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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICAN FALLS, by GREG KEELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 4:00 a.M., I drove to american falls
Last Line: A smooth new dam is there instead - %no forebay, just water in a hard, thin line
Subject(s): Waterfalls


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 CASCADE, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters rippled, gleamed and fell
Last Line: The rocks with silver spray were wet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): Waterfalls


AT THE FALLS, by MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the current
Last Line: The water so loud we have to shout
Subject(s): Nature; 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


BEAUTIFUL BABY, by SCOTT C. WITHIAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cascade
Last Line: Cameras flashing, he slipped it back on
Subject(s): Babies; Waterfalls


BLACK ROCK OF KILTEARN, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They named it aultgraat - ugly burn
Last Line: For tombstone, grave %and trumpet of your resurrection
Subject(s): Waterfalls


BROOKLYN WATERFALL, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Water where you least expect it
Last Line: Where it waits for us, %not needing forgiveness
Subject(s): Rain; Water; Waterfalls


BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem 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


BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock
Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock
Last Line: We could live on this earth %without clothes or tools!
Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls


CATTERSKILL FALLS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midst greens and shades the catterskill leaps
Last Line: Till the stagnant blood ran free and warm.
Subject(s): Waterfalls


CHANGES, by BOB ARNOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the waterfall
Last Line: Point into your eyes %first winter light
Subject(s): Waterfalls


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: ACROSS FROM CELILO FALLS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above goldendale we sat on a power relay tower
Last Line: We danced and sang the dance of the white deer
Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon; Tourists; Waterfalls


CORA LINN, OR THE FALLS OF CLYDE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time I saw thee, cora, last
Last Line: Romantic cora linn.
Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Waterfalls


DEFINITION OF A WATERFALL, by JOHN ORMOND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not stitched to air or water but to both
Last Line: Among her trailing braids. The inconstancy %is reconciled to fall and falls free
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


DOMESTIC LIFE: 4. THE WATERFALL, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Failing to hold on to things
Last Line: All his furniture.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Men; Waterfalls


ELK RIVER FALLS, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is where the elk river falls
Subject(s): Waterfalls


FALLS, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A poplar cut loose from the bluff upstream floats
Last Line: Look! The onlooker is moved, the way the tree is, %seeing that the tree is still alive and falling
Subject(s): Waterfalls


FALLS AT GREEN VALLEY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boulders like gray whales breach the canyon floor
Last Line: Hearts flaming like red bark on manzanita
Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Waterfalls


FALLS OF GLOMACH, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain drifts forever in this place
Last Line: Here through the summer make a chill wet weather
Subject(s): Waterfalls


IT WAS A HARD THING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot
Last Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot.
Subject(s): Wales; Waterfalls; Welshmen; Welshwomen


MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ON LAKE BIWA: 003, by LIU YA-TZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cataracts flying down a thousand fathoms roll up a raging billow
Last Line: Where my soul dissolves at the sight of white-wave bridge
Subject(s): Waterfalls


MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone
Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead!
Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The


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 NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem 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 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 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


ON APPROACHING THE STAUB-BACH, LAUTERBRUNNEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uttered by whom, or how inspired - designed
Last Line: This bold, this bright, this sky-born waterfall!
Subject(s): Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Waterfalls


ONLY WATER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every great civilization %we know by heart dries up
Last Line: Draining away from the tips %of skyscrapers and bridges
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature; Romance; 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


PASSAIC FALLS, by GEORGE LYNDE CATLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh fair passaic! Softly winding
Last Line: To brighter, purer, scenes of bliss.
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


POEM WITH A STAIRWAY OF WATER FLOWING THROUGH IT, by GERRY LAFEMINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another story as I recall
Last Line: Our drawn-in breaths; our wondrous bodies mute
Subject(s): Death; Love; Waterfalls


ROCK OF THE PASSAIC FALLS, by OLIVER CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock where the many come
Last Line: Echoes no more.
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


SACO FALLS, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rush on, bold stream! Thou sendest up
Last Line: In welcome music, far away!
Subject(s): Saco (river), New Hampshire & Maine; Waterfalls


SILVER CREEK FALLS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With a voice of many thunders
Last Line: Silver creek, sing on for me!
Subject(s): Brooks; Waterfalls; Streams; Creeks


SPRINGLET, by JOSE ZORILLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hasting on, the springlet flows
Last Line: Engulfed forevermore?
Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Waterfalls


TALLULAH, by JAMES MATHEWES LEGARE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Recollect thou, in thunder
Last Line: Evil heads are bowed
Subject(s): Waterfalls


THE BLACK ROCK OF KILTEARN, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They named it aultgraat - ugly burn
Subject(s): Waterfalls


THE CATARACT OF LODORE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: How does the water / come down at lodore?
Last Line: And this way the water comes down at lodore.
Subject(s): Lodore, England; Waterfalls


THE CATARACT OF LUH SHAN, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward I ascend the peak of incense burner
Last Line: And leave the world of man forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Waterfalls


THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The course of least resistance is
Last Line: Upon the rocks below.
Subject(s): Death; Water; Waterfalls; Dead, The


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


THE FALLS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a steep wood of rocks
Last Line: And the falls came down there.
Subject(s): Waterfalls


THE FALLS OF THE PASSAIC, by WASHINGTON IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a wild, tranquil vale, fringed with forests of green
Last Line: Where the torrent leaps headlong, embosomed in foam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan
Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls


THE HUMBLE PETITION OF BRUAR WATER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, I know your noble ear
Last Line: And athole's bonnie lasses!
Subject(s): Athole, Scotland; Bruar Falls, Scotland; Waterfalls


THE LAKE OF THE FALLEN MOON, by FRANK ERNEST HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the thundering of water fills
Last Line: Driving beneath the peaks from grass to grass.
Subject(s): Lakes; Moon; Waterfalls; Pools; Ponds


THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood
Last Line: And few there are who understand.
Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They left their home of summer ease
Last Line: "the old delight of seeking good!"
Subject(s): Waterfalls


THE TORRENT, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh torrent, roaring in thy giant fall
Last Line: I will heroic deeds, prophetic words, proclaim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Waterfalls; Admiration


THE WATERFALL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A patch of meadow & upland
Last Line: At the tread of the jubilant soul.
Subject(s): Waterfalls


THE WATERFALL, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For all they said
Subject(s): Waterfalls


THE WATERFALL, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth
Last Line: Not this with cataracts and creeks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Christianity; 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


UNDER THE WATERFALL, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I plunge my arm, like this
Last Line: In turns therefrom sipped lovers' wine.'
Subject(s): Rivers; 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


VIEWING THE WATERFALL AT MOUNT LU, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight streaming on incense stone kindles violet smoke
Last Line: Till I think the milky way has tumbled from the ninth height of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Waterfalls


WATERFALL, by KIM SUYONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It falls over the upright cliff
Last Line: As if capsizing stupor and stability
Subject(s): Waterfalls


WATERFALL, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were to read my poems, all of them, I mean
Last Line: Like the fireflies at the waterfall, a wall of stars
Subject(s): Waterfalls


WATERFALL, by GARETH OWEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river of a sudden
Last Line: Stood up and was pleased
Subject(s): Waterfalls


WATERFALL, by KABITA SINHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who are you? Who? You're still a stranger
Last Line: At least I've kept one %waterfall, dammed up and covered with stones
Subject(s): Waterfalls


WATERFALL, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It plunges into itself, stone-white, mottled with emerald
Subject(s): Waterfalls


WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL AT THE FALL OF FYERS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the heathy hills and ragged woods
Last Line: And still, below, the horrid cauldron boils --
Subject(s): Waterfalls