“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.” IfsShouldDarkSeaColorMouthsClaimsWineLipsColourShadePurpleBacchus Author:Victoria Finlay
“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.” WholeDesireMysterySeaSpeechLipsBeachShellsEchoesSigh Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.” ArtSaidWholeNamesWaterBornLinesChancePoorBoysSeaDyingFieldsRiversLaysLipsCaughtFishesBoatStreamsLakesFishingSwimShoreEstatesHookInheritancePreyMy BoysPasturesOxen Author:Ovid
“How can you need so many rods and reels to catch a fish? , she asked, her lips pulled into that weaned on a gherkin look, as she watched me prepare for a fishing trip. Probably for much the same reason that you seem to need 30 pairs of shoes for one pair of feet, I nearly said, but decided to live for another day.” NeedsLooksSaidReasonSeemsSeaFeetRiversDecidedShoesLipsFishesBoatLakesFishingPairsAnother DayPair Of Shoes Author:Tony Bishop
“. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.” TreeSeaRiversLipsFishesSpendingBoatBranchesLakesFishingMore TimeTrout Author:Tom Sutcliffe
“We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!” MayLongDeathDiesFatherSeaSolitudeEternityLipsWaveStreamsShoreAssuranceNot AloneAccompanyVergeAccompany Us Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.” WorldEnoughHandsEyeFearVoiceDarkLove IsWonderSeaFeetSkyLoversDrawsShadowFairsGoldLipsDeedsWoodsComplainingCupsHillsThis DayVoidWearyComplaintsVeilsDaisiesBloomingThese EyesEnough Love Book:Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough Source: Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough
“Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.” HeartNamesSpeakSeaRocksMy HeartLipsShoreGreySurf Author:Charles G.D. Roberts