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Venezuela and Brazil, taking photographs of cities and of many natives as he traveled up the Orinoco River

accordance with this view, James Russell Lowell has declined from the higher walks of poetry—from rivers

through regenerative participation in the comradeship of the twenty-eight young men afloat in the rivers

He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

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

across the water at the gleaming lights of Camden where I knew were; when, next morning I ferried the 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

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

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

sea, the animals, fishes, and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains, and rivers

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

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

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

weeper, worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

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

worker, idler, citizen, countryman, Saunterer of the woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers

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

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

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

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

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or white come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Then was the time when it was his passion to sail the East River to and fro in the ferry boats, "often

Or again (p. 132): It was a happy thought to build the Hudson river railroad right along the shore.

tells us that Grant's life "transcends Plutarch," that "it was a happy thought to build the Hudson River

The whole river is now spread with it—some immense cakes.