Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Severn, the River | | The Severn | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | (From In Memoriam)
THE DANUBE to the Severn gave | |
| The darkened heart that beat no more; | |
| They laid him by the pleasant shore, | |
| And in the hearing of the wave. | |
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| There twice a day the Severn fills; | 5 |
| The salt sea-water passes by, | |
| And hushes half the babbling Wye, | |
| And makes a silence in the hills. | |
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| The Wye is hushed nor moved along, | |
| And hushed my deepest grief of all, | 10 |
| When filled with tears that cannot fall, | |
| I brim with sorrow drowning song. | |
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| The tide flows down, the wave again | |
| Is vocal in its wooded walls; | |
| My deeper anguish also falls, | 15 |
| And I can speak a little then. | | | | |
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