| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles. |
| Bible | The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. |
| Bible | He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. |
| Bible | When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? |
| Bible | If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. |
| Bible | Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. |
| Bishop Joseph Hall | There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee. |
| Heinrich Heine | The sea appears all golden Beneath the sun-lit sky. |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter | What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song? |
| Mrs Felicia D Hemans | The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd. |
| Robert Browning | The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. |
| Thomas Dekker | The great fishpond . |
| Thomas Gray | Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. |
| William Cullen Bryant | That make the meadows green, and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never. |
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