Ancient Sea Kings

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, sea and/or kings:

    “Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
    Treating alike its dead and its living,”
    —Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

    “It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,
    That all his hours of travail here for men
    Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace
    That he may sleep upon his hill again?”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)