Eastern Shore

Eastern Shore refers to many places, including:

  • Eastern Shore of Maryland
  • Eastern Shore of Virginia
  • Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia), of Canada
  • Eastern Shore (Alabama), of Mobile Bay
Other uses
  • USS Eastern Shore (ID-3500), a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919

Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or shore:

    “Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh,
    As Eastern Summers are,
    Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh,
    Add light to some small Star.”
    —Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

    “Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation; not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.”
    —Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)