Old Lattice Bridge over the Pemigewassett river near Woodstock, New Hampshire (United States)

I SHUT my eyes in the snow-fall
And dream a dream of the hills.
The sweep of a host of mountains,
Theflash of a hundred rills,

For a moment they crowd my vision;

Then, moving in troops along,

They leave me one still mountain-picture,

The murmur of one river’s song.

’T is the musical Pemigewasset,
That sings to the hemlock-trees
Of the pines on the Profile Mountain,

Of the stony Face that sees

Extract from the poem Pemigewasset, the River

Lucy Larcom

Covered Bridge over the Connecticut River between Cornish (New Hampshire) and Windsor (Vermont) in United States

"To preserve covered bridges. To gather and record knowledge of the history of covered bridges. To collect and preserve pictures, printed, and manuscript matter and other articles of historical interest concerning covered bridges. To do all things, alone or in cooperation with other persons or corporations, necessary or advisable to carry out any or all of the foregoing purposes and objects."

Purpose of the National Society for the Preservation of covered Bridges in U.S.

Old Bellows Falls Arch Bridge over the Connecticut River between Bellows Falls (Vermont) and North Walpole (New Hampshire) in United States

On thy lov'd banks, sweet river, free
From wordly care and vanity,
I could my every hour confine,
And think true happiness was mine.

Sweet river, in thy gentle stream
Myriads of funny beings swim:
The watchful trout with speckled pride;
The perch, the dace in silvered pride;
The princely salmon, sturgeon brave,
And lamprey, emblem of the knave.
...

From the Ode To Connecticut River

Josias Lyndon Arnold

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge spanning the Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont (United States)

From that lone lake
the sweetest of the chain
That links the mountain
to the mighty main,
Fresh from the rock
and swelling by the tree,
Rushing to meet
and dare and breast the sea —
Fair, noble, glorious river!
in thy wave
The sunniest slopes and sweetest pastures lave;
The mountain torrent, with its wintry roar
Springs from its home and leaps upon thy shore.

Poem On Connecticut river

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard