Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IZAAK WALTON TO RIVER AND BROOK, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poet's Biography First Line: Which is more sweet, - the slow mysterious stream Last Line: While rays of sun make rainbows in the spray? Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Streams; Creeks | ||||||||
WHICH is more sweet, -- the slow mysterious stream, Where sleeps the pike throughout the long noon hours, Which moats with emerald old cathedral towers, And winds through tufted timber like the dream That glides through summer sleep; where white swans teem, And dragonflies and broad-leaved floating flowers, Where through the hanging boughs you see the mowers Among the grasses whet their scythes that gleam; Or that blue brook where leaps the speckled trout, That laughs and sings and dances on its way Among a thousand bafflings in and out; Bubbling and gurgling through the livelong day Between the stones, in riot, reel, and rout, While rays of sun make rainbows in the spray? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOWN THE BROOK by ROBERT FROST A CLEARING BY A STREAM by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER STREAM by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER THE ASPEN AND THE STREAM by RICHARD WILBUR WEST RUNNING BROOK by ROBERT FROST BIRCH STREAM by ANNA BOYNTON AVERILL THE VALLEY BROOK by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT SUNKEN GOLD by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON |
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