The poem describes a river from its beginning as a small, playful stream dancing over pebbles and through foliage, to its growth into a larger, faster flowing river rushing over rocks, to becoming a broad, deep river moving steadily like time itself, and finally ending as a headlong river dashing into the endless sea, akin to eternity.

1. The River
- C.A.Bowles
PPT
by
M Padma Lalitha Sharada
For
Class IX
Subject :
English

2. River, river, little river!

3. Bright you sparkle on your way;

4. O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

5. Through the flowers and foliage glancing,

6. Like a child at play.

7. River, river! swelling river!

8. On you rush through rough and smooth;

9. Louder, faster, brawling, leaping,

10. Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

11. Like impetuous youth.

12. River, river! brimming river!

13. Broad and deep, and still as time;

14. Seeming still, yet still in motion,

15. Tending onward to the ocean,

16. Just like mortal prime.

17. River, river! headlong river!

18. Down you dash into the sea,

19. Sea that line hath never sounded,

20. Sea that sail hath never rounded,

21. Like eternity.

22. SHARADA