Maiden Voyage April

Famous quotes containing the words maiden, voyage and/or april:

    “I am more interested in the rosy cheek than I am to know what particular diet the maiden is fed on.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “But where is laid the sailor John
    That so many lands had known,
    Quiet lands or unquiet seas
    Where the Indians trade or Japanese?
    He never found his rest ashore,
    Moping for one voyage more.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
    March with its peck of dust,
    Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
    Nor even May, whose flowers
    One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)