The River's Voice


Contents

'Above all rivers thy river hath renown'
 William Dunbar
Abstracted Water
 Roy Fisher
Along Almost Any River
 J. H. Prynne
Anahorish
 Seamus Heaney
Angler
 Adrian Henri
At Dunkeswell Abbey
 Anthony Thwaite
At the Sand Creek Bridge
 James Galvin
The Baite
 John Donne
Ballade to a Fish of the Brooke
 John Wolcot
The Banished Gods
 Derek Mahon
The Banks of Nith
 Robert Burns
Bathing
 William Wordsworth
Beck
 Norman Nicholson
Behind the Waterfall
 Hilary Llewellyn-William
Beside the Wye
 John Greening
Birmingham River
 Roy Fisher
Boundaries
 John Fuller
Brian Boru's Well
 Richard Murphy
Bridge
 G.F. Dutton
The Brook
 Hayden Carruth
The Brook
 Edward Thomas
A Brook in the City
 Robert Frost
The Charles River (I)
 Robert Lowell
'Clunton and Clunbury'
 A. E. Housman
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
 William Wordsworth
Concord River
 Adrienne Rich
Culvert
 Roger Garfitt
A Day on the River
 Vernon Scannell
Dean-bourn, a rude River in Devon,
by which sometimes he lived
Robert Herrick
Definition of a Waterfall
 John Ormond
Derwent River
 William Wordsworth
Dipper
 Norman MacCaig
Dockland
 Bernie Steer
Downstream Effects: River Stour
 James Crowden
The Dowser
 Edwin Morgan
Drouth End
 Paul Hyland
An Eel
 Ted Hughes
Eels at Night
 Robert Minhinnick
Embankment at Night, Before the War
 D.H. Lawrence
The Estuary
 Patricia Beer
'The factories, bathing in the Moscow river'
 Osip Mandelstam
First Day of September
 Frances Bellerby
The Fisherman
 Martyn Crucefix
Five Rivers
 Norman Nicholson
Flat Rock
 A. R. Ammons
Flood
 Blake Morrison
Floods
 Craig Raine
A Flowing River
 William Carlos Williams
The Ford
 John Clare
Fording the Flooded Goldie River
 Gary Snyder
Forest Pools
 Leonard Clark
'Gentle Brent, I used to know you'
 John Betjeman
Gray Wagtail
 Norman MacCaig
Green River
 Donald Davie
Guests of Silence
 Jeremy Hooker
Heaven
 Michael Cullup
Heraclitus on Rivers
 Derek Mahon
'How shy the attraction'
 James Galvin
Hudson River School
 Charles Tomlinson
Hundred River
 Neil Powell
Hungry Thames
 Helen Dunmore
Huntingdonshire Eclogues
 John Greening
If Anything Will Level with You Water Will
 A. R. Ammons
In Avon
 John Burnside
In the Backs
 Frances Cornford
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kingfisher
 Phoebe Hesketh
Kingfisher
 Norman MacCaig
The Kingfisher
 Andrew Marvell
The Launch
 Paul Mills
Liffey Water
 William Oxley
'Like Rain it sounded till it curved'
 Emily Dickinson
Long Nanny Burn
 Katrina Porteous
Lothian Burn
 Stewart Conn
The Mill-Water
 Edward Thomas
Mists over the River
 William Carlos Williams
Mother Anthony's
 Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
The Names of the Sea-Trout
 Tom Rawling
Net and River
 Maura Dooley
Not Drinking Water
 Peter Dale
'Now the children are old enough...'
 Andrew Motion
October
 Iris Murdoch
An Offering
 John Greening
On Sturminster Foot-Bridge
 Thomas Hardy
On the River Avon, near Stratford
 David Wright
Otter Out and In
 Alice Oswald
Penmaen Pool
 Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Poet as Spirit of the River
 Michael Hartnett
The Porch over the River
 Wendell Berry
The Question
 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Repose of Rivers
 Hart Crane
Rising Damp
 U.A. Fanthorpe
River
 Fleur Adcock
River
 Margaret Atwood
River
 Carol Ann Duffy
River
 Alice Oswald
A River
 Anne Stevenson
The River
 Peter Fallon
The River
 Alexander Pope
The River
 R.S. Thomas
The River God
 Stevie Smith
River History
 Lavinia Greenlaw
The River Idle
 Phoebe Hesketh
River in the Valley
 Gary Snyder
The River Meadows (In Flood)
Andrew Marvell
The River of Rivers in Connecticut
Wallace Stevens
River People
Joan Downar
River Profile
W.H. Auden
River rising in India
Jenny Joseph
River Song
John Heath-Stubbs
'The Riverbed... '
Seamus Heaney
Riverine
Lawrence Sail
Rivers
Peter Levi
'Rivers arise; whether thou be the Son'
John Milton
'The river's tent is broken...'
T. S. Eliot
Riverside
Michael Vince
Round Oak and Eastwell
John Clare
Ruskin Remembered
Charles Tomlinson
Rustic Fishing
John Clare
St Winefride's Well
Gillian Clarke
Salmon
John Ormond
The Salmon Leap
Hugh MacDiarmid
Sands of the Well
Denise Levertov
Sap
Robert Minhinnick
Scotland in an Oxford Landscape
Olivia Byard
Severnside
Charles Tomlinson
Shadwell Stair
Wilfred Owen
Sibard's Well
Charles Causley
'So went he playing on the watery plaine'
Edmund Spenser
The Soaking
Ivor Gurney
XII Song
William Blake
The Song of the Brook
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sonnet
Sheila Wingfield
Sonnet to the River Otter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Spring at Chedworth
Alison Brackenbury
Spring Tide
Michael Longley
Springhead at Fontmell Magna
James Crowden
Springs
John Montague
The Springs
Wendell Berry
The Stream
Robert Wells
Sweet Thames Flow Softly
Ewan MacColl
Symphony in Yellow
Oscar Wilde
Tay Bridge
Douglas Dunn
Team Gut
Katrina Porteous
Thames
Michael Hamburger
The Thames
Sir John Denham
'There are too many waterfalls here...'
Elizabeth Bishop
'There is a willow grows aslant a brook'
William Shakespeare
The Third Thing
D. H. Lawrence
To my Mistris sitting by a Rivers side
Thomas Carew
To the River Charles
H. W. Longfellow
To the River Duddon
Norman Nicholson
Torridge Salmon
Tom Rawling
The Trout Map
Allen Tate
The Twist in the River
Katherine Pierpoint
Two Rivulets
Walt Whitman
A two-seater privy over a stream
David Constantine
Under the Waterfall
Thomas Hardy
Valley
Gillian Clarke
Vermillion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona
Margaret Atwood
Vignette I
Keki N. Daruwalla
Vignette II
Keki N. Daruwalla
The Voice of the Rain
Walt Whitman
The Watchers
Edward Thomas
Water
Fleur Adcock
The Water Below
Fleur Adcock
Water Colours
Ivor Gurney
The Water Diviner
Dannie Abse
The Water Diviner
Patricia Beer
Water Everywhere
U. A. Fanthorpe
Water Meadows
Leonard Clark
Water Music
Elizabeth Jennings
Watercourse
John Cassidy
Watering Place
Paul Hyland
Waterspout, 1853
Ruth Bidgood
Well Water
Randall Jarrell
'Where is the sacred Well, that bore my Name?'
Jonathan Swift
'Where Stour receives her strength'
Michael Drayton
'Who carved a bird and a fish'
Carol Ann Duffy
'Wide o'er the Brim, with many a Torrent swell'd'
James Thompson
The Wounded Otter
Michael Hartnett
The Wye Below Bredwardine

John Powell Ward