Celia Thaxter

Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) was an American poet and essayist, born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She grew up on the Isles of Shoals, where her father kept the lighthouse, and lived much of her life on Appledore Island; her books include Among the Isles of Shoals (1873) and a volume of Poems (1872).

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900).