 I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: "A boy's...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 361886Full view - About this book
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 346 pages
...old town, And my youth comes back to me. I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tide tossing free, And Spanish sailors with bearded lips,...and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea." THE father of Columbus was Domenico of TerraRossa, a weaver by trade, who lived in the suburbs of Genoa,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English fiction - 1892 - 454 pages
...listen — ' " I remember the black wharves and the slips And the sea-tides tossing free ; And the Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty...and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea." I haven't braved any dangers, but I feel as if I knew all about it.' ' You certainly seem to have a... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...poem, "My Lost Youth": — " I remember the black wharves and the ships And the sea-tides tossing free, And the beauty and mystery of the ships And the magic of the sea." fellow, the poet's mother, formerly Miss Zilpah Wadsworth, was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 552 pages
...had he spent his youth among "the black wharves and the slips And the sea-tides tossing free, And the Spanish sailors with bearded lips And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea," he would realize that international questions are international, that there is no such thing as dealing... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English fiction - 1893 - 378 pages
...this; listen — '"I remember the black wharves and the slips And the sea-tides tossing free; And the Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, I haven't braved any dangers, but I feel as if I knew all about it." "You certainly seem to have a... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1894 - 200 pages
...will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors...bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, Anil the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still : " A boy's... | |
 | Arthur Beaman Simonds - American poetry - 1894 - 344 pages
...I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors a with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: 1 Town, Portland, Maine. * Hesperides,... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1894 - 422 pages
... GU Wl STCK : Y STORIES OF SCOTT ' And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. ' LONGFELLOW. TOM (ZRSGLES LOG 1 am a:- <i ween. flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er... | |
 | New England - 1895 - 814 pages
...with the \Vest Indies. Longfellow has sung how, standing on the wharves of the old town, he saw " The Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty...and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea." The West India trade of Portland, however, like the East India trade of Salem, has dwindled away, until... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alice Mary Longfellow - Acadians - 1896 - 162 pages
...his poem My Lost Youth, Longfellow recalls the town as it then was, and this memorable fight:— " I remember the black wharves and the ships, And the...and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. MR. LONGFELLOW'S BIRTHPLACE, PORTLAND Is singing and saying still: ' A boy's will is the wind's will,... | |
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