 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...  Days with Uncle Jack - Page 185by John Walter Davis - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Francis Henry Underwood - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - 1882 - 382 pages
...HOUSE. PORTLAND. the year of Longfellow's birth, it had become a place of commercial importance.' " 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."... | |
 | Anna L. Beck Möring - American literature - 1882 - 164 pages
...the Portland of those early years, he has told us in his delightful poem, '' My Lost Youth," — " 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.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish...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.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...shadowy lines of ts trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish...and whispers still : ' ' A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 452 I remember the black wharves and the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Publishers' bindings - 1894 - 748 pages
...shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish...that old song, It murmurs and whispers still : " A hoy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember the black... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 pages
...catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hceperides Of all my boyish dreams. And the burden of that old song. It murmurs and whispers still : u A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 320 pages
...sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surr.jun'Hng seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all ray boyish dreams. And the burden of that old song, It' murmurs and whispers still : " A toy's will is the wml's will. And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.1' I remember the black... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1884 - 316 pages
...catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hcsperides Of all my boyish dreams. And the burden of that old...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1884 - 732 pages
...shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish...murmurs and whispers still : "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 342 HENR T WADS WOR TH L ONGFELL 0 W. I remember... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 542 pages
...along the piers, sending his hopes far across the whispering ocean to the untried world ; must himself 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."... | |
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