Celia Thaxter  of Portsmouth, N.H


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The Poets of Maine
A Collection of Specimen Poems from over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine Tree State.
with Biographical Sketches
Compiled by George Bancroft Griffith
Portland, Maine
Elwell, Pickard & Company
Transcript Job Print; Edward Small, Binder.
Copyright by Elwell, Pickard & Co.
1888

page 517

Celia Thaxter.
"The free, pure are of her island home, the "Isle of Shoals," where she hold 
"Summer court" in her delightful cottage, is one of her essential needs.  This 
charming, well-know poetess, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., June 29, 1835, 
and her verses have the very swing of the sea.  Among her papers upon the 
islands of New Hampshire and Maine, is a series of great interest and value, 
which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.  Says one of her personal friends, in 
referring to the fact that the boys and girls have no truer or better friend than 
she,--"As we sat in her room, we all at once heard, far down in the street, the 
letting out of one of the public schools.  As the glad shouts and merry laughter 
of the children came up to us, Mrs. Thaxter paused in her work, her bright eyes 
glistened with pleasure, and she said, 'Bless them!' with and delightful heartiness 
as if refreshed by what some other less sympathetic soul might call a racket".