Music — Poetry — Fiction 



Charles, Emily Thornton. An address to the body of a man in i887 

 the whirlpool. Niagara. (In her Lyrical poems. Phila. : Lippincott. Charlc* 

 1887. Pp. 110-111.) 



Not a great poem, but written in an interesting and buoyant style. 



1888 



FRECHETTE, LOUIS. Le Niagara. (See Michigan Central Railroad 1888 

 Company, From city to surf. . . Chicago: Rand, McNally, Frechette 



1888. P. 63.) 



1889 



Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton. To the American fall 1889 

 at Niagara (In Sladen, Douglas, ed., Younger American poets Sladen 

 1830—1890. . . . With an appendix of Younger Canadian poets; 

 ed. by G. B. Roberts. Lond. and Sydney: Griffith, Farran, Okeden 

 and Welsh. 1891. Dedicatory sonnet.) 



This sonnet is dated Niagara, October 1 8, 1 889. 



Niagara, national emblem! Cataract 



Born of the maddened rapids, sweeping down 

 Direct, resistless from the abyss's crown 



Into the deep, fierce pool with vast impact 



Scarce broken by the giant boulders, stacked 



To meet thine onslaught, threatening to drown 

 Each tillaged plain, each level-loving town 



'Twixt thee and ocean. Lo ! the type exact ! 



America Niagarized the world. 



Europe, a hundred years agone, beheld 

 An avalanche, like pent-up Erie, hurled 



Through barriers, to which the rocks of eld 

 Seemed toy things — leaping into godlike space. 

 A sign and wonder to the human race. 



Young, Mrs. Julia Ditto. Adrift: a story of Niagara. Phila.: 1889 

 Lippincott. 1 889. Young 



A tale of a summer flirtation. 



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