1862-1864 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, hurricane and/or seasons:

    “Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
    Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
    When such a destin’d wretch as I,
    Wash’d headlong from on board,
    Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
    His floating home for ever left.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud,
    And after summer evermore succeeds
    Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;
    So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)