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Rivers-Afton: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Afton. Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.— BURNS — Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.

Alph. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.— COLERIDGE — Kubla Khan.

Arno. At last the Muses rose, *** And scattered, *** as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers To Arno's myrtle border.— AKENSIDE — Pleasures of the

Imagination. II. Avon. The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn to the sea, And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Quoted in an

Address before the Sons of New Hampshire. 1849. Ayr. Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptured scene. BURNS TO Mary in Heaven. Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.— BURNS — The Banks of Ayr.

Bronx. Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.— JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE — Bronx.

Cam. Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides, Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?— POPE — Summer. L. 23.