Island Nights

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or nights:

    “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)

    “Alone and alone nine nights I lay
    Between two bushes under the rain;
    I thought to have whistled her down that way,
    I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.
    Oro, oro!
    To-morrow night I will break down the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)