Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Arun, the River | | To the River Arun | | Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) |
| | | BE the proud Thames of trade the busy mart; | |
| Arun, to thee will other praise belong: | |
| Dear to the lover’s and the mourner’s heart, | |
| And ever sacred to the sons of song. | |
| Thy banks romantic hopeless Love shall seek, | 5 |
| Where o’er the rocks the mantling bind-weed flaunts; | |
| And Sorrow’s drooping form and faded cheek | |
| Choose on thy willowed shore her lonely haunts. | |
| Banks, which inspired thy Otway’s plaintive strain! | |
| Wilds, whose lorn echoes learned the deeper tone | 10 |
| Of Collins, powerful shade! yet once again | |
| Another poet, Hayley, is thine own. | |
| Thy classic stream again shall hear a lay | |
| Bright as its waves and various as its way. | | | | |
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