Tag: hair albums
-
One poem leads to another….. (hair albums)
Many of the pre-1921 poems published on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website are found with the assistance of Charles Dow’s Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls, published in 1921. Chapter 8 of this two-volume set deals with the music, poetry, and fiction published about Niagara Falls in chronological order, starting in 1604. Many entries are…
-
Resignation to the Approaching Period of Decline and Decay by James Melloy
Days of my youth, ye have glided away ; Hairs of my youth, ye are frosted and gray ; Eyes of my youth, your keen sight is no more ; Cheeks of my youth, ye are furrowed all o’er ; Strength of my youth, all your vigor is gone ; Thoughts of my youth, your…
-
Lines Written for a Lady’s Hair Album, at Niagara by M.F. Bigney
DEAR braided locks ! which tell ‡‡‡‡‡Of the distant, the departed, As the songs of ocean murmur in the shell ; ‡‡‡‡‡And which whisper—”All is well !” ‡‡‡‡‡When we might be lonely hearted And with voiceless music mystically swell. ‡‡‡‡‡Locks fair, and dark, and gray, ‡‡‡‡‡Erst to kindred ringlets mated ; Severed from the crowns of loved ones now away. ‡‡‡‡‡Some in spirit-gardens stray, ‡‡‡‡‡Warmed by suns all uncreated, And some still linger with us in the clay. ‡‡‡‡‡To other times ye pass, ‡‡‡‡‡Bright aids to recollection, Mirroring the storied past as in a glass, ‡‡‡‡‡And shall we cry, alas ! ‡‡‡‡‡In our spirit’s deep dejection, For those cut down and withered as the grass ? ‡‡‡‡‡No : they shall reappear ‡‡‡‡‡In a land of light unending, Where no eye shall e er be dimmed by a tear— ‡‡‡‡‡In that higher, purer sphere ‡‡‡‡‡Where celestial glories blending, Shall form a crown for those who triumph here. Source: M.F. Bigney. The Forest Pilgrims, and Other Poems. New Orleans: James A. Gresham, 1867 Bigney was the editor of The New Orleans Daily From the Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, vol 2: “J.W.…