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Subject: HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL (1804-1864)
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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


DEATH OF HAWTHORNE, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He rose upon an early dawn of may
Last Line: And sleeping cross the mountains to god's rest.
Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Plymouth, New Hampshire


HAWTHORNE, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Romancer, far more coy than that coy sex!
Last Line: Whilst 'neath our pines thou feignest deathlike sleep?
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 19
Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)


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, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harp of new england song
Last Line: The ear still waits for what it did not tell.
Subject(s): 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


MONODY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To have known him, to have loved him
Last Line: That hid the shyest grape.
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Sorrow; Sadness


ROMANCE IN THE OLD FOLKS' HOME, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First he offered to read to her
Last Line: And she asked him please to begin
Subject(s): Books; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Poetry And Poets; Romance


SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high
Last Line: Feeding everywhere.
Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)


WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL HESTER PRYNNE?, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity him up to his waist in middle age
Last Line: "gabriel told me to."
Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary