An 1819 poem of an ugly death by drowning that was influenced by William Wordsworth's "The Force of Prayer" (composed Sept. 1807, published 1815); one of these poems influenced Gertrude Atherton (who mistakenly attributed "The Boy of Egremond" to Wordsworth) in her writing of "The Striding-Place" (1896). Take a look at the Strid.

Project Gutenberg etext of a relatively early edition of Rogers' collected poetry.

This is the earlier, by some 22 years, of two brief poems Rogers wrote with this same title.