

Excerpt from Among the Isles of Shoals The gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores. The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception; sharp outlines become blurred...


Celia Thaxter was already a popular poet when she began to publish the essays of Among the Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869; they were an immediate sensation. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays "admirable" and Horace Greeley declared, "The best prose writing...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.


This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc...


""Among The Isles Of Shoals"" is a book written by Celia Thaxter and published in 1873. It is a collection of essays that describe the author's experiences living on the Isles of Shoals, a group of small islands off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine. Thaxter writes about the...








A reprint of the poet's classic 1873 human & natural history of the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine Islands off the coats of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.


This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original...
