Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Rhone, the River | | The River Rhone | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage)
IS it not better, then, to be alone, | |
| And love Earth only for its earthly sake. | |
| By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, | |
| Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, | |
| Which feeds it as a mother who doth make | 5 |
| A fair but froward infant her own care, | |
| Kissing its cries away as these awake;— | |
| Is it not better thus our lives to wear, | |
| Than join the crushing crowd, doomed to inflict or bear? | | | | |
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