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Subject: HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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 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 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


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