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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis over, moses! All is lost!
Last Line: "than laborers in new hampshire""!"
Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Hale, John Parker (1806-1896); New Hampshire; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States


A NEW HAMPSHIRE BOY, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under monadnock
Last Line: Offered to me.
Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire


AMONG THE HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the roadside, like the flowers of gold
Last Line: With graces more abounding.
Variant Title(s): The Wife;sketches
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


AMY WENTWORTH; FOR WILLIAM BRADFORD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As they who watch by sick-beds find relief
Last Line: Beyond its own sweet will!
Subject(s): Portsmouth, New Hampshire


AT ALTON BAY, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We saw in the distance the dusky lake fade
Last Line: As at far alton bay.
Subject(s): Winnipesaukee (lake), New Hampshire


AT WINNIPESAUKEE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O silent hills across the lake
Last Line: To kiss of lisping ripples lean.
Subject(s): Winnipesaukee (lake), New Hampshire


BALD-CAP REVISITED, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eleven years, and two fair months beside
Last Line: All life more dear and glad and wonderful.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


CHOCURUA, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pioneer of a great company
Last Line: He steals, conspicuous, from the mountain-crowd.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


CLOUDS ON WHITEFACE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So lovingly the clouds caress his head
Last Line: A sullen rock, his brow to heaven he bares.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


CONCORD BY THE MERRIMACK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene amid the meadows
Last Line: Whose fame is ours forever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Concord, New Hampshire; Merrimac (river); New Hampshire


CONTOOCOOK RIVER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the streams that seek the sea
Last Line: Contoocook's bright and brimming river!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Contocook River, New Hampshire; New Hampshire


DANIEL WEBSTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Honor the home that reared him! - the hills, the wood, the stream
Last Line: Union, now and forever!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; New Hampshire; Praise; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Liberty


DEAR OLD GRANITE STATE, by ANNIE BARTLETT SHEPARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: O new hampshire, o new hampshire
Subject(s): New Hampshire


DEATH OF HAWTHORNE, by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He rose upon an early dawn of may
Last Line: And sleeping cross the mountains to god's rest.
Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Plymouth, New Hampshire


EASTER IN THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Where the cliffs are lost in clouds
Last Line: To waumbek's templed hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; New Hampshire; The Resurrection


FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can support it no longer
Last Line: It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying.
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire


HAMPTON BEACH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight glitters keen and bright
Last Line: Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea.
Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


HAMPTON TOWN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hampton marshes to the sea
Last Line: To blood that throbs from long ago.
Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire


IN A CLOUD RIFT, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon our loftiest white mountain peak
Last Line: And heaven but earth raised into purer air.
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


INDIAN SUMMER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis indian summer's richest, latest day
Last Line: O saddest indian summer! Fare thee well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Indian Summer; New Hampshire


JOHN UNDERHILL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A score of years had come and gone
Last Line: Counts with her worthies john underhill.
Subject(s): Dover, New Hampshire; Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643); Religious Discrimination; Underhill, John (1597-1672); Religious Conflict


KEARSARGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kearsarge, thou lonely sentinel
Last Line: The distant azure gates of god.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; Mythology


KEARSARGE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, lift thy head, thou mountain lone
Last Line: The monarch of our mountain-land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; New Hampshire


LAKE OF THE CLOUDS, MT. WASHINGTON, by HENRY HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Queen of the clouds! Afar from crowds
Last Line: How near in all my dreams.
Subject(s): Washington, Mount, New Hampshire


LET ME LIVE OUT MY YEARS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ESTRELLA LAKE MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: When my body has mouldered away
Subject(s): New Hampshire


MERRIMACK RIVER AT ITS MOUTH, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night I saw the merrimack
Last Line: Lapsed to the sea and the evening star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Merrimac (river); New Hampshire


MERRIMACK RIVER AT ITS SOURCE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O merrimack, strong merrimack
Last Line: They blend their deathless floods in thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Merrimac (river); New Hampshire


MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone
Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead!
Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The


MONADNOC, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousand minstrels woke within me
Last Line: "and forget me if he can."
Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire


MONADNOCK, by WILLIAM OLIVER BOURNE PEABODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the far-off mountain's brow
Last Line: Till life and sorrow end forever.
Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire


MONADNOCK FROM AFAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark flower of cheshire garden
Last Line: To draw all fancies to this spot.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire


MONADNOCK IN EARLY SPRING, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all
Last Line: Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.
Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire


MONADNOCK IN OCTOBER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uprose monadnock in the northern blue
Last Line: About monadnock builded to the lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire; New Hampshire; October


MOOSIL'AUK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moosil'auk! Mountain sagamore! Thy brow
Last Line: Lone peak! What realms are thine, above, below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNT AGASSIZ, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this mountain bore his well-loved name
Last Line: Went prayer in horeb silence unto god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme.
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOUNT AGASSIZ, by WILLIAM WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around me stand the everlasting hills
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Mountains


MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air
Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom!
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire


MOUNT KEARSARGE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great blue mountain! Ghost
Subject(s): Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire


MOUNT KEARSARGE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great blue mountain! Ghost
Last Line: My eyes, and you rise inside me, %blue ghost
Subject(s): Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire


MOUNT KEARSARGE SHINES..., by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mount kearsarge shines with ice; from hemlock branches
Last Line: For peepers as spring comes on, never to miss %the day's offering of pleasure %for the government of
Subject(s): Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; Nature


MOUNTAIN PICTURES: 1. FRANCONIA FROM THE PEMIGEWASSET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, o mountains of the north, unveil
Last Line: Blown crystal-clear by freedom's northern wind!
Subject(s): Franconia (mountain), New Hampshire; Pemigewasset (river), New Hampshire


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


MUSHROOM HUNTING IN LATE AUGUST, PETERBOROUGH, N.H., by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drosophila wing of the morning moon
Last Line: I stumble out into the sunlight. %I pucker my lips at the morning moon. %and I eat
Subject(s): Mushrooms; New Hampshire


MY MOUNTAIN, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shut my eyes in the snowfall
Last Line: My glorified, dream-crowned hill.
Subject(s): Pemigewasset (river), New Hampshire


NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a lady from the south who said
Last Line: At present I am living in vermont
Subject(s): New Hampshire


NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a lady from the south who said
Last Line: And restful just to think about new hampshire. %at present I am living in vermont
Subject(s): New Hampshire


NEW HAMPSHIRE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The harvest of our hills is not their corn
Last Line: The harvest of our hills is in the soul.
Subject(s): New Hampshire


NEW HAMPSHIRE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A goodly realm!' said captain smith
Last Line: Strength and glory be thine forever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): New Hampshire


NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless new hampshire! From her granite peaks
Last Line: What one brave state hath done, can ye not also do?
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; New Hampshire; Antislavery Movement - United States


NEW HAMPSHIRE LILACS, by SYLVIA TRYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hills are sweet with lilacs now
Last Line: As the evening bell-notes cease.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; New Hampshire


NEW HAMPSHIRE PASTORAL, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tidal the light and shade that floods and ebbs from the wide
Last Line: At the sight: this wingless thing down here squinting up at them
Subject(s): New Hampshire


OLD LAKE AGASSIZ, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: We knew this valley was an ice-age lake
Last Line: With small whirlpools of milky light
Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Lakes; Mountains; Travel; Valleys


ON THE HILLS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For weeks the clouds had raked the hills
Last Line: Beyond the wall of mountains!
Subject(s): Ossipee (lake), New Hampshire; White Mountains, New Hampshire


PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 1, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A heap of bare and splintery crags
Last Line: In the blackness where they wallow about.
Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire


PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All this you would scarcely comprehend
Last Line: Perpetual movement with perpetual rest!
Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire


PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 3, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away northeast is boone island light
Last Line: With a deep, hoarse pant against appledore.
Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire


PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 4, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eastward as far as the eye can see
Last Line: To the pitiless breakers of appledore.
Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire


PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 5, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How looks appledore in a storm?
Last Line: And such in a storm is appledore.
Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Storms


PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 6, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the sight of a lifetime to behold
Last Line: Round the lonely reefs of appledore.
Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire


PISCATAQUA RIVER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou singest by the gleaming isles
Last Line: And crags where I am known!
Subject(s): Piscataqua River, New Hampshire


PSALM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Praise the lord for the faith of our fathers
Subject(s): New Hampshire


SACO FALLS, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rush on, bold stream! Thou sendest up
Last Line: In welcome music, far away!
Subject(s): Saco (river), New Hampshire & Maine; Waterfalls


SALMON RIVER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a sweet stream; and so, 'tis true, are all
Last Line: I'll try to prove.
Subject(s): Salmon River, New Hampshire


SCHOOL, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old hezekiah leaned hard on his hoe
Last Line: "he said: ""to hoe."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Farm Life; Meriden Academy, New Hampshire; Agriculture; Farmers


SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you
Last Line: With thinking of your woe!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails


STAR ISLAND CHURCH; ISLES OF SHOALS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown
Last Line: Which are the ledges and which the walls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Churches; Islands; New Hampshire; Sea; Cathedrals; Ocean


SUMMER BY THE LAKESIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White clouds, whose shadows haunt the deep
Last Line: Be thou the mirror of god's love.
Variant Title(s): Noon
Subject(s): Winnipesaukee (lake), New Hampshire


SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gold fringe on the purpling hem
Last Line: And sunsets never cold!
Subject(s): Bearcamp (river), New Hampshire; Rivers


TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE SECOND DAY: LADY WENTWORTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hundred years ago, and something more
Last Line: Martha was lady wentworth of the hall!
Subject(s): Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Wentworth, Benning (1696-1770)


THANKSGIVING NIGHT; MEMORIES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE IN ILLINOIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the prairie moans the wind
Last Line: The ancient virtues of the hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Holidays; Illinois; New Hampshire; Thanksgiving


THE BLUEBIRD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am so blithe and glad to-day!
Last Line: Full swift the hours lead on to may!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; New Hampshire; Spring


THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had been wandering for many days
Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song.
Variant Title(s): The White Mountains
Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FORESTS OF THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lone waumbek methna! Who dares to profane
Last Line: What the red man has hallowed the white man will keep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; New Hampshire; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GRAVE OF CHAMPERNOWNE, by JOHN ELWYN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thomas de cambernon for hastings' field
Last Line: To tell us where are champernowne's poor bones.
Subject(s): Graves; Newcastle, New Hampshire; Tombs; Tombstones


THE GROUND-ROBIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a low birch-tree just outside my window
Last Line: Sing on, ground-robin, sing!
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; June; Love; New Hampshire; Robins; Summer; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HILLS ARE HOME; 'OLD HOME WEEK,' 1899, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget new hampshire? By her cliffs, her meads, her brooks afoam
Last Line: Whatever skies above us rise, the hills, the hills are home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Geography; Homecoming; Nature; New Hampshire


THE LOST WAR-SLOOP, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the pride of portsmouth water
Last Line: Still a rover of the seas and glory's own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Navy - United States; New Hampshire; War Of 1812; Wasp (ship); American Navy


THE MOUNTAIN MAID, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the mountain maid, new hampshire!
Last Line: Is the rarest of them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN; PROFILE NOTCH, FRANCONIA, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All round the lake the wet woods shake
Last Line: Imaginary brief existence!
Subject(s): White Mountains, New Hampshire


THE PORTSMOUTH SAILOR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back, o magical evenings
Last Line: To stories of over sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Family Life; New Hampshire; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Story-telling; Relatives


THE RIVER SACO, by JAMES GILBORNE LYONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: From agiochook's granite steeps
Last Line: Unsullied by one stain of earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lyons, J. Gilbourne
Subject(s): Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine


THE SONG OF SONGS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the lark by avon's side
Last Line: But the robin's is immortal!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Nature; New Hampshire


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 1, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not sin, in this half-playful strain
Last Line: "we'll pitch this tent of ours in type another year."
Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881); New Hampshire; Seashore; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Beach; Coast; Shore


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see
Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day!
Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 3. THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the great lake's sunny smiles
Last Line: Sweeps the circle of god's love.
Subject(s): Melvin (river), New Hampshire


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 5. THE CHANGELING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the fairest maid in hampton
Last Line: Came forth from ipswich jail.
Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire


VOICES OF THE SEA, by THOMAS DURFEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the lone rocks of rye
Last Line: My spirit replieth.
Subject(s): Rye, New Hampshire; Sea; Ocean


WALPOLE ODE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Favorite land of freedom, hail!
Last Line: And echoing angels quit the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Walpole, New Hampshire; Independence Day


WITHDRAWAL, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it thy step on the mountain-side?
Last Line: With the glow of a deathless hope.
Subject(s): Death; Moosilauke Mountain, New Hampshire; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Dead, The


WORKING LOOSE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In new hampshire they are common as cloud
Last Line: Even now being born
Subject(s): New Hampshire