Tag: poem
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An Acrostic by Alexander Douglas
Written at Niagara Falls, Upper Canada, 29th June, 1839 A re not those Falls magnificent, divine ? L oud do they roar ; and, from this lot of mine, E xceeding beauteous is the view ; they roll, ‘X citing wonder to the human soul ; A nd here, within this calm, this cool retreat,…
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Baby Steps IV by atlantic
My doctor ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡(so official!) Told me that I needed to ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡slow ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡down. “That you speak and walk so quickly is a symptom ‡‡‡‡‡of your anxiety. It feeds it.” ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡And so ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡I started ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡to write Source: The author, 2019 atlantic was born and raised in Niagara Falls, where he still resides. A selection of his work…
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Niagara Falls: a Poem in Three Cantos / by James K. Liston.
Niagara Falls ! stupendous, beautiful,Enduring monument of Power Divine !Thy white-foam pillars ever moving stand,And ever standing move harmoniouslyTo the rough music of the dashing spray,And roaring tumult of the boiling base.‡How long has tuned this mystic minstrelsy ?When did thy swift but solemn march begin ?When wast thou first heaved o’er those heights sublimeThat…