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Subject: BLOCK ISLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` LEAVING THE MARKED TRAIL, BEHIND THE CEMETERY, THE OLD HARBOR, BLOCK.., by ALAN CATLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emerging from woods at high
Last Line: The sea and the south beyond
Subject(s): Block Island; Drought; Summer


PROEM TO THE BUCCANEER, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The island lies nine leagues away
Last Line: Pirate and wrecker kept their revels then.
Variant Title(s): Description Of The Quiet Island;the Island
Subject(s): Block Island


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 10. THE PALATINE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk
Last Line: Of the blazing wreck of the palatine!
Subject(s): Block Island; Sea; Ocean