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The Little Beach-Bird Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o’er the waves dost fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice! Thy flitting form comes ghostly dim and... Poet: Richard Henry Dana	The Little Beach Bird Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice? Why with that brooding cry O’er the waves dost thou fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice! Thy flitting form comes ghostly dim... Poet: Richard Henry Dana, Sr.	Dover Beach The Sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!... Poet: Matthew Arnold	Hampton Beach THE Sunlight glitters keen and bright, Where, miles away, Lies stretching to my dazzled sight A luminous belt, a misty light, Beyond the dark pine bluffs and wastes of sandy gray. The tremulous shadow of the Sea! Against... Poet: John Greenleaf Whittier
Newport-Beach Wave after wave successively rolls on And dies along the shore, until more loud One billow with concentrate force is heard To swell prophetic, and exultant rears A lucent form above its pioneers, And rushes past them to the farthest goal. Thus our... Poet: Henry Theodore Tuckerman	My Garden — like the Beach — My Garden — like the Beach — Denotes there be — a Sea — That's Summer — Such as These — the Pearls She fetches — such as Me Poet: