Quote by William Cowper

“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old, though. He…

— Joseph O'Neill

“Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He slept and in his sleep he saw his friends again and they were coming downriver on muddy floodwaters, Hoghead and the City Mouse…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me floating there.…

— Haruki Murakami

“A castaway adrift on my own little island - rich and with my family along with thousands of beautiful, drunken tourists to keep me…

— Luis Mario

“When night came your voice stoked the fires of the boats that go toward the islands and you left, leaving me behind, the empty…

— Claude de Burine

“The ocean rose up around me, hiding that low, dark patch from my eyes. The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming…

— H.G. Wells

“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay down at…

— May Sarton

“Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let…

— Herman Melville