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Rivers-Potomac: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Nile. It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream.— LEIGH HUNT — Sonnet. The Nile.

Son of the old moon-mountains African! Stream of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while A desert fills our seeing's inward spån.— KEATS — Sonnet. To the Nile.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.— LONGFELLOW — Christus. The Golden Legend. Pt. I.

The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 23.

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest That soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.— SHELLEY — Sonnet. To the Nile.

(See Keats' Poems.) Mysterious Flood, -that through the silent sands Hast wandered, century on century, Watering the length of great Egyptian lands, Which were not, but for thee.— BAYARD TAYLOR — To the Nile.

Nith. Hail, gentle stream! forever dear The rudest murmurs to mine ear! Torn from thy banks, though far I rove, The slave of poverty and love, Ne'er shall thy bard, where'er he be, Without a sigh remember thee!— JOHN MAYNE — To the River Nith.

Potomac. And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.— PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE — Beyond the

Potomac. Rhine. The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III.