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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MASSACHUSETTS Matches Found: 237 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 GLEAM OF SUNSHINE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place. Stand still, my steed Last Line: Shines on a distant field. Subject(s): Brookline, Massachusetts A PLEA FOR FLOOD IRESON, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old flood ireson! All too long Last Line: Shall cleanse the stain and expiate all. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T. Subject(s): Disasters; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks 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 A SEA-SIDE IDYL, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered to the shore, nor knew I then Last Line: "farewell! Dull sands, and rocks, and sedge, farewell." Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Mattapoisett, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore 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 A WAIF, by H. C. L. HASKELL Poem Text 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 A WALK BY THE CHARLES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finality broods upon the things that pass Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts AMHERST WITH FRIES, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: When the bored cashier at burger king Last Line: As a line forms all day in front of her Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Restaurants AN INTERVIEW WITH MILES STANDISH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat one evening in my room Last Line: And he will print my ditty. Subject(s): Plymouth, Massachusetts; Standish, Miles (1584-1656) ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness Last Line: Impatiens roylei walpers acts the same Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Bees; Pollination; Cambridge, Massachusetts ANNE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes be like the violets Last Line: Look by her sweet sixteen! Subject(s): Sudbury, Massachusetts ARISEN AT LAST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said I stood upon thy grave Last Line: In freedom's holy pentecost. Subject(s): Freedom; Massachusetts; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes AT HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can any famous marble whose broad shaft Last Line: Divulging, with her blossoms, who lies there. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards AT SEA, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was off the cliffs of scituate Last Line: By that wild, treacherous shore. Subject(s): Scituate, Massachusetts; Sea; Ocean BARBERRIES, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Red against weather-beaten wood Last Line: As then, the eternal, the extraordinary stars Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas 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 BEAVER BROOK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill Last Line: And labor meet delight half-way. Subject(s): Brooks; Waverly, Massachusetts; Streams; Creeks BERKSHIRES IN APRIL, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not spring - not yet Last Line: And spring is pulsing out of the wakening soil. Subject(s): April; Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts BEVERLY SHORE IN WINTER, by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON Poem Text First Line: The bittern hies, / in lazy flight Last Line: Their sheeny jewelry evermore. Subject(s): Beverly, Massachusetts BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BRYANT'S BIRTHPLACE, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these haunts a poet's boyhood drew Last Line: And finds his soul, despite the years, at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Cummington, Massachusetts; Poetry & Poets 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 BY THE SEA-SHORE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curved strand / of cool, gray sand Last Line: That one such day has ever been. Subject(s): Marblehead, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore CAMBRIDGE, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not easy to walk Last Line: To sneak out a back door Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts CAPE ANN: A VIEW, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tropic of ice Last Line: A name descends on the anonymous Subject(s): Cape Ann, Massachusetts CAPTAIN MORROW'S THANKSGIVING, by LILLIE E. BARR Poem Text First Line: Over the waves the petrel sped Last Line: Well led by captain morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Sailing & Sailors; Thanksgiving Day; Seamen; Sails CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK; 1658, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the god of all sure mercies let my blessings rise today Last Line: And tamed the chaldean lions, is mighty still to save! Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Southwick, Cassandra (mythology); Quakers; Religious Conflict CHRISTMAS 1941, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: In plain december, crisp gift Last Line: His ringing rage across the world Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas CHRISTMAS IN AMHERST, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The poinsettias say there is red against snow Last Line: And deep in god the yew trees comfort time Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas CHRISTMAS PAGEANT, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: Our church is bethlehem Last Line: Gives adoration eyes Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas CITY AND COUNTRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame Last Line: And the best of old -- water -- at nothing a glass. Variant Title(s): City Men In The Country;lines Recited At The Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts CITY OF COUGHING AND DEAD RADIATORS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot evict them Last Line: A loud-faced man %trumpets from the gallery: %death to legal aid Subject(s): Chelsea, Massachusetts; Hispanic Americans; Landlords And Tenants; Poverty COBBLER KEEZAR'S VISION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beaver cut his timber Last Line: And love goes sailing by. Subject(s): Flowers; Massachusetts CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America 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 DEERFIELD: 1703, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full 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 DESIRE MINTER, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: She sees the white mist rise to blot the land Last Line: "england . . . England is calling to my soul!" Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Plymouth, Massachusetts DIRGE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knows he who tills this lonely field Last Line: "the master's requiem." Variant Title(s): Peter's Field Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts ELDER FAUNCE AT PLYMOUTH ROCK, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE Poem Text First Line: An old, old man! Last Line: "to freedom half so dear." Subject(s): Plymouth, Massachusetts ELIOT'S OAK; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ancient oak! Whose myriad leaves are loud Last Line: And is forgotten, save by thee alone. Subject(s): Natick, Massachusetts; Oak Trees 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 FAIRHAVEN BAY, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I push on through the shaggy wood Last Line: Shall warm my life with lasting flame! Subject(s): Concord River, Massachusetts FIRST CAPRICE IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A street-piano, garrulous and frail Last Line: Oh, these minor considerations! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts FIVE KERNELS OF CORN [APRIL, 1622], by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the year of the famine in plymouth of old Last Line: To the thanksgiving feast bring five kernels of corn! Subject(s): Famine; Plymouth, Massachusetts; United States - Colonial Period FLOATING HEARTS, by GEORGE BRADFORD BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: One of indian summer's most perfect days Last Line: Has never been able to get away. Subject(s): Assabet River, Massachusetts; Rivers FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History FRAMINGHAM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair to the red man, was framingham Last Line: With virtue, and valor, and beauty, gem! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Anniversaries; Framingham, Massachusetts 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 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 GODMINSTER CHIMES; IN AID CHIME OF BELLS FOR CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Godminster? Is it fancy's play Last Line: And hear my son in heaven! Subject(s): Bells; Cambridge, Massachusetts GREEN RIVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When breezes are soft and skies are fair Last Line: That won my heart in my greener years. Subject(s): Country Life; Great Barrington, Massachusetts HANDS OF GOD, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The hour is late, the household clocks bell deep Last Line: Your sleep-rocked weary children one by one Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas HANNAH BINDING SHOES, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor lone hannah / sitting at the window, binding shoes Last Line: Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. Subject(s): Beverly, Massachusetts HAVERHILL, 1640-1890, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O river winding down to the sea! Last Line: I pray, god bless the good old town! Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts HAWTHORNE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it was, that one bright day Last Line: Unfinished must remain! Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Writing & Writers HAWTHORNE'S GRAVE, by FRANK DEXTER MASON Poem Text First Line: Tall pines like sentinels by night and day Last Line: "long have we watched; when will the sleeper rise?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Concord, Massachusetts; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Graveyards HEPZIBAH OF THE CENT SHOP, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can you not see her as she sat of old Last Line: With me, a paling, wan daguerreotype. Subject(s): House Of The Seven Gables, Massachusetts HIGH ROCK, by ELIZABETH F. MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Overlooking the town of lynn Last Line: Of the restless hurrying tides below. Subject(s): Lynn, Massachusetts HOLYOKE VALLEY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many years have made their flight Last Line: Like me to mourn their glory fled. Subject(s): Northampton, Massachusetts HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION AT NEWBURYPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto us who did but seek Last Line: To whom be glory, first and last! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Newburyport, Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE TWO HUNDRETH ANNIVERSARY, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea sang sweetly to the shore Subject(s): Beverly, Massachusetts; Holidays 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 BLUE NANTUCKET, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Filling in, with froth. %in blue nantucket Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can the village dead remain so / still Last Line: And dance in triumph on my crumbling shroud. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Mountains; Villages; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE CARLYLE HOUSE, CHELSEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Up the steep stair they clatter to each room Last Line: Place for her golden bulbs within the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Chelsea, Massachusetts; Haunted Houses; Houses IN THE CHURCHYARD AT CAMBRIDGE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the village churchyard she lies, / dust is in her beautiful eyes Last Line: In your own secret sins and terrors! Subject(s): Cambridge, 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 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 INSIDE PLUM ISLAND, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We floated in the idle breeze Last Line: The boat lay at her mooring. Subject(s): Plum Island, Massachusetts 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 IPSWICH TOWN, by JAMES APPLETON MORGAN Poem Text First Line: I love to think of old ipswich town Last Line: You are pulling back to ipswich town. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, J. A. Subject(s): Ipswich, 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 LIFE IS GROWTH, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is growth, and growth is change Last Line: Thou, who makest all things new! Subject(s): Life; Wheaton Seminary, Massachusetts LINES ON REVISITING THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon my native hills again Last Line: Health and refreshment on the world below. Subject(s): Cummington, Massachusetts LINES; SUGGESTED BY GRAVES TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same good blood that now-refills Last Line: Your graves send courage forth, and might. Subject(s): American Revolution; Concord, Massachusetts LOSING: 1. POETS CROSSING: MARTHA'S VINEYARD, 1982, by DONNA BROOK Poem Source First Line: As we cross on a ferry at night to an island Last Line: Our hosts jump for joy before the headlights %to see us in the flesh Subject(s): Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Poetry And Poets LOWELL, MASS., by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kerouac was born in the same town Last Line: To let him off at the next light Subject(s): Beatniks; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Lowell, Massachusetts LOWELL, MASS., by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kerouac was born in the same town Subject(s): Beatniks; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Lowell, Massachusetts LYDIA (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Break forth, break forth, o sudbury town Last Line: I have but this to say. Subject(s): Sudbury, Massachusetts MAKING PORT, by JAMES THOMPSON MCKAY Poem Source First Line: All day long till the west was red Subject(s): Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Sea MASSACHUSETTS (2), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And have they spurned thy word Last Line: Its lightest whisper shall be heard. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Massachusetts; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs MASSACHUSETTS BAY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go south from marblehead and weep for heroes Subject(s): Massachusetts MASSACHUSETTS SONG OF LIBERTY, by MERCY OTIS WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come swallow your bumpers, ye tories, & roar Last Line: In freedom we're born, etc. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; Massachusetts; Liberty MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blast from freedom's northern hill, upon its southern way Last Line: No fetters in the bay state, -- no slave upon our land! Subject(s): Massachusetts; Slavery; Virginia (state); Serfs 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 MEMORIAL HALL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the elms that interlace Last Line: In deathless glory with their names. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts MENOTOMY LAKE (SPY POND), by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing so sweet as a morning in may Last Line: O perfume! O memories pensive and tender! Subject(s): Arlington, Massachusetts 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 MINOT'S LEDGE, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like spectral hounds across the sky Last Line: Within, there is the peace of god. Subject(s): Minot's Ledge, Massachusetts MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MOTEL VIEW, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is conceivable in fact that waves Subject(s): Sea; Weather; Cape Ann, Massachusetts; Ocean MOUNT AUBURN, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! O'er thy rolling slopes Last Line: Whereon day's latest incense burns. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts MOUNT AUBURN, by WILLIAM WINTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auburn! Sweet auburn! Lovely and beloved! Last Line: Where pain can weary not, nor passion enter in. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, by BEATRICE HAWLEY Poem Source First Line: We are in the trees around you Last Line: These foolish animals lie down %only to feed us Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, by JANE REBECCA THOMAS Poem Text First Line: The grave is clad in beauty! Nature's hand Last Line: When from its gloom a conqueror he rose. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Cemeteries; Graveyards MOUNTAIN PICTURES: 2. MONADNOCK FROM WACHUSETT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were a painter, for the sake Last Line: Swelling from angel lips and harps of seraphim. Variant Title(s): Wachusett Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire; Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts MOUNTAINS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With frontier strength ye stand your ground Last Line: May I approve myself thy worthy brother! Variant Title(s): To Wachusett Subject(s): Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts MUSKETAQUID, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I was content with these poor fields Last Line: "yet envies none, none are unenviable." Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts MYSTIC RIVER; MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dirty river by religious explorers Last Line: The death of gods, and makes a life of light - %that breaks,but calls a million birds to flight Subject(s): Mystic River, Massachusetts NANTASKET, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lobster-car, boat, or fishbasket Last Line: Thee the fair haunts from whence they came! Subject(s): Nantasket, Massachusetts NANTASKET, by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy face, nantasket Last Line: With its spell of space and air. Alternate Author Name(s): Clemmer, Mary; Ames, Mary Clemmer Subject(s): Nantasket, Massachusetts; Nature 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 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 NORTHAMPTON, by HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere from thy calm seclusion parted Last Line: The heights of sweet fiesole. Subject(s): Northampton, Massachusetts NOT UNCONCERNED WACHUSETT REARS HIS HEAD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: New annals in the history of man. Subject(s): Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts NURSING MOTHER ON THE DORCHESTER-HARVARD TRAIN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: It's good to leave the south end if only for a day. Good to trust where Last Line: Rocking of the train? Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; Roxbury, Massachusetts; Subways; Travel ODE READ AT 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIGHT AT CONCORD BRIDGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who cometh over the hills Last Line: And makes us deserve to be free! Subject(s): American Revolution; Concord, Massachusetts ON CHICATAWBUT HILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On chicatawbut hill I climbed Last Line: On chicatawbut hill. Subject(s): Memory; Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON HELTON'S HILL (THE BERKSHIRES), by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no other hill Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts ON HELTON'S HILL (THE BERKSHIRES), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no other hill Last Line: I am glad to live Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts OUR HOME - OUR COUNTRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your home was mine, - kind nature's gift Last Line: "I am a cambridge boy!" Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts OUR STATE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The south-land boasts its teeming cane Last Line: While near her church-spire stands the school. Variant Title(s): Massachusetts (1);dedication Of A School House Subject(s): Courage; Massachusetts; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery OUT FROM GLOUCESTER, by HELEN TROTT Poem Source First Line: Out where the white waves whisper Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea PAIN IN AUTUMN, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A drowsy pain, a dull, dead pain Last Line: A shadow in the world of shade! Subject(s): Hingham, Massachusetts PALINGENESIS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay upon the headland-height, and listened Last Line: "until ""the end"" I read." Subject(s): Nahant, Massachusetts PARKER RIVER, by HENRY HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Through broad gleaming meadows of billowy grass Last Line: In all the bright splendor of purple and gold. Subject(s): Parker River, Massachusetts PENISKEE, by THOMAS GOLD APPLETON Poem Text First Line: Not vainly homer saw it in a dream Last Line: Shine like a load-star o'er the waters wide. Subject(s): Penikese Island, Massachusetts PENTUCKET [AUGUST 29, 1708], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly on the wood-girt town Last Line: The victims of that sacrifice. Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; Haverhill, Massachusetts PLACES: 4. EVENING (NAHANT), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an evening when the sky was clear Last Line: Misted with light the meadows of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Twilight (nahant) Subject(s): Evening; Landscape; Nahant, Massachusetts; Sunset; Twilight PONTOOSUCE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowning a bluff where gleams the lake below Last Line: And warmth and chill of wedded life and death. Subject(s): Memory; Pontoosuce (lake), Massachusetts PROFESSOR KELLEHER AND THE CHARLES RIVER, by DESMOND O'GRADY Poem Source First Line: The charles river reaps here like a sickle. April Last Line: All shadows procession in an acropolis of lights Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts ROGER WILLIAMS, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I sleep amid the snows Last Line: And so the pine boughs cover me. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Religious Discrimination; Williams, Roger (1604-1683); Religious Conflict RONDEAU AT THE TRAIN STOP, by ERIN BELIEU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay Last Line: So apparent, wanting so much that it bothers me. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Railroads; Railways; Trains 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 SECOND CAPRICE IN NORTH CAMBRIDGE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This charm of vacant lots! Last Line: Under a sunset yellow and rose Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts 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 SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the rides since the birth of time Last Line: By the women of marblehead! Subject(s): Disasters; Duty; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks SLEEPY HOLLOW, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral Last Line: God's mercy in thy thought and life confest Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Death; Dead, The SNOWBOUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that brief december day / rose cheerless over hills of gray Last Line: The benediction of the air. Variant Title(s): New England In Winter;a Winter Idyl;snow-bound;snow-bound: A Winter Idyll Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Massachusetts; Memory; Religion; Snow; Winter; Relatives; Theology SONNET - REALITIES: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls Last Line: Moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Social Protest ST. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand beneath the tree, whose branches shade Last Line: "be and abide with you forevermore!" Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts SUDBURY, 1936, by NORMA WEST LINDER Poem Source First Line: We had a house on oak street Last Line: He couldn't spare a handful Subject(s): Sudbury, Massachusetts SUNDAY ON MOUNT HOLYOKE, by JAMES FREEMAN COLMAN Poem Text First Line: I've climbed, with slippery, toiling feet Last Line: Seemeth more near to god. Subject(s): Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts SUNDAY ON THE HILL-TOP, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only ten miles from the city Last Line: When it cannot be lifted away? Subject(s): Milton, Massachusetts TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Last Line: And the midnight message of paul revere. Variant Title(s): The Landlord's Tale Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Revere, Paul (1735-1818); United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PRELUDE. THE WAYSIDE INN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One autumn night, in sudbury town Last Line: Yielded; and thus the story ran. Subject(s): Books; Music & Musicians; Stradivari, Antonio (1644-1737); Sudbury, Massachusetts; Reading 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 ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling Last Line: The holy melodies of love arise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; Springfield, Massachusetts; United States - History THE ASSABET, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up this pleasant stream let's row Last Line: With her simple stanza'd ode. Subject(s): Assabet River, Massachusetts; Rivers THE BAY OF SEVEN ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the green amesbury hill which bears the name Last Line: The ghost of the schooner breeze! Subject(s): Merrimac (river); Newbury, Massachusetts THE BELLS OF EDGARTOWN, by ELISHA NORMAN GUNNISON Poem Text First Line: But one more day, and, o happy bells! Last Line: And miles away is the nearest shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gunnison, E. Norman Subject(s): Bells; Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts THE BELLS OF LYNN; HEARD AT NAHANT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O curfew of the setting sun! O bells of lynn! Last Line: Lynn! Subject(s): Bells; Lynn, Massachusetts THE BLUE HILLS OF MILTON, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have travelled o'er our country Last Line: Near boston by the sea. Subject(s): Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE BRIDGE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on the bridge at midnight Last Line: And its wavering image here. Subject(s): Bridges; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Courtship THE CAMBRIDGE CHURCHYARD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ancient church! Its lowly tower Last Line: Might call a tear on mine. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Churchyards 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 THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the twilight time Last Line: "the amphisbaena is living still!" Subject(s): Animals; Newbury, Massachusetts; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers 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 THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD; DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the farmhouse old Last Line: The thoughts that burned and glowed within. Subject(s): Farm Life; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers THE FRANKLAND MISSION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One hour we rumble on the rail Last Line: He cut his vista through. Subject(s): Hopkinton, Massachusetts THE GARRISON OF CAPE ANN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like span Last Line: Night! Subject(s): Cape Ann, Massachusetts THE GHOST OF THE CRAGS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Midst the wild and open country scarce without the Last Line: And if once you go, o neighbor, I am sure you'll go again. Subject(s): Ghosts; Milton, Massachusetts; Supernatural THE HERONS OF ELMWOOD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm and still is the summer night Last Line: Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts THE HOUSE OF YOUTH, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rought north-winds have left their icy caves Last Line: Back to the house of youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Mattapoisett, Massachusetts 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 LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LETTER OF MARQUE, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE Poem Text First Line: We had sailed out a letter of marque Last Line: We shall see and hear, to our dying day. Subject(s): Sea Battles; Shoal Of George's, Massachusetts; Naval Warfare 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 LIBRARY; SUNG AT OPENING OF THE HAVERHILL LIBRARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light!' god spake of old Last Line: The lords of thought await our call! Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts; Libraries & Librarians THE LIGHTHOUSES; BAKER'S ISLAND, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two pale sisters, all alone Last Line: Should a human heart grow strong. Subject(s): Beverly, Massachusetts; Lighthouses THE LIGHTS OF LAWRENCE, by ERNEST WARBURTON SHURTLEFF Poem Text First Line: The night's dark curtain trails the east Last Line: Like lights of lawrence burning clear! Subject(s): Lawrence, Massachusetts; Light THE MAYFLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad mayflower! Watched by winter stars Last Line: Afresh the flowers of god! Subject(s): Arbutus; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Mayflowers THE MOUNTAINS IN THE HORIZON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With frontier strength ye stand your ground Last Line: And mak'st thyself a clearing in the sky. Subject(s): Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts THE NEW EDEN; MEETING OF BERKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce could the parting ocean close Last Line: Till ocean is its only wall! Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Drought; Horticulture THE OLD BRIDGE, by SEYMOUR GREEN WHEELER BENJAMIN Poem Text First Line: Down by the river, on this rustic bridge Last Line: With ecstasy that language cannot tell! Subject(s): Brookfield, Massachusetts THE OLD BURYING-GROUND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vales are sweet with fern and rose Last Line: And over both is heaven. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Haverhill, Massachusetts; Graveyards THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhat back from the village street Last Line: "never -- forever!" Subject(s): Clocks; Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Time THE OLD ELM OF NEWBURY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did it ever come in your way to pass Last Line: The veteran elm of newbury. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Newbury, Massachusetts THE OLD MILL, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the stream the grist-mill stands Last Line: From out the golden fields of thought! Subject(s): Abington, Massachusetts; Mills And Millers THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my [or, this] heart are the scenes of my childhood Last Line: The moss covered bucket which hangs in the well. Variant Title(s): The Bucket Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Scituate, Massachusetts; Childhood 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 PILGRIM FATHERS, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pilgrim fathers, - where are they? Last Line: Shall foam and freeze no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day THE PINE TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift again the stately emblem on the bay state's rusted shield Last Line: And to plant again the pine-tree in her banner's tattered field! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Pine Trees; Trees; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the isle of penikese Last Line: From the master's silent prayer. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Penikese Island, Massachusetts; Science; Scientists THE PREACHER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its windows flashing to the sky Last Line: His memory hallows the ancient town! Subject(s): Newburyport, Massachusetts; Whitefield, George (1714-1770) THE PROPHECY OF SAMUEL SEWALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the village streets Last Line: The precious seed by the fathers sown! Subject(s): Newbury, Massachusetts; Puritans; Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730); Witchcraft & Witches THE RED DANCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a girl Last Line: Dancing all the way Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts THE REUNION; READ TO SURVIVING STUDENTS IN 1827-1830, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gulf of seven and fifty years Last Line: Is herald also of the day! Subject(s): Alumni; Haverhill Academy, Massachusetts; Reunions THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No song of a soldier riding down Last Line: For he offered his life for the people's sake! Subject(s): Courage; Floods; Graves, Collins; Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Valor; Bravery THE RIVULET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little rill, that from the springs Last Line: Shalt mock the fading race of men. Subject(s): Cummington, Massachusetts 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 THE SCHOOL BOY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cheek was bare of adolescent down Last Line: Seen through the vista of our bygone years. Subject(s): Andover, Massachusetts; Schools; Students THE SCITUATE BIRD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is your 'scituate, scituate, scituate' Last Line: Live there and sing there till singing I die. Subject(s): Scituate, Massachusetts; Yellowthroats (birds) THE SPHINX AT MOUNT AUBURN, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How grand she is enthroned among the dead Last Line: Dread as the lion in his majesty. Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts; Egypt; Sphinx THE STRANGER, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the first red-orange glimmer Last Line: And wilds to mourn him, with the sighing stream. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Strangers; Nature; Mourning THE SWAN SONG OF PARSON AVERY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the reaper's task was ended, and the summer wearing late Last Line: When they see the white waves breaking on the rock of avery's fall! Subject(s): Marblehead, Massachusetts THE SYCAMORES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the outskirts of the village Last Line: Stand hugh tallant's sycamores. Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts; Plane Trees; Sycamores THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory; Dead, The THE TOWN ECLOGUE; A FRAGMENT, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, see, bluff winter quits the town Last Line: And licks his lips and pays the cash. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Roxbury, Massachusetts; Sternhold, Thomas (d. 1549) THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a spreading chestnut-tree Last Line: Each burning deed and thought! Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Home; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE WAYSIDE INN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little past the village Last Line: Plucked from a judas-tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Sudbury, Massachusetts THE WAYSIDE INN; SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set by the meadows, with great oaks to guard Last Line: Songs that will echo sweet the ages down! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Guests; Hotels; Massachusetts; Visiting; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To build the trout a crystal stair Last Line: And whisper sorrow into sleep! Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE WILD ROSE OF PLYMOUTH, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the plymouth shore the wild rose blooms Last Line: Of love and beauty ever to remain. Subject(s): Flowers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Roses THE WISHING BRIDGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the legends sung or said Last Line: "but in his own best way!" Subject(s): Bridges; Marblehead, 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 THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Last Line: The berkshires, %have good memories Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory THOREAU'S FLUTE, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, sighing, said, 'our pan is dead' Last Line: "seek not for him, -- he is with thee." Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 2; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In attica thy birthplace should have been Last Line: That thou shouldst die before thou hadst grown old! Variant Title(s): Felton And Sumner Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 4; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: River, that stealest with silent pace Last Line: To cover up the embers that still burn. Variant Title(s): Felton And Sumner Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 5; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doors are all wide open; at the gate Last Line: And summer is not summer, nor can be. Variant Title(s): Felton And Sumner Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts TO G. G.; AN AUTOGRAPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graceful in name and in thyself, our river Last Line: Unbroken still the ties of blood remain! Subject(s): Haverhill, England; Haverhill, Massachusetts TO MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though around thee blazes Last Line: Was sleeping, but not dead! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States TO THE RIVER CHARLES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: River! That in silence windest Last Line: Take this idle song from me. Variant Title(s): To The Silent River Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts; Rivers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY LAKE WACHUSETT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night-breeze murmurs odorous through the wild Last Line: Souls winged and equipped for freedom. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts; Anglers; Liberty TWO RIVERS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy summer voice, musketaquit, / repeats the music of the rain Last Line: And ages drop in it like rain. Subject(s): Concord River, Massachusetts; Rivers UNDER THE OLD ELM; READ AT CAMBRIDGE ON 100TH ANNIVERSAY ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words pass as the wind, but where great deeds were done Last Line: Virginia, fitly named from england's manly queen! Subject(s): American Revolution; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) WALDEN, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Already the air has turned. The water Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my garden three ways meet Last Line: To draw the dregs of wine. Variant Title(s): In My Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I first went to walden pond Last Line: And rode the luminous hum of the blue-gray twilight %throughconcord, all the way back %to my amherst Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True, our converse a stranger is to speech Last Line: First dipped their pens in mist. Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN FOREVER WILD, by DORIAN BROOKS KOTTLER Poem Source First Line: Let's keep these woods forever Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN IN JULY, by DONALD JUNKINS Poem Source First Line: The clouds were fishbone Last Line: The night was opening %like a cotyledon Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN LAKE, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is not far beyond the village church Last Line: And with those virtues which are like the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Variant Title(s): Walden Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALDEN WOOD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In walden wood the chickadee Last Line: Then drink in walden water. Subject(s): Walden Pond, Massachusetts WALK BY THE CHARLES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finality broods upon the things that pass Last Line: Past innocence, beyond these aging bricks, %to where the charles flows in to join the styx Subject(s): Charles River, Massachusetts WEBSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY CUYLER HOSMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud is over marshfield, and the wail Last Line: Are closely with thy heart-strings intertwined. Subject(s): Marshfield, Massachusetts; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) WETMORE COTTAGE, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hours on the old piazza Last Line: But I long, though the longing be vain. Subject(s): Nahant, 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 YET LET US THANK THE PURBLIND RACE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And quiet fame as well Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts YOU BOSTON FOLKS & ROXBURY PEOPLE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will want tom hyde to mend your kettle Subject(s): Boston; Roxbury, Massachusetts YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, by ARNOLD KENSETH Poem Source First Line: The lights in a room are never light Last Line: Die without fear in his nativity Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas |
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