1. The River
Presentation by
Geethu Dinesh
English optional

2. Caroline Anne Bowels
1786-1854

3. Caroline Anne Bowles Southey
(1786 – 1854), was an English poet
and second wife of Robert Southey.

4. Bowles was an
experimental and
dexterous writer whose
publications represent a
range of forms:

5. prose fiction (Chapters
on Churchyards), verse
satire (The Cat's Tail),
dramatic monologue
(Tales of the Factories),
and blank verse
autobiography (The
Birth-day).

6. In her lifetime she
published five books of
verse, two books of
prose tales and one
miscellany of mixed
prose and verse

7. Her other works

8. River, river, little river!

9. Bright you sparkle on your way;

10. O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

11. Through the flowers and foliage glancing

12. Like a child at play

13. River, river! Swelling river!

14. On you rush through rough
and smooth

15. Louder, faster, brawling,
leaping over rocks,

16. by rose – banks,

17. Sweeping like impetuous youth.

18. River, River! brimming river!

19. Broad and deep, and still as time,

20. Seeming still,
yet still in motion,

21. Tending onward
to the ocean,

22. Just like
mortal prime

23. River, river!
headlong river!

24. Down you dash in to the sea

25. Sea that line hath
never sounded,

26. Sea that sail hath never
rounded,

27. Like eternity.