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 will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. The Living Age - Page 151907Full view - About this book
| Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 410 pages
...it too," he said to himself. "I don't know how to thank you for that fiver. And 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, And the magic of the... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English fiction - 1899 - 408 pages
...too,' he said to himself. ' I don't know how to thank you for that fiver. And this ; listen — ' " 1 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... | |
| Albert Le Roy Bartlett - English language - 1899 - 328 pages
...nature of the verb and that of some other part of speech — the noitn, the adjective, or the adverb. 1. I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free. — LONGFELLOW. 2. To remember our friends is one of the delights of life. 3. I wish to remember this... | |
| Albert Le Roy Bartlett - English language - 1899 - 328 pages
...nature of the verb and that of some other part of speech — the noun, the adjective, or the adverb. 1. I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free. — LONGFELLOW. 2. To remember our friends is one of the delights of life. 3. I wish to remember this... | |
| William Dean Howells - American literature - 1900 - 458 pages
...Longfellow's loveliest and tenderest poems; and I made an errand to the docks, for the sake of the And the sea-tides tossing free, And Spanish sailors...bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, "—black wharves and the slips, And the magic of the sea," mainly for the reason that these were colors... | |
| George Moulton Adams - Castine (Me.) - 1900 - 28 pages
...sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish dreams. " I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the seatides tossing free ; And the foreign sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the... | |
| Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1900 - 360 pages
...working hours along the water-front ; you will be able then to explain the following lines : — " 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... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 968 pages
...catch, in snildeu gleam!), The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hcspcridcs Of all my boyish dreams. And the burden of that old song, It murmurs nnd whisper* still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts,"... | |
| Albert Le Roy Bartlett - English language - 1900 - 344 pages
...nature of the verb and that of some other part of speech—the noun, the adjective, or the adverb. 1. I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free.—LONGFELLOW. 2. To remember our friends is one of the delights of life. 3. I wish to remember... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1901 - 202 pages
...catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish dreams. And the burden of that old...I remember the black wharves and the slips And the sea-tiles tossing free; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships,... | |
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