Swift River

Swift River is the name of several rivers:

Canada
  • Swift River (Cottonwood River), British Columbia
  • Swift River (Teslin Lake), British Columbia
Jamaica
  • Swift River (Jamaica)
New Zealand
  • Swift River, New Zealand
United Kingdom
  • River Swift (Leicestershire), a tributary of the River Avon, Warwickshire
United States
  • Swift River (Alaska)
  • Swift River (Bearcamp River), a tributary of the Bearcamp River, New Hampshire
  • Swift River (Maine), a tributary of the Androscoggin River
  • Swift River (Minnesota)
  • Swift River (Saco River), a tributary of the Saco River, New Hampshire
  • Swift River (Ware River), a tributary of the Ware River, Massachusetts
  • Swift River (Westfield River), a tributary of the Westfield River, Massachusetts

Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or river:

    “Haie! Haie!
    These were the swift to harry;
    These the keen-scented;
    These were the souls of blood.
    Slow on the leash,
    pallid the leash-men!”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “the folk-lore
    Of each of the senses; call it, again and again,
    The river that flows nowhere, like a sea.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)