Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Thames, the River | | Thames | | Alexander Hume Butler |
| | | THAMES, infant Thames, | |
| Rippling, flowing | |
| Water-white, | |
| Where the bright | |
| Young wilding gems | 5 |
| Are blowing; | |
| Babbling ever in unrest, | |
| While as o’er her darling’s pillow | |
| Bends the mother, so the willow | |
| O’er thy breast. | 10 |
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| Thames, maiden Thames, | |
| Glancing, shining | |
| Silver-blue; | |
| While for you | |
| The lilied stems | 15 |
| Are pining. | |
| Ah! thou lovest best to play | |
| Slily with the wanton swallow, | |
| While he whispers thee to follow | |
| Him away. | 20 |
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| Thames, matron Thames, | |
| That ebbest back | |
| From the sea; | |
| Oh! in thee | |
| There are emblems | 25 |
| Of life’s track: | |
| We, too, would, like thee, regain, | |
| If we might, our greener hours; | |
| We, too, mourn our vanished flowers, | |
| But in vain. | 30 | | | |
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