Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Clwyd, the River | | The River Clwyd, in North Wales | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | O CAMBRIAN river! with slow music gliding | |
| By pastoral hills, old woods, and ruined towers; | |
| Now midst thy reeds and golden willows hiding; | |
| Now gleaming forth by some rich bank of flowers; | |
| Long flowed the current of my life’s clear hours | 5 |
| Onward with thine, whose voice yet haunts my dream, | |
| Though time and change and other mightier powers | |
| Far from thy side have borne me. Thou, smooth stream! | |
| Art winding still thy sunny meads along, | |
| Murmuring to cottage and gray hall thy song, | 10 |
| Low, sweet, unchanged. My being’s tide hath passed | |
| Through rocks and storms; yet will I not complain, | |
| If, thus wrought free and pure from earthly stain, | |
| Brightly its waves may reach their parent deep at last. | | | | |
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