“The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.” MadeRoundsWideQueensTidesCriedSculpture Author:Plato
“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.” MadeTurnsWaitingDarknessWindRiversBoundsCalmTidesFloodSailAnchors Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.” MadeBigsEyeStuffTreeSingingBirdEmptyClockStaringHallsPensShoreTidesBlankTrafficRottenOrnamentsMeasuringPavementRailway Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender