Pope's "Windsor Forest" is the origin of the personification of this thing as an "old father."
The speaker of John Denham's poem "Cooper Hill" wishes he could make this thing "my great example, as it is my theme!" This thing says "I remember the bat-winged lizard-birds" in a speech ending "and that's where your history-books begin!" from a poem by Rudyard Kipling. This thing "hast seen full many a sprightly race" trace "the paths of pleasure" in a poem in which it asked "What idle (*) progeny succeed to chase the rolling circle's speed, or urge the flying ball?" Pope's "Windsor Forest" is the origin of the personification of this thing as an "old father." In Matthew Arnold's "The Scholar-Gipsy," life before "this strange disease of modern life" is said to have run gaily like this thing. This thing is told to "run softly till I end my song" in Spenser's Prothalamion. For 10 points, name this river often mentioned in English poetry.
The speaker of John Denham's poem "Cooper Hill" wishes he could make this thing "my great example, as it is my theme!
Thames River