John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  • The Fall of Niagara

    The Thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,
    While I look upward to thee. It would seem
    As if God poured thee from his hollow hand,
    And hung his bow upon thine awful front,
    And spoke in that loud voice which seemed to him
    Who dwelt in Patmos for his...

  • “I saw two clouds at morning”

    I Saw two clouds at morning,
      Tinged by the rising sun,
    And in the dawn they floated on,
      And mingled into one;
    I thought that morning cloud was blest,
    It moved so sweetly to the west.

    I saw two summer currents
      Flow smoothly to their...

  • Epithalamium

    I saw two clouds at morning,
      Tinged with the rising sun,
    And in the dawn they floated on,
      And mingled into one:
    I thought that morning cloud was blest,
    It moved so sweetly to the west.

    I saw two summer currents
      Flow smoothly to...

  • The Deep

        there ’s beauty in the deep:
    The wave is bluer than the sky;
    And though the lights shine bright on high,
    More softly do the sea-gems glow
    That sparkle in the depths below;
    The rainbow’s tints are only made
    When on the waters they are laid,...