Poems Quote by Robert Browning

“The sea was a glorious shade of blue. The cliffs, edged with a narrow strip of golden sand, wound around the cove. Seabirds soared…

— Paul Moxham

“little drops of water little grains of sand make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land”

— Carney

“A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of…

— Theodore Roethke

“Drawn up on shore, our boats await the day. Under a dying moon the rapids gleam. The wind picks up, the lanterns toss and…

— Tu Fu

“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

“She took the sea with her Not beaches but the grey relentless Irish sea, its rhythm and the crying gulls.”

— Caroline Davies

“The sands are the children’s great resort. They cluster there, like ants: so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with infinite labour…

— Charles Dickens

“The northern sky, dark over the sea, is mottled with green that spreads like spilt paint… The green and white reach towards each other…

— Sarah Moss

“The slither of tyres across the waves of the desert under a sky blue and frost-bound in winter; or in summer a fearful lunar…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A…

— Capt. John Phillips circa 1723

“The great ocean, crooning its lullaby with one unceasing melody, lapped the island to sleep with a thousand soft touches of its wave's white…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf