Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Rivers of England | | Rivers of England | | John Dyer (1700?–1758) |
| | (From The Fleece)
NO common pleasure warms the generous mind, | |
| When it beholds the labors of the loom; | |
| How widely round the globe they are dispersed, | |
| From little tenements by wood or croft, | |
| Through many a slender path, how sedulous, | 5 |
| As rills to rivers broad, they speed their way | |
| To public roads, to Fosse, or Watling Street, | |
| Or Armine, ancient works; and thence explore, | |
| Through every navigable wave, the sea | |
| That laps the green earth round: through Tyne, and Tees, | 10 |
| Through Weare, and Lune, and merchandizing Hull, | |
| And Swale, and Aire, whose crystal waves reflect | |
| The various colors of the tinctured web; | |
| Through Ken, swift rolling down his rocky dale, | |
| Like giddy youth impetuous, then at Wick | 15 |
| Curbing his train, and, with the sober pace | |
| Of cautious eld, meandering to the deep; | |
| Through Dart, and sullen Exe, whose murmuring wave | |
| Envies the Dune and Rother, who have won | |
| The serge and kersie to their blanching streams. | 20 | | | |
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