Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Rotha, the River | | The Rotha | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | (From Lines Written in the Album of Rotha Q.) |
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LOVELIER river is there none | |
| Underneath an English sun; | |
| From its source it issues bright | |
| Upon hoar Helvellyn’s height, | |
| Flowing where its summer voice | 5 |
| Makes the mountain herds rejoice; | |
| Down the dale it issues then, | |
| Not polluted there by men; | |
| While its lucid waters take | |
| Their pastoral course from lake to lake, | 10 |
| Please the eye in every part, | |
| Lull the ear, and soothe the heart, | |
| Till into Windermere sedate | |
| They flow and uncontaminate. | | | |
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