Poems about Rivers

I CAME from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,
For I thought in its gray expanses
My peace would come to me.

I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the windless valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!"

But the thirsty tide ran inland,
And the salt waves drank of me,
And I who was fresh as the rainfall
Am bitter as the sea.

- Sara Teasdale "The River"
From: Rivers To The Sea collection of poems

Other Poems about Rivers

• Low Anchored Cloud Henry Thoreau
• Two Rivers - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A Spring View - Tu Fu
• Deep with Snow - Horace