Ships

Famous quotes containing the word ships:

“And when we can with Meeter safe,
We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

“I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)