Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Isis, the River | | The Isis | | John Bruce Norton (1815–1883) |
| | | RIVER, who with thy two soul-stirring names | |
| Speak’st, one of Rhedicyna’s youthful dream, | |
| And one of Commerce’, Empire’s mighty stream | |
| At proud Augusta’s foot,—Isis, and Thames,— | |
| From Godstow, where the fairest of frail dames, | 5 |
| Ros’mund, with epitaph uncourteous lies, | |
| Down to the reach where the tired skiffer ties | |
| His boat for Newnham’s summer feast and games, | |
| These are the limits of my Isis: there, | |
| Or up or down, I cleft my swift-oared way | 10 |
| Nightly, alone, with little heed or care, | |
| Through the full stream with racing cutters gay; | |
| Oft laughing at the imperious steersman’s shout, | |
| As from his very bows I glided out! | | | | |
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