Portland and VicinityLoring, Short, & Harmon, and W.S. Jones, 1876 - 142 страници |
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Страница 62 - And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair, And with joy that is almost pain My heart goes back to wander there, And among the dreams of the days that were, I find my lost youth again. And the strange and beautiful song, The groves are repeating it still: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Страница 51 - I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o'er the tide ! And the dead captains, as they lay In their graves, o'erlooking the tranquil bay Where they in battle died. And the sound of that mournful song Goes through me with a thrill: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Страница 7 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...
Страница 5 - Jocelyn, too, makes the first mention of the sea serpent on our coast, seen coiled up like a cable on a rock at Cape Ann.
Страница 9 - FOREST CITY, Will leave FRANKLIN WHARF, PORTLAND, and INDIA WHARF, BOSTON, every evening, Sundays excepted, arriving in season to make connections with the earliest morning trains. The Steamers of this line are well furnished, and have a large number of ELEGANT AND AIRY STATE-ROOMS.
Страница 106 - Island from which to bombard Portland or shell the shipping in the harbor. This work remains in the incomplete condition reported at the close of the last fiscal year. For the construction of the operating-room...
Страница 5 - One Mr. Mittin* related of a Triton or Meere-Man, which he saw in Casco Bay. The gentleman was a great Fowler and used to go out with a small boat or Canow, and fetching a compass about a small island for the advantage of a shot was encountered with a Triton, who laying his hands upon the side of the Canow, had one of them chopt off with a hatchet by Mr. Mittin, which was in all respects like the hand of a man. The Triton presently sunk, dying the water with his purple blood, and was no more seen.
Страница 4 - The shores of these islands and promontories are mostly covered with woods of maple, oak, beach, pine and fir, growing nearly to the water's edge, and throwing their shadows over many a deep inlet and winding channel. It is impossible to conceive of any combination of scenery more charming, more romantic, more captivating to the eye, or more suggestive to the imagination. No element of beauty is \vanting.
Страница 4 - Falls will give confidence to his friends and the travelling public that they will receive every attention and comfort, with reasonable charges, at this his new and elegant House. GP SHEARS. "CITY OF JcnfieSJE TORONTO.
Страница 29 - LONGFELLOW WAS born in Portland, Maine, February 27th, 1807, " in an old square wooden house, upon the edge of the sea." He entered Bowdoin College, where in due time he was graduated in the class with Hawthorne, in 1825. He wrote verses at this time for the United State» Literary вагеШ, printed at Boston.