| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. Connecticut River | | By James Dixon (1814–1873) |
| | | WANDERING ’mid flowery banks, or loud and hoarse | |
| Foaming o’er rock and crag, all wild and free, | |
| From the deep woods that hide thy shaded source, | |
| To where thy waters mingle with the sea, | |
| Beautiful River! like a dream of love | 5 |
| Thy deep waves glide—blue as the sky above. | |
| Bright are the happy homes along thy shores, | |
| Shaded by drooping elms that kiss thy wave; | |
| And grassy banks, that bloom with gay wild-flowers, | |
| Thy calm and murmuring waters gently lave; | 10 |
| And warbling birds, with music sweet as thine, | |
| Sing in the branches of the o’erhanging vine | |
| A song whose notes are with us evermore, | |
| Stealing our hearts away to wander by thy shore. | | | | |
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