Rivers; English


URARA (ORARA), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Euroka, go over the tops of the hill
Last Line: On the banks of the gloomy urara!
Subject(s): Rivers


VALLEY, by GILLIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In water-memory the river turns
Last Line: A valley cut by water over stone
Subject(s): Rivers


VENUS IN ARDEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now love, her mantle thrown
Last Line: With youth whose days three thousand years are done.
Subject(s): Avon (river), England; England; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rivers; Venus (goddess); English


VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river's been here, violent, right where we're standing
Last Line: "only. I would like to be that unnoticed
Subject(s): Rivers


VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The river's been here, violent, right where we're standing
Last Line: You could drown in, face down
Subject(s): Rivers


VIGNETTE: 1, by KEKI N. DARUWALLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun comes up
Last Line: But to show it
Subject(s): Rivers


VIGNETTE: 2, by KEKI N. DARUWALLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the lower reaches of the sky
Last Line: A sadhu eyes me unblinking from his navel
Subject(s): Rivers


WALL STREET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strait river, with its hoarse and feverous flood
Last Line: Christ above mammon, love before the world.
Subject(s): Money; Rivers; Wall Street, New York City


WARM RIVER SPRINGS, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daylight moves the wind while the river fastens
Last Line: The current floats into secretive arms of safety. %the burn of volcanic springs cools in depths of c
Variant Title(s): Warm Springs Rive
Subject(s): Rivers


WATCHERS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the ford at the town's edge
Last Line: And many cases of stuffed fish, vermin, and kingfishers
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met an ancestor in the lane
Last Line: No, I didn't see her. But she was there
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER BELOW, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This house is floored with water
Last Line: The waters under the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER COLOURS, by IVOR GURNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trembling water glimpsed through dark tangle
Last Line: And beauty brief in action as first dew
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER DIVINER, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Late, I have come to a parched land
Last Line: Believe; believing, doubt
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER DIVINER, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You could say I embark on the land
Last Line: But all the water in the world shoving one mill
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER EVERYWHERE, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Officially they do not acknowledge this god
Last Line: They reckon these words cover everything
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER MEADOWS, by LEONARD CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn from this sleeping hill
Last Line: Awakes to singing light
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER MUSIC, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What I looked for was a place where water
Last Line: Let my last journey be to sounds of water
Subject(s): Rivers


WATER SKETCHES, by A. WALTER SOLOMON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fragile river boats
Last Line: Of silver moire.
Subject(s): Geography; Rivers; Water


WATER TABLE, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A river flows under my window
Last Line: I have set a table for you, %come, come, quick!
Subject(s): Rivers; Water


WATERBORNE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river is largely implicit here, but part
Subject(s): Rivers


WATERCOURSE, by JOHN CASSIDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two inches deep and clear
Last Line: To placate the salt
Subject(s): Rivers


WATERING PLACE, by PAUL HYLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: From pastureland I once dropped down
Last Line: Upstream, just, where the water's sweet
Subject(s): Rivers


WATERSPOUT, 1853, by RUTH BIDGOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They still ask me about the night
Last Line: For my once inundated mind
Subject(s): Rivers


WE SHALL BE SATISFIED, by SUSAN KELLY PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The course of the weariest river
Last Line: "we shall be ""satisfied."
Subject(s): Rain; Rainbows; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


WE WILL NOT GO INTO THAT RIVER, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: All goodness of the earth -- for his shoulder
Subject(s): Human Rights; Memory; Prisons And Prisoners; Rivers


WEIR RIVER, by WILLIAM DORESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In ware, stone and brick mills loom
Last Line: But I taste it like communion, %veiling with hypocrite faith
Subject(s): Rivers


WELL WATER, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a girl called 'the dailiness of life'
Subject(s): Rivers; Wells


WELL WATER, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a girl called 'the dailiness of life'
Last Line: And gulp from them the dailiness of life
Subject(s): Rivers; Wells


WHEN THE DIM DAY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dim day is buried
Last Line: Will part nevermore!
Subject(s): Rivers; Grief; Nature


WHEN THE MISSISSIPPI FLOWED IN INDIANA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath time's roaring canyon
Last Line: The cave by the mississippi %where tom and becky strayed
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens)


WHERE GO THE BOATS?, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark brown is the river
Last Line: Shall bring my boats ashore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 14
Subject(s): Boats; Imagination; Rivers; Fancy


WHERE IS THE SCARED WELL, THAT BORE MY NAME?, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Collect excise, or wait upon the tide
Subject(s): Rivers


WHERE RUNS THE RIVER? WHO CAN SAY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Religion; Rivers


WHERE STOUR RECEIVES HER STRENGTH, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And at new forrest's foote into the sea doe fall
Subject(s): Rivers


WHO CARVED A BIRD AND A FISH, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Knows it's a geadh, a goose
Subject(s): Rivers


WIDE O'ER THE BRIM, WITH MANY A TORRENT SWELL'D, by JAMES THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders' thro'
Subject(s): Rivers


WISH-XAM, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rattle seedpods, shed skins, to translucent hulls
Last Line: Rich with oils and segments of heartbeat in sturgeon, %the river like the snake rests its spine by d
Subject(s): Native Americans; Rivers; Sports


WITH THE CURRENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rarest mood of all the year!
Last Line: As the bubbles go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Rivers; Roses; Sky; Paradise


WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day
Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!"
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks


WOUNDED OTTER, by MICHAEL HARTNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wounded otter %on a bare rock
Last Line: Swimming at ease %in the magic crystal river
Subject(s): Rivers


WYE BELOW BREDWARDINE, by JOHN POWELL WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The banks are steep. Drought. Water too low
Last Line: Imagined this heaven. Is there hope? Swans arrive
Subject(s): Rivers