Heard Island

Famous quotes containing the words heard and/or island:

    “Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.”
    —Bible: New Testament James, 5:11.

    “The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)