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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPE COD WOOD ROAD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent woodlands bend above
Last Line: The real is here, it is not there!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Cape Cod; Roads; Paths; Trails


ALONG THE WAY, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the seaweed margined shore
Subject(s): Cape Cod


AMONG THE ROSES, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just to walk among the roses
Subject(s): Cape Cod


ANALOGIES, by GERD AAGE GILHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea was pale %and heaved with moans
Subject(s): Cape Cod


ATTUNE, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Capt'n bill, I've come to see your ...'
Subject(s): Cape Cod


AUTUMN DAWN, by HELEN L. BAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early, oh very early in the dawn-dusk
Subject(s): Cape Cod


AUTUMN GLOW, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark, the soft and silvery note
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD'S DREAM, by BENJAMIN DREW    Poem Source                    
First Line: There sailed an ancient mariner
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BAYBERRY CANDLE, by SAMUEL W. HALLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light the bayberry candle
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BEACH PLUM, by HELEN L. BAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the sweet winds promise summer
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BEACH PLUM, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Untroubled seas of white!
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BEACH PLUM BLOSSOM TIME, by FLORENCE HATHAWAY CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the charms of old cape cod
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BEACH TRAILS, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little sweetfern-bordered paths that lead
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BESIDE THE SEA, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prithee, tell me if you may
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BREATH, by WILLIAM LINDSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I climbed a sheltered hillside, till the sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


BREEZE, by RUTH WELLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind came out of the south one day
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE, by M. H. CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silence of night %gleam of a star
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD, by JOHN COLEMAN ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue of the heavenly deeps above
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're more than a strip of land
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD, by JAMES T. GALLAGHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At last I'm with thee, long-reknowned cape
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The graves of desire nye and patty nye (1794)
Last Line: In her hem?
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CAPE COD, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The low sandy beach and the thin scrub pine
Last Line: What will become of man?
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A second holland stolen from the sea
Last Line: "be still, and know your god!"
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD COLOR, by HELEN L. BAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer's gold and autumn's red
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD HOME, SELS., by THOMAS FRANKLIN HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the dark waves of the sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD LULLABY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern tip of the empire drives into night
Last Line: Depends on the sleeper. A cod stabds at the door
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD LULLABY, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern tip of the empire drives into night
Last Line: For good or ill, in the dreams that such sleep brings %depends on the sleeper. A cod stands at the d
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD PINES, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are scraggly old things
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE COD, SELS., by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here lies the land to which all hearts may
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CAPE IN JUNE, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have watched the unseen artist
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CHARMED VOICES, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have heard the oak leaves
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CLAM DIGGER, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I work with the tide the wind and the sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


COALS AND ASHES: 1916, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Adventuring in golden glory
Subject(s): Cape Cod


COAST GUARD OF CAPE COD, by EMMA M. DOANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye who sit so snugly sheltered
Subject(s): Cape Cod


COMMON LOT, by FREDERICK A. HINCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always thorns with roses grow
Subject(s): Cape Cod


COUNTRY ROAD, by MARIE LOUISE HERSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot forget a gaunt grey barn
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CRANBERRY BOG, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know a persian carpet
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CRELTHOLME, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the fields and marshes
Subject(s): Cape Cod


CUMMAQUID, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me a camp by the side of the swamp
Subject(s): Cape Cod


DAISY, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw where whitest daisies grew
Subject(s): Cape Cod


DANDELION, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Low on the breezy hill-side grew
Subject(s): Cape Cod


DEEP REVENGE, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm losted here, 'cause I runned away
Subject(s): Cape Cod


DREAM, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dream, I wandered lightly
Subject(s): Cape Cod


DRIFTING THOUGHTS, by ELLEN OTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun was setting low
Subject(s): Cape Cod


EASTER, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis easter morn; from far and near
Subject(s): Cape Cod


EVERY TIME I SEE A SHIP, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of all the great ships
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FALMOUTH BELL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never was there lovelier town
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FIREFLIES, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little wind blew over the sky
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FIRST FROST, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the night when all the sky was lit
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FIRST LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days pass, winds veer, and favoring skies
Last Line: Where, on the fatal shoals, the wreck lies whelmed below.
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Pilgrim Fathers


FISHERMAN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When stars still gather, height on height
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FISHING, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must be fine to go a fishing
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FLOOD TIDE, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To every artist, howsoe'er his thought
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FOR JUNE, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you ever seen the capeland
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FOREVER?, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the shrine they lit the flame
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FREEDOM'S VOICE, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You bid me live, and yet
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FRIEND, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The radiant beauty of her tender face
Subject(s): Cape Cod


FROM THE SHORE, by GERD AAGE GILHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waves wriggle %and groan asthmatically
Subject(s): Cape Cod


GLORY OF OF THE LORD, by HELEN L. BAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up on the bluff at sunset
Subject(s): Cape Cod


GOOD WILL AND GOD'S PEACE, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O ruler of nations and master of all!
Subject(s): Cape Cod


GREATER MOMENT, by HELEN L. BAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into another life, waiting me near
Subject(s): Cape Cod


GROTESQUE, by GERD AAGE GILHOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around the moon glide ghosts on nights
Subject(s): Cape Cod


HEAVENLY TOWN, by ALMA MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A heavenly town is provincetown
Subject(s): Cape Cod


HILLS AND SEA, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The restless sea, the ever-surging sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


HOME ON CAPE COD, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've seen colossal sights together, dazzling
Last Line: I, and the little roses of provincetown
Subject(s): Cape Cod


HOME, SELS., by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is many a whither away and many a
Subject(s): Cape Cod


HOW SPRING COMES AT CRAIGVILLE, by EDMUND H. GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring the meadow decks with green
Subject(s): Cape Cod


HYANNIS BY THE SEA, by ISABELLA HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little town lies by the sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


I KNOW A WOOD IN YARMOUTH, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IDEAL, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis ever this that I hear
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IF', by WINTHROP M. CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If from the sea of passion, this all
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IMMORTALITY, by JOSEPH JEFFERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two caterpillars crawling on a leaf
Last Line: A sign of immortality.
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IMPRESSION OF OLD CAPE COD FROM A MOTOR CAR, by EVA MACEY WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lazy, sleepy cape %basking in the sun
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IN A SNOWSTORM, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis so sweet to be alive, when youth ...
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IN PROVINCETOWN BAY, by ROGER C. DICKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sits all day where the waters play
Subject(s): Cape Cod


IN WEST YARMOUTH, by ELIZABETH K. FOLSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked a little way %one day
Subject(s): Cape Cod


INDIAN BEARERS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft have we stood at the meeting-house door
Subject(s): Cape Cod


INDIAN LOVE SONG, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the shadow of the forest, where the
Subject(s): Cape Cod


INDIAN NAMES, by PHOEBE T. CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brave chickatawbut was the chief
Subject(s): Cape Cod


L'ENVOIE, by MARTYN SUMMERBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis here the voice of the whispering pine
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LAY OF CAPE COD, by DANIEL BARKER FORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hurrah! For old cape cod
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LIBRARY AT HYANNIS, by HARRY LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'll scarcely know it %so the old man said
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LIFE'S UNDERPAY, by WILLIAM LINDSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If life be but getting and keeping
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LINES TO CAPE COD, by MARTYN SUMMERBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When pious pilgrims forth from holland came
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LITTLE GIRL, by FREDERICK A. HINCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A load of furniture once at my doorway stood
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LONG POND, by DANIEL WING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail! Lake of the woodlands, with waters
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LONGSHOREMAN'S VIEW OF IT, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What did he do? Oh, nothing much
Subject(s): Cape Cod


LOVE SONG, by ELLEN OTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shall I tell you of my loves?
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MARSHES BY THE SEA, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Warm in the late september sun
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MATTAKESE, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A land of homing; the homing of sea winds ...
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MAY FLOWER, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You modest little scented things
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MEMORY OF CAPE COD, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind in the ash-tree sounds like surf on the shore at truro
Last Line: Let me listen to wind in the ash...It sounds like surf on the shore
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MIDSUMMER ON THE CAPE, by EDITH BATCHELOR SPRAGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On each side this flowery land
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MUSIC, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its babyhood, with cheerful grace
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MY BEST KENTUCKY REEL, by JAMES BUCKHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear friend, I never more shall hear
Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MY DAD AN' ME', by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seems like every thing I want to do
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MY HOME, by L. EUGENE ELDRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My home is by the sounding sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MY LITTLE CAPE COD MAIDEN, by KATHERINE FINNIGAN ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I brought her from the sand - dunes
Last Line: With the sea-weed in her hair.
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Windmills


MY OLD MAID AUNT, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's wrong with old maids? Fer's I see
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MY TOWN, SELS., by N. S. E.    Poem Source                    
First Line: The landmarks by me cherished
Subject(s): Cape Cod


MYTHOLOGICAL COD, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soft-finned and waiting
Last Line: An arc of liquid fire-the cod
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Fishing And Fishermen; Mythical Animals


NAUHAUGHT, THE DEACON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nauhaught, the indian deacon, who of old
Last Line: "I saw the angel where they see a man."
Subject(s): Cape Cod


NO CAPE CODDERS IN HEAVEN, by RUSSELL E. TUPPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O dreamed that I went to the city of gold
Subject(s): Cape Cod


NOVEMBER NIGHT, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: With haggard form all draped in somber black
Subject(s): Cape Cod


O, QUAINT LITTLE TOWN, by MARY MATTHEWS BRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am thinking of thee, o, quaint little town
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OAK BY THE SEA, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is not the oak beside the sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OCTOBER DAYS, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maples in the forest glow
Subject(s): Cape Cod


ODE TO CAPE COD, by SAMUEL W. HALLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lovely cape cod, strong arm of the state
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OLD CAPTAINS, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the mystical murmur of waves
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OLD CLIPPER DAYS, by JULIAN S. CUTLER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OLD SCOW, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She plied across the harbor
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OLD SHIP'S FIGURE-HEAD, by CARO A. DUGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon the cliff I stand and seaward gaze
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OLD WORLD MELODY, by WILLIAM LINDSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the whistling reed of a shepherd lad
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OLD YARMOUTH, by MARY MATTHEWS BRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far back in the shadowy regions of the past
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND, SELS., by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are at sea, at sea, at sea
Subject(s): Cape Cod


OUT OF THE GRAY, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PARADISE, by SARAH A. DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis not a heavy creaking gate
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PEACE OF OLD CAPE COD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody ever tried to put it into words -
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PEACH, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: With eyes that glow with longing's fire
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PILGRIM MOTHER, by EDWIN MEADE ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pilgrim father's task was one
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PILGRIM'S POT OF CLAMS, by THOMAS N. STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark was the wintry sky above
Subject(s): Cape Cod


POETRY, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, we who know thee know we know thee not
Subject(s): Cape Cod


POINT OF VIEW, by ETHEL M. KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's sometimes tiresome, you see
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PRENCE PEAR TREE, by HEMAN DOANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two hundred years have, on the wings of time
Subject(s): Cape Cod


PROMISE, by SARA WARE BASSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the vision of springtime
Subject(s): Cape Cod


QUAKER MEETING HOUSE AT SPRING HILL, SELS., by PHOEBE T. CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On gently rising ground it stood
Subject(s): Cape Cod


REBIRTH, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only in this lonely forest, green and wild
Subject(s): Cape Cod


REFLECTIONS, SELS., by FRANCES E. SWIFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into each life some rain must fall'
Subject(s): Cape Cod


RESURRECTION, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The robin's song! The robin's song!
Subject(s): Cape Cod


REVISITED, by ELLA MATTHEWS BANGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once again our steps lead down
Subject(s): Cape Cod


RHYME OF A CEDAR SHELL, by WILLIAM LINDSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The full moon shines and shimmers
Subject(s): Cape Cod


RHYMSTER'S DREAM, SELS., by THOMAS N. STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Methought I saw a railroad car
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SAD STORY, by WILLIAM LINDSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over my knee, to her place on my arm
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SCALLOP BOATS, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bits of white on bands of blue
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SCALLOP SHELLS, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smooth white beach
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SCHERZO, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are so many greens, that green
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SEA BIRDS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like beryl which some mighty alchemist
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SEA ROAD, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, green curved the hill road and
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SIMPLE QUARTRAIN, by ETHEL M. KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though I might travel east and west
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SONG, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On every bough of the apple tree
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SONG, by SARA WARE BASSETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone I drift upon a sea of sound
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SONG FOR THE BARNSTABLE CELEBRATION, 1839, by JR. WILLIAM HAYDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our pilgrim fathers started off
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SONS OF OLD CAPE COD, SELS., by THOMAS N. STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cape cod's our mother; we her sons
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SOVEREIGN, SELS., by THOMAS FRANKLIN HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet beauty linked to rugged truth
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SPELL OF PROVINCETOWN, by LILYBELL BATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you climb to the top of the highest
Subject(s): Cape Cod


STARS BY NIGHT, THE CLOUDS BY DAY, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You'll find the time to work
Subject(s): Cape Cod


STORM, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wild, kind rain is driving in my face
Subject(s): Cape Cod


STORM IN THE VALLEY, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day after day it raged
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SUMMER RAIN, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spirits of the summer shower
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SUNDAY LITTLE BOYS, by ETHEL M. KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sunday morning there are rows
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SUNSET TOWN, by MARGARET GOLDING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A point lay off to the leeward
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SURF AT CHATHAM, by WILLIAM CHACE GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The breakers pound upon the yellow strand
Subject(s): Cape Cod


SWIMMING HOLE, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little naked brown boy!
Subject(s): Cape Cod


TELEPHONE, by ETHEL M. KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever mother telephones
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Telephones


THANKSGIVING AT GRANDPA'S, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the good old-fashioned dinner
Subject(s): Cape Cod


THE IDEAL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the promise of noon's blue splendor in the dawn's
Last Line: I am thine angel of judgment; mine eyes thou must meet in the end.
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Wellesley College


THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine
Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone.
Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers


THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET, by THORNTON W. BURGESS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cape Cod


THOUGHTS OF MASHPEE, by NELSON D. SIMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the forest unbroken
Subject(s): Cape Cod


TO A SKYLARK, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lark, lark, I call thee
Subject(s): Birds; Cape Cod; Larks


TO THE PILGRIM MONUMENT AT PROVINCETOWN, by DEAN S. SEARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Straight toward heaven it points
Subject(s): Cape Cod


TWILIGHT SONG, by JOSHUA FREEMAN CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing leaves %to the summering breeze!
Subject(s): Cape Cod


ULTIMA THULE, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrap the broad canvas close; furl the last
Subject(s): Cape Cod


VIGNETTE, by WILLIAM CHACE GREENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the dunes the flute-sweet breath of day
Subject(s): Cape Cod


VILLAGE LIBRARY, by HELEN L. BAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house is low, soft green and gray
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT, by FREDERICK A. HINCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Set to guard while others sleep
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WAVES' CONFESSIONAL, by WILLIAM LINDSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The billows up the broad bay crawl and creep
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WAYSIDE BLOSSOMS, by MARY MATTHEWS BRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers by the wayside growing
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WHEREFORE?, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What matter though the world
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WILD ROSE, by ELIZA SCUDDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair are the flowers the tardy spring
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WIND, by GERTRUDE ALGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind is awake and away!
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WIND, by ISABELLA HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, mighty winds of heaven, loud and strong
Subject(s): Cape Cod


WOODWAYS, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the edge %of the dusk-clad evening
Subject(s): Cape Cod


YOUNG SPRINGTIME, by SYLVESTER BAXTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young springtime, merry boy, comes laughing
Subject(s): Cape Cod