Quotes
Quotes about Sea
And thou art long and lank and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.
Alone, alone,--all, all alone;
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,--
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder:
A dreary sea now flows between.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand,
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light,
Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.
Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell!
Ye mariners of England,
That guard our native seas;
Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze!
'T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumph'd,--his people are free.
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see,
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.
As still to the star of its worship, though clouded,
The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea,
So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded,
The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.
When twilight dews are falling soft
Upon the rosy sea, love,
I watch the star whose beam so oft
Has lighted me to thee, love.
Who has not felt how sadly sweet
The dream of home, the dream of home,
Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet,
When far o'er sea or land we roam?
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future,--two eternities!
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter!
Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.
Sea of upturned faces.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,
Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast,
And fills the white and rustling sail,
And bends the gallant mast.
And bends the gallant mast, my boys,
While like the eagle free
Away the good ship flies, and leaves
Old England on the lee.
While the hollow oak our palace is,
Our heritage the sea.
The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea!
I am where I would ever be,
With the blue above and the blue below,
And silence wheresoe'er I go.
