Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER OTTER, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poet Analysis First Line: A hundred times the summer's fragrant blooms Last Line: And young romance knew not its winding shore. Subject(s): Otter (river), Vermont | ||||||||
A HUNDRED times the Summer's fragrant blooms Have laden all the air with sweet perfumes, -- A hundred times along the mountain-side Autumn has flung his crimson banners wide, -- A hundred times has kindly Winter spread His snowy mantle o'er the violet's bed, -- A hundred times has Earth rejoiced to hear The Spring's light footsteps in the forest sere, Since on you grassy knoll the quick, sharp stroke Of the young woodman's axe the silence broke. Not then did these encircling hills look down On quaint old farmhouse or on steepled town. No church-spires pointed to the arching skies; No wandering lovers saw the moon arise; No childish laughter mingled with the song Of the fair Otter, as it flowed along As brightly then as now. Ah! little recked The joyous river, when the sunshine flecked Its dancing wavelets, that no human eye Gave it glad welcome as it frolicked by! The long, uncounted years had come and flown, And it had still swept on, unseen, unknown, Biding its time. No minstrel sang its praise, No poet named it in immortal lays. It played no part in legendary lore, And young Romance knew not its winding shore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUSH! by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR OUTGROWN by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR SOMEWHERE by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR ST. JOHN'S EVE by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR THE ARMORER'S ERRAND; A BALLAD OF 1775 by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR THE DAYS THAT NEVER WERE by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR THE FALLOW FIELD by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR THE LEGEND OF THE ORGAN-BUILDER by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR THY SONGS AND MINE by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR TWO PATHS by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR |
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