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The River Merchants Wife: A Letter

The River Merchants Wife: A LetterWhile my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Played I about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The River

The RiverAnd I behold once more My old familiar haunts; here the blue river, The same blue wonder that my infant eye Admired, sage doubting whence the traveller came,— Whence brought his…

Larry Rivers 2002 Deaths

Larry RiversAge: 78 experimental painter and sculptor who helped to define pop art. His works often parodied pieces by the old masters. His influential paintings include Washington Crossing…

Sara Teasedale: Rivers to the Sea

Rivers to the SeaBut what of her whose heart is troubled by it, The mother who would soothe and set him free, Fearing the song's storm-shaken ecstasy— Oh, as the moon that has no power to…

Aesop's Fables: The Rivers and the Sea

by Aesop The Gardener and His DogThe Lion In LoveThe Rivers and the Sea Once upon a time all the Rivers combined to protest against the action of the Sea in making their waters salt. "When…

Aesop's Fables: The Foxes and the River

by Aesop The MiserThe Horse and the StagThe Foxes and the River A number of Foxes assembled on the bank of a river and wanted to drink; but the current was so strong and the water looked…

From the Lower to the Upper River

Chapter 2 Chapter 4 From the Lower to the Upper River The party finally set sail up the Missouri River on Monday, May 21, 1804, but made only a few miles, owing to head winds.…

Tropical Diseases: River Blindness

River BlindnessTropical DiseasesIntroductionLeishmaniasis: The Sand Fly's BugGiardiasis: A One-Celled WonderSchistosomiasis: Snail FeverAfrican Sleeping SicknessRiver Blindness River blindness is…