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Subject: ACADIA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACADIAN LANE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Idigo against ocher, atlantic
Last Line: La mer, la terre, le monde est seulement ces choses!
Subject(s): Acadia


EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks
Last Line: Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Subject(s): Acadia; Love; Mothers; Social Protest; United States - History


ST. JOHN; 1647, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the winds give our banner!
Last Line: Behind was st. John!
Subject(s): Acadia; La Tour, Charles (1596-1666)


THE EMIGRATION OF THE FAIRIES, SELECTION, by JOHN HUNTER-DUVAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few days more they drifted, ever west
Last Line: As lithe as squirrels and as smug as rabbits.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duvar, John Hunter
Subject(s): Acadia; England; Fairies; English; Elves


THE INDIAN MASSACRE, FR. ACADIA, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For them no stately canopy is spread
Last Line: To charm the list'ning ear, or touch the heart.
Subject(s): Acadia; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America