We went to see the ocean, and that is probably the best place of all our coast to go to. If you go by water, you may experience wh...at it is to leave and to approach these shores; you may see the stormy petrel by the way, thalassodroma, running over the sea, and if the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land in mid-passage. I do not know where there is another beach in the Atlantic States, attached to the mainland, so long, and at the same time so straight, and completely uninterrupted by creeks or coves or fresh-water rivers and marshes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell [the next Miss America] she is taking on a great responsibility. A responsibility to herself, to her people, to the Miss Amer...ican Pageant, the people of Atlantic City, her state and her nation. Tell her the country and the world will judge America by her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, betwe...en the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And midway We meet the disappointed, returning ones, without its... Being able to stop us in the headlong night Toward the nothing of the coast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd,... When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn;... To increase a stranger's treasures, O'er the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, Paid my price in paltry gold; But, though theirs they have enroll'd me, Minds are never to be sold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Swift while the woof is whole, turn now my spirit, swift,... and tear the pattern there, the flowers so deftly wrought, the border of sea-blue, the sea-blue coast of home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »