ISLAND

Related Subjects: England, Ireland, Water

1. Sprinkled along the waste of years
   Full many a soft green isle appears.—JOHN KEBLE, The Christian Year
   

2. There is no lover like an island shore
   For lingering embrace;
   No tryst so faithful as the turning tide
   At its accustomed place.—MRS. DWIGHT MORROW, Islands
   

3. In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard would be a church; by a Frenchman, a fort; by a Dutchman, a warehouse; and by an Englishman, an alehouse.—Proverb
   

4. Many a green isle needs must be
   In the deep wide sea of Misery,
   Or the mariner, worn and wan,
   Never thus could voyage on.—SHELLEY, Lines Written Amongst the Euganean Hills
   

5. Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.—TENNYSON, Locksley Hall
   

6. I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
   And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
   Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
   And live alone in the bee-loud glade.—W. B. YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree