In Literature and Poetry
Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman in his poem Middlesex.
Gentle Brent, I used to know you
Wandering Wembley-wards at will,
Now what change your waters show you
In the meadowlands you fill!
Recollect the elm-trees misty
And the footpaths climbing twisty
Under cedar-shaded palings,
Low laburnum-leaned-on railings
Out of Northolt on and upward to the heights of Harrow hill.
The anthropomorphic personification of the river appears as one of the daughters of Mama Thames in the novel Rivers of London.
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