Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Western States: St. Louis, Mo. | | Up the River-side | | Frank Foy |
| | | A SABBATH hush pervades the summer day, | |
| As seated here beside the shining sands, | |
| I gaze on once again the arid lands, | |
| That weed-besprinkled westward stretch away; | |
| The waves that wash the beach about me lay | 5 |
| Smooth mirrors in their track, and vast expands | |
| The stream’s majestic breast, to where up-stands | |
| Fair Venice in her groves beside her bay. | |
| And so serenely on the sands of gold | |
| I lie and listen to the beat of wave | 10 |
| And boom of wind, and watch the river-gleams; | |
| Then seas of slumber are about me rolled, | |
| And as within their waters deep I lave, | |
| The scene before me fades and floats away in dreams. | | | | |
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