Islands Quote by Robert Browning Download Open image “From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.” — Robert Browning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Islands Isle Lilies Sea
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices into its whiteness, a cart grinding, a dog somewhere barking, the sun lifted the curtains, broke the veil on their eyes, and Lily Briscoe stirring in her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“That's Lily all over, you know: she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of… — Pauline Gedge Copy Share Image
'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Quaint stone cottages lined the cobblestone streets, and an immense ocean lay to the far right, dozens of pirate-like ships riding its gentle waves.… — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The river - with the sunlight flashing from its dancing wavelets, gilding gold the grey-green beech-trunks, glinting through the dark, cool wood paths, chasing… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.” — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers… — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of… — Jim James Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
