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| Searching... Subject: CREEKS Matches Found: 106 A BAREFOOT BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A barefoot boy! I mark him at Last Line: Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood A BROOK IN THE CITY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text 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 BROOK SONG, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm hastening from the distant hills Last Line: "or whither we are going!" Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks A CLEARING BY A STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: What impels the mind to soar forth? Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade Last Line: And heaven reflected in her face. Variant Title(s): The Stream;to A Young Lady;addressed To A Young Lady Subject(s): Brooks; Youth; Streams; Creeks A FAREWELL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks A MEADOW BROOK, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a quiet nook by a meadow brook Last Line: That meadow brook far away. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; Streams; Creeks A MEMORY: BANKS OF CALDER AND COUSIN DORA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straying, musing, singing, dreaming Last Line: She has passed away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Death; Nature; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The AN OLD-TIMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wayward stream Last Line: I -- breathless -- wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Faces; Streams; Creeks ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks AS RIVERS OF WATER IN A DRY PLACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lonely, lonely lay the hill Last Line: Fresh as god's latest word! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Water; Streams; Creeks BE HOPEFUL: 3. THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright stream may shrink in summer's hot fire Last Line: The life-stream again runs fresh 'mong the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Hope; Streams; Creeks; Optimism BEAVER BROOK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill Last Line: And labor meet delight half-way. Subject(s): Brooks; Waverly, Massachusetts; Streams; Creeks BIRCH STREAM, by ANNA BOYNTON AVERILL Poem Text First Line: At noon, within the dusty town Last Line: Thy memory doth with me abide. Subject(s): Birch Stream, Maine; Brooks; Streams; Creeks BRIGHT WATER FOR ME!, by JAMES P. CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: O! Come, come with me to the stream in the glade Last Line: And our drink the cool water, pure water shall be. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods CHRISTMAS CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom streams were in the distance - mocking lights of lake and pool Last Line: "fitly -- ""christmas creek""." Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks COMMUNITY, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Burned into parchment, sung in a brook Last Line: For the virginal garland of spring. Subject(s): Brooks; Spring; Streams; Creeks DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin' Last Line: Down on wriggle crick! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DOWN THE BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the meadow for the brook Last Line: The clouded moon is dim and bleary. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks FLOOD CONTROL, by LOUIS STODDARD Poem Text First Line: You should have seen the flooded creek today Last Line: Conceding them life nor questioning their reasons. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing Last Line: None must come save you and she. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Green fields and running brooks Last Line: Sing green fields and running brooks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fields; Streams; Creeks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HOME AGAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm bin a-visitun 'bout a week Last Line: An' I'm come back home where my beau lives at. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): A Very Youthful Affair Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Home; Streams; Creeks HYLA BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By june our brook's run out of song and speed Last Line: We love the things we love for what they are. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks I KNOW A BROOK, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a brook that winds its way along Last Line: Which he who drinks of never shall thirst more. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks I WAS A BROOK, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a brook in straitest channel pent Last Line: To shew their forms and hues in the all revealing sun. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks ILLA CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strong sea-wind flies up and sings Last Line: And hidden mountain altars. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks IN SWIMMING-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds above, as white as wool Last Line: Dropping, drifting through it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Clouds; Swimming & Swimmers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood; Swimmers INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation 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 LUGGIE, PAST AND PRESENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen thy crystal waters Last Line: Night and day is running ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks MANY WATERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were live waters racing down Last Line: My heart of music had her fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks MILLCREEK, by MATTIE-LOU BLACKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Some of its willows are young, but most of them are too old Last Line: Once so free and so lovely, and now this feculent slave. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks MINETTA WATER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deer-hoof dint and moccasin print Last Line: Through the crumbled homes of men. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Hunting; New York City - Dutch Period; Streams; Creeks; Hunters MOUNTAIN STREAM, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: The stream that wore this little valley down Last Line: To wear and wear. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks NARRARA CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms Last Line: When the sorrowful days of my singing are over. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks NEAR A QUIET STREAM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When musing near a quiet stream Last Line: Have no wise substance anywhere.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks NILOTIC DRINKING SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may water your bays, brother-poets Last Line: And sing for the glory of ancient nilus! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Brooks; Drinks & Drinking; Silence; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Wine ON THE PAROO, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the strong stream of a wintering sea Last Line: Of fiery clouds and immemorial rains. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! I'm going back where Last Line: Boneset, mint, and pennyroyal. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods PEBBLES, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Who first heard the high and silver treble Last Line: And found the forest a new tune. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks POETIC EPIGRAMS: 23. A BROOK IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange as a frozen dream Last Line: Is this stilled winter stream. Subject(s): Brooks; Dreams; Winter; Streams; Creeks; Nightmares QUATORZAINS: 3. RIVULETS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purl Last Line: So I will save it, lest the elf should drown. Subject(s): Brooks; Fairies; Streams; Creeks; Elves RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name hast thou! Lone streamlet Last Line: The wildness of thy tresses. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Brooks; Names; Streams; Creeks ROARING BROOK; A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a mountain stream that with the leap Last Line: To loiter with these wayside comforters. Subject(s): Brooks; Connecticut; Landscape; Streams; Creeks SILVER CREEK FALLS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: With a voice of many thunders Last Line: Silver creek, sing on for me! Subject(s): Brooks; Waterfalls; Streams; Creeks SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I through the valley of klausen went Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With swift delusional energy Last Line: A delusional / solidity Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE ASPEN AND THE STREAM, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye Last Line: A darker head, a few more aspen-leaves Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees; Streams; Creeks THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like the flowing stream / that glides where summer's beauties teem Last Line: And center in my parent lake. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Brooks; Life; Streams; Creeks THE BANKS OF AVONLEE, by ROBERT GEMMELL Poem Text First Line: The trees are cloth'd in richest green Last Line: And by the banks of avonlee! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up, my jewel! Let's away Last Line: Stolen into the gulf for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text 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 BROOK, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But yesterday this brook was bright Last Line: By something worse than discontent! Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by ADIA JAMES LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Oh! I wonder, now I ponder Last Line: To the river I will play. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Bright mountain brook that flowest at my feet Last Line: To do each day the work appointed me. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Loneliness THE BROOK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the mountain to the sea Last Line: And I have many a mile to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Brooks; Farewell; Streams; Creeks; Parting THE BROOK AND THE OCEAN, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brook from a headland was falling Last Line: "drop of fresh water to drink." Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE BROOK THAT RUNS TO FRANCE, by JOHN CLAIR MINOT Poem Text First Line: The brook that threads the meadow Last Line: Three thousand miles, and more! Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook! Little brook! Last Line: Sing back to him the rest he used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood THE BROOK: SUMMER, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Clustering ferns lie cool Last Line: Beside the current's murmuring. Subject(s): Brooks; Collective Behavior; Pleasure; Streams; Creeks; Mobs; Crowds THE BROOK; AN IDYL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by this brook we parted, I to the east Last Line: But she -- you will be welcome -- o, come in!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK; AN IDYL: THE BROOK'S SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from haunts of coot and hern Last Line: But I go on forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Brook Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOKLET, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O deep unlovely brooklet, moaning slow Last Line: To sleep unsunned in an untrampled glen. Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE BROOKSIDE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered by the brookside Last Line: Was all the sound we heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Brooks; Courtship; Streams; Creeks THE BWOAT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where cows did slowly seek the brink Last Line: Aye, all but my own ruffled mind. Subject(s): Boats; Brooks; Love; Streams; Creeks THE CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout. Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE FROZEN STREAM, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stream that leapt and danced Last Line: Murmuring its song? Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE HILL WATER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little brook Last Line: Dear, murmuring water! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Singing & Singers; Soul; Streams; Creeks THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MUSIC OF THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a spirit voice - an angel's song Last Line: And beauty, bloom, and song exist no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks 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 POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks THE RESOLVE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To come to the river Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Straight from the cool green arms Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam. Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips THE SPRING AND THE BROOK; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It may be that the poet is as a spring Last Line: The solitary parent spring behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Brooks; Poetry & Poets; Streams; Creeks THE STREAM AND THE TARN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stream came plunging and leaping Last Line: And the heart of pearl in its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE STREAM'S SECRET, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What thing unto mine ear Last Line: This hidden tide of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE STREAMLET, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thread-like stream, that had its source Last Line: Died in the lake's engulfing gloom! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE STREAMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have been holy, o founts and floods! Last Line: Making the heart a shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE SUBTERRANEAN STREAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly thou glidest onward Last Line: In one bright flood of day! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE TROUT-BROOK, by CARL WARING Poem Text First Line: You see it first near the dusty road Last Line: To the charms of the meadow brook. Subject(s): Brooks; Trout; Streams; Creeks THE UNFORGOTTEN: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She rested by the broken brook Last Line: As I recall the blue? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brooks; Love - Loss Of; Streams; Creeks THE VALLEY BROOK, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Fresh from the fountains of the wood Last Line: Press onward in the glorious strife. Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land Last Line: Along that silent strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WATER CROWVOOT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O small-feac'd flow'r that now dost bloom Last Line: Fair small-feäc'd flow'r o' the frome. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooks; Flowers; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WHITE CASCADE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To build the trout a crystal stair Last Line: And whisper sorrow into sleep! Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE YOUTH AND THE MILL-STREAM, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty brooklet, gaily glancing Last Line: Tell that maiden all my passion! Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Youth; Streams; Creeks TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time of crisp and tawny leaves Last Line: In the thicket while he sings! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Harvest; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Streams; Creeks TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend Last Line: Born of an impulse divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO A RIVER IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text 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 MY BROOK, by JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS Poem Text First Line: Brook little known whose waters run Last Line: How time's swift stream doth ever flow. Subject(s): Brooks; Calm; Streams; Creeks; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LITTLE BROOK WITHOUT A NAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook without a name, that hast been my companion for so many years Last Line: And bear away on thy bosom, and scatter them likewise. Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Nature; Spring; Streams; Creeks WAKEFULNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, idly drifting, where thought's varied streams Last Line: Sleep, sweet sleep! Subject(s): Brooks; Sleep; Streams; Creeks WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind Last Line: To write his name Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WEST RUNNING BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Fred, where is north? Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The WITH THOUGHTS OF ROUSSEAU, by HIRSCH LAZAAR SILVERMAN Poem Text First Line: I hence would kneel upon the grassy brink Last Line: That cools the thirst of all the wilderness. Subject(s): Brooks; Thought; Streams; Creeks; Thinking WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text 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 ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War |
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