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So much about the Seacoast inspires great poetry -- from sea chanties to shipwreck ballads to modern verse. This section features the work of local writers young and old, famous and obscure.
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POEMS LISTED BY TITLE
- Here Comes the Old Man Now
- Saint Aspinquid
- Take Heart
- The Poor Voter on Election Day
- Evangeline
- Annie Fields Boston Marriage
- Paul Revere's Other Ride
- NH's Nine State Songs
- Song for Sons of Liberty
- The Lucky Horseshoe
- Last Poems of Esther Buffler
- Shillaber's "Rhymes With Reason"
- The "Other" Lady Wentworth
- The Old Man of the Mountains
- The Swallow,The Butcher Bird,
- The kingfisher & The Burgomaster Gull
- Light into Darkness
- Big Red & Canned Heat
- The Coming War
- The Last Request, To a Beautiful Lady,
- Sorrow, A Sail on the Piscataqua,
- Luff When You Can, Midnight Musings
- Off Scarborough
- Frenchman's Lane
- The New Wife & The Old
- Hero's Ode
- The Noble Sailor
- On the Closing of Richardson's Market
- Three Norwegians at the Isles of Shoals
- Story of a Bad Boy
- Two Poems for John Paul Jones
- Connoisseur
- Hidden Gold
- Ona, Washington's Runaway Slave
- Lines Composed on the Unhappy Sufferers of Portsmouth
- Ballad of Ruth Blay
- The Balled of Jack Ringbolt
- The Old House
- "A Tryst"
- Ballad of "The Ranger Flag"
- Land-locked
- Sandpiper
- Alemaker Frank Jones Brewery Song, (1880)
- Wreck of the "Segumtum"
- The Spaniards' Graves
- The Railroad Through the Farm
- The Locomotive and the Snow-flakes
- The Changeling (two versions)
- The Vane of the Old North Church
- The Wreck of Rivermouth
- Hampton Beach
- Old Ironsides
- Lady Wentworth
- Ballad of Louis Wagner
- Ballad of the Squalus
- New Hampshire
- Covering/Uncovering
POEMS LISTED BY AUTHOR
- JOHN ALBEE
Saint Aspinquid
- THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
The Old House
Old Town by the Sea
Story of a Bad Boy
- ANONYMOUS
Song for the Sons of Liberty (1766)
Lines Composed on the Unhappy Sufferers of Portsmouth
- CHARLES W. BREWSTER
The Locomotive and the Snow-flakes
The Vane of the Old North Church
- ESTHER BUFFLER
Selections from "It's All Ahead"
- DANIEL DROWN
Light into Darkness
- JAMES T. & ANNIE FIELDS
To --------, Sleeping
The Lucky Horseshoe
- SAM FOSS
The Coming War
The Railroad Through the Farm
- R. J. GILKER
John Paul Jones House
- NANCY GROSSMAN
Paul Revere's Other Ride
- M. O. HALL
Ona, Washington's Runaway Slave
- BRET HARTE
Off Scarborough
- DR. JOHN F. HOLMES
Old New Hampshire (state song)
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Old Ironsides
- JAMES KENNARD JR.
The Wreck of the "Seguntum"
The Ballad of Jack Ringbolt
MORE POEMS: Last Request, Sorrow,
To a Beauriful Lady, Midnight Muscing,
Luff When You Can, Sail on Piscataqua
- ALBERT LAIGHTON
Ballad of Ruth Blay
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
On the Trail of Evangeline
Lady Wentworth
- JOHN LOTHROP
Hero's Ode
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Changeling
- CLARA LYNN
Ballad of "The Ranger Flag"
Hidden Gold
- JOHN PERRAULT
Ballad of Louis Wagner
Ballad of the Squalus
Here Comes the Old Man Now
- NORA PERRY
Lady Wentworth
- EDNA DEAN PROCTOR
Take Heart
- J. DENNIS ROBINSON
Covering/Uncovering
On the Closing of Richardson's Market
- MIKE ROGERS
Big Red & Canned Heat
- B P SHILLABER
Frenchman's Lane
Mysterious Rappings,
The Consumptive,
Ballad of the Piscataqua,
The Old Printer
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