Into the ground floor rooms have been gathered many relics of the days when the poet was a boy. The four rooms of the second floor are also full of mementoes. But the most interesting part of the house is the third story, where there are seven rooms. To this floor the four children made their way on summer nights when the long hours of daylight invited them to stay up longer, and on winter evenings, when the fire downstairs seemed far more inviting than the cold floors and the colder sheets. One of these rooms is pointed out as the poet's chamber. Here he wrote many of his earlier poems. Among these was "The Lighthouse." In this he described sights in which he delighted, sights the lighthouse daily witnessed: "And the great ships sail outward and return Bending and bowing o'er the billowing swell, And ever joyful as they see it burn, They wave their silent welcome and farewell. "'Sail on,' it says, 'sail on, ye stately ships! And with your floating bridge the ocean span; Be mine to guard the light from all eclipse, Be yours to bring man nearer unto man.'" During the years after 1843, when Longfellow bought the Craigie House at Cambridge, his thoughts turned back with longing to the old home and the old town, and he wrote: "Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea; Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of the dear old town, And my youth comes back to me." For nineteen years after the poet's death his sister Ann, Mrs. Pierce, lived in the old home. When she died, in 1901, she deeded it to the Maine Historical Society, that the place might be made a permanent memorial of the life of The Children's Poet. BIBLIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Life of. By John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Biographies of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. By John Sanderson and Robert Waln, Jr. R. W. Pomeroy, Philadelphia, 1827. Breck, Samuel, Recollections of. Edited by Horace E. Scudder. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, Life of. By Kate Mason Rowland. George P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution. By J. T. Headley. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1864. Chief Justices, Life and Times of the. By Flanders. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Clay, Henry. By Thomas Hart Clay. George W. Jacobs & Company, Philadelphia. Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighborhood. By Eberlein and Lippincott. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Colonial Mansions of Maryland and Delaware. By J. M. Hammond. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Country Homes of Famous Americans. By O. B. Capen. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York.