Far from the Rappahannock, the silent
Danube moves along toward the sea.
The brown and green Nile rolls slowly
Like the Niagara's welling descent.
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i disagree with all 3 comments you seem to have a condition, honestly; the guy's just about shakespearean in breadth and everything else! i loved this poem as i have all of his i've come across
This just shows how some people, if I may use that word, don't like geography, no matter how well presented.
That's no snow, Lamont. This site should be renamed 'PoemPunter'. What's next? How about Santa Claus chastised for being much too generous? GG
Of all of Ashbery's poems I've read so far, this is the most accessible. It gives us some nice images. It has a kind of snow ball fight with us in the end...infusing snow and ice into rivers all over the Earth and in places I don't think snow ever falls.