"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon…" — Alfred Noyes
"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas."
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10 Quotes by Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes has 10 quotes on this site.
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
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Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there…
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Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they…
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Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
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There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.
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Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
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The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy…
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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of…
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St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that…
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More Cloudy Quotes
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one of 117 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings…
— Joseph Addison
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the…
— Kate Chopin
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is…
— David Fairchild
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Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows…
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is…
— Unknown Author
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but…
— Tim Winton
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Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if…
— Paulo Coelho
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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will…
— Gautama Buddha
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist…
— George Orwell
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a…
— Jane Lynch
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