Where Go the Boats?
Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
With trees on either hand.
Green leaves a-floating,
Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating –
Where will all come home?
On goes the river
And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
Away down the hill.
Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Related posts:
- Keepsake Mill Over the borders, a sin without pardon, Breaking the branches and crawling below, Out through the breach in the wall […]...
- Paper Boats Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running Stream. In bid black letters I […]...
- The Empty Boats Why do I see these empty boats, sailing on airy seas? One haunted me the whole night long, swaying with […]...
- When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the lucent skies of morning flush with dawning rose once more, And waves of golden glory break adown the […]...
- Come Out with Me There’s sun on the river and sun on the hill. . . You can hear the sea if you stand […]...
- 402. Song-Meg o' the Mill (Another Version) O KEN ye what Meg o’ the Mill has gotten, An’ ken ye what Meg o’ the Mill has gotten? […]...
- The Little Hill Oh, here the air is sweet and still, And soft’s the grass to lie on; And far away’s the little […]...
- Balmoral Castle Beautiful Balmoral Castle, Most handsome to be seen, Highland home of the Empress of India, Great Britain’s Queen. Your woods […]...
- When the Dark Comes Down When the dark comes down, oh, the wind is on the sea With lisping laugh and whimper to the red […]...
- Song of Karen, the Dancing Child (O little white feet of mine) Out in the storm and the rain you fly; (Red, red shoes the colour […]...
- At Lulworth Cove A Century Back Had I but lived a hundred years ago I might have gone, as I have gone this year, By Warmwell […]...
- Localities WAGON WHEEL GAP is a place I never saw And Red Horse Gulch and the chutes of Cripple Creek. Red-shirted […]...
- To Minnie The red room with the giant bed Where none but elders laid their head; The little room where you and […]...
- Albert Schirding Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one Because his children were all failures. But I know of a fate […]...
- In this World The hill pasture, an open place among the trees, Tilts into the valley. The clovers and tall grasses Are in […]...
- Isaiah Beethoven They told me I had three months to live, So I crept to Bernadotte, And sat by the mill for […]...
- Brown's Descent Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores […]...
- Hemlock and Cedar THIN sheets of blue smoke among white slabs… near the shingle mill… winter morning. Falling of a dry leaf might […]...
- Moon In Virgo You are not beaten. The simple music rises up, Children’s voices in the air, sound floating out Across the land […]...
- The Drover's Sweetheart An hour before the sun goes down Behind the ragged boughs, I go across the little run And bring the […]...
- Winter Landscape The three men coming down the winter hill In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds At heel, […]...
- Arrival Across a thousand miles of sea, a hundred leagues of land, Along a path I had not traced and could […]...
- From a Railway Carriage Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle […]...
- Reedy River Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the […]...
- Dionysus I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And […]...
- Woak Hill When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden Green-ruddy in hedges, Bezide the red doust o’ the ridges, A-dried at Woak Hill; I […]...
- From the Bush The Channel fog has lifted – And see where we have come! Round all the world we’ve drifted, A hundred […]...
- The Sands of Dee 1 “O Mary, go and call the cattle home, 2 And call the cattle home, 3 And call the cattle […]...
- Joliet ON the one hand the steel works. On the other hand the penitentiary. Sante Fé trains and Alton trains Between […]...
- Ford o' Kabul River Kabul town’s by Kabul river Blow the bugle, draw the sword There I lef’ my mate for ever, Wet an’ […]...
- When I Set Out For Lyonnesse When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my […]...
- Belle Isle, 1949 We stripped in the first warm spring night And ran down into the Detroit River To baptize ourselves in the […]...
- The Gum-Gatherer There overtook me and drew me in To his down-hill, early-morning stride, And set me five miles on my road […]...
- In Praise of Songs that Die AFTER HAVING READ A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD CURRENT POETRY IN THE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS Ah, they are passing, passing […]...
- Love's Lantern (For Aline) Because the road was steep and long And through a dark and lonely land, God set upon my […]...
- Idler's Song I sit in the twilight dim At the close of an idle day, And I list to the soft sweet […]...
- Beautiful Crief Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, Take my advice, and visit the ancient town […]...
- Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles […]...
- Hamatreya Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, […]...
- Charge of the Light Brigade I. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six […]...