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wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded
Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains
Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains
loudly shout in the rush of successful charge, Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river
loudly shout in the rush of successful charge, Enter the captur'd works—yet lo, like a swift-running river
— 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
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