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THE RIVER by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: I CAME FROM THE SUNNY VALLEYS
Last Line: AM BITTER AS THE SEA.
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.






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