Tag: poetry

A Dialogue between Crack Bard and No Bard

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The title page of the Table Rock Album


Crack Bard:

Stupendous river — mighty cataract!
You excite my wonder — that’s a fact.
I love the music of thy roaring
In awful torrents ever pouring.

No Bard:

Both truth and poetry — “that’s a fact” —
‘Tis truth indeed that you are crack’d;
That you’re a Bard is poetry,
Or in plain prose, an arrant lie. 

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.

Untitled by C. H. Cope

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The title page of the Table Rock Album

Thou image of the Almighty One, as on thy wave I gaze,
It seems as God from off his brow the shroud of time doth raise,
And in thy might I see the hand that cleft thy headlong way,
And the veil of the eternal throne in thy column’d clouds of spray —
The diadem of mercy in thy many-colored bow.
And the terrors of his anger in the gulf that boils below —
In thy thunder hear His voice — O! then how dare I speak of thee,
When thus the Godhead speaketh, vain man must silent be.

C. H. Cope comes from England.

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.

Untitled by C.O.B.

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The title page of the Table Rock Album

I’ll climb the mountain tops,
‡‡ And there I’ll gauge the weather;
I’ll wrench the rainbow from the clouds,
‡‡ And tie both ends together.

 

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.

Untitled by Bryant

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The title page of the Table Rock Album

I came from Wall Street,
To see this water sheet;
Having seen this water sheet,
I return to Wall Street.

July 24, 1847.

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.

Untitled by N. Brooks

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The title page of the Table Rock Album

Ceaseless Niagara, shall thy thunder roll,
Till time shall cease to be, and like a scroll
Earth shall be gathered up, and then the soul
Will heed thee not; for God will claim the whole.

N. Brooks is from New Hampshire.

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.