Poetry of and about Niagara Falls & the Niagara River – the waterfalls, the city, the history, the stunters, and everything else Niagara
‡‡Free! ay, as air,
Or as the stream that leaps the cataract,
And in eternal thunder shouts to heaven
That it is free, and will be free forever!
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
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‘Tis first a little disappointment,
‡‡And next a little wonder;
Then plenty of aquatic ointment,
‡‡And awful lots of thunder!
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
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G.:
The best remark is silence.
H.:
Then, pray, why do you break it?
Y.:
For the same reason that you do;
Because ’tis hard to speak it.
Anonymous:
On memory’s page two things will never fade —
Niagara Falls and Barnett’s lemonade!
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
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I stood on the cliff, and, astonished, gazed round,
Saw the waters rush o’er, and heard them rebound.
And I thought, if my love should slip and fall so,
She might tumble alone, for I wouldn’t go.
July 30, 1837
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
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Lo! dey come, de peoples, much ―
De French, de Anglais, Yankee, Dutch―
Lo! dey come, and here dey view
De vorld of vaters ― not a few.
De peoples come, and den dey tell
De verse dey know not how to spell;
And what is very much absurd,
Dey ignorant of Anglais vord.
Ma foi, indeed I tink my verse
De best — I’m sure ‘t is not the worst.
Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848
This link takes you to the scanned version of the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust
See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.