Afternoon Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All around the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing…

— Alfred Tennyson

“That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb…

— Herman Melville

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“They’re all in church,” he said and saw the flush of guilt, or of wind, on her broad cheeks. The wind lifted his own…

— Alice McDermott

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few…

— Robert Macfarlane

“They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in all the grandeur which…

— Jane Austen

“The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells,…

— Herman Melville

“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through…

— H. Rider Haggard

“At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a…

— Paul Bowles

“All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back…

— Mary Butts

“Some dreams matter, illuminate a crucial choice or reveal some intuition that's trying to push its way to the surface. Other, though, are detritus,…

— Kim Edwards