Music — Poetry — Fiction 



Vol. 27, America, Middle States. — Contains a selection of well-known 1879 

 poems relating to Niagara, as follows: Longfellow 



The falls of Niagara J. G. C. Brainard 



Niagara J. M. Heredia 



Niagara Falls Lord Morpeth 



Niagara H. H. Brownell 



Niagara Anonymous 



Niagara T. G. Appleton 



Niagara L. H. Sigourney 



Avery W. D. Howells 



Goat Island T. G. Appleton 



The Cataract Isle C. P. Cranch 



. Niagara. (In Longfellow, H. W., Poems of places. 1879 



Boston: James R. Osgood and Co. 27:158-159.) 



I stood within a vision's spell ; 



I saw, I heard. The liquid thunder 

 Went pouring to its foaming hell 

 And it fell, 

 Ever, ever fell 

 Into the invisible abyss that opened under. 



I stood upon a speck of ground; 

 Before me fell a stormy ocean. 

 I was like a captive bound; 

 And around 

 A universe of sound 

 Troubled the heavens with ever-quivering motion. 



Down, down forever — down, down forever, 

 Something falling, falling, falling, 

 Up, up forever — up, up forever. 

 Resting never, 

 Boiling up forever, 

 Steam-clouds shot up with thunder-bursts appalling. 

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