O MERRIMACK, strong Merrimack, All other streams may faint and lack, Exhale in clouds through dreary lands Or sink forlorn in desert sands; New Hampshire's hills and island-sea Are sureties for thy constancy! Pemigewasset leaps from the mountains Where the great Stone-Face looms grand and far; Winnipesaukee fills at the fountains Ossipee guards and Chocorua — The sunny water that smiling lies With its isles like a path to Paradise; And where Kearsarge uplifts his shrine They blend their deathless floods in thine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INFERENTIAL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE DEEPER THOUGHT by MATTHEW ARNOLD TO HIS SON, VINCENT CORBET, ON HIS THIRD BIRTHDAY by RICHARD CORBET THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 7 by OMAR KHAYYAM THE WRITER'S JOURNAL: POSSESSION by BAYARD TAYLOR A CHRISTMAS HYMN by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER TO MISS F. B. ON ASKING FOR MRS. BARBAULD'S LOVE AND TIME by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |