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“The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.”

Play Earth Lying Sea Sky Creatures Ocean Mark Blue Bounds Rounds Clouds Wide Regions Blue Ocean

Author:Bryan Procter

“Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.”

Lying Mystery Sea Bounds Ships

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.”

Earth Hell Pieces Sea Rivers Bounds Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Restraint Grind Dams

Book:Leavings: Poems

Source: Leavings: Poems

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Source: Image and Imagination

“In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.”

Firsts Looks Kind Soul Hands Eye Turns Views Wonder Sea Land Taught Masters Genius Scene Skills Bounds Various Noble Passing Passings Sat His Eyes Seats Bores Globes Obedient Robes Wildness Wands

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness.”

Ifs Turns Consciousness Sea Ocean Bounds Noise Usual Bells Twists Lighthouse Volition Buoys

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.”

Sea Beats England Bounds Shore Envious Triumphant Siege Neptune

Author:William Shakespeare

“Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.”

Eye Earth Heaven Liberty Sea Sky Bounds Woe Headstrong

Book:The Comedy of Errors: Third Series

Source: The Comedy of Errors: Third Series

“Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.”

Knows Water Sea Ocean Bounds Wave Ships Riders

Author:Lord Byron

“And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.”

Ifs World Ends Used Loss Cities Sea Rocks Bounds Storm Disaster End Of The World Jersey Jersey City

Author:Laura E. Richards

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”