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Subject: NIAGARA FALLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANCHORED TO THE INFINITE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The builder who first bridged niagara's gorge
Last Line: And—we are anchored to the infinite!
Subject(s): God; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


AT NIAGARA, by RAFAEL POMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again I see thee! - once again I know
Last Line: Rendering back to thee - forgetfulness
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


AT NIAGARA FALLS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In days of old, before man's advent here
Last Line: That through this tract of years my course has planned.
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


AT THE LEAP OF THE WATERS, by EDWARD FRANCIS GARESCHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How the swift river runs bright to its doom
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning
Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity


FURTHER NOTE TO CLARK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I can promise to be is water
Last Line: More than your own safety
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Superman


NIAGARA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When lakes of western waters, prison bound
Last Line: And thundered to the sea with joyful flow.
Subject(s): Nature; Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Travel; Water; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips


NIAGARA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     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


NIAGARA, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How frail %above the bulk
Last Line: Autumnal, evanescent, wan, %the moon
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roar, raging torrent! And thou, mighty river
Last Line: In triumph and glory, for god and his home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by EDWARD FRANCIS GARESCHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, in his ages past the dawn of days
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh that I had never heard of niagara till I beheld it
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tremendous torreent! For an instant hush
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the town of buffalo
Last Line: The cataract niagara.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; World War I; First World War


NIAGARA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy mother, erie, loves each furious form
Last Line: To prove I have not passed this way in vain.
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters,
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World


NIAGARA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arriving early, before the lovers
Last Line: The days that carry us could be these.
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Tourists; Travel; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips


NIAGARA, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green
Last Line: The hoo hoi down, %this is niagara
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flow on forever, in thy glorious robe
Last Line: And lose itself in him.
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thousand streams all gather into one
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where echo ne'er hath found
Last Line: Of unextinguished love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On regan and on goneril
Last Line: Cordelia -- the rainbow -- stands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA FALLS, by JAN CONN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What I recall is the sound, like explosions of white noise and a constant
Last Line: He went over the falls and never came back
Subject(s): Death; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


NIAGARA FALLS, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw it all. We saw the souvenir shops, and sitting
Subject(s): Niagara Falls


NIAGARA FALLS GARDEN BREAKDOWN, by NICK BARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother planted a garden to remind herself
Last Line: Raw turns into the spicy-sweet smell of his skin
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


ODE TO NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My lyre! Give me my lyre! My bosom
Last Line: To listen to the echoes of my fame
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Niagara Falls; Water; Waterfalls


OVER-SONG OF NIAGARA, by JOHN DANIEL LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why stand ye, nurslings of earth, before my gates
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls


THE FALL, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who does not know that dreadful gulf, where niagara falls
Last Line: "he's been a walking in his sleep, and pitched all down the stairs!"
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Sleepwalking; Waterfalls


TO THE LADY CHARLOTTE R-WD-N; FROM THE BANKS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not many months have now been dream'd away
Last Line: Stream, banks, and bowers, have faded on my eyes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Niagara Falls; St. Lawrence River; Waterfalls


VIEWING NIAGARA I WAS ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT COLOR, by JAY S. JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I needed scissors to show how trees
Last Line: And we both hold still in the sun
Subject(s): Colors; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls