Borders Quote by William C. Bryant

“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.

— Harvey Rice

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till…

— Robert Southey

“By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in the sparkling…

— R. Murray Gilchrist

Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on the mouth.…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“TAKING LEAVE Of the unhindered motion in the million swirled and twisted grooves of the juniper driftwood lying in the sand; taking leave of…

— Pattiann Rogers

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect;…

— Cyril Connolly

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the…

— Jacques Roumain

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the…

— Myrtle Reed

“Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring…

— Robert Burns

“...is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude. And stretch towards the heaven their long and…

— Edgar Allan Poe