Dart/ships

Famous quotes containing the words dart and/or ships:

“Veils to my eyes?
nay, do not be afraid
that they will dart forth
serpents of appeal.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)