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Subject: SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON GILES COREY, EXECUTED AS A WIZARD, 17TH CENTURY", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Giles cory was a wizard strong
Last Line: And he did no confession make; / but wickedlie he dyed
Variant Title(s): Giles Corey
Subject(s): "capital Punishment;corey, Giles;salem, Massachusetts;witchcraft & Witches;" Hanging;executions;death Penalty


A SALEM WITCH, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows east, the wind blows west
Last Line: He died for thee! -- he died for me!
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches


GILES COREY OF THE SALEM FARMS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's monk's-hood, that breeds fever in the blood
Last Line: Hereafter will be counted as a martyr!
Variant Title(s): Christus: 3. The New England Tragedies: Giles Corey
Subject(s): Corey, Giles; Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches


GILES COREY OF THE SALEM FARMS: PROLOGUE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delusions of the days that once have been
Last Line: Of sabbath bells, a witch was burned or drowned.
Variant Title(s): Christus: 3. The New England Tragedies: Giles Corey: Prologue
Subject(s): Corey, Giles; Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches


SALEM, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In salem seasick spindrift drifts or skips
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts


SALEM, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In salem seasick spindrift drifts or skips
Last Line: Who quartered the leviathan's fat flanks %and fought the british lion to his knees?
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts


SALEM, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In meetinge-time I watched you well
Last Line: The stones of gallowes hill shall tread.
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches


SALEM, CONDITA 1626, by H. C. GAUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you visited salem
Last Line: It crumbles.
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts


SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled
Last Line: Sit in the beautiful houses, mobbed by cars
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They walked black bible streets and piously tilled
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts; Travel


SALEM, SELECTION, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift fly the years. Too swift, alas!
Last Line: When it has just begun.
Subject(s): Salem, Massachusetts


THE DEATH OF GOODY NURSE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chill new england sunshine
Last Line: "father forgive,"" he said."
Subject(s): Nourse, Rebecca; Salem, Massachusetts; Witchcraft & Witches