The river

1. The River Presentation by Geethu Dinesh English optional

2. Caroline Anne Bowels 1786-1854

3. Caroline Anne Bowles Southey ( 1786 – 1854 ), was an English poet and second wife of Robert Southey.

4. Bowles was an experimental and dexterous writer whose publications represent a range of forms :

5. prose fiction ( Chapters on Churchyards ), verse satire ( The Cat's Tail ), dramatic monologue ( Tales of the Factories ), and blank verse autobiography ( The Birth-day ).

6. In her lifetime she published five books of verse, two books of prose tales and one miscellany of mixed prose and verse

7. Her other works

8. River, river, little river!

9. Bright you sparkle on your way;

10. O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

11. Through the flowers and foliage glancing

12. Like a child at play

13. River, river! Swelling river!

14. On you rush through rough and smooth

15. Louder, faster, brawling, leaping over rocks,

16. by rose – banks,

17. Sweeping like impetuous youth.

18. River, River! brimming river!

19. Broad and deep, and still as time,

20. Seeming still, yet still in motion,

21. Tending onward to the ocean,

22. Just like mortal prime

23. River, river! headlong river!

24. Down you dash in to the sea

25. Sea that line hath never sounded,

26. Sea that sail hath never rounded,

27. Like eternity.