Tag: night
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Niagara Falls by Narushima Ryūhoku
The startled traveler wakes to the thunder by his pillow, rises and climbs among old trees to the roaring brink: in the deep night, heaven and earth one vista of white; the moon comes, parting the mile-high curtain of pearls. Translated by Burton Watson Source: Watson, Burton (tr.). Japanese Literature in Chinese, vol. 2: Poetry &…
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Please Help Me I’m Falling by Margaret Cole
Listen Hear it? long low moan of August cicada as lazy bee drifts amongst purple spikes of lavender watching summer ebb like Fundy tides Roar of falls drowns this note of season passing as they surge down cliffs gurgling and crashing onto rocks far below telling stories of tumbling markets failed military strategies teetering autocrats,…
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Niagara in Winter by Edward F. Garesché, S.J.
garesche O THOU great priest of all the nations, thou Whose immemorial chanting shakes the sky ! The suns of ages on thy reverend brow Linger, in glorious life, immortally. I come again to hear, eternal tone Of immolated waters, where the leap Of thy vast splendor makes perpetual moan And lifts unwearied litanies from…
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Niagara’s Everlasting Voice by Joseph Rodman Drake
How sweet ‘t would be, when all the air, In moonlight swims along the river, To couch upon the grass and hear Niagara’s everlasting voice Far in the deep blue West away; That dreamy and poetic noise We mark not in the glare of day — Oh, how unlike its torrent-cry When o’er the brink…
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Niagara Falls at Night by Larry Pace
Each night the colored lights dance in the water’s spray. The rainbows and Niagara’s mists make love. Source: The author, 2001. ©2001 Larry Pace