Niagara Falls

this article contains a red file link that should either be removed or corrected thumb|Canadian Horseshoe Falls with city of Niagara Falls, Ontario in background. The Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has a vertical drop of more than 50 meters. Quotes "Niagara! wonder of this western world,And all the world beside! hail, beauteous queenOf cataracts!" an angel who had beenO'er heaven and earth, spoke thus—his bright wings furled—And knelt to Nature first, on this wild cliff unseen. Maria Gowen Brooks, "Stanzas to Niagara", stanza 7, in Idomen; or, The Vale of Yumuri (New York: Samuel Colman, 1843), "The Confessions", p. 195. Fools-to-free-the-world, they go,Primeval hearts from Buffalo.Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away,An echo of NiagaraThe cataract Niagara. Vachel Lindsay, "Niagara", stanza 7, in The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), p. 46. Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow onUnfathomed and resistless. God hath setHis rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloudMantled around thy feet. And He doth giveThy voice of thunder power to speak of HimEternally—bidding the lip of manKeep silence, and upon thine altar pourIncense of awe-struck praise. Lydia Sigourney, "Niagara" (Summer 1834), stanza 1, in Horatio A. Parsons, A Guide to Travelers Visiting the Falls of Niagara, 2nd edition greatly enlarged (Buffalo: Oliver G. Steele, 1835), p. 83. External links Niagara Category:Geography of North America Category:Waterfalls W. Martha E. Cooke and Bruce G. Wilson, "James Peachey", Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 4 (1979) Andrew Zebrun III, "Natural Niagara Falls", Buffalo Rising (September 25, 2021)