British Clipper Ships

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or ships:

“Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads,”
—Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

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