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Seacoast Poems
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Written by Poetry Editor
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FOR BETTER OR VERSE
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.
See all articles now
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
MRS SIGOURNEY
The Noble Sailor
CELIA THAXTER
The Butcher Bird, The Swallow,
The Burgomaster Gull & The Kingfisher
Three Norwegians at the Isles of Shoals
A Tryst
Land-locked
Sandpiper
The Spaniards' Graves
Connoisseur
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
The Poor Voter on Election Day
The New Wife & The Old
The Changeling
Hampton Beach
New Hampshire
The Wreck of Rivermouth
BENJAMIN COLLINS WOODBURY
To John Paul Jones |
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