Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NANTASKET, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON



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First Line: Lobster-car, boat, or fishbasket
Last Line: Thee the fair haunts from whence they came!
Subject(s): Nantasket, Massachusetts


Lobster-car, boat, or fishbasket,
Peeps, noddies, oldsquaws, or quail,
To Musketaquid what from Nantasket,
What token of greeting & hail?

Can we tie up & send you our thunder, --
Pulse-beat of the sea on the shore?
Or our Rainbow, the daughter of Wonder,
Our rock Massasoit's palace-door.

White pebbles from Nantasket beach,
Whereon to write the maiden's name;
Shells, sea-eggs, sea flowers, could they teach
Thee the fair haunts from whence they came!





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