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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Ships
The true ship is the ship builder.
Emerson.
And let our barks across the pathless floodHold different courses.
Scott.
Ships, dim discovered, dropping from the clouds.
Thomson.
Like ships that have gone down at sea,When heaven was all tranquillity.
Moore.
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
Longfellow.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson.
Ships that sailed for sunny isles,But never came to shore.
Thos. Hervey.
She walks the waters like a thing of life,And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Byron.
She bears her down majestically near,Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.
Byron.
A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged,Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very ratsInstinctively have quit it.
Shakespeare.
There’s not a ship that sails the ocean,But every climate, every soil,Must bring its tribute, great or small,And help to build the wooden wall!
Longfellow.
Build me straight, O worthy Master!Staunch and strong, a goodly vesselThat shall laugh at all disaster,And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
Longfellow.
And the stately ships go onTo their haven under the hill;But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,And the sound of a voice that is still.
Tennyson.
Behold the threaden sails,Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,Breasting the lofty surge.
Shakespeare.
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl’d,To furnish and accommodate a world,To give the Pole the produce of the sun,And knit th’ unsocial climates into one.
Cowper.
Upon the gale she stoop’d her side,And bounded o’er the swelling tide,As she were dancing home;The merry seamen laugh’d to seeTheir gallant ship so lustilyFurrow the green-sea foam.
Scott.
The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d thorne,Burn’d on the water: the poop was beaten gold;Purple the sails, and so perfumed thatThe winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver,Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and madeThe water which they beat to follow faster,As amorous of their strokes.
Shakespeare.
