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Subject: NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF NANTUCKET, by ELISHA NORMAN GUNNISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The land breaks out, like a gleam of hope
Last Line: Shine out in their changeful mood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunnison, E. Norman
Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts


IN BLUE NANTUCKET, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Filling in, with froth. %in blue nantucket
Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts


NANTUCKET MURDERS, by CHARLES WEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was an old man of nantucket who kept
Last Line: Gathered the cash and made a mad dash to %catch a plane for rio de janeiro
Subject(s): Murder; Nantucket, Massachusetts


NANTUCKET: THE STRANDING, by STEPHEN TAPSCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It would not be denied, the huge
Last Line: As if it could not forgive itself, %humped and spasming in the public sand
Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts; Seashore


THE EXILES; 1660, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The good man sat beside his door
Last Line: As now upon her shore!
Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts


WITH A NANTUCKET SHELL, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send [thee] a shell from the ocean beach
Last Line: Than ever were lost at sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John
Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology