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— startling me with the overture some unnamable horror calmly sailing me all day on a broad bright river
— calmly sailing me down and down over down the broad deep sea river.— —startling me with the overture
wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded
(like gunpowder catches to fire) pass flow into us like one river into another.
The schooner is reefing hoisting her sai ls l she will soon be down the coast. river pirate old junk
red white or brown gables red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river
The hayboat and barge— flee the two boat with bring her bevy of barges down the river picture of the
I am an old artillerist I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe place) 2 doors above the river from
for I am you seem to me all one lurid Curse oath curse; I look down off the river with my bloodshot eyes
rear'dst him in on thy fresh & ample prairies, and on the breasts of thy great, fresh, musical flowing rivers
11 He The sores on my neck shoulders are from his iron necklace I look on the off on the river with my
come no more with demands like these to my free cities, or my teeming country towns, or along my rivers
.— Now drawn nigher the river's rim edge of the river Wierd Weird like creatures suddenly rise m This
Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to
offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river
Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.
running Missouri, praise nothing, in art or aught else Till it has breathed of the atmosphere of this river
Earth of departed sunset—Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!
—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious
Like Earth O river, you offer us burial Like Existence mortal Life is your aimless hurrying on Like Time
Like Earth O River
last 2 11 At the Mouth of the River Last of the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward
.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and
opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river
from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river
Europe Laplanders Rivers— B —Thames‑Trent‑Severn —Shannon Tay F —Seine —Loire —Rhone S Douro Tagus —Guadalquiver
Bavaria Frankfort Dresden 85,000 Saxony, Hanover, 40,000 Many of the items from this list of European rivers
The infinite oceans where the rivers empty!
over and over falling, rolling turning , an pausing revolving circling, falling Over Abo Close to the river
strange cement— not a field crop grows hence in the field, of north or south Not Nor moisture of the river