Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | South America: Amazon, the River (Orellana) | | The River Amazon | | Joseph Warton (1722–1800) |
| | (From Ode Occasioned by Reading Mr. West’s Translation of Pindar) |
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IN roaring cataracts down Andes’ channelled steeps | |
| Mark how enormous Orellana sweeps! | |
| Monarch of mighty floods! supremely strong, | |
| Foaming from cliff to cliff, he whirls along, | |
| Swoln with an hundred hills’ collected snows: | 5 |
| Thence over nameless regions widely flows, | |
| Round fragrant isles, and citron-groves, | |
| Where still the naked Indian roves, | |
| And safely builds his leafy bower, | |
| From slavery far, and curst Iberian power. | 10 | | |
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