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“From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”

Sea Islands Lilies Isle

Book:The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840

Source: The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840

“A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.”

Lying Sea Tomorrow Shining Lovely Sigh Serene Morrow Stormy Bland Isle Stormy Seas

Author:Mary C. Ames

“A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!”

Stars Sea Moon Mirrors Bars Ships Silver Splendid Isle

Author:James Elroy Flecker

“It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.”

“Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.”

Long Use Used Process Sea Subjects Century Periods British Phrases Defence Isle Erratic

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.”

Ifs Writing Stills Nations United Impossible Sea Treats England Trade Connected British Peaceful Divides United Nations Naval Isle Near And Far

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.”

Littles Tree Sea England Flags Palms Lone Isle Palm Trees

Book:Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

Source: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems

“Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.”

Born Work Sea Afar Marvellous Isle

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.”

Ifs Sea Forgiveness Strive Bliss Paradise Pardon Isle Pardon Me

Book:The Earthly Paradise: A Poem

Source: The Earthly Paradise: A Poem