Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds Along the pebbled shore of memory! Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.
John Keats
Related Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! JOHN KEATS Once to swim I sought the sea-side, There to sport among the billows; With the stone of ma... ELIAS LöNNROT I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Of wind I sang, a wind ther... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name M... CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS He says, "Keats for my Keats. Look inside." I gently open the cover. Inside, written in pencil,... JILLIAN DODD O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow... And w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows. And a dreamer's just a vessel that m... GARTH BROOKS In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I ... نزار قباني Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; ... JOHN KEATS When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by... W.B. YEATS ONE BUT MANY One God, many faces. One family, many races. One truth, many paths... SUZY KASSEM The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding b... W.B. YEATS I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares... SARA TEASDALE Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a mira... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed<... MATTHEW ARNOLD O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; RALPH WALDO EMERSON Raeanne Mirror, Mirror When I look into a mirror, it is her face I see. ELLEN HOPKINS The Sun Going South In late sunshine I wander troubled. Restless I wander in autumn ... URSULA K. LE GUIN How many of us suffered to death? How many of them gained more wealth? How many of u... RIXA WHITE The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax... LEWIS CARROLL One ship sails east and another sails west With the self-same winds that blow. Tis the set of... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of sho... JOAQUIN MILLER There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of... FRIEDRICH SCHILLER One sky, many lands. One story, many books. One truth, many interpretations. One road... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were decievers ever,- One foot in the sea and one ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MARSYAS: There are seven keys to the great gate, Being eight in one and one in eigh... ALEISTER CROWLEY Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE VISION OF A WISARD How many of you wish to be Wizards when you grow old? How many of... NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother... ROBERT SOUTHEY It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... EDGAR ALLAN POE THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul... W.B. YEATS the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the man... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Why Not You? Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? STEVE MARABOLI stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover. 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However many years anyone may liv... KING SOLOMON SON OF DAVID My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my father... SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH The sea loved the moon When she was supposed to love the shore. The moon knew A... SAIBER The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealin... H.P. LOVECRAFT I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of ... EDGAR ALLAN POE Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like... JOHN GREEN sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Who Goes With Fergus? Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's ... W.B. YEATS The secret tugs at my sleeve. A child looking for attention. It is not a big secret. ... ADELHEID MANEFELDT A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, ... G.K. CHESTERTON I believe in love at first sight but I will always believe that the people we l... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Perhaps ... To R.A.L. Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall s... VERA BRITTAIN Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling... RUPERT BROOKE The Gentle Gardener I'd like to leave but daffodils to mark my little way, To leave ... EDGAR A. GUEST I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sai... EDGAR LEE MASTERS A kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and ... RAINER MARIA RILKE And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before h... JOHN KEATS Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
... EMMA LAZARUS Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a ra... LANGSTON HUGHES Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many cast... SILENT LOTUS Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never unde... HERACLITUS Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on <... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between—<... CLIVE BARKER There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is s... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There i... LORD BYRON ...and so many colors I will have seen... the menacing greys and pine greens the... SANOBER KHAN I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of d... DOROTHEA MACKELLAR I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on hig... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ~Tonight's Sea~ Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze ... RACHEL NICOLE WAGNER Every leaf on every tree And every drop of water in the sea Every grain of weathered sand JANN ARDEN There was an old woman Who lived in a shoe. She had so many children And she still k... KRISTEN MCKEE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious v... EDGAR ALLAN POE If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes<... SHEL SILVERSTEIN There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be ... TOBA BETA Once upon a time, began the story of you . Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, bri... VERA NAZARIAN Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful... GEORGE ORWELL Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I Go Down To The Shore I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on... MARY OLIVER Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were hi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among... PABLO NERUDA I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is ... HEATHER ALEXANDER In childhood's pride I said to Thee: O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath, Speak, Master, and r... SAROJINI NAIDU Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living<... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Sha... T.S. ELIOT I had spent the day friendless, lonely and sad, a stranger to myself. GULZAR Souls of love breathlessly sail Towards our time when hours fail To cope with longing here... MUNIA KHAN Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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We know her woof, her texture; she is given
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Dr... JOHN KEATS Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up th... JOHN KEATS Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
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No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice ... JOHN KEATS Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
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C... JOHN KEATS Hear ye not the hum
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I bade good-morrow,
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Why dost borrow
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Let it not be among the jumbled heap
Of murky building... JOHN KEATS Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes,
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