Table of Contents

Introduction

Editors note- Update 1/20/2020



Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)

"On blending spirit with matter"

Anna Maria (Foster) Wells (1794-1868)

"Sea-Bird"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"The wreck of the Hesperus"

Epes Sargent (1813-1870)

"A life on an ocean wave"

Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo (1819-1848)

"The pure in heart see god"

Lucy Larcom  (1824-1893)

"Wild Roses of Cape Ann"

Hiram Rich (1832-1901)

"Day unto day"

William Winter (1836-1917)

"At Anchor"

Maria Dodge (1840-1915)

"Rafe's Chasm"

Reuben Brooks (1843-1926)

"Historical Poem to the Sons of Old Cape Ann by One"

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)

"Gloucester Harbor"

Helen Mansfield (1849-1933)

"A Gloucester Song"

William Hale   (1856-)

"A Song for old Gloucester town"

Thomas Partridge   (1862-)

"Church and Dory"

Clarence M. Falt   (1861-1912)

"Th' Lost Trawlers"

Madison Caewin (1865-1914)

"An Ode" Read at the dedication of Tablet Rock August 15, 1907.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

""The Mary Gloster".

James Brendan Connoly (1868-1957)

" A Gloucester Skipper's Song".

William Vaugh Moody (1869-1910)

"Gloucester Moors"

Frank Walcott Hutt (1869-1946)

"Evening in Magnolia Woods"

Percy MacKaye (1875-1956)

"Opening stanza from "Dogtown Common"

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)

"Soliloquy in Dogtown"

James Davis (c. 1892)

Opening stanza of "Pleasant Waters"

"Wake Fair City" An Ode

William Rose Benet (1886-1950)

From "Mid-Ocean

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

From "Landscapes" V Cape Ann



Other poets to come...

Mary Catherine “Kitty” Parsons Recchia (1890-1976)
Vera Eugenia Andrus. (1895-1979)
Miriam Selker Dodek (1909-1986)
Charles Olson 1910-1970
Jeremy Ingalls 1911-2000
Herbert Kenney 1913-2002
Vincent Ferrini. (1913-2007)
Doris Sturtevant Bayliss (1921-2019
Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009)
Gerrit Lansing (1928-2018)
Ray Bentley (1931-2011)
Peter Todd (1943-2015)