 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 254 pages
...will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 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.... | |
 | Helen Arnold - English language - 1892 - 84 pages
...trance, Seeing all his own mischance — With a glassy countenance Did she look down to Camelot. 71. 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 - American poetry - 1894 - 200 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, Anil the magic of the sea.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
...catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides And the burden of that old song, It murmurs and whispers...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.... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Central nervous system - 1896 - 280 pages
...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 sea-tides tossing free ; And Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea.... | |
 | Theology - 1907 - 616 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." And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair, And... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1897 - 416 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...tossing free ; And the Spanish sailors with bearded lip*, And the beauty and mystery of the ships. And the magic of the SCR.' 112 I haven't braved any... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Conduct of life - 1898 - 62 pages
...thoughts for us. Longfellow recalls a dream of his childhood in the seaport town of Portsmouth:— 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 - 1899 - 456 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.... | |
 | Ella Reeve Ware - Authors - 1899 - 244 pages
...of a L,apland song Is haunting my memory still, "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." I remember the...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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