Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.
The Rio Verde Song
By Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)F
In melody flow;
Win her that weepeth
To slumber from woe;
Bid thy waves’ music
Roll through her dreams,—
Grief ever loveth
The kind voice of streams.
Afar on the sound
Back to her childhood,
Her life’s fairy ground;
Pass like the whisper
Of love that is gone,—
Flow, Rio Verde!
Softly flow on!
So crimsoned of yore!
Love, death, and sorrow
Know thy green shore.
Thou shouldst have echoes
For grief’s deepest tone,—
Flow, Rio Verde!
Softly flow on!