Win The Life

At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers To Arno's myrtle border. - Mark Akenside

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr. - Robert Burns

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. - Robert Burns

 

Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptures scene. - Robert Burns

 

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. - Joseph Rodman Drake

 

And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,-- Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!-John Dyer

 

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)-Euripides

 

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee; The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam And all alone went she. - Charles Kingsley

 

Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall. - Sidney Lanier

 

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. - Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

 

Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Fitzroy Maclean

 

On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms. - Norman Fitzroy Maclean

 

By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodies birds sing madrigals. - Christopher Marlowe

 

How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to leave The earth with crimson beam; When islands that wandered far Above his sea couch lie, And here and there some gem-like star Re-opes its sparkling eye. - Andrew Park

 

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. Blaise Pascal

 

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. -Blaise Pascal

 

Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd, And little eagles wave their wings in gold. - Alexander Pope

 

Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . . In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides, Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?Alexander Pope

 

Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever. - John Tait

 

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. - Izaak Walton

 

How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!-John Wilson

 

From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said my winsome marrow, Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside, And see the braes of Yarrow.-William Wordsworth

 

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.-John Joly

 

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.-Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.-Winston Churchill

 

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.-Sally Ride

 

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.-Cathy McMorris

 

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.-Richard Dean Anderson

 

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.-Bruce Babbitt

 

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?-Colin Mochrie

 

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.-Heraclitus

 

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.-Chief Joseph