Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse

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Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse comes with drawings by Edward W. Kemble and is dated 1902. The preface says a friend objected to the title because many of the characters and scenes described are to be found in almost any coast village of the United States. The preface says the particular specimens dealt with were individuals whom the author knew in his boyhood down on the Cape.

One poem calls the song of the Sea the mighty note from the ocean's throat, the laugh of the wind in glee, and says it bears the speaker back, over life's long track, to home and its love once more. In the poem headed O'Reilly's Billy-Goat, a solemn Sabbath stillness lies along the Mudville lanes, and the Shanties meet the Mudvilles in the final pennant game. A poem headed Sunset-Land speaks to a little boy of a wonderful place whose city is Sugarplum Town, where the slightest breeze through the candy trees will tumble the bon-bons down.

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Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870–1944) was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer who built his reputation almost entirely on Cape Cod. Over four decades he produced dozens of popular novels and story collections peopled by retired sea captains, sharp-tongued widows, and small-town New Englanders.

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Author: Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Pages: 150
Language: English
Genre: Poetry
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