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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIAGARA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughts are strange that crowd upon my brain Last Line: That breaks, and whispers of its maker's might. Variant Title(s): The Fall Of Niagara Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls | |||
THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung his bow upon thine awful front, And spoke in that loud voice which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake The sound of many waters; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch his centuries in the etenal rocks. Deep calleth unto deep. And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? -- a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON by NORMAN DUBIE ANCHORED TO THE INFINITE by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESTIC LIFE: 4. THE WATERFALL by GREGORY ORR ELK RIVER FALLS by BILLY COLLINS UNDER THE WATERFALL by THOMAS HARDY BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS by GARY SNYDER TO A FRIEND by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
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