Waters

Famous quotes containing the word waters:

    Shee said, Lullabye, my owne deere child!
    Lullabye, deere child, deere!
    I wold thy father were a king,
    Thy mother layd on a beere!

    ‘Peace now,’ he said, ‘good Faire Ellen,
    And be of good cheere, I thee pray,
    And the bridall and the churching both,
    They shall bee upon one day.’
    —Unknown. Child Waters (l. 157–164)

    To-night the winds begin to rise
    And roar from yonder dropping day:
    The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
    The rooks are blown about the skies;

    The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d,
    The cattle huddled on the lea;
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Soaked by the sparkling waters of America.
    Hawaiian saying no. 2740, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)