River PoemsAn anthology which explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and across the ages. Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China and have nourished modern cities from London to New York, so it is natural that poets have for centuries drawn essential meanings and metaphors from their endless currents. English poets