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) |
| | | ON thy wild banks, by frequent torrents worn, | |
| No glittering fanes or marble domes appear: | |
| Yet shall the weeping muse thy course adorn, | |
| And still to her thy rustic waves be dear. | |
| For with the infant Otway lingering here | 5 |
| Of early woes she bade her votary dream, | |
| While thy low murmurs soothed his pensive ear; | |
| And still the poet consecrates the stream. | |
| Beneath the oak and birch that fringe thy side, | |
| The first-born violets of the year shall spring; | 10 |
| And in thy hazels, bending o’er the tide, | |
| The earliest nightingales delight to sing: | |
| While kindred spirits pitying shall relate | |
| Thy Otway’s sorrows, and lament his fate. | | | | |
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