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1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04150xxx.00330[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]about 1885handwrittenpoetry1 leaf3
[Nor rivers' bays' and ocean]
loc.00038xxx.00053[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]between 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1
[Through you I drain the pent-up of rivers]
A.MS. drafts.loc.00132xxx.00155[Skirting the river]1880poetryhandwritten1 leaf12.5 x 19 cm; These lines
[Skirting the river]
On one of the pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning with James E.
I have never lived away from a big river" (Traubel 71).
In his younger adult years and again in old age, his river experiences were especially connected with
"Crossing" says nothing about the poet's reason for crossing the river; the focus is not on a purpose
The river, the ebb and flow of tides, the boat, the shuttling from one shore to the other—some of the
"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," second in the cluster, has the tone of a defiant proclamation ("what I
Thoreau, Henry David A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Boston James Munroe and Co. loc.03445
Leonard History of Rome Sigourney Water-Drops Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Soulie, Frederick Pastourel
Pasted on p. 19, newspaper article titled "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr. Ball's Mill."