<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355496" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXX. To The River Arun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BE the proud Thames of trade the busy mart!<br>Arun! to thee will other praise belong;<br>Dear to the lover's and the mourner's heart,<br>And ever sacred to the sons of song!<br>Thy banks romantic hopeless Love shall seek,<br>Where o'er the rocks the mantling bindwith flaunts;<br>And Sorrow's drooping form and faded cheek<br>Choose on thy willow'd shore her lonely haunts.<br>Banks, which inspired thy Otway's plaintive strain!<br>Wilds,--whose lorn echoes learned the deeper tone<br>Of Collins' powerful shell! yet once again<br>Another poet--Hayley is thine own!<br>Thy classic stream anew shall hear a lay,<br>Bright as its waves, and various as its way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Smith">Charlotte Smith</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355496" data-title="Sonnet XXX. To The River Arun de Charlotte Smith" data-description="BE the proud Thames of trade the busy mart! Arun! to thee will other praise belong; Dear to the lover's and the mourner's heart, And ever sacred to the sons of song! Thy banks romantic hopeless Love shall seek, Where o'er the rocks the mantling bi..."></div> </div> </div>

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