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Subject: GHOST TOWNS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BERKLEY COMMON, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer broods o'er berkley common, o'er the fields of everlasting
Last Line: For the empty houses fill them with a feeling like to fear.
Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Houses, Deserted


CALIFORNIA GHOST TOWN, by FRAN HARAWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buildings blackened, boards warped, pushed askew
Last Line: Yet, dusty streets show prints of tennis shoes!
Subject(s): California; Ghost Towns


GHOST TOWN, by MARGARET ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, town of ghosts and drifted sand
Last Line: How long will your battered houses stand?
Subject(s): Ghost Towns


GHOST TOWN, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun gone from the evening sky
Last Line: Morning, where the rider goes
Subject(s): Ghost Towns


GHOST TOWN, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have located it, my ghost town
Last Line: I shall have written another letter home
Subject(s): Ghost Towns


GHOST TOWN OF APPALACHIA, by J. B. GOODE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The reasons are settled
Last Line: The sandstone names and epitaphs %sanded smoth by wily winds
Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Ghost Towns


GHOST TOWNS, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The north is strewn with cities
Last Line: One space, one frame for all
Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Nature


TACONITE HARBOR, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The houses stand still, but the people are gone
Last Line: No one ever lived here. There's no such town
Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Towns


THE DESERTED CITY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There lies a little city leagues away
Last Line: Since yesterday it is so long ago.
Subject(s): Ghost Towns


THE GHOST TOWNS, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The north is strewn with cities
Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Nature