Famous quotes containing the words eternal, sailor and/or moon:
“I loved, but woman fell away;
I hid me from her faded fame.
I snatched the sun’s eternal ray
And wrote till earth was but a name.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)
“The soger frae the wars returns,
The sailor frae the main,
But I hae parted frae my Love,
Never to meet again, my dear,
Never to meet again.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“in the pleasure of that communion
I lose track,
the moon I watch goes down, the
tide swings you away before
I know I’m
alone again long since,”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)