Balmy Beach

Famous quotes containing the words balmy and/or beach:

    The Graces, and the rosie-boosom’d Howres,
    Thither all their bounties bring,
    That there eternal Summer dwels,
    And West winds, with musky wing
    About the cedar’n alleys fling
    Nard, and Cassia’s balmy smels.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,—how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)