This anthology's 118 contemporary poems meld the outer and interior landscapes of Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard so that the reader discovers, as if for the first time, the spirit of a place that calls us home. Not only do these poems converse with one another, they could not have been written about anywhere else. The anthology includes the work of both local and internationally recognized poets, all of whom were inspired to write about the region.

"Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse" by Joseph Crosby Lincoln Joseph Crosby Lincoln was an American author of novels, poems, many of which took place in Cape Cod. The Wind's Song, The Life-saver, "The Evenin' Hymn", The Meadow Road, The Bullfrog Serenade, Sunday Afternoons, The Old Daguerreotypes, The Best Spare Room, The Old Carryall, Our First Fire-crackers, Hezekiah's Art, and The Sunday-school Picnic are just some of the songs he wrote to honor this Massachusetts peninsula.

Poems deal with mortality, rites of passage, immigrants, explorers, and the search for understanding

Inspired by his summers on Cape Cod & the Islands, John P. Joy presents this diverse collection of lyric poetry. Each poem was written with the shoreline as backdrop, and the beach as a broad canvas on which are overlaid reflections on life, love, loss and nature. Accessible to a wide audience, each selection embodies a style that honors the more traditional and ageless poetic ideals of beauty, sound and form, while remaining timely and affirming. Much beauty and serenity is to be found in nature and this collection calls to the reader to experience it anew each year. Between the Tides is a wide-ranging debut volume of verse that evokes the ineffable splendor of the natural world of the coastline.

Cape Cod Ballads is a collection of poems by Joseph C. Lincoln, a New England writer known for his charming and humorous depictions of life in the coastal villages of Massachusetts. These poems, written in Lincoln's distinctive dialect, capture the rhythms and cadences of everyday life in a region rich in history and tradition. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Cape Cod Ballads: And Other Verse The answer to this is, simply, that while School committee Men and Village Oracles are, doubt less, pretty much alike throughout Yankeedom, the particular specimens here dealt with were individuals whom the author knew in his boyhood down on the Cape. So, Cape Cod Ballads it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.