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

, manfully, and appositely expressed—and a filibuster-like daring running, like a strong, vigorous river

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

Wondrous rivers, railroads everywhere, plenty of wood, interminable and fertile meadows, wheat, fruit

The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.

everything else rests; New York, Brooklyn, experimentation—down to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River

expedition (my brother Jeff with me) through all the Middle States and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers

objects of especial attention have been the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains and the Mississippi River

eyes roamed in an absent way among the stars that twinkled alike in the sky and on Philadelphia's river

Indeed, one of the very first things he did on his arrival here on Friday was to go over the river and

unless his friends are his companions, and of late months rarely sees the casual visitors who cross the river

Even yesterday, when the wind whistled its way and raced madly and blew keenly up from the river, the

You people across the river should be able to talk better of him than I can.

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

grave, Since I crossed this restless wave; And the evening, fair as ever, Shines on ruin, rock and river

Marraton sees his wife, whose recent death he is lamenting, standing on the opposite bank of a river.

looks, her hands, her voice, called him over to her, and at the same time seemed to tell him that the river

He plunges, nevertheless, into the stream, and finding it to be nothing but "the phantom of a river,"

The text of I855 is a river of lava.

How good they look as they tramp down to the river, sweaty, with their guns on their shoulders!

See Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," in Works (River side ed., I894), Vol. X. 107.

Insert natural things, indestructibles, idioms, charac teristics, rivers, states, persons, etc.

Rivers 22 studied Whitman's case scientifically and dispassionately.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Walden, or, Life in the Woods; The Maine Woods; Cape Cod.

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

Phenomenological Approaches to Human Contact soulstakeshapeinandthroughworldlyengagementswiththetrees,rivers

anyefforttocontactthatchildwillnecessarilyinvolvetheobjectsthrough which he creates himself, the “substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers

too,includingThoreau’s“Walking” (1862) and his more wide-ranging AWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

thatDickinsontellsuscansendabraincareeningfromitsnormal “Groove” into uncharted territories as unstoppably as a river

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

This quotation is taken from Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker

a very large place, the United States a republic of federated nations, the Mississippi an immense river

science of geography was in its earliest dawn—when not one man in ten thousand had heard of towns or rivers

Turner could not have given the misty curve of his horizons, the perspective of his rivers winding in

spirit responds to his country’s spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers

The coon-seekers go now through the regions of the Red United States and States United : 75 river, or

gone down the American river!

Rivers, Walt Whitman’s Anomaly (London: George Allen, 1913), 9.

Gere, an East River ferry captain, recalled that Whitman would regale pas- sengers with Shakespearean

This bay is an irregular sheet of water, into which the Peconic River discharges itself, expanding in

Long Island is bounded on the West party by the Narrows, partly by New-York Bay and the East River, and

Atlantic Ocean, including the islands called the North and South Brother, and Riker's Island in the East River

From the battery to the mouth of Harlaem River, 8 miles, the course is N. N.

At the bend, situated opposite Harlaem River, is the noted pass or strait called Hell Gate, which is

President, of one Dorcas Mary Lavin, setting forth that her husband Nicholas Lavin, was murdered at River

scalpelonseveredcarotid currentofmillionsofveins capillariessonoroustributariesofthe GREAT FUTURE RIVER

Bettertobeabeggar,avagabond.”[...]ThatsummerIspentanhour or two at the river every morning. [. . .]

WheneverIspentthenoonsweatingintheboat, then the restofthedaymybloodwouldstayfresh,invigoratedbymy plunge into the river

Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology has been extremely popular in Italy since 1943, whenthefirsttranslation

Culpeper again I wish you would come & see me our Camp is 4 miles up the railroad toward the rapidan river

breakfast table and listened from the rooftop to a thirty-gun salute as it resounded across the East River

Thus Dimock sees “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” as being situated si- multaneously on the East River and the

Harkening back to that river, the pouring-in of the flood-tide and the falling-back of the ebb-tide now

Grows like a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it

Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Poems of the River Spirit (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1996),

midwestern lawyer who took on literature as an avocation, Masters gained fast fame for his popular Spoon River

Beyond Spoon River: The Legacy of Edgar Lee Masters. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.

Across Spoon River: An Autobiography. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936. ———. Whitman.

Burleigh used the words from "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" on his collection of spirituals entitled Deep River

3/ of a pound, so there must have been the blood of 1000 men coloring the waters of our beautiful river

marked by considerable con- fusion and casualties from friendly fire in woods south of the Rapidan River

Croly and George Wakeman, Miscegenation (1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970), 18–19

Miscegenation.1864; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. Cushman, Stephen.

A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau’s Rivers.

spots, and you airs that swim above lightly, And all you essences of soil and growth—and you, my rivers

green leaves of the trees pro- lific prolific In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

baffled; Not the path-finder, penetrating inland, weary and long, By deserts parched, snows chilled, rivers

recluse and rural spot along Timber Creek, twelve or thirteen miles from where it enters the Delaware river

I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, Stars, rivers.

You are borne on the tides of eager and Swift rivers, O boating on the rivers!

Otherways, there, atwixt the banks of the Arkansas, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Tombigbee, the Red River

running. hear the rush & roar of cataracts as they fall beneath the seven-hued arch, I see the Great River

Upon the plains west of the Spinal river—yet in my house of adobe.

contributions," and that such a poet must "incarnat[e] [ his country's] geography and natural life and river

Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him. ( 1856, 183–184) In the 1860 edition, his ambition

Lawrence, heading north on the Saguenay River to Chicoutimi, Quebec.Although Whitman kept a diary of

Whitman described the Saguenay as less appealing, referring to the "dark-water'd river" and its environs

their trips to Sarnia, Toronto, and the Thousand Islands in Ontario, and to Montreal and the Saguenay River

of my friend for perhaps an hour, and when I found him again he was sitting in a quiet nook by the river

hard: The landscape is truly enshrouding a white country, snow enveloped , hill, valley, lake and river

How fast they are fading away on this side of the river.

If sin hath slain mine honor, straight appears, The river of his tears, Wherein I find redemption: tenderly

sweeps over great oceans and inland seas, over the continents of the world, over mountains, forests, rivers

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

simplicity can give of power, pathos, and music: "Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf—posh and ice in the river

literati, and preachers famousandobscure,asteadystreamofvisitorsfromallovertohissmallhouse across the river

John Newton married young, and moved across the river to a 160-acre plantation.

, and re- turned to a war-torn county whose seat, Guntersville, had been burned to the ground in a river

He died young, drowned in the Oktahutche River (about which he had written many a poetic verse), some

name as “meeting place by the rapid water.” http://www.tourismsarnialambton.com/communities/st-clair-river

The "Father of Waters" is a nickname for the Mississippi River.

ready to spend the rest of the day alone with his interesting visitor, and proposes a trip across the river

And yet, deep down like in Wagner's Rheingold , we keep hearing the dark, incessant running of the river

, that in our case will be the "spinal river," as Whitman called the Mississippi, America's backbone.

The letter is written in the simple language familiar to Pete, who was an omnibus driver: "The river

At either tide, flood or ebb, the water is always rushing along as if in haste, & the river is often

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of 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

Scheduled ferries traveled from Manhattan to the west bank of the Hudson and to the cities across the East River

touch and breath of the land, the winds of free, untrodden places, the splendour and vastness of rivers

picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers

Always, and more and more, as I cross the East and North rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their

incarnate themselves in the forms of god and demi-god, faun and satyr, oread, dryad, and nymph of river

spent portions of several seasons at a secluded haunt in New Jersey—Timber Creek, its stream (almost a river

River, a little after eight, full of ice, mostly broken, but some large cakes making our strong-timber'd

to the wharf to participate with you in the pleasures of the delicious air, the sunshine upon the River

first swallows of this spring, darting high overhead or skimming the sunlit waters of the beautiful River

all the fun of the fair" I strolled along the banks of my beloved "Annan Water"—a really beauitiful river

This little river is associated with the happy days of my childhood & it was with a swelling heart that