 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...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 822edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...china was not only old but dead in the Waterloo year. Long before Lamb first clerked for the Honorable East India Company, "china" as a name had ceased to...the costly possession of the Jars, tea-equipages and "desart-dlshes" which some tall Indiaman with drooping sails had just borne Into the Pool. Traflleking... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - Education - 1854 - 472 pages
...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 will is the wind's will,... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...wharves imd 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 will is the wind's will,... | |
 | Harriot Kesia Hunt - Boston (Mass.) - 1856 - 472 pages
...him. He always loved the nautical profession — but in his youth he had felt even more strongly " The beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea ! " — and he desired to follow the mariner's varied and trying life. It was the warm wish of his... | |
 | Frances E. Percival - Gift books - 1856 - 294 pages
...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 will is the wind's will,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...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 songIs singing and saying still : " A boy's will is the wind's will,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...black wharfs 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 will is the wind's will,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...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 voiee of that wayward song Is singing and saying still : " A boy's will is the wind's will,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...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 will is the wind's will,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...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 will is the wind's will,... | |
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