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Subject: CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can any famous marble whose broad shaft
Last Line: Divulging, with her blossoms, who lies there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards


CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument
Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America


DIRGE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Knows he who tills this lonely field
Last Line: "the master's requiem."
Variant Title(s): Peter's Field
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts


HAWTHORNE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful it was, that one bright day
Last Line: Unfinished must remain!
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Writing & Writers


HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by FRANK DEXTER MASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tall pines like sentinels by night and day
Last Line: "long have we watched; when will the sleeper rise?"
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards


LINES; SUGGESTED BY GRAVES TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The same good blood that now-refills
Last Line: Your graves send courage forth, and might.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Concord, Massachusetts


MUSKETAQUID, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I was content with these poor fields
Last Line: "yet envies none, none are unenviable."
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts


ODE READ AT 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIGHT AT CONCORD BRIDGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who cometh over the hills
Last Line: And makes us deserve to be free!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Concord, Massachusetts


SLEEPY HOLLOW, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral
Last Line: God's mercy in thy thought and life confest
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Death; Dead, The


THOREAU'S FLUTE, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We, sighing, said, 'our pan is dead'
Last Line: "seek not for him, -- he is with thee."
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)


WALDEN LAKE, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not far beyond the village church
Last Line: And with those virtues which are like the stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Variant Title(s): Walden
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Walden Pond, Massachusetts


YET LET US THANK THE PURBLIND RACE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And quiet fame as well
Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts