Portal:Thames
The Thames is a river which arises in Gloucestershire and flows for 215 miles through southern England, with its mouth being the Thames Estuary.
Works edit
Essays and articles edit
Description edit
- The Historic Thames, 1907, by Hilaire Belloc
Engineering the Thames edit
- "The Refuse of Towns and Cities," 1860, by W. Bridges Adams
- "The River Walls of Father Thames," 1861, by J. W. Brooks
Encyclopedia articles edit
- "Thames," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Poetry edit
- "Music on the Thames", 1613, by William Browne
- "See where the Thames, the purest stream," 1753(?), by William Cowper
- "Lines Written Near Richmond, upon the Thames," 1798 by William Wordsworth
- Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, 1816, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Steam-Launches on the Thames," 1891, by James Kenneth Stephen
Fiction edit
- Three Men in a Boat, 1889, by Jerome K. Jerome
- The Wind in the Willows, 1908, by Kenneth Grahame