Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Appendix: Shannon, the River | | The Shannon | | Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
| | | RIVER of billows, to whose mighty heart | |
| The tide-wave rushes of the Atlantic sea; | |
| River of quiet depths, by cultured lea, | |
| Romantic wood, or city’s crowded mart; | |
| River of old poetic founts, which start | 5 |
| From their lone mountain-cradles, wild and free, | |
| Nursed with the fawns, lulled by the woodlark’s glee, | |
| And cushat’s hymeneal song apart: | |
| River of chieftains, whose baronial halls, | |
| Like veteran warders, watch each wave-worn steep, | 10 |
| Portumna’s towers, Bunratty’s royal walls, | |
| Carrick’s stern rock, the Geraldine’s gray keep,— | |
| River of dark mementos! must I close | |
| My lips with Limerick’s wrong, with Anghrim’s woes? | | | | |
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