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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER, by SARA TEASDALE 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
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
I came from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,
For I thought in its gray expanses
My peace would come to me.
I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the windless valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!"
But the thirsty tide ran inland,
And the salt waves drank of me,
And I who was fresh as the rainfall
Am bitter as the sea.
Other Poems of Interest...
RIVER REMEMBERED by JOHN HOLLANDER
RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL
TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER by LARRY LEVIS
TWO-RIVER LEDGER by KHALED MATTAWA
HE FINDS THE MANSION by JAMES MCMICHAEL
THE RIVERS by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA
VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA by MARGARET ATWOOD
THE PORCH OVER THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY