Category Archives: Poetry

Portsmouth New Hampshire Soldier, Executive Clerk, Poet: Samuel Adams Wiggin (1832-1899)

Posted on 25 April, 2007 by Janice Brown

Samuel Adams Wiggin, son of Samuel P. & Eliza (Wendell) Wiggin was born at Portsmouth, N.H., May 27, 1832. His … Continue reading →

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Poem: "The Skater’s Song," by Rev. Ephraim Peabody

Posted on 6 March, 2007 by Janice Brown

Away! away! — our fires stream bright
 Along the frozen river,
And their arrowy sparkles of brilliant light
 On the … Continue reading →

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Poem: "Our Little Back Star" by Sam Walter Foss

Posted on 2 February, 2007 by Janice Brown

Oh, we do fairly well on this little back star, This world in the suburbs of space… Continue reading →

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Hanover New Hampshire Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, and Teacher, Richard G. Eberhart (1904-2005)

Posted on 31 January, 2007 by Janice Brown

What more can possibly be said (that hasn't already been) about a man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry … Continue reading →

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Poem: After Apple Picking, by Robert Frost

Posted on 17 January, 2007 by Janice Brown

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside … Continue reading →

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