Robinson/ships

Famous quotes containing the words robinson and/or ships:

    He comes unfailing for the loan
    We give and then forget;
    He comes, and probably for years
    Will he be coming yet,—
    Familiar as an old mistake,
    And futile as regret.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    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)