Category: Religious poetry
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Niagara (1835 version) by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty ! God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give The voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally — bidding the lip of man Keep silence, and upon…
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The Falls of Niagara by Edward Hartley Dewart
ERE yet I saw the wild magnificence, Which Nature here with peerless pomp unveils, A solemn sound—a stern and sullen roar— By which the earth was tremulously thrilled— Kindled a flush of deep, expectant joy, Quickening the pulses of my throbbing heart, And tingling through my veins like fire. But now, While standing on this…
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Niagara Visited in Autumn by Gurdon Huntington
Here in great Nature’s gorgeous fane we stand, Where grand libation endlessly is poured, And incense soars aloft forevermore : Th’ Almighty King the offering receives, And on the rising cloud of homage hangs His bow of promise and of grace. How fair and gladdening ( as a dream of love And of the pure,…
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Thoughts On Niagara by Michael McGuire
I stood where swift Niagara pours its flood Into the darksome caverns where it falls, And heard its voice, as voice of God, proclaim The power of Him, who let it on its course Commence, with the green earth’s first creation ; And I was where the atmosphere shed tears, As giving back the…
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Niagara by William Wetmore Story
‡‡Like hell-hounds from their slumber waking, And panting madly for their prey, ‡‡Their whitening manes in fury shaking, And howling down their rocky way, ‡‡From Erie’s sleep, in rushing rapids breaking, ‡‡‡‡Storms down Niagara — Wildly towards their dread abyss Hurrying they rage, and foam, and hiss, Over their shelving precipice ; Yet pausing on…