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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOST RIVER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: It flows through virginia hills
Last Line: To the open and opulent sea!
Subject(s): Rivers
First Line: It flows through virginia hills
Last Line: To the open and opulent sea!
Subject(s): Rivers
It flows through Virginia hills
Beneath the rocks and the ground,
And the hush of the woodland it fills
With a strangely mysterious sound.
Unseen, it rushes along,
Through cavernous passages drear,
And only its murmur of song
Comes muffled and faint to the ear.
But that, and one eddying pool,
Outreached from the reticent stream,
A goblet all crystalline, cool,
And sweet as a draught in a dream.
Thus, thus, through the hardness and strife,
Beneath the weight of our woes,
Unseen in our valley of life
The River of Happiness flows.
But it sings to the listening heart,
And the gloomiest shadow of ill
With the touch of its song is astart,
With the beat of its hope is athrill.
And ever some drift of its brim
It offers prophetic and free,
As it speeds through imprisonments grim
To the open and opulent sea!
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TWO-RIVER LEDGER by KHALED MATTAWA
HE FINDS THE MANSION by JAMES MCMICHAEL
THE RIVERS by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA
VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA by MARGARET ATWOOD
THE PORCH OVER THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY
THE RIVER BRIDGED AND FORGOT by WENDELL BERRY
A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS