Music — Poetry — Fiction 



As when the strong north-east resistless blows, 1804 



Or black tornado, rushing through the wood, 

 Alarms th' affrighted swains with uproar rude. 

 Yet the blue heavens displayed their clearest sky, 

 And dead below the silent forests lie; 

 And not a breath the slightest leaf assailed; 

 But all around tranquility prevailed. 

 ' What noise is that? " we ask with anxious mien, 

 A dull salt driver passing with his team; 

 " Noise! Noise! — why nothing that I hear or see, 

 But Niagara falls — Pray, whereabouts live ye? ' 



(Wilson, Alexander.) The foresters j a poem, descriptive of a 

 pedestrian journey to the Falls of Niagara, in the autumn of 1 803. By 

 the author of the American ornithology. The Portfolio. March, 1810. 

 3:182-187. 



1809 



Barlow, Jool. The Columbiad. Lond.: 1809. P. 29. 1809 



Six lines of poor poetry descriptive of the Falls and the rainbows. Harlow 



1818 



NEAL, John. (O'Cataract, Jehu.) Battle of Niagara, a poem, with- 1818 

 out notes, and Goldau, or the maniac harper. Baltimore: N. G. Max- N ea ' 

 well. 1818. Pp. 67, 72-73. 



John Neal was of Quaker descent but was read out of the society. 

 He was a pioneer in American literature, being the first American con- 

 tributor to English and Scotch quarterlies. He was an artist, a lawyer, 

 traveler, journalist, athlete, and an advocate of woman suffrage in 1 838. 



" The Battle of Niagara " was written when the author was a prisoner, 

 so he informs the reader. It has a metrical introduction with four cantos 

 which tell the story of the Battle of Niagara. This story is interspersed 

 with various flights of poetic fancy on the scenery and surroundings of 

 the Falls. 



Niagara! Niagara! I hear 

 Thy tumbling waters. And I see thee rear 

 Thy thundering sceptre to the clouded skies: 

 I see it wave — I hear the ocean rise, 

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