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Tuthill—to reduce River street to the width of 80 feet. By Mr.

prefer water to land, since he derives both his income and his pleasures from the rolling deep of the river

families, start out on excursions to the country, or on some of the steamboat trips up the North or East Rivers

This river port city on the Potomac is a few miles south of Washington, D.C.

for railroads that included the Baltimore & Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad, Manassas Gap, and Hudson River

These battles were fought along the Chickahominy River, just outside the Confederate capital.

Surrounded by the Potomac River, the Eastern Branch (now called the Anacostia) River, and the City Canal

the Maryland side of the river, and take the ferry across to Virginia.

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

The house of P ETER B ROWN was situated at one end of the village, near the river, in a pleasant place

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river, where they

The child, then quite small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and A RROW -T IP had dashed into

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens toward the river,

About this time Walt introduced his brother to Italian opera and frequently took him across the East River

Water Works, a progressive system of deriving municipal water supplies from artesian wells instead of rivers

probably Flad who, as a member of the Board of Water Commissioners, invited Jeff on a Mississippi River

had recommended that the new waterworks be located at the Chain of Rocks, a site on the Mississippi River

Furthermore, river water was becoming inreasingly polluted with city sewage, causing periodic outbreaks

clutched him by the arm, & poured out the greatest singing you ever heard—it poured like a raging river

population is 1,500,000), almost every body well-drest, & appearing to have enough—then the splendid river

Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?

see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see

O boating on the rivers! The voyage down the Niagara, (the St.

Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

On pleasant days, however, he goes out in a wheel-chair, and passes considerable time on the river bank

W. said—"Yes—I was out—down to the river. I met the girls—Aggie—her friend.

well again & that you open the check draughts of your hurrying life now & then.I sit here facing the river

Camden "into the shipyards" and "enjoyed there the industry, the sky, the city opposite, the flowing river

He thought the river "a trifle coolish, but refreshing."

'Leaves of Grass' is a seashore, a mountain, floating cloud, sweeping river, storm, lightning, passion

the contrast between the drying up of some clear and narrow brook, and the extinction of an inland river

One is the drying up of a clear transparent brooklet; and one the quenching of a river, more extensive

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, A gray

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, A gray

is a broad, magnificent place in its natural features—avenues, spaces, vistas, environing hills, rivers

The river and bay scenery, all about New York island, any time of a fine day—the hurrying, splashing

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river

Starr'd Nights…Mulleins…A Sun-Bath—Nakedness…Human and Heroic New York…Hours for the Soul…Delaware River—Days

like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river

couplets of our orthodox English verse, and this wild, free, reckless voice of the fields, and the rivers

He resides here, near the Delaware river, in a little cottage of his own, with a good "house-lady," as

a sonnet of Hood's, or a dainty bit of verse by Longfellow has form; but he has form as a tree, a river

Amused.I described a flight of crows I had seen an hour before on the river—"a perfect line of at least

"They are the most wonderful of all the birds on the river," I said.

"If you could lay it aside, take a walk out, ride across the river, loaf a bit in the streets, the secret

he said: "that would be the solution of it all: that was my old way: a walk to the river, a look up at

found that she was a Swiss immigrant, a widow, and kept a little ale-house on the banks of the North river

how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long, low piazza looking out upon the river

your own shape and countenance—persons, sub- stances substances , beasts, the trees, the running rivers

Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me—and I yet with any of them; Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river—yet

your own shape and countenance—persons, sub- stances substances , beasts, the trees, the running rivers

Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me—and I yet with any of them; Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river—yet

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them, Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river

See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the

Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them, Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

posed a problem for the plans of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to dam the Little Tennessee River

The sense that something valuable had been lost in the Tellico Valley with its little river and fertile

Unlike a boat or even a bridge, the dam interferes with the very "riverness" of the Rhine.

Like the undammed river, the soul flows and may flood unexpectedly.

"His spirit responds to his country's spirit; he incarnates its geography and natural life, and rivers

the pale green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories near the Delaware river

Camden is a prosperous city of some fifty thousand souls, situated on the left bank of the Delaware river

That river is a never-ending fascination to me.

Had just returned from trip to the river. Looked in fine condition and talked well.

mysteries of identity in "Song of Myself," of childhood in "There Was a Child Went Forth," of the rivers

employing their words, so that every time Americans spoke the names of the country's towns and states and rivers

with squalid children picking them over, and dirty alleys, and courts and houses half roofless, and a river

under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, In Greek mythology Acheron is the river

directness of observation & purpose, by the painters: sometimes, instead of walking, we row up the river

wharves —the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the river

To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and the fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon

that separates it from prose of any sort: Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad, every river

The mountains, rivers, forests, and the elements that gird them round about, would be only blank conditions

The former may be as fair or fairer to see; but, as "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose

Delaware River—Days and Nights.....Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights, . . .

DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS. April 5, 1879.

HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS.

SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER. Sept. 3 .

UNFULFILL'D WANTS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

His spirit responds to his country's spirit: he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl; I see where the

Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!

bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers!

merits demerits , Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

7 We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;

Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?

O boating on the rivers, The voyage down the St.

We primeval forests felling, We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within; We