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Subject: PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How like a rich and gorgeous picture hung
Last Line: With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Providence, Rhode Island


CANONICUS AND ROGER WILLIAMS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Content within his wigwam warm
Last Line: "yea, and his own soul did he save / from burning in hell-fire"
Subject(s): "canonicus (american Indian Leader);providence, Rhode Island;williams, Roger (1604-1683);


PROVINCETOWN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We laughed about the pine tree laying
Last Line: Great loss, and that the liquor stores didn't close / until midnight
Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island; Love


ROGER WILLIAMS, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to his rich words, intoned
Last Line: In liberty and law.
Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


THE ENGINEER'S SIGNAL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two low whistles, quaint and clear
Last Line: Guild lay under his engine, dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Variant Title(s): Gould's Signal;guild's Signal
Subject(s): Disasters; Guild, William; Providence, Rhode Island; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks


TO THE WEATHERCOCK ON OUR STEEPLE, by ALBERT GORTON GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn has broke, the morn is up
Last Line: As thou hast been to thine.
Subject(s): Providence, Rhode Island