Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Rivers of England | | Rivers of England | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | To the River Anker
OUR floods’ queen, Thames, for ships and swans is crowned; | |
| And stately Severn for her shore is praised; | |
| The crystal Trent for fords and fish renowned, | |
| And Avon’s fame to Albion’s cliffs is raised. | |
| Carlegion-Chester vaunts her holy Dee; | 5 |
| York many wonders of her Ouse can tell; | |
| The Peak her Dove, whose banks so fertile be, | |
| And Kent will say her Medway doth excel. | |
| Cotswold commends her Isis to the Thame; | |
| Our northern borders boast of Tweed’s fair flood; | 10 |
| Our western parts extol their Welly’s fame, | |
| And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood. | |
| Arden’s sweet Anker, let thy glory be, | |
| That fair Idea only lives by thee. | | | | |
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