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Subject: GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS
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First Line: The autumn day / rich in its regal beauty lay
Last Line: With those who mourn for the lost at sea.
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


BY CURE OF – SULFA, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See where, gathered, the wharves
Last Line: Father, son & sardine sandwich / of gloucester!
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Family Life


CUT CREEK,' THE RIVER IS, WM SAVILLE'S, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Plan' of the harbor 1606
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Harbors


EVENING AT GLOUCESTER, by ELEANOR JANE OLMSTEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, when the mist came in off gloucester bay
Last Line: To me, marooned by nature in that silvery guise.
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


EVENING IN GLOUCESTER HARBOR, by EPES SARGENT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The very pulse of ocean now was still
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea


GLOUCESTER HARBOR, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One shadow glides from the dumb shore
Last Line: A widowed woman's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


GLOUCESTER MOORS, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mile behind is gloucester town
Last Line: And nothing to say or do?
Subject(s): Freedom; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Religion; Liberty; Theology


I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood
Last Line: Than that which you %can do
Subject(s): Birds; Gloucester, Massachusetts


IN THE SEA, by HIRAM RICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The salt wind blows upon my cheek
Last Line: God leads the eternal flow.
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Ocean


INTO THE STREAM OR ENTRANCE TO THE INNER HARBOR, GLOUCESTER, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At the place where dutches sloo drained in
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


LAND'S EYE-VIEW OF GLOUCESTER, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1833 14 october 443 vessels at anchor in the harbor besides ...
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


MAXIMUS, IN GLOUCESTER SUNDAY, LXV, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Osmund dutch, and john gallop, mariners, their wages
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


MIDSUMMER IN THE CITY, by EPES SARGENT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye keen breezes from the salt atlantic
Last Line: Friends of my boyhood?
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


NEW EMPIRE, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was homey, over the cut, homer barrett
Last Line: But it was indeed a new %empire
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


OUT FROM GLOUCESTER, by HELEN TROTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out where the white waves whisper
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea


SHIPS FOR THE WEST INDIES, OR SOUTHERN VOYAGE, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To water out beyond the sluice at mill river
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


THANK GOD / I CHOSE A PROTESTANT, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I come from the last walking period of man
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts


THE LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives


THE PHANTOM BOAT, by ELISHA NORMAN GUNNISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tide comes in, and the tide goes out
Last Line: "her wedding dress was her funeral shroud."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunnison, E. Norman
Subject(s): Boats; Gloucester, Massachusetts


THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the schooner hesperus, / that sailed the wintry sea
Last Line: On the reef of norman's woe!
Subject(s): Disasters; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THERE WAS A SALT-WORKS AT STAGE FORT, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a salt-works at stage fort, in 1656
Last Line: Floating, an island floating in the western sea
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Salt