Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ora, the River | | Ora | | William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| | | NOR Arne, nor Mincius, nor stately Tiber, | |
| Sebethus, nor the flood into whose streams | |
| He fell who burnt the world with borrowed beams, | |
| Gold-rolling Tagus, Munda, famous Iber, | |
| Sorgue, Rhone, Loire, Garron, nor proud-banked Seine, | 5 |
| Peneus, Phasis, Xanthus, humble Ladon, | |
| Nor she whose nymphs excel her who loved Adon, | |
| Fair Tamesis, nor Ister large, nor Rhine, | |
| Euphrates, Tigris, Indus, Hermus, Gange, | |
| Pearly Hydaspes, serpent-like Meander, | 10 |
| The gulf bereft sweet Hero her Leander, | |
| Nile, that far, far his hidden head doth range, | |
| Have ever had so rare a cause of praise, | |
| As Ora, where this northern Phœnix stays. | | | | |
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