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:
“I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)