A Shallow Stream.

Topics: classic

There is a stream to northward, thinly spread Over a shelving, many-fissured shale, That brawls and blusters in its shallow bed, And ends its course inglorious in a swale. Its babble stirs the laughter of the hills; The rooted mountains mock its fume and fret; And all the summer long the idle mills Wait wearily with water-wheel unwet. Let us not waste our lives in froth and foam And unavailing vanity of noise; "Still waters deepest run" - the ancient gnome Pricks well our sham, conceited bubble-toys; Who serve best here in God's great halidome Have volume, depth, serenity and poise.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"There is a stream to northward, thinly spread..."

Exploring the themes of classic, W. M. MacKeracher delivers a powerful performance in "A Shallow Stream."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

#classic

Related lines

"The roarin' game, the roarin' game, From Scotland's bonnie land it came, The land of loch and firth and ben, And co"

W. M. MacKeracher

"I cannot loiter on my way, The ice is drifting through Belle Isle, And far to seaward by Cape Ray Broad lea"

W. M. MacKeracher

"There's a race, or a part of a race, if you will, Of renown prehistoric, and vigorous still, Who back from their fastnesses"

W. M. MacKeracher

"I am arrayed in light and shade, A free-born spirit of air; A fanciful theme like a twilight dream, Or a ma"

W. M. MacKeracher

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky, And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, S"

John Clare

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Frank Sidgwick

"The roarin' game, the roarin' game, From S..."

About this line

Classified Tags

Related lines

Join our literary Sanctuary