Niagara Falls Public Library Celebrates National Poetry Month with Poetry Falls: Poems of Niagara

Niagara Falls Public Library Celebrates National
Poetry Month with Poetry Falls: Poems of Niagara

Featuring historic poems and images with local authors and guest readers

Wednesday, April 30

7 PM – 8:30 PM

Earl Brydges Auditorium ~ 1425 Main Street

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To view Niagara Falls one day,
A parson and a tailor took their way;
The parson cried whilst wrapped in wonder,
And listening to the cataract’s thunder,
Lord!  how thy works amaze our eyes,
And fill our hearts with vast surprise;
The tailor merely made this note –
Lord!  what a place to sponge a coat!

~ from Nathaniel Parker Willis, Inklings of Adventure.  New York: Saunders and Otley, 1836.

Home of the tempest!  thou cavern sublime!
Where Chaos has reigned since the dawning of Time,
Unbar thy dread portals, the veil rend away,
And show us thy treasures of rainbow and spray.

~from Cave of the Winds by Mary S. Pond. Niagara Falls; Frederick H. Johnson, 1860.

I sing to the gray and stubborn strength of stones,
To shadowy trees that shelter my seething edge
So patiently where plunging waters pledge

~ from “Niagara,” in Poems of the Niagara Frontier by Evelyn M. Watson. New York: Dean and Company, 1929.

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