Severn quotes

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.31.

England's on the anvilhear the hammers ring Clanging from the Severn to theTyne!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The  Anvil'.

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto19, l.5^8.