Name/Title
Poem from Capt. Alexander S. Palmer to Wife PriscillaEntry/Object ID
2013.028.081Scope and Content
typed copy of Poem sent by Capt. Alexander S. Palmer to his wife Priscilla:
"Alexander Smith Palmer (1806-1894), a Stonington resident and brother of Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer, was also a sealer, a sea captain and celebrated commander of clipper ships. He and his brother Nat built the Palmer-Loper house on Palmer Street in Stonington in 1850. In about 1843 he wrote to his wife from Liverpool, enclosing the following poem,
I am a bold Sea Captain,
The Queen she loveth me,
My Palace is a noble ship,
My garden is the sea,
There's many a heart that beats for me,
Beyond the heavy main -
The black-eyed girls of Mexico,
The Ladies of New Spain!
But, beautiful although they be,
They win no love of mine,
I'd give a thousand flashing eyes,
For but one glance of thine.
-Alexander"
courtesy of Harriet B. BrownCollection
Harriet Babcock Brown Collection