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| Searching... Subject: RIVERS Matches Found: 650 ... 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'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 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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: The line between land and water Subject(s): Rivers A SATYR, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: My 'place of clear water' Subject(s): Rivers ANAHORISH, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am driving; it is dusk; minnesota Subject(s): Minnesota; Rivers DRIVING TOWARD THE LAC QUI PARLE RIVER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clamped to the log by the current Subject(s): Rivers FORDING THE FLOODED GOLDIE RIVER, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source 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'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 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 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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: Nobody steps into the same river twice Subject(s): Rivers HERACLITUS ON RIVERS, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: We cross the sacramento river at colusa Subject(s): Rivers RIVER IN THE VALLEY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source 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'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'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 REMEMBERED, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rhododendrons’ darkened leaves are curled Last Line: In these last lines I’ve finally come to write Subject(s): Rivers RIVER RHYME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography Subject(s): Rivers; Australia TAY BRIDGE, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source 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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: At night angry survivors Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Dead, The TWO-RIVER LEDGER, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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 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'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 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 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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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 |
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