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Subject: DEERFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BARS FIGHT, by LUCY TERRY PRINCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: August 'twas, the twenty-fifth
Last Line: Was taken and carried off to canada.
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans - Wars


DEERFIELD: 1703, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the break of day the minister was awakened
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Native Americans; Massacres; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS (DEERFIELD MEMORIAL HALL), by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dulcimer, play me a little tune
Last Line: Praise be for the story's end!
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF BLOODY BROOK, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen to the story of brave lathrop
Last Line: From that dark and cruel day, -- cruel day!
Subject(s): Deerfield, Battle Of (1675); Deerfield, Massachusetts; Lathrop, Thomas; New England; Philip, King (native American Chief); Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


THE SACK OF DEERFIELD (1704), by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the onset, fear-inspiring, and the firing
Last Line: And, ere dawning of the morning, I was twenty miles away.
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; French & Indian Wars